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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, January 6, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 1

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News of the Week.

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

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN. 3, 1885.

DOMESTIC.

—The December returns of the cotton crop indicate a total production of 5,580,000 bales.

—About a hundred saloon-keepers were arrested in New York Sunday for violating the excise law.

—Recent finds of gold at Fort Mountain, Ga., have led to the discovery of silver-mines in the same district.

—A St. Louis journal estimates that at present in that city 15,000 persons are out of employment.

—Blizzards are reported at Sioux City, Lincoln (Neb.), St. Paul, and the mountain regions of Colorado.

—An epidemic of small-pox prevails at South Boardman, Mich. Trains pass the town without stopping.

—Last year at the Philadelphia Mint 52,270,000 pieces were coined, the value of which was $16,947,000.

—On the last day of 1884, the boiler of the tug Admiral exploded, blowing to pieces the bodies of all her crew.

—Fire Monday morning swept away the business section of Kentland, Ind., the loss being estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000.

—Floods in the Danville (Ill.) section have seriously damaged two railway bridges, and caused a cave-in of a portion of the Ellsworth Coal Mine.

—An ice-jam has caused the river to rise at Montreal, causing a flooding of streets and cellars in the lower sections of the city.

—A circular of the Pennsylvania Coal Company announces an average reduction of 25 cents per ton in the price of coal after Jan. 1.

—The clock in Trinity Church tower, New York, is the heaviest in America. It takes two men over an hour to wind it up.

—The fire at Pierre, D. T., early yesterday morning caused a loss of $40,000, with $30,000 insurance. The burned structures will not be replaced until spring.

—The paper once called foolscap is now known as Congressional cap. The name sounds better, but it is the same thing and used by the same people.

—An immense chain has just been made at Newburyport, Mass. It is 200 feet long and weighs 2,700 pounds. It is made of two and one-third-inch iron, and each link weighs twenty-five pounds.

—The United States Treasurer to-day mailed checks in payment of the interest due Jan. 1 on government securities to the amount of $7,903,613.

—Fall wheat in DeWitt County, Illinois, has been damaged by heavy rains, and corn gathering has been checked by the mud.

—Another outbreak by striking miners of the Hocking Valley is reported. Dynamite was received Monday, and attacks on railroad bridges were begun. A sheriff with a large posse is on the trail of the mob.

—Clearing exchanges for the week—$629,156,877—are $178,679,975 less than in the preceding week. As compared with the corresponding period in 1883, the falling off is $211,584,946.

—It is estimated that there has been a decrease of $400,000 in the public debt during December. The receipts have been light, and the disbursements heavier than usual. The payments on account of pensions amount to over $8,000,000.

—The sugar yield in St. Mary’s Parish, La., has proved a failure, and other crops are not abundant, owing to last summer’s drought. Planters are discouraged, and the outlook for the laborers is gloomy.

—The Great Eastern is being prepared for sea, but owing to a doubt in regard to her sea-worthiness, she will not be allowed to sail for New Orleans until a thorough inspection of all her compartments has been made by the officials of the Board of Trade.

—Reports received at Bozeman, Mont., are to the effect that cattle are starving to death in the Madison and Yellowstone regions. The snow is two feet deep on the level, making it impossible for the animals to get at the grass.

—Throughout Arkansas, the bayous and rivers are over their banks, flooding the country for miles. Railway tracks are under water, and bridges have been weakened, thus retarding travel. In the White River Valley plantations are submerged, and stock have been drowned.

—The Secretary of the Treasury sent the following telegram to the Collector of Customs of San Francisco in reference to Chinese immigration. “Section 6, act 1884, applies only to Chinese merchants coming for the first to the United States. Chinese merchants, former residents in the United States, may be admitted on any satisfactory proof of such facts by certificate or otherwise.”

FOREIGN.

—The police officials of Hamburg have a letter containing threats that the Imperial Naval Observatory will be destroyed.

—Tonquin advices report daily encounters between the Chinese and French at the outposts. The Chinese continue pouring troops into Tonquin and Formosa.

—General Wolseley has changed his route to Khartoum, and will march by the road from Merawah to Berber, instead of by the desert route to Shendy. This will delay the relief of Khartoum two months.

—Later details of the earthquake show that the damage to property and the loss of life are both much greater than at first believed. So far as reported 3,000 persons were killed and many fatally injured.

—The Mahdi is a radical total-abstinence man, even to coffee and tobacco, which he won’t even allow in his camp. In fact, he even gave a refugee 150 lashes for smoking a cigarette.

—Arabi Bey states that he and his suite are not allowed enough money to live on. The Ceylon Government indorses their complaint, and has tried to induce the Egyptian authorities to be more liberal, without effect as yet.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—James Lyman, a man of Lee, Ind., was recently pouring out a torrent of blasphemy when he became speechless. Paralysis of the vocal organs occurred in a second of time.

—Apostle Cannon, of Utah, is vigorously pushing his polygamous campaign in the canton of Berne, in spite of the arrest and expulsion of Mormon missionaries from Switzerland.

—The new missionary boat, the “Morning Star,” has been furnished with a large quarto Bible for the cabin by the pupils of the high school of Marsolan, Turkey. On its cover is the inscription, “We have seen His Star in the East.”

—The Turkish government has issued a decree forbidding the Jews to add to their numbers in the Holy Land by immigration. Those who wish to pray at the “holy places” in Jerusalem may go and remain for thirty days, but they must give security that they will depart in a month.

—At a recent address before the Oberlin Faculty Club, at Oberlin, Ohio, President Fairchild said that when in the Sandwich Islands he found in the possession of one of the American families there the original manuscript of the romance from which Joseph Smith copied his Book of Mormon.

—Two children have died within a week in Williams’ private foundling hospital at South Denver, Col., without medical aid, Williams depending entirely on the efficacy of prayer for the cure of the little sufferers. The Coroner has the matter in charge. Williams states that he managed a similar institution in Chicago in 1881.

—Bishop Warren, in his Philadelphia Centennial address, made the following statement in regard to the denominational educational institutions of this country: The Protestant Episcopal Church has 12 colleges, with $8,700,000 endowment; Congregationalists, 28 colleges, with $9,000,000; Presbyterians, 41 colleges, with $7,000,000; Baptists, 46 colleges, with $10,300,000; Methodists, 52 colleges, with $1,000,000 endowment.