The Portland daily press., 1883-08-15

The latest Ohio combination is Hoadley
for Governor, Bookwalter for Senator and
Henry B. Payne for President. Allen G.
Thurman and George H. Pendleton can be
trusted to make very vigorous kicks at it.
Out of All replies from prominent Indi-
ana Democrats in regard to their Presiden-
tial preferences 391 we're favorable to Tilden
while only 20 favored Mcdonald. The Nc
Donald boom is very feeble affair.
The Brooklyn Union thinks the sympathy
which Mr.. Groesbeck has got from his Dem
ocratic brethren since his civil service re-
form speech would freeze out polar bear.
The Savannah News thinks as the South
furnishes most of the Democratic votes it
should dictate who the Democratic Presi-
Dental candidate should be. The South
asks too much. 1t should be content with
debating what he shall do when elected.
The right to do that has always been con-
ceded.
Gov. Begole, the Greenback executive of
Michigan, who in his inaugural message in
Weighed severely against the acceptance by
State officials of free passes on railroads is
convicted of applying himself for free pass
since he has been Governor. The Western
variety of Greenbacker resembles very close
ly the Eastern species.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is supporting
Hoadly much as the New York Sun sup
ported Hancock. 1t is now operating as
bear in the political market, trying to break
down the price of Democratic nominations
In Ohio, which it charac terizes as absurdly
high. Judge Hoadly thinks the Enquirer's
agitation on the subject rather untimely.
The truth of the old adage that chickens
come home 10 roost is being illustrated in
South Carolina. The Kuklux familiarized
the people with the torch and the shot gun
as effective means for intmidating the ne
gro. The result is that these weapons are
now eagerly seized upon by the thriftless
population of the State to override law
which is designed to prevent cattle from
running at large, and reign of terror il
prevailing in some counties.
The extracts which the Hartford Courant
is making from the New York Sun of 1880
are what Solon Chase calls "mighty inter-
estin' reading" Here is one of them !:
''There used to be a fellow who made an oc-
cupation of butting his head against rough
New England stone wall for twenty-five
cents. The Democratic party in making
this nomination Hancock and English re-
sembled him, only, if report be true, they
did not get the twenty-five cents" But the
Sun now claims thatit was supporting Han
cock in 1880, and is very indignant because
its loyalty 10 him has been questioned.
Casamicciola After the Earth
quake.
Vienna Allegemeine Zeitung.l
We left Naples a few minutes after 10,
and arrived at our destination shortly after
12. After some steep climbing / reached
the spot where Casamicciola once stood.
The place consisted of a few groups of houses
about 200 PAGES from the sea, but, owing to
the steepness of the road, it required half an
hour to get there. 1t further included a
number of detached houses and small farms.
l could see before landing that the place had
been destroyed; but the sight witnessed on
reaching the first terrace surpassed my
worst apprehensions. 1t was one heap of
ruins, with not one building left standing.
The beautiful Hotel Bellevue, once visible a
long distance from the island, has entirely
disappeared. / discovered the Hotel Gran
Sentinella. The stables alone remain erect
All the inmates appear to have perished.
Dogs and ducks run about the wreckage,
scared out of their lives. Military engineers
in blue and yellow uniforms, and infantry
soldiers are at work with pickaxe and spade.
Twelve corpses, covered with straw mating,
are laid out in a row. A soldier tells me
that they are all men, and that i shall see
more further on. | arrived at the second
terrace. The pension near the Hotel Gran
Sentinella is likewise in ruins. Here the
sight is really terrible. A large number OF
dead bodies lie strewn upon the ground,
fearfully mutilated, with crushed heads and
torn-oH limbs, spectacle too sickening to
dwell upon. In the garden of the Villa
Sauve, which is completely wrecked, an am
bulance is organized. Some so injured, in
Guiding many women and children, have
been conveyed thither. The soldiers have
constructed small rush-covered huts. there
being no building left in which accommoda-
tion can be provided for the injured. The
latter are placed with their heads and chests
under the rush roof. There is no lack of
either doctors or drugs. A sanitary column
arrived by the first boat from Naples, and
the physicians penitentiary establishments
at Procida and Bagno were also sent for.
All the wounded are dressed in civilian