Boone County Recorder . American I»a» the lower Rio Grande the trampnuisance has assumed a form still un-known to the upper latitudes of our na-tional territory. Visitors to Matamorasand Urownsville come across bivouacswhich at first glance might be mistakenfor laborer-camps, but which on closerinspection turn out to be ghettos of thegenuine Neapolitan variety—mud-brickand rag-tent encampments of beggars,lepers and loafers. *8tark naked chil-dren and famished dogs—mangy to thedegree of permanent hairlessness—canbe seen competing for scraps of animalrefuse or crawling out of primitive d
Boone County Recorder . American I»a» the lower Rio Grande the trampnuisance has assumed a form still un-known to the upper latitudes of our na-tional territory. Visitors to Matamorasand Urownsville come across bivouacswhich at first glance might be mistakenfor laborer-camps, but which on closerinspection turn out to be ghettos of thegenuine Neapolitan variety—mud-brickand rag-tent encampments of beggars,lepers and loafers. *8tark naked chil-dren and famished dogs—mangy to thedegree of permanent hairlessness—canbe seen competing for scraps of animalrefuse or crawling out of primitive dug-outo, hi thu next, neighliorltood of quasi-civilized suburbs. Street-begging, too, there. Republican policy seems to 1* j8 he« to defy control, on the plea of one indisputable excuse—the threeyears drought, which has ruined wholesettlements in the upland districts, onboth sides of the river.—The Voice. A Keoond country judge in Hungary gave adecision a few days ago of which Solo-mon him
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