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Show An East Indian Feud. The Indian In-dian correspondent .of the London Times reports that a "terriblo loud is raging between the Mohammedans and Hindoos in several parts of tho Punjab. The Hindoos have a standing grievance griev-ance against the Mohammedan butchers butch-ers for killing the cow, an animal sacred to the Hindoo, and at Amritsur the grievance was deepened by a Mohammedan Mo-hammedan butcher throwing a bone into a Hindoo well. There was an instantaneous in-stantaneous rising and some loss of life, which is tho subject at present of a judicial inquiry. The spirit of Hindoo Hin-doo hostility has spread rapidly; at nearly all the chief stations in the Punjab Pun-jab the butchers have to bo protected from the popular fury. A Hindoo vernacular paper begs government to entirely stop the slaughter of cows. 'Such outrages on cows,' it says, 'we can no longer bear. ' The Mohammedans Mohamme-dans systematically outrage this feeling by unnecessary cruelty in their mode ol slaughter, and perhaps this struggle, which is lar from ended, may lead to sonic such measures with respect to slaughter as havo rcccnily been put forward by the Calcutta society lor the prevention of cruelty to animals." |