The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
FAMINE P.o1UREs IN RUSSIA.
Desperate Condition of Millions OF the
Subjects OF the Gear.
From ha landau GIohs


Subjects OF the Gear.
From the London Globe.
The latest news received from the interior
OF Russia are very alarming. The August
frosts have completely destroyed the barley
crops, which constitute the staple food in
Archangel, and in the extreme north the
rains have annihilated the crops. In Nov
gorod even potatoes are dearer than apples,
and no fodder can be obtained for cattle.
Horses are offered for sale at 2 or 3shillings,
and colts fer pennies per head. The stra W
In the thatched roofs of houses is being
utilized for fodder. Cattle are dying in
numbers on the roadsides. The gov
ernment regulations, made with a
view to assisting peasants. are produc-
ing moro harm than good. Complete
confusion prevails in consequence OF the va
rlous ministers contradictiDg orders issued.
The authorities are beginning to refuse ma
terial aid to peasants, and even declining to
supply them with seed corn, hence immense
trac It's OF land are lying in state OF waste,
and fears are entertained that a scarcity of
corn wall be felt next year. Again, the cat
Tie plague has broken OUT in several places,
and in the Soogor vsky district peasants at
tackled the veterinary surgeons who intended
TO destroy infected cattle. skirmish has
taken Mace. and several persons were
wounded. the clergy are suffering terrible
hardships, and in some parts they are join
ing the army Of beggars. No work 10 to be
had even on the Volga, Everything is in a
state of stagnstion. The famine is expected
to reach its acme in November. Even now
the peasants are indignant at the attitude
taken up by the government and the appar-
ent indifference of the car, who has not yet
contributed TO relieve their wants From
the several districts Of Saratoff, Samara, and
Vyaika resolutions Of the peasants have
been received by the ministry, in which the
peasants declare that IL tee car will not
support them now in their need they must
take the law into their own hands. They
add that they bave supported the czar and
bis 'tshinovks" in luxury long enough. The
minister hesitates to make represen tations
to the car or advise him 70 relieve the
wants of the people out of his private purse.
Other kilograms announce that partial ris-
legs are taking place in the governments
OF Yekaterinoslaw, Nijni-Novgorod and
Kazan.
AS rule the peasants are tho most
peaceabe disposed beings In the world, says
the st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Soudan Telegraph. Fataism reconciles
them TO destiny to which civilized man
would infinitely prefer death. Nothing
less than the tansalizing sight Of the re-
movai from before their eyes Of the corn
which they raised In the sweat of their
sunburned brows can inspire them with the
needful courage to fall back upon the laws
of nature and infringe the regulations of
men. Pity for those dear to them occa-
sionally induces husband to murder his
wife, or a mother to put her children
out of pain, and they often prefer sui
eide itself to lawlessness and violence. 1t
will never be known how many -begone
subjects OF the cZar-men, " omen and chill
dren-have thus waved their hands" at
terrestrial existence and departed for what
they hoped to be better land. Suicide has
become SO rife since the famine began that
che journals have drawn attention TO il, but
the data are incomplete, for the motives are
In most cases suppressed and the fact itself
In many. The authorities, continues the
correspondent. are not wholly idle or in
different, for their OVID interests, as
well as the lives OF millions of
subjects, are at stake. They began by
making fatal blunder, deny ing the symp-
toms at stage when the disease might vet
have been prevented. cured or relieved II
is now too late for anything but radical
methods and the Russian government deals
only In half measures. They have dissrib.
uted mites where millions were wanted. In
the SookoyanoR district 200, 900 rubles were
doled out, quickly transformed into corr, and
eaten up, and forgotten, and the population
Is now worse of than before. 1t is as if the