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TtlUHSDAY, JAN. 27, 1876.
The Republicans of Maine have
chosen Iheir delegates to the national
convention and Instructed them to go
for Blaine for President.
The Falls Cit3' Press, true to its
perverted party tastes and instincts
misrepresents Blaine and defends Jeff
Davis and the rebel Congress and An
dersonville eto. The Press is as true
as it can be to rebel democracy.
U. S. Senator Christiancy has intro
duced a bill in the Senate to bestow
the right of suffrage upon the women
of Utah. If to the women of Utah,
why not give the same privilege to
the women cf other Stales and Terri
tories. In the amnesty debate iu the House
Mr. Blaine came ont grand and trium
phant, and the Republicans remain
ed roaster of the situation. The dis
franchised rebels, Jeff Davisincluded,
may clothe themselvos with all the
privileges of citizenship by subscrib
ing to a prescribed oath.
Congressmen Tucker, of Virginia,
the. other day in refering to the rebel
General, Robert E. Lee, said that
Lee was "one of the noblest Ameri
cans who ever trod this. soil. He
eleeps in death, and no dishonors can
ever by Implication or expression be
thrown on the honorable grave that
the representation from that district
will not rise here and repel.'' In oth
er words Tucker is there to defend
traitors and talk treason whenever
any Republican member shall dare to
say or nine oven, mac traitors were
not good citizens or that treason is
not honorable and commendable.
Through the intercession of Dr.
Miller, of the Omaha Herald, Dodge,
the murderer, who was sentenced to
death for killing a man In this State,
is to have a new trial, when his sen
tence will probably be commuted foa
term of imprisonment. Lone Tree
Courier.
The above is not only false but it is
nn ungentlemanly reflection upon the
Bupreme court, and a vindictive mean
pre-judgment upon what the Govern
or will do. There were, in the opin
ions of the Supremo Judges, just and
legal grounds for granting a new trial
to Dodge, and no one, by lnuendo or
otherwise has ony reason for presum
ing that oar Executive will not act
eminently proper in the matter.
It is said to have been the Rev.
Tibbies who was the tool of the Oma
ha Bee in betraying Bishop Haven
Into an interview regarding the third
term question. The Bee is not to
blame so much as the racally preach
er who would Eell himself out espec
ially In so small a piece of business.
The Bee probably paid him two or
three dollars for the ungentlemanly
job. Bishop Haven is not one of the
kind to be ashamed of his opinions,
if truly presented as expressed by
him, but It appears that Tibbies, or
the Bee did not only betray the Bish
op Into a talk about the third term,
but misrepresented the conversation
that occurred.
Morton is not much of a politician.
His efforts to keep the south in a
znuddle, and by so doingto keep con
trol of the south, bear too strong a
Jiand against him.
Wfc&t is worse than all the rest, his
character as a man is blacker than
night, .and Jby not a few is he looked
upon as the chiefest demogogueof his
time.
We clip the above from a miserably
printed, miserably edited, starved,
sickly, hungry little 7x9 sheet gotten,
out occasionally at Lincoln. It makes
bold assertions, destitute, utterly, of
reason or truth, as the above clipping
would Indicate, and has earned the
unenviable reputation, among its few
decent readers at Lincoln, of being
-untruthful and unreliable.
The present Democratio Ccngressi
lias been in session about two months,
but have done absolutely nothing but
spend time and wind in justifying
traitors and apologizing for treason.
Thoss ex-confederate fellows havt
.got office now and they sto going to
prolong the session and run their
'monstrous thievish paws as deep into
-the treasury as possrble. The oppor
tunities for making a raise by plun
dering the-exchequer of the country
.they may truly surmise will be very
iimited and they are determined to
ijuake the most of it. A Democratio
-official Is the happiest of mortals ;
not, however, for the honor or the
opportunity afforded to do good, but
for the opportunity he lias of helping
himself to the publio money and of
covering up the iniquities of his party
The following fa an extract from a
speech by Hon. Ben Sill Congress
man from Georgia. It was one of his
campaign speeches last fall lo tickle
the ears and revive and arouia the
peculiar politics of his rebel constfcti
ents:
"'Thegreatfiualstruggle to settle the
question whether constitutional liber
ty on this continent shall be con tin
ned or not, is to be fought in 1876.
