p. 366 | Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · June 3, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 23

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Notes of News.

—About 12,000 petitions have been presented to Congress this session.

—There are six periodicals published in the capital of Madagascar.

—There is a report that a rebellion is in progress among the natives of Burmah.

—In Greece the New Testament has been made a text-book in the common schools.

—Forest fires north of East Saginaw, Mich., have destroyed about 2,500,000 feet of pine logs.

—The Society of the Army of the Potomac is to hold its next reunion at Burlington, Vt., June 16.

—About 2,000 Bulgarians recently made a raid on Balkan territory, destroying about a dozen villages.

—The Roman Catholic bishop of Toronto has spoken authoritatively and decidedly against trades unions.

—Charles Reade, the novelist, has been converted, and now promises to use his pen in the service of the Lord.

—A wealthy and benevolent New York lady has erected in that city a new home for newsboys, at a cost of $50,000.

—The Episcopalians are to have a new cathedral at Omaha, Neb. The cost, aside from the windows, is to be $25,000.

—The losses by fire during the six weeks from April 1 to May 15 are estimated at $13,000,000, in this country alone.

—The French Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill abolishing teachers' certificates issued by the bishops to monks and nuns.

—By a cave in a colliery near Shenandoah, Pa., on the 18th inst., one man was killed, and six seriously, perhaps fatally, injured.

—News has been received that a severe tornado passed through portions of Iowa on the 23d inst., doing great damage to farm property.

—Leadville, Col., is threatened with labor troubles. The strikers have made some demonstrations, but as yet they have not resulted seriously.

—Bonsilate, a new substance manufactured in Newark, from bone-dust, is said to be harder than celluloid, and an excellent substitute for hard rubber.

—The officers of the Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron Companies state that there will be no interruption of business in consequence of their recent failure.

—Ruby Lake, Nevada, has entirely disappeared. Seven years ago it was a sheet of water 20 miles long, from half a mile to three miles wide, and very deep.

—A desperate fight recently occurred between the settlers of Tulare Co., Cal., and the United States Marshals, in which several men were killed and others wounded.

—Prince Bismarck's oldest son has just made his maiden speech in the German Parliament. He is said to resemble his father in appearance and manner of speaking.

—The Methodist churches of this country observed May 30 as a special memorial day in honor of Robert Raikes, who a hundred years ago started the first Sunday-school.

—Owing to a strike of the iron puddlers in Pittsburg, Pa., the manufacturers resolved to close every mill in that district on the 1st of June. This will throw 50,000 men out of work.

—Even the French government has been moved to take action against Communists. A resolve has been made to banish foreign Socialists, who are most active in promoting agitation.

—The first temperance meeting ever held in England was held at Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1830. Its semi-centennial is to be celebrated by appropriate services continuing from June 13 to 20.

On the 23d of May an accident occurred on the railroad between San Francisco and Big Trees. Two cars of an excursion train jumped the track, killing 13 persons, and wounding about 40 others.

—At Ancon, Peru, a large torpedo in process of completion exploded accidently, blowing the manufactory to pieces, killing every inmate and nine others, and leveling a dozen houses to the ground.

—A fight has occurred between detachments of the Chilian and Peruvian armies, in which the Chilians were victorious. England proposes to mediate between the belligerents as soon as an opportunity offers.

—The Italian Parliament was opened May 26, “with the usual pomp,” we are told. The King and Queen were each received with enthusiasm; but the royal speech was listened to with marked coldness.

—The surname of the royal family of England is Wettin, or in German Wettiner, as this was the surname of the Prince Consort. The King of Saxony is also a Wettin. Queen Victoria is a Guelph by descent.

—The Maryland Bible Society, in its 44th annual report, states that during the year, 18,535 adults were visited, 3,443 of whom were destitute of Bibles. The sacred volume was offered to 2,600 persons, 1,622 of whom rejected it.

—The Nihilists who were on trial at St. Petersburg have been sentenced. Two of them are condemned to death, five to hard labor in the mines of Siberia, two to banishment to Tobolsk. The terms of imprisonment are eight, ten, and twenty years.

—The Prince of Wales, who is Grand Master Mason of England, recently laid the foundation-stone of Truro Cathedral, the first cathedral erected in England since the Reformation. The ceremony was conducted with the usual Masonic formulas.

—An attempt was recently made to kill the Spanish Consul-General residing in New York City, by means of a case filled with explosive material. The attempt failed. The package was mailed in Philadelphia, but there is no clue to the would-be assassin.

—Nineteen of the prominent ministers of New York City, of all denominations, issued a card requesting the various churches to unite, on May 30, in special prayer that God will guide and direct the national conventions to be held in June for nominating candidates for the Presidency.

—An executor in Australia is so very exact that he refuses to pay a legacy of $7,000 left by a Catholic merchant to his church, “to deliver his soul from purgatory,” until he has proof that the terms of the will have been complied with, and the merchant's soul has actually been delivered.

—A dispatch from Vienna states that immediately upon the arrival at Constantinople of the British Minister Goschen, a collective note will be drawn up, and submitted to the powers before being submitted to the Porte. An understanding on the question has been established between the powers.

—The 88th annual report of the English Baptist Missionary Society is chiefly devoted to the missions in India. “It marks,” says the Independent, “the rapid growth of European infidelity and rank atheism among the educated natives, and also the fact that the Mohammedans are carrying on a remarkable crusading work.”

—Eld. C. L. Boyd writes from Nebraska that the crop of small grains in that State is likely to prove almost or quite a failure, owing to the extreme drought. Should there be rain soon there may be a corn crop. And he adds: “The hearts of some are beginning to fail them for fear.” From other sources we hear the same of Kansas.

—The Christian at Work thus notices the centennial anniversary of the “dark day:” “Wednesday, May 19, was the 100th anniversary of the ‘dark day,’ a memorable day in the history of New England. The cause of the phenomenon, although extensively discussed at the time in this country and in Great Britain, has never been satisfactorily explained.”