p. 71 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 9. (2/27/1879)

Beware of Diseased Meat

THE fact is leaking out gradually that a most infamous imposition is being practiced upon the California market by eastern pork-packers. A reliable gentleman, who recently returned from a visit to the States, informs us that he saw hogs near Chicago, that were dying of hog-cholera, slaughtered and shipped to this State. He avers that it is customary in a large portion of that country, to slaughter as soon as this sickness makes its appearance, and rush the meat off to the Pacific Slope, and in many cases the animals were dying when the butcher took hold! In addition to this loathsome article, meat has recently been found and condemned that was full of that dangerous worm, the trichina. —Ventura Signal.

A Peculiar Case

SOME twenty-six years ago Richard Tregascus, well known in Silver City, Idaho, as “Uncle Dick,” had one of his feet cut by stepping on a broken glass. The doctor who attended him sewed up the wound, which healed in a few weeks, but caused him considerable pain at times, until finally it became unbearable. A few days ago he arrived here from Silver City, and had the foot examined by Dr. Bogman. Yesterday the doctor made an incision below the ankle and extracted a piece of glass about a fourth of an inch wide and perhaps three-eighths of an inch long from the foot, where it had been for twenty-six years. During that time the glass had shifted its position about six inches, working backward and upward from the toes to the ankle. —Winnemucca Silver State.

The Housework That Is Never Done

A PLAIN SPOKEN woman recently visited a married woman and said to her: "How do you manage to amuse yourself?" "Amuse," said the other; "don't you know that I have my housework to do?" "Yes," was the answer, "I see that you have it to do, but as it is never done, I concluded you must have some other way of passing your time."

The Digger Indian and Baseball

In Nevada, a contemplative Digger Indian sat watching a party of base-ball players, who seemed to him to be working very hard. Turning to one of them, he asked: "How much you get one day?"

Secular News.

A late failure in England was for $600,000.
The yellow fever is violent and increasing in Rio Janeiro.
The Russians are at length evacuating Turkish territory.
Arizona comes to the front as the loosest divorce State of the Union.
A firm in Revel, Russia, has failed with liabilities of 1,000,000 rubles.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake at Petaluma, Cal., February 19.
A recent fire in Hong Kong burned 368 buildings. Loss about $1,000,000.
Turkey City, Clarion Co., Pa., was almost entirely destroyed by fire January 27.
The news from Capetown, South Africa, is still threatening to the British forces.
The business part of Lee, Mass., and the Episcopal church, were burned Feb. 3.
The Prussian Reichstag has refused to endorse the arbitrary actions of Bismarck.
The state of Nevada is the only one in the Union with no debts, and money in the treasury.
Heavy failure in Boston, of a real estate agent. Liabilities $1,266,931; no unincumbered assets.
Of 205 M. D.s graduated at the University of the City of New York, Feb. 18, a Chinaman stood second.
The steamer Wyckluffe from Philadelphia to St. Nazaire was lost at Loire, Feb. 19; the crew was saved.
The Chinese bill as amended by the Senate, passed the House Feb. 22, and went to the President.
Joseph Cook, in his lecture of Feb. 3, said there are two hundred Chinese students in American colleges.
Congress has passed a bill to admit females practicing before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The President of the French Republic receives a salary of $100,000 per annum, with $50,000 for household expenses.
Fruit was not injured in California by the cold weather as much as was feared. Both almond and peach trees are in blossom.
A correspondent of the Calistogian says Napa Valley is a poor place for those who expect to realize on life insurance policies!
The Nevada legislature passed an act, Feb. 18, making it a misdemeanor to paint advertising signs on fences or to deface scenery.
The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board have decided to build special sheds, to the cost of $175,000, to maintain a continuance of the American cattle-trade.
A railroad train was completely wrecked near Selma, Ala., Feb. 18, by falling through a rotten bridge. Four men were fatally injured, and ten or twelve seriously.
Up to Feb. 16 the Upper Columbia was reported closed with ice. A general thaw has filled the smaller streams. Baker City, Oregon, was reported flooded the 20th.
For the first time in the history of the nation, a colored man, Senator Bruce, occupied the chair in the Senate recently. He has won the respect of his fellow Senators.
Miles, the Mormon deceiver and polygamist, whose actions were before the courts last Fall, has been surrendered by his bondsmen, and is in the penitentiary at Salt Lake awaiting trial.
In Springfield, Mass., there is a proposition before the board of aldermen forbidding screens, blinds, curtains, or any other obstruction to a full view to the interior of saloons or bar-rooms. The liquor dealers are alarmed for the result.
The Central Colony of Fresno Co., is on the collapse. The proprietors have served notices to the colonists to vacate their premises for non-payment of installments; which they refuse to pay because water has not been furnished according to contract.
In Stockton, Feb. 22, a large crowd was gathered to witness the trial of a new pump; the engine refused to work, and the engineer screwed down the valve and put on more steam. Result; explosion, sixteen killed, and more than twenty-five wounded. Why are such ignorant, reckless men permitted to handle steam engines?
By a gas explosion in a tunnel on the South Pacific Railroad, 18 miles south of San Jose, Feb. 12, a white man and twelve Chinamen were fatally burned. Two others will probably recover. The tunnel is in 2,300 feet; a body of flame rushed out full 200 feet beyond the mouth, with such violence as to upset a 10-ton stationary engine 150 feet away; a blacksmith shop 600 distant was demolished, and still further away a lot of cars were thrown from the track and piled up in a heap.
The few white inhabitants of Sitka sent an urgent request to Victoria for a British steamer to come to their aid, as they were besieged by a large force of hostile Indians. Secretary Sherman telegraphed to Port Townsend, W. T., for the steamer Oliver Wolcott to proceed to Sitka as soon as possible. The newspaper strictures on the neglect of our government do not seem to be well founded. Word was sent to Victoria, because that was the nearest point to which they could send; the United States steamer was at Port Townsend, but a short distance from Victoria.

