News and Miscellany

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 25, 1875

News and Miscellany.

Religious Riot in Mexico.

A terrible riot was incited by the Catholic priests in Acapulco, Mexico, Jan. 20th, against a Protestant congregation. Five members of the congregation were killed at the door; one died next day; and nine more were seriously wounded. Two of the assailants were killed, and one died next day, and it is rumored that thirteen were wounded who escaped to the mountains, of whom five died of exposure. The authorities have commenced an investigation, with the intention of punishing the guilty parties.

Crimes of violence seem to be fearfully on the increase in San Francisco. During the month which closed yesterday, fourteen persons were arrested and held to answer on the charge of murder and two on the charge of assault with intent to commit murder. What is San Francisco coming to?—Chronicle, Feb. 6.

The death-rate has been steadily rising in New York city for several weeks, and diphtheria rages fatally. The World atributes the sanitary condition of the city to the filthy state of the streets, the mire and the mud-holes, and says that fashionable doctors drive about in their coupes "with faces full of ill-suppressed exultation."

A Catholic Consistory is to be held at Rome in March, at which nine new Cardinals will be created among the number Archbishop Manning and three Americans.

LONDON, FEBRUARY 15.—Intelligence of a serious disturbance in the city of Bethlehem in Palestine has been received here. The Greeks made an attack upon the quarter of the city inhabited by the Armenians, and several on both sides were killed.

It is reported that the Pope has written to Don Carlos, expressing sympathy, but advising him to reconsider his determination to continue the war, as the dignity of the Catholic church has been vindicated and the rights of the clergy recognized by Alfonso.

An important resolution passed by the Old Catholic Synod at Bonn abolishes obligatory confession, but allows and advises that "if any man cannot quiet his own conscience" by self-examination, he may open his grief to his priest. Confession is carefully left to each man's inclination and sense of personal duty, and is so minutely hedged about by restrictions that abuse shall be restricted.

On December 21st, during a storm, a powder magazine at Scutari (Albania) was struck by lightning. The force of the explosion destroyed a portion of the city walls and several houses. Upwards of 200 persons were killed or wounded.

Fires.

At Virginia City, Cal., Feb., 5, loss 3,500. At San Jose, Cal., loss over $90,000. Feb. 9, at New York, loss $100,000. Hoboken, New York, Feb. 17, loss $50,000.

Kingston, Jamaca, February 16.—A fire broke out in Port Au Prince on the 12th inst. There being no water the flames spread rapidly, and on the 13th were still beyond control. Five hundred houses have been destroyed.

TEN thousand men, women, and children are said to be without the necessaries of life in New York City.

MINNESOTA loses 2,000,000 bushels of wheat by grasshoppers.