News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1868

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

—KING VICTOR EMMANUEL is selling the property of the Romish church in his Italian kingdom. In this way he has already realized over 174,000,000 of francs.

THE teeth of the mastodon recently exhumed near Fairmount, Ill., are six inches long, three and a half inches wide, about five deep, and weigh twelve pounds each.

Ku-Klux Murders and Outrages in Louisiana.—Gen. Hatch, the Assistant Commissioner of Freedmen's Affairs for Louisiana, has forwarded a special report to the War Office, showing that there were, during the year ending October 1, 1868, officially reported to him as committed in the State, one hundred and sixty-six persons killed, and two hundred and twenty-five assaulted and otherwise maltreated. This horrible list is made out in detail, giving the names and residences of persons murdered or assaulted, as well as of parties committing the outrage, whenever it could be ascertained, and also the action of the civil authorities. It appears that three-fourths of the number killed or outraged were blacks, and that their assailants were, in most cases, whites. In a large proportion of the cases the civil authorities took no action whatever, and in many more they took none till the guilty parties had been arrested by the military. Gen. Hatch says the list does not include the names of any persons abused and slaughtered in the riots of Brashear, Opelousas, New Orleans, and other points, and he is certain that in the country many more murders were committed, of which he never received official notice.