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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · June 17, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 25

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Notes of News.

—Liverpool, England, has 42 cocoa and coffee houses.

—The British Court is in mourning for the Empress of Russia.

—There are 97,000 miles of submarine telegraph cable in operation.

—In New York City there were 19 cases of fatal sunstroke during the last week of May.

—The capital invested in the dairy business in this country amounts to $2,219,280,000.

—The Prussian church bill has been rejected by the Prussian Parliamentary Committee.

—By a recent fire-damp explosion in a German mine, 21 persons were killed and several others were injured.

—Memphis, Tenn., has “cleaned up,” hoping to thus avoid a visit from the pestilent yellow bend.

—Last year Michigan supplied 4,400,000,000 feet of lumber, one-fourth of the total national product.

—Kearney is again free, and he threatens to continue his violent agitation, only making it more bitter than ever.

—During the month of May, 46,148 immigrants arrived at New York; the total since January 1, is 135,836.

—Bishop Simpson is to visit the Methodist Conference of China and Japan, and Bishop Merrill those in India and Europe.

—The Anglo-American Cable Company have reduced the rates from New York to the principal points in Great Britain to 12½ cents per word.

—Nearly 1,000 physicians from every State in the Union attended the 31st session of the American Medical Association recently held in New York.

—Neal Dow, in an article in defense of the Maine law, says that there is not a “distillery, brewery, or wine factory in the State, open or secret.”

—The Nicaragua Congress have confirmed the concessions recently made to an American company for the construction of a ship-canal across the Isthmus.

—A dispatch from London states that two Russian ironclads, carrying 1,000 infantry soldiers each, have been sent to China. A war between Russia and China is considered certain.

—Harper’s Weekly thinks the conflict of the French government with the Jesuits “affects the whole political situation, and may touch the stability of the republic as now organized.”

—In Ourmiah, Persia, there are from 20 to 80 deaths daily from famine. One man who dropped down exhausted in the street was half devoured by dogs before assistance arrived.

—Turkish papers state that during a recent earthquake, the village of Heledidi was completely swallowed up by the sea, not a trace remaining of its 60 houses and mosque. The inhabitants all escaped.

—The records of the “old South Church,” Boston, are preserved complete from 1669 to the present time. They are kept in a fireproof safe, from which they are never removed except in the presence of an authorized person.

—The Baptist Sunday-schools in this country propose to celebrate the Robert Raikes Sunday-school centenary on the 27th of June, the day preceding the opening of the International Sunday-school Centenary Convention in London.

—An exchange says: “England has a new pest, the tipula grub, which finally blossoms into a daddy longlegs. It goes to the root of every green thing with amazing appetite, and so serious are its ravages that the Royal Agricultural Society has issued an elaborate description of it and its little ways.”

—The French seem to have gone into the dueling business. No less than five duels are reported as having taken place in a single day, the 6th of June, and in four of them the principals were representatives of the press. Rocheford, who was wounded in a previous duel, is in a critical state of health.

—The newly invented smoke, gas, steam, and spark consumer has been tested on the Old Colony Railroad of Massachusetts. It did all that was claimed for it, and it was also demonstrated that it would save $1,200 a year in fuel for each locomotive, besides preventing them from setting forests on fire.

—Dr. J. A. Warne and wife, of Philadelphia, have made over to the American Baptist Missionary Union a property of about $40,000, the savings of a lifetime of labor and frugality. They are thus their own executors, and have the satisfaction of seeing their donation applied as they wish, without running the risk of its being wasted by lawyers. This is a good example; who will follow it?

—The amount of liquor annually manufactured and consumed in this country reaches the enormous total of 260,000,000 gallons; and about 12,000,000 more are imported from foreign countries, making a grand total of 272,000,000 gallons. From the effects of this liquid poison between 60,000 and 100,000 persons die annually. England’s contribution to the death-quota from the same cause is equally as great.

—On the night of the 11th the steamer Stonington came in collision with the Narragansett, on Long Island Sound, about 100 miles from New York City. The Narragansett sunk immediately, but in shallow water, so that her upper deck would have afforded a safe asylum but for the fire that soon consumed all parts of the ship remaining above water. The scene was one of wild terror and distress. The Tribune makes the list of lost 48; many of the saved were badly scalded.

—Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has transferred a large part of the church property in his diocese to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors. This action is opposed by the other officers of the churches, who claim that the Archbishop has no right to do this. The title to the property,—which consists of churches, seminaries, and charity edifices,—is in the Archbishop’s name, and hence is, in a sense, private property. As the money of his creditors was used for these church edifices, it seems but just that the property should be sold for their benefit.

—The worst storm ever known in that part of Iowa visited Pottawattamie county on the evening of the 9th. Besides the wholesale destruction of property, from 15 to 20 persons were killed, many were wounded, and still others cannot be found. Not a house in the track of the tornado was left standing. The storm did not last 15 minutes, and was not accompanied with rain. In Southeastern Minnesota, however, the rain fell in torrents, and in some places caused a total suspension of trains. The village of Stockton is inundated. In Sioux City, Iowa, hail stones over 11 inches in circumference were picked up after the storm.

—London dispatches of June 7 relate the following tale of horror: A little girl in Magdeburg picked a flower from a grave, unconscious of offense. But the sexton-in-chief, who had charge of that grave-yard, determined to inflict an effectual punishment, locked her up in the dead-house, in which four corpses were lying on biers. Having finished his work, the sexton forgot all about his tiny prisoner, and she remained there during the night. The next morning, when he unlocked the door, a shocking spectacle met his gaze. Crouched in a corner, with glassy eyes fixed in a death-stare of horror, and blood-stained lips bitten through and through in convulsive agony, was a fifth corpse, that of the unfortunate child, who had been literally frightened to death.