The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-10
Reported by De Haven 4 Bro. No 40 S. Third street.
RETWEEN ROARnS
SECOND BOARD
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on the present state of rural life in Bengal
comes from Serampore, the well-known station
few miles above Calcutta. Six wealthy zemin-
dars were charged before Mr.. Ryland, the ma
gistrate, with oppression towards a small land
owner and ryot in their village, named Halimu-
din Shaik. The ryot had q small piece of land
to sell in another village, and the chief zemindar
wished to buy it. But he spoke too late-it was
already sold; and then the zemindar determined
to seize it without further parley. He and his
laborers went to the ryots huts, bound one of
his relatives to tree outside as caution to the
neighbOrs not to interfere, and at once proceeded
to carry off everything the poor man possessed.
The cattle were driven Off the brass pots and
other indispensable articles of the native kitchen
taken away. Some money and papers were also
stolen. All this was openly done, and two of the
zemindars were present on the scene while the
others looked on from their houses hard by.
Mr.. Ryland committed the defendants on a
charge of dacoity, and they were brought to
trial. But the native police did all in their
power to suppress or mutilate the evidence, and
the jury acquitted the defendants although the
judge summed up for a conviction. Mr.. Ryland
said in his memorandum: difficulty of
getting any Independent evidence at all in such
a case can only be appreciated by those who
have experience of the terror exercised by an
INSCRIPTIONS landlord in the Mofussil and upon
which, together with a corrupt police the of
tenders in this case doubtless trusted for inn
punity." 1t is quite evident that the laws have
not yet put an end to that relentless tyranny of
the landlord over the tenant which was the rule
in native life until the appearance in the country
of the English.
Says the Pail Mall Gdzette-The later returns
of metropolitan pauperism have not fulfilled the
promise of diminutiOn which the earlier ones
held out. 1t was not unreasonable to anticipate,
when at midwinter the numbers on the union
relief lists were considerably less than in the
corresponding season of 1863 that the early
spring would furnish at least satisfactory
statement. But the fact is unfortunately other
WiGa nnWa arHc thn mid of no
claimants whose wants the London guardians
had to satisfy amounted to 149, 1856, or nearly
10000 fewer paupers than in the same week of
1865 and, although several of the subsequent
returns of the present year exhibited considera-
bic decreases, the favorable comparison has
been slowly changing to an unfavorable one.
table published lately shows that in the first
week of the present month the London unions
relieved 1900 more paupers than in the first
week of April, 1863 There is something dis
heartening in this result. In spite of all the
efforts made by emigration and otherwise to re-
neVe London distress, in spite of better prospects
OF trade than the winter of 1S67-S could show, it
would seem that permanent 40 per cent. or SO
has been added to metropolitan pauperism. If
not, how can these figures be explained for the
trst week of April in the four consecutive years?
AT that date in 1866 the total number of indoor
and outdoor paupers was 104, 1888: in 1861
14O7S in 1868, 145, ,537; and in 1869, 1470S6.
In January last year, MS already stated, pauper-
lem was much higher than at the commencement
the lst of April 1863 in the same interval of the
present year the decrease has been less than
1000, in the third week of January the numbers
being 1855 as against 147 0S6 in April.
Herr Wesley, inspector of domains has
just published, by order of the Austrian Govern
ment, an interesting pamphlet ON "Austria's
forest treasures and exports of wood" 1t APP
pears from this pamphlet that there are at this
moment in Austria about 100000 yochs
(3,OOO,O0O acres) of virgin forest. containing
numberless trees Near the sea some of the
wood has been cut, but in the Croatian and
Slavonian military frontier the woods are still
very thick only few miles from the coast The
value of the wood, which has so long remained
unproductive, is estimated by Herr Wesley at
several hundred millions of forins. 1t may of
course be had very cheap. Wood for shipbuild-
ing costs on an average % kreutzers (58Id.) per
cubic foot; elm, 10 kreutzers (494d.); oak 18
kreutzers (415d.); fir, 25 kreutzers (6Ad.); pine,
26 kreutZers (619d). For whole oak trunk the
price is often from to kreutzers (from Id to
115d) Herr Wesley adds that the wood is in
excellent condition, and adapted for the most
delicate kinds of carpentry us well as for the
building of ships, houses, and machinery.
There is said 10 be great misery and poverty in
the city of Mexico The poor cannot find employ
ment
In OberliD, Ohio the other day, man OF rs mar
ried W. man OF 6S. The bridegroom is poet having
written "A hook 800 Oanes