Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — The Chinese Famine. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Famine.

It is estimated that in the faminestricken districts of China the population has been reduced over 5,000,000 by actual starvation, and the prospect continues as gloomy as at the beginning. An idea of the isolation and suffering may be gathered from the official report of Gov. Honan to the Pekin Gazette, in which he says: "In the oarlicr period of distress the living fed upon the bodies of the dead; next the strong devoured the weak, aud now the general destitution has arrived at such a climax that men devonr those of their own flesh and blood. History contains no record of so terrible and distressing a state of things, and if prompt measures of relief be not instituted the whole region mnst become depopulated. Local sources of supply are entirely exhausted; the granaries are empty and the treasury drained dry, while the few wealthy people in the provinces have helped with contributions and loans till they themselves are impoverished.” The Reformer and Jewish Times thinks that the example of emigration to America set by the Russian Mennonits might be profitably followed by the Russian and Has tern Je-ws, aqd proposes a new Judea in the far West,