Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-29
"Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare
To digg the dust enclosed here.
''BleSte be man y spares thes stones
And curst be ne yh moves my bones"

Sraved tne loliowlng epltapn.
"Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare
To digg the dust enclosed here.
..Bleste be man Y spares thss stones
And curst be ne yh moves my bones.'
Shakespeare died in 1916. Close by
his side lies the body of his faithful
wife Anne. The tomb is covered by a
plain stone slab, as is her husbands,
on which is the following notice:
Here lieth entured, the body of Anne, wife of
William Shakespeare, who departed this life the
9th day of Aug. IG25 being of the age OF 81 years.
In addition to these stones, there is
also, in the wall of the church close to
the tomb, notice of Shakespeare, the
time of his death, &C., such as is COM
monty found upon tombstones in our
day. 5as5 aid
From Stratford, we went by rail to
the modern city of bennington. This
is regularly laid out with broad ave-
nues and streets, and is decidedly the
most beautiful town we saw in Eng
land, It is quite celebrated as wa
tering-place and is much frequented by
the gentry and noble ladies of the vi
cinity. Bnt we did not stop here be-
cause of the city, but because in its
neighborhood are situated the ruins of
the old castle of Kenilworth, SO cele-
brated in the history of England DUR
ing the days of Elizabeth. This was
destroyed by Oliver Cromwell and is
now mass of ruined walls. We were
shown the place where Queen Eliza.
beth entered the castle at the time of
her visit to Earl Leicester, and the gar
den in which she discovered Amy
Roberts, the wife of Leicester, who
was concealed from Elizabeth, as he
had married Amy without his Queens
knowledge or consent. You will rec
ollect her fate, at the hands of this inn
perious woman. These ruins are of
great extent, and in some places, in
good preservation. The moat is still
to be seen which surrounded the wall,
but the lake has entirely disappeared.
Of course these ruins are only inter-
esting from the historical "reminiscences
connected with them, and before being
visited the history of these times should
be re-read, that the visitor may be
more fully able to appreciate them, and
to hunt out the objects and places of
most interest. 1ti 5-s -.eg. "A
, We spent the night in an interesting
hotel denominated Albion with a
jolly, fat landlady, who could hardly
get up stairs; and such farewell, a
person learns something in travelling.
The next day, we took the express
train for London. This train is the
fastest in the world, sometimes making
fifty miles an hour. skt nj -,i,, "a
Z One thing is very noticeable in the
hotel system of England. You geaer-
ally have to deal with women. There
are women in the Office to whom you
pay your bills, women to make your
contracts with, and with men you only
contract as porters, walters, DC. An
other peculiarity is, that you never see
any persons around. The hotel is no
loafng place but rather like restaur-
ant where you go,in when you please,
and eat what you may order, and then.
when you get through are expected to
go away about your own business. No
hurry or rush at dinner. but stiffness
and quiet, which seems to an7Ameri-
can SO strange. -, s4s.rs ~. t.4,s-
Agriculturally, England is garden. |
All the way from Liverpool to London
you see no waste lands, unless YOU
would call the Parks of the Mobility
such, but highly cultivated fields on
which are exhausted all, the labor and
ofman, and which, in return
yieh most bountifully Of the fruits Of
he EARTH ,..,;i,,-, 80 -
q 1t is no matter of wonder, after see-
pg their mode of cultivation, that thew |
receive thirty TO forty, bushels Of fwheat |
Q the acre, for certainly the yield is |
,nly limited BY the capacity of the |
acre to hold upon its surface. Some |
meadow lands ! noticed were regularly
-idged up, thereby making the extent |
i the surface for grasing that mneh
he greater. :, !
4 This high cultivation is absolutely |
necessary ia the condition which EsgsI
md finds herself Much Of the lands1
are owned b, the great sobles, phol
,aFe sztsnsive parks. which slthoMgA !