MORE CRIME IN PHILADELPHIA by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1856

MORE CRIME IN PHILADELPHIA.

By Editor

The North American has the following which can scarcely be believed :

"From the terrible evidences of human depravity which develope themselves from day to day, we begin to think that our cities are rapidly descending to the level of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Scarcely has one shock been given to the sensibilities of the community, before another follows to vie with it in atrocity. Sometimes these horrors are concentrated so that they crowd each other, and we are led to imagine that human actions are affected by the elements, or by

"Stars shot madly from their spheres."