Earlier text: The Commentary—Two persons were fatally burned in a fire at Chicago, July 5. —Cholera has appeared at Fiume, Croatia, (in Austro-Hungary), and the people are panic-stricken. —A fire in Paris, a few days since, caused a loss of 2,000,000 francs, and threw 500 persons out of employment. —Colonel Corkhill, widely known as the prosecutor of the assassin Guiteau, died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, July 6. —In a recent anti-Jewish riot in Russia twenty-three persons were injured, nine of whom are in a critical condition. —Eight French torpedo-boats were lost a few days since in a storm on the Atlantic. Fifty persons were drowned. —July 6, the Denver, Col., Academy of Music was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is $179,000. One man perished in the flames. —The three American fishing schooners recently seized by the Dominion authorities were fined $400 each for violation of the Canadian revenue laws. —July 7, the propeller Oconto was sunk at Watertown, N. Y. The cargo consisted of silks, cotton, boots, shoes, wire, and iron to the value of $500,000. The loss on the cargo will be at least $300,000. —The Senate Committee on Appropriations has inserted a paragraph in the Sundry Civil bill, appropriating $56,500 for the Bartholdi statue. —The great hall and entire right wing of the University of Brussels was burned July 7. A portion of the library was saved. The loss is $200,000. —July 5, two express trains came into collision between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, and thirty-five persons were more or less seriously injured. —The arrest of four men at Elizabeth, N. J., a few days since, for stealing sewing-machine shuttles led to the discovery of quite a large quantity of dynamite and arms. —The first through train from Montreal over the Canadian Pacific arrived at Port Moody on the morning of July 4. It made the run in 136 hours and 7 minutes, at an average speed of 21½ miles per hour. —Among the steerage passengers of the Nevada, which arrived at New York, July 8, were 400 Mormons bound for Salt Lake City. They were accompanied by several Mormon elders, and were from Scandinavia. —Advices received at London, July 7, say that on the 2d inst., a body of Albanian Mussulmans attacked and pillaged several Montenegrin villages, killing some of the inhabitants and capturing a number of elders. The Montenegrins rallied and repulsed the Albanians, capturing and killing a number of them. —The rather sensational statement is made that "the late ex-District Attorney Corkhill, of Washington, at the time of his death, was preparing a narrative for publication on the shooting of Garfield, which contained evidence to the effect that the murder was the result of a plot in which many persons were concerned." —Recent advices from Fort Worth, Texas, state that "the suffering from the long drought in Western Texas is unprecedented, rain to any extent not having fallen in some localities for fourteen months. The cattle are starving. In many localities settlers are selling their farms for mere trifles, and leaving for the East in abject poverty." —A recent London dispatch says: "The massing of Russian troops in Bessarabia has caused great anxiety. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Constantinople says that there is a general belief that war between Russia and Austria will not be long delayed. The Russian Government is pressing the Porte to pay the indemnity due Russia." —Seven hundred rug-weavers who were employed by John Bromley & Son, carpet and rug manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa., went on a strike July 10, because the firm refused to discharge the non-union learners employed in the mill. The strike involves about twelve hundred men and women, as the other departments of the mill will be obliged to stop work. —What is probably the true story of the Custer massacre has at last been told by the Sioux Chief Gall, who with Sitting Bull commanded the Indians upon that occasion. It will be remembered that Reno and Custer separated their forces. This was a fatal mistake; for while a few of the Indians engaged Reno's men thus leading them to suppose that they were the real object of the attack, the main body of the savages were annihilating Custer's command. —About two-thirds of the new House of Commons have been elected, and the Ministerialists have abandoned all hope of victory. Much feeling has been occasioned by the elections, especially in Ireland, and there has been some rioting. It is impossible to forecast the probable action of the new Parliament, but at the present time it seems almost certain that the Tories cannot secure a working majority, and the Parnellites will still hold the balance of power. Gladstone will probably resign, and either Salisbury or Hartington will then be asked to form a government. —A recent London dispatch says: "Russia has informed the Powers that Batoum is no longer a free port. The Berlin press concurs in the belief that this announcement is the first step in the Czar's renunciation of the treaty of Berlin. Fifteen thousand Russian troops have passed