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Show DISTJtKSS IN RUSSIA. Crop! Spoiled by It.iln anl Calllo Iljlog by the illmlrsAlt on Ihe Moadtlilta. CLCnOVMCN, SAID TO HAVE BECOME BE-COME oEoaanti. Momrn Selling Thcmieltn In Order lo r-apporl llielr tlillJmi. The Itniluo Increasing, I'r Tslerrsi b 10 the Nasrs.1 A ntiiK 1 iirinr. Tlienistrrsslnlliissla Ilrserlbed bra I reespeuJeul. Ieuitwv, He 1. 13. The Tiltffra)Jt'i Kt. retenlAirg currcejn7ndent rwys Il stilus fruni tho Interior aro Very alarming. Tlio August frusta ikttinyeil thu barliy rroj, the staple fivd In Archangel, In the extreme north Ibo rrops bavo Irt-n spulleit 1 y rain, htraw Irom Hie lliltched roofs Is utlllted for fodder. Cattlu aro dying 1 y tho wholesale on tin- roadsldus. 1 lie various ministers have Issued ronilKtlii.- orders, resulting result-ing In utter chaos. The grants nt Mud corn liavei U-cu atoned, lmmeiisu tracts nr land are lying waste ami a scarcity or corn Is threatened lu IW.'. The tiltlu plagu hat I roken out In mtny 1 laces, the watinlt In Ho Rowiky atrackrd me veterinary surgeons, who had been tint to destroy thn Infected csttle, and tovtrat were wounded In the skirmish. Cliri-vmeu arn becoming beggars. Woniiu aru selllug theiuselvre to mip-jit their children. No work tail lo I rvcureit by starving iemous, oven on Iho olga. The sharia of tlio Htoam Navigation corutAny have fallen heavily, Thu newUnwIllonly tiatlropluthootcan. A large laid-git laid-git deficit lu certain, and to makotoat-lots makotoat-lots worse, the inllllou loads ot ryu prouiltvl bylhn governor or another nilgliOorlhgprovtntsr, ami on which the ministry had railed, do not exist. This dlscoviry lias lauswd consternation. consterna-tion. rburam!uelsixt,iec(od to reach Its acme In November The peasants threaten revolution unless the ( tar gives them rvllerirom private sources. I'artlal risings aru alrrady rcporUd. AUAIISIUN. HiKiiy, H(. IH.-llie J oil aiyi: "The Isit that llusslau nowsiaam aro devoid or news About thu fainlne lta bad sign. Tlio Intensity ortho dlstresi msy l Judged from Ihu rait that In mmy pliers thu olenieulary schools havo leteti closed on accouul ot n lack or ru uds." |