However, most of these cattle, except milch cows, had to be taken.

The proprietors of high-bred stock were directed to claim compensation, over the meat value, from the "Invasion Losses Commission" now sitting.
FAIR SALE.
Colonels Ward and Stoneman having requisitioned considerable quantities of food-stuffs at the beginning of the siege, they determined to sell some of them, such as sugar, sardines, &c., &c., at the same price as was paid.

One or two fathers with sick children were supplied with 4 oz.
of brandy on medical certificate.

There was no liquor to be had in the town, and the fathers with sick children grew in numbers with suspicious rapidity.
In the month of February the pinch began to be felt.

Most men were without smiles, and most women were scarcely able to suppress their tears--tears of weakness and exhaustion.