Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1877-06-28


ed people gave up all attempts ut
resistance, and left the city to its
fate, flying to the neighboring emf
nences. The fire destroyed a large
portion of the town, the earthquake
leveled nearly all the rest and the
water covers the ruins which it took
out in its reflux. -Four entire
squares of buildings We're swamped
and taken by the waves; all the
wharves were destroyed, the Custom
House is gone, the nitrate stores
have disappeared, the water conden-
sers along the shore ruined-I most
irreparable loss for Iquique, as no
potable water is found there. Anto-
fagasta, MeXlllones, Tocopilla and
C0binia, towns on the coast of Boliv-
il, met with the same misfortunes
of earthquake and tidal wave ut once
and are in an identical condition
with lquque and africa. At Anto-
fagasta several lives were lost. Mex
illoneS was visited by tidal wave
siXty-fve feet in height and two
thirds of the town completely oblit-
Grated. At MeXil lones six persons
were drowned.
At Tocopilla little or nothing re.
mains of the town. A mine called
"La Pena Blanco," four miles to the
southwark, sunk in, smothering 200
workmen, Of whom 40 were Cornish
miners. Cobija, the principal town
on the Bolivian coast, has lost three
fourths of its houses. The wave, 30
feet high, swept the main business
street and left it as level rs the
desert. Wharves anG launches were
all carried out to sea. All of these
towns are in the greatest distress.
Chilli has escaped without injury.
The northern ports of Peru were
damaged but little, although the sea
was running remarkably high. Eff
forts for the relief of the distressed
are being made.
Chanavaya, the little town at the
guano-loading deposit known rs Pa
bellon de Plea, with 400 houses, to-
day has only two standing. Here,
as at Iquique, the earthquake was
followed by fire. The sea came in
and eXtinguished the confagratiCn,
but as it retired carried off all that
remained of the place. In one of
the guano cuttings 80 laborers were
buried by the falling earth. AT least
200 people we're killed; bodies are
floating around in the bay and pes
thence is feared. At Hoanillos,
another gaa no-loading station, the
damage inflicted was fearfal. All
the houses were DESTROYED. The
wave which succeeded the earthquake
and completed the work Of destruc-
tion was nearly 60 feet high.
WEIGHTY BGIDES.-Throughout |
the Empire Of Morocco there arc !
villages where the elder embcrs of |
the popuiati on follow professionally |
she pursuit of fattening young ladies |
for the matrimonial market Of Barba- !
ry. The Moors-like the Turks and |
most other Oriental-give q decided !
preference to the''moonfaced" wives
over lean ones, and are more solicit !
Ous as to the number of pounds
which their brides weigh than about
the stock of accomplishment they
possess. a girl is pat under the
process of ( fattening when she is
about twelve years Of age. Her
hands are tied behind her, and she
IS seated on carpet during SO many
hours every day, while her papa,
stands over her with a 1natrGqte, or
Dig stick, and her mother at times
pops into her mouth ball of couS-
,orSa, or stiff maize porridge, knead-
ID up with gr ease, just large enough
% be swallowed without the patient
If the unfortunate girl
leclines to be crammed she is COM
oelled; SO that ere long the poor
girl resigns herself to the torture
Ind gulps down the boluses lest she
)e be aten, and grows fat.
CURE FOR TRoUBLE.-There are
ome great troubles that only time
an heal, and perhaps some that
never can be healed at all; but all
an be helped by the great panacca,
work. Try it, you who are afflict-
ed. It is not a patent medicine IT