Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-06-23
Pictures Of 0anublan Life.

Tho Journey from orsova TO Belgrade
IL exceedingly picturesque and gives one 4
fine chance 10 study the bold Servian bead
lands. which jut out into ths stream. and
are here and there crowned with ruins Of
old castles and forts. The Ssrvian p
lation along the Danube Is exclusively de-
voted to agriculture Of rather tho rudest
sort. l was oven astonished 10 see win
moving machines from England In use at
Grsdistie-one Of the small towns at which
We made q landing-because | did not
think the Servians so rsmsto from large
towns would submit TO innovations. Most
Of the tiny tswns along the bank are COM.
posed Of = "trip Of whitewashed cot.
tascs near = Greek church, whose bulbous
spire suggests tho idea Of . Kind Of eman-
cipated mosque /; VI 4 wharf. on which
half an hundred bare-limbed girls and .
dozen rough fellows In national costume
are gathered Ia see the arrivals, and u or
two small shops. In which the articles.
brought hundreds. sometimes Thousands
Of miles-for ssryia has no manufactures
ARE sold at exaggerated prices. Some 81
the towns seemed standing In the water.
the Danube Il 80 very high at present;
but as We approached them. We discovered
that they were just above the water Lowell.
anil some levees had here and there been
constructed. Every Scrvian man carried
q small knife dangling from his belt. aud
the mountaineers whom We saw trotting
along the hilly roals by tho Danube side,
mounted ON tough little ponies, generally
carried rifles.
The bosnian men and women carry
these knives above mentioned; and my
Russian fellow companion told mo . story
Of . plueky girl In tue province, who, In 4
hand 10 hand encounter last year with a
Turk over the dead body Of her father,
managed to route the assassin. inilicting on
him such wounds that he will never kill
auy one else. Our bostloid from Orsova
10 tho ServiAn capital was 4 curious medley
Of peoples. There werc half a dean young
Bulgarians, dressed. or rather undress.d.
In rags ; the lanlb-like expression Of tho
countenanccs Of these young persons. aud
their almost frightened demeanor when
any one approached them. There we're
Roumanians fosing the wrath to come,
with rather more precipitation than
seemed necessary; mild-eyed men with
symmetrical boards. and stately women,
dressed In black. and evidently uncon-
scious that their charms had faded at an
sarly day. There were Polish Jews. pain
fully working their way back from Rou.
manian villages, where they had been to
speculate. but where they discovered that
the native Hebrew had iorestalled them.
There were Seryian merchants m Russian
akents-men who laughed loudly and
talked gruff. robust voices, which could b.
heard above tho widest roaring in the
river. There were little Servian maid.
ems, coy and rather ferociousif stared at
maidsns with ducxts braidsd In their hair.
and with the national red cap used ~ q
kind Of net In which to contain
their luxuriAnt braids. These ladies. who
carry their wealth thus displayed upon
their heals. astonished me when i lint
saw them I; but now u seems to me quite
as sensible a. that ladies should wear q
thousand Of dollars in the shape OF dia-
moods.-Edra,s Kisg ia hs Bo'io~ jour
saL.