Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-06-02

The faces Of all those men and women
looked pale, as they were upturned to the
heights where thousands of brutal Romans
had SO often sat and feasted on SCIENCES OF
| torture and butchery. To behold the colos-
scum BY moonlight is something never to
be forgotten, as the partial shadows lend
themselves to the conjuration of spectres
from the dark passage ways which one sees
all around him. But the illumination OF
which i write is still more impressive-es
pecially when read and green lights are
alternately used e -
These are somehow Internal fl their sug
gestiveness. When to their peculiar effects
you add the hoarse cries of great compa-
MES OF rocks or crows aroused from their
repose in the ,crevices of the topmost tiers
-and circling wildly through the air over
head-you have something very much like
pandemonium, which is repeated in
nightmare wher yon return home to sleep.
Biys.nitary iDspection of Naples has been
hasty, and am not yet prepared to give
the city clean bill of health. The streets
through which l have passed are less dirty
than those of New York. Except for GER
tain smells on the water fronts, there is
nothing in Naples to alarm the stranger
ever sensitive on the subject of fever and
cholera. The light-hearted Neapolitans
laugh at the fears of Englishmen and Amer
leans. They are now claiming great things
for their City on the strength of their new
and copious water-supply. Visitors, how
ever, refuse to believe in its excellence as
beverage, and persist in drinking Apol-
linaris, Victoria, St. Galmier, Source Badoit,
and some other natural or doctored water.
1t is not for the interest of hotel keepers
to decry those bottled waters, from the sale
of which they make large profits. But the
landlord of the "Nobile," where am now
staying, assures me that none of them can
possibly be purer and healthier than the
fluid which sparkles untouched in the Ca
raffes on his tables. The water is freely
used for sprinkling the streets and sluicing
the cutters. The fountains of New York
are dried up and mute. But those of Ma
pies play at certain hours of the day, if not
from morning to night. They remind US
of the abundant jets and cascades which
we had with so much regret, left behind
us at Rome. Though the weather here is
extremely pleasant, and the heat just right
for out-of door exercise, the sun glares up
on you at times with italian ferceness.
Then it is refreshing to see these fountains
glittering aloft, and to hear the musical
splash of their waters in marble basins.
The radical improvements which are ex-
pected to render Naples one of the health
lest cities of Europe have yet to be made
But they are all planned and the work has
begun on some of them. They include
complete system of sewerage and the con-
structions of long, wide streets through
those populous quarters where the sun and
fresh air never come now. It was in this
swarming, dark and unventilated district
that the cholera did its worst. Toward
these great works the Italian Government
has contributed $40, 1000 and the city
(and province) of Naples $40, 900, 900 more
1t is by showing such interest in the for
tunes of all her component parts-especial-
ly the large cities-that the unified Italy
deepens her hold upon the affections of the
people all over the peninsula.
AS sit writing by an open window We
suvius is placidly smoking in the distance,
and in few hours will show patch of dull
light in the eastern sky.
Very truly yours, ]. B. B.