News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 23, 1872

News and Miscellany.

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

Present Quality of American Patriotism.

The N.Y. Observer says:—Never upon any Fourth of July, before the last, was there a greater number of accidents by the use of powder, or wounds resulting from the use of strong drink. We may well ask if the intelligence and morality of the country are improving, when we see that patriotism spends itself in noise, and rejoicing ends in drunkenness.

National Progress.—The Great American Institute announces its Forty-first Annual Exhibition, to be opened in the city of New York, on the fourth of September next. Applications for space to exhibit the best Agricultural Productions, Mechanical Inventions, Artistic Devices, and valuable articles of American manufacture, are now in order. It is intended to make this the most extensive, useful, and meritorious exhibition, ever held in America.

Strikes.—The London Advertiser, referring to the strike going on in England, says, from east, west, north, and south, comes grave and stirring news. On every hand crises are impending, and those upon whom we have looked as contented people are “striking” for their “rights.”

Bismarck has succeeded in having the Jesuits banished from Germany. Every establishment belonging to that order must be broken up within six months. This is the first severe blow dealt in the conflict, which the Jesuits brought on by their own action in meddling with political affairs.

The heat of last week will be historic. The hot Fourth of July will be referred to for years to come. In 1882, or some years after, it will be said, “We have not had such a season of so protracted intense hot weather since the memorable summer of 1872.” The number of deaths by sunstroke were so many that they made the record rival an epidemic. A hundred cases of sunstroke in a day is something fearful, but we had more than that in N. Y. city last week.