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John Y. McKane, a Remarkable Productof Politics.JOHN Y. MaKANE.The lt;loath of John Y. MoKane removes ono of the most remarkable polit-broad fruit and avocate tree*, upon which tbo native? depend to a great extent for subsistence, have been swept bare or broken down. Only the most sheltered banaua groves are left standing. The coffee crop is wholly ruined, and all hut the smallest of the trees have been destroyed. A coffee plant takes live years to ina-turo. The halt ripe orange crop is ?u the ground. A few cano fields escaped, but with the factories vnolished these are only valuable forfodder.The wholesale, indiscriminate distribution of food is being stopped, else the wholo population would become pauperized. Iu all centres I visited rations are now being distributed to the old and infirm and to young children. To all ablo-bodiod adults is offered work. At first this course of action caused some complaint, but now the plan is beginning to work well, and the poor are all the more independent, and better contented for it.The first care of the military authorities has naturally been for the troops. Is* Ponoo the S*0()lt;) granted by General Davis to the commander lias been spent in cleaning up in and around the quarters. At oveiy country station the troops are living under canvas. In most cases the barracks have beau blown down. At Aibonito not one wall of the whole barracks is loft standing. The soldiers lost everything they had, and those in the hospital had a narrow escape with thoi** lives.. The barracks collapsed during the
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Vienna Progress
Vienna, Georgia, US
Thu, Sep 28, 1899
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