Religious News and Notes.

By Editor

-The Pope has issued an order forbidding the sale of relics.

-The Southern Methodist Publishing House in debt $300,000.

-The Bishop of Manchester has written a letter strongly denouncing smoking by juveniles.

-Rev. Dr. Gäns, of the Reformed German Church, of Baltimore, has gone over to the Catholics.

-A Boston church refused membership to an editor because he did work on a Monday morning's paper!

-Five lawyers and two clergymen are to examine Archbishop Purcell's financial operations in Cincinnati.

-The United States sends 460 missionaries to foreign fields, Germany more than 500, and Great Britain 1,000.

-A Catholic paper says the Pope is living in "noble poverty." He is no doubt reduced to sumptuous fasting!

-The N. Y. Tablet says the Catholic church is "the sole depositary of religious truth, of justice, and of piety."

-The first lady student of theology in the Methodist school at Evanston, Ill., will graduate the coming Spring.

-The Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal has prohibited female singers in the choirs of his diocese after June 1.

-A Baptist preacher in North Carolina has read the Bible through fifteen times in the last fifteen years by torchlight.

-The Presbyterian Board of Relief for disabled ministers has distributed more than $1,000,000 in the last twenty-six years.

-The clergy cost the United States $21,000,000 annually; the criminals, $40,000,000; the lawyers, $70,000,000; and rum $200,000,000.

-In ten years, ending in 1871, the Roman Catholics of New South Wales, Australia, increased from 99,193, to 145,932, being a larger percentage than any other denomination could exhibit.

-It is said that of the hundreds of "perverts" who are going over to the Romish church in England, they are all from the established church with only one exception—a Methodist.

-The Christian at Work says, "Although some churches in this city pay their ministers good salaries, all the way from $5,000, to $15,000, the average pay is $500 per annum—about the pay of a stage driver."

-A Congregational church in Illinois has rejected a candidate for its pulpit on the sole ground that he used tobacco. The ground is sufficient. It is a shame to any church to accept a minister who uses tobacco.

-During the last year there has been considerable agitation in Sweden, to obtain for the congregations the privilege of having some voice in the appointment of their ministers. It meets with strong opposition from the clergy.

-Prof. Williams, of Yale, who has spent more than forty-eight years in China and Japan, says there are more than 800 Christian publications in the Chinese language, and that tract distribution is practiced in the interest of false religion.

