News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
PLAGUE SCENES IN NAPLES
GROSS IGNORANCE AND GREAT
FILTH THAT ABOUND.
Enthusiasm for the king-GOOd He has
DOne-AGairs at La Spezia and in
Spuin-lmprOyemenL in France.
Especial Dispatch to the N. Y. Timesl

past week has been so great that loug-
ings in the neighboring villages are OBJ
tanned only at fabulous prices. Some
times as high as 500f month for sin
ole room is demanded. The better Sec
tions of the town are deserted and all the
shops in the Toledo are closed at IN
the afternoon. The theatres are all shut.
Many of the poorer streets are as silent
as death. Even the cafes are closed,
and the only sign Of life is the joiners
hammering the rough coffins together.
In some of the streets absolutely every
body is either dead or is sick. In one
street.-the Via Duchessa-thirty cases
occurred in q single house. The smell
of burned sulphur is everywhere, and
the wretched people of the poorer
classes are either stupefed or frantic.
Meanwhile the devotion and daring OF
the King and the Archbishop have had
the effect of dispelling somewhat the
superstition about poison and allaylng
the class hatred which ragged at first.
But the public morale is still worse than
it is possible to describe. A'mob attacked
in the Via del Purgatorio a man whom
they suspected of throwing poisonous
powder over some cakes exposed for sale
on the piazza, dragged him back and
made him eat the cake until the owner
interfered in self-defence. Out OF sheer
perversity the people eat more fruit and
vegetables than usual. In the piazza in
front of the Municipal Palace two loaf
ers got big basket of figs and IN the
presence of a large crowd began to eat
them on q wager. The police marched
them off to Jail. A woman who was
selling fruit on the corner of the Piazza
del Martini fell over dying of the chol-
era. The crowd made bonfire OF her
chair, stand, and fruit, and then left her
to die. Nobody would carry her to the
hospital.
Although the disease is generally OF a
mild character compared with the num-
Der OF cases, there are many instances
like the foregoing of its startling sud
deness. Several people have already
fallen down in the streets and been car
ried off dead. A lady who was taken
with vomiting during mass died before
she reached home. The terrors OF the
plague have been intensified by the
scoundrelly action of the butchers, who
trebled the price of meat as soon as the
panic began, but the King was followed
in his carriage by a mob of women
sbrieking to have the price Of meat re-
duced, and the officials accordingly tooE
steps to import cattle and reduced
prices, People in the Sums still defy
tho laws boldly. The body of woman
was buried in the little garden of he
home and when the police arrested th'
husband q great mob threatened tc
rescue him. Under the inspiration OF
the Archbishop the priests are now ex-
erting every effort to discourage proces-
sions and the like, though with little
success.
There has been an enormous revival
of religious sentiment IN Naples. Inc
street shrines which were walled up by
Garibaldi in 1860 have all been opened,
and the whitewash scraped off the holy
pictures. Crowds wild with Joy watch
the work and hail with shouts each
restoration. The professions are con-
tinued in the poorest streets, chiefly by
women. The churches are thronged
and street affairs are erected. The ponce
do not dare interfere with the altras.
Most extravagant stories OF miracles
worked are received with credullty by
the populace. The hospital and amou,
lance system have been overpowered oy
the awful increase in deaths, and tor
5av or two it has been necessary te
leave corpses waiting so long that they
became putrid, thus adding vastly to the
| contaoion, The situation in this respect
however, has been improved by the
Kings ordering the military to give as
sistance. Scores of old omnlbuses GOV
cred with black have been converted
into hearses.
The heroism of King Humbert makes
the most welcome royal picture Eoropt
has looked on for years. The King Il
ACCOMPANIED always by his brothe
Amadeus. He has visited all the hospl
tails and the afflicted quarters, scatter
ING money and kind words right ant
left. He wished to explore the Fondalcl
containing probably the most hldeou
human habitations in Christendom
with its narrow courryards, Its mousse
eighty feet high, the sunlight and al
excluded. and the fiithiest rooms, eacl
with a dozen or fifteen inmates OF bot
sexes. There is no water there to Was
with; the place is alive with vermln;
is literal sink of pestilence, and con
tains fully one-fourth of the whol
population of Naples. All efforts t
dissuade the King from going ha
failed, when a despairing official erie
ont: "You have no right to cornml
suicide. Nor have you a right to dc
liberately murder many OF these untol
tunate people who will follow you eve
into that hotbed of death =
Upon this the King bowed and gt
into his carriage again. All classes al
becoming demoralized as the horrt
grows, but there can be no doubt th'
!, the Kings example has had an effect
preventing what would have otherwii
,, been fearful panic. The Italian peop
are almost crazy with enthusiasm II
the King, and the Catholic newspaPe
vie with the democratic ones in laudlr
his course to the skies. The King al
Archbishop have fraternized from Il
start, and the feeling is general tn
: q rapprochement between the Chur'
: and State is nearer to-day than befo
T in many years. The total number
:, deaths in Naples is now consideran
,, over 1000. All have occurred SIN
: August 20. Naples passed Toulon
: the 9th and Marseilles on the llth in
ghastly record of death, and IN anoth
week, at the present rate, it Will ma
o as many deaths as all France.
g A MILWAUKEE druggist advertli
!, that the way porous plaster acts Is
n retain the back firmly in place while
Il pain crawls out between the holes.
10 FD-okTroE begins the gentleman, I