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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 10, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 24

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Notes of News.

—There is a prospect that the crops in Ireland will be good this season.

—In the Peru-Chilian war the victory is still on the side of the Chilians.

—The Porte now promises to carry out the terms of the Berlin treaty.

—The decrease of the public debt during the month of May was $16,000,000.

—The new railroad to the top of Mount Vesuvius will soon be opened to travel.

—The British national debt is nearly twice as large as that of the United States.

—The Czarina of Russia, whose health has so long been poor, died Thursday, June 3.

—During the past four years, the net gain of the Methodist Church in this country has been 120,000.

—A telegram from Havana states that the insurgent chief Cubergue has surrendered, with 30 followers.

—During the week ending June 1, there were in Havana 10 deaths from yellow fever and 18 from small pox.

—Lowell, Mass., sets its sister cities a good example by prohibiting the sale of police and sporting newspapers.

—Before the Supreme Court at Boston, Mass., there are 207 divorce cases pending, 140 of which are uncontested.

—About 70 buildings in Edinburgh, Pa., have been destroyed by fire, and over 100 families have thus been rendered homeless.

—The Boston Y. M. C. A. has a membership of 2,367, representing 14 denominations; 56 of these members are Roman Catholics.

—The Princess Louise and Prince Leopold visited Chicago for the purpose of attending the Republican convention which met there June 2.

—It is now demonstrated that coffee can be raised in this country, the experiment recently made on a Florida plantation having proved a success.

—The French government is about to commence the construction of a new harbor at La Rochelle, at an estimated cost of 15,000,000 francs.

—The insurrection in the district of Bagdad is assuming serious proportions. The Arabs demand self-government under the protection of England.

—On the 30th of May a destructive tornado passed through portions of Indiana, doing much damage to farm property. No loss of human life is reported.

—There is a rumor that the Navajos and Utes, two Indian tribes of New Mexico, have held a grand council, and determined to make war on the whites.

—The native delegate from India to the Methodist General Conference recently held at Cincinnati is a highly educated man, and speaks English with ease and purity.

—A dispatch from Calcutta states that four companies of British troops have orders to be in readiness to take up positions for the protection of the frontier of Burmah.

—A site has been given for the obelisk from Alexandria, now on its way to New York. It is a small knoll in front of the new building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park.

—The Edelweiss, the white Alpine flower which is such a favorite with tourists, is becoming so scarce that the Swiss government has prohibited its destruction, under strict penalties.

—The Swiss Committee of the National Council have requested the Federal Council to take measures to prevent French Jesuits from establishing themselves on Swiss territory.

—A terrible cyclone visited Savoy, Texas, May 29. The town was almost completely destroyed, only five buildings remaining uninjured. Nine persons were killed, and 60 wounded.

—The South American Missionary Society has a mission among the Paraguay Indians, a warlike people numbering about 100,000 and having scarcely any acquaintance with Christianity.

—The King of Greece is making the tour of the European capitals, with a view to hastening the settlement of the long dispute between Greece and Turkey. He has made his first visit at Paris.

—On the 29th of March a fall of rain mingled with meteoric dust occurred at Catania, Sicily. The dust contained fragments of iron of many shapes and sizes, which were readily attracted by the magnet.

—In Rashaleh and Alashgerd 245 persons have died of starvation; and 40,000 persons in Kurdistan, Armenia, and Western Persia are entirely destitute, and must be fed two months, if they are to be kept alive.

—The Hudson River Tunnel has already advanced about 200 feet under the river. Should this tunnel be completed, it is fair to anticipate a continuation of the work entirely around the harbor, even to the Narrows.

—An exchange mentions a new method of swindling which has been practiced in Indiana. Farmers who signed notes for $10 to pay for hay forks are finding that the decimal point was omitted, and the banks have their notes for $1,000 instead.

—A six-foot granite wall, built to keep in place a porous white stone through which, at one point, the St. Gothard tunnel runs, is giving way. It is thought the tunnel will have to be reconstructed around the white stone, and this will take two years.

—Atlantic Co., N. J., was pretty thoroughly devastated by the recent fires, 95,000 of its 120,000 acres being now a blackened mass. Of this, 75,000 acres were of woodland,— oak, cedar, pine, and holly. About 10,000 acres of vineyards and 9,000 of cranberry bogs were also destroyed.

—The Presbyterian General Assembly, in their session recently held at Madison, Wis., ordered a copy of their resolution favoring the extirpation of Mormonism sent to the President of the United States, the presiding officer of each branch of Congress, and Governor Murray of Utah.

—There is a prospect that the new Prussian church bill will be defeated. Bismarck has shown a willingness to modify the May laws, which gave the government control over ecclesiastical matters; but the church party refuse to accept the concession, and demand the abrogation of the offensive laws.

—East of the Jordan there is an Arab tribe which has embraced the Catholic faith, and is ministered unto by a native Italian priest. These Arabs wander from place to place with their flocks of sheep, and wherever their tent is pitched a temporary church building is erected. Other Arab tribes, it is said, are disposed to follow their example.

—On the 30th of May, four persons, two men and two boys, were amusing themselves in the oil-room of the ship Sophia lying in Philadelphia harbor, when one of the party thrust a red-hot poker toward a barrel of oil. An explosion took place, covering the party in the oil-room and the cook with burning oil. In attempting to escape from the flames, three of them were drowned, the other two were seriously if not fatally burned. The ship was not seriously damaged.

—The Czar has commuted the sentences of the Nihilists recently tried in St. Petersburg. The two who were to be executed are sentenced, one to 10 and the other to 15 years' hard labor in the mines. The others have their terms of imprisonment shortened. There is a report that the Czar's birthday will this year be signalized by the publication of a decree granting equal rights to dissenters, and that an extensive amnesty will be proclaimed to political offenders, in which even Poland will share.