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iiidi an ;ine toTHE NEBRASKA SUFFERERS.The Cincinnati papers of the 28th inst.rNS* contain the following appeal which ex-ick, plains itself. The Enquirer introduces ;ure the subject by saying: Gen. James S. rind Brisbin, of the United States army, ar-, rived in our city last night. He comes ea at the instance of the governor and lead-ted iDg citizens of the State of Nebraska to mst ask aid of our people for the 10,000 un-no fortunate men, women and children who, through the drought and grasshopper ;ere plague of last summer, have been rerate cluced to want. General Brisbin has r ,on placed in our hands the following appeal, lich which we trust will not fall unheeded.“To the People of Cincinnati:‘‘There are 10,000 people in the western part of the State of Nebraska who are reduced to the verge of starvation. Nebraska unsually so prolific, has this \ year met with a sad mishap in the loss 1 ii by grasshoppers and drought of all the ve crops grcwn in Dundy, Hitchcock, Gosper, Boon, Furnas, Phelps, Greeley,A Howard, Sherman, and nearly all in Vf' Franklin, Buffalo, Hall, Merrick, Ante-ier lope and Butler counties. I lately trav-?ry eled over the devasted region and found in£ the inhabitants in a most deplorable con-\ a dition. Fully one-third had no shoes, ie and were clothed in rags. There were . e no potatoes, no corn, and but a little b shriveled wheat. Many families were . living on small pieces of black bread, parched wheat or watermelons and squashes. There was not over a ten day’s snpply in any of the counties I visited. Three counties were without meat, and most of the inhabitants had ® not tasted animal food for six weeks. Unless we feed these people they will ^ die of starvation. The State of Nebras- il2 ka is doing all it can, and although rich m in soil it is too young and too poor, financially, to carry all the destitute people through the winter. There are 10,000 ?n in want, and at four dollars per head a ^lisere,vasers u a the ;er-igsd)rolv•.*atnIJtIS't'\ca0tlPVtlf(t(hiiCC(O'tl0136rlt;P:aitlP]blt;diw0*3a*-ien'ayay-lises,Lerlidinemg?h-ngndid,meliewindimonth, a low estimate, it will require Idot he 41§40,000 every thirty days to feed clothe and warm these poor people. They will B have to be carried seven months andgiven seed to plant. The task is a great re one, but I believe the generosity of the 5* people is equal to it, and that theyj will B not permit any one to suffer, much less w die, of starvation. The sufferers are our nc frontiersmen, 'YTHE PIONEERS OF THE WEST,and we are all equally interested in the settlement and development of that great fr country. Generous people of Cincinna-ti, the facts are before you; what will rj you do in this matter ? The case is ur-nk gent aD(J I Pray y°u do quickly what you do at all. These people of the west should not be permitted to starve or be I g driven from their beautiful and fertile 0f )re homes for the want of bread. I hope ge , some steps will immediately be taken by t 3 your rich city for the relief of the suffer- tjers. James S. Brisbin, U. S. A.” wM.v)nl THE FAMINE IN NEBRASKA.Death from starvation,—for the actual want of food,—within eighteen houra’ tra vel of Chicago, and in the heart ofFill grain-growing region of the country | J \ is something thatfshould attract the at-ie tention of the public. Gen. Ord, com-manding the Department of the Platte, I \ . and who is personally cognizant of the j |]e facts, addressed the Board of Trade yesterday, telling in plain and direct terms the sad story of the destitution in pcl I Western Nebraska caused by the rav-*^s ages of the grasshoppers. From the re-Fk- Porfs of his officers on the ground and I ^ among the people he has reliable infor-je' mation as to the actual condition of af-jj_ fairs. He states that several cases of ' actual death of children have already taken place. Fathers have been com-ie pelled to abandon their families and seek work and food. In one house the corpse of a child was found that had perished for want of food, and near it the mother prostrate and dying from the , same cause. He states that in Boone, Greeley, Sherman, Howard, Buffalo, and all the other counties 50 miles west of the Missouri River, two-thirds of the ^ people are destitute of all the necessaries ^ of life. They have neither clothing nor shoes; and food is impossible to get,3 The people want in the first place re flour, meal, pork or bacon for food; theyab
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Sullivan Democrat
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 03, 1873
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