Can it be successfully fought with the
"ballot? If we fail at the ballot-box in
1S76, by reason of force, a startling
question will present itself to the
Amerioan people." "If toe must
have war; if we cannot preserve the
constitution and constitutional gov
ernment by the ballot; and if follv
and wickedness, if inordinate love of
power, shall decree that Americamust
pave ber constitution by blood, let it
come; 2 am ready ,"
Such, extreme utterances, precisely
In keeping with the southern sla-e dri
ver's style before the rebellion, were
endorsed by Hill's constituents and he
was sent to Congress, and since ho has
been there his similar speeohes and
braggart stylo should be enough to
damn hira and his party in the esti
mation of all honest patrlotio citizens
north and south. Thn ncrf.v thof.
ehwts a man to Congress because he
entertains and. declares euch treason
will be hoju re&Jvonslble before tho
country. If such doctrine were pe
culiar to Hill it would not bo a matter
worthy of notice, but when his Dera
cratic constituents honor him to the
extent of their ability as a faithful
exponent of Democratic principles,
the matter is eminently worthy of the
attention of the hundreds of thous
ands who struggled and suffered to
save the country from the treason of
the Democratic leader, Hill, and his
Democratic constituents.
In the Senate of the United State,
January 17, 1870, Mr. Hitchcock ask
ed and, by unanimous consent obtain
ed leave to bring iu the following bill ;
which was read twice, referred to the
Commltee on Public Lands, and or
dered to bo printed :
A BIXL
To confirm certain school indemnify
selections of public lauds by the
Stale of Kebrakn.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,
That the selections of school lauds
made by the State of Nebraska as In
demnity for tracts in sections sixteen
and thirty-six, otherwise disposed of,
which are suspended in the General
Land-Ofific-?, for the reason that they
are for lauds which, under the act of
March sixth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, can ouly bo disposed of
under the homestead and pre-emption
laws, and to which no other legal ob
jection exists, be, and the same are
hereby, confirmed; and title shall be
transferred to the Slate as in other
cases of such selections.
Andcrsonville.
Since the discussion in the House
over the amnesty bill the rebel hell of
Andersonvllle is frequently referred
to, and during the debate Hill, of
Georgia, with hot words defended
Andersonville and its keeping. An
dersonville a few years ago was inves
tigated by a Congressional committee
of Democrats and Republicans, and
made a unanimous report, from which
the following is an extract :
The subsequent history of Ander
sonville has startled and shocked the
world with a tale of horror, of woe and
death, before unknown to civilization.
No pen can describe, no painter can
sketch, no imagination comprehend J
its fearful and unutterable iniquity.
It would seem as if the consecrated
madness of earth and hell had found
its final lodgment in the breasts of
of those who inaugurated the rebell
ion and controlled the policy of the
Confederate Government, and that
the prison at Andersonville had been
selected for the most terrible human
sacrifice the world has ever seen. In
to its narrow walls were crowded 35,
000 enlisted men, many of them
the bravest and the best, the most de
voted and heroic of those grand arm
ies that carried the flag of their coun
try to final victory. For long and
weary months here they suffered,
maddened, were murdered, and died.
