The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-26
CRUEL WAR.
Barba rites Practiced in the Herzegovina
ian InsurrectiOn.


Barbarities Practiced in the Herzegovina
Ian lnsurrection.
From recent letter in the Manchester
Guardian from the seat OF war IN Dos
MIA we gather the following incidents o.
the fierce strife raging between the IN
surgents and the Turkish troops
BURNED ALIVE.
At Syiniar / was heartily received by
the cure, NJ Edward Jalosich, who
however, not having been long In his
present post. and i'll most OF the time,
was not able To tell me much. But, per
contra. there was stalwart burly priest
from a neighboring village who was ma
tive of Bosnia, where he had been in
charge of q parish, but obliged TO flee
for his life. His story throws much
light on the savage nature OF the life led
in Bosnia both by Moslems and Chris
tians. One day during the harvest,
when he was employing some twenty
men to get it in, and he was Just about
to have his dinner, a Moslem appeared
in the yard, armed to the teeth, and ask
ed for one Of the workmen. The cure
inquired what he wanted him for. "To
shoot him." was the reply; she has
stolen an apple and cursed my house. 7"
The cure told him to be of and seek his
remedy in law court. Thereupon the
Moslem quietly cooked his gun and fired
at the cure, who only just escaped by a
quick movement behind the window,
took down his gun III turn and shot the
aggressor dead. So far good. But now
the cures blood was up, and calling his
men together, he babe them make a bon
fire. Then, stripping the Moslem, he
rubbed him all over with lard-the great
est possible indignity for a Moslem-
and pitched the body into the fire. OF
course he had to fly for his life, and the
parish was obliged to pay fine of ID, 600
ducats to the mans family. AS may be
easily supposed, this cure is one of the
most energetic supporters of the rebel
lion now, and shall not be surprised to
hear that he has become one OF the
leaders. This story was told me by the
cure of the next village.
AN INSURGENTS TERRIBLE REVENGE.
In the early gray of morning the in
surgents who had descended from the
chief range toward the Save were joined
by seventy-tive men from tine Austrian
side, and all set off together to fall upon
the Turkish block houses along the Save
and Wrbas, and all the Turkish houses
and posts in the eastern angle formed
by those two rivers. The Turks were
surprised, nearly all massacred, and their
block-houses and dwellings burned.
The insurgents had one man killed and
seven wounded the Turks twenty-seven
killed, some burnt in the houses, and
many wounded-how many they could
not tell me. / expressed surprise that
so many Turks should be killed and so
few insurgents. Thereupon one of the
insurgents got up, fetched bag, and
out of it took CHASTITY head and laid it
on the table. There" he said, "and
twenty-six more are on the 9th er side.
Tomorrow we shall have n bonfire !"
This was a startling way of verifying an
assertion and / must confess that had
to seek refuge in cup of coffee till /
had regained my equanimity. Mean
while the head glared at me, and seemed
to protest against the company. "But,
] said, "do you think that this ferocity
will gain you any more sympathy"
"Quite the contrary. We are not
accustomed to wage war like
that, or mutilate the dead.
"No," cried one of the men,
suddenly, crimson with passion; g No,
you English do not wage war like that
against a civilized nation. But you, too,
have had your blood reused like ours
more than we have, perhaps-and you
shatter your prisoners to pieces before
the lannon's mouth. When your wives
and children were tortured and massacred
you had no pity for the Sepoys. You
must remember that this is personal
war. There is not one of us who has
not suffered worse from the Turks than
ever you did from the Sepoys, and that
as long us we remember. My mother
was burned to death in 1862 My wife
was impaled eight weeks ago, and my
two children, one six months old and the
other two years, bayonetted and thrown
to the pigs. How dare you reproach us
with ferocity? How can you reproach
wild beast for ferocity? Say!" "But,"
l replied, with something sticking in
my throat, for l did not half like the
turn matters We're taking, "but you are
not beasts. eve are :" Numbered my
opponent. eve are beasts, and YOU
and the rest of Europe have made us so.
You handed us over to infdels, to Turks,
and what they left us was devoured by
the Jews. You were either fools or
rascals. You iumbled Turks and Arabs
together; you thought the Alhambra was
built by Turks, and that Arab science
was Turkish; but you did not know that
the Turks are an accursed race-Cain's
cursed progeny-and that where they
once set foot the grass will never
grow again. Or, knowing all
this, you still supported them. No sum
too large to procure them the filth they
revel in no concession too small for rs.
Would you like to have your daughter
sent for by Bey, stripped, examined
and sent back to you with an order to
keep her another six months-to fatten
her into beast for Pashas lust That
happened last year to that man there.
Was it for that you lent the Turks $780,
O00,0002 Say, are you not fools or ras-
cals2 Still we thank you. The Turks
have fattened on us you have fattened
on them. They have ruined us YOU
have ruined them and now that thew
are sucked dry and bankrupt, you have
suddenly discovered that you sympathize
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