Significant Items by F. A. Buzzell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1872

Significant Items.

By F. A. Buzzell

Compiled for Review by F. A. Buzzell.

CRIME in New York is increasing at a fearful rate. During the year ending on the 5th of April last, the total number of arrests was 84,514; that is about 9,000 more than the aggregate of the previous year. In 1869–70 the number of homicides was 24, in 1870–71 it was 57, and this year it has been 63; more than one a week. Last Sunday's criminal record embraced three men shot, one man brained with a paving-stone, and two knocked over with a slung shot.—B. Tribune.

I THINK the danger in our American churches to-day—and a startling danger it is—is the danger of aristocracy.

It seems to me more than alarming. It is the wild fire-brand of the hour. Costly churches shut up, decorated, frescoed, not only by the painter, but also by a mortgage. Churches shut up, property lying idle, doors closed, and yet every rum-shop in the land wide open (six days in the week.) It is all wrong.—Extract from remarks by G. H. HEPWORTH at Congregational reunion in N. Y.

As an evidence of the progress of crime in New York, it is stated there are now over six hundred prisoners in the city prisons awaiting trial. Part of these are confined in the Toombs, and the others are in cells at Jefferson Market, Essex Market, Yorkville and Harbor Police courts; there is scarcely a vacant cell we are told, at either of these places, and most of them contain two or three prisoners. Of the prisoners at the Toombs, 22 are charged with homicides, 44, burglary, 65, grand larceny, and 19, felonious assault and battery.—Boston Transcript.