Here they lingered, unsheltered from
the burning rays of a tropical sun by
day and drenching and deadly dctvs by
night, in every stage of mental and
physical disease, hungered, emacia
ted, starving, maddened ; festering
with unhealed wounds; gnawed by
the ravages of scurvy and gangrene ;
with swollen limb and distorted vis
age ; covered with vermin which they
had no power to extirpate ; exposed
to the flooding rains which drove them,
drowning, from the miserable holes in
which, like swine they burrowed;
parched with thirst and mad with
hunger: racked with pain or pros
trated with the weakness of dissolu
tion ; with naked limbs and matted
hair; filthy with smoko and mud;
soiled with the very excrement from
which their weakness would not per
mit them to escape ; eaten by the
gnawing worms which their own
wounds had engendered ; with no bed
but the earth ; no covering save the
clouded sky; these men, these heroes,
born in the image of God, thus crouch
ing and writhing in their terrible tor
ture and calculating barbarity, stand
forth in history as a monument of the
surpassing horrors of Andersonuille
as it shall be seen and read in all fu
ture time, realizing, in the studied
torments of their prison-house, the
idea of Dante's Inferno and Milton's
hell.
Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana, Is in a
very good position now. Tho wheel
has at last rolled round and brought
bim on top. Therefore, while Mor
rison is hanging his head over his war
record, and Cox is apologizing for tho
trifling interest he manifested In sub
duiug the rebellion, Hendricks points
proudly to his speeoh at Shelby ville
in 1SG3, and Bmile3 triumphantly. "I
made no appeal to men to volunteer,"
said that politio statesman, "as I
would not say go where I was not
going myself." Southern papers are
requested to copy thisstlrringsentence
from Mr. Hendricks' speech, in order
that tho people in that section may
know his record. Mr. Halstead was
not the only man who had made sug
gestions as to "how thi3 war should
be carried on;" but the Indiana states
man's suggestions were pacific, while
the Cincinnati man's plans were
plethoric with gore. Mr. Hendricks
wanted the war to go on, but he did
not want anybody to go the war. We
think his record will prove satisfacto
ry to the South. Inter-Ocean.
Says the Cincinnati Commercial:
"Stanton! Tho name is otfo that
will grow. We have not always been
of this way of thinking, but looking
back now over the war, the colossal
figure that rises above the smoke and
dust, the strong embodiment of the
national will, is that of Stanton."
That's right! We love to record
these frank oonfessions of great men.
Who knows but what Halstead
Should hR liVf ton VOnrc lnnnar .-.,,.
baound writing this r "Grant! The
name is one that will grow. We have
not always been of this way of think
ing, buiJooking back over the war
and thejyenw immediatelysucceeding,
tte colossal figure that rises above the
petty meanness of epiieful contem
poraries Is that of Grant !" Inter
Ocean. A Comparison Of thfi "F.vnnsitftn
buildings aow in process of comple
tion at Phfiadelphia with those of
former Europn exhibitions shows
that, our products we occupy a larger
area of ground thaYi has ever yet been
been done. TheLonvJon Exhibition of
1S51 the Great Exhibition, as it was
called ocannied twenty acres of
ground, and it was thought the limit
of space had been reaohed. The Par
is Exhibition of 1855 went a lew acres
further, its total area being thirty
acres. Tho London Exhibition of
18G2 fell short of the Paris exhibition,
and covered only twenty-four aore-fl.
The great Paris Exhibition held dur
ing tho last empire had assigned to it
a tnua over Torty acres of standlnc
room. TheViennaExhibItIonofl878
covered fifty acres, and now fh Uni
ted States presents tho largest area of
au sisiy acres. intcr-Vccan.
GENERAL KEIFS..
Gleaned from oar Exchanges
Telegraphic Ecports.
and
A street car moved by condensed
air pressure has been successfully tried
in Parifi.
Prairie du Chien has an artesian
well 717 feet deep which throws up
30,000 barrels of water a day.
The statue of Burns will be erected
in Central Park, New York, this year
during the Centennial festivities.
The"Ningara Fruit Preserving Com
pany of Lockport, put up 250,000 cans
of fruit during the past season.
Twelve grocers were held in bail in
Essex Market Police Court, N. Y., on
the 12th inst., for selling adulterated
milk.
On and after the first of February
visitors will not be admitted to the
Centennial grounds without a pass.
