Show AN EVENTFUL YEAR eighteen hundred and eighty three t lire e las f aas been one of the most eventful years that have becci known for fr many centuries the first two months were calamitous in the extreme the heavy rains rains in the eastern and also in the southern states caused unprecedented high waters the rivers rose immensely and spread over ver their banks and aud rushed over vast areas of t country many pany miles in extent caus r w ing devastation and death in in agnf r wake tho tito devastation b by y those floods caused a thrill of horror to V fillba fill the bc those v who allo read the K a accounts at tho tile til time of their occurrence but all that then transpired was but as a drop in the bucket and f paled before the subsequent fear fearful lill 1 bistay f I 1 of this VA nation and tho the world showing to lari m an his own nothing ness the terrible fatal calamities by fire in which many hundreds of bu human man lived lives were lost and millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed have been almost almos t without a parallel in in one year car the number of wholesale I 1 mur ml dere suicides brutality and the development of depravity ar are 0 simply horrifying and sickening to aasve zis V we have been compelled to do daily this present year car A mans ora womans comans life is esteemed of no tho the assa assassin win will not and docs does not hesitate to slay his fellow being to rub rot him of adol a dollar lail while on the slightest provocation the lawle lawless rowdy will jerk from his pocket a pistol or dirk and hurry ry his hi neighbor into info eternity I 1 maritime disasters have been alarmingly frequent t the tile physical convulsions have been moro more numerous than the they cy have for roan many Y card vears in the pa stand have come altogether unlooked for by those generally who ivere the tile greatest sufferers ers by them the tile destructive all and fatal to nadies and L cyclones are freh fresh in the minds of our readers it will bo be remembered that these disturbing elements corn N 14 dearly y s in tho the car in april the town of dunbury iowa r was as destroyed and m many any lives were crushed out by the fearful wreck during the th 0 months of june and all july hardly a week passed that did not witness some of these catastrophes tr the they jr swept through many states orta e un forests demolishing towns and villages il entirely or in great part and hundreds h d red s athu of human man beings aldand old and young fell victims to the furious elements in the year that is now nearing its termination there ara are said to have been experienced in kansas 04 tornadoes in now new york ab 45 iu ill indiana 27 in m massachusetts 1 11 0 in ohio 28 8 in ig georgia q 43 besides buides many in other places E earthquake shocks have been felt in almost every state since the opening 0 of the yeara ye ari they have been frequent in E europe drope they have been very deft ina a large number of places at amsterdam in sicily hungary Ilu it aud And italy one of the most destruct tivo was that which occurred as al many remember at tho the inland island of 1 1 f ischia Ischi aon onabe tho 28 of july last by which in addition to the destruction i of 0 property about human A N beings being s w ero swept into eternity without a moments warning but tho most fearful convulsions of tho the kind occurred in august at tt alie the island of java which beggars ae description Blount mountains ains and towns were completely effaced from tho map of tho the world and scores of thousands of people men met women a and nd children killed the cartet carth k quake shock caused a tremendous sea wave which rose a hundred feet t high biah it extended extend eato to tho shores of v of california it swept fure fi TO miles J occoa st belong and other were completely destroyed the earthquake which took place in ca chios i ip last october destroyed several V villager vill 11 aes agea and one thousand human lives A bailor on hoard board tho ship samoa whitin writing from st helena on the y java horrors says when wo we reached anjer what t a sight met our eyes anjer all gone bot qt 0 ono living hvid soul left tile laudon agn both sides chita as snow covered with ashes trees all dedd dead a fearful v aas jjr sight we were ordered to 0 o stop and heave to bya dutch datch man of war A small boat camo came to 0 il aad kindly took our letters 1 for two days after passing anjer wo lye ploughed sloughed hed through masses of dead bodies hundreds and hundreds inythe ink the both siles groups of fifty to a hundred all packed together most of them nake dand tuch uch t an nil odor it was as awful we abed a preat great deal but of course wo we cannot annot tell if ir any vessels were lost we also hafed bedding cheats chests anil anti a number of white bodiel all dressed like sail ors with sheath knives on an them thern gs fur 0 r ten days we went through fields of fumico stone since 1882 too there havo have been seventy two american earthquakes reported but happily none of them hayo have been very disastrous in in their character character of course wo arc able to give the dearest glance gla 1 lice at the fearful fatal calastro cat catastrophes astro aphes but still sufficient has bas been given to demonstrate I 1 that 1883 has been a most eventful year |