The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

| the OJler 90 LQe same, SuOIS dIt ultu,
and three persons are wounded. In
Palazzo Adriano the Syndic refuses to
give certificate of morality to man.
On the following evening the man
watches him, and seeing him seated
outside his door, shoots him dead"
| Every one carries arms, the oern1eSso
is scarcely ever refused, and the intlu-
ence of the Malta is sufficient to COM
pei such concessions. "Gen. Casanova
says that priests carry the revolver;
that young gentlemen carry it in their
pockets when they goto a ball; and the
Captain of the Carbineers in Trapani
declares that the revolver is carried by
persons in the Casini, in theaters, and
at the lectures in the Lyceum: At
Canicatti youths Of fifteen years of age
carried these dangerous arms" In
such districts, therefore, law has no
force; every one is a law to himself,
and existing regulations supply every
one with the easy means of gratifying
vengeance.
The Commission recommend some
modification of the law which permits
the carrying of arms. Some authori-
ties counsel general disarming: but
Gen. Casanova declares that this would
amount to "leaving honest per-
sons without the means of Defense"
The report then considers the thefts,
assaults, and murders perpetrated in
the open country, against which the
military patrols are powerless. "They
can never equal the agility and craft
possessed by these bands of brigands.
These are like cells, chanseable in num-
be1s, in chiefs and habitual residence.
A few and well-known chiefs recruit
their satellites for every occasion,
and when the crime is committed they
remove to a distance, return to theiI
fields, and enroll themselves in another
band. Pursued, they dispense, con-
: ceal themselves, or reassemble in
: another province. Their horses are
better adapted to these flights, and
their c01dottiert are we'll experienced
in every lurking place, every cavern,
: every dwelling house. The military
force either arrive late or fall into
: some snare" The crime of cattle
lifting, called the Abigeato, is described
as special and characteristic Of
Sicilian criminality. From 1886
to ls47 the Abigeato formed a sect
which dispatched to the markets OF
Algiers whole troops of horses, cattle
and other animals which had been car
ried off from the vast and desert pas
turages of the interior II
I 1s4s the Bourbon Government revived
the institution of COmpagnie d Armi
holding them responsible for thefts
but these men agreed with the thieves
for the ransom, and with those whC
were robbed for the restitution of theiI
goods. so that the intiuenc,
of official brigandage became high
: feared and almost respected by pop
ulation educated in such a school,"
Such is the picture offered us by tn,
Commission of Inquiry of the socia
; condition of many parts of Sicily-no
in times past, but in the present day
and any Government, more especial,
: that actually in power, will have ;
difficult task to introduce anything
: like order. 1 say the present Govern
ment especially, for when in Opposi
2 ton it ignored many of the facts nov
f brought to light, and condemned as un
/ necessary the seventies that wer,
2 used.-NapleS Cor London Times.