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Show Cashhers, wuese the famine is prevailing with auch terrible eflect, is one of the northern Indian staus, having an area of 79,704 Equare miles acd a population of 1,600, WO. It U indirectly under British rule, the Maharajah being required to lurnish a contingent of troop; when calUd upon by the viceroy of It;d:a. Tne cholera is a!o prevailing in the state, as well as throughout Northern India' generally, cd the euflericg ia very! g:eat. The Indian government has' organized relief meaeure?, as it did! in Bombay and Madras, a ftw year! ago, when itO.OCO.COO wm exendtdj on puhiic improvements; yet the death rite ia something terrible to j contemplate, and despite all eG)rts lo check it, muit continue very lrj until the harvest of next acuoa. |