The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-08-02

T9r PAUpER DEAD OF NAPLEs.-A writer IN
the Cincinnati Gazette gives the following ac-
count of visit TO the place where the Pa"Pe'
dead of Naples are buried:-
/, About two miles from the city, IN large
square place enclosed bya high wall, ihete are
as6 cistern- shaped vaults or pints, with an
aner,ure on top about three feet square These
cisterns arc same twenty or twenty hve feet Dy
10 or Is in diameter with the opening covered
by heavy stone. and tightly cemented. ono
of these is removed by u portable lever every
day in the year to receive the dead of tina, s.ay,
q s,, - then closed aGain fora year, They begin
/ TO dcposit tho bodies about O'Clock in the
evening. and end at 10. When got thero
about 10 or IL people had already been thrown
in and were living promiscuously as they
chanred to fall. with head, body and limbs in
every possible attitude, across, over and under
each other-an old priest with two or three at
tondands, and fow idle spectators of the COM
mon sort. were lettering around. Shortly
after nv arrival. box was brought containing
tho hody ofa child, some five years old; its hand
held bunch of flowers and arose was in its
month. The priest mumbled a short prayer,
: sprinklcd It with holy water and turned away;
: man then took the little fellow by the neck
and heels and pitched him in as he woulo
stick of wood: his head struck the curo as u
went in. and he fell whrli'e to the bottom; sec
inc the flowers that fell from his hand he tooR
them up and threw them after it. In few
minutes more a mon was brought to the mouth
of the nit. the priest arrayed and sprinkled, th'
attendants took him up by the head aud legs
and down he went also.
l Then followed another child like the first
. and | was about leaving the ground, when
fourth subject entered. The lid of the box wa
: thrown back, it was the body of young an M
rather handsome fen.ale. She was opparenti
about twenty. and died evidently from som
4, shor, illness Her arms and face were Toun
y and fnlI. and she appeared more asleep tina
= dead. The prayers and holy water were agar
. in reaustion; the attcnf ants took her ronghi
. % and tossed her in. Immediately s'opt
i the mouth of the vault and looked down; nc
!, limbs, and those Of the dead below which sh
- had disturbed by her fall, we're still in motion
\ Her head was slowly turning. and her hal
= which was long. black and luxurant, was Sc
:, Ting in thick clusters across very white an
- naked body lying near her.
= Fora moment the horrid mass seemed instin
" with life; and crawling on the bottom of
loathsome channel house. / had seen enoug
sick and disgusted turned away, and mora
:" zinp on the difference between such an inte
:" ment and a peaceful one is our own beautit
~ y cemetry at Spring Grove, mounted my VI
u aute aud returned to Naples, meeting on n
"u road some half dozen boxes. great and sma
"s containing moro victims for that Unsuitable ms
that opens lis mouth but once year TO DO g
ged with its fearful banquet.
lpt The bndies thus inferred are generally frc
nus the Hospital: aud the sight can he witness
I've by any one sos times year. Before the
no. is shut, quick lime is thrown in and nothi
on- but bones are LETT when II is again opened