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Show BARBAROUS CHARITY. The Alliance, Stark tounly, Ohio, Monitor, tells the following disgraceful tale, the scene of which was Mount Lnion village. Some mean persons took it into their heads that; a Mrs. Benton and her sis children must go to the poor-house at Canton, and having hav-ing made township trustees believe .it necessary, the latter came with a- hack to take them there. She protested, claiming that she was sufficiently comfortable, com-fortable, and while health remained could and was determined to keep her children together. Two of the children chil-dren ran off and couid not be found till evening. The other four, including includ-ing a baby fifteen months old, . were torn ruthlessly from her arms and put in the hack, amid the screams and most piteous cries of the family, -the weeping of sympathetic friends, a.nd the fiendish jeers of a heartless wretch, who had stationed himself at an objerv-' ing standpoint. The hack started, j the broken-hearted mother clinging to j the step and being dragged throu?! the streets, screaming alfthe while iir help, but no one knowing her she was ! considered demented, and nothing was done till the children were on the train. Father Lindesmith,' ever on the alert for some good work, found the helpless woman and took her to his home, dispatched to her husband in Y'ork, and wrote to Canton to have the children detained, kept together, and cared for till further orders. Mrs. B. was taken sick by the agonies of that day, and has been under medical treatment ever since. The good people of Mount Union are very attentive. They had not suspected that she was needy. She had never been troublesome, trouble-some, but seemed a woman of noble spirit, always willing and able to pay for everything she got. Upon, examination exami-nation they found a good supply of flour, bread, meat, coal and money in the house, besides one good suit for each of the children, and a new rag carpet ready for the floor, and $11 worth of new goods to make up. It is true they were poorly clad at the time, but they were in a warm room, and she was in her washing habiliments, being just ready to commence her day's work in good cheer. |