The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-30
GENERALITIES,
The Emigration of Women to Cnuad,,.


The Daily Ne1cS of London has the following:
Miss Rye finds plenty of candidates for emf
grafton on this side, and ample offers of employ
ment await them on the other side; her plan,
however, as we understand it, is for the emtgra-
tiOn of younger girls Her last emigrants are
described by Canadian paper as rosy girls in
their teens At such an age they are more likely
to be useful in the colony more likely to fall
into their new life naturally and easily than
they would be if they were a few years older
They are just at the age ut which girls in Eng
land first go out to service, or are first finding
their way into situations. OF course a cargo of
such girls involves considerable responsibility;
and Miss Rye is doing public service in under
taking it. The emigration of such girls under
such auspices is one of the smaller benefcent
movements of the age. 1t would be fortunate if
II could De done with the same minute inquiry
the same careful supervision, and the same sue
cess. upon larger scale. That would require
fifty Miss Ryes, and we have but one.
a Terrible Drought in Virginia.
The Alexandria, Va, Gazette prints a letter
from Hanover, in which we find the followng-
Within the memory of the Oldest inhabtant
no such drought has ever visited our section as
this. For forty-fve or more DAYS no rain has
fallen to wet the earth, and during the whole
time there have been blighting winds and
scorching suns. The grass is withered and dry,
the gardens have ceased to yield their usual pro-
ducts and the corn is in every stage of dis
ability, from the stunted dwarf to the faded and
dried leaf. On lands which usually produce
from five to eight barrels of corn to the acre.
the tassel is making its appearance on stalks
from two to four feet high. Our most reliable
farmers say that future propitious seasons can
not produce more than half a crop on the best
cultivated fields. The oat is estimated Mt one
half its usual crop. Tobacco is small, sic<ly
and very much missing Peas, potatoes,
melons, buckwheat, sugar cane, broom corn,
cotton, pumpkins, etc, are in a sickly and pre-
cariOus condition.
Rnvages of the Rinderpest.
a German correspondent writes as follows
"The rinderpest has broken out in some neigh
borhoods of the district of Zloscow in Galcia.
Although the infected district is u hundred and
fifty miles distant from the Prussian borders,
measures have been taken by Prussia to prevent
the importation of the disease, as the Zloscow
district is traversed by a line of railroad which
transports an immense number of cattle from
other districts of Galicia and from Prussia
"TheZeitSchrift far PreuSSen, in speaking of
the subject says the disease, in its devas tatons,
is traced back fourteen hundred years; it was
the regular companion of great armies in their
campaigns, and went with them in all countries.
In the years 1709-l7 Europe is estimated to have
lost no less than SOC, 900 head of cattle by it,
In the middle of the last century il entered Eng
land; in the third year of the pestilence 20, 900
cattle were killed; in the fourth year a still
greater number. In the year 1747 the English
counties of Nottingham, Leicester and Cheshire
had loss of 70, 600 animals. In the thirty years
during which time the pestilence ragged in
Europe over 5000 900, animals must have fallen.
In ITO Holland had 375,000 animals destroyed,
and lost the greater part of her cattle. In the
years 1898 95 from 3 to 1000 600 animals died of
the pest in Italy. In the following year France
lost animals amounting to twelve millions of
francs.
''The Russian war in this century introduced
the pestilence with the army everywhere; in the
year 1913 in some neighborhoods of Germany
nearly all the animals died The modern deyas-
tations of this pest are well known. Austria is
seldom free from it, and it is idle to hope that
the pestilence viii disappear from her soil while
Russia is constantly exporting diseased cattle
thither."
Ingenuity of Charitable Inst ttutiOns.
The London Pail Mall Gazette SAWS
The charitable institutions of England have
lately hit upon most ingenious mode of obtain
ing contributions. 1t is called 'tpresenting
purses" The plan is to get one of the numer-
GUS members of the Royal family to attend some
festival connected with the institution seeking
assistance, and anybody who can scrape to-
gether few pounds and put it in u purse has
the pleasure of basking for a moment in the
smiles of royalty, as they place the collected
funds in the hand of the prince or princess, as
the case may be. At the opening of the Lon
don Orphan Asylum at Watford on Tuesday, we
read that purses to the number of 25O contain
ing sums none less than So, and some as much
$50, were deposited upon the foundation
stone laid by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
who both bowed graciously as each was pre-
sented.
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