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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, February 17, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 7

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News of the Week.

“Tidings of these things came.”—Acts 11:22.

FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 14.

DOMESTIC.

—It is estimated that 1,000,000 of the cattle in Texas are owned by men who live outside the State.

—There are issued from the Patent Office at Washington on an average 400 patents every week.

—Denver is to have an electric railroad. A company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $500,000.

—An old negro was frozen to death Tuesday in a Detroit suburb, and a man also perished from cold at Cadillac, Mich.

—The February cotton report gives the total crop as 5,666,000 bales, of which all but 10½ per cent has been marketed.

—Iron mill employees at San Francisco refused Monday to accept a 15 per cent reduction, and 1,500 men are now idle.

—A bill to “prevent children from acquiring the habit of using tobacco” was introduced Wednesday in the Michigan Legislature.

—A laborer named Martell, of Astoria, L. I., claims to be the heir to the Dorina estate at Montreal, the property being worth millions.

—The closing of the mills at Manayunk, Pa., has caused great destitution among the 10,000 persons thrown out of employment.

—Fire in the annex to the Signal Service office at Washington destroyed many valuable instruments and damaged the building to the amount of $2,000.

—Mrs. Rebecca Rinehart, who claimed to have witnessed the battle of Austerlitz, died at Laporte, Ind., Wednesday, aged 100 years.

—The Department of Agriculture reports the value of cattle in the United States at $1,107,000,000, and of all other domestic animals at $2,456,000,000.

—Unless intensely cold weather sets in, a flood is feared at Pittsburg. On the rivers nearly up to the head waters there are acres of ice with a heavy coating of snow.

—Five business structures were burned at Lansing, Mich., early Wednesday morning, the intense cold (26 below zero) freezing the hose and disabling the steamer. The loss is $60,000.

—At Shelbyville, Ill., and other places Tuesday morning three moons were seen in the sky, old Luna appearing with a counterfeit presentment on either side of it, and alarming a few superstitious persons.

—Clearing House exchanges last week—$722,781,013—are $100,868,544 greater than the previous week, but when compared with the corresponding period in 1884 the falling off amounts to $298,012,851.

—Jones Island, Milwaukee, was flooded Monday night, waves from the lake sweeping the district, and driving the people to places of safety. The cold was intense and the sufferings of the islanders excruciating.

—The production of pig iron in the United States last year was 4,589,613 tons, against 5,140,972 tons in 1883. The stock of pig iron unsold Jan. 1, 1885, was 593,000 tons, against 533,000 tons on January 1, 1884.

—An appeal for medicines and linens, with which to dress wounds, was received at Denison, Texas, Monday, from Savannah, in the Indian Territory, where the recent mine explosion occurred. Thirty victims are suffering for proper treatment.

—Before an International gathering in Allegheny Monday night, Joseph Frick, speaking in German, denounced the United States Senate for passing the dynamite resolution, and advocated murder and revolution, as, under law and order, the poor man had no rights.

—The cold wave that swept over Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and many other parts last week was the coldest known for many years. Railroad traffic has been suspended, and in some parts local business has been interrupted by the extreme severity of the weather.

—August Dill, a wealthy farmer living near Wahpeton, D. T., has been missing since Jan. 26. Sunday his remains were found under a manure pile in his stables. The wife confessed having quarreled with her husband, and says she shot him twice, after which, with the assistance of the hired man and son, she buried him.

—The appeal of Mrs. Dudley, who shot O’Donovan Rossa, to be released, was refused at New York Wednesday by Judge Donahue, of the Supreme Court, and the prisoner was remanded to await examination by a police magistrate. Counsel for Mrs. Dudley reiterated the claim that Rossa had publicly stated that he would not prosecute.

—By a collision of freight trains Saturday morning on the bridge spanning the Raritan River at New Brunswick, N. J., an oil tank exploded, and flaming oil and cars were thrown to the street beneath, whence the burning fluid flowed by the gutters into the ice-covered canal, enveloping and causing the destruction by fire of two manufactories, several dwellings, and a stable filled with horses. Four persons, it is believed, perished in the flames, and the total loss will reach probably $1,000,000.

FOREIGN.

—The Anglo-Jewish Association reports that the Jews are being cruelly persecuted by the Moors in Tangiers.

—The National Independent Association has been organized in London, which has for one of its objects an alliance between England and the United States.

—The watch was increased at the Parliament Building, Ottawa, Ont., Sunday, owing to intelligence from New York that the dynamiters are preparing for an attack.

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 11.—The population is exultant over the disaster in the fall of Khartoum. On the other hand the government expresses great anxiety over the disaster in the Soudan, fearing that the Mahdi’s success will lead to a serious movement in El Hejaz, Arabia, where he has many followers.

—A London dispatch states that orders were issued Monday for the dispatch of 10,000 troops for the Soudan. Also that the government has decided to call out the reserve and a portion of the militia for garrison duty in place of the troops now being forwarded to Egypt.

—The definite announcement is made in Brussels that a marriage has been arranged between the Princess Clementine, daughter of King Leopold, of Belgium, and Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Princess Clementine was born Jan. 30, 1864, and Prince Albert Victor has just attained his majority.

—The labor crisis in France is causing the utmost alarm. There are at present 300,000 unemployed men in Paris, and 1,000,000 more in the provinces. Documents of the most inflammatory character have been circulated calling for a great mass-meeting in the fashionable Place de L’Opera to-day, and the police have been put on duty, in readiness for any attempt at outbreak.

PARIS, FEB. 11.—A dispatch from Tonquin states the French column, advancing toward Langson under General Briere De L’Isle, has had three days’ hard fighting in the defiles of the mountains. The French losses have been heavy, but the troops are making steady progress, despite the obstinate resistance of the Chinese.

—During the storming of the enemy’s positions at Birtu Feb. 10, General Earle was killed while leading the attack, which was well planned and gallantly executed, with a victory for the English. It is expected that the effect will be to open the way to Berber without further fighting.

LONDON, FEB. 12.—Up to midnight Wednesday the Government had no official advice confirming the report of General Gordon’s death. But there is a report in London to the effect that an Arab messenger has reached Korti, who says that General Gordon was among the first to fall, that he was stabbed in the back, and that the whole garrison has been massacred. Colonel Wilson confirms the report. The English government has instructed General Wolseley to ascertain the exact truth concerning General Gordon before taking decisive action.

—At a recent meeting in Westminster Abbey, London, a member of the Universities’ mission to Zanzibar stated that they had thirty-five native evangelists, formerly slaves; and among their converts was an earnest Christian youth, formerly page to the Sultan of Zanzibar. The released slaves had printed in their printing office the whole of the New Testament and a large portion of the Old in the Swahili language, understood throughout the interior.