The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-22
mend this deservedly popular and growing
institution to the friends of religious in
struction and profound scholarship:
SPECTATOR.
June 18th, 1867.
... ~ For the Standard.
EXTREME SUFFERING In WAKE CO., N. c.

BLESSED is he that considereth the poor"
I am satisfied from what have seen and heard,
and from numerous certified official statements
of Magistrates and other reliable persons, that in
this (Wakc) County, there are at least 800 fami-
lies, numbering 900 souls-mostly widows and
orphans, and deeply afflicted men-who have not
four days supplies. Many have not even bread
now, and the wasted forms of heart-broken wild
owed mothers are being worn down by spending
sleepless hours trying to soothe the cries forced
byhunger from their children, and all she can
give them is green, said, sour berries or pd1ced
corn eatto Coffee or boiled corn SOAKED ~ aoale
for beverage, land some of these limited) having
had no meat for weeks, no bread for days, no
-four for months and no sugar and coffee for
years, except little 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, and when
forced to go the men were killed, the bal
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 poor mule or horse or OK,
with the short crop last year and heavy rains now,
with family of 5 to s children and no meat or
corn for man Or beast at the point OF despair
as to how they are to live. To go out on wages
the crop is lost and to stay at home with nothing
to eat they can neither work or live long. They
have never begged, they don't beg now. They
are trying to wOrk-the mother and oldest chill
dren have cleared a little land, part of which
on poor neighbours farm to get his horse or OK
and pillow one day on hers. Thus they are strug-
glingin 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
pounds of meat, saying 81 am so glad have
something for my poor, hungry children and now
l will go to them;" and they returned carrying
it on their shoulders, reaching home at o clock
the next morning making AZ miles walked in 81
hours.
Seven widows travelled all night with kind
man along in a cart, who with their 3 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 q 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-all 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
and meat at Ii cents per pound, but the poor
cannot buy it at 10 cents bushel or cents
pound.
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 Mqt hath PITY atp0,' the poor
ledeth unto the LORI " ana " OeSSed as ne tHGt con-
SeCtereth the poor: the Lord acM del0er him in time
" ''"0''' '0u " . J. ". cRowDER,
Superintendent Charity Supplies.
Raleigh, n. c., June lS 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 IL Co., Bankers, or the National
Bank, Raleigh, n. c., or Hon. D. NJ Barringer,
Chairman Board State Charity Commissioners.
w. j. w. c.