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From tHe "NortH-Cuiwa Darcy News, or Marci '31, 1878
From Shantung:—I don't know that I can add much to the information already given, in regard to the distress here. It is increasing daily. No rain has yet fallen, and the ground is dry as a bone. I hear that in some places the distracted mothers, unable to carry their children further and almost maddened by their distressing cries for food, are burying them alive, to stop their moaning and end their miseries. The degree of suffering and distress to which multitudes of this people are reduced, is horrible beyond description. On my way home, I met cart loads of good doors, worth from 3,000 to 6,000 cash a pair, and which had been purchased for 150 to 400 cash; also chairs and other furniture, which had been bought by speculators who were taking them south to Chinanfu and other places, for sale. Only think of good house timbers having to be split up for fuel, to find any sale at all, and then bringing only 2 cash a catty, or 3 cash for two cetiies. I could give many incidents, setting forth or illustrating the dire distress. Many villages present the same appearance as if a rebel horde had devasted them,
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