AUSTRIA.
The details of the distress prevailing in Hungary, and generally in the eastern provinces of Austria, are truly heartbreaking. In the Bukovina, especially, misery drives the inhabitants to the very last extremit es, parents offering to sell their children, that the lit'le ones should not die of hunger. A Sclavonic journal states that a few days since a resident of the Faubourg de Posch, at Tchernovitz, purchased from an unfortunate man three j children, two boys and a girl. After much bargaining the father received nine florin?. The same day a pea c ant woman arrived in the same town with her tuo daughters — one 12 and the other 14 years of age. She offered them to a landed proprietor for 10 florins each, leaving the latter free to choose. The gentleman contented himself with giving alms to the poor woman, without buying her daughters. The mother and children had been in the most complete destitution since the death of the father, who had expired of hunger.
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Otago Witness, Issue 770, 1 September 1866, Page 8
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168AUSTRIA. Otago Witness, Issue 770, 1 September 1866, Page 8
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