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Orleans Independent Standard
Irasburg, Barton, Orleans County, Vermont
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Severe famine ravages India's Northwest Provinces and Travancore due to drought, causing hundreds of daily deaths and desperate acts like mothers selling children for 6d. to buy bread. Relief efforts by government and public have collected significant funds in Bombay and Calcutta; recent rains may save spring crops.
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"The famine is great in the land. Horrible accounts reach us from the Northwest Provinces, of human beings dying at the rate of four or five hundred a day; while the desolation is not even limited to the vast expanse of country from Lucknow to Lahore; for tales are now told equally appalling of the extremities to which the population of the native State of Travancore, in the south of India, are reduced by the drought, which has caused all the fruits of the earth to wither. According to a Cochin newspaper, mothers in Travancore are selling their children as slaves for 6d. each, that they may have the wherewith to purchase bread, if only for a single day. While so many millions of the people of India are thus afflicted, it is at least a consolation to know that both the government and the public have exerted themselves with liberality and promptitude to lessen the weight of this terrible calamity. In Bombay alone from 70,000 to 80,000 rupees have already been collected; and Calcutta and other great cities have also responded nobly to the appeal of the Famine Relief Committee. In the Northwest, the showers of rain that have lately refreshed the earth have it is hoped, saved the spring crop; and, bad as our situation is, the worst, we believe, is already known."
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human beings dying at the rate of four or five hundred a day in northwest provinces; mothers selling children as slaves for 6d. each in travancore; relief collections of 70,000 to 80,000 rupees in bombay; recent rains hoped to save spring crop.
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Horrible accounts from Northwest Provinces of deaths at four or five hundred a day, desolation from Lucknow to Lahore; in Travancore, drought has withered fruits of the earth, leading to population extremities including selling children for bread; government and public exertions to lessen calamity with collections in Bombay, Calcutta, and other cities via Famine Relief Committee; recent showers in Northwest hoped to save spring crop.