The daily gazette., 1880-08-31
WILMINGTON. DEL. TUESDAY. AUGUST 81 1880.

a fire place capable of roasting an OK
whole, and its dungeon is dark and
burglar proof. At present the ivy
clusters thickly over the walls so as al.
most to cover them. There is round
tower about twenty feet in diameter,
all fitted up with about a thousand
compartments as dove cote. The
place now belongs to the Gilmore
family, and is the most productive ss-
tate we have seen in the kingdom.
The Scots appear to be grateful
people. They have erected statue or
a monument to some one of their great
departed in almost every square in
Edinburgh. The city is characterized
by its monuments, its hotels and its
churches. On Sunday every one goes
to church. No steam cars, tramways
or coaches are seen, except going to or
returning from church; The streets are
almost forsaken, and the day has al
together funeral aspect. But Mon
day is general holiday and the people
fully make up for their Sunday de-
meanor by having good time of it.
We have been down in the eGrass Mar
ket in the most crowded part of the
old city, on these holiday times when
it presented sight not seen elsewhere.
The Grass Market is wide, open, paw
ed space, which, observed from above,
appears to be as full of men, women
and children as bit of bread spread
with molasses is of flies in our summer
kitchens. Here good Scotch whiskey
is abundant, and all appreciate 1T. All
get jolly, but few pass the boundary
into real drunkenness. The few who
do get drunk are taken to an out-of-
the-way corner, and left to grow sober
at their leisure, and in this number
there appear to be as many women as
men.
The strange part of it all is the chill
dren, who swarm everywhere. Where
in the world do they all come from p
One wonders how the multitude of
them can be fed and housed, and why
they are not trampled to death in this
surging, brawling, half drunken crowd
that seems ever struggling to get in,
and then to get out again, and yet who
remain in the same place.
In walking through the streets of
Edinburgh, as in most other cities in
England and Scotland, we are struck
with the number of familiar names on
the signs. One might well forget he
was not treading the familiar streets
of Wilmington when he sees at every
turn the names of Pierce, Grey, Grubb,
Lodge, ,Hollingsworth, Forward, Brown,
Evans, Wilson, Webster, Thatcher,
Thompson, Johnston, Simmons, Scott,
Armstrong, Elliott, Sharpe, Lawson,
&C., &c.
In London we saw our own name on
signs denoting all employments and
professions. One was a member of
Parliament and another high crown
officer. We refrained from acting on
our first impulse of seeking to estab-
lish long forgotten thread Of rela-
tionship for the reason that the NJ. p.
might think we were seeking favour,
and the grocer might think we should
give it.
We are taking some interest in the
elections now going on for members Of
Parliament. The meetings of the pol
iticians are very much like our own
political meetings. The same lauda-
tions of our party candidates, the same
abuse of our opponents, with theexcep-
tion that our own orators are much
m ore "ghb of tongue" and strike the
key note of popular sentiment NOR
readily than do the Scotch and English
orators.
We search in vain through the pa
pers for some mention of the progress
of our Presidential campaign. 1t will
be the first time since our majority
that we failed to cast vote for the
candidate of our choice. Had our fa-
vorite Bayard been the candidate we
should have been in time amongst the
"Blue Rocks"