The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-12-01


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believed ihit 10 tmiiek he milmlt
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ran rlah them Nhilr mn ar.pp.
o day tefe %peflslung IT lhe single
.i1llon II Bolaslfe 4 vessel. ib,
Tulml Cain, Nbich wiz. brinsp,
them fool sta driven ~ ly storm
and compelled ~ thfow overheard
ono thousand Eve hundred b.- a.
rice bot this !. not ill and r~..ill,
not the worst. The new crop II ro
will soon Ne obtained but Il \. likely
70 add q new source " danger fjr
lacking other -ourcc Of food. tie Door
people will deyour II in Il. immature
sud unwhole.omc state, and a dread
fol prstilence will bc probably thu.
produced. Until the land can he
covered with a net work Of railroads
and canals, there seems 10 be- No ~.
cape from the frequent repetition Of
such calamitics, aud that day j. far
distant.
Another account 4ay,; When the
flmlnc was ut il hight the siarving
poor, we arc told, crowded into o.
streets of talrutta, anI it v,, u
mated that M fewer Than 10000 to
25,OOO starving people were wander
ing about the capital 1T MuIIick that
when the Bombay merchants ni-el a
fund and Distributed food, there was
NJ one time 1000 furnishing appli-
cams crowded mp, They were de-
scribed as placed in order upon space
Voting for The distribution. On one
side nearly 1000 llindoos. each Will
a leaf platter before him, were scat
tered on the wet ground, hastily par
taking Of the scant meal they re-
ccived.
On the other side were thuu, nl-
of furnishing Mi,sulmen. r ngd 10
in like manner, and wat hing with
silent and greedy cagcrn ~ the ncli
Of their Hinloo brethr n, aud coun. RI
ing with bitter lnngings the mimi e
till their turn should come under III.
shelter of the ghot, crowded with
women and girls and children. Oul-
sid the gltes were hundreds and
hundreds who had lost their chance
till the next distribution. Over all,
these was a horrible dead silence; ~
chattcring or convcrs tion; hardly a
sound, excepting when At intcrv \.
some wretch threw ~ his arms witt
nm ejaculation 10 heaven, Srunl from
him by the mnppcasing pang, -
hunger. More than this, official,
wrote home descriptions Of meeting
dead bodies in every morning ride
bodies lying in the road, with III
village dogs eating them At leisure.
A Calcutta journal stated that IN
Bazatore, having a population ri
1900, the deaths amounted to tire,
hundred a day, and on the govern
ment demanding of its officials a
report against the libel, the collector
Of the district replied the 9Th Of
August he had two hundred and
~torty-fve deaths on the city, aud on
the 9th one hundred and iwenty-siS
a day, the bodies sometimes rcm1in'
ing unbnried for three days. T!a
province of Orisa suffered the mos
severely, u paper declaring ;hiI
100000 souls have persisted in mrr
itimc Orisa alone. Indeed a tclc
gram from India announces that hal
the population of Orisa have peyishct
in the famine-that is fully two mil,
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