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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 8, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 5.

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News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.
The public debt of the United States, Jan. 4, 1866, was $2,543,325,174.62.
At the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Medical Society at Warren, a few days since, resolutions were adopted declaring the destruction of the life of unborn children to be murder, and in view of the increasing frequency of this offense, asking the Legislature to make it a heinous crime.
It is asserted that the arrest of Surratt may materially alter the complexion of Jeff Davis' case, and others supposed to be engaged in the assassination plot. It is authoritatively stated that the judicial authorities in Washington are awaiting the arrival of Surratt, and upon his revelations will entirely depend the future action of the Government.
The French Government, it seems, is getting into new trouble. It must have a more efficient military organization, unless it consents to be vastly inferior as a military power to Northern Germany; but the measures which have been prepared for reforming the military system, are spreading discontent among all classes of the population. After the Mexican and Roman fiascos, a general discontent in France forebodes serious danger to the Napoleonic Government.
The fate of the condemned Fenians is the engrossing topic in Canada, and it is believed that the sentences will be carried into effect. Their death sentence has been commuted to twenty years' imprisonment.
England's only source of difficulty with foreign nations, according to the London Times, is her relations with the United States.
The Supreme Court Decision in the Indiana case greatly complicates the “reconstruction question.” The decision itself is not bad, but the President's interpretation of it promises to throw the whole negro race at the South into the hands of a bloodthirsty set of rebels. Military power at the South is worth everything, at present, to the negro. The fear of military interference and punishment, has saved many a poor freedman from outrage, and now the President steps in and says that he cannot permit the using of troops in any Southern state, except in cases of riot and insurrection!
A New Disease. The Detroit Tribune says: A kind of disease unknown to the local physicians has appeared in Wood county, Ohio, about eight miles east of Perrysburg, which has proved fatal in several cases. It has some of the characteristics of fever and ague, but is not affected by the remedies usual in that complaint.
A New Weapon of War. W. M. Douglass, of Corry, a colored man, has on exhibition in Cincinnati a new and improved firearm in the shape of a rifled battery which he has invented. This battery will throw 108 minie balls at a single discharge, and can, it is claimed, be fired with such rapidity as almost to resemble a continuous report. It has been examined by General Barry and other skillful military men, who speak of it in the most favorable terms. The battery can be so constructed as not to exceed 2,000 pounds in weight.
London, Jan. 1.—The Paris Pays declares that a rupture between the Sublime Porte and the Kingdom of Greece is likely to take place at any moment.
The London Herald, commenting on the probability of such an event, says that England will remain rigidly neutral, and that the British Government has already warned Greece of the consequences.
The London Times predicts that the new year will be one of general peace.
The cattle plague in Holland is increasing. In the week ending 24th of November, 3257 head of cattle were attacked, against 1595 in the previous week.
The last new gun invented in Paris sends out 8555 balls a minute.