Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-28
KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS.
FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.
Tslegraphed E1elssirely 20 The Erening Star.
FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKE.
A village with $50 People EnguIphed

It's SITE Becomes tie Crater Of a Foloaao-FRs
Woods Net oE Fire, and Men and CctfLs Flsaao
from As Flames-The Island lkas ViSttef n
serted BY its $500 IHkdbitGHts.
LONDON, July H.-The earthquake in the
PHILIPPINE Islands on May LIST affected in a terri
bic manner the small Island of Camaquin five
miles from Misamis. For some months previous
~, and especially in March, there was a success
SION OF violent shocks, which opened extensive
creylces in the earth. Finally, on May LIST. the
level plain near the village of Cattarmin began
gradually TO subsde until the tons of the honses
became level with the surface OF the earth This
remarkable phenomenon attracted a large num-
Der of people, when suddenly some terrific shocks
were felt, and before the laundering yibrations
had died away the whole level place fell in en-
quilting hundred and fifty persons. The plain
became crater OF volcano, fifteen hundred
stones were thrown into the air. A pause TIL
dark succeeded, when there was another explo-
SION ana rain OF IRE, followed by the woods be-
coming ignited, and men and cattle went fiying
before the flames. The spectacle was frightful
in the extreme. The volcano continues 20 eject
stones and earth. The inhabitants have left the
Island, which formerly contained a population
OF 1000. Camaquin produced MANILA hemp
one-tenth OF the whole quantity grown.
Italy Wants TO be Rec0nciled 20 the
LONDON. july gL TTSp Italian governmental.
requested Beust, Of Austria, to act as intermedi-
airy TO propose Cancellation 10 the Vatican
Affairs I'm France.
fdrre NO Longer a kinister-Dec dAumale Con-
NJ
between 20 and 40 10 Serre ia tie ArmV-Rinder-
pest IHereasing-AReged PrHssiaa .Iacendiar-
ftms.
PARIS, July 2s-The Journal de Pdyi, an
nounces that Favre is no longer a Minister, and
is replaced in the Office of Foreign Affairs by
Gouland, recently one of the French necotiators
for peace at Brussels.
The Due dAumale is contesting the repre-
sentation OF ClermOnt i'm the Assembly.
The committee of the Assembly upon the re-
organization Of the army has voted in favor of
compulsory service between the ages of 20 and ~.
The soldiers will not be entitled TO vote at cleo
tons.
The courts-martial viii probably open on
Thursday next.
The rinderpest is increasing in France.
A petition from the inhabitants of st. Cloud
presented TO the Assembly yesterday, declares
that place subsequent TO the arrangement of the
armistce which preceded the treaty of peace
ACCOMPLISHMENTS are asked for the losses thereby
sustained.
Spain Not Going 20 Trihe with the
Cubans any Longer.
MADRID, July 2S.-The new Spanish Ministry
has resolved to put down the instruction in
Cuba regardless of all sacrifices of life and
means.
Commodore Ashbury and His Yacht
LONDON, July 2s.-CommOdore Ashbury has
engaged passage in the Cunard steamship Java
sailing ON September sd for New York. His
yacht, the Liyonia, starts for the same destina-
ton on the list of September.
arrived, steamer Paraguay, from New York
LONDON, July &.-The steamship SdOnian
from New York, touched at Neville this morn
ing.