through Odessa and are massing in Bessarabia." The European newspapers regard Russia's action at Batoum as a reply to England's sympathy with Bulgaria. The British Government will, however, take no isolated action in the matter, but will merely join the other Powers in a diplomatic protest. —The Minneapolis, Minn., post-office was robbed of $20,000 in stamps and money a few days since. —Confirmatory reports of the petroleum discoveries in Upper Egypt, near the Red Sea, have been received at Alexandria. —The Union and Central Pacific Railway Companies have arranged to put on fast express trains which will reduce the time between New York and San Francisco to five days. —A sheriff's posse was successfully resisted a few days since in Rowan County, Ky., by a mob. The sheriff was mortally wounded. The trouble was over an attempt to make an arrest. —July 9, a crank, who claims that he desired to attract public attention to his misery, fired a pistol in the French Chamber of Deputies, the bullet passing close to the head of the President of the Chamber. —Cholera is spreading in Italy. From July 6 to July 9 inclusive, there were, at Brindisi, 463 new cases, and 136 deaths. The disease is officially reported in six cities, besides several cases in the provinces of Bologna, Padua, and Vicenza. —The foundations of the twenty-second Protestant church in Rome have been laid. —During the year 1885, two lady physicians of the M. E. Women's Foreign Missionary Society in India, and one assistant, treated 28,253 patients. —The Christian Cynosure mentions as an evidence that civilizing influences are at work in the heart of Africa, the fact that last year the natives bought ten tons of soap from the Scotch mission at Livingstonia. Pretty good evidence. —A Philadelphia woman has given an estate and $100,000 to establish a home for twelve aged Presbyterian ministers who do not use tobacco. The Congregationalist thinks that it would be difficult to find twelve aged Presbyterian ministers who do use tobacco. It ought not to be possible to find any ministers, whether old or young, who use tobacco. —Would that many might read these words spoken by the President of the Baptist Missionary Union: "Giving should be an act of worship. Why do we have fairs and festivals? Is it not to do away with the pain of giving, as if giving were a sort of surgical operation, whose pain should be relieved? Let us honor the offerings of the poor, and not depend only on the few gifts of the rich; the latter are precarious—the former are abiding." —The popular writer, H. H. Boyeson, in an article in the Congregationalist, entitled, "The Clerical Profession in Germany," says: "A State church cannot well avoid fostering hypocrisy and worldliness; and mere intellectual advantages, without reference to character, are apt to push men into positions for which mere intellectual qualifications are insufficient. Where appointment and advancement are dependent upon secular authorities, influences will be brought to bear upon the clerical profession which tend toward the decay, rather than the awakening of spiritual life." We think no one can successfully dispute this statement. —That the much-dreamed-of temporal millennium is receding, rather than approaching, is evident by the following facts given by the Missionary Review: "In the year 1800, the common estimates rarely placed the population of the world as high as 800,000,000. Let us suppose it even 1,000,000,000—an estimate that would usually be considered extravagant. 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A FEW religious journals, following the lead of the Independent, have fully decided that the man who claims that two kinds of wine—one intoxicating and the other harmless—are spoken of in the Bible, is an ignoramus. Those papers scout the idea that there ever could be such a thing as unfermented wine. Nothing is wine, say they, unless it is fermented. And yet the very men whose "scholarship" demands this concession to the cause of intemperance will speak of the recently expressed juice of apples as "sweet cider," and of that which has fermented as "hard cider." Now if it is not wrong to call apple juice cider before it is fermented, why may we not call grape juice wine before it has fermented? The idea that we may not is absurd. The simple fact is this: The juice of apples is cider; if preserved in just the condition it was in when first pressed out, it is harmless and as wholesome as the juice of any other fruit. Otherwise it is grossly intoxicating and unfit to be used by man. In like manner the juice of grapes is wine; when first expressed, it is sweet wine, and is wholesome and good. By proper care it may be preserved in that condition for an indefinite time, and is a pleasing and healthful drink. But when it becomes fermented, there is nothing which will more surely turn a man into a brute. There is good wine and bad wine; some folks will have it that it cannot be called wine until it becomes bad. THERE was an incident in connection with the investiture of Cardinal Gibbons with the insignia of his new office, the like of which was never before heard of in