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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 2, 1878

SECULAR NEWS.

—During the year 1876, 108,771 Italians came to America. Of this number 89,000 are set down as temporary tourists.

—The amount of lumber cut upon the Connecticut river and its tributaries the past winter is estimated at 30,000,000 feet.

—Over 1,200 emigrants arrived at Atchison in one day, destined for the interior of Kansas.

—Tornadoes are reported from Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Michigan, doing great damage to property, and inflicting many personal injuries.

—The Windsor Hotel of Coburg, Ontario, was recently burned to the ground. The front wall fell in, burying a number of firemen in the ruins, four of whom were killed.

—From three to four hundred cases of typhoid fever were reported daily in St. Petersburg during March, on account, it is held by some, of epidemic germs having been brought from the seat of war.

—It is estimated that in the neighborhood of Smyrna, about 10,000 tons of raisins are annually produced. From August 1876, to June 30, 1877, as many as 1,343,900 boxes arrived in England from Malaga, against 977,520 up to the same date of the previous year.

—It is stated that the great cyclone and storm wave which visited certain districts in Bengal on the morning of the first of November, 1876, that the total number of persons drowned was 90,000, and that the outbreak of cholera which followed carried off 75,000, making a total mortality of 165,000.

—The Madras Times believes that Southern India is on the threshold of another famine sufficiently widespread to cause the greatest concern, and as if to fill their cup of affliction to the full, a visitation of grasshoppers has ravaged the country clearing the growing crops and leaving the fields as if burned with fire.