ittrott. ESUBIACO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1876.
No. 31.-VoL. III.
PRICE 6D.
Sea. yesterday. Here is what I saw : On apbe successful. An American doctor injected may be called the Army of the Black the town, on a hill, there was some ten drops of cold water under the skin in The fourth is the army of the Caucasus, and proaching They ran away, and we found on this the lumbar region, on each side of the spinal is 100,000 strong. It is deployed on the dogs. scattered about, and MR. FROUDE'S TRIBUTE TO THE CATHOLIC column, and in less than a minute the patient, frontier of Turkey-in-Asia, and can take the spot a number of skulls, one ghastly heap of skeletons with clothing. a woman who had been suffering from lum- field in a moment. This last has recently CHURCH. I counted from the saddle a hundred skulls, bago for three years, felt relief. Sometime received twenty-five ambulances, and the and The following is from a public &Wein by afterwards the pain returned, but was miti- Grand-Duke Michael, governor of the pro- picked and licked clean ; all of women Mr. James Anthony Fronde, which appeared gated the next day by a puncture without vince, who was sojourning at Baden, has re- children. We entered the town. On every among skulls and skeletons charred in the Manchester Times and Examiner injection, and the woman, who had been so ceived urgent orders to return to his post at side were in " Never in all history, in ancient and long crippled, was able to work at a sewing Tiflis. So that whatevever may be said to the the ruins, or lying entire where they fell There were skeletons of girls clothing. their force prehas a powerful had Russia of, contrary, modern times, that the world knew machine. Another case of rheumatism of the hanging and women, with long brown hair mankind known anything so grand, so useful, ankle -joint was cured by the injection of pared for prompt action, At St. Helena. Napoleon said to O'Mara, to the skulls. We approached the church. so beautiful as the Catholic Church once was. ten drops of water, as also was a third of There these remains were more frequent, unwill have a few years Russia In the course of In these our times well regulited selfishness nodular rheumatism, involving the shoulder, " was the recognised rale of action-everyone elbow. wrist, and knee -joint of the right side, Constantinople, the greatest part of Turkey, til the ground was literally covered with was expected to look out for himself, and to In all these cases a slight complaint was and all Greece. This I hold to be as certain skeletons' skulls, and putrefying bodies in take care of his own interests. At the time made, at the moment of injecting the water, as if it had already taken place. Almost all clothing. Between the church and the The stench was he spoke of, the Church ruled the State with of a burning sensation, but not more than the cajoling and flattering which Alexander school there were heaps the authority of a conscience, and self-inter- when any other fluid is used for a like pur- practised towards me was to gain my con- fearful. We entered the churchyard. The whole churchThe was more dreadful. sight est as a motive of action was only named to pose. In the last case, ten syringfuls of sent, foreseeing that equilibrium of Europe be abhorred. Wisdom, justice and self-denial, water were injected at one visit, so there is would be destroyed. In the natural course yard, for three feet deep, was festering with nobleness, purity, high-mindedness-these no danger from the quantity employed. of things in a few years Turkey must fall to dead bodies, partly covered ;-hands, legs, Russia. The greatest part of her population arms, and heads projected in ghastly conwere the qualifications before which the free France has the credit of this discovery. are Greeks, who you may say Russians. The fusion. I saw many little hands, heads, and born races of Europe had been contented to powers it would injure, and who could oppose feet of children of three years of age, and bow, and in no order of men were such qualities to be found as they were found six it, are England, France. Prussia and Austria. girls. with heads covered with beautiful hair. MOSQUITOES. hundred years ago in the clergy of the CathoNow as to Austria it will be very easy for The church was still worse. The floor was An ingenious doctor recently discovered Russia to engage her assistance by giving her covered with rotting bodies quite uncovered. lic Church. They call themselves the successors of the apostles; they claimed in their that mosquitoes were a blessing in disguise, Servia and other provinces bordering on the I never imagined anything