—The appearance of cholera in Chili has caused great consternation.
—It is said that the Catholics in Germany are now in favor of Bismarck's Army Bill.
—Mr. Francis Smith, one of the proprietors of the New York Weekly, died January 30.
—An extensive warehouse in St. Louis was burned February 3, entailing a loss of $250,000.
—A boy has been arrested for placing an obstruction on one of the cable-car tracks in San Francisco.
—The British steamer Blair Athol foundered in the Black Sea, January 30. Twenty persons were drowned.
—A disastrous fire occurred February 3 in Rochester, N. Y. The loss is said to be $60,000, and no insurance.
—The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has decided not to call up Morrison's Anti-Chinese Bill this session.
—February 2 the House passed the bill appropriating $100,000 for the construction of a soldiers' home west of the Rockies.
—On February 3 a waterspout rushed through the country about ten miles from Nashville, Tenn., and did considerable damage.
—H. M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, who was to have been executed on the 3d inst., has been granted a stay of execution till April 1.
—The jury in the case of ex-Alderman O'Neill, of New York, who was charged with receiving a bribe, has returned a verdict of guilty.
—The Ohio River rose at Cincinnati on the 3d inst. at the rate of an inch an hour, causing all access to the Central Passenger Depot to be cut off.
—January 30 there was serious rioting in Belfast, Ireland. The mob and police exchanged shots. Nobody was killed, but several persons were wounded.
—The British emigrant-ship Kapunda came into collision with an unknown vessel off the Brazilian coast, and was sunk. Three hundred of those on board were drowned.
—In Alabama the Senate passed a vote last week providing for submitting to the people at the next general election a constitutional amendment prohibiting the liquor traffic.
—There has been fighting in the Soudan between Italians and Abyssinians. The Italians were almost annihilated. When the news reached Rome it caused great excitement.
—A recent statement read in the United States Senate shows that India will soon be exporting 74,000,000 bushels of wheat; this will compete with American wheat growers.
—The Berlin correspondent of the London Daily News says that the whole German army is to be called out in sections of 72,000 men, to be drilled in the use of the repeating rifle.
—August Spies, one of the condemned Chicago Anarchists, was married by proxy a few days ago to Miss Van Zandt. It remains to be seen if the laws of Illinois sanction such an infamous proceeding.
—The Yokohama Gazette of January 19 says: "An earthquake of more than ordinary severity took place in Yokohama on Saturday night, which caused much damage to property, though, as far as we have yet heard, no loss of life."
—January 29 an explosion occurred on the steamer Guyandotte while off Long Branch, wounding the captain and one seaman. The explosion is said to have been caused by dynamite, which was smuggled on board in a hand-satchel.
—A terrible wind-storm occurred in the Stampede Pass, Cascade Mountains, Oregon. Nine Chinamen were killed and at least thirty crushed in the snow. A tree was also blown into a white man's camp and four men were seriously injured.
—Senator Ingalls has declared himself in favor of the annexation of not only Canada but the entire Central American States. Speaking on this he said: "My dream, and I believe the settled conviction of the American people, is a continental republic."
—A Catholic priest, Father F. C. Jean, who was deposed about fifteen years ago by Bishop Hennessy, of Dubuque, brought suit against the latter for damages because of such action. He has just been awarded $100,000 damage by the District Court.
—John de Leon, the astrologer, who was convicted of inducing young girls to go to Panama for immoral purposes, under the pretext of furnishing employment for them, has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment with hard labor,—the maximum punishment of the law.
—A company has been formed in San Francisco for decorticating the Ramie, a nettle-like plant. They are supplied with machinery that can defiberize 3,000 to 4,000 pounds a day. The Ramie fiber is soft, white, and silky, and will be a formidable rival to cotton, silk, and flax.
—A dynamite steel cruiser is to be constructed for the navy by June 1. This vessel is to carry three dynamite guns, which are promised to be so constructed that they can throw 400 pounds of dynamite; this is said to be sufficient to blow up the largest vessel known to modern navies.
—While an oil well was in process of drilling near Los Angeles, Cal., a few days ago, the oil suddenly commenced to flow, and coming in contact with a gas jet, was instantly converted into a column of flame, causing considerable excitement and some damage. The owners feel satisfied that the new well will prove a great success.
—A Californian has invented an automatic fireproof elevator shutter, which will effectually stop the draft of fire through the shaft. The invention consists of two sheet-iron covered shutters on a level with each floor, which when the elevator ascends open automatically and allow it to pass through, and then close up and lock themselves after it.
