New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-05-21

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the Eastern question at q time es-I
pecially n,alapropos to her Majesty's
Government. And it really does
look as though England's bette Nor
were in a very tight box on this oc..
casion-that's q fact. Indeed the
talk in London is that Russia has
'.gone stale or rather that she has
long been stale, and that now she is
to be turned completely bottom side
up, for ventilation and fumigation.
Indisputable facts appear to bear out
this view. If the Nihilism move
ment includes all who are naturally
competent to belong to it by virtue
of having nothing and being moth.
ing, then about the sum total of the
Russian peasantry will have to be
counted in. The shortest possible
description of the character and con.
dition of the common people is in.
included in the word ''filthy.'' This
is not drawing.roo,n adjective, but
it is the correct one. The condition
of the large towns and cities, from a
sanitary point of view, is simply a.
bomlnable. Neither ST. Petersburg
nor Moscow has any system of drain.
age and the task Of cleansing either
would put old Hercules to his trumps.
The crowded prisons are the breed
ing places of all that is pestiferous
and vile. Superstition and immor-
atty ride the people as the Old Man
of the Sea rode on Sinbad's back.
Pardon the feeble pun if say this is
because they have sinned bad, but
the Government is responsible. That
vengence which. however long it
may be deferred falls at last from
heaven to crush and punish all crimes
of despots against the race, impends
over the bureaucratic system of Rus.
STA, and the end cannot now be pre-.
dicted. Since the confusion of the
war with Turkey matters have been
growing worse. Taxation, previ.
ously almost uncomfortable, has been
increased to meet the expenses of a
heavy military establishment, thou
sands of families are without the in.
valuable ''bread winner" and other
thousands who lived to return from
the war are crippled and rendered
helpless for life in land where sys.
tematized philanthropy to relieve
their wants has not yet sprung into
being. In the face of this, and in
the face of a state of things of the
horror and evil of which these words
convey no idea, do not wonder at
the Nihilist movement. The warm.
hearted and hospitable Russian peas.
antry certainly deserve a better fate
than to wallow in the mire as they
have done for generations, but
whether they have the capacity to
relieve themselves from it-whether
the organization which now puzzles
the police with it secrecy and appals
the Government by its audacity-
prove the nucleus of anything better,
heaven only knows. It is the tough.
est conundrum in European politics
at present.
The death is announced of Mrs.
Rousby, who at one time occupied a
prominent position on the London
stage, and was popularity known as
|'the beautiful Mrs. Rousby'. The
deceased lady came of an old Dew
shire Roman Catholic family, and
was the daughter of DR.. Dowse, a
physician residing in Jersey. She
had a strong natural aptitude for the
stage, and was married to Mr.. Wy.
bert Rousby, director of the local
theatre at Jersey some fifteen or six
teen years ago.. She made her debut
in that island, where for some time
she played the role of leading lady
in her husbands company. Her
great success in the metropolis was
III the Queens Theatre, where she
acquitted herself with honor, posi-
lively taking the town by storm as
Princess Elizabeth in Mr.. Tom Tay-
lor's historical drama of "Twixt
Axe and Crown Her name was
also identified with ''Jcan of Acr,"
i'll which she sustained the character
Of the heroine, and with Mr.. w. G.
Wills ''Marie Stuart at the Prin.
cess's Theatre. Her last appearance
in London was in Mr.. Baudmann's
adoption from the German ''Made-
leine Morel," at the Queens Mrs.
Rousby was a fascinating without
being powerful actress; she had a
silvery voice, statuesque attitudes,
but no strong emotional power.
Much of the secret of her popular.
ity lay in her personal attractive.
ness. -.-.
On Thursday afternoon a large
crowd of females numbering about
a thousand, who were employed in
the Army Clothing Department, pro.
ceeded to Westminster for the pur.
pose of seeking some redress of their
grievances. Their main cause of
complaint is the reduction of their
wages from ID s. to 10 per week.
Assembling in the neighborhood of
the House of Commons, few Of
these unfortunate Government EN-.
ploye's were conducted by Inspector
Denning to the Central Hall, and
they subsequently, obtained an inter-
view with Sir Charles Delke and Mr..
Courtney, who promised to consider