so fearful. There Master's name universal spiritual authority ; but nevertheless most people still consider Austrian dominion reaching near to Constan- were three thousand bodies in the churchbut they made good their pretentious by the them one of the plagues of life and they tinople. The only hypothesis that France yard and church. We were obliged to hold holiness of their lives. They were allowed may therefore possibly be grateful to be told and England will ever be allied with sin- tobacco to our noses. In the school, a fine to rule because they deserved to rule, and in of a new way of discomfiting the small tor- cerity will be in order to prevent this. But building, two hundred women and children even this alliance would not avail. France had been burnt alive. All over the town the fullness of reverence kings and nobles ments. A writer in an exhange says bent before a power which was nearer " Lately my brother-in-law, being very much England and l'russia united cannot prevent there were the same scenes. In some places to God than their own. Over prince and disturbed in his sleep by mosquitoes, took it. Russia and Austria can at any time effect heaps of bodies buried in shallow holes had subject, chieftian and serf, a body of unarmed into his head to place a young plant of it. Once mistress of Constantinople, Russia been uncovered by the dogs. The banks of and defencelessmen reigned supreme by the eucalyptus in his room over night. From gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, the little stream were covered with bodies. influence of sanctity. He did not pretend that moment the insects disappeared, and he becomes a great naval power and God knows Many bodies had been carried to Tatar that the clergy were perfect ; they were very slept in comfort. I have been following his what may happen. She quarrels with you Bazardjik, a distance of thirty miles. The (England) marches off to India, an army of town had 9,000 inhabitants. There now refar from being perfect at the best of times ; example, with the same result. 70,000 good soldiers which to Russsia is mained twelve hundred. Many who had esand the European nations were never completely submissive to them it would not nothing. and 100,000 Canaille Cossacks and caped returned recently, weeping and moanSILK IN AUSTRALIA. OF THE CULTIVATION have been well if they had been. The busiothers, and England loses India, Above all ing over their ruined homes, Their sorrowness of human creatures in this planet was not other powers Russia is most to be feared, ful wailing could be heard half a mile off. Mrs. S. F. Neill states that the cultivation especially by you. Her soldiers are braver Some were digging out the skeletons of loved summed up in the most excellent of priestly of a new production of silk, proceeds rapidly, cathechisms ; the world and its concerns in Australia. The tree was very early im- than the Austrians and she has the means of ones. A woman was sitting moaning over three skulls, with hairs clinging to them, continued to interest men, though priests in- ported from the Cape ; she herself imported raising as many as she pleases. In bravery, the French and English sol- which she had in her lap. Theman who did sisted on their nothingness. They could not 1,000 plants from Shanghai of the celebrated prevent kings from quarrelling with each " Tu " variety, and 120 white Veronese mul- diers are the only ones to be compared to all this, Achmed Aga, has been promoted, other ; they could not hinder disputed suc- berries, and there arc at least 1,000,0(x1 mul- them. All this I foresaw. I see into futurity and is still governor of the district. The cessions, and civil feuds, wars and political berry -trees growing in Australia. Mrs. Neill farther than others and I wanted to establish newspaper accounts were not exaggerated. conspiracies ; what they did was to shelter also succeeded after great effort and expense a barrier against those barbarians by re- They could not be. No crime of Turkish Seven the weak from the strong. In the eyes of in importing healthy European grain from establishing the Kingdom of I'oland and ferocity was left uncommitted. the clergy the serf and his lord stood on the Switzerland, and now the quality of the putting Poniatowski at the head of it as thousand bodies have been lying here since upon by common level of sinful humanity. Into Australian silk has obtained the highest king. But your imbeciles of ministers would May, rotting in the sun, preyed their ranks high birth was no passport. They testimonial from Continental experts, and not consent. A hundred years hence I shall dogs : and Sir Henry Elliott has never heard were, for