Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-29
Rambllnxs i'm the Old World.
EDINBURG, Nov. s, 1877.

,Slu e0OuSn diftduy dOout CHS
we're l to tell you of everything that
interested me during my two weeks
visit in that country, you would per
baps be wearied with reading. But
I'll risk snoiller letter on the subject,
at anyrate. In Lancashire the cities
or towns. IA the people there call them
are almost as close together as mile
s,ones, and I visited eight Of these,
~ without consuming much time, on rh'.
cars. Manchester, the second city OF
Great Britain, IL one Of theSa. 1t has A
of nearly a million. and
now boasts of having the finest build
Ing in the land. new City Hal, which
was thrown op IN to visitors few day.
before my visit. OF ,urSe | went
through it, a. did Mr.. and Mrs. tx :
President Grant the week previous.
These distinguished visitors slept in
tha building, in the Mayors privat-
apartment, and getting up quite early
in the morning Ia take stroll abput
the establishment, they lost their Wa
completely, and had to BE- Conducted
safely on their way by ii work mar
whom they came across.
Tne Queen WAS invited down T.
open" The Town HILL, bat replie'i
''pray. have me excused" which
somewhat excited the Manc"es,ei
yeople, some of whom imagined tha'
L rd Be.con-field had interiered Il
..revent II. VI. from accepting tn IN
vi:atiOa, because tire city had sent 4
Liberal to Parliament, aui tie presen
Mayo, who sent The iovitaiiou. Is /
,fpis .,t -
Gr0m we'll, the gilt Of the MayoresS
Vas some time since erected in one o
the streets, aud at the time of my Wis
il large wreath of flowers vas abou
the neck of Cromwell, put there b..
some impetuOus Radical. The Ha!
is certainly grand built ing, far excel
ling, in costliness Of finish, anything
have ever seen else where. 1t has beeI
eight years in building, cost four mil
on dollars, and has an organ In one
of its halls that cost twenty Thousand
dollars. What they propose To de
with an organ in town hall, didn'
learn. Unfortunately, l had no Oppor
tunity of hearing the organ, whose
tones are said to be Of wonderful
sweetness. In going to NJ, passed
Rochdale, the former home of Golden
and present home of John Bright. tive
men very dear TO the hearts of the En-
glish people. The town is an old
dingy looking place, and, unlike RI
the other cities l have visited, contain:
a large number Of brick houses. Eve
rything is stone over here. and the
houses generally very uniform in Shape
and style. of architecture. Beside
Golden and Bright, this town WAS the
home of another man of more nOtorie
ty at least, viz: John Collier, dtid'
"Tim Bobbin," school master, artiA
and humane poet of the last century
who, like many citizens of Rochdale o
the present day, liked his bitter:
rather too well-to which fact he al
la les in the epitaph, written by him
self, which may now be seen ON hi
tombstone ia Ruchdale cemetery:
'Here lies John and with him Mary,
Cheek by jDwl and never vary:
No wonder they SO well agree,
John wants no punch aud Aloll no tea
Aud W hiIe speaking of epitaphs. am
of another [ saw in sn old
church yard in Ddrwen, rs follows
"HeIe lieth the body of Richard Town
ley. who died Jan. 10th. 1887, aged s;
years, and grandfather of 1S5 chill
dren." The man deserves to be i'm
mnrtalized. surely. His name is car
tain to live for ages, unless, indeed the
1S5 are all girls.
On our trvn from Manchester, We
vi,ired Il rden, the home of jane
Fielting, ner of Parliament for one
0i The riding If Yorkshire, who, with
two brothers, hiss built an tleg ini
cnnrch (Unitarian), and also Il town
hall for the use OF the pui.lic. This
aI.n took working gffrout ot one o.
his cotton mills, gave her a fine elu
cation, and then made her his wife
and now lives WITH her in regal style
in Dobr0yd Castle, which | saw-dli
elegant buiiding standing away Vi, on
the edge of ii rocky hill overlooking
fhe whole Surrounding country. Thi,
Valley, through whici
we pas sed IA returning home, is one ol
the widest and most romantic place.
| have ever seen. On one side, ii,e
rocks rise almost perpehdicuiarly nun
1reis of feet high, with few trt e
for an existence in the scan
~ Soil. Great gulchcs have been
warn in the rocks at intervals by the
torrents rushing down from the hilI-
and at one place | saw on ei
iher side OF one of these gulches, II
row oftrees very tsickly grown, and
several hundred feet up the
hull side, giving the appearance of d
splendid avenue, On the opposite side
of this valley, which is very narrow,
are beautiful little hills, ard pleasant
hooks, ali covered with timex growth
Of the greenest grass, with trees and
stone fences, and beautiful
villas. aud an occasional old church,
likewise uncovered. to add to pic
tnre that will long remain before my
mental vision. AiDsworth, in his sto-
ry of "Ihe Lancashire Wjtches," has
given TO this valley n more than local
celebrity, by his illusions to the "E,
gles' CEag" and other parts of the Val
ley. Another place l visited was the
hamlet OF Hurstwood, near Burnley,
where stands a quaint old house that
was for time the home of the puet
Spenser, author of 1.-The Fairie Queen. !"
1t bears no date, but froai house near
it copy this inscription, cut in the
stone wall, and now almost Oblitera.
led: ''Barnabous Townley. EFT Agnes,
UxUr Ejus, 1870" Not many miles
rom here visited house which was
built by one of our own ancestors in
l6ol. 1t is in good condition, and
serves as q dwelling. -
Finishing my delightful visit among
ny friends i'm Lancashire, l stared
forth for n few dayS i'm the Lake Dis
rict, of which must defer an account
Until another time.
Affec. your Bro, SAM. a-
THE capacity OF the Democratic
'arty is illimitsble. Not content with
Ibsorhing the worgingm5n, the in.
latiobi Is, the silver repudiators, the
nti ti-resumptinnists. ard the strikers,
opens its month now and swallows
he 'arpet-baggsrs. The latter dimi-
tive faction holds the balance OIL
over, and If it ia shrewd, viii dir,at e /!