Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-24
DYING Or WANT.
Starvation Actually Begun in
Southern Russia.
Children Offered for Sale in Order
to Procure Food.
Constantinople Dealers Secure
a Number of Girls.
EXTRAORDINARY LARGE-HEARTED-
NESS OF THE CzAR.
STARVING PEASANTS ALLOWED TO
GATHER WILD FRUITS

STARVING PEASANTS ALLOWED TO
GATHER WILD FRUITS
In the Forests and Woods of His Imperial
Majesty, and Pasture Their FIOcks on
the Crown Lands-The Finances of Rus
sia Also Foels the Effect of the Famine.
The Government Thoroughly Aroused.
Where Grain is Furnished the People
are Hardly Able to Go and Get It-AlI
Glasses Affected, Even Noblemen.
LONDON, Aug. 24.-The stories of
misery received from Russia are almost
Incredible.
Children Sold.
In Bessarabia parents are actually
offering their children for sale in order
to buy food, and dealers at Constantine
pie, hearing of this, have purchased
through agents in the Russian villages
considerable number of female children.
Many Deaths.
Many deaths have been caused
through famine and families may be
found actually perishing from hunger,
and huddling together in their misery.
So Kind of Them.
The stewards of crown lands and
forests have been instructed to allow
the peasantry to enjoy free pasture and
freely to gather mushrooms, which are
largely consumed among the lower
classes of Russians, and to gather wild
fruits i'll the forests and woods of the
state. This, however, does not answer
the demand for substantial food.
Finances Feel 1t.
The famine cripples also the finances
of Russia, and it is believed that for this
reason there will be no war for many
months
Short Tax Collections.
The collection of state and local taxes
in at least twenty provinces will fall
considerably behind the usual amount.
Besides, large sums are required to pre-
vent whole populations from perishing
from starvation.
The Government Exerting Itself
The government authorities, being
now aroused, are exerting themselves
with energy, and the distribution of re-
lief is going on as rapidly as possible.
Marinpol, in the province of Yekaterino-
slav, on Tuesday last, the people were
so weak with want they were hardly
able to come and get their portions.
They gathered near the place of distri-
button, presenting a pitiful spectacle
with their wan faces and wasted forms.
A force of police was present to preserve
order, but instead the police had, in sew
eral instances, to keep the applicants
from falling through sheer hunger and
weakness.
All Glasses Affected.
Nor is the misery confined to the low
est class Among thS applicants at
Marinpol were noblemen and trades
men, the latter ruined in business
through the loss of custom on account
of famine, and the former deprived of
the margin between their debts and
their income on which they had de-
pended.
Came None Too Soon.
The prohibition of the export of rye
was none too soon, if the more frightful
results were to be averted,
THE GRAIN CROP OF GERMANY.
Report of n Baltimore Flour Merchant,
Who Studied the Conditions There.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24,-Mr, F. W. !
Lahusen, member of the firm of Tate,
Hinrichs & Company, flour and grain
commission merchants, returned to Bal |
timore a few days ago on the North |
German Lloyd steamer Stuttgart. Mr. |
Lahusen has been absent since April, |
spending most of his time in Germany |
in the interest of his firm. While away
he made a close study of the condition |
of the grain markets abroad, and per-
sonally examined much of the growing |
grain in Germany. He brings back |
much interesting information, based on
personal observation and investigation, |
of the causes Of the present high price |
of cereals on the other side. As MIR. |
Lahusen's time was spent chiefly In
Germany, and as rye is the leading |
cereal of consumption in that country, |
his investigations were mainly toward |
ascertaining the future value and condi- |
ton of the export trade in this product.
He said:
"The markets of Germany in bread |
stuffs generally are strong and healthy. |
There is no speculative feeling, and the |
values of the products are based entirely |
upon the immediate wants of the people. |
There are several causes that have |
brought about this state of affairs. The |
unprecedented rise in rye in the German |
market during June and July induced |
the farmers and others, who generally |
hold on TO a portion of the previous |
crop, to sell out all they had with the |
expectation of being able to buy it back |
at lower figures when it was needed. |
This is most unusual thing for Ger |
man farmers to do. They are, as a rule, |
cautious and careful in this regard, and, |
even with the prospect of abundant !
crops will not sell out their visible sup !
ply at any time.
''The high price offered this year WIS
too much of n temptation for them, and |
they sold all they had. The rye crop of /
Germany this year is the poorest that /
has been known for years. For many /.
weeks the growing grain was under /
water on account of the excessive rains, |
and when the harvest comes not more /
than a third of a crop will be gathered. 4
Not only is this so, but the same rams .
that affected rye also affected the grow /
ing potatoes. and there will be a consid- .
erable shortage in that crop. This stSse /
OF affairs caused an immediate want of .
breadstuffs The reports that came from /
the other side are not made for the pur l
nose Of affecting the market, but be |