the most part, children of the peo- -which is the highest testimonial of all- be applauded and Europe, especially Eng- that the authorities demand a war contribuland will lament that I did not succeed. tion from the remaining inhabitants of one ple, and the sons of the artizan and peasant offers of 100 francs per kilo, for the reeled The town rose to the mitre and triple crown, just as Australian silk. This is most satisfactory to When they see the finest countries in hundred thousand piastres. now-a -days, the rail splitter and the tailor Australians, and ought to be equally so to Europe overcome, and a prey to those nor- formerly paid a million. The harvest is rotbecame President of the Republic of the Europeans, as silk threatens to advance to a thern barbarians they will say, " Napoleon ting in the fields. The owners are in the churchyard. The survivors' cattle have been West. The monasteries of the Catholic like that it fetched in Queen Eliza- was right." " There are" Louis wrote to Napoleon, taken by the Turks, who refuse to restore it. Church, another vast feature of the middle price beth's reign. The world can live without ages, when they were inhabited by fraterni- silk, but it is a pity to lose anything at once " only three means of attacking England It is impossible to get in the harvest. The ties of men who desired to devote themselves beautiful and useful, especially when one with effect-detaching Ireland from her ; statement that the Bulgarians committed to goodness, and who, in order to do so, took woman's energy and brains can do so much capturing her India possessions ; or a descent atrocities is utterly unfounded and shamefully false. Mr. Schuyler thinks that less vows of poverty, that they might not be en- to preserve it. on her coast." Abbots life of N. B. than two hundred Turks were killed, nearly tangled with the pursuit of money ; and of all in open combat. There is no proof yet chastity, that they might not be distracted that a single Turkish woman or child was with the cares of a family. Their days were POISONING FROM LEAD IN VEGETABLES. killed or violated. A DIFFICUT PROBLEM. spent in hard bodily labor, in study or in A French correspondent corroborates. In visiting the sick ; at night they were on the Dr. D. De Loos, of Leyden, writes When may a man be said to be drunk ? the village of Batok, there was, he says, not stone floors of their chapels, holding up their (says the British Journal) Many a toper will admit that he has been Medical withered hands to heaven, interceding for in the Wee/Wad vanhetnederlansch Taljschrill elevated, or a little bit screwed, or three one person left to bury the dead. The Bashithe poor souls in purgatory. The system veer Geneeshunde that he was consulted in sheets in the wind, or slightly beery but Bazouks had an ingenious way of carrying spread to the farthest limits of Christendom. October last regarding certain symptoms of who will acknowledge that he has been out their views. A general disarmament The religious houses became places of refuge, paralysis and nervous disturbance which really drunk ? When a man tries to warm was ordered. When there were no arms in a where men of noble birth, kings and queens, suggested the idea of lead poisoning. The his hands at a drinking fountain, or to light village to be given up, they grew indignant and emperors, and warriors, and statesmen, symptoms occurred in a family residing his pipe at a pump, it may be inferred that at the refusal, and slaughtered the inhabiretired to lay down their splendid cares, and in the neighborhood of a place where a manu- he is not a Rechaoite ; when he describes tants ; when there was no arms surrendered, end their days in peace. Those with whom factory of white lead had stood twelve years surrounding scenery as " tooralooral," and they found in the fact proof that those who the world had dealt hardly and those whom previously ; they made use of vegetables makes a bungle of " British Constitution," or gave them up were rebels. Refusal to deit had surfeited with its unsatisfying plea- growing on the spot. In order to make it admires the " moving " figures in a painting, liver was, of course, a perfect excuse. The sures' those who were disappointed with certain that the poisoning was produced, as he is open to suspicion when he begins to inhabitants of Peroutchitza answered that earth, and those who were filled with pas- he believed it to be, by the vegetables, Dr. see in duplicate, it may be concluded that he they would give up their arms to the regular sionate aspirations after heaven, alike found De Loos examined chemically some red beet, has " a wee drap in his ee ;" but who can