Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-02-07

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mind in various ways; and the commit
tee now, or recently, sitting on the
subject does not yet seem to have ar
rived at any satisfactory conclusion.
Not long ago attention, both here
and abroad, was called to rather re-
markable pamphlet by NJ. Damidoif,
prince of San D1nato- not prince
Demldoff, as he is often called, in which
the Jewish side Of the question wa
fairly taken up and equal rights and
laws were very ably advOCatcd for all
Hebrew Russian subjects. Another
pamphlet has now just appeared, on
the other and more favorle anti-Se-
mitic side Of the question, issued By
Kietl, by general Kositch and his staff
officers, who last summer made a
thorough military and statistical
Inspection of the several districts bor-
derjng on the Austro-G German frontiers.
Gen. KOsitch was chief Of the statl Of
the 18th army corps, commanded by
the Grand Duke Vladimir in the Turk
ish campaign and is now at .he head OF a
corps at kief. In all probability it
was the movements and reconnaissance.
es of Gen. Kositch and his officers on
the southwestern frontier which SO
constantly startled the German aud
Austrian press. and led them to write
OF Russian war preparations few
months ago. Gen, Kositch, ten Off
GERS and number of cavalry devoted
themselves to the critical examination
Of seven districts in four months and
the following is their account OF the
Jewish population, reproduced by the
NOvoe Nrcmya, in opposition to the
recommendation OF NJ. Demidofl':
In these seven districts the Jews
number 43, 400 souls, or Is per cent of
the whole population, The fishing in
duStry is entirely in their hands. The
manufactures are principally held by
Jews and foreigners; and those belong
ing to Russians do not constitute one.
fifteenth Of the whole number. Nearly
all the mills are rented by Jews, and
are kept in most unsatisfactory
state. The timber trade is also mon
opolizod by them; and they are charged
with hOrse-stcaing and cattlc-liftiug TO
an enormous extent. Their iHhueuCe.
in every direction, is described rs mos,
pernicious. There are altogether eight
SO-called agricultural colonies of Jews
who are exempted from military ser.
vice, in order 10 induce them to devote
their laborS exclusively TO cultivation
Of the land. The experiment, however,
of forming Hebrew farmers, even with
this privilege, has utterly failed. They
rent out their properties on most
profitable terms; and turn their attou-
ton, rs usual, chiefly to bargaining
and usury, preying upon the Russian
peasant, and Keeping him in complete
economical subjrClIon. Finally, in
case Of war, these Jews, say the officers,
will not scruple in the least to serve
the interests OF the enemy if he pays
them well to do so.
The following account Of the brutal
behavior of Siberian officials toward
simple exile appears in the latest
number OF the Siberian Gazette, fur.
nished by NJ. SkurototI, who writes
from the spot:
"A certain doctor was detained as q
criminal in the Tiukalinsk province, of
TobOlsk, and forbidden to practice.
On Oct. % he received an order that
he was to be removed to another
locality. Being very i'll and completely
bedridden, he at once got two doctors
to certify that he could not leave in his
then state of health. This testimony
was utterly disregarded, aud on the
following day the assistant police.
master, with u number of police and
soldiers, entered the dwelling and
ordered him to get up. He SAID that
he was to weak to rise. The assistant
polico.master said he would make
him. He asked for tho attendance /
the judicial procureur, but was told /
that such Il request was superiluouS, |,
His request to be taken to the hospital |
was treated with contempt, and on his |
observing that he should die on the
road the police official said it was all
the same to him. He was thcrcupon
carried out on the mattress in his bare .
and pitched into a cart |
standing ready horsod at the door.
The bystandcrs were so moved by this
unnecessary brutality that some loudly |
expressed their anger, and ono man
took off his fur coat and threw it over
the all but naked sick prisoner as he
was being driven away. His young
child, still at the breast, was thrown
on one side like q piece of wood, and |
the mothers hands bound while her
husband was being carried Off On
arriving at his dostination-for he
survived the journey--ho was found to
be dangerously i'll with typhus fever