| Show ahn no METH russian commissioners have Set serious rious time over expropriation of lands parish pariah prietta priests will fight for the re of their lands which Is the principal part of their scanty emoluments st petersburg the first paragraph af the proposed agrarian law viz the augmentation lug of the lands of 0 the peas ints ants by the appropriation of all state ind and crown domains and church and monastery lands ins his been accepted ly by the commission of the low house with practically unanimity the corn have now locked horns over the mode of and the I 1 e method ot of disposal of pt avate es ea t tales ates and the end is not yet in bight the determination to expropriate church lands which in distinction to the great estates owned by the mon arteries aa as teries lie scattered like the lands of the common schools in amelica in small tracts throughout the country and support the local clergy will cause complications complication 4 stich action would de the parish priests ot the principal part of their scanty emoluments and necessitate an equivalent fiam soine boma other source A correspondent ho has just made mada a tour of the provin er of samara and reports that the drouth Is finally broken but the rains have come coine too late to save the crop and help the peasants who are in a ble condition their cattle have alth er been sold or are starving in the fields |