give troops, but not to the Bashi-Bazouks, wherea haven of rest in the quiet cloisters. endive, and carrots, and ascertained the pre- a definition by which it may be determined upon the latter set fire to the four corners of the village. A combat ensued that lasted Gradually lands came to them, and wealth sence of lead in all. In a beet weighing 560 beyond dispute when a man is really drunk and soical dignity-all gratefully extended grammes, he found the equivalent of a centi- An hilarious individual, lodged in Bow -street for days, at the end of which cannon settled to men who deserved well of their fellows ; gramme of metallic lead in another of on account of his bibulous propensities, pro- the matter in favor of the assailants. The while no landlords were more popular than about the same size, 1 1 3 centigrammes ; in pounded the following canon :-" When a inhabitants defeated, offered to surrender. they, for the sanctity of the monks sheltered six carrots, weighing altogether 272 grammes, man's drunk, and he knows he's drunk, then The offered was accepted, but those who went their dependants as well as themselves." there la centigrammes of metallic lead ; and he isn't drunk ; but when a man's drunk and out were shot down ; then the fight recomthe metal was also found in the endive. The he doesn't know he's drunk, then he is drunk." menced, ending in the extermination of the This was a village of three ashes of the plants also contained traces of But even this kind of logic will not do ; its inhabitants. capper, which had probably existed as an unsteadiness is illustrated by an incident re- hundred and fifty houses, with two churches, SIR CHARLES NAPIER ON PURGATORY. paid taxes to the annual had and which Mail. lead.-Overland impurity of the corded in the " Forbes Times," which tells of amount of half -a-million francs. When the " What is to happen to us ? A very short a man who camped in the myall scrub, who correspondent saw it there remained of the time will now let me into the secret, and lit a fire, and took sundry pulls at his rum whole but the four walls of one of the curiosity is strong within me, increasing as bottle before hobbling his horse. He had churches. This village which he selected for THE FORCES OF RUSSIA. the time draws nearer. I do not think my some compunctions of conscience as to his a visit at random, is bat one of a hundred so balance -sheet will be white ; no man's is. I The Russian correspondent of the Paris condition, and debated within himself as to treated. try hard to do my duty, but do not satisfy whether he was drunk or sober ; but after a myself. and God will not make me judge my Univers has been at some pains to ascertain long mental discussion, he was unable to own soul, or I am a lost man. Yet if so, the immediate strength of that country for come to any satisfactory conclusion. All there must be a purgatory, for I would not a campaign, and in a long letter gives the doubts, however, were removed in the mornTHE JESUITS MICROSCOPE. honestly pronounce myself worthy of heaven, following facts :-Of the eight great divi- ing, when he found that he had allowed his sions of the imperial forces, four are yet on nor altogether of eternal damnation." horse to go free, and that he had fastened The Southern Cross, a journal in the Arand footing, four to move. a peace ready This passage from the private journal of the hobbles on a couple of saplings. Facts gentine Ilepublic, relates the following Sir Charles Napier is a striking proof of the That at St. Petersburg is always on a war are stubborn things. A curious fact is related of what happened intimate connection between sound sense and footing, and recently its ranks have been not long since at the death of a German completed by the recall of all the soldiers on Catholic doctrine.-J. C. Guardian. Jesuit. The Jesuit, whose name was Tanner, leave. And their Army-that of Warsawa man both pious and learned, was going number 200,000 men, and is distributed with THID BULGARIAN MASSACRES. from Prague to Innspruck, in hopes that his three great camps situated under the fortA NEW CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. The correspondent of the Daily News native air would re-establish his health. linresses defending the line of the Vistula. The able, however to bear the fatigue of the Of Batok, town have just seen the The application of hypoderimic injections army of the South-West, 15(P,000 strong, is writes of cold water for the relief of pain seems to camped under the walls of Ochakoff, and with Mr. Schuyler. Mr. Baring was there journey, he died in a village upon the road.
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