News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1872

News and Miscellany.

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

It is a curious circumstance, and one well calculated either to point a moral or to call a sneer from the satirist, that James W. Marshall, the man who first discovered gold in California, is now living at a place called Kelsey's Diggings, in Eldorado County, in reduced circumstances, working for his board and clothing, and unable to earn any more than the cost of these. “The yellow, precious, glittering gold,” as Timon calls it, has done Marshall no service; and if he had turned his back upon it, and left it in the “dark and dirty placer,” he might to-day have been in better circumstances. It is not opportunity which we lack, and for which we are always bawling like children, but the instinct of improvement which Nature has not been pleased to give to everybody.—N. Y. Tribune.

Chicago.—A proposition of employing masons to reduce the wages was met last night by a demand of bricklayers for $4 for eight hours, and 50 cents per hour for extra work. One thousand men obtained their demands this morning and 4,000 are on a strike. Work is suspended on the Michigan Southern depot and Pacific Hotel.

Philadelphia, Oct. 4.—An indirect communication from several members of the Merchant Tailors' Exchange, was received by the tailor strikers to-day, requesting a committee of conference to effect a compromise. Aid had been received from New York by the strikers, and also from other towns. It is likely the tailors will obtain their demands.

New Orleans, Oct. 4.—A San Antonio special reports that a party of Texans followed a band of Mexican cattle thieves into Mexico and attacked them at Newtown. Two Texans and several Mexicans were killed. The Texans burned the Alcalde's house with him in it. On Monday, 200 armed Mexicans appeared on the Mexican side of the river opposite San Felippe, and Lieut. Davidson, with a company of troops from Fort Clark, was ordered to watch their movements.

London, Oct. 3.—Sir Charles Alderley, Conservative member of Parliament, and under-Secretary of the Colonies in the last Disraeli government, in a speech last night welcomed the Geneva decision, and declared that the parties who fitted out the Confederate cruisers ought to pay for their depredations.

The Rt. Hon. Sir Chas. Alderley, Conservative member of Parliament, addressed a large meeting at Bursten last night. In the course of his remarks he alluded to the work of the Geneva tribunal and settlement of the disputes between England and America, and said the prosperity of the world depended on a cordial understanding between the two nations. England had made great sacrifices to terminate this state of semi-alienation and relieve the anxiety of Canada. In conclusion, he said the settlement of the difficulty arising out of the depredations of the Confederate privateers had been dearly purchased by England, and maintained that the parties who fitted out the vessels and made fortunes at the risk of the honor of the country, ought to bear the burden of the award of the tribunal.

Specials from London state that there is no abatement to the spread of cholera in Roumania. The nature of the plague is epidemic in the extreme, and it is feared that it will spread over the entire country. Ten thousand have already died from the disease.

DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.

London, Oct. 4.—Again violence is rife in the County of Mayo, Ireland. Land-holders in the vicinity of Newport have been shot at, and other outrages have been committed, but in all cases the perpetrators escaped detection.

THE HOME RULE QUESTION.

Dr. Isaac Butt, the well-known home rule member of Parliament for Limerick, delivered a lecture last night in the theater in that city. He advocated federal union, but was moderate in his demands for Ireland. He referred to the public declarations of Lords Hartington, Russell, and Montague, as favorable to the cause of the home rule members of Parliament and closed with the declaration that if their demands were rejected they would act, but at present their plans could not be disclosed.

NAPOLEON.

Authority is given for the contradiction of the current report that the ex-emperor Napoleon intends to visit Ireland.

MADRID ITEMS.

Madrid, Oct. 4.—The government has determined to send 14,000 men to re-inforce the army in Cuba. Senor Sagasta and other members of the former Conservative Cabinet had a conference yesterday to consider the policy of abstaining from active participation in political affairs.

INTENTION OF PRESIDENT THIERS.

Paris, Oct. 3.—It is rumored here that President Thiers intends at the next session of the Assembly to urge the Conservative Deputies to support a proposition for a definitive establishment by proclamation of a permanent Republic, based on strictly conservative principles. It is also stated that Cassimir Pereira is now using his influence with the right center of the Assembly to bring it to accept the President's views.

A SPEECH OF THE POPE.

Rome, Oct. 3.—The pope, in replying to the deputation which visited him on the anniversary of the taking of a plebiscitum in Rome, declared that the triumph of the Church would assuredly come, if not in his lifetime, in that of his successors.

Mahmoud Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Turkish Empire, has been deposed from his office by the Sultan, and condemned to banishment for life, and to a confiscation of all his estates, for appropriating public money to his own use. If thus Moslems make the way of embezzlers and dishonest officials hard, should professedly Christian countries be behind them in it?

Napoleon III. tried to telegraph a long message in cipher to some continental friend, but unluckily it had to go through Berlin, and somebody stopped it. Could it have been by order of Bismarck?

There is a reasonable prospect that we shall soon have a postal treaty with France. The French authorities, it is reported, are becoming convinced of the necessity of some definite arrangement.

In Lancashire, England, the cotton factors have been obliged to reduce their working hours in consequence of the high price of coal.

A hurricane in West Indies on the 9th instant wrecked some eighteen vessels. Of these, seven were large English and French vessels. No American craft are mentioned among the lost.