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

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 11

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News of the Week.

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

DOMESTIC.

FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 14.

—There were 142 deaths from pneumonia in New York last week.

—The frost in the ground is nearly three feet deep in the vicinity of Boston.

—Counterfeits of 1-cent pieces are being circulated on an extensive scale.

—The woman suffrage bill has passed both houses of the Dakota Legislature.

—W. W. Corcoran has given $1,000 to the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Association.

—The receipts of the government during the eight months ending Feb. 28, show a falling off of nearly $20,000,000.

—Governor Pierce, of Dakota, has vetoed the capital removal bill, and its passage over the veto is not expected.

—Business failures for the week number 250, against 222 last week, and 186 in the corresponding period in 1884.

—Navin, the fugitive mayor, is en route from New Orleans for Adrian, Mich., in charge of Sheriff Whitmore and a deputy.

—The propeller Michigan* has been sighted off Grand Haven, after having been imprisoned in the ice over four weeks.

—A Washington dispatch states that ex-President Arthur is going to Europe in July, to remain abroad several months.

—T. S. Arthur, who died at Philadelphia Friday at the age of 74, was a stalwart apostle of temperance, and his good works live after him.

—The water is three feet deep in the streets of Alexandria, Iowa, and the people have taken refuge in the upper stories of their houses.

—Three iron mills at Pittsburg resumed operations Monday, indicating that trade is improving, and another will start up in a few days.

—Articles manufactured in United States prisons have been seized at London, Ont., being imported contrary to a law which went into effect a week ago.

—An earthquake at Lancaster, Pa., Sunday evening, shook buildings and threw plates from tables. Services were suspended in the churches until the shock subsided.

—President Cleveland has given notice that persons who call upon him in regard to appointments, shall be referred to the heads of the departments, who are to have charge of these matters.

—A body of 250 militia has been sent from St. Louis to Sedalia, Mo., to protect railway property from the strikers, who are said to have assumed a threatening attitude.

—General Grant continues to improve, and on Wednesday worked for an hour on his book. His appetite appears to increase, and in the evening he retired in excellent condition.

—The heavy ice gorge at the mouth of the Des Moines river continues. The water has broken over the levee in several places, causing destruction to property and loss of live stock.

—The coal miners’ strike is spreading in the Pittsburg district, 4,000 men having quit work. Some of the operators are paying the advance demanded, but others say they will never yield.

—By a collision of freight trains near Lawrence, Kan., Saturday night, twelve cars loaded with tobacco and merchandise for California were completely demolished, causing a loss of $75,000.

—The Baltimore Sun is authority for the statement that President Cleveland’s lips touched six verses when he kissed the Bible, and these were in the 112th Psalm, from verses 5 to 10, inclusive.

—There is not a saloon open in Topeka, Kan. Seventeen whisky sellers are serving terms in prison for violation of the law, and the fines collected from saloonists in the county for the past year amount to $11,500.

—What was supposed to be an infernal machine was found Monday in the Union freight depot at Cleveland. When tested it failed to explode, and is alleged to have been placed in position by a discharged employe.

—The Indiana House passed a bill Wednesday making it a felony for bankers to receive money on deposit when they know that their concerns are insolvent. The maximum penalty is $10,000, five and ten years’ imprisonment.

—Six thousand pounds of glycerine in a nitro-glycerine manufactory, near Bradford, Pa., exploded Tuesday, blowing two men to atoms, reducing a factory to fragments, and shaking the town. Trees were torn up from their roots, and great holes were made in the ground.

—The United States is said now to be the third largest silk manufacturing country in the world, and this despite all that has been said and written to discourage the raising of silk in this country. The value of our annual silk product is now placed at $35,000,000. About 60,000 pounds of cocoons were raised in 1883.

—The last subject of the great historical frieze that runs around the capitol dome has been selected. It represents the ceremony of driving the last spike in the railroad, which bound the Atlantic and Pacific seas together. The notable persons assembled are placed in the foreground of the cartoon.