-Another Mormon Bishop, Burton, is on trial for murder. The proof is clear that he shot Morris, "an enemy of the church" authorities, and also coolly shot a woman who upbraided him for the act. Has not our national government suffered this outrageous system of crime long enough?

-No less a person than M. Marat, "an Italian bishop, private chamberlain of the Pope, apostolical missionary, honorary canon of the dioceses of Agen, Bordeaux, and Contauces, etc., has been arrested at Versailles, for assaulting a girl in the sacristy. The police had to protect him from the populace.

-There are now in Japan 106 Protestant missionaries and 44 organized churches. The congregations, 12 are wholly self-supporting and 26 partly so. The number of native church-members is 1,617, who contributed last year $3,552. There are 3 theological schools, with 100 students, and 9 native ordained preachers, with 93 assistants.

-A writer in the Christian at Work, under the head of "Signs of Promise," undertakes to prove the error of advent believers, and one item is that "we have seen bigotry dying by the roadside." And leading men of the leading denominations advise to discipline those ministers who do not believe the Bible teaches that the world will be converted! If bigotry is dead, what is this?

-Talmage does not investigate in vain. He says he has discovered that some of the most notorious counterfeiters and defrauders in all the land have believed in the Heidelburg and Westminster catechisms, or sat down at the Methodist love-feasts, or gone clean under the wave at the baptisteries." All of which causes a profession of Christianity to be held at a discount by observing people.

-The California Christian Advocate, speaking of the Workingmen's party, which is now properly Denis Kearney's party, says, "in this reform movement the men at the front are without character, intelligence, or property; and in the ranks will be found broken-down politicians, ambitious aspirants for office, with all the vagrants, tramps, and bummers in the country,—all shouting for reform."

Christiana, Norway.

By John G. Matteson

OUR work in this place has called forth a great deal of opposition. The whole clergy of the State Church, including the bishop and the professors of the State University, have arisen like one man to crush this new doctrine. The Methodists have commenced a most bitter attack in a daily paper, besides writing in their own paper. And other preachers hold meetings to discuss the Sabbath and immortality questions, and to counsel as to the best way of opposing and hindering us. Nevertheless the people crowd in, and for want of room many go away at every meeting. The number of our friends is increasing. I have never seen so great an interest, neither have I ever had such a strong opposition to meet; and there is as much need of using the pen as the tongue. We have nine meetings every week.

The second number of our small paper, Tidernes Tegn, has been printed. About seven hundred copies have been circulated in the city, and we have two days in which to distribute more before the next number is printed. I hope, also, to get access to the daily papers, at least to reply to the attacks.

This battle for the truth in Christiana is of the greatest importance for the Scandinavian kingdoms. If it is carried through successfully, we have gained a strong foothold in these northern countries, and the influence will be felt throughout. But if we lose here, we lose much. I have but a little strength, which is far from being sufficient and proportionate to this great work. I cry unto God for help, and he has graciously helped us hitherto. Yet we need more sanctified talent to aid in the work, and some means. May the Lord remember this part of the great harvest field also.

There have been but few meetings held among our friends in Denmark this month. The roads have been impassable on account of snow.

JOHN G. MATTESON.

January 20, 1879.

To Sabbath-School Superintendents.

By J. N. Ayers

THE position you occupy is one of the most responsible in the church. The Sabbath-school is the church nursery, the place to discipline the youth and prepare them to fill stations of usefulness in society and in the church, and finally to have a place in Christ's everlasting kingdom. Then how important that their training should be correct; for "as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." And Solomon says, in Prov. 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it." In order to be successful in this responsible position, you need the best assistance to be found, and I know of no better help, (outside the Bible) than the weekly Instructor.

The Sabbath-school should be made attractive and interesting to the children, so that they will delight to come; and there is nothing that will accomplish this like having a nice pictorial paper to distribute among them every Sabbath. This will cause them to look forward with delight to the Sabbath, when they expect to receive their paper. Children like to have a paper that they can call their own, and they will manifest more interest in reading it than they would if it belonged to some one else. The Instructor is in every respect what its name indicates; it is truly an instructor of the youth, giving them from week to week just the kind of instruction they need to make them useful members of the Sabbath-school, and of society, and to prepare them for eternal life when Jesus comes.

