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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 27, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 2.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
PARIS, June 19.—Indications of a renewal of the insurrection multiply. The working men openly insult soldiers, and attempts at assassination and incendiarism continue.
THE whole number of insurgents executed since the capture of Paris is 18,000.
ROME, June 18.—A plot for the assassination of the pope has been discovered. It was concocted in London, Florence, and Paris, by members of the International Society. The assassination was planned to take place yesterday.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Brussels says the civic courts were compelled to intervene for the preservation of peace, with their bayonets, and several of the rioters were hurt. Members of the International Society are said to be the authors of the outbreak against the friends of the pope.
NEW YORK, June 19.—A correspondent, writing to the Turkish Journal, from Tabreez, says: “The details which reach us here of the destitution and misery which the drought of last year caused in the central and southern provinces of Persia are perfectly heartrending. That people are dying of hunger in the streets of the capital is a minor phase of the terrible calamity in Khorassan. Parents are selling their children as slaves to the Turcomans in order to keep them alive, and in Ispahan, as is said, men have been seized in the act of digging up corpses to serve as food for their starving families. In Shiraz, Kerman, and Yezd, the wretched sufferers endeavor to support life on grass and roots which they may find in the neighborhood, and, as might be expected, pestilence follows hard on the footsteps of famine. Between them, half of the kingdom is becoming rapidly depopulated.”
NEW YORK, June 19.—Last night, at five minutes past ten o’clock, there was a severe shock of earthquake on the north shore of Long Island, in Brooklyn, on the hill, and in Staten Island. These reports indicate a wave whose center was probably further east, somewhere in New England.
LONDON, June 20.—A Times’ special dispatch says the members of the International Society are distributing electoral manifestoes.
The Journal states that the proceedings of the society cause uneasiness to the Belgian Government, and that garrisons have been reinforced.
VERSAILLES, June 20.—In the Assembly, to-day, during the debate on the loan bills, Thiers made a statement of the financial condition of the country. He said the German war had cost France three milliards of francs. The deficit for the fiscal year of 1871 reached 1,631,000,000 francs, but of this amount the Bank of France had advanced to the government 1,330,000,000 francs, so that the immediate deficiency for the year was reduced to 301,000,000 francs, but to this must be added 436,000,000 francs for expenses since incurred in the suppression of the insurrection in Paris. The total deficiency of 737,000,000 francs Thiers proposed to meet by imposing new taxes. The situation, he said, was difficult, but not disastrous.
On Sunday, June 17, the Germans celebrated their victories over the French by thanksgiving and praise in the churches. By a notable coincidence, accidental or voluntary, this day was the anniversary of Waterloo, where the Prussians took so prominent a part in overthrowing the first Empire of France, as they have in demolishing the second.