Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1871 — Famine in Persia. [ARTICLE]

Famine in Persia.

The urcuili of lust year has produced a terrible famine in Persia, the horrors, of which are fearfully increasing. The people are dying of hunger in the streets of the capital. Parents are selling their children as slaves to keep them alive; rnd in seine parts of the country it is Said that men have been seired in the act of digging up corpses to serve as food for their starvingfaniilier. Thousands are dying of starvation," <r of starvation coupled with the diseases it invariably brings in its train. f ' Comes now the Francesville loea! Topic,\ a youthful and pretty little paper—spicy, sensible,' and enterprising—and files complaint “that the Union is not doing as much for tl.e New York Western railroad as it could and should do;” th at “its articles thereon are generally weak and vßgue;” that “oily dog-fish political fustian is poured out” through its columns arduously and weekly; that “it is too stale, too unprofitable, and too nonsensical;” and it wants to know, you know, “Do you fear the loss of subscribers, or what?” To all which we most emphatically answer, Or what—principally. Was your grandmother a Darwinian? The Plymouth Democrat says that “the contractors of the Plymouth, Kankakeo & Pacific railroad expect to place a eteam excavator on their work in a abort time, and then propcue to msia things,rather lively.”