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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 10, 1885.

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 10. Whole No. 1605.

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News of the Week.

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

FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 7.

DOMESTIC.

—There will be an eclipse of the sun March 16.

—The New York Chamber of Commerce Thursday elected ex-President Arthur an honorary member.

—Mrs. Eliza Blaine Walker, only sister of James G. Blaine, died Tuesday morning at Baltimore.

—A New York man has invented a steam sleigh, with which he claims he can reach the north pole.

—The California Supreme Court has decided that Chinese children must be admitted to the public-schools.

—During the season ended March 1, 385,435 hogs were packed at Cincinnati, against 365,451 the preceding season.

—During February the fire loss reached $10,000,000, and since Jan. 1 the property destroyed aggregates in value $18,500,000.

—The Indiana Legislature passed the bill reorganizing the militia, and appropriating $10,000 annually for uniforms and equipments.

—President Arthur, Saturday, Feb. 28, signed an executive order throwing open to settlement the greater part of the Winnebago and Crow Reservation in Dakota, embracing some 600,000 acres.

—After eating oysters at a church social in Silver Mills, Ohio, Monday night, fifteen persons were taken violently ill, two of whom died in a few hours. A physician declares it to be a case of arsenical poisoning.

—Major W. H. Wilson, it is stated, left Dallas, Texas, Tuesday evening, to accept service as fortification engineer under the False Prophet in the Soudan. It is believed that Stone Pasha made the arrangement with Major Wilson.

—Six long-term prisoners tunneled out of the penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., Tuesday evening, five of whom escaped to the woods, one being arrested. The tunnel extended fifty feet, the starting point being beneath the workshop.

—The Dakota Council Thursday passed the bill (which had previously passed the House) to remove the capital from Bismarck to Pierre, by a vote of 14 to 10. The people of Bismarck are considerably exercised regarding the action Governor Pierce will take in the matter.

—March 4, it was announced in the Senate that the House had passed the Senate bill to place General Grant on the retired list of the army. The most enthusiastic applause greeted the announcement, grave senators, forgetful of the stern rules of the Senate, joining with crowds of visitors in the most remarkable demonstration ever witnessed.

—The condition of Gen. Grant is alarming, and he suffers great pain from the cancer at the root of his tongue. He rests very little and has lost his appetite. Whatever nourishment he takes is in liquid form. Dr. J. H. Douglas, one of his physicians, says that Gen. Grant may live a month, but there is no hope that he will recover.

—General Francis Darr and other Californians have tendered General Grant and family, as a loan, a large bearing vineyard in the State, which would be conducted by a skilled viticulturist, with a residence and necessary outbuildings. All the expenses of the General and his party to the Pacific coast would be paid, the Central Pacific Road guaranteeing to send special cars to New York for their conveyance westward.

—In Wyoming County, West Virginia, Jackson Daniels, member of a respectable family, refused to take care of his aged and crippled mother in his residence, but built her a pen in the yard, where she received no better care than the horses and cattle. During the intense cold weather a few weeks ago she begged admission to the house, but was refused, and was found frozen to death next morning. A mob visited the Daniels place, and in the fight one of the regulators was wounded. Reports received at Fayetteville are meager, but it is believed that ere this Daniels has been lynched.

—President Cleveland sent to the Senate Thursday, the names of the gentlemen whom he has selected for his Cabinet. They are: For Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; Secretary of Treasury, Daniel Manning, of New York; Secretary of War, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts; Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New York; Secretary of the Interior, L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi; Postmaster-General, William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin; Attorney-General, A. H. Garland, of Arkansas.

—Bright skies and a comfortable state of the thermometer characterized the day that witnessed the installation of Grover Cleveland as president of the United States. Mr. Cleveland being the first Democratic Executive for twenty-four years, it was made the occasion of unusual demonstration by booming of cannon, the waving of countless flags and banners, the music of one hundred and fifty brass bands, and the uproarious cheers of the great multitude that literally packed the principal streets of Washington. The inaugural address was very brief, occupying scarcely more than half an hour; but it was dignified, simple, and forcible, and expressed what he had to say in plain language, unembellished by rhetorical flourishes.

After the impressive administration of the oath by Chief Justice Waite, there was a magnificent parade, and military review, undoubtedly the finest ever seen in Washington. The remaining festivities of the day and night combined to make it one long to be remembered.

FOREIGN.

—The most delicate watch wheels are now made of paper pulp in Germany.

—General Gordon’s diary kept during the siege of Khartoum has been sent to London. It comprises six large volumes.

—The Legislature of British Columbia has passed a law imposing a fine of $50 or imprisonment for six months on Chinamen who attempt to enter the province.

—The chief dignitaries of the Chinese Empire have been summoned to Pekin to discuss the advisability of continuing the war with France.

—As a precaution against dynamite, all the entrances save one, to the Parliament buildings at Ottawa, Ont., have been closed. The Government House and department offices are also under strict surveillance.

LONDON, MARCH 2.—The medical inspection of every regiment in the British army, ordered yesterday, is in progress to-day. It is understood in some circles that war with Russia hangs by a thread.

NAPLES, MARCH 1.—A large house at Cosenza, capital of the province of the same name, was wrecked to-day by the fall of a floor. Sixty persons were in the building at the time of the disaster, and all were injured more or less severely. Twenty are not expected to recover.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—There are over thirty Mormon “churches” in Colorado; in Idaho, over sixty, and in Arizona, about seven.

—The Broadway Tabernacle’s newly organized Chinese Sunday-school has thirty pupils, and a lady teacher is required for each of them.

—In Rochester, Oakland county, Michigan, services are held in only one of the five churches this winter, on account of hard times.

—At the annual meeting of the First Baptist Church, Elizabeth, N. J., the pastor’s salary was increased $40, and a plan of systematic benevolence adopted.

—At a meeting of the Presbyterian ministers at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Feb. 9, resolutions were passed strongly denouncing roller-skating.

—Father Gavazzi, of the Scotch Church, has announced that committees of the Waldensian and Free Italian churches have adopted a scheme for the union of those churches under the name of the Evangelical Church of Italy.

—Rev. Dr. Graves, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has resigned from the Baptist church because of his inability to awaken the hearts of his congregation sufficiently to pay off the church debt. He had been with them fifteen years.

—Rev. A. N. Alcott, pastor of the Unitarian church, Kalamazoo, Mich., has resigned his pastorate and withdrawn from the Unitarian body, because the last session of the State Conference declined by a majority vote “to recognize either Jesus Christ or Christianity, or even Theism,” in the proposed new constitution.

—The Dutch Reformed Church is claimed to be the wealthiest church in the United States in proportion to their membership, yet gives less per member to missions than any other great Protestant body. The Moravians, who are among the poorest, give the most.

—The Rev. Dr. Lowry, well known as the composer of popular hymns, has resigned the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Plainfield, N. J., giving as a reason the lack of interest in church work on the part of his congregation. He announces his intention not again to become the pastor of any church.

—Joseph Cook, in a late lecture, said that “the power of the polygamists in Utah was tremendous. There were 11,000 of them—3,000 males and 8,000 females—and they ruled the 200,000 Mormons scattered about Utah and surrounding states and territories. The priesthood, possessing an annual income of $1,000,000, controlled all Mormonism. Thus the vote of the territory was under the control of the priesthood.” And this is the disloyal power which the United States permits to defy its authority and laugh at its power.