Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-21

Anthony McGuire and Michael Fla
harty; fifteen in the two families; all
packed in one shanty, l2x16 Regulation
slZe); some 400 pounds Of flour and 1OO
pounds meal on hand; about a quarter of
a cord of wood; considerable bedding;
well clothed by the relief committee OF
Morris.
Thos. Cowing, wife and four children
Found them trying to eat the rotten po-
tatoes just sent them by Ryan; said they
never saw such hard times in Ireland: no
other food except what the Morris people
gave them last Sunday; wood enough to
last week; one old blanket and two old
quilts; Cowing is some seventy to eighty
years old; his fingers frozen so that his
nails came off with the rags while show
ing them.
Il. McDOnough, six children, not out OF
wood; two blankets, some meal, rotten
potatoes, no other food except what the
Morri s people sent. Cow about dry.
Anthony Connolly, wife and nine chill,
dren. Connolly very sick, apparently be.
yond recovery, sick eight weeks. Moth
ing to eat except what the Morris people
gave. Ten small sticks of cord wood
A sad case and needs instant relief 1t is
beyond my power to convey an adequate
idea of the hopelessness and despair OF
these poor people. The saddest and most
pressing case yet found.
| No suffering in the COnnemara colony
Vide Bishop Ireland and Priest Ryan's
letters in Pioneer Press and Tribune.
Jas. O'Brien-about one-eighth core
of green cottonwood, eight children
three blankets, one quilt, one pair sheets
COW about dry, about a ton or less of hay
not over a weeks supply of flour and
meal; no vegetables; woman sick for a
| week, no tea or coffee nowhere and moth
ing comfortable.
Jno. Graley, about one-eighth cord OF
wood; no food but meal and what the
Morris people sent; eight children, foul
in St. Paul; no bedding of any account
ditto clothes, except what the Morris peo-
pie gave them.
John Gallagher, wife and seven chill
dren; four blankets and three quilts; have
provisionssfor few days. what little they
have was sent by Morris people; seem tc
be respectable, industrious people
Austin Reddy, wife and nine chiIdren
little wood and flour; woman said Reddy
froze his fingers shingling roof of the
shanty; priest told them he would give
them nothing to eat till they got the COW
out of the shanty and the roof shingled
shingles were given him about December
l. Foregoing families l visited Dec. IT,
| 1880.
On Dec. II we visited Austin Bark,
family and two children. No bedding to
amount to anything; very destitute OF
clothing; about 60 pounds of flour and
nearly barrel of meal; one-half cord OF
wood-much better off than the average
| Lawrence Flaharty, ten in family
eight children; two days at one time with
out either food or wood; had to burn the
hay their beds were made of to maintain
life; one-half cord wood now on hand
and two sacks flour; plenty of rotten
potatoes.
Next, John COyne Here found Dill
lon O'Brien who had visited four fami-
lies nearest Graceville; said four families
Thence to Morris and laid poor
Connolly case before DR.. Hulburd-who
promised to attend to him at once.
The brute Ryan has his counterpart in
Rev. Cowley of the Shepherds Fold in
New York. Bishop Ireland blundered
when he imported the Connemaras; blum
cieS of Ryan, and Numbered in his unfOr
ouhdo0 IOGtolo ttHu tclcSIdHlS CONCERNING
me. Dillon O'Brien blundered in refus-
ing to allow Hutchins to accompany him
blundered in not meeting me at or neal
the point | designated, and blundered in
charging me with bad faith.
The whole outfit again plumbers in mis-
representing the Morris people and theil
motives, without whose timely investiga
ton still greater suffering would have en-
sued. | have not dollars interest il
Morris, but have known her people long
and well. | respect them for their hui
mainly, and earnestly commend their ex.
ample i'll this regard as one to be emulated
LEONARD B. HODGES.
P. S.-Will the Pioneer Press do me thu
justice to say | sent them the telegram
from Morris in response to Mr.. Wheelock':
message asking me for it. L. B.H.