Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1877-11-01

I'm cans as The natives. We depend
at all times more or less upon inn
ported articles of food, and while
the expense of living for all classes
IL greatly increased we have no fears
of actual want.
II is the poor natives who at all
times live s'from hand to mouth"
who are the victims OF famine In the
sorest degree. These are counted
by the million !
The outlook is very gloomy. The
early rains have again to great ex-
tent tailed, and so the crops which
il was hoped would relieve the pre-
sent need are withering on the
fields.
Last week an influential relief
meeting was held In the city of Mad
ras, ct which the Governor presid-
ed. An appeal for help was drawn
up and telegraphed 20 London and
to the Mayors OF the other chief
cities OF Great Britain. Yon viii
therefore have heard Of IL long be-
fore this reaches you.
1t has also been suggested that
immediate arrangements be made
for bringing large quantities of corn
from the United States. IL this
should be carr led into effect it viii
probably somewhat raise the price
of grain and be 1.-THE wind that
blows good" to your farmers.
| About 5000 tons of rice are re-
quired daily at Madras to supply
the city and the surrounding coun-
try dependent upon the port OF
Madras for imports. Besides the
regular line of weekly steamers, 81
extra steamers and 80 sailing ves-
sells are employed in bringing rice
from the ports Of Bengal and Bur-
Inah Still tile supply is not equal
to the demand. FI0m several OF
latest Madras daily papers l make
extracts:
A correspondent fromTrichinOpo-
| ly writes: "With all the effort OF
our paternsl government which the
natives are never tired of admiring
and praislng for its sympathy and
liberallty towards the distressed
poor, aud the charity OF well dis
posed individuals, the fact Is plain
that starvation and distress are do
ing there worst here. Our cOndi'
tion seems to be getting more and
more deplorable, and there seems IL
be no way of getting out of tie diff
iculty. La going round the town
and some parts of the district
could not but he struck with y
remarkable feature in the conduct OF
the poor starving wreLches around,
namely, the wonderful power Of ell
durance exhibited by them. AS
with the adults so with little chill.
dren, patience and resignation are
virtues which they cling to most un-
tiidchingly. Go where you will,
mere living skeletons, mostly OF
children, stare you in the face, but
not word of mnrmuriHG or impa.
thence escapes from them. Dying
parents with children In the agonies
of death may be seen crawling along
tie street, and these being uuaccus-
toned to act the role of beggars, no
other or greater desire seems to pos
sess them than to secure some quiet
corner to lie down aud die. -
From Bellary another writes:
EVERY day the famine gathers new
strength and vigor, aud everywhere
distress and death are ON the In.
crease. l have no desire to exagger-
ate matters or falsify TO excite the
feelings of your readers, but believe
me, without seeing it, no one can
have any idea OK the sad and alarm
ing state of affairs here.
Two HORRIBLE STORIES OF cANNI-
BALIsM.
A correspondent at Bangalore
writes: "The distress in the places
surrounding this cantonment is very
great, so mu: :h 80 that canuibalism
appears to be rife, for I have just
heard that a native man, a few miles
from BangAlore on the road to Toom-
koor, was found eating his child af-
ter killing it and drinking ats
blood. Another woman was found
cooking corpse.
THE FARMERs.
One very discouraging feature OF
the case is that the farmers (cal:ed
ryOts) have no means with which to
carry on their work. The hard
hearted money lenders have literally