, 1880-02-16
IRELAND.
Tales Of Sorrow and Suffering
from the West.
Several Authenticated Oases Of Starvation
-Pnying for Bread.

ce9AaI AutuuAtlGAteu VaaeH VI okalVatl0u
Praying for Bread.
Tic special correspondent OF tho London
Dailn Telegraph, writing from Mallow on
the 24th Of Janlinry, gives tho following
grnphtc pictures OF tho distress there pre-
Willing. 1le says: 1.-THE 1ittIe Kerry town Is,
III tic dismal matter Of hunger and starva-
ton, n fairly representative placc. It might
stand for scores and utmost hundreds of
others nlonG tho western shores Of the island,
nll Ut tttom lying 80 far ont Of tic highway of
ordinary life ns 10 be weltnigll out of ken;
NIL of them entirely destitute nj resources in
the presence Of m emergency like TINT, even
the memory Of which weighs me down with
its exceeding gravity, and all OF them
incapable OF making their waits properly
known through the 1nazo Of conflicting inter
ests TINT surrounds them. Intn very sorryto
say 1t, but this last matter Is not lrss In,-
portant than lamcntable. Many touching
story could be told here, II spacc avnilcd,
concerning the remittance Of tic poor farm
ers atd artisans to make their wnllts known.
But perhaps those by whom I have beet,
carefully followed through tho country re-
member tho respectable tenant Mt Skrccn,
who, with pain md only at the command Of
his priest, ndlnltted that he was l1v-
ing OH Indian meal. payment for which
Ind been g.taranteedf by Father Con-
way. They n,ny also recotlect the pnor fel-
~ ~" ,,s.,, Wv ,,t "nos9 cMn Was plct!o
trf.ct fronl him tat the Inst potato llatl been
cptei!. Nor will the cnse of tho decent mt
cllnnic at Cahirctvcen he forgotten In coll
,mnthnr tnt ts ho nasioin, iar
o.ncl ~, tns IT,. Wy a5sS;lco ,;. EiVeh Her nashI
enses 80 III many otileIs. atll therei9re mn
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rsa 4ows 9o & the e sonlltGn , n Of t,!e G"ple @ an!
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satne e2rrespondcnt, "1efore good news
came with the Journals Of the day previous,
n'Nl It was M ny n,easant Pc task to inform Canon
BF0snan TINT tho government hntt deter
ne 'n [dos to adyanea 1s money SF fxpsS5ie M nSi
with WHICH the worthy, priest received the
Information: IT. seemed to remove 2 ponder
lily Fly WIFI VIII wic Will H ie s0if a lis u coileases i!s @
proceeded to action In tho matter showed
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