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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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In Gallicia, a widespread belief that the world will end on June 13 has made peasants difficult to manage, reinforced by the abolition of passport requirements in Austria and reduction of passport tax in Russia, as reported by a Polish correspondent.
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The impression that the world is to be at an end on the 13th of June, is so prevailing in Gallicia that the peasants are becoming somewhat difficult to manage. The poor ignorant creatures have been confirmed in the idea that they have but a few more months to live by the abolition of the 'passport torture' in Austria, and the reduction of the passport tax in Russia.
According to a Polish correspondent of the Ost Deutsche Post, the lower classes express themselves as follows:—'No one now troubles himself about the world and its inhabitants. A man can go where he pleases, as it is now all the same whether he is here or in America.'
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Gallicia
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13th Of June
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peasants becoming somewhat difficult to manage
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The impression that the world is to be at an end on the 13th of June is so prevailing in Gallicia that the peasants are becoming somewhat difficult to manage. The poor ignorant creatures have been confirmed in the idea that they have but a few more months to live by the abolition of the 'passport torture' in Austria, and the reduction of the passport tax in Russia. According to a Polish correspondent of the Ost Deutsche Post, the lower classes express themselves as follows:—'No one now troubles himself about the world and its inhabitants. A man can go where he pleases, as it is now all the same whether he is here or in America.'