RUSSIA'S TROUBLES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1879

RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.

Russia has been subject to a series of calamities since the beginning of the Turkish war which invite comment. That war, though successful, was attended at times with humiliation and disaster for Russia. As it closed, the plague appeared. This plague is checked only, not extirpated. Then Nihilism suddenly became rampant, so that the government has been obliged to proclaim a practical state of siege throughout the empire. Indications portend that the conspiracy is so formidable and wide-spread that civil strife may break out at any moment.

Two remarkable conflagrations, at this juncture are naturally attributed to incendiaries, the first destroying Orenburg, the largest city of southern Russia, the second, Gratcheuka, a village on the Volga. And mysterious whisperings now mention the names of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as the next objects of the incendiary's torch.

A late issue of Harper's Weekly contained an impressive cartoon on this subject. In the foreground was the Russian bear sitting bolt upright. In the background, a flag staff over a fortification contained the Turkish flag at half mast and the Russian flag over it. But the bear had one eye bandaged, and one paw muffled up to signify the wounds received in the Turkish conflict, and each paw vehemently clasping the opposite side, his good eye rolling in its socket, and his tongue protruding, to denote intense bodily pain. Beneath were the words: “More Trouble Bruin—Something the matter inside now.”

To throw off the figure, into what this “more trouble brewing” may extend, and that speedily, it is difficult to tell.