Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-01
Miseries in Russia.

The st. petersburg correspondent of
the London Times gives the following
summary of the article which caused
the suspension of the GOIoS: "The
diarist devotes his first entry on Sun
day last to an outburst of com plant re-
garding the enormous rise in the prices
of all the nPcessaries of life. He espe-
cially refers to the enhanced price of
grain in the south of Russia and to the
dearness also of wood. The masses
have now to consume straw in their
stoves, and even this fuel has risen in
price from thirty kopeks to one ruble
and twenty kopeks per poud. The
North fares no better than the South,
for there, too, the cost of bread has
risen in less than two years seventy
five per cent, and salt fifty per cent.
The Russian mouiik eats no more meat
now than he did formerly; the cattle
plague is no new thing in Russia; meat
can be transported at much cheaper
rates than before, and yet this article
of consumption continues to rise in
value. Life has become dearer, and
still people do not value their lives any
more. Nothing but suicides by drown
ing, shooting, or the knife, are report
ed FROM every side. Even the tallow
candle has become dearer. Everything
developes and grows, why should not
prices growP Mondays entry oonsti-
tutes a sarcastic protest against the
threatened abolition of the system of
election of University Professors, and
the substitution of that of appointment
by the Government. A short time ago
a HELENE, named Menagios, applied to
Russian university for the Greek Pro-
fessorsnip, alleging that he had OBJ
tanned q degree at the University of
Gottenburg in 1871. He was, however,
found out to be an impostor, and his
application was dismissed. The au-
thor of the diary oounsels Menagios to
wait until the principal of election shall
be abolished, when men detectedin fraud
and imposture will be able to occupy the
various university chairs and instruct
their pupils in forgery and deceit. On
Tuesday, agriculture is the butt of the
diarist' well aimed sarcasm. More than
a year ago new statutes were establish
ed for the lower agriculture schools,
but, as usual, they never emerged from
the region of project and theory. Ma
terials enough were amassed by the
commission to convince a blind man of
the necessity of educating the agricul-
tural classes of Russia. But this neCes-
sity was no novel idea. The commission
also believes that it is possible to teach !
agriculture in our national schools; but !
teacher of a st. Petersburg school,
who once took it into his head to in
struct his scholars in natural history,
brought down upon his head the wrath |
of the press and the Territorial Assem-
bly,. 1t is also proposed to teach trades
in national schools. A population, for
example, is engaged in the iron indus
try, and carpentering is made compul-
sorry in the schools, although there is
probably not tree or bush within
miles of the settlement 1t is easy to
talk about the introduction of scientific
agriculture among the Russian rural
and of technical knowledge
into the national schools, but by whom |
it is to be doneP By the ZemstrowP
These institutions year ago spent vast
sums of money for the purpose without
any result. Of course, it cannot be
done all at once. By degrees we shall
succeed in teaching in our schools those
trades and industries by which the To-
cal inhabitants exist; in the course of
another ten years we may begin on
agricultural instruction, and then not
ali at once. For the sake of conformity,
we can commence educating the popu-
lation in agriculture in those districts
where there is not an acre of land to
ploW. The Golos next refers to the dis