Show DARK AND ireland strongly reminded of the days of 47 crops have been destroyed by bucht or washed away by floods and the irish farmer Is face to with starvation unhappy ireland now york sept 8 A dispatch to the world from london bays A panic is spreading throns bout ireland over the terrible condition due to the apparently complete failure of the harvest from marieh priests from counties clare Cork Kerry tippe ary antrim armagh cavan derry donegal Done eal down fer MonoR haa and tyrone all tell the same piteous story ot ruined crops destitution and famine blight baa everywhere wholly or mainly destroyed pota while oats which is the next most essential crop to an crib farmer have been battered down by incessant raina and practically destroyed st from Con county galway cornea this heartrending heart rending tale the late lone run ot carh weather leaves ec arcely a vestice ot hope to the poor the crops are virtually ruined it ie common ob er valion around clifton that it is an all days work for a man to dig one meal of potatoes tor hie family and even then abey can scarcely be eaten from mallow county cork situated in the rich streak of land known as golden vein the report ie the oat crop which is the main dependence pen dence of a vast majority of the farmers ia entirely unfit for marketing purposes the crop is now reduced to a condition that ia lit only for the manure heap the potato crop is counted hito sethera failure A dispatch from westmeath meath bays incessant rains for tue past month have completely destroyed crop of every description what were a month a go smiling cheerful looking fields are today blighted and ruined the potato crop is bad even to rottenness oats and kindred crops are in such a wrecked way that no yield can be expected from them from marlborough maryborough Mary borough queens conaty a correspondent says I 1 in this county there is general unanimity of opinion that since the famine year of 1817 the prospect for the agricultural people was never as bad aa today thia description does not refer to any particular part but to every in the country the crop that has suffered most Is the potato of which there will be practically none next to potatoes oats are in a very bad condition A correspondent at says the ground where potatoes have been planted in drills resembles a bit of barren waste that had been lying over or some time with the intention of beine plowed in the autumn flax ie almost an unknown quantity during the week enormous floods have been sweeping the country tone of hy have been carried away by inundations A castle bar telegram bays torrents of rain have prevailed here during the pad three daye continuously and the country ie in a most deplorable condition Kett forts can be made to save several crops lorn awine to the delbee of rain day after day the farmers are ruined blight ia making rapid inroads on the potato crop in consequence of the incessant heavy rains reports from all quarters confirm the belief that a famine will result this winter A waterford Water tord correspondent bays it ie no exaggeration to say that prospects or harjeet were hardly ever darker or sadder than at present in several parts of the country corn now a month old is still on account of the rain very little new grain has been marketed maik eted yet and buyers expect great difficulty in oate fit for breeding breed inz purposes prom all parts come back accounts acco unta of the potato crop bricea of cattle have fallen |