ITEMS OF NEWS by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 12.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

By Editor

Strikes continue to be popular.
Arrests are still being made in Russia.
No prospects of peace in Chile at present.
Moody's meetings at St. Louis continue to draw the crowd.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Los Angeles, March 21.
The present population of the globe is estimated at 1,300,000,000.
The Pope, while not approving, will submit to the expulsion of the Jesuits from France.
A bill, giving the right of suffrage to women, has passed both houses of the Legislature of Wisconsin.
The uprising of the Commune in Paris in 1871 was commemorated March 20, by an address, banquet, and ball.
A company of negroes, 150 in number, passed through Memphis, Tenn., a few days since, bound for Liberia.
The San Francisco Christian Advocate wonders that religious papers publish laudations of Hop Bitters, which, it says, should be treated as "disguised gin or whisky." For which we commend the Advocate.

A Buddhist temple in Marysville, Cal., was set down for dedication on Sunday, the 21st. "The world moves."
March 19, the Tennessee river was reported to be higher than at any time since 1875. Great damage was feared.
The discovery of a mine of chalk is reported in Fresno county, Cal. The chalk is said to be of a superior quality.
Charles de Young, the would-be assassin of Kalloch, Mayor of San Francisco, arrived from the East Saturday last.
The City of Tokio, which left for China and Japan last Saturday, took 650 cases of rifles, valued at $13,000, for Yokohama.
A bill has been introduced into the Senate, directing the Post-master General to establish a dead-letter post-office at San Francisco.
The Health Department of Memphis, Tenn., during the last year, has expended $20,000 to improve the sanitary condition of that city.
Five hundred and seventy Cuban insurgents have surrendered to the Spanish authorities. It is to be hoped that the rebellion has ended.
The steamer, Maria Louise, from Shreveport to New Orleans, sank in Red river last Thursday morning. She had 1500 bales of cotton on board.
The German ambassador's civility to the Celestials is extremely marked, and points to secret negotiations between Pekin and Berlin against Russia.
The tide is turning. The French in Canada have raised the cry, "The Irish must go;" and threaten to burn houses if their demands are not complied with.
The idea of making the great plains east of the Rocky Mountains valuable by boring artesian wells is receiving considerable attention by our national legislators.
It is said that there were never so many "scandals" hovering over the United States Senate as there are now. Senator Hill of Georgia is just now under a heavy cloud.
Parnell, the Irish orator, who has been in this country some time, trying to gain the sympathies and assistance of Americans for his countrymen, has returned to Ireland.
The new Constitution of California cost $300,000 in the making, which is estimated to be only a tithe of what it will cost to put the conglomerate instrument into working order.
L. J. Gannon, Kearney's echo in sand-lot blasphemy and threatening, has been convicted and sentenced to $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, but has appealed to the higher court.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has been completed to Tucson, Arizona, a distance of one thousand miles. At El Paso, 200 miles further on, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad is expected to connect with it.
La Telegraphe, of March 18, says: The principal Jesuits are so persuaded that Premier de Freycinet is in earnest, that they no longer hope to remain in France, and are preparing to emigrate to Spain and Belgium.
Viscount de Lesseps, the projector of both the Suez and Inter-ocean canals, has been spending a few days in San Francisco. Having divided two continents in the Old World, he seeks now to divide North and South America.
The jute manufacturing company in Alameda Co. (Cal.), have disincorporated, and now do business as individuals in a firm. They employ some 700 or 800 Chinese, and have taken this step because the new constitution forbids corporations employing Chinese.
The Commission to which the question of letter-carrying by Well's, Fargo & Co's Express was referred, have reported adversely to the continuance of such service. This action was strongly protected by all Pacific coast senators, representatives, and delegates, as being a serious blow to the business facilities of our people.
A dispatch from New Orleans says that negro laborers are on a strike in St. Charles Parish. The governor, on application of the whites, has ordered the Louisiana field artillery to the parish. The whites report that the negroes threaten to burn the sugar-houses if their demands are not complied with.
In San Francisco there are over 2600 licensed saloons, and it is supposed there are of 4,000 places where drinks are sold with or without license, at a probable cost to consumers of at least $15,000,000 a year. This is below the estimates. And this to produce pauperism, crime, insanity, etc. Who will raise the cry, "The liquor sellers must go"? The "Chinese curse" does not equal this.
After a careful examination of the Chinese question, the Congressional committee have submitted their report to the House. The majority agree in the statement that "Chinese immigration is destroying the trade and materially effecting the business of San Francisco and the whole Pacific coast." As a temporary means of relief, the committee recommends that the bill of last session, limiting the landing of Chinese to but fifteen upon any vessel, be adopted by Congress; also that a joint resolution be adopted, abrogating that part of the treaty between the United States and China which relates to immigration.