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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 48.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Electric light is to be tried for lighting the Hoosac Tunnel.

—In Paris $120,000 is paid out annually for sweeping the streets.

—It is estimated that 100,000 Canadians immigrate annually to this country.

—The son of Abraham Lincoln was one of the Presidential electors of Illinois.

—The 179 Government life-saving stations were the means of saving 1,980 lives.

—Broadway, New York, is being lighted with electricity a few weeks on trial.

—Mrs. Garfield refuses to have her photograph sold or her portrait engraved.

—The Maine rivers froze earlier than usual this winter, and millions of logs were locked in the ice.

—The Pope has presented 50,000 francs to the sufferers by the earthquake at Agram, Austria.

—Illinois will be out of debt at the end of this year, and have $100,000 to begin the New Year with.

—Aroostook county, Me., has 22 starch factories, which will consume 135,000 bushels of potatoes this season.

—There are only five ministers in the Spurgeon family—Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, his father, brother and two sons.

—The American Israelite states that there are only two Jewish synagogues in the United States wholly free from debt.

—Two new transatlantic cables are projected, to be used in connection with the American Union Telegraph Company.

—The sale of the Penny Testament in England, the cheapest edition ever published, has already reached nearly 500,000.

—The San Francisco Board of Health has petitioned Congress for a grant of land on Angel Island, for quarantine grounds.

—Hon. D. A. McKinley, a prominent merchant of San Francisco, has been nominated by the President as U. S. Consul to Honolulu.

—Spurgeon will spend the winter at his favorite resort in Mentone, Southern France. His health is said to be slowly but surely failing.

—Maj. Whittle and Mr. McGranahan are holding meetings in Glasgow, Scotland. They will devote January to Edinburgh and February to Dublin.

—On Wednesday last, Healy and Walsh were tried at Cork, Ireland, for intimidating farmer Manning. They pleaded not guilty, and were acquitted.

—The directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad have completed arrangements with a Syndicate of American and foreign bankers for the completion of the road.

—The loss of life among the fishermen of Gloucester, Mass., for the year has been forty-one, which is two more than in 1877, and six more than in 1878, but smaller than for any other year since 1866.

—A woman was arrested in Brooklyn on a charge of having too many husbands. It was proved that she rejoiced in not less than fourteen, whom she inveigled into marriage in order to rob them.

—It is proposed to divide Dakota Territory, and admit the southern part into the Union as a State. The population of the new State would be about 100,000, and that of the Territory about 36,000. The former would include about 80,000 square miles, and the latter 70,000.