Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-23
DUE TO OUR NEW TARIFF AAW.
A Greater Part OF the Suffering of the
Poor of England.

A Greater Part of the Suffering of the
Poor of England.
LONDON, Jan, e3.-Appalling accounts
of destitution continue in the east dis
trict of Wolverhanpton; the charity
officer reports that they are in state of
starvation; that in some instances it is
actually dangerous to administer food,
owing to the peril attendant upon raven
Gus hunger when food is first offered
A clergyman says it is impossible to de-
scribe the misery that prevails Homes
are without fire; the rooms without
furniture; the women have only single
garment covering them, and the chill
dren are almost as bad.
Wolverhampton, featuring city of
about 10000 inhabitants is the capital of
"the Black Country of England in Stat
fordshile, AT night the whole country
about. especially to the west, is lurid
with the flames from 900 furnace chin
neys The air is sooty, the country is
covered with slack and cinder. Locks
are Wolverhampton's speciality, as knives
are of Sheffield or lace of Nottingham on
cotton goods Manchester The other
large factures are tinplate-knocked out
by the McKinley-and Japan goods
This destitution and suffering In En-
gland is worse for Lord Salisbury's gov
ernment than the Parnell quarrel is for
the Gladetonians
A good deal of misery in Birmingham
and other places is due to work being
cut off by the new American tariff, In
London the verdict Of death from star
walton is returned in numerous years.
Some laborers who applied to a magis-
trate fer relief said they had sold even
their boots for bread, In many cases
there has not been more terrible win
ter for the poor. And yet London is full
of charitable societies There seems to
be room for Gen Booths Darkest
England" plan of relief.
British Views of the Negro Question.
The Times in an editorial on the sub
ject Of negro emigration from America,
asks whether the prosecution of a race
war be cheaper than the furtherance of
negro exodus. 1t says: The emigra-
ton proposal is sure to offend many,
both in America and England, but the
criticism may fairly be called to describe
this alternative settlement as equally
permanent and honorable. 1t is an ex-
treme measure, only to be justified by
serious condition of affairs. but such, in
the opinion of careful observer, who
has long been there, is the condition of
the southern states, The gloomiest pre-
dictions as to the reconstruction policy
of the Republicans have been fulfilled,
and it is especially their duty to bestir
themselves and endeayor to put and end
to the chronic disorder an peril"
Tho Plan of Campaign Fails.
Many of the evicted Irish tenants who
have surrendered to their landlords had
been without the remittance from the
National league for three months. To
some of them Mr.. William OBrien had
written that checks would arrive; but
the checks never came The landlords
are treating the tenants with some gen
erosity. In several instances in Upper
ary tenants had abandoned valuable
properties where they paid only nom
inal ground rent the improvements hav-
ing been made by them One tenant,
for instance, paid an annual ground rent
of goo pounds and had erected a build
ing at cost Of $4,000 All have been
allowed to re-occupy on payment of the
old rent and in some cases of much less.
The agrarian aspect of the league agita-
tiOn seems to be out of sight
Earthquake Shocks in Austria.
Several severe earthquake shocks were
felt Wednesday at Pressburg and Lintz,
in Austria on the Danube. The shocks
caused much alarm among the popufa-
tions of those towns Windows ratified,
pictures fell from the walls, and cracks
opened in the walls of n number Of
the old houses