p. 285 | News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

—The English and Americans are inclined to close their sections of the Paris Exhibition, but the petition sent from America, that the whole building be closed on the Sabbath, only excites guffaws of laughter. Why, say the Parisians, that is the best day of all.

The South. Governor Orr, of South Carolina, reports a terrible extent of suffering and starvation in various parts of his State. In the meantime, ex-Governor Perry is writing letters against the acceptance of the Reconstruction law by that State.

Mexico. New York, May 22. The Herald says: “By the arrival of a gentleman who left Queretaro in the beginning of March, some facts are gleaned relative to the inside situation there. At that time the Imperialists were short of ammunition, and there were provision enough to last until about the 1st of May. Maximilian had with him Marquess, Miramon, Mejia and other generals, who seemed to consider Queretaro as their last ditch.”

“At Vera Cruz the mortality from yellow fever alone was fifty per day.”

—Liquor selling was never carried on to so great an extent at Boston as now, despite prohibitory laws and State constables. Besides the regular bars at hotels and saloons, which are in full blast, fashionable club houses are plenty as blackberries, and people from the surrounding towns, where the law is more rigidly enforced, flock into Boston by hundreds to procure their supplies.

—The question of running cars on Sunday has been submitted to the people of Baltimore, with the result of 11,039 votes in favor, and 9,056 against.

“SUNDAY KEEPING.”—Most of the clergymen in Norwich, Ct., have signed a circular protesting against the practice of having funerals on the Sabbath, believing that it is an evil, inasmuch as it involves much servile work, and, therefore, when not necessary, it is a clear violation of the Fourth Commandment, keeping from the house of God those who might otherwise attend.—Toledo Blade.