Year: 1879




military were driven out OF town and the provision
houses were sacked. The President OF ceara has
We await further news from the south.


STORMY CARNIVAL IN yENICE-sToRM AND


EARTHQUAKES IN IrALY--A HERALD STORM


AMONG. THE MERRYMAKERs-sT. JANUARIUs IN
DISGRACE.


NAPLES. March 4. 1879


Milan has its carnival. which lasts week longer
than any other. Rome and Venice have their carni-
walls, the latter being set to music but doubt
II any Of them can come up to the Neapolitan Of
this year. 1t went of like breeze' in fact ven
ture to state that it was the breezest one any time
these hundred years at least.


We hoped for great doings on the Mardi Gras, the
great and last day of the merrymaking. On the
morning we awoke early. We had scarcely reached
the Via Toledo when we saw that Naples going
to have a memorable Mardi Gras, of it this year.
Turning the corner Charley suddenly bolted. 1 was
just going to ask what the matter when a
shadow made instinctively START large shutter
struck the ground grazing my shoulder. was
about to say something facetious to the size of
the confetti they were using this season.
when a large lamp struck my companion
on the head Fortunately the lamp was
not very high. and slight cut. with damaged hat
or .brokcn tile" my companion called it. was all
the harm done. A shower of real tiles and broken
glass soon convinced that the carnival was
growing quite too awfully lively for U.S. and we
thought we had better get back to the hotel and
spend the rest OF the day in the safe haven OF our
rooms.


This was easier said than done. Suddenly there
was a yell from the crowd OF foot passengers who
were sheltering themselves under the long, project
ing caves of tho north side of the Via Toledo. The
top of large house above shaking
oininously. We all bolted for the south side just
~. far ,I,aI
to the north side Of the street. In this country
there il no right Of way so colded We made
the Neapolitans to swear. Saints Januarius and
Anthony, the two most popular saints in
Naples, called pigs and hounds. and otherwise
were made responsible for Vesuvius freaks in send
ing all these ashes. We CROPPED way through
the reddish gray air. red with the Sahara DUST gray
with the vesuyius ashes until by lodging tile or
shutter every now and then we at last reached our
hotel without further mishaps. AS we Went upstairs
heard an Englishnian swearing and ordering brandy
and soda. When You hear a Briton order brandy
and soda in that tone you may be sure he hos just
turned out that the gentleman had expected to join
his family at Capri that day but OF course in this
awful gale he dared not put his head out OF DOORS
much less go afoat on the 'deep raging sea-"


A sTOEM


The wind raved and howled and did awful damage
The Capri steamers well that plying to Ischia
were simply smashed to atoms of Santa Lucia A
large steam packet its way to Messina caught
by the hurricane in the Gulf of Sacrno and soon bat
tered into such state that the captain informed the
passengers they must ''shift for themselves, he
entertained no hope Of saving the ship The steamer
eventually succeeded in putting into Salerno but
those passengers must have passed what our French
friends call naurdis quart d'henr. The United
this port down Italian brig. but no hands
lost. 1t is even maliciously whispered that ship
being in distress of Tore del Greco the author
ties autographed to Rome tor permission to the
drowning crew, who were from the plague-infected
districts Of the East and subject to Quarantine Pro-
lessor Palmieri made his way up to the observatory
nd ranp ed Xes1l a W.
indeed and throwing up small cliffs and noun
tains by the The rose many feet and beat
down the ponderous three foot wall protecting the
highway to Pozzuoi and Baiae. Altogether, the
Mardi Gras of 1879 the breezest one in many q
decade at Naples. and the confetti thrown about of
size and shape unprecedented in the annals OF carn
val skrmishes.


slight shock of earthquake. then the horizon to
westward suddenly shone out amid the pitch dark
night. with sckly yellow light like that OF the
through thick fog after the disappearance OF this
which was instantaneous red aurora borealis-like
Light between Capri and Yesuyius was the only
warning which immediately preceded the most awful
tempest known in the memory, OF man in these
parts The seamen OF Neaples call the lights above
described which go before storm lucs ii re"o, or
wind lights.


pronenades we saw many remains Of this festival
Of the winds in tho shape Of shutters aud window
panes and lamps and apple pie stands lying about
in very sad and doleful way that quite impressed
with the death OF King Carnival. He was certainly
dying hard. was the merry old king. and
up lava in floods. which poured down in
strange contrast to the snow-covered cone
OF the volcano As we strolled about we bought q
paper which prophesed the storm that had just
finished and another to follow close at its hecls
both prophecies being dated antecedent to the tenn
pest from the office OF the New YoRK HERALD. The
Neapoitan must have some one to pitch into. When
things don't 90 right meteoroloai ally or volcani-
cay he generally puts it down to st. Januarius, who
is supposed to be the special protector. earthquake
and eruption averter OF Naples. But st. Januarius
is not tho authority he once was among the Lazza-
ron and. therefore, tho powers that be terrestrial
made responsible for wrecks and Deaths
through not having received and published the
ings Of the New YoRK HERALD in time to notify tho
outgoing steamers of their peril.