Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-30
Price Four Gents.

of the country grew more rocky. have seen hillsides and valleys in New Hampshire, with the same paucity of soil and redundancy of stone, but there no one would think of culti- vating the land. Here, however, the land has been cleared, and walls thousand or so mans head attested to the enormous labor which this task involved. Looked at, while passing through a cut in the road, it was easy to see that the ground was almost solid rock with mere skimming of earth. I do not pretend to be land expert, and yet do not think venture much in affirming that the labor expended in clearing this land and building these massive walls was equal to at least ten times the original value of the land, for at the outset it must have been almost worthless. Until he has seen it, one can form no idea of the vast amount of time and labor that has been expended in retaining these waste lands. Looking across the country, one wall succeeds another at such short in- tervals that it seems as though one were in an enormous quarry, where stones of all de- scriptions had been cut out and stacked up for shipment. The significance of all this is made apparent when it is said that this work has been wholly performed by the tenants, and the value of the farms to their present owners is due almost wholly to these labors.
 The Peculiar King Of Abyssinia. [From Colonel Gcsion's Book Central Africa.l
 write in haste, but will sum up my inn precision of Abyssinia. The King is rapidly growing mad. He cuts off the noses of those who take snuff, and the lips of those who smoke. The other day man went to salute Ras Aloula. In saluting him his tobacco-box dropped out. ,Ras Aloufa struck him with his sword, ana his people finished him. The King is hated more than Theodore was Cruel to degree. he does not, however, take life. He cuts of feet and hands of people who of fend him. He puts out their eyes by pour ing hot tallow into their ears. Several came to tell me this. I remonstrated with the King against his edict forcing men to become wish it. also remonstrated about the to- bacco edict but it was of no use. No one can travel without the Kings order, can if he is foreigner. You buy nothing without the Kings order, no one will shelter you without his order-in fact no more complete despotism could exist It cannot last; for the King will go on from one madness to another.
 Orders were given that no one was to ap- proach me nor was to speak to any. The officer who conducted me to the King, the second in command to Aloula, met his uncle and cousin in chains and durst not ask why they were chained. The King is a man of some forty-five years, sour, M-favored looking being He never looks you in the face, but when you look away he glares at you like tiger. He never smiles; his look always changing, is one of thorough sus- picion Hated and hating all, I can imagine no more unhappy man. Avaricious above all his people, who do not lack this quality, his idea of a free port is that fleets of steamers will arrive from the Powers of Europe with presents for him, to which he will reply by sending letter with the Lion seal, saying, 'You are my brother, my mother, etc. How are you ?' Johannis is delighted with her Majesty because she called him her son. He carries with him all his great prisoners-the poor Goobasie, with his eyes out, and the rest. At the great feast, September 27, he had one bullock killed for some hundreds of persons.