Show wan WAR AND ann DISEASE to the turmoil commotion and bloodshed with which some portions of europe are now glutted there is every probability j judging from the dispatches yesterday that they are likely to be increased by the tho inauguration atlon of war with china our r readers will kemem I 1 ber or some few e zv weeks we ees since the accorn of outrages committed ed by chinese on christians chiefly french at how true was it is impossible for euro europeans ans or Amerl ameri americans eans bans to tell there is lit little itie itle doubt that it was greatly e exaggerated ata g ge rated for china it is to be fea fen feared red rod is infested with a class ofed of europeans as much interested in getting upa up a european chinese war and as unscrupulous se rup ulous as to the means by which it is brought about as certain parties in utah who send reports east of mormon outrages and who are so eager to get up a mormon war this view of the question seems the more probable because in negotiations with the representatives senta tives of foreign government the chinese government has shown itself willing to concede almost all the advantages desired or demanded by them for their constituents residing in china that there is a strong feeling both in china and japan against foreigners there is little reason to doubt and there is as little reason to wonder at foreigners go and settle there for the purposed purposes of trade for their own pecuniary advantage only but beyond the introduction of their dali Tall railroad road rond and telegraph systems their assumptions of superiority have little foundation for into whatever heathen nation christians intrude they are sure to introduce drunkenness gambling litigation brawls prostitution disease and all ali the repulsive features which flourish and fester in their rank althin f ess among them at home this is the experience beyond a doubt in china and japan and the telegrams yesterday contain a statement to the effect that a treaty has been concluded between those two governments having for its object the expulsion of foreigners this statement in con conjunction junction with the one from london that the british government has concluded to operate cooperate co with the french government in instituting vigorous measures treasures to compel the satisfaction demanded of the chinese for the recent outrages is almost tantamount if true to a declaration of war A war waged by england and france on a people such as the chinese and japanese will be no childs play but if persisted persisted Sers isted in may equal if not exceed in i sanguinary ferocity anything in the annals of moderia modern warfare the threatened empires are the most populous on the globe their thorough indifference to the lives of their people is proverbial the fleets of france and england in case of war can spread death and desolation along the coasts of the two countries but beyond that they can do little harm france and england have once proved their superiority over the chinese but the japanese are a very different race they are a brave high people and with their quick and ready genius in adopting the improvements prove ments of the western nations they might prove no mean foe in a contest such as the one now looming up the times at present are certainly of no ordinary interest and the issue of events between the two great nations of the far east and two of the greatest in the west will vill be watched with much interest by the world at large with war in the east and war in the west and disease decimating the ranks of prussian sias marshaled hosts or black death spreading terror on the continent contin ent of europe and yellow fever in the east and south of our own country none can deny that the times we live in are portentous poten tous and if the period has not already arrived 1 for the opening of the vials of wrath referred to by john the revelator the whole earth earlee may tremble and fear in the anticipation thereof tho the gloo prize offered for the best beat W iran aged farm in Oxford shire england has been awarded to a woman private krause the prussian soldier who killed the first french soldier in the war was himself killed at the battle battlo of I 1 an illinois husband laments the loss of several bushels of apples shaken prematurely from the tree on which his wife hanged herself the people of kokomo kokomos indiana know that the weather has moderated as playing games of euchre on the curbs stones has been resumed there A widower was recently rejected by a damsel who want affection that had been warmed over owen skinner from janesville fell down a precipice sixty feet high into a stone quarry near wheeling on friday it ia Is thought he will wil recover though nearly all the bones in his body were broken |