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War, Famine, And Pestilence In Persia

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Day
6
Month
October
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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LOXDO.V, Oct. ■'!. Mr. Savil Dickinson writes trom Tuheran, in September, giving an account i tho conidtion ot' nfï -iirs in fcho ftimineatrickoa province of Schorassnn. He ye thiit daring tho month of July 8,000 persona perished ín tho City of JÍeschid, and thatiorty thousand inbabitanta of thi province have n:vu oarriod into slavurj by tho Afghans, w"ho had taken advantage of thn general düorganization to mitkc iucm-sions f. r plunder. Tho bakors 'domamicil snoli exorbitant pcioes for bread that the authorities had to intervene, and a numbor of' est rtion :' have been executed. Dickinson saya the country is 1 by insnrrection . Tho pc'stilonct still fagoSi and ÍN horrors are ïncreased by deatruotive iuundation, y( notwith8tandlng the fearful situation of the country and people the Persian Government h'is refused to avail itself of the aiil proffered bythe Gtovernm ats of Rusda and üreat Britain.

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