—A terrible railroad accident occurred February 5, near Woodstock, N. H. Part of the train while passing over a bridge was thrown off the track by a broken rail, and two day coaches and two sleepers were thrown over the abutment onto the frozen river some fifty feet below. The cars then took fire and it is reported that some sixty lives were lost.
—There has been a letter sent to the London Times by some of the passengers of a transatlantic steamer, protesting against the way the smoking-room was used during the voyage. They say the room was a regular "gambling-hell," and the resort of decoys for the unwary. The passengers were often disturbed at night by the profanity and threats of murder arising from gambling disputes.
—It is reported that a cargo of Australian rabbits is at sea, bound for the United States. The Hon. C. M. Clay, calling attention to this, says that he has made domestic live stock of all kinds a study, and that it would be better to have pleuro-pneumonia, small-pox, and the cholera spread over the United States, than to suffer the ravages that will result from the importation of these rabbits.
—The committee of the German National Liberal party has issued a manifesto to the electors. They say: "Never since the Franco-German war has the danger of a great conflict been so near. No statesman can form any certain conclusion as to the future, even for a few weeks. The peace of Europe rests at this moment solely upon the strength of readiness of action and the moral trustworthiness of the German army."
TILL THE DOCTOR COMES.
At Inverness last summer I saw from a distance a little boy fall from the high wall near the bridge—I being at the other side of the river—a height of probably fifteen feet. A sturdy Highlander marched around and shouldered him. From the shrieks of the lad thus roughly mounted, I felt sure a bone was broken, and found out afterward I was right.
The accident put me in mind to say here that we cannot be too careful in the manner we lift or carry a person who has received an injury of this kind.
Oh! fancy, if you can, the agony produced from, say, a fractured thigh rudely handled, the jagged end of the bone perhaps thrust through the quivering flesh.
Keep a wounded or injured person on the level if possible; be very, very gentle. The handiest of all stretchers is a large shutter or door, with a mattress or pillows on it. Or a plaid or blanket used as a hammock will do, or a net hammock itself if one be handy.
While one party is carrying the injured person home or to a chemist's shop, some one must be sent to procure surgical assistance. The sooner surgical aid is got, the more chance the patient will have of a speedy recovery.
Be careful not to give brandy. You might commit a fatal error!
Just a word about street accidents. Somehow or other, in such cases, one of the crowd usually turns out to be a surgeon; but if not, let one be speedily fetched. Meanwhile, ask the crowd, with all the respect due to crowds in the latter end of the nineteenth century, to stand back and give the patient air. On a summer night he may do better, for a time, out-of-doors than in a shop. I got a man onto a hand-cart once, and there he remained till the accident was dispelled. But I kept the crowd at bay and as quiet as possible. Nothing is more likely to make bad worse than a yelling crowd, crying, "Do this," or, "Do that," round an injured man.—Family Doctor, in Cassell's Family Magazine.
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LABBERTON'S HISTORICAL ATLAS.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, Nov. 22, 1886. DEAR SIR: Allow me to thank you much for the copy of Dr. Labberton's "New Historical Atlas and General History," which you have been kind enough to send me. It cannot fail to be of great utility, and the earlier portion, which I have been examining, has been compiled with great judgment from the best and latest authorities. But I have been much struck by the maps, which give the work its distinctive character. They are admirable both in design, in accuracy, and in execution. Such geographical pictures are the best and surest way of teaching history.
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While the author has drawn upon many authentic sources for the data so skillfully woven into this interesting volume, the stamp of a discriminating and original mind is clearly seen upon every page and gives to the volume an individuality which places it distinctly apart from all works which have previously been written upon the themes considered.
The work is well illustrated, and is substantially bound in several styles. Sold by subscription. Address the publishers for circulars.—Good Health.
THE HOME OF THE SAVED.
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CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS,
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As a REFERENCE BOOK it should be in the Library of every school-room in the country; every Student of History should possess a copy.
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS, VOLUME ONE.
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BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.
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THE AGE TO COME:
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A REFUTATION OF THE DOCTRINE.
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THE SABBATH QUESTION
By John Nevins Andrews
IS THE
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MAN'S NATURE AND DESTINY.
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THIS work is a thorough canvass of the great question of a future life, the nature of man in the present life, and the condition of immortality from a logical and scriptural standpoint.
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THE GREAT STRIKE IN NEW YORK.
By Editor
This is getting to be a good deal more than a local affair, and is assuming proportions that entitle it to more than the space of a news item. A dispatch of February 4 says:—
"The only hope the strikers have of success is to so hamper business as to bring about a settlement by arbitration. There are now on the strike nearly 40,000 men, with perhaps half that number out of work through the stoppage of business incident to the strike."
