News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 18, 1871

News and Miscellany.

"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

Great Riot in New York City.

WEDNESDAY, July 12, New York City was the scene of a terrible riot. The history of the affair is as follows: The Orangemen (an order of Protestant Irish, who are so named in honor of William Henry, prince of Orange, their standards also being orange color) assembled in a religious procession, when they were attacked by some 20,000 Irish Catholics, who were only beaten off by the presence of a strong military force who fired into the ranks of the rioters. Something over one hundred were killed, on both sides, and two or three times that number wounded, many of them mortally. Of course the political papers make much capital out of this matter; but the riot goes to show the desperate, pent-up feelings existing in the papal hearts against those of opposite faith, and what may hereafter be expected where such elements bear rule. The dailies are filled with the most exciting incidents in connection with this great riot.