The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-15
THE CHOLERA IN ITALY.

The Death Record of Naples for Thirty six
Hours-Departure of the King.
ROME, Sept. liking Humbert and Duke
Aosta arrived to-day from Naples and proceeded
to Morsea. They received an ovation, crowd
encircling them and greeting them with storms
of cheering, notwithstanding the fact that Min
lister Deprez telegraphed from Naples that the
King would prefer quiet reception The King,
in taking his farewell of the mayor of Naples
said he departed satisfied that the cholera was
decreasing.
The president of the White Cross committee,
of Naples, has received offers of personal aid
from all parts of Europe, but he intimated that
no more funds were needed
From midnight Friday till Sunday afternoon,
there have been 1899 cholera cases and 687
deaths at Naples. Since the beginning of the
outbreak there have been g. 297 deaths
To-day's bulletin shows that in the last twenty
four hours, at Bergamo, there were twenty eight
fresh cases and twelve deaths; at Cuserta, eight
cases and two deaths; at Cuneo, nineteen cases
and five deaths at Genoa forty three cases and
thirty two deaths; at SpeZzia, twenty eight cases
and sixteen deaths. AT various other points in
the country, from one to three deaths occurred
THE KINGS VISIT TO THE CITY.
The reign of terror caused by the plague in
Naples has somewhat subsided, thanks chiefly
to the visit of King Humbert His unhesitating
bravery has shamed the wealthy fugitives into
returning to the city, and by their exertions and
examples putting some heart into the poorer and
more ignorant inhabitants King Humbert has
now repeatedly visited every slum in the city.
In his passage to and fro he is always escorted by
a reverential and frowzy crowd of poor and rag
ged wretches. Poor women, gaunt with famine,
press forward with their emaciated babies,
and are happy if the King looks at speaks a
word to the children. Others seek to kiss the
good Kings hands or some portion of his gar
ments, and they are always unchecked by the
monarch, despite the Mortified entreaties of his
suite. Wherever the King shows himself the
whole population turns out to do him honor.
Old residents state that the enthusiasm exceeds
that which was manifested when Garibaldi en-
tered Naples and was hailed as the savior of
Italy. The Kings example has stimulated the
Neapolitan noblemen, who now vie with each
other in acts of practical charity.
The Marquis Campodesota has opened free
food depots, which are personally directed by
various members of noble families King Hum
bert has made a round of these depots inspect
ing all the arrangements and tasting the food,
which he pronounced good and wholesome. At
the principal depot he met and embraced the
Marquise of Campodesota, and warmly thanked
her for the good work she had done for the peo
pie. The ladies are also as active and energetic
in the work of relieving distress as their hus
bands and brothers. The Countess Sansevrino
and many other ladies Of the highest nobility
are working like slaves in the ambulance serv-
ice of the Red Cross Society and nursing the
SICK under the direction of the sanitary COM
mission. 1t is estimated that 100000 persons
are destitute, owing to the paralysis Of business,
and scenes Of want and misery are witnessed On
every hand In the Mercato quarter the health
authorities found thousands Of poor wretches
living in dark, damp and filthy cellars Many
of them were SO reduced by want and sickness
that they looked like specters, but they still
clnng. to their wretched tenements, and it re-
quired force to remove them to clean and com
Portable quarters Eight barrels of carbolic
acid were scattered about the cellars, and even
that liberal application of disinfectants failed to
suppress the horrible stencil