Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-04
ACROSS THE CONTINENT
OF EUROPE.
NAPLES, ITALY, August 6, 1879.

which we may have more to say hereafter
thence to Florence, where we spent
Sunday and Monday, August and 4,
then ran down to Rome 1850 miles,, where
we spent one night, and then came on to
Naples, the goal of our tour in Europe.
We shall go back to Rome, on our return,
and spend four days. Naples iSa city of
some COG, 900 Inhabitants, situated on one
of the most beautiful bays of the Medi-
terranean. We arrived ON the afternoon
of the 9th inst, and stopped at the Hotel
Royal des Etrangers, new hotel, 'front.'
ing on the bay-one of the finest in Italy.
Ex-President Grant and party stopped at
this house while here few months since.
On the evening of our arrival the pro-
prietor of the house, Mr.. A. G. Caprari,
and Mr.. G. Postiglone, gave an entertain-
ment at Villa Postiglone in honor and
respect to the American tourists. The
entertainment partoOk of vocal and in
strumental music strictly Neapolitan)
and fireworks special design, the
American eagle in red, white and blue,
ending the entertainment. The follow
ing address in regard to the occasion was
read by Mr.. Caprani on the party being
seated at dinner:
:" ADDRESS To THE AMERICAN TOURISTS
VISITING NAPLES (HoTEL ROYAL DIES
ETRANGERs) ON AUGUST 6, 1879.
aLADIEs AND GENTLEMEN Manifesto
tions of good will and all that helps to
maintain the highest degree of cheerful
ness in the intercourse of each class of
society, as we'll as between nations, are,
in the moral order of things, what dew,
light, rain and sunshine are to the phys
zeal world.
Z | am not philosopher, but it comes
so'very natural to me to put forward this
simple notion, which links to the great
maxim inculcated by Him who said,
Peace and good will be among men on
earth (and among women, of course, for
am sure that is very imporIant). Such
notion, as all of you will readily under
stand, is a most useful thing for pulling
through with greater ease in our mortal
career, and therefore never put it aside
81 cannot tell you how long since
have experienced its efficacy, but / am
not tar wrong in assuming that it was a
birthday present from Mother Nature,
and it made a mark, still observable,
think, upon my character.
FF By this you may guess that the No
TIoN in question counts among the old
stock of this world.
''I was much grieved when I heard
| that the splendid museum of YANKEE
NoTIONs at Washington was consumed by
! fire, but in seeing you, ladies and gentle
men, | notice that the samples of this
NOTION were not lost to your country
Let us try to excel in its production.
| trust that it will be my lot to meet yet
many such smiling countenances anC
| kind hearts.
g Many are the rivets that unite Italy
and America, but | wish that good viii
and cheerfulness be the leading produces
of free exchange between the two coun-
tries.
'EIt is with the view to exhibit som,
of our own specimens of said produce t.
you that my friend G. Postiglione, pro
| prietor of the villa of this name, at Po.
sillipo, and myself have arranged to offe1
you an evening entertainment according
to the enclosed programme.
F' 1t is not princeIy affair, because We
are not princes, nor Jay Gonlds, mol
Vanderbilts; but what little we Offe
you, be assured, is offered from big hearts
full of American sympathy. Hail, Co
lumbia!
sc What we can offer with as much Law
| ishness and pomposity as the rulers o
| the earth railroad kin gS.s is the grand
the magnificent spectacle that nature at
fords us, and which nowhere can be s
we'll contemplated as you will do from
the Villa Postiglione, though from tn
balconies of this hotel you can gaze upol
the whole forty miles of the beautiful
panorama of the bay, with that big ligh
house yonder on the left, called Vesuvius
But from the height of charming POsil
) lipo the point of view takes in the who'll
of Naples, with its many gardens, cupo
las and terraces, and your comfort vii
not lessen of one item. One thing, how
ever, l regret deeply, and that is that tn
size of the moon has so much diminished
) In about month we shall be able to fiji
up this deficiency. We regret that you
time is too limited to wait for our mex
full moon, but on the surface of the Al
lantic you may fancy the scene whic
will be before you tonight; and Whft
I shall fancy yonr voices mingling il
/ Joyful strains, | shall repeat: Farewell
free daughters of America.
a. G. CAPRANI."
You will notice the address is curiousl
worded and strangely set in English con
position; but appreciating the good ii
tention shown by our foreign friends t.
ward US, and being furnished with FIRE
cards of admission, quite number
the party took advantage of the occasion
:, Securing hacks, we started about s P.
l. to the villa-a beautiful drive of half q
: hour or so around the bay, the embanl
ment of which is walled the entire di
tance and faced with very ancient al
romantic buildings. Arriving at IL
r. gate we were driven down a beautif
j., walled drive, on both sides of whit
were growing the grapevine, fig and O
ange trees, and from the gateway to tt
}; piazza the limbs on both sides were hun
Il with red, white and blue Chinese la
terms. We were pleasantly received
an elderly gentleman, who spoke go
.r English, and may have been an Englis
man, who conducted us through t
ST house up stone steps to an elevated cot
= or piazza, walled with stone, which owe
: looked the bay, where. we rested a
20 20 viwed the moonlight on the water
81 gazed with awe upon the burning pc
40 of Mount Vesuvius, which stands as
TX sentinel over Naples and a warning
20 the inhabitants to beware of the fate
so Pompeii. Soon all were requested to
= pair to the parlor, when the program
of the evening commenced, as stat
IN, with vocal and instrumental music, tn
- the fireworks, for the occasion, on
bay Just below the house, after VIII
= the party returned to the hotel, fully
preciating the efforts of their Itali
. host to entertain his American frien
On the 7th day of August, just eight,
hundred years and two days after its
struction, we visited the ruins of the
cavated city of Pompeii, where, for tn
hours in the scOrching sun of Italy,
Iod tho no v,o6 and
sale streets of this fated city. Pom
. + is walled city. The city is about
hours ride by rail from Naples pro-
A continuation of little towns lead to
station, close to the walks of POM
where we leave the cars and enter
nit,, h,- tho natn knn,vn nc the Pnrtn 4