Another dispatch of same date says:—
"The County General Committee of the United Labor party adopted the following resolution last night:—
"That if, in the opinion of those now conducting the strike, it becomes necessary to call out on the strike, men of other branches of industry affiliated with our party, we recommend they obey the summons, even to the point of stopping all the wheels of industry, and in time they may learn how necessary to society producing workers are."
Still another says:—
"The White Star steamship Republic, and the Cunard Line steamship City of Chicago, scheduled to sail to-day with the transatlantic mails, will not be able to get off because of the strike."
Another dispatch of February 5 says:—
"The calkers and joiners at work repairing the Guyandotte, the steamer that was damaged by the explosion of an infernal machine, struck. They had no grievances, but struck out of sympathy with the freight-handlers. Their places will be filled to-day by non-union men. The coopers employed along the piers, with the mill-wrights, joined the strike to-day. The painters and mechanics on the Guion Line also struck. The Italians who took the place of the strikers at the Hudson River depot quit work in the afternoon."
We are workingmen ourselves, and we have a strong sympathy for them when they are oppressed. But we cannot sympathize with them in lawless acts even when they are oppressed, and much less when they have no grievance. Those who first struck may have had a grievance; but for all other workmen to join them, and to deliberately plan to stop all industries, is simply barbarous selfishness. Thousands of poor people will suffer from cold and hunger because of this strike. We insist that there is no monopoly in this country so regardless of the rights of the poor as are the Labor Unions. This is emphatically an age when men are "lovers of their own selves."
"LEADERS OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT."
By Editor
It is a noteworthy fact that many of the men who are denominated "leaders" in matters of religion, are practically infidel. We have wondered whether they have so large a following because of their infidel sentiments, or whether they have adopted infidel sentiments in order to have so large a following; and we have concluded that the latter is the correct theory. There is a strong current setting downward. Evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse. Because iniquity is abounding, the love of many is waxing cold. The prevailing iniquity necessarily begets infidelity, and thousands who are not directly vicious are infected by the poison. The leaven of infidelity is everywhere. And since the people are turned away from the Bible, all anyone who wishes to be a leader has to do, is to put himself at the head of the procession. The people are going that way anyhow, and if he will only go a little faster than they, they will of course follow him. This agrees with what the apostle Paul wrote to Timothy: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim. 4:3, 4.
NO SUNDAY LAW FOR CALIFORNIA.
By Editor
THE readers of the SIGNS will remember the account that was given of a Sunday Law mass-meeting in San Francisco several weeks ago, and of the vigorous efforts that were being made by the clergy of California to induce this Legislature to enact a rigid Sunday Law. Petitions have been circulated in all parts of the State, and several have been presented to the Assembly. A few days ago an effort was made to create a boom by means of a mass-meeting in the Assembly Chamber, which was granted for the purpose. But although the meeting was presided over by the Speaker of the House, and eloquently addressed by several clergymen and one member of the Legislature, it did not seem to have the desired effect on the members generally. On Friday, February 4, the Committee on Public Morals reported back a petition in favor of a Sunday Law, with the recommendation that the Speaker appoint a committee of one to prepare and introduce a bill in accordance with the petition. The House refused to take the action recommended. It is said that there were only four votes in favor of it. This settles the Sunday Law question for this session of the Legislature. We are glad that there is in our Legislature so clear a sense of justice and a perception of the fitness of things. We earnestly pray that the Legislators of other States where the Sunday conflict is raging, may be gifted with equal good sense. California has at present a Sunday law amply sufficient to meet the demands of good order; it is insufficient only to meet the demands of bigotry.
NOTICE TO SABBATH-SCHOOLS.
By C. H. Jones
As Mrs. Josie L. Baker, secretary of the California State Sabbath-school Association, has gone to Australia to labor, it becomes necessary to appoint someone to fill the office thus made vacant. In consultation with other members of the Executive Committee, we have decided to appoint Mrs. Jessie F. Waggoner to act as State secretary for the remainder of this year. Hereafter, all communications intended for the secretary of the California State Sabbath-school Association should be addressed to Mrs. Jessie F. Waggoner, care Pacific Press, Oakland, California.
C. H. JONES, President.
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The Bakers Depart for Australia
By Editor
LAST Wednesday, February 2, Brother W. L. H. Baker and Sister Josie Baker sailed on the steamer Australia for Honolulu, whence, after a stay of ten days, they will sail on the Mariposa for Australia. Brother and Sister Baker have been faithful laborers in the office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and we shall miss them both here and in the Sabbath-school. Many prayers and good wishes will follow them on their journey, and to their new field of labor.