p. 164 | Charity | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1867

Charity

CHARITY.—“I fear,” said a country curate to his flock, “when I explained to you in my last charity sermon that philanthropy was the love of our species, you must have understood me to say specie, which may account for the smallness of the collection. You will prove, I hope, by your present contribution, that you are no longer laboring under that misapprehension.”

Vienna, March 5.—The Eastern question is becoming more complicated. Dispatches have been received from the South which indicate a general rising of the Christians throughout Turkey.

—There is again, as there has been in former years, a great deal of suffering among the workingmen of France, and strikes for higher wages are becoming frequent. This adds a new cause of discontent to the many already existing.

—LAST year the people of England paid to religious institutions $2,800,000, and the tax on spirits paid to the Government amounted to $70,000,000.

—War virtually exists between Turkey and Greece, as the Turkish Government is about to send a ship to attack a Greek ship now in or near Candia; and the

Greeks will send another vessel to assist the one under the flag. There is a charming prospect of all Europe soon being set by the ears, in the desire to conquer a peace for the East.

—A meeting was held in the Light-street church on Monday evening, Feb. 25, to protest against the passage of a law by the State Legislature allowing the city passenger cars to run on the Sabbath, [Sunday] and also against any modification of the present Sunday law. Addresses were delivered by ministers of several denominations, and by James M. Lester, Esq.

—In spite of the excessive dullness of the times and the prospects of a financial crash, the jewelers in Broadway, New York, are reported to have sold more diamonds and expensive jewelry since Christmas than during any similar period for two years. Perhaps the inflation of the currency has something to do with this; but probably our natural extravagance has more.

Trichina in New York.—A case of trichina spiralis is reported in a recent issue of the New York Tribune. Some medical students in dissecting the corpse of a pauper recently, found the intestines, on microscopic examination, “literally alive” with the infinitesimal worms, which also abounded throughout the muscular tissue. The body was that of a woman, a pauper, who died at Bellevue Hospital, as was reported of an “unknown malady.”

Pacific Railroad. Ten thousand laborers are kept employed in constructing the Pacific Railroad in California, eight thousand of whom are Chinese who work for thirty dollars per month, and board themselves. These Chinese are said to be more tractable than white laborers, quite as productive, and fifty per cent. cheaper; 1,200 horses and mules, and as many carts are used, and 350 kegs of blasting powder, costing four dollars per keg, are daily consumed. The road, with its equipments, thus far cost about $9,000,000, and until it is entirely finished to the State line, 156 miles from Sacramento, it will cost about $2,000,000 more.

—In New York city an ingenious device is reported for building a magnificent cathedral. All the Catholic servants in the city are to be taxed so much per month, and they, in turn, are to demand so much increased pay from their Protestant employers. The cathedral will thus be completed from Protestant funds.

A New and Malignant Disease Among Cattle.—Evidence is rapidly accumulating to show that the animal creation is becoming sadly degenerated and diseased. This fact should be allowed its important bearing on the question of flesh as food. A correspondent of the Chicago Journal, “w. s. c.,” writes to that paper from Manteno, Ill., Feb. 26, 1867, as follows:

A disease of a very malignant type has broken out among my cattle—quite different from anything which has ever before come under my observation. It usually commences by a swelling in the flanks, extending forward and laterally until the creature dies, which generally takes place within two or three days after the first symptoms of indisposition are observable. In the localities thus affected, the flesh assumes a dark color, and a watery secretion, much like the serum of blood, settles immediately under the skin.

In a few cases, indications of the disease have been noticed first in the hip or shoulder, differing, however, in no other particular from the description above given.

If any of the readers of THE JOURNAL understand the nature of this disease, or can assign any cause, we should be glad to hear from them in your paper. We would also be glad to learn of any serviceable precaution or cure.

The Pope’s Admiration of America.—Rev. Dr. Larng, who went to Rome to hear the proceedings of the late council at Baltimore to the pope, writes home: “The holy father was rejoiced and highly pleased with the council of Baltimore, and also to hear many particulars I gave about the progress of our church in the United States; but what pleased his holiness most, and gave him great consolation in the midst of the troubles with which his paternal heart was afflicted, was the letter addressed to him by the fathers of the council. He spoke of it in the highest terms. His expression was: ‘Beautiful letter, most beautiful; in a few sentences they have written the history of my life.’ On the 3d inst. I had the honor of serving the mass, and of assisting him at the altar. I handed him myself the beautiful copy of the decrees, so nicely bound, and he admired it very much; ‘What beautiful things they make in America!’ said his holiness, looking at the volume, turning it over, and opening it. The late council at Baltimore has produced a wonderful effect, not only in Rome, but also in France and Ireland. The other evening his eminence, Cardinal Barnabo, said to me, “The Catholic church has a grand arena in the United States of America; it is very consoling.””