The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-28
Results Of q I" Dreadful Scenes
among the welsh Eoal-MIners.

A correspondent of the Manchester Guar.
dian, writing from Merthyr Tydvil, under
date of March 8, gives a sorroWful account
OF the s,fferingS endured by the families OF
the "strikers." The writer says the utter
restitution which exists in the district eX-
tending from Merthyr Tydyil TO the confines
of Monmouthshire is indescribable, and he
cites these instances:
made yesterday series Of Sunday visits
to number of houses in the poorer districts
Of Merthyr-wretched homes they were, all
Of them. There is about mile from Mer.
thyr suburb called, by those who can pro-
nounce it, Caepantywyll, lying in damp
hollow by the side of the river Taft, and
close to the works of Cyfrthto, which, since
the riots of 1881, have never ceased to echo
the clangor of busting industry or light the
sky with the ruddy blaze of inuumerablc
fires. The people here are oil Cyfarthfa
workmeD.
1t is a queer place, all up and down bill,
with rows of steps leading to the high foot.
paths, with rugged roads like mountain
maths, innocent of drain or channel, and lit
ing from side to side in zigzag courses, ant
pausins here and there in pools which seem
common to most Of Merthyr streets. The
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from some unseen source of impllrlty are
dank and mephitic. There are beads of ooze
upon the house fronts, perpetual mud upon
the steps, eternal dust. and dirt upon Tire
dingy windows. Here Is an open door that
invites us to enter. You will notice that the
broken stone floor has no carpet, and is full
Of holes; that turned-up box does duty as
table, and that three-legged stool and an
armchair are the only articles Of furniture
in the room. The armchair is drawn close
to the CRATE, in which fingers the expiring
embers Of what originally could have been
but very small wood fire, for fuel is as
scarce as food.
A woman sits in the chair, and is gazing
modify, fiXedIy, into the dull red Of the
slow-burning wood-a thin, pinahed, scant-
ily-clad woman, whose ragged cotton dress
is as frouzy and dirty as the little wool'en
shawl which is drawn over her head to pro.
tect her neck from the draught that comes
through the broken window-pane at the
back. At her breast is q two-month baby
born child of sorrow only day or two be,
fore the strike began, and baby as thin and
pinched as its haggard nurse. There is u
little girl of ten or twelve knceling before
the fire, and sbiyering rs she tries to toast a
slice OF bread, which l learn has been
begged Of a nelgbbor, and is the only food
in the house,. A young man sits on the
other side of the lire upon another box-not
the table. He is lodger; out OF work,
of course. He is smokng-nlark that; he
can buy tobacco, and the woman has to beg
bread. Soon after enter he rescDtS my ap-
pearance on the scene by stumbling out. 1t
is very little the woman will say ut first. To
all my questions she returns such short
answers as l admit my intrusion deserved.
But chance remark about the baby opened
the mothers heart. "John," size told me
John was her husband-waS ''bal!er." He
did not want to strike, but was obliged to
turn out with tic others. "And there's lots,
you see, was like him, only the golfers was
strike, and then the puGdlers and ballcfs and
laborers and all, was have to strike, too
SO ran the pigeon English Of this poor
ELECTROMAGNETIC wretched wile-a Stat.
tern evidently, but an innocent sufferer from
the calamitous strife now raging.
House after house in those dreary streets
| visited, and found almost rs sad state Of
bare as old Mother Hub
bard's, and hungry children crying for food
In one desolate home there were two chill
dren lying on death-bed, and their mother
said they were "a-dying of the strike" III
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some cases the men had been able to earn 6
little money by working as laborers on Mr.
Crawsbay'S farm. in one OF two instances
and these were golfers, they bad secured
employment in the Aberdare pits; and atone
house / called, found the wife was now re-
ceiviug weekly post-otfice order from hel
husband, who, with few Of his adventu
rous comrades, had found work at Middles.
borough. That completed my Sunday tour
and returned dispirited and sore at heart
| went this morning TO Plymouth
workman's district at the other end of the
towp-only to sec squalid poverty and the
same degree of utter restitution. The peo
pie here are kept alive only by the soup
kitchens, one of which had been started by
hIr. Folhergill, NJ. p, the owner of Ply
mouth Works, and was confined to women
and children. In very few places did lind
the men at home, and when Iasked for them
| was told that they were Tout seeing what
was going on" was told at Plymouth
that some Of the older workmcn intended to
wait upon Mr.. Fothergill, who has not YET
been interviewed; and | heard at Cyfarthfa
TINT meeting of the ironworkers was held
on Saturday, ut which they resolved to re.
commend to their fellows the acceptance Of
The reduction for the term Of one month.
A REPUBLICAN JUDGE RECOMMENDS THE
RoD.-At the last Superior Court of Wayne