this country, and which should open the eyes of sleeping Protestants. Before the arrival of the papal delegates, the Treasury Department at Washington received a letter from a Mr. Keiley, President of some Catholic organization, requesting that their baggage be passed free of duty. An order to that effect was given by the acting Secretary of the Treasury, and a revenue cutter was placed at the disposal of the reception committee. The Government vessel met the steamer Servia at quarantine, and transferred the papal delegates and their baggage without any delay to the depot in Jersey City, whence they started for Baltimore. But this was not all. A Catholic paper relates the following incident which occurred as the revenue cutter was conveying its popish freight from the steamer to the station:— "A pleasing incident occurred in coming up the North River. The papal flag was flying from the fore, and as it passed the Brazilian man-of-war there lying at anchor, the officers from the quarter deck, recognizing the colors, saluted by taking off their hats, which salute was responded to from the cutter." The request for extra courtesies was a piece of impudence, and its approval by the Government was a piece of contemptible toadyism to the Catholic vote. But the hoisting of the papal flag by a U.S. revenue cutter was an insult to loyal Americans, as it marked the lowest degree of Government obsequiousness to the self-constituted "Vicar of Christ." By that act the United States did just what the German Government has done,—recognized the pope as a sovereign. No greater recognition of sovereignty could be granted to the Czar of Russia than has been given to this "wise old gentleman," who, though he owns no territory, governs more people than any other ruler on earth. And since the pope has no temporal power, this recognition of his sovereignty can be nothing else than an acknowledgment that his preposterous ecclesiastical assumptions are just. "And all the world wondered after the beast. . . . And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life." How far is this from its fulfillment? Is not all the world now going to Rome? The only thing now lacking to the pope's complete triumph is for degenerate Protestantism to unite with the civil power, thus forming "an image to the beast," and recognizing the Papacy as a sister branch of "our Zion," and then for the United States to send a representative to the pope's court, and to unite with the Governments of Europe in restoring to him his ancient temporal dominion. This is the next step in the programme, and the indications are that it will not be long delayed. The Signs of the Times.
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INDIANA, Worthington, Green Co.,...Aug. 3-10
VIRGINIA, Harrisonburg,... " 3-10
ARKANSAS, Springdale,... " 4-10
CALIFORNIA, Eureka, Humboldt Co... " 4-12
VERMONT, Vergennes,... " 10-17
TEXAS, Midlothian,... " 17-24
KANSAS, Osborne,... " 19-30
CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara Co...Aug. 25 to Sept. 1
NEVADA,...Sept. 15-22
CALIFORNIA, Woodland, State meeting,...Oct. 6-19
CALIFORNIA, Santa Ana,...Oct. 28 to Nov. 5 NOTE the change in the appointment of the Texas camp-meeting. Instead of August 10-17, its date is now August 17-24. Pennsylvania Railroad Stops Sunday Trains
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WE learn that the managers of the Pennsylvania Railroad have agreed to make no more contracts for Sunday excursions, and have ordered that all trains on the main line not loaded with stock, be stopped from six o'clock Saturday night until midnight of Sunday, and the men be let go to their homes. This concession to the Sunday, on the part of so great a corporation as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will have its weight in influencing Sunday legislation. Protestants Toasting the Pope
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WE notice a short article in the Catholic Mirror concerning a banquet in Australia at which a Protestant proposed "The Pope's Health." The article is entitled, "The Pope Toasted by a Scotch Protestant," which reminds us that many Protestants in days gone by have been toasted by the Pope's minions. Notwithstanding the great difference in the two kinds of toasts, we are of the opinion that in the end it will be much easier for those Protestants who were toasted over the coals by the Pope than for the so-called Protestants who are now toasting the Pope over their wine. The Unreasonableness of Prejudice
THE most unreasonable thing in the world is prejudice. This is the reason why it is so difficult to overthrow it. If a false accusation against any person is based upon circumstantial evidence, the charge may easily be disproved by showing the fallacy of the supposed evidence. In that case, the one who made the charge, upon what he supposed to be good evidence, will readily retract it. But prejudice is not based upon argument, therefore argument will not meet it. After any amount of argument, the prejudice will still exist. The only thing that will remove prejudice is a change of heart on the part of the prejudiced person.