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Bulgarians Starving To Death

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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The correspondent, of the London News writos as follows of the atrocities at Klissura: " But the dead are less to be pitied than tho living. Tlwy have been reduced froni oase and cotafort to the condition of wild animáis - without a home, without shelter, without bedding, almost without clothing, and living on-what food they eau piek up froro day to day. There aro women here who have known comfort, who are weak nd ill, and who have three and four little mouths to feed. They go out in the flelds, reap enough wheat for the day 's food, painftilly thrash it out with thoir liands, pouud it into flour between two stones, and bake it into bread for their little ones day by day; and sleep, like the foxes in the corner of a ruined wal!, on a little straw at night. There are little children here, haggard and thin and sickly, sleeping almost on the bare ground, and when it rains, on the wet ground. Nobody who has not seen it can imagine tho misery eaused by the burning of a village. The most systematic and consoientious pillage is a mere trifle as comparad to it. The people in the case of pillage still have a roof over them; they still have their hearths aud thoir fireplaces ; they still have tbèiï homes, in short, though stripped and denuded. Af ter every thing valuable has been taken, there remains in every housohold a mass of objects ttiat are not worth carrying away - bedding, clothing, furniture, cooking utensils, even food, among which the family will ñnd enough to replace, however poorly, whatever has been taken, enough for the first necessities of civilized life. But if, after pillage, the match is applieil, these hornea are annihilated; these poor wc vaont objects - the cast-eff clotnicg, the ragged bedding, the broken cooking Titensils, which are so worthless and yet so precious, are all consumed, and the people are reduced to the conditiou oí' wild animáis.

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Old News
Michigan Argus