Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-14
son. Wilson, Stewart, Smith. Moore. BOYD,

IN names. ArDuthnOC mas been changed to |
Buttonit, Brereton to Bruerton and Friz-
zle to Frazure, These are among the
Scotch. Among the English Barring has
become Barnes and Graham is Grimes
Among the Irish, Rob Roy McGregor has
become simply Rob Roy, Molly Lavery is
Molly Bawn. There are also some NOVA
ble' names. For instance Biddy McFret-
rick at home in the mountains is called
Bridget Fitzpatrick when she comes to the
market town on the market day, and Sho-
neen McElshender at home becomes when
he comes to town Johnnic Alexander.
HABITS AND LANGUAGE.
The English descendants generally live
in two story houses; the Scotch, in a one
story, with a neatly matched roof, and the
Irish too often are found in cabins The
English cultivate orchards; the Scotch de-
spise orchards and gardens, and raise grain
| and cattle. The Irish, not very long ago,
| plowed by the tail and burned their grain
from the straw. The English affect cider
and meat; the Scotch, broth, porridge and
oat-cake. and the Irish choose potatoes.
The ancient Irish was spoken until not
very long ago, in the mountains. Along
the coast you find the Scotch, of Burns, and
with the English descendants, the Eng
| fish, Of Shakespeare.
HERELIGIOUs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OF CREED.
| One of the most striking features of the
nation is the permanence of creed. The
English descendants are Episcopalians; the
Irish, are Catholics, and the Scotch are
Presbyterians. A religious census taken,
shows that of IA baronies Subdivisions of
county,, in Antrim, in of them, 81 per
cent were Catholic; in 8 of them, 81 per
| cent were Presbyterians, and in one, 81 per
| cent were Epscopalians, and in only one
barony out of the IA did the mixed de-
| nominations form majority over one
sect. In Ulster, in 1861, 81 baronies out
of so showed creed majorities, and of S75
/ districts in that province, II were Episco-
palian; 1856, Presbyterian, and 425 Catho-
ic-so 81 per cent showed creed majorities.
They have kept the divisions up, well-rlark-
| ed, and don't mingle.
| AN IRISH CITY.
of Belfast, which the lecturer visited,
which little over an hundred years ago
was fishing village of $50 inhabitants, is
now splendid city Of 900 people. 1t
has over ar hundred acres of harbor, and
over three miles of quays. In the ear
1874, from January to August, it impor ted
100000 pounds of tea. There are alb out
10000 operatives. The linen spinners get
1928; week. In it are great linen factor les,
and magnificent linen warehouses line IT'S
streets. You can buy linen shirt there,
of the finest quality, for only $1.5e. 1t is
a most orderly city, and at the time of the
lecturers visit there, a strike of eight
weeks duration, in which 10000 pers ons
were out Of employment, had just ended
ard the strike had been unaccompanied by
any crime.
In the city were many of the names that
came to settle the Valley of Virginia.
Reading copy of the mornings paper,
the Belfast News Letter." he saw among
the births the names of Waddell, Camp
bell, Grattan, and Brown: among the
marriages, those of Sinclair, Bell, Stewart,
Andrew, Ryan, Murray md Sherlock, and
among the deaths, Hill, Davidson, J en-.
nings, Staub (who died in Virginia ST.
they have Virginia st. there) and Wal
ton.
The other papers are the s'Northerr
Whig," they are called Wings in that vi
entity and the Ulster "Echo.'' The sea
of Ulster is a blood led hand and you
see it everywhere even at Queens College
it is over the Presidents chair. 1t is the
illustration of the legend that one of the
conque1ers of Ireland promised his men
that he whose hand should first touch the
soil should have his daughter. AS the boat
approached the shore one of his men who
loved the fair maid took his battle axe and
cutting off his hand threw it on the shore.
The "Echo" has the bloody hand for ita
vignette.
The residences in Belfast are all, what
they call 'self contained" and independent
of the next door neighbor. A house can
not be occupied unless the occupant previ-
ously has certificate that it hasa separate
connection with sewer and the result is
I
Belfast they make provision for the old of
respectable and reduced families and it is
from that that A. T. Stew art who is ma
tive of Belfast got his idea of his magnifi-
cent charity for the same purpose in New
York. The speaker saw the house which
:. is noted as the birth place Of the American
millionaire.
They have public schools which are called
national schools and which are under the
control of the government. There is a very
fine public library which is kept in place
called Linen Hall, a building occupying a
whole square and enclosing court in the
centre. 1t is a century old and it's name
comes from the fact that it was formerly
the place at which the law required all the
linen made, to be measured.
HORTICULTURAL DISPLAY.
The lecturer saw magnificent Flower
and Fruit show at Belfast where
there was a bunch of Black Hamburg
grapes weighing 81 pounds IL ounces, sent
by the Earl Of Durham and a bunch of
white grapes weighing Is pounds. There
were also some splendid pineapples grown
and sent by Queen Victoria, some of them
nine inches in diameter. These pineapples
| are said to be better than those grown in
the tropics. being raised under glass and
the light evenly thrown upon them by len
ses, thus ripening them fully.
| DECLINE OF THE CELTIC LANGUAGE.
The Irish language or Celtic (Keltic)
which in 1851 was spoken by 100000 peo-
pie, in 1861 was spoken by only 100000
and in 1871 was spoken by only s17 1865.