Twelve thousand dollars' worth of
dried fish are every month sent from
San Francisco to China by tho Chin
ese. A flood In Valparafso Inundated the
business part of the city aud destroy
ed two lives and Sl.500.000 worth of
property.
Tho United States Senate has ad
opted resolutions declaring that it has
the power to remove its Presidentpro
tempore at will.
A despatch from Sacramento, Cal.,
says that a land -grab scheme has been
unearthed by which the state Is the
loser to an enormous amount.
At Pittsburg.Pa., on the 18th, John
Campbell, while breaking a window
with the intention of committing bur
glary, cut the main artery of one of
his arms and bled to death.
At Leavenworth, on the 17th, Wm.
Craig was arrested on charge of mur
dering George Palmer five years ago,
at Ellsworth, Kas. Craig had but
just been released from a four years
term iu the Kansas penitentiary for
horse stealing.
George Morris, a colored man, at
New Orleans, has been sentenced to
be hanged for the murder of Sarah
Jones.
Samuel Hayes, treasurer of Kosci
usko county, Ind., died on the 18th
iust.
George Sheeter at Delphos Ohio,
attempting to start his fire with coal
oil had his clothing entirely
burned from his body.
J. P. Moore, editor of the Dallas,
(Texas) Commercial, committed sui
cide on the 18th inst., by shooting
himself through the head.
Jno. L. Kohler who keeps an Intel
ligence office at St. Louis, was recent
ly convicted of being a "procurer," or
trafficker in female virtue, and fined
$500. A respectable young girl asked
his assistance in getting a respectable
placo to work, when Kohler deceived
her by sending her to a bawdy house;
and she then very properly informed
the officials of his conduct.
Henry Rische, a young cigar mak
er recently committed suicide in St.
Louis. He was addicted to drunk
en ess.
Jno. R. Hemacker committed sui
cide at Anna, Ohio, on the 18th. The
reason was the loss of his wife, by
death, to whom he had been married
but a few months.
Fred. Warren, a carpenter in St.
Louis suicided by sendinga pistol ball
through his heart.
Within twenty or thirty miles of
Fort Laramie a gold and silver mine
has been discovered which is said to
bo tho richest probably of any ever
discovered in thi3 country. It has
been named the "centennial" mine.
Sumo speoimensof the ores were re
cently assayed at the Denver mint
and yielded at the rate of about $47,
000 in gold and $270.00 in silver per
ton.
A Washington dispatch says tho
real obstruction to PInchback's ad
mission to the Senate atpresent is the
question whether there is a de jure
government In Louisiana. Until
this question is settled by the com
mittee on Privileges and Elections,
PInchback will not succeed in obtain
ing a vote of the Senate, Should Gov
Kellogg appoint a new man, the lat
ter wonld stand In no better position
than Pinchback.
The House committee on Territories
has agreed to have a special meeting
to consider tne bill of Mr. Franklin
to establish the Territory of Oklahama.
They did this because It was urged
that there are 20,000 citizens of the
United States in that country among
the Indians, with no law to protect
them. 50,000 freedmen, former slaves
of Indians, aud 40,000 civilized Indi
ans ; that there is no punishment for
crime and that disorder reigns. Char
ges of enormous expenditures at the
United States Court, at Fort Smith,
are made, aud said to be as high as
$400,000 a year, and the committee
proposes a thorough Investigation of
the subject.
H. C. Kibbee, the defaulting min
ing secretary at San Francisco was
found dead in his bed on the 20th,
having shot himself through the
heart. Later reports places the
amount of his defalcation at about
$110,000, mostly falling on the New
York Mining Company.
At La Grange Ind., on tho 20th the
boiler of a steam mill exploded, kill
ing Wm. Kennedy, S. Goss, H. Cor
bett, and Wm. Priceseriousiy injured.
Kennedy & Price were owners of the
mill.
