The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16

London, at least ..........,.....,......10 100 900
NORWICH 81, 100
To which may be added
Franciscan Friars in Germany -. .124, 494
MlhoTltleS IN Italy ...............,.... 10000
DR. Hecker goes on to say:
This short catalogue might by a la
borlous and uncertain calculation, deduced
from other sources, be easily further null
tipled, but would still fail to give a true
picture of the depopulation which took
place. Lubbock, at that time the Venice
of the north, which could no longer con-
tain the multitudes which fiocked to it,
was thrown into such CONSERVATION on
the eruption of the plague that the citi-
zenS destroyed themselves as if in frenzy
Merchants whose earnings and posses
/ slons We're unbounded, coldly and willing
~ renounced their earthly goods They
carried their treasures to monasterIes and
churches and laid them at the foot of
the altar; but gold had no charm for the
monks, for it brought them DEATH They
smut their gates; yet, still IL was cast to
them over the convent walls People
would brooke no impedient to the last
piouS work to which they were driven by
despair. When the plague ceased men
thought they were still wandering among
the dead, so appalling was the livid aspect
OF the survivors, in consequence of the
anxiety they had undergone, and the I'M
aVoidable infection of the air. Many
other cities probably presented a similar
appearance, and it is ascertained that a
great number of small country towns
and villages, which have been estimated,
and not too highly, at 10000, were bereft
OF all their Inhabitants.
In many places OF France not more
than two out of twenty of the inhabitants
were left alive, and the capital felt the
fury Of the plague, alike in the palace and
the cot. Two queens, one bishop and
great numbers of other distinguished
persons fell a sacrifice TO II, and more
than 500 a day died In the Hotel Dieu, I'M
der the faithful care OF the religious wo-
men. whose disinterested courage, in this
age OF horror. displayed the most beauti-
full traits OF human virtue For although
they lost their lives, evidently from con-
tagion, and their numbers were several
times renewed, there was still no want of
fresh candidates, who. strangers to the
un-Christian fear of death. piously de-
voted themselves TO their holy calling.
The church yards were soon unable TO
contain the dead, and many houses. left
without inhabitants. fell to ruins. In Avig-
non, the pope found IL necessary to conse-
crate the Rhone, that bodies might be
thrown Into the river without delay as
the church yards would no longer hold
them; 80 likewise in all populous cities,
extraordinary measures were adopted, In
order 10 speedily dispose OF the dead. In
Vienna, where for some time 1900 inhab-
itants died daily, the inteIment of corpses
IN the church yards and with
IN the churches was forthwith
prohibited. and the dead were
then arranged in layers by thous-
ands, in six large pits outside the city. as
had already been done in cairo and Paris.
Yet. still many were secretly buried. for
at all times the people are attached to the
consecrated cemeteries OF their dead, and
will not renounce the customary mode Of