News and Miscellany by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

—The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court of Chicago, impaneled July 6, consists of eight negroes and sixteen white men.

—The late crusade against the swindlers in the whisky traffic has resulted in the seizure of $1,500,000 worth of real estate, and the dismissal of 83 government officers.

—In New York City the Jews have thirty synagogues and a population of 70,000, and a Sabbath-keeping Jew may open his store on Sunday, provided he makes no special display, and does not interfere with his neighbors.

—The trial of persons for participation in the Mountain Meadow massacre commenced at Beaver, Utah, on Monday. Bishops Lee and Dame were first on the calendar. It is expected that Brigham Young will be cleared of all blame in the matter.

—Col. Boudinot reports a disorder and lawlessness in Indian Territory. Twenty-seven murder cases have just been disposed of at Fort Smith, Arkansas, where all the criminal cases from the Indian nation are tried. A bitter contest for the position of chief is now going on in the Cherokee nation.

—Dean Stanley, in course of his sermon at West Mister Abbey on Sunday, alluded to the American Declaration of Independence. He contrasted the animosity displayed on former days on the occasion of its anniversary with the spirit of conciliation which at present prevails. Now every American is proud of his English ancestry, and every Englishman is proud of Washington.

—A serious revolt and insurrection among the Dalmatians, of Herzegauina, has been caused by the Turkish officers endeavoring to collect arrearage in taxes. The populace have attacked the Turkish authorities in the frontier towns, and in many places the Austrian flag has been raised. The Pauslavic emmisaries spread reports that the Turks intended to exterminate the Christians, and this falsehood aroused them to the insurrection which is taking great dimensions.

—A serious riot occurred in Lawrence, Mass., on the evening of July 12, between Orangemen and some people, while the Orangemen were landing from a boat after their return from a picnic. The Orangemen were driven to a stationhouse for protection. The Mayor addressed the crowd but his voice was drowned amid groans and hisses. He then called out and headed the police in escorting the Orangemen. The crowd threw stones and bottles striking nearly every one in the procession. The Orangemen fired their pistols into the crowd. Many were hit, but none killed. Great excitement prevails.

—Robert Dale Owen furnishes another sad illustration of the terrible evil results of Spiritualism. For twenty years he has been known as one of the ablest, most candid, and most influential defenders of spiritualism. His essays and books on this subject have had a very wide circulation, a fact due quite as much to the confidence reposed in the author's character as to their intrinsic merits. He fell a ready dupe to the Katie King imposture at Philadelphia nearly a year ago, and his article in support of the genuineness of the "phenomena," published in the Atlantic Monthly, attracted much attention. The complete and crushing exposure which followed within a few days after the appearance of the article in print, proved a terrible blow to the old man, and finally his reason has succumbed to the shock. This is, perhaps, the saddest of all the numerous instances of mental derangement superinduced by dabbling in spiritualism.