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Show VINEYARDS IN PORTUGAL. Grape Growers In Bad Wny Over In- ability to Dispone of Stored Up Crops. - Tho distress -among tho agricultural laborers Is taxing, In ninny parts of Cortugal, tho resources of the local uitlioiitles, especially in iho wine districts dis-tricts of the north, where the crisis r.rems to be most acute. So keen appears ap-pears to be tho dlst.-css that the subject sub-ject hns been mid before tno parliament, parlia-ment, Accomlng to tho local press In these districts, whose products in prosperous times art n chief source of tho country's coun-try's wealth, many ot the vineyard owners have In their cellars the harvests har-vests of two years' grape growth which they are uuablo to sell, except at o huge sacrifice, and not being o,b!e to obltln the cnoh on-which they counted count-ed for help from bankers and others to tldo over bad times, they have re-soiled re-soiled this year to discontinue In many vineyards tho honing and other lndipenablo Inbor. This has led to non-employment of i)"ie thousands of hands who could ot erwlse have coented upon employmen'. Hunger and misery, It Is snid, ore Ecen everywhere, and the poor starv-Imr starv-Imr wretches aro spreading themselves over the country, to the detriment of othfTB of the working cla-w whoso lot la but little better, and resorting to pilfering nnd begging to satisfy their iiMds. Instances ore Bnid by the press to havo occurred where sorno men who were considered well to dc yeomen have solved for themselves the question ques-tion of financial dlUlctiKiiM by resorting resort-ing to suicide. Some few years ago n regular fever of vineyard making spi 'd over the porlhorn hnlf of the corry and over production has been tho result, which wiser Portuguese heads foresaw and avoided, but their warnings were not heeded. |