New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-16

Gibraltar
6n the morning Of he. u1hetJyhEh ths
situation was most app&lhhg The ocesa'
WIS flowing int vile. S1aits, with ! wall.
five feet high 0ds tid6seb twenty miles
an tpur. The urpptlPR tho Cope Bon
bar Yves like river. rapids, and the whole
ofthe Syrtes basin almost impossible to,
navigate from the velocity With which the
waters We're poured. into. the new gulf.
The Medit aapean 3As- ark Win inn
mense clouds ofsapoF cooAing from the
desert and fling the ~ With fog and
dampness. At no0 the1BritGh fest was
drawn up between Nalh and Cape PAN
arc, and the ad!apiea vessels OF the Ger
man and the 1talien squadrons at anchor
on Palermo, afraid = venture further. At
this critical moment the Franco Russian
feet were signalleA Ooming On in line of
battle, in I've divisia0G TIE combat was
joined inn 6atalyr and the Bltsh,
heavily outnumbered as, they were, pro-
longed tho combat till sunset and then
the retreat was sounded. MKT mothing
half of the remnant Of the Aeet was Gap
tured by gdnboaeb, 4kfouHd on CApo Bon,
while the 11anco-D us1lan feet, passing
throughsthe e6trao1 , ed &essina, took the
German and Italian 1nuadDpns in detail
and anhihilsted them. ro -
The Spanish anny meantime had Of
Gibraltar; favored byAg shbahag Of To
bay and0her rapid cdlfsnt In the roadA
The1arrisok w1s toe slsax - copeavith-
snch s6orces and when. q week later, the
French feet came up tothe, assistance of
the Spaniay(s (the water by this time
having ceased to flow. into the desert with
any very remarkable curfept), Gibraltar
Aas quietly Surrendered. "On the saaae
day Russia took Malta, aAd the English.
power was forever broken in the Mediter-
On. the first of March ,ths Pea Of the
300, 900 square miles, ana nov occurred
that remarkable fall of snow which will
be ever remarkable ii the ANNALS 81 Christ
endom. Il began to snow at Nsp6 on
the FIRST, at 1arseilleo and Barcelona %
the second; on the thied Of March it VAS,
showing all over Europe, from Gibraltar :.
to the North Cape, from Brest to the q ra1
mountains. The heaviest fall was in
Switzerland, where the average depth was
forty feet, and in the Cevennes and Au-
vergne and Cote dot The valleys of the
Tyrol were choked with frozen snow, and
it.,stood two feet deep On all the great
plain from the Elbe to the northern wilds
of Russia. a great many people were
frozen to death, and, when the spring
opened and the snow and ice did not dis
appear, the distressed 8tstes of Europe
were glad to accept the mediation of the
United States and make q truce that led
to final peace and the establishment of
a court of arbitration to settle all future
disputes.
In the meantime the snow did not go
as it should have done. 1t left England
and the Low lands everywhere, but it re-
fused to abandon Switzerland, Bohemia,
the Pyrenees and the Tyrol There were
glaciers in the Cote dor and above
Nismes that lasted all SIMMER. The
olive trees from, Mples TO Valencia were
killed and the grapes refused to kpen in
all Of Northerp Italy, Gsrusny, and in
the whole of Rnnee save the Gironde
section. Europe was in the utmost,
distress for foQd, and the Swiss had to
abandon their country entirely. They
settled "a the island of Morocco. -.
In the spring of 1887 De Lesseps, hav-
ing fledto avoid the just wrath Of his
compAtriots, suddenly appeared before
Naples at the head of fleet of Nmbuctan
and Soudan canoes filed with negroes.
They landed, took Naples, and advanced
and captured Rome. Italy was too much
distressed to oppose them, the Como
glacier having extended 20 rapidly and
attained such proportions that it threat
ened to destroy Milan. A commission
has been appointed to take measures for
the relief of Europe by the restoration of
the Sahara, but as this will involve des-
perate war with the rapidly developing
commercial States of Central Africa, Id
expediency is extremely doubtful. Eu-
rope seems doomed. The GEAR, indeed,
has removed his court to Constantinople,
and does well cough, Int it is sad to
think Of the frozen ruins of Berlin and
Warsaw, and to reflect that Dresden is to-
day less habitable than krchangel was re-
ported to be bare twenty years ago.-Le
Petit Journal Medico-P sychologique.