THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 266, 7 October 1875, Page 2

THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA.

:The following account o£ the ? oceur7renee* and" Effects ofthe recent - terrible* earthquake in the Andes, is taken.from the New Granada Skipping Gazette: — steamer Isabel/ whichi ' arrived yesterday from the interior, neared our city with her flag at halftnast, indicating that she was the bearer of unwelcome news. The information ; which has reached us dnfche 'smbjecfc is '.contained in & letter dated in Salazar, seven leagues from Cucuta, the 19th of the presentjmonth, r from, which wet extract ans? translate the iol|oWin^;-;r— Xt|tfi minutes past eleven o'clock a.m7"ye^&erday (l/Bth) a severe earthquake ■visaed this city and region. A large par! of the churches fell, : several -houses;, wener destroyed, and some people killed. The city of Cucuta is entirely destroyed only a, few families were saved. . The Bbtictf Alemana (German drug store) was set on fire by & 'ball- "of- fire which was thrown out of the 'Volcano, which is constantly belching, put lava. This volcano has opened itself -iii front of Santiago, in a ridge called El Alto de la Giraeha. San Cayetano was destroyed. The greater part of Santiago has been destroyed. , In Gramalpte there was great destruction. , Arboleda, Cucutilla, and San Oristobai are nearly destroyed. The four fast named places are almost obliterated. The population of these towns is estimated by a person well acquainted in that region more or less as follows .-r-San-Cayetano, 4000 persons; Santiago, 2000 persons ; Graimalote, 3000 persons ; Arboleda, 5000 persons ; Cucutilla, 0000 persons ; San Cristobal, 16,000 persons. The section of country above referred tp embraces the regions around about where Colombia and Venezuela join, the. Colombia portion embracing the' State of Santander. It is in some respects the most productive part of this Eepublic, and the coffee of this section is famous all the world o\fer. San Jose de Cucuta, the city of the most importance i of any in that section, was situated on the boundary of the Eepublic. It was a port of entry, if an inland town can. be called a port, and here was the established Custom-house.. The population of the city at the time of the disaster is estimated at about 18,000. ' It had a large commercial business, and was the great depot for coffee and cocoa, for shipment either through the "Venezuelan ports, or down the Magdalen^ 'to this city. .■->,*.■ i )

A wonderful cure of cancer (l^fs the" JFiera&# of October 2) baa races® been 'i^o^^SoajaS^S^a "fo|swip|j |nii^|ulpi^||)]aBter is,;alVi<iat ig|repre- v jbn|||i it §|ttradf»j be{§oo wideiy:€4own. agoUfr M'lsaacs/of Tl|u,%elilnowfl? as & mining prospector in the province, came to town in order to have a cancer cut out of his lip. Hearing that Mr Qxley^blqek manufacturer) • . ha4 T some ff Pf f^lebrated Canadian cjraleil plaster; bB went to himYandiiad s^piece* put on hia lip. After about sevendaya, JiS out by the roots, and now the lip is ?perfeg%l|eaied, very little of a scar being, left This simple remedy cannot fee too widely ioiown:^ - ~ -~~ - : . , -v .. ,-, ah act of almost impertinence that two repreleafealiveajof .mercantile houses ,uv TOingfotf should* BavP prelutne'd U visit Dunedin for the purpose of transacting business there "on behalf of their rpspectivs firmsjnthe way of soliciting orderM^ffig^ we belive, is a somewnatunuauat occur-" ,r^nce,ibat ; probablylihafiW ; ellingtoni3nB are beginning to thinfethat as theirs is : the Empire City they have a right to monopolisei r l;he' irade -the The gentlemen } abo\[e referred to did not,, however, meet withniiich success, anr<T proceeded- on %o SliiVOTcar ; g3l 7 -ii' ; EJearch of fairer fields and pastures newi'^ - <J V ! -' V r - ;^ — \' : =- ' ." ; f .-'iAOij. M. Liantarfj, Judge of the Tribunal pf Tarascon, in" France, has ' beetf' 1 suspended for five ; years, -for a GOEruption— v an extremely rare o"m?ncei lie it said'to' the honor of the French Judicial Bench tp Clients, had only, to present, his wife with sufficient jeVelS to 'obtain^ a favorable judgment." Thirty oiiilioDB/:of people, we are aasared by travellera. in Chinese Tibet, Liitla TibeS,< and; 6he yarioaadepeQdeacies of Kashmir and Afghaniatao, kaow;pf?jQO other marriage caatoni^baai polyandry, of a plurality pif husbands. There is very strong evidence" eb prove that thja has been practiced from- time immemorial among "these' iVa'cas; It also exi^aj in .Cejrlonr"'an'd.-in , 7 part9._.of Southern fndia:'' A recant Cf 4Veller iii ih^H|maJayas^; ; baB seea. .sqpewlia^ pL the" working ' of "Chis curious' sysfiio^, and pronopnces , more favorably oh^it thao^ one would at' first sight expect. 8 ! 1 " ftTaQgeroeQ%whwh;; has been Sa^recourae to in brdlr to' 1 get rid of fcheVpFesaq,re caused by the acknowledged law of populatiou." Tiffa'i'aQa TMtaryiarer bleak tnoabtaJDOH3 couQtrie^, and.Gould not support a le $Pg e ittcceaso of ppp;i!^tioit« 7 ■ results might nave followed, ' bad the ' popolatioQ increase^ a^ the rate it.^pes in England. ?ol3?ap|r.y, '. whate^r ' ;may be the .. evil Vesalt^ in r moral point, haa' uadba^tadly repressed population.^^^Pibiis^Moravian missionaries I have even defended it, as ** good for She;, health of so sterile a country, ; though [ v ( it r could f t no6 be afjprovad of in. I the afcatracl.'' Thaa 'it happens 1 that the brothers of a family < marry hut one wife in common, and lessen, by sharing •it among themselvetTlhe burden of the marriage .^ok^.,, ; strange t% aay, a : Tibetan horne 1 is noVa soead of brawls land jealousiagii TThe temperament of the people is aoaingularly placid and passionless, that. this revolting arrangen)eDir/ 3l w&'fch v -we tisfl sciirce ! ly' I (sdn"cefvei d^iis a reality, work's with the utmost smoothness aodpeaae. „.. ; jJkijßax. is letter' reqordSiJ6|ne c deft|h 0 Admiral Excelmains under very ainguTJftr eireumsrances. •'ThorA^mira^^oder oat-ltfier dioaer, followefi by thSgroottf, ;when his horse threw up his head suddenly, struck ihe Adtciral on the : head, and Ahrew him .violently on the igrdbnd. When picked tip ha was un- ; coQciaaa, r ,and, ,his quite .ppeiu ; Twenty years ptreyiouslyj day for day; 5 his father, Marshal Excelmains, waa killajj. b,y : a?iall/roni : his horse. ShorUyi before his r death, ; the AdDairaLwas advised to take soora days' rest and change at '^Tichy » by : his dofitori-;^® replied: ■?• Doctor, I was neverjio: better health, and am biulfe to live for cages, unless I do not die, as I believe Lam destined, like my fattier." ■- ■ " '

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