Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-07-27
OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
Our Foreign Letter.
ROME, july |, 1878.

ROME, July l, 1878.
Dear Journal We arrived at this
city early Saturday morning, and
after making a few preliminary strolls
and taking initiative measures to OBJ
tain an audience with His Holiness,
Pope Leo XIII, we repaired to the
post office, confidently expecting to
receive an arm full of papers and let
ters, giving us news from home, but
we again met with the same wretched
disappointment which we experienced
at Paris. | was so angry that | felt
like going and overthrowing one of
the ancient monuments standing near,
or kiting across the Atlantic over to
Maryland to tell you of my disap
pointment, with half a dozen urchins
trying to sell us sketches of the
eternal City" At last, however, l
thought it would not avail anything
to go on in this way, as you and my
friends would of course allege some
excuse which l would have to over
looh, anu ou IuiS tSCouHu L ieli dlucu
from doing what I had at first intend
ed. | shall now resume with sketch
of Nice, where I left off in my last.
Nice was founded by the Phoenician
settlers of Marseilles in the 5th CEN
tury B. G. There is nothing about it
now to indicate that il IS 90 Old. 1t
was formerly in that part of Italy
known as Savoy, but in 1860 at the
Treaty of Vile Franche, short dis
tance from the city, Napoleon III de-
manded this city and the district
known as Savoy as the price Of his
assistance to Italy against the Aus
TRANS. Since that time it has be-
longed to France. Here the French
is, of course, the recognized language,
but the people have not yet entirely
discarded the Italian, and consequent
ly both languages are spoken. The
city has improved wonderfully during
the last few years. Many elegant
buildings are in process of erection.
The city has boulevard equal to any
in Paris. The place, Massena, called
after the French General born here
in 1858, is pretty place adorned with
statues, and adioins the quay Massena,
the promenade of the city. 1t ex-
tends to the bank Of the Mediterran-
can and is lined with shade and palm
trees.
The climate Of Nice is delightful;
hence the place is favorite resort for
invalids and wealthy Englishmen
during the winter. Here it never
freezes and tropical gardens, orange
and lemon villas, are scattered all
over the city. Here we bought deli.
cious oranges, three for twenty ce'ates-
inal, or four cents, and lemons as large
as ordinary sized canteloupes for two
cents Other varieties of fruit such
as apricots, ripe figs, etc, were abund-
ant and cheap. Nice is such pleas
ant city that her citizens have often
the opportunity ofseeing the notables
of Europe who come to rest from the
cares which opprcss them. There
have been in this city at one time
three emperors, seven kings and
twenty-five grand dukes. A little
beyond it is the little kingdom of
Monaco, with a population of 1000
the smallest kingdom in the world,
and its territory has been much re-
duced at different times by the
French, who have taken away from
them all that they could get.
On our way to Genoa we had a
splendid view of the Mediterranean,
the scenery being the most romantic
we have yet passed through. Our
road lay along the coast, and right at
the foot of the rugged cliffs of the
Apprentices. In some places the road
bed was Just narrow enough for the
road, and in others a bed had to be
made by building wall right at the
sea, as it were, on its sands, and fill
ing in. High above the cliffs, on the
mountain side, were forests of olive
trees, planted and cultivated by the
black-eyed, black-haired and dark
hued Italians. They manufacture
out of the fruit of the olive tree, olive
oil, which is the principal article of
commerce Of Italy.
Late in the evening we found our
selves in Genoa, besieged by an army
of VetAm5nl-hack- drivers They
were so kind that they insisted on
taking our valises whether we want
ed them to or not, and we only got
rid of them when one of our party
expressed himself strongly in vigorous
Italian.
On the next morning, Oath at the
Festival of Jt. John the Baptist, we
saw procession of Italian infantry
headed by the military band. This
was a great day in Genoa, and many
places of business were closed. We
took "uoit4re" and went around tc
the noted places of the city. Genoa
has received the name of the "City o
Palaces" which has been bestowed
upon her since 1850, when nearly al
the elegant buildings were erected
Some parts Of the city are very steep
and so narrow in some Of the street
that the sun never reaches them
being excluded by the very higl
>n;lS;poO oopoa of than a;oht c+ori &c