News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

News and Miscellany.

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

PARIS, Dec. 21. A demonstration was made yesterday, in Paris, by 3,000 students, in favor of Professor Robin, a member of the Institute, who was struck from the jury list in consequence of his disbelief of God. — Boston Journal.

“The blood-hounds purchased by order of the Captain-General of Cuba have arrived at Espiritu Santo, for the purpose of capturing runaway negroes in the mountains.” Blood-hounds, in this western hemisphere, and this the nineteenth century, for such a purpose!—Congregationalist.

REFERRING to Foster, the New York murderer, the Boston Globe says: “Had he been a well-dressed villain, who could dazzle juries with his diamonds, or bribe them with his money, had he shot his man with an expensive revolver, or stabbed him with an elegant bowie-knife, he would not have been obliged, after two verdicts against him, to hunt up a judge to stay proceedings on merely technical grounds. That justice is represented with a pair of scales would seem to have encouraged the opinion among New York juries that they are to be used, not in weighing the merits of the case, but the wealth of the criminals. This accounts for the fact that while Tweed has been able to turn the balance so as to avoid a trial, the poor wretch who steals a loaf of bread kicks the beam with wonderful celerity.”