The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-19

come all through that region Last
evening Clifden presented an appalling
picture. Crowds of ragged, famished
men and women thronged around the
doors of the mealshops clamoring for
food. hiany had waited up all through
the night in the bitter frost, beseiging
the houses of the relief committee. Sew
eral thousands hocked into town during
the day, demanding relief. Several men
seized members of the committee, crying
We are starving We must have food
The police had TO be called in to clear
the iaellshops of the mob. They gath
cred thrcateningly around the house
where the relief ccm:dittee were sitting.
The Rev. Dir. Corcoran had to address
them from the window, implcring them
to give the committee two hours to ar
range. The crowd dispersed for o time.
Five hundred relief tickets for half bag
of meal each were issued during the day.
Two hundred more were sued the pro-
vious day. There were still applications
unprovided for. Knots of women and
men remained in the street until mid
night, though the air was intensely cold.
Ihe committees resources are now cx.
heusted. They arc $50 in debt for meal.
The .demoralizing influence of relief IL
charity instead of work is making itsclt
painfully felt. ). Charity has more tn.n
enough to do in feeding and clothing
school children and helping the sick
and aged. The first day the industrial
school at Ardbear opened over 800 chill
dren applied for their breakfast. Owing
to the want of funds only seventy can
how be fed. The Sisters Of Mercy ere
giving breakfast daily TO l2O children,
and doing wonders in the way of cloth
ing and nourishing the sick. Fever has
broken out ct Carna. Four families are
stricken down in one village They have
no wood but what the neighbors give
for charity"
The writer added that "unless employ
ment Is provided in fortnight deaths
and disturbances are inevitable"
A very serious incident is also reported.
Tho Liverpool committee of relief had
forwarded ten tons of Indian meal for
Clifden, which were being conveyed
around the coast from Galway in a
"hooker," or fishing smack. When pass.
ing Slyne Heao, of Errismore, the
hooker was boarded by O crowd of men
who came out in boats. They declared
they were starving and demanded the
relief meal. The pilot said he had but
one life to lose, and would lose it in de-
fense of his vessel. The'raiders tried to
drug the hooker on the rocks, but were
daunted by the display of firearms.
They broke open the matches, saying
they wanted nothing but the relief meal.
The master said it was at the bottom of
the boat, and that the bags of meal on
top belonged to Clifden merchants and
had their names on them, and that it
would be piracy to touch them. They
were finally persuaded to leave without
taking anything. The hooker arrived
safely at Clifden. It is rumored that q
| guBboat will be sent to cruise in Galway
waters for the protection of provisions
arriving by sea.
| TERRIBLE DESTITUTION IN CONNEMARA.
The distress is getting, there cannot be
q doubt, more and more intense, and
more and moro extensive, and the dis
pensatory doctors, who are the rural Off
GERS of health, have already reported sew
eral cases of that miserable form OF
typhoid which is known here by name OF
the Famine Fever" from its awful rava-
ges in 1847.
Here is specimen: There are four
parishes in Connemara, lying along the
southern coast of Galway County. It is
said that not one of the three commits
sionera deputed by the government to
examine into the state of things in Con-
naught has visited these parishes. Simi-
larry two gentlemen. who travelled
through the reported distressed districts
on behalf of the Dutchees of Marlbor-
ougG are said to have left these parishes
out of their. inspection. They lie fer
away from all regular routes. The
workhouse, the legal refuge of the des-
titute, is twenty-six miles away. The
process server, however, has visited
these wilds. These four parishes cover
an area of about forty miles square, and
there is not in the whole island o more
stricken and woe-begone region. Here
is report which has come up to Dublin
about the condition of one of those pa
rishes.
ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE STARVING.
"The parish of Carnagh ranges for
eighteen miles over the wild rock
promontory of Errisannagh With per-
haps couple OF dozen exceptions the
whole population, 814 families, number
ing. some five thousand souls, are ON the
high road to death by starvation. Hum
ger has overtaken one-third of them or
mittee-presided over by Protestant
gentleman of much local usefulness and
popularity, Mr.. Hazel, and reinforced
by the the Protestant rector, as we'll as
by the Catholic priests-have made care
ful house to house calculations, according
to ~h;ek-of Sc families il the town
land of Longhconiere there are 81 at
this moment wanting food; 25 familieo
out of 81 in Kilsallagh; % families out Of
2S in Rusheen and Drinagh; 20 families
out of 35 in Alnabrone; ~ families out
of 30 in Bonrouchard, and SO on through
the miserable roll. Those who have
anything to eat Rre living rpon the seed
potatoes. Every day Rome family Is
}. eating its last meal of them. Hardly
anybody any longer enjoys three meals q
day, even on rotten dwarf potatoes.
Two meals are now the average allow.
ance. Numbers that have met squat
in their hideous cabins around the NOR
, sci of live turf all day long in order not
to awaken the paugs OF hunger by active
exercise, and think themselves happy il
.haa ...c:ii.o. "a tho family ID able 10 Deg
or borrow few pounds of Indian meal
that they may not go supperless to bed.
And oh the patience, the endurance,
the seif-sacrifice of those wretched peas
ant mothers who stumble over miles OF
sharp pointed rocks with their bare feet
to implore that miserable meal for their
whining gchildren-who carry loadso turl
or dripping seaweed on their backs for
ten or fifteen miles like beasts of burden
who alone in those little doomed house.
holds seem to have heart or hope left in
them The first atage OF starvation is