Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-11

| aqueduct mile and halt long. Ii
passes suecessively under several
other rivers by means of syphon-tun-
nels, and distributes its water ovel
400, 600 acres ofswhat was previously
comparatively poor land, the value
of which has advanced from $50, 900
600 to 5000, 0O0,-that is, from $75
per acre to 5000. The Company
which built it broke up and sold out
the canal to the Government, which
rents the water to the cultivators on
moderate terms. - sTls9b noY 4 =
Half way between Turin, and Mi
Ian is Nercilla, town of $4,000 In
habitants. The library of the Ca
thedral contains a collection of man
urcripts of great antiquity, among
others .,qst INDIANA 81 s9sicF
A COPY OF THE GOSPELS
written by Eusebius, the founder of
the church here, about the wear A.
d. $40. 1t is much decayed, bound
in silver cover ornamented with
rude ehasings, and has a Latin in
scription. This manuscript. which
has a Latin version, is considered of
the greatest Importance in Biblical
criticism, as it is perhaps more Fan
clent than any of the existing Greek
versions. The Gospels are arranged
in the following order: st. Matthew,
st. John, "St. Lucanus," and st.
Mark. 1t is written in capital let
ters, in two columns. The writing
lis so much faded that the characters
can scarcely be traced in the smol-
dering veIlum. St. Eusebius always
carried this volume about with him.
It is one of the earliest authentic
autographs in existence.
The next point of any note is
NAVARRE,
around which have been fought
many a hard battle. 1t vas IN the
suburbs of this town where took
place the desperate battle between
the Sardinians under Charles Albert,
father of the present Victor Eman-
uel, and the Austrians under the
veteran Radetzky, March %, ls49.
The Austrains numbered 1000, and
the Sardians only s5, 900. The con-
fiict lasted during the whole. day.
At night the Italian army retrested
having lost s.oeo men, and inflicted
on the enemy loss of 10, 900. The
brave and ohivalrous Albert, as one
of the terms of peace, abdicated
his throne in favor Of his son, the
present king of Italy who fought like
a lion that day at the head of his
division. Albert had headed the
Republican revolutionary movement
in Italy, which was crushed out by
the allied Austrian and Russian
Governments in the name of "order"
and "divine right" e.s
1t was in Navarro that
FRIAR DoLCMO
fourished for a brief period. He
preached Free Love and Commun-
ism-a community of goods and wo-1
men. Sentence of death was pass
ed on him as a hereto in A. d.
1907. Having retreated to the
mountains, with 5000 fanatical fol-
lowers he was defeated in a pitched
battle, and taken prisoner, with his
concubine, the beautiful Margaret, a
nun he had abducted from her con-
vent. Both were burnt alive, and
both are said to have behaved with
extraordinary frmness at their exc
cution, which was accompanied with
acts of the most revolving cruelty.
Dante speaks of the incident in his
Inferno. 81 FftEt
After crossing the Tacino, the old
boundary line between Sardinia and
Lombardy, thes train passes through
the battlefield of
a1dasrA
where the French and Sardinians
defeated the Aastrians, June 1859,
after hard fought battle. 1t was
here Marshal scl lfahSn gained his
greatest celebritg The French lost
$500 men; the nstrians,, $4,000
killed and wouRded and 900
prisoners. The shattered remains
of their army retreated through Mi
Ian, and hastily evacuated all of
Lombardy, taking shelter behind the
Mineio, in the famous "Quadrilate-
RAJ, under the guns of Verona.
We now come to the large and
splendid city of
MILAN,
situated in the midst of a plain of
unsurpassed beauty and fertility, in
full view of the Alps, and with
bright and sparkling little river
flowing through it. Milan contains
100000 inhabitants, and has more OF
the Paris style and appearances in
its streets, buildings, and shops,
than anv other city in Italy. Since
the union of Lombardy with Italy,
has greatly improved, and largely
added to it's population and wealth.
It is surrounded by a fine broad
boulevard of Z miles circuit, whose
margins are planted with four rows
of magnificent wide branching horse
chestnut trees. This road is the fa-
vorite pleasure drives of the citizens.
On the one side is the city, on the
other the suberban villas and gar
lens; though inside of the road, for
w or three miles are parks, gar
lenA', and elegant villas, which form
,he d West end" of the city.
Excursions are made from here to
.he lovely and picturesque
LAKES COMO AND MAGGIoRE,
which stretch up among the Alps
;or 40 or so miles, their southern ex-
projecting into the plain
while heir heads are buried among
loud covered and snow clad
lifts + have only time and space
- saw. that proved them to be all
conceiy ed, and more in respect to
beauty and wild grand
,ur. Their margins are thickly
studded with villages and villas; and
he mount ain slopes, where there is
! particle of earth, are covered with
zines and fruit trees, and dotted
)Ver with farm. .honses. clear up to