—The people of Sarahsville, Ohio, enraged at the beating inflicted by Thomas Dayton on his two children, erected a post in the public square, lashed him to it, and then thrashed him with whips. The post has been left standing as a warning to bad characters.

FOREIGN.

—Unusual precautions have been adopted at the present moment in Quebec, and strangers are only permitted to enter after severe scrutiny.

—The campaign against the Mahdi has collapsed for the present, and no further offensive operations on the Nile will take place before autumn.

—It is proposed to form the Nile country into a State, on the plan of the Congo Free State, and call it the Gordon Free State in honor of General Gordon.

—General Wolseley has issued an address to the soldiers and sailors of the Nile expedition complimenting them on behalf of the Queen for their courage and self-devotion, and promising to lead them to Khartoum in the autumn.

—The East Indian troops were in their first engagement with the Arabs in the Soudan March 10, repulsing them. The Arabs are reported as panic-stricken when they saw the swarthy Mohammedans from India delivering their fire with such precision as to make every shot tell.

—It is reported that the British Government has sent an emphatic demand to St. Petersburg that the Russians withdraw from Afghan territory. The Emperor of Germany has written to the Czar impressing upon him the necessity of reaching an agreement with England, but no reply has been made in the friendliest terms.

—The Governor of the Island of Samos recently discovered a tunnel measuring about 5,000 feet long, that was used at least nine centuries before the Christian era. It is completely preserved, and contains water channels about ten inches in diameter, each one provided with a lateral aperture for cleansing purposes.

—A member of the Irish extremist party gives the information that a project is on foot to blow up the locks of the Welland canal, and also destroy the international railway and suspension bridges. This, it is claimed, would ruin the Canadian carrying trade on the lakes for two years, as it would take that length of time to repair the Welland canal.

—In Great Britain, according to the New York, 990,000,000 gallons of beer are annually brewed; in Germany, 900,000,000; in the United States, 600,000,000; in France, 157,500,000; in Austria and Hungary, 280,000,000; in Belgium, 210,250,000; in Holland, 34,000,000; in Russia, 8,000,000; in Switzerland, 13,500,000; in Denmark, 28,000,000; in Sweden, 21,000,000; in Italy, 7,000,000. Total, 3,246,250,000.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—In Newfoundland there are about 100,000 Protestants and 65,000 Catholics.

—Mr. Moody has put himself on record as opposed to roller-skating rinks.

—The Devil was tried by court-martial at a Salvation Army meeting in Salem, Mass., Sunday night.

—The annual conference of the United Methodist Brethren in Christ, held at Quakertown, Pa., recently decided that no minister or local assistant in the denomination addicted to the use of tobacco should hereafter receive a share of the Home Mission Fund.

—In a report to the Baptist General Association of Pennsylvania, Dr. Evans states that while Pennsylvania has a population of about 4,500,000, only 500,000 are members of evangelical churches. There are eleven counties with a population of 300,000 without a single Baptist, and five counties having each only a single church of the Baptist denomination.

—The application of mortar from the walls of Chapel of Knock, in Ireland, restored the sight of McAndrews, of Mingo, Iowa, who had been blind for a time. Other wonderful cases from application of mortar are also reported.

—An Anti-Deist Society has just been formed, the object of which is to combat religious dogmas of all description. Members are bound to labor to suppress the word “God” and all its equivalents in all languages, and are pledged never to use it in conversation or correspondence.

—“There are,” says the St. James Chronicle, “in the Church of England more than one thousand men members of the notorious confraternity of the Sacrament. The chief objects of the confraternity are propagation of the doctrine of the Mass and the Real Presence, together with Fasting, Communion, Prayer for the Dead, the Reserved Sacrament, and the re-union of the Church of England with the Church of Rome. Fifty members of this confraternity have been appointed bishops of the Church of England to incumbencies in dioceses. These incumbents are receiving $79,500 per annum from their livings, and 162,583 souls are under their care.” Is it any wonder, in the face of this statement, that the Romanizing of the Church of England makes such progress? How long will the people of the land suffer such treachery to prevail?—Christian at