Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-09
GRACE GREEN WOOD.
TALKS ABOUT ETNA's LITTLE
MOUNTAIN AND BAvARlA's KING.

Sicily and Her Elemental Tragedies-The
Superstitious People of Madrid-The
Late wagner-Mad Monarch-The Fairy
Prince of the Nineteenth Century.
Especial Correspondence
MILAN. July x, 1SS6.-Etna, SO long In
aponiZed labor, has brought forth, not 3
mouse, but actually "a little mountain, which
the Italian Alpine club, in session at Catania,
has ~solernnly christened Monte Geniellaro.
That great eruption, of exceptional length,
volume and violence, was n horrible happen-
Ing, sufficiently near 70 us to cause popular
| excitement, especially during the days and
| nights while Sicolosi, a town whose history is
| q series of distinctions and reconstrucbioiIs,
was threatened with n final overwhelming,
standing, as it were, at bay, with its awful
enemy drawing slowly and steadily higher
and higher. All watched at last with bated
breath-+some praying, some betting. Would
the poor little city go under, or would it nott
Devout Catholics had hope as soon as they
heard that the bishop of Catania and a
goodly number of priests had gone to the re
lief of the acknowledgement town, bearing
the veil of st. Agatha, which, it is said, once
saved Catania when similarly menaced.
Hosts of pious Sicilians believe that the shak-
ing of TINT bit of muslin in Gle face of the fiery
torrent arrested it. and delivered Nicolosl.
Nicolosi and other menaced towns have es-
capped this time, thanks to st Agatha; but
u multitude OF the poor peasants of the region
round about, driven from their ruined homes
and vineyards, have lost all their worldly pos
sessions, in some cases life, in many cases
reason. The correspondent of one of the
Milan evening journals gave particularly
vivid and sensational descriptions of the gran
deurs and terrors of the eruption, and OF the
human tragedies attending it, SO that for days
we "supped on horrors"
Since Etna ceased from troubling, there
has been the CHASTITY catastrophe of the sui
phur mine of Marc, in which hundreds of poor
miners persisted through explosions, or in the
flames and sufrocating fumes-the fire and
hrimstone," which, made of those yellow
eaverns, seem to the poor wretches who did
not die speedily, the very ante-chambers of
{ hell. Sicily seems this year to be the scene of
I these elemental tragedies, rs Spain was last
year, and as Ischia and Scio were a few years
D ago. All, we are so many and such restless
8 creatures, we swarm soon the Old earth, that
: it seems now and then to get impatient, and
t like some huge pachydermous animal to
I make Il mad bolt, shake its skin and fling q
! lot of us Off into the infinite void.
80 many OF UneSe CdlaIlllIleS nave iately
. been visited upon Spain and its vicinity that
i The superstitious people of Madrid take them
q as solemn warnings, especially since their ex
oerience of a regular wild American cyclone
and are looking in pitifui alarm for the enc
n of the world. 1t seems that, according to 9
g tradition founded on a prophecy Of old Nos
tradamus, that untoward event should comt
= off lii the year when st. Marks day falls OF
Easter Sunday, and that of st. Antony OF
X that of Pentecost, and that of s iteorge OF
g Corpus Domine-aIl of which son junction
e occur in this year Of our Lord. If there i
really even to be such q day of contiagratiol
and collapse as the Dies irn of prophets ana
n poets, we may take it that the mightiest vo.
d canic eruptions and earthquakes but faintl,
foreshadow its horrors. Still fainter remind
y ers are they of the stupendous work of tb
il Creator in forming and reforming and trans
forming this round world of ours. Befor
!" time was, as we reckon it, the savage force
ID of nature had fought out on this planet thei
g Titanic battlcs-the general war of lawles
elements, which was to establish the genera
law of order. Then cavernols central depth
ID yawned and drank in great seas; then tida
y waves, that were like runaway seas, rushe,
- from zone to zone and overswept continents
then mighty volcanic forces, fiery plowshare
OF God, cleft the granite crust of the cart
st and tossed up mountain ranges. All this w
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