Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-20

! IN basking IN the sunshine OF the great pl.
aza. and looking at the Indian water.car.
riers filing their stone Jars from the pret.
ty fountain, and walking of With their
heavy loads, strapped from their heads
while their wives struggled about with
their tiuy, little bright.eyed, black.haired
babes slung upon their backs. We want.
ed much to visi. the neighboring old Az.
tee city of Chol1la, where we're many an.
cient Indian antiquities. 1t was emily six
miles, but tho road was infested by rob.
bers, and Sc didn't screw our courage up
to this sticking place of risking our mode.
rately valuable pocketbooks and watches
so We didn't see Cholula.
VOLCANOES.
From Puebla VIC bad our first grand
views of Popocatapetl and Ixtaccihuatl +,
the two famous snow.capped volcanoes of
Mexico, nearly twenty thousand feet above
The sea.
Another day IS ride from Puebla. through
enormous plantations of maguey (for max
ing pnlque) and clouds and clouds Of Gust
tho dustiest ride in all tho world-and
we at least entered the great City Of Mex
leo 1t seemed like little Paris, after
the towns and cities we had visited in this
country and when We were driven to the
Hotel lturblde, (once the Empcl or's place,
where our apartments were larger and
: better than most any hotel in Amer lea,
with electric bells to the office. and aFrench
and Italian opera troupe ON the same floor
with us, and man chambermaid who
looked like Mexican muleteer, we thought
We had indeed arrived at The Halls of
Montczun,a ~
To describe Mexico City, what we do
in it, what We see. and how We pass our
time, would fll more sheets Of paper than
you will care to read and l know you
are growing sleepy over the many pages l
have already filled. So l will be briet
, hereafter and may devote another letter
to the city of the Aztecs.
STREETS OF MExIco.
In order to give you al idea of the
| streets Of Mexico, however, l will here
copy pencil memorandum Of exactly what
c passed our hotel during precisely half
hour of one day last week. 1t was from
three o'clock until halfpast. as l sat in
the high balcony of our front windows,
and jottcd down the passers-by in the fol-
lowing order First, q Mexican man
q carrying on his head, and nearly hiding
him from view, lot Of clean, freshly
washed and ironed ladies' petticoats next,
u drove of fifteen mules from the country
next, man watering the street with a
t simple flower watering pot; next. huge,
r. ungainly railroad omnibus drawn by four
8 mules ; next, great Aztec Indian, car.
] ryipg on his back an armchair, in which
4 sat blind bcggar, and going from house
to house begging; next, watcr-carrier,
S with two jars strapped to his head, one in
S front aud one behind; next. Mexican
t woman, with great bag Of fruit in her
c hands, aud bright.eycd little boy tied on
8 her back next, an enormous van, or coun.
t try cart. drawn by eight mules, four
}. abreast next. flock of beautiful singing
: birds; next, couple of elegantly dressed
4 Mexican caberalos, on splendid horses,
t with great silver stirrups, silver mounted
y saddles, with lasso rope. on the pommel,
$ and silver chasings all over the brides
5 next, two Indian women, with some ladies'
u washings on their backs; next, man
: with six ladies' shoes in brcad-basket on
r his head next, two dirty mules, loaded
e with lot Of raw meat for the market
next, an Aztec woman with q basket Of
g flowers in her hand. and her baby tied
D upon her back next, three struggling
T. Mexican countrymen, wrapped up to their
noses in great. rough, thick, white blank.
: cts, aud their brown legs completely bare ;
next, two evcr.so-ragged, dirty Indians,
carrying on their backs baskets Of char
+ coal next, an Indian woman, with q big
0 earthcn watcr-jar on her back next, a
9 boy with waiter, containing somebody S
r breakfast. on his head breakfast in the
afternoon, observe y next, drove of sew
en- donkeys. all loaded with bales of char
t coal tied up in hay; next, a gorgeous
y coach and pair of horses. with silver har.
!. nesscs; next, four Indians, carrying q
i square piano upon their heads; next, a
!. group of watcr-carriers next, an elc.
i. gantly dressed lady, with purple silk gown
s and black lace veil, going TO church, with
s her shabby servant woman walking behind
q her; next, three Mexican soldiers on foot
gazing into the shop windows; next. ;
I" man with an immense roll of carpet on hi
d back; next, the entire lin roof Of small
% house upon an Indians head imoving,
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