During 1S75 tho numder of vessels
totally lost, hailing from San Francis
co or sailing from that port was fo'rty
two, viz: Three steamers, fourteen
ships, ten barks, three brigs, eleven
schooners and one sloop, besides one
United States steamer. The number
of lives lost with them amounted to
nearly 300.
Near Springfield, 111., on the 18th
Miss Dona Herndon, aged 25 years,
was burned to death by a coal oil
lamp exploslou.
A boiler explosion at Grand Rapids
Mloh., recently, killed Joseph Ballon
and I. Fleming.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the On
tario will turn out three silver bricks
per day when it starts up the second
mill. This will be equivalent to $G,
000, every twenty-four hours, or $2,
190,000 per year.
Safe burglars chloroformed the
treasurer of Jefferson county, Mon
tana, and helped themselves to $10,
000 in greenbacks.
The legislature of Kentucky last
week elected J. B. Beck to the U. S.
Senate.
Jno. Carrigan .was killed by the
cars near Morristown Ind., on .the
19th inst.
At Columbus, Ohio, recently, eight
persons of a prominent boarding
house, were suddenly and seriously
taken ill, and at first It was thought
they had been poisoned by a malici
ous servant of thehouse; butaprom
inent physician has decided that their
strange illness was caused by eating
diseased pork. Other persons in the
city have recently been seriously ill,
theii smptoms being similar to those
suffering from poison, and these too,
have been traced to eating fresh pork.
Tho failure of Jno. R. Houle, man
ufacturer of book binder's tools, and
dealer in book binder's material, is
reported, and the liabilities are $100,
000. A speoial dispatch from Rome says
the Italian Government has closed
the Episcopal seminary at Como for
Its refusal to admit the government
inspector. This is a most important
act, being the strongest step yet taken
in the state's dealing with the church
and will doubtless produce great re
sults. A letter from Havana states'that on
the 25th of December John . B. Spot-
orus wa3 elected President of the Cu
ban Republic.
The Cincinnati Price Current has
revised returns from a large number
of porking points, received within
the the last five days, which deuot9 a
material change in the apparent fall
ing off in tho numbers indicated in
the report published Dec. 30. Inter
ior points show a probable falliug cfl
the entire season amounting to 5,500,
000 hogs. The six leading, ctyies are
now 370,000 behind the same date last
year. Cincinnati weights are about
the same as laptyear, Chicago about
eighteen pounds heavier. Louisville
seven pounds heavier and St. Louis
twenty-five pounds heavier. Interior
points west cf Indiana show a large
Increase in the weight of hogs and
superior quality is reported at all
points. The estimated packing at all
points, Including the six cities, indi
cate a possible falling off in numbers
for the whole Eeasou amounting to
750,000.
A boy at Fort Wayne, Ind., was
fooling with a pistol supposed to be
unloaded, and pointing it at another
boy, said "look out, I am going to
shoot you." The bullet entered the
boy's brain just above the left eye.
At Columbus Ind., Wm. Libin was
thrown from his wagon and killed.
LETTER TRWFLOIIIDA
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
Jacksonville, Jan. 13.
This is the commercial metropolis
of Florida, and is really the only
thrifty live place I have seen in the
State, or in the South. The city iB
beautifully located on the St. Johns
river, distant about twenty miles from
its mouth, commanding the entrance
gate of more than one-half the trade
and travel of the State. The name is
in honor of Gen. Jackson. Popula
tion over 15,000. Streets are wide and
regularly laid off. The forest of 'Ive
oak in which the city was located re
mains as nature planted, except where
cut out for residences and other build
ing improvements. Many of the
trees are in the middle of the streets,
some in the middle of the side-walks,
and others on the edges, as in other
cities, and along the lines of which
many additional oaks, China and
white mulbery trees have been plant
ed, now huge spreading shades. The
residences are modern in style, sur
rounded with orange, lemon, fig, ban
ana, and other tropical and semi-tropical
fruits, flowers, vines and shrubs.
