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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, February 24, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 8

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News of the Week.

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

FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 21.

DOMESTIC.

—A petroleum well, gushing twenty-five barrels an hour, has been struck in Dallas, W. T.

—A bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors has passed both houses of the Nebraska Legislature.

—The injury by intense cold to fruit trees in Michigan has been so severe that but half a crop is anticipated next season.

—Business failures for the week number 273, against 330 last week, and 243 in the corresponding period of 1884.

—Announcement was made in all parts of the Hocking Valley Sunday that no more aid could be given the striking miners, and advising the men to go to work.

—The list of contributions to the Garfield monument includes, it is said, $5 from England, and $1,000 from France.

—Clearing House exchanges last week—$716,611,111—are $6,092,902 less than the previous week; as compared with the corresponding week of 1884 there is a falling off of 27.6 per cent.

—Some distance north of South Haven seventeen men of the missing steamer Michigan came ashore, having traveled on the ice a distance of twenty-two miles from the vessel. There are yet thirteen men aboard, with rations for a month and ninety tons of coal.

FOREIGN.

—Mozart, who, while he lived, wanted bread, gets a stone. Vienna is building him a monument at a cost of $50,000, which is much more than he received for the whole work of his life. He died in want, and his uncoffined corpse was thrust into a trench in a potter’s field.

—Many members of the Liberal party in England are reported as in favor of handing the control of the Soudan over to the Sultan, as the best way out of Egyptian troubles. At the council of war it was resolved to increase the Indian contingent for the reinforcement of General Wolseley to 3,500 men, and to raise the force of General Graham for his Suakim expedition to 11,500 men. Canada and Victoria have offered to send contingents to the Soudan.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—The Rev. J. H. Vincent of Chautauqua fame has come out in a tersely-expressed opinion that Methodists should more vigorously protest against the dance, theatre, and card-table. He says: “We must press upon the minds of Methodist youth that these pleasures impart no good to humanity. No compromise can be made with amusements.”

—The American Bible Society has published for distribution at the New Orleans Exposition a pamphlet containing specimen verses in all the languages and dialects in which the Holy Scriptures have been printed by the American Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, numbering 242. It is an interesting souvenir as well as a suggestive indication of the wide circulation of the word of God.

—The prospect of union between the Waldensian church and the free Italian church grows brighter. The people of the churches in the cities of Italy where both are established, are meeting together in a very cordial way, and lately an extraordinary synod of the Free Italian church was convened, at which it was unanimously agreed that the union is desirable. A committee was appointed to consider how the union should be advanced, and what must be the terms of union.—Interior.

—One town in Illinois, with a population including 3,000 young men, on a recent Sunday showed by actual count one hundred and forty young men in attendance at the Protestant churches in the morning, and one hundred and sixty-one in the evening. On the previous evening one hundred and five young men entered a single saloon in this city in only one hour, and there were thirty-six new saloons open at the same time.—Y. M. C. A. Worker.

—The Christian Union says: “A church now being built in Michigan is to have as seats arm-chairs, cherry wood, mahogany finished, with tilting backs, each chair being furnished with hat, shawl, cloak, book, umbrella, and cane rack, and a footstool. Nothing else seems needed to make a model church except sound doctrine, live Christianity, and a pastor capable of keeping the occupants of the luxurious church awake all the time.”