The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-07

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cd from tho arid and barren plains
to the seacoast. They swarmed
int o Fortaleza and the other sea-
port towns, leaving their surviving
herds to live as best they could, and
doserting their homes for the food
and fresh air of the seacoast. The
distress, which then eliminated in
tho starvation of hundreds in tho
cities, was brought to the attention
of the government. Ships were chars
tered by authority of the govern
ment at Rio Janeico, and the great
or portion of the inhabitants were
removed from the province to Rio
Janeioo, Pernambuco and Bahia.
In it's efforts to relieve tho distress
by this and the present famine tho
Brazilian government has expended
$8,000,000, besides the contribu..
tions from the Provinces, England,
France, Portu gal, and the aid fur
nished by mer chants of New York.
A few merchants in New York in
1876 contributed $4,000, which was
augmented by donation of $685.
600 from the business men of
Liverpool, England, and various
sums from ther maritime nations,
countries trading with the Brazilian
Empire. The fight of the inhabi-
tants from the famine-stricken
district in 1876 left Ceara nearly
depopulated,
THE PRESENT YEAR.
The government in 1877 aided
vast numbers of the people to re-
turn and furnished them the means
of living and planting crops for this
year. The drouth of the past
summer has, it seems, proved the
eliminating Misfortune of the
wretched population, and has
brought them face to face with a
famine equalling that of Persia and
China. The coffee crop has failed
entirely and the vast herds in the
interior have died of, leaving the
natives without subsistence or the
prospect of living without aid from
abroad. The province is 80 remote
from the seat of government and
the moro populous parts of the
Empire that, unless energentic and
immediate steps are taken to relieve
the famished and plague stricken
people, it is probable that the death
rate and the scenes of horror in
Fortaleza and the other parts of the
province will far exceed those of
the yellow fever cities of the
Southern United States. The
smallpox, which is adding to the
terrors of famine in Ceara was
brought from Rio Janeico by re-
firing refugees from that port to
Fortaleza, and is Of a type that has
so far resisted the treatment of the
native physicians. The death rate
is great and constantly increasing.
The small city of Fortaleza, which
at best afforded but scant accom-
modations for it's 1900 people, is
over crowded beyond description
by the 100000 that have sought
relief and shelter in it, and the
virulent plague is sweeping them off
by the hundreds a day. There is
no escape save by vessels from the
port, which is avoided by all those
knowing of the epidemic, and in the
interior is nothing but tho slower,
though surer, death by starvation.
"a story is sent to me about the
late Mr.. McNab, curator of the
Edinburgh Botanical Gardens.
When Dubufe's celebrated paintings
Of Adam and Eve were on exhibi-
ton Mr.. McNab was taken to sec
them, and was asked for his opinion.
I think no great things Of the
painter, said the great gardener.
why, man, Ewes temptin' Adam
wi a pippin of a variety that wasna
known until aboot twenty years
ago! As genuine n bit of criticism
as that of the farmer who told
George Morland that he had never
seen eight little pigs feeding without
one Of them having his feet in the
trough. Morland altered the pic-
t,re. "---Lonezon World.
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ADULTERY AND FonNioAr1oN.--The
following is the text of the act
passed at tho late session Of tho
Legislature, "To prohibit persons
living together in adultery":