The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-10-15
Letter from Edinburgh.
Continued from last week.

: OF these demesnes. They belonged to the
Earl of Clare who died some twenty
years ago in India when he was Cover
nor, and the estate fell to his maiden
sister who still lives and is in her seven
ty-third year. She resides in London
and has never even visited the estate,
nor has master or mistress put foot on
it for twenty-one years, and yet / was
creditably informed that not a book, or
paper, or piece Of furniture or bed-lin-
en- ever been removed except for the pur-
pose of cleaning, busting, etc, and then
Immediately returned. during all this
time. The rental is e14,000 year
There is boy now at school who is the
next and only surviving heir.
After seeing Limerick, we took train
aud in due time arrived at the Irish
capital, Dublin, where we occupied our
selves i'll visiting the Castle, st. Pat
rick's Cathedral and the Cemetery, fa-
nous for being the last reSting-place Of
Curran, who died in France and was,
after many years. removed to this place,
also O'Connell, The great liberator, to
whose memory the Irish have erected
finest and largest burial-place and mon
ument Except, perhaps, that Of the Ma
poleons in France) that / have seen.
We have attended two theatres. neither
we'll attended, although there We're good
actors at both, and the celebrated Char
les Matthews performing at the other.
The most important place to me was the
Mount Joy prison. 1t is what we call
a State Prison and is an exact duplicate
of that of the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania i'll every particular, but more
severe in its discipline and works the
the prisoners harder, but the male
and female prisoners do not inhabit
the same building One of a similar
form and construction, situated with
in the same plot of ground and con-
fined 10y the same high wall but sim
liar to the Insane Asylum at Philadel-
phia under that wonderful man. Dr..
kirkbride. Another popularity is
that no woman. except by special per
mission. is permitted to visit the males
apartments, but men can visit the fe-
males apartments. We could not learn
the cause of this strange law further
than II is the lar Of tie prison. Before
dropping this subject must, and with
pleasure. bear witness that / never Wis
tied a prison under better discipline or
kept in better order with a view to the
comfort and health of the unfortunate
prisoners than that of Mount Joy Pris-
on Of Dublin, and | have visited hun
dreds in all parts of the world.
There is great deal to see in and
around Dublin and our time was used
to the very best advantage. The docks,
ship-building yards and some manufac
tories all had our attention and after all
was done we started for and arrived at
the far-famed Belfast, passing through
a beautiful piece of country, many
small manufacturing towns and nearly
always in sight of the Irish Channel.
Belfast is one of the finest towns in
Ireland. 1t has large commerce, but,
as you are aware. celebrated most for
its linen. Some or the manufactures
are immense but we visited only one.
1t was in full blast and gave occupation
to twenty-five hundred men and women
who We're all at work when we visited
it and gave us an opportunity TO see tie
fax as it was received from the grounds
and passed successfully through every
department and phase and machinery
until it was packed into the case and the
case addressed to the firm it was ordered
10y. We also visited Linen Hall, a
building occupying four squares, or
whole block as large as Independence
Square in Philadelphia. This building
has samples of linen on exhibition
from all the principal manufactures in
the place, besides very fine and eXpen-
siye library. The white Star
steamers are all built here. There are
two oil stock for this company at pres
ent. visited them.
There is one theatre, which we attend
ed, but it was not well patronized
although it had good stock company.
The western part of this city is occu-
pied by some magnificent buildings or
/ residences, most OF them very large and
nearly all built within fifteen years and
some beautiful buildings. There are
one or two castles near the city.
must here correct one omission. |
forgot to mention that nearly every
town has botanical garden, generally
owned by the county, some of which
would do credit to any country; also
some fine public schools-but this bust
ness appears to be in its infancy. as the
Government is now beginning to take
lively interest in the matter.
Wealso determined to visit the world
renowned Giants Causeway. This
took one entire day. 1t is about 60
miles from Dublin. So we started at