Bay, the principal, and almost only,
business street, extends for a mile or
more along the bay, or river, and is a
perfect young New York Broadway,
as to lifo and business. All this is
owing, largely, to the presence of
Northern men and capital,
From the city and along tho river
south Is the great orange producing
region, for which Florida of late has
become so noted. Harriet Beecher
Stowe's orange grove is on the river
about twenty miles south of tho city.
It is called "Mandarin," and isa cozy,
tidy retreat, nestled among some
stately live oaks a cottage Burround
ed with a flourishing young grove of
orange trees and blooming flowers
a fitting evening of life retreat for Its
owner.
The result of Bweet orange culture
In Eastern Florida, carefully, Intelli
gently, and successfully prosecuted,
is simply wonderful, and to me ex
ceedingly interesting. I have seen
trees eight years old, twenty to twenty-five
feet high, yielding from one
thousand to three thousand oranges
in a single year. It is a matter of
surprise how a tree that size, can pro
duce, obtain sufficient nourishment,
or even stand up under such number
and weight of fruit. The fruit grows
in dense masses of clusters, in Instan
ces almost obscuring the foliage, and
in all stages of perfection, from the
merely formed to ripe fruit. Like
our "hopper" raid, can only be be
lieved by those who Bee. Orange
trees come Into bearing earlier, grow
more rapid, and are more prolific than
our apple trees. They seem to require
but little, if any, repese, and fruit reg
ularly each year, Trees are trans
planted from the nursery to the grove
orchard at three years old, at
which time they ate about the size of
an apple tree at same age. At three
years from transplanting they com
mence to bear. One grove, to which
my attention was called, of. four hun
dred, treea onour acres of ground
yields the handsome annual income
to the owner, of from $15,000 to $20,
000. He has refused $75,000 for his
grove. All this, however, is the re
sult of care, attention, and peculiar
adaptation of soil and surroundings.
An intelligent and experienced culti
vator informs me that perhap3 not
one acre in a thousand in the State is
adaptedto successful orange culture.
The land must be high, dry, and
near the coast or lakes.
There is quite a difference of opin
ion, I find, among cultivators, as be
tween budding or grafting the sweet
orange on the sour or wild stock,
and sweet seedlings from what is
known as pure Bresham seed. The
seedling advocates claim superior
health of tree, longer life and prolif
icness. The opposition claim partic
ularly, early bearing, which is un
doubtedly true. In the early planted
groves I notico the same mistake as in
other fruit growing too close plant
ing. Trees ten or twelve years old,
the tops are a solid moss, excluding
the sun from the ground. Later
planting is twenty to twenty-five feet
apart. The Florida sweet orange is
the leading variety in all the markets
of the world to-day. , In addition, has
the advantage of geographical posi
tion, and ability to reach a score of
great cities where consumed, and by
cheap transportation water. I could
say much more on this interesting
subject. But let this suffice.
Florida abounds in fibrous material
for paper stock, particularly the dwarf
or scrub palmetto. The supplj' of this
plant Is unlimited beyond all calcu
lationand has been successfully ex
perimented with in paper manufac
ture. It is claimed the pulp has pe
culiar advantages. Already machin
ery has been introduced to reduce the
natural condition of the raw materi
al to a coarse pulp run off in thick
sheets and dried in the sun, thus con
densing and securing greatly in mat
ter of transportation. The cost of dis
integration is said to be not over three
dollars per ton. Thirty tons of raw
material, disintegrated, yields almost
twenty tons of pulp for the market.
I have found great difference be
tween west and eastFlorida in almost
all respects, in favor of the east. The
climate, products, people and sur
roundings are all quite different. In
addition are these advantages: cheap
transportation, good prices, access to
the markets of the world, and since
the war abundance of cheap labor;
and yet with all this, the region is
not to be compared with the great
west. Not one acre in a thousand is
worth subduing. No soil, and with
out a fertile and endurable soil there
can bo no general population of any
magnitude. The features I name
open inviting fields I confess, yet too
limited to satisfy tho developing and
progressive demands of the age in
which we live. The more I see of
our country at large, the more I am
convinced that the west, with Its mil
lions of broad, easily subjugated, fer
tile acres, at no distant day is destined
to be the seat of wealth, power, ad
vancement, and all that constitute
'and make a great nation, and ..people.
