The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-11-01 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SUPERSTITION AND MURDER. —ABroussa correspondent, I in a letter dated the 7th inst., relates that the village-of, Kilrnasti Cassaba, near Broussa, had been thrown into great excitement by the disappearance of a Greek child 'eight years of age. The usual cry was raised that' the Jews had sacrificed it, the lower class Greeks believing that the Israelite religion obliges its followers to make a 'holocaust of Christian blood: The whole of the Greeks rose against the Jews, and some of them .even swore that they witnessed. the abduction. One of them tried to persuade the Governor of Cassaba that ..the_aunerstitiou was well founded by. reading pas- ' sages from a book which describes the way in which the Jews perform the alleged sacrifices. The most shameful means were resorted Orr in order to bias the Governor, but he saw clearly that the charge was _groundless, and sent the Jews with an escort to Broussa. Thte Jews suffered severely, having to leave their homes anti goods n the,hands of strangers. Two days later a woman commenced running about the streets hri g iniprece.tions. on the whole Jewish people for that, not content with sacrificing one child, they had carried off and devoured her daughter. The-Governor 'caused a thorough search to be made,-and at, last the dead body of the girl, and the clothes of the child were found in an oil factory. The murderer, a Turk, has confessed, but , the correspondent refrains from giving the particulars of this slouble murder, as he says they are too shocking for publication. 'Messes. FAWCETT AND WHITE AT BBlGHtON.—Mesers. -Fawcett and White addrested their constituents at Brighton on Monday, and received a unanimous vote of confidence without a single question being asked • by the meeting. They were • most cordially received, and attentively listened to. Professor Fawcett said the Opposition had no policy, and, if the Government had any they took good care not to let the public know what it was. He would make compulsory education a reality and would repeal the 25th clause. He would not:stop 'at mere elementary education, but would bring advanced learning within the reach of the inasses. The ciueStion of local taxation meant so 1 thorough a reconstruction of our local administrative machinery as to amount to a Reform Bill for tnunicipalities and counties. The. matter was worthy •Mr. Gladstone's administraOm genius. The professor thought, with regard to the remission of indirect taxation, .he first thing which ought to be done was entirely to abolish the pr duties the limit of income, exempt from insag t,. _ ought to be considerably raised, household suffrage ought to be extended to the counties, and there should he an extensive redistribution. After die6.ausing the League's platform and declaring him. self a • supporter of the Government, Professor Fawcett resumed his seat.—Mr. White said Mr. B.ight woiuld not have joined the Government had he not felt certain its future policy' would be in accordance with his own honest and earnest convictions. Mr. White thought it highly probable, despite the Ashantee war, that Mr. Gladstone would have from three to four minima F Uri lIUS to deal with in his next Budget. IS any article of irdirect taeation be freed from duty it should be eugar. If there were no duty on, sugar, the manufacture of beetroot sugar would grow up in -England. Mr. White protested against the reduction of the national debt being effected at the cost of the bulk of the population. He then referred to the Conservative mismanagement ,of the Abyssinian war, and hoped when Parliament met Mr. Gladstone would ask for a supplemental vote in order to defray the cost of the Ashantee expedition out of the current year's revenue.