We all have a responsibility in this work, parents and teachers as well as superintendents, and the Lord will hold each one of us accountable for the manner in which we discharge our responsibility. We have over forty Sabbath-schools in Kansas, and I do not know of a single school that should not take a club of at least ten copies of the weekly Instructor; while there are some that ought to take fifty copies. At least each school should take enough to supply every family that attends with a copy, and whenever children come into the school who are not of our faith, they should also receive a copy. This might interest them to come again, and, with the blessing of God, might induce their parents to come also.

Here is a grand field for missionary labor, and one that should not be neglected. Then there are families so far from any church that their children do not have the benefit of the Sabbath-school. These especially should have the weekly Instructor not only to read but to learn the lessons from, so as to have a family Sabbath-school each Sabbath.

I am sorry to say that there are a great many Sabbath-keepers who do not take the Review, so that it will be difficult to get these suggestions before some of those who most need them. Will every superintendent read this in his school, and send it to those who do not attend, and then do not fail to have a club ordered at once for the school. Don't put it off till next week. Now is the time. Be persevering, and do not give up because some complain of hard times, scarcity of money, etc. Eternal life is worth more to our children than anything this world can afford. Do not let your eyes be blinded to the infinite value of eternal life; but be more earnest in your efforts to have your children obtain a moral fitness for Heaven than you are in securing for them food and raiment. "Behold the fowls of the air; . . . your heavenly Father feedeth them." Are our children not much better than they? "Consider the lillies of the field; . . . I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? . . . your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matt. 6:26-33.

The Publishing Association offers the weekly Instructor in clubs of five at 60 cents, and in clubs of ten for 50 cents, only $5.00 for ten copies for the year. Certainly there is no school that cannot raise that amount if they try, and the papers may be the means of accomplishing much good. Don't fail to send in your order at once for a club.

Garnett, Kansas. J. N. AYERS.

Signs for England.

By Editor

THE Oakland church have made up a club of about 130 SIGNS to send to Southampton, England, postage paid. Considering the condition of the church, the burdens which they have to bear, this is truly commendable.

Those who order papers, singly or in clubs, for England, should understand that the postage is 96 cents on a volume; therefore no paper can be sent to England for less than $2.00 per year. And at that price the Office gets less than club rates.

Appointments.

By Editor

No providence preventing, Elder Waggoner will preach in Oakland on Sabbath, March 1, and in San Francisco Sunday evening.

OAKLAND—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 10:30 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school at 9:15 o'clock Sabbath morning.

SAN FRANCISCO—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. The Hayes Valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central railroad, cross Laguna street near the church.

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Address— THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, OAKLAND CAL.

Oakland Ferry-Boat Disaster.

THE fog on San Francisco Bay February 18, 19, is said to have been the most dense of any for years. On the 19th the steamer El Capitan left the San Francisco wharf at 3:30 P. M., with about 150 passengers, and collided with the Alameda, which was on her trip from Oakland with between 300 and 400 passengers. The Alameda struck El Capitan, about midway between the bow and wheel house, opening a breach over twenty feet in length. At first the boats remained locked together, during which time the majority of the passengers were taken to the Alameda. In about fifteen minutes after they drifted apart El Capitan sank to her upper deck, and floated away in the tide; the buoyancy of her woodwork prevented her entirely sinking. The Alameda was also considerably injured in the bow.

Had this occurred two hours later in the day, at which time the boats are always crowded, the loss of life would doubtless have been great. As it was, nearly fifty were picked up from the water, most of whom had on life preservers, and were floating securely if not comfortably.

By this disaster it is clearly shown that there is not all the security for life which there should be on such an important thoroughfare. The system of signals is defective and inefficient. This will doubtless now be remedied. No blame seems to be attached to the officers; but it remains to be investigated by the United States authorities.

John Wesley

By Editor

John Wesley was a genuine reformer, stepping out in advance of his generation in many respects. The article from his Works on Nervous Diseases, in this paper, will be read with interest. It is a great pity that the majority of professed Christians so entirely disconnect practical every day duties from their religion.