-Uleritta to-dnyvwJitiUier: age, and in
many respecttf'Ifo'rEuireus, surround
ings and advantages, has less popula
tion than Nebraska. With the ex
ception of a few favored points, her
acquired advantages will not compare
with our extreme western borders.
Sanruf.
TROIiI SCOTLAND
letter from Professor Tf. E. "Wilson.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
BONNY DOON.
My silence for a timo has been
caused only by want of time to write
any of the letters that from time to
time have been sketched in my mind.
Yesterday I visited the land of Burns,
and while thescenes and events of the
day are fresh in my mind I will note
down some of them for your readers.
Starting from Edinburg at half past
seven, half an hour before daylight,
we were almost to Glasgow by sun
rise. In our compartment of the car
was a young man who was conveying
a valuable bride's cake to its destina
tion. The daughter of an Earl in
Ayrshire is to be marrled.next week,
the wedding having been delayed by
a course of measles the noble lady had
yet to bring up in order to complete
her education. The cake weighed
three hundred pounds, and was very
delicately constructed, requiring the
utmost care in transportation; but
the servant in charge seemed pro
foundly impressed with the import
ance and dignity of his mission.
Another man in the compartment
I took for an American, judging by
bis appearance and manner. Accost
ing him, he proved to be an English
man who had acquired by extensive
travel a kind of cosmopolitan air
which seems to be in a greater ox less
degree natural to our countrymen.
He was an Interesting companion for
an hour, being well acquainted with
Russia and Turkey, and able to give
a very intelligent account of them.
At Paisley, seven miles beyond
Glasgow, I was obliged to wait half
an hour. This gave me time to see
what is most interesting In the place
tho old Abbey Church, founded in
the year 1163 by Walter., the ancestor
of the Stuart line of kings. Of course
the present building, which is still
used as a parish church, is of modern
erection but stands upon tho original
foundation, and in the walls are very
old stones inscribed in English, I
could read with difficulty. One bear3
the date 1502. Adjoining the church
is a much older chapel called the
Sounding Aisle. The guide showed
me in and then shut the door with a
bang which rung through the build
ing in prolonged and commingling
echoes. It is a small building with a
very high roof, and contains the tomb
of Marjory Bruce Stewart, wife of the
founder and mother of the Stqart dy
nasty ,
Itmay be worth while to introduce
here an historical paragraph explain
ing the origin of this notable line of
sovereigns most remarkable for the
extent of its ramifications, and tho
m
conspicuous places it has occupied
during the progress of modern civili
zation in Europe. This Marjory,
daughter of King Robert Bruce, the
hero who freed Scotland from the
English yoke, married Walter, the
Steward of Scotland whence the
name Stuart. When David H, son of
Robert "the Bruce," died without an
heir, the eldest son of Walter the
Steward and Marjory Bruce Inherited
the throne under the name Robert II.
His successors in order were: Robert
III, James I, James II, James III",
James IV, James V, Mary the most
fascinating, unhappy and wicked
woman, who reigned amidst "a whirl
wind of love, jealousy, ambition, and
crime," while tho most momentous
events of the present era were trans
piriug about her and in her kingdom
and James VI, who became James
I of England, under whom the king
doms were united in the yearlG03.
And in the veins of every sovereign
of England since Elizabeth, including
the present admired Victoria, has
flowed the blood of Walter and Mar
jory Stewart, and of the indomitable
old hero of Bannockburn.
