| Show I I A FAMINE JN IN IRELAND I y H New York Yolk Sept 6 A A dispatch to the World from London Says The Worlds World's special inquiries throughout through through- out ont Ireland lull dully lully ate thi th alarm alarm- in ing predictions cabled S of the harvest and n It cons cons' c quest quent impending fam p. p Cries of lif warning to the Government are rising in a crescendo cre cre- cendo scale from hom all parts of cf Ireland They are not confined as in former years rears of distress to the congested districts en the western seaboard one of the most inland districts reports the loss will be irre irretrievable Ie to to the farmers 1 The he churches yesterday offered prayers for fine wether and if a change does not come immediately the crops might as well be left to manure the ground From County Waxford not noted d as one of the richest tn to the country the tidings are arc The green crop may be described as a gigantic failure in County Waxford Wax this year The greater part of the potato pota pota- to crop is only fit for or cattle caule From a correspondent telegraphs At a meeting held here heie to ask for fora a reduction in rents the parish priest presiding declared that not since Black 1847 has the pro prospect for farmers in this district been as bad In several places the potatoes have been a failure Hundreds o of tons of hay have been ruined by the heavy rains and floods From Carlow known as the model county comes the following There is before our farmers an out look as disastrous as it is possible to conceive owing to the frightful weather A great deal o of the corn cut early remains in the stalks injured beyond recovery Inmany In Inmany Inmany many districts the the farmers have been unable to cut their crops which present the saddening spectacle ol of havin having been leveled to the earth by iby the persistent rains while a mass amass of second growth and weeds has come up The apprehensions apprehensions apprehensions concerning potatoes also have been dismally realized At a meeting of the Board of Guardians Guardians Guardians Guard Guard- ians at Mitchellstown I County Cork the chairman said The potato crop is generally a failure while the other crops have been hopelessly injured by the unparalleled unparalleled unparalleled un un- paralleled inclemency ot of the season We lie are on ou the verge of ofa a great agricultural agricultural tural crisis The outlook in farming arming affairs is gloomy in the extreme and to aggravate the condition ol of affairs afi irs caused by the failure of the potato crop th the e prices of provisions are considerably increased increased in in- creased and before long the people who wh o are supposed to contribute to the poor poo r rales rates will be in the poor house yes ves c These evidences of the widespread character o of the ruin wrought by the in inclement inclement in- in iii- iii clement season are merel merely samples o ol 01 numerous reports received The Irish Iris h Government has adopt adopted d no measure a as s yetto etto tope cope with wita the threatened famine |
