The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-01
A Few Of Russia's Plaques.

The war with Turkey being at last
closed, and the Asiatic plague, one of its
consequences, suppressed, nihilism is
now terrorizing the heart of the empire
and leaving it an open question whether
the near future of Russia is to be red
Republican or Cossack." At the same
time, from a dozen different quarters,
come accounts of terrible destitution and
suffering caused by the burning of tow
ers and cities, apparently the work of
revolutionary incendiaries, and the Ar
menian journal Mschak reports that the
grasshoppers are devastating the Cau-
casus. Both banks of the Kura river
are covered with them, from Jelissawet-
poi to Terter on one side, and on the 9TH
er to Akstafa. Vegetation is entirely
destroyed, and starvation stares the in
habitants in the face. Breadstufis have
risen from 80 copecks to one ruble so
copecks per pood THE Russian silver
ruble is divided into 100 copecks and is
worth about 70 cents of American money,
and the pood is equal to 36 pounds).
Another journal, published in Tifis,
says that the track of the Poti-Tifis rail-
road was SO thickly covered with grass
hoppers on the second of May that a
train was brought to stop and for some
time could not proceed.
The destruction of a number of cities
by fire, although greatly aided by
drouths, is probably the work of the de-
structive propaganda. The Vice Cover
nor of Peru telegraphs from Irbit that
three fires had occurred in that place,
the first consuming 158 houses, the sec
ond A and the third three; the Mayor of
Irbit telegraphs that all three fires ''are
doubtless of incendiary origin" In
Orenburg, fire broke out fourth time;
Uralsk, containing II 500 inhabitants,
shared the fate of Orenburg, and dis
patch from Petropaulovski, in southwes-
tern Siberia, recently announced that
several quarters of that city were on fire.
The Czar is meanwhile recreating at
Livadia.
Notwithstanding the serious outlook
in neavly all parts of old Russia, the
territory acquired by the dismember-
ment of Poland remains quiet. Order
reigns in Warsaw" and although the
military force seems prepared for any
emergency, business proceeds with its
usual briskness, and no disturbance is
apprehended. But strict surveillance
of all strangers is observed, and travel
ers' passes are carefully inspected,
whereas few months ago the bribing of
Russian officers was considered an easier
and cheaper way of journeying to and
from Warsaw than the procuring of
passport.
In spite of all the trouble, present and
prospective in Russia, a considerable
emigration from Germany to Russian
Poland is in progress. Eight hundred
German factory workmen arrived at
Lodz last month, large number of arti-
sans have settled in the Government of
Kalisch, and other arrivals are expected.
On the other hand, the harsh passport
regulations threaten to deprive several
of the larger cities of Russia Of a large
part of their population. In Odessa a
lack of female servants is already felt,
although the city's sanitary condition is
greatly improved by the exodus of its
lowest classes. Charkof has lost 10, 900
of it's 1OO, 900 inhabitants Berlin Letter
in NeaU York Euen5alQ Post.