In the Abbey kirkyard i3 a monu
ment to tho memory of our great
American ornithologist, Wilson, who
was born in this town It Is a life
size statue In bronze. Paisley is the
birthplace of another man of world
wide fame, bearing the same name
the illustrious Professor Wilson, au
thor of the Isle of Balms, and for a
long time a professor of English liter
ature in Edinburg university. A
statue of his fine commanding figure
stands in PrincesB street Garden, Ed
inburg. From Paisley it is thirty-three miles
south to Ayr. The railroad runs
down a valley separated from the
Firth of Clyde by a range of hills till
at Irvine it reaches the coast. All
the way to Ayr the coast is low and
the scenery tame. The island of Arran
lies off the coast a few miles, and a
few high objects may bo seen upon It
from the railroad. It Is surprising to
relate that here is latitude 50 north
the same as the north of Labrador,
on the last day of December, when
the sun is only a few degrees above
tho horizon at noon and sets at about
three o'clock there should be not a
sign of ico or frost, the fields quite
green with cattle.and sheep grazing
in them, and men plowing. In Ayr
I saw children running about the
streets with bare feet. That was
probably not from preference, howev
er, but necessity; yet they did uot
seem to suffer from the cold. This
season, I am told, is very unusual,
and several weeks ago there was some
snow and freezing for a few days. It
is exceedingly wet, and on the west
coast especially. It rains about every
day during this season, and the sun
is seldom esch.
From A yr it is two mile3 and a half
to the Burns cottage. It stands in
the midst of a very pretty country
near the "Bonny Doon," which real
ly is unco bpnny. In sight are the
fields in which he plowed, and where
many of his happiest poems were
(suggested.
The cottage, one of a crooked row of
similar ones, is built of stone and
clay, about eight feet high to the
eves, and with a roof of thatch.
Outside the door on one side Is a sign
board indicating that the cottage is
the birth-place of "the great xYyrshire
poet," and on the other one with the
disgraceful words ,rA. Hunter, li
censed to retail wines and spirits."
The house, though so deserted is
kept quite neat and clean. There are
two appartments, each about twelve
feet square. The kitchen In, which
the poet was born has a stone floor, a
curious looking fire place in one end,
a window about a foot square In one
side, another larger one in theopposite
side "which is a recent improvement,
a bed closet in one eorner, and an old
chest in another. The other room is
used for a trinket shop in which pic
tures and relica are sold.
A quarter of a mile further on tho
bank of the Doon, is the old Alloway
kirk. The roof is gone, but the walls
are entire, and the little stone bellfrey
over the front gable still shelters the
old bell. In front is the tomb of
Burns' father and sister. Upon the
stone i3 a beautiful stanza full of sol
emn and tender pathos, oomposed by
the gifted son. At the side of the
church where all visitors pas3 over it
Is the grave of John Laughlan, "Sou-
ter Johnny." A little old guide, crip
pled with rheumatism, points out the
places'in the neighborhood mentioned
by Burns, reciting in a very grandil
oquent and amusing; way the lines
referring to each ono. A tree he
shows,
"Whare the banters found the murdered
bairn ;"
BBpot
"Near the thorn aboon tho well,
WhareMungo'smitherhangVl herscP;'
and the window through which Tarn
looked into the kirk and
"Saw an unco sight!
Warlocks and witches In a dance,
A winnock-bunker In tho east,
Whare sat auld Nick In shape o' beast."
A few rods further and down tho
hill the Brig o' Doon, a simple stone
arch, spans the Btrean?. There is
nothing ghostly or weird about either
the church or bridge. It is a quiet,
shady epot, as innocent of witches
and goblins as any in tho world.
A very fine monument Js erected
unon the bank above tho bridge. In
It are various relics the Bible Burns
gave to Highland Mary, and her ring
among them. The grounds eloping
down toward the bridge are prettily
laid out and adorned with holly, yew,
and other ornamental trees. In a
small house are very fine statues of
Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny at
their nappy. They are life-size, done
in stone, and are admirablo works of
art.
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