Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-16

DISTRESSING CASE or DEsrIrUrIos.-we visited
q poor and unfortunate woman yesterday BY this
name Of Mayknry, who has = room over CaPlin's
Furnishing House, aud who, we believe, 10 de-
serving Of the charities of the people. She was
formeriy resident Of Henderson county, KY,
and is known by one or two OF our citizens whs
spectacle woman. She Is sune ing for the wants
Of life, and should be looked after At once b. the
good samArifans q Esansvil,e; sne tel US tnas
eighteen months ago, since which time she has
never heard word from him. For two wesss she
has nos been able to procu enough nrs 20 warm
pi cd to the City Council some time ago for RELIEF,
when that body refused her, shs il stillin mis-
cradle destitute condition. Let the lAdies. who's
thank God have hearts and souls enough to sup.
ply the wants Of the needy, no matter what may
be their religious political creed, take tae case
OF this poor creature In hand, and God will bless
them abuE dainty Coulter. -.-ts
+ The above fling at the City Council is
certainly gra.uitous, and intended to
have its effect We are authorized to
state that no such application was ever
made to the Council by the person re-
ferred to; and more, the unfortunate fe-
male mentioned has on one occasion, at
least, received assistance from another
source, of which the Courier seems igno-
rant. The people of our city, as well as
the whole North, have ever manifested
9 commendable zeal in helping INDECENT
persons who, by the accidents of
war, have been thrown amongst US, and
in many cases without stopping to en-
quire whether the objects of such charity
were worthy or not Long before the
editor Of the Courier got this streak of
generosity over him, some ladies ofthis
city investigated the case in question,
and did just what they. in their judg,
ment, deemed right. 1t would be fairer
if the editor. of the Courier would in-
vestigate little further before be at
tempts 10 write against q body composed
of the first and best citizens of the
place. - -
Since writing the above we have been
informed Of the exact amount Of assist.
ance this person has received since she
came amongst rs, and while her hus-
band was in the rebel army lighting the
sons of our tax payers. Since this lady
reached, the city she has received dona-
lions, at the hands of Mr.. ]. P. Elliott,
to the amount of 500 20; besides, the
Daughters of Rebekah have caused or
ders to be drawn in her favor upon the
treasury of that organization for various
amounts. ssatt ErHg9 NA
Since this is the case--and We have
the proof-we submit if this imputation
againstthe City Council, az we'll as the
charge of neglect by our charitably dis
posed citizens, does not come with bad
grace from an imported rebel, who
comes here to dictate to our peopls2
But the GROWING feature of the whole
thing 10 this: Yesterday the Courier fra
ternity were called on to donate some.
thing for tbs benefit Of this lady. and
strange to say, they positively refused to
give one cent, alleging as g reason that
the notice they had given of the ladys
wants was as much as they ought to give;
that the notice had cost them over too
dollars. We apprehend that if the
sufferings Of the poor of this community
were only alleviated by newspaper poffs
there would not be much Of il relieved.
ExAHIsER's CoNYENTIos. The Con-
vention of county examiners, called to-
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