Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-28
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In Virginia.
A violent shock Of earthquake was felt in
SGxony last weok.
Great floods have boon doing much dam.
nge IN southern Franco.
Tho syndicate in Hungary TO raise the
price of corn has collapsed.
The average pay OF male school teachers.
in Iowa is go 10 per month.
America, IL Is claimed leads the world In
the manufacture Of perfumory.
In fioo1 at Bastia Italy, one house col
lapsod and II persons were killed.
The report Is again circulated that Emin
Bcy il IA prisoner TO Osman Digna
Since last August the Rope Trust has ad-
vanced the price OF hemp 80 per cent.
During 1888 the debt of Cadada was in
creased from S973, 1sT, CPS to $9S4,5l3,s41.
The output OF lead and silver in the Lead
VILE district during 1855 was 81 ,s3), POS
Last year 3S3,339 immigrants arrived ia
Now York city, 1000 more than in 1887.
The Presbyterian synod Of Ohio has COZ
churches with nearly 1900 communicates.
The catch Of the New England fishing
feet last year was 30, 1G9 barrels OF mack
erel
a mine explosion at Oveida, Spain, last
week killed ~ persons and injured many
others.
England bays SN0O1,OOo worth of
fruit yearly from the United States and
Canada.
! A Wholesale hide dealer in New York
suspended last week. with liabilities of
100000.
The convention of the Hungarian Reform
ed church has voted to establish celibacy for
the clergy.
A cocoanut oil factory at Cochin, British
India, was burned last week causing a loss
Of 81, 10000.
The Baptlsts are not strong in Scotland.
The membership Of their eighty -four church
es numbers 1896.
The production Of pig iron in the south last
year was l,005,0Jo tons, being an increase of
5000 tons over 1857.
Under an agreement ESQ -four mills in the
fall wheat belt will close down or run on
half time during this month.
Tho Congregationals;s of this country
raised for missions at home and abroad dur
ing the last year over sS2,000,000.
Plymouth church, Brooklyn (the late Mr..
DSSCucf 81, has u S,Oo-. oc|-
enty-nine were added during the year.
Philadelphia has the only church for deaf
nutcs in this country and the only one in
tie world entirely managed by the deaf.
It Is now ascertainel that by the burning
of the steamer Kate Adams on the Missis-
sippi recently ~ lives were lost instead OF
IL.
Nearly 10000 men are employed in
the iron and steel works at Pitt5burg.
Their wages are nearly S34,0O09JO per
year.
The prosecution of Prof. GeffclIcn at
Berlin for the publication of the late En-
pcror FrcdericS's diary has been aban-
doncd
According 10 the annual reports and
dividends, the cotton manufacturing indus
try in New England appeazs TO be very
flourshng.
A cotton mill is soon to be in operation at
Columbus, Ga, that will manufacture
finer grade Of goods than has yet been at
tempted in the South.
The general assembly of 1888 changed the
day of prayer for colleges from the last
Thursday to the last Wednesdayof January
This makes the day Of prayer for 1889 fall on
Jan. 90
Ira D. Sankey has been conducting meet
ings in Bristol, the Rev. DR.. Pentecost in
Dublin, bIaj. White in Belfast, the Rev.
George G. Needham and Philip Phillips in
England.
The general executive board of the Won
ans Home Missionary society proposes &c
establish deaconcss' homo and training
school for missionaries in each of the lead
ing cities OF the country.
An exchange says: at is remarkable
that tho American clergy have given Robert
Elsmerc about $4,000 worth OF free advcr-
Using, which has benefited Mrs. Ward to
the extent Of 500 thus far"
Pundita Ramabai, the Hin3oo woman who
came to the United States two years ago to
raise money to build college for the educa-
ton of Indian women, has returned to her
home with upward of 5000
Tho process Of refining sugar by electric
i.y has been discovered to be n fraud, and
the projectors havo swindled investors in
New York and London, Eng, out of several.
hundred thousand dollars.
A train in Russia was recently blocked in
an immense snow drift, and before help
could reach them Il Of the passengers per
ished from cold and % were frost-bitten. A
relief party scat to their rescue lost their
way and died in the snow.
'The greatest advantage Of plate glass,
said Bangor merchant, sis its clearness.
The other day my dog wanted to get out OF
doors and he made bolt right over tho
goods in the show window and brought up
all standing against tho glass he looked sur
prised and tried it again, but IL was no use.
For two or three days after he would hardly
take step anywhere without paving the
air to make sure he wasn't going to run into
something"
NJ. de Vogelsang, Director Of the Austrian
Social Reform Review, says workers in
Austria are employed fourteen hours per
day. Coal miners working by the piece can
earn from 43 to so cents "a day; by the day,
from q TO 4s cents; coal workers from 40 to
so cents; workers in oil wells from 30 TO 40
cents; women in factories can earn only 20
70 80 cents day, and children from 0toS
cents; chemical makers get from - 70 60
cents; giassworkers tho same; papermakers
from 80 to 20 cents for men, and from Is TO
40 conts for women. The figures are about