White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-01-26


New Yoek. January pa b,lloou
letter from Paris, dsted December S5;h.
says: Oar stock Of horses 10 fast dimin
isbing-8O0 horses ere slaughtered daily,
200 Tor the army and 600 for the civil
population Eggs ere Az to SO csnts
each; butter o. . pound, turkeys ;sod
geese SIG to elS apiece. and worthless
sses at this piie.; chickens. e6 eseb. and
getting very scarce: pigeans. o. apiece
this morning l gave el so for ons pound
Of salt beef. R,.s ere 80 cents each.
Nearly every restaurant in Paris Il closed
Those which rsmsia open b III the tims
vow every night that they will not open
the next morning. Onions. carrots and
iAsrnips are from 6se to sishsesnts apises.
Packets OF soup herbs. which from time
immemorial have cost three cents. cost
now from 40 to SO cea,s. Everybody
has been burying string bs,es. put sp
green in tin cans. and although. two or
three times the old .prics MAS asked for
them. they have oil disappeared, Pe.s
snd other vegetables prepared il Ahs same
wsy srs quite sbandast. bet nobody bugs
them. for We have no means Of cooking
them.
Calico print sis;ne "a .de Of The whites
Of eggs, dried here during the summer. TO
be sent to the manufacturing towns-ths
siege preventing Their trsn-mission-are
now on sale ~ articles OF food.
| Intoxicstion has been 40 prevalent
since the eommencsmsnt Of the seiee. the,
the supply Of wines AMI spirits, sufficient
to lsst eight months, will be exhausted in
(our.
| There are bread panics daily. but they
are merely local. still they are import an,
an indications Of increasing embsrrass.
ments.
While there is wheat enongh. there is
no. -four in sufficient quantities. aud the
mills are unable to turn out on adequate
supply. 'r l5r q. q
Then there is the question OF fuel for
mills and bakeries. which is daily becom
ing more difficult Of solution. Bread is
cheaper than oats or barley. and horses
and cows are fed on bread.
The supply OF medicines is becoming
very low. and there are Iumors that the
government intends to confisca'e all o
them for the military hospitals. -
Laundries refuse work. for there is no
starch. little soap. no hot water. and no
means OF heating irons.
| In some quarters Of the town there il
On insufficient supply Of water.
| a great many weslthy families are
obliged to do their own washing, and dry
the linen in dining rooms. Wood is now
I've cents . pound, aud dealers require
rstsil buyers to pay for saving and car
risse home, which makes the cost, TO-.
abaut l0c. pound. 7s--t co.
.l.loss hours, daily, hunting for some.
thing to eat. l occasionally get some.
thing which makes me i'll with nsuse,
for six or eight hours. More than on,
meat-pie l have bought has made me i'll
A physician told me this morning thai
he advised all bis friends to drink daily Z
wine-glass Of quinins and wine to conn.
tersct the general debility from the want
of food 10 sufficient quantities. Many
people will die.
1t is painful to see the wan. pinched
and fnmishing faces in the string Of peo.
pie stretched in front Of the bntchers'. and
especially Of the public kitchens. step,
ped o6 ono this mor0ing, as walked BY
it. and found it 2l0 yards long. Some
Of the wretched women had skeleton BE-.
biss sncking. r
Typhus and hospital fever sweep to the
grave large number of persons every
dsy. There have been $4,000 desths ia
Paris since the seige commenced.
Small pox continues It's ravsges with
scarcely any abatement. There ore many
suicides. and there is q good deal o.
insanity. .-~,
! There never was so mach drunkenness
in Paris. 1t has q large share in the IN.
creasing mortality.
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