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Show RIVAL RIGHTS IN VOLCANO. Tour Communes Near Mount Vesuvius Assert Proprietary Powers Over the Domain. Vesuvius, with its eruption, has dono more than provide magnificent fireworks to attract tho foreigners; It has set tour communes ilesltia Torre Del Greco, DuscotnXusc and Uttalano by the ears. Kach claims t'iit the volcano stands within Its counties. If not all, the gi eater par.t ot It, and that It (the 'commune) can thus claim the taxes or the guides, Cook's railway and the one hundred and one other things which yield money. The quarrel quar-rel Is a pretty one. and bids ran to bu unending as t.o sooner have 'he confines con-fines been established and a comparative, compara-tive, II discontented, peace pitched up than the volcano belches forth new lava, forms new hills and valleys and oblitcndes the confines. filrce the late eruption feeling has risen lo such heights that the people of one commune com-mune thiow stones at those of the others, and refuse to speak as the) pass by. Uich declares that it has undent un-dent documents to prove its rights be- )oml dispute, but when the moment comes fur nxhlbltlng them they somehow some-how have mlsplaied their.. They would have been the most useful qf the council or state, to whom (hey have appealed, hut they caurot i be found. Meanwhile, until thd quarrel Is settled, iteslna has decidedly tho best of it, as, while the otbeis were terror-stricken, she boldly fixed her confines by herself inking lu tho whole mountain. |