News and Miscellany by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

—Charles G. Finney, President of Oberlin College, Ohio, is dead.

—In nine counties in Cal., ladies are nominated for School Superintendents.

—It is proposed to start a medical class of native Christian women in Western India, as soon as suitable arrangements can be made.

—The latest authentic statistics give the aggregate population of the earth as 1,391,032,000, of which the United States has not quite 39,000,000.

—Jeff. Davis was invited to deliver an address before the Agricultural Society in Rockford, Illinois, but popular indignation thereat compelled the committee to cancel the engagement.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 12.—By the breaking of the dam on the west branch of Mill River, damage to bridges has cut off railroad communication between Albany and Boston. Repairs cannot be made till the waters subside.

—The Chinese are drawing some attention in New York. A few of them attend Sunday-school; and of late a night school has been kept up for their benefit. John, by the way, is planting himself in most of the eastern cities.

—Two students and two citizens, who were charged with being implicated in a socialist movement at St. Petersburg, have been convicted and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment each. Four other persons who were convicted of the same offence were sent to prison for short terms.

—The Associated Press reporter has had an interview with Indian chief Beaverite. He says Lee secured the aid of the Indians to kill the emigrants by offers of clothing, guns and horses; that Lee commanded during the fight; that the Indians had no animosity against the emigrants; that Lee, a coward, wants to throw all the blame on the Indians.

NEW YORK, August 7th.—Cardinal McCloskey leaves at 9 A. M. to-day for Rome. Many priests and archbishops will accompany him to the steamer to bid him adieu. He expects to return about the middle of November. When he arrives at Rome he will present the pope with $20,000 in gold, the gift of the Catholic diocese of New York.

—The break-up in the convents of Germany has already begun. The Ursaline nuns of Posen have sold their property, and will migrate to Cracow. The Capuchins have left Munster; the Benedictine nuns at Fulda have also sold their property. The Franciscans of Westphalia are preparing to leave their homes. About one hundred of them purpose migrating to America.

—Gen. Dye, a graduate of West Point and Adjutant-General of the Khedive, but who is now in this country, says the Khedive is conquering Africa with skill and the purpose of civilizing the people. He has four corps of troops, mostly Arabs, commanded by Americans, which he has sent up the Nile and its branches. He is introducing American machinery and methods of agriculture.

—The whole of Swedenborg's MSS. are to be reproduced in fac simile by photo-lithography, in pursuance of a resolution passed by the General Convention of the New Church. Some of his writings have already been so treated, and copies so widely dispersed over the United States, that it is thought that nothing less than a flood sweeping the continent bare, can place them in jeopardy of loss or destruction.

—The ship Bremen, which reached San Francisco last week, was 192 days from Liverpool. Thirteen of her crew died on the passage, and twenty-one lay helpless on the deck when she reached port, suffering from the terrible disease, scurvy. There were not enough well men to work the sails, which made the last of their voyage fearfully slow. This ship is owned by one of the men so fiercely attacked by Mr. Plimsoll, in the British House of Commons.

—The Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle thus moralizes over the condition of affairs in that city: "The parents of this city have, in the rearing of their children, a difficult and delicate task to perform. Vice is prevalent. Our principal streets are lined with drinking and gambling houses, and everywhere girls and boys have flaunting sin before their eyes. How to keep his growing sons from the gambling table is the subject of anxious thought with the Virginia father."

A THREATENED INSURRECTION IN GEORGIA.—The white citizens of Washington, Jefferson, Johnson, and Burke Counties, Ga., have been alarmed for the past week by a threatened attack from the negroes. Letters in circulation among the negroes were found by the whites, ordering a general massacre of the white population, Aug. 20. Arms and ammunition were sent for, and preparation was made for an attack. Many arrests were made, and as most of the leaders have been captured, little or no trouble is now expected.

—The troubles in Herzegovina seem not to be so near a peaceful settlement as the Turks would have us believe. The insurgents are victorious at several points; the natives of Bosnia are reported to have joined them; and the Danubian Principalities appear to be in perfect sympathy. When it is considered that over three-fourths of the Herzegovians are Christians, and that ever since the Turks invaded southern Europe and subjugated the Christian population in the thirteenth century, they have been restless under the harsh Mohammedan rule, it is to be feared that this insurrection will take the form of a religious war.

SALT LAKE CITY, August 11.—Nearly all the woman and children living in Corinne were sent out of the place late last night, in anticipation of an attack by Indians. One company of troops left this morning for Corinne. The News (church paper) of tonight, referring to the matter, says the reports of the hostile bearing of the Indians are only circulated to create a feeling against the Mormons; that the Indians are there for the purpose of farming, and other peaceful objects. Major Bryant, Commandant at Camp Douglas, who has been at Corinne all day, considers the situation so threatening as to justify him in ordering two more companies of troops sent there, which will leave here to-morrow morning.