News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1872

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.—Mrs. Loomis, from the East, lectured last night in Platt’s Hall, against woman suffrage, and was interrupted, hissed and jeered, by the leading female suffragists present. The Hon. David Meeker demanded that the disgraceful conduct cease, or the women would be compelled to leave the hall, for which Mrs. Emily Pitts Stevens, editress of the Pioneer, the suffragist organ, drew a pistol on him, demanding an apology, but was compelled to put it in her pocket by the bystanders.

LABOR STRIKE IN LONDON.—New York, June 25.—A London dispatch states that the lock-out of builders, carpenters, and joiners, is the result of the refusal of the men to accept the compromise offered by the employers. Twenty thousand are out of work, and they have been joined by the masons and bricklayers. The men demand 51 hours instead of 56½ hours per week, and also 1s per day pay additional. The employers state that the demand does not justify the advance. The men state that the reason of the present strike is the increased expense of living, and do not fear any interference from workmen outside of London. The latter obtain better pay than those in the city. They say their unions are financially strong, and feel confident of success.

The London Times says the strike will result in England losing her present advantages in industrial productions.

TERRIBLE HURRICANE AND WATERSPOUT.—The London papers of the 15th, report a terrible hurricane and waterspout at Rustehuk, which destroyed 500 houses and sank two gun-boats, killing and injuring several persons.

THE RECENT FLOODS AT PRAGUE.—700 LIVES LOST. London, June 13. Details of the floods near Prague, caused by the heavy rains, show that the destruction of life and property was far greater than was at first supposed. The water poured over the country, sweeping everything before it. The fertile districts were devastated, and a number of villages were swept away. The loss of life is appalling, the number of persons who perished being estimated at 700.

THE WASHINGTON TREATY.—The Christian Union thus refers to the matter: “Our readers will like to have a clear view of the Treaty. In brief, it is here: 1. A satisfactory treaty was made, ratified, and glorified; externally excluding consequential damages and including them internally. 2. The glory departed, the external elements revolt at the internal, and a real Mexican row results. England hot and grim. America cold and grim. 3. The Treaty at an end. 4. The Treaty revived. 5. The Treaty abandoned. 6. Treaty not abandoned. 7. An understanding on the point of being reached. 8. A misunderstanding is reached instead. 9. Innumerable telegrams. 10. Hopes. 11. Hopes clouded. 12. More telegrams, hopes, clouds, settlements, unsettlements, and happy solutions. 13. Modern diplomacy—the cure of war—for it ties knots which not even the sword can ever cut!”

THE overflow of the River Po is traceable directly to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. All Italy seems to have been violently agitated since then, with sudden changes in temperature. Snow and sleet fell in Piedmont, the thermometer in some localities falling as low as in midwinter. Violent rain storms drenched the country, destroying the crops, killing the silk worms and doing other damage, until the accumulating floods overleaped the banks of the Po, and spread destruction on every side. The most singular electric phenomena were witnessed. Splendid meteors illuminated the heavens, and brilliant auroral lights spread terror among the people.

There are in the United States a hundred and twenty-eight monasteries and three hundred nunneries.