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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, November 25, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 47

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News of the Week.

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

FOR WEEK ENDING NOV. 22.

DOMESTIC.

—The New York canals will close Dec. 1.

—The disease known as “blackleg” is killing off young cattle in Berks County, Pa.

—Left-handed penmanship is now taught, it is said, in a number of American schools.

—Ex-Senator Conkling’s law practice is said to be worth $1,500 a week.

—It has been decided that Canada will not be represented at the New Orleans Exposition.

—Business failures for the week number 251, against 187 last week, and 228 in the corresponding period of 1883.

—A three days’ convention of Christian workers under direction of Mr. Moody, was opened Friday at Detroit.

—The total amount received by the Democratic National Committee during the campaign is said to be $333,000.

—General Fremont administered an oath to his men, when famine-stricken on the Great American desert, to die rather than to commit cannibalism.

—There are over four million letters sent to the dead letter office every year, and more than a million dollars is annually found in misdirected letters.

—The Japanese girl when she goes into company paints her face white, her lips and the corners of her eyes red, with two slate-colored spots on her forehead.

—A French transport will sail for New York in May next with Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World.”

—The grave of an Indian chief near Binghamton, N. Y., was opened Monday night. Beside treasures were found implements dating prior to the discovery of America.

—The fire at Goldsboro, N. C., Sunday afternoon, destroyed twenty-seven buildings and 300 bales of cotton. The loss is said to be $300,000, with insurance amounting to $200,000.

—James Gordon Bennett says that when the Mackay-Bennett cable gets in thorough working order, not only all the foreign news, but all the leading editorials of the New York Herald, will be cabled from London.

—A committee of merchants in Philadelphia want to take the old “liberty bell” from Independence Hall and remove it to New Orleans during the exposition. They will apply to the City Council for a permit; and the mayor recommended that permission be granted.

—Gas from a well being drilled on the Poe farm near Cleveland, Ohio, ignited Friday, destroying the rig and burning two men severely. The flame mounts upward 40 feet, illuminating the surrounding country.

—A negro woman in Leavenworth, Kan., Monday refused to allow her child to be buried in a grave which had been dug “crosswise of the world.” The whole negro population believe that the mistake in digging the grave will bring a curse upon them.

—For refusing to take out a license under the Downing law sixty saloon-keepers at St. Joseph, Mo., were fined Monday $200 each, and will not be given a license for two years. A number of similar cases are pending, and the decision of Judge Grub has caused consternation.

—An unknown disease is decimating households in Buchanan, Wise, and Dickinson Counties, Virginia, where in some instances four corpses have been found under one roof. Wells and springs have been absorbed by the drought, and the little water that remains is supposed to be tainted with mineral poisons, which are causing the mortality.

—In Rupert Land a Canadian expedition discovered Lake Mistassini, a body of water supposed to be larger than Lake Superior. Fur-bearing animals abound on its shores, and fish are very abundant. It is believed that the Hudson Bay Company has known of the existence of the lake for a hundred years, but kept the matter secret.

—The strange disease reported Wednesday as prevailing in Virginia, also exists in Kentucky and West Virginia, where whole families have been swept away, and thirty or more new graves are seen in a small cemetery. The people call it cholera, for want of a better name, and the malady upholds its dreadful title, victims upon being seized seldom living longer than twenty-four hours. It is said the scourge affected majorities in some precincts at the recent election. Numerous corpses have been left unburied, and the stench from the decaying carcasses of animals pollutes the air. Flour, corn, and meal are needed to succor the starving population, and unless rain falls, annihilation may be anticipated.

FOREIGN.

—There were fifty-six deaths from cholera in Paris. The total number in eight days is 460. Russia has established a quarantine of twenty-one days on her frontier against infected countries. The municipal council of Paris voted 50,000 francs for the enforcement of sanitary measures in the city. A committee of American and English residents has been formed at Paris to assist their countrymen.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—Thomas Harrison, the “boy preacher,” celebrated his 43d birthday last week.

—Prayer-books made with a little bouquet-holder on the outside are to be extensively used this winter.

—The headquarters and official organ of the Salvation Army in America will be removed from Brooklyn, N. Y., to Cleveland, Ohio.

—Dr. Stocker, the Berlin court preacher, proposes to renew his fanatical crusade against the Jews in the Reichstag, to which he has been elected.

—For non-payment of a certain tax, Father Egan ejected an aged man, Duncan McCague, from the church at Thorn Hill, Ont., Sunday. McCague’s thigh was broken in the affray, and his life is in danger.

—Total revenue of the Odd-fellows of America for 1883 was $5,330,041.47; total relief, $2,015,832.32. Thus it costs an Odd-fellow $5.33 to give for charity $2.01½.

—The pope attributes the cholera in Italy to the fact that Rome was taken from the “Church” a few years ago. And, of course, many of his followers will believe it. Alas!

—Father Chiniquy was mobbed in Montreal on Sunday night. He received similar treatment in Quebec recently. And it seemed that the police did little or nothing to protect him.

—Among the students in Storer College is one just from Africa. He is a native Chief and heir to a kingdom; but he has voluntarily relinquished it, much to the grief of his heathen mother, to come to the College to fit himself to preach the gospel in his native land. Another native African is daily expected to enter the College. This is a Free Baptist institution situated at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, the scene of the exploits of John Brown, of whom the old song says, “His soul goes marching on.” Surely the spirit of the freedom for which he dared so much, even to the giving up of life, has worked wonders since his time. —Religious Intelligencer.

—The synod of the Ohio Presbyterian Church, held at Cleveland, Ohio, October 31, adopted the report of the standing committee on “The Observance of the Sabbath and Temperance.” The gist of the resolution was the increased desecration of the Sabbath among the poor, and the necessity of united and vigorous action on the part of law-abiding citizens; the great end to be attained being the sacredness of the day and the entire prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as beverages. —Christian Union.

—“O thou infinite and eternal God, whom men call by many names, . . . O thou only Creative Cause of all, Great Architect of the Universe! . . . Regard the whole world; unite all men by the subtle, sublime, and unbreakable fellowship of Masonic love, and may we, when all earthly separations are closed forever, meet in the eternal brotherhood of the Celestial Lodge above.” —From the prayer of “Rev.” W. W. Brewer, at Masonic Centennial, at St. Johns, New Brunswick.