The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-26
June nth, 1887. ~ 3, !.
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EXTREME SUFFERING IN WAKE Co.,, n. =
~ g Rlessed ss he that considereth the poor"
Tor the Standard.

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* / am satisfied from what have seen and heard,
and from numerous certified, official statements
of Magistrates and other reliable PERSONS that IN
this (Wake) County, there are at least SoO fami,
I lies numbering ], 900 souls--mOstly widows ana
orphans, and deeply afflicted men-who have not
four days supplies. Many have not even preaa
now, and the wasted forms of heart-broken Wild
owed mothers are being worn down BY spending
sleepless hours trying to soethe the cries iorced
!, BY hunger from their children, and al she can
give them is green sad or sour berries or pdTcaed
corn meal coffee, or boiled corn soaked " foeter
for beverage, land some of these hmitedl having
had no meat for weeks, no bread Tor days, no
flour for months and no sugar and coffee for
years, except alittle as charity recently. Many
of these in other years were free from want,
and some lived in luxury, but their all went
by war-paid away for substitutes, ana Wnen
forced to go the men were killed, the Dali
ance OF property was eaten up or taken from
them by the armies; and since which, they
have no house, no land, no COW. or horse or mon
ey And many who may have little poor rem
ted land, or even land of their own, being so re-
duced, with only aipo0r mule or horse or OK,
with the short crop last year and heavy rains now,
with family of 5 to children and no meat or
corn for man or beast, are at the point Of despair
as to how they are to live. To go ont on wages
the crop Is lost, and to stay athome with nothing
to eat they can neither work or live long, They
have never begged, they don't beg now. They
dren have cleared a little land, part of which
they have dug with hoe-she works two days
on 9 poor neighbours farm to get his horse or Ok
and pillow one day on hers. Thus they are strug-
CLING in affection and exhaustion with the pros
pect in future, now most gloomy. They have
left their homes at midnight and walked 81 miles
to Raleigh and got half bushel of corn and 8
pounds Of meat, saving g am SO glad have
something for my poor, hungry children and now
I will 90 to them" and they returned carrying
it on their shoulder, reaching home at O'Clock
the next morning-making4 AZ miles walked in "a
hours. s 81 sf
Seven widows Travelled all night with kind
man along in a cart, who with their to chill.
dren are in suffering condition and nothing
could be got for them here. In the drenching
rain they returned home yesterday.
The Bureau has done noble part in giving
supplies to the needy, and hope will do more,
but it has nothing to give now. The Boston and
Maryland supplies are almost or quite exhausted,
also what has been received from kind friends
and associations North and Northwest-aH of
which have done great good.
These sufferers do not expect meat they scarce
~ think OF flour, sugar, coffee and good clothes
but what they want and must have, or worse be-
falls them, is corn and bread for starving horse
and perishing human.
Corn can be bought here at 81 40 per bushel,
and meat at Is cents per pound, but the poor
cannot buy it at 10 cents bushel or cents q
pound. z
Will not those of our more favored citizens
give according as there may be ability to their
relief? Let each one act with the truth of God
encouraging He that hath pity upon the poor
lendeth auto the Lord - and blessed Is he that con-
sedereth the poor the Lord ,oa deliver him in TIM
Of trouble" Yours truly,
WI. W. CROWDER,
Superintendent Charity Supplies.
Raleigh, N. c., June l8, 1867.
P. S-Contributions may be sent to the Pas
tors Of the several Churches in Raleigh, the
Young Mems Christian Association or Messrs
John G. Williams & Co., Bankers, or the National
Bank, Raleigh, N. c., or Hon. D. NJ. Barringer
! Chairman Board State Charity Commissioners.
w. j. W. G.