Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-06-14

IN their bind symto lc worship. We .
could have remained in this building I
Tor hours, and still have lei, lust as |
deeply interested It remind. d US of |
Byron's description of the COlliseum,
where he says
Arches ON arches, as it were that
Rome,
Collect, g the chief trophies of her line,
Should b lid up all her trophies in one
The Coliseum s. ands: The moonbeams
As 'twere her torches; Tor sublime
should be
The light that streams here to illumine
/ this long
Explored, yet sill exhaustIess mine of
contemplation -
! There is a notch in one of the large
! bells OF this cathedral which was
knocked out by the be>eiging guns of
/ NIaximillian.
As desire to finish my letters in this
issue, l must be very brief, and
can only touch upon few points of in
terest.
! Carriages were waiting to drive US
around the city, and l spent the fullest
and most complete day in 81 ght-seeing
: that | ever experienced. We drove
J
old avanue, shaded by ancient COTTON
woods on each side. The Alameda is
another drive of. crescent shape, where
heavy foliage, and a continual war bling
of feathered songsters, charm the
lOiterer. Water is brought into the city
by an aqueduct from the mountains,
and it is pure and delicious. This
aqueduct is a fine sp ecimen of stone
masonry, built by the Spas liards many
/ years ago and is in splendid preservation.
The mint, where those Mexican dollars
are made which we sOmet mes take at
par and sell at discOu is a substan-
| tial institution of the place. 1t was in
the tower of this mint that Hidalgo was
imprisoned. The market Is a novelty
to an American, 1t is the inner co urt
of large block, where men, women
and boys, spread their wares upon
blankets laid upon the ground, and
with their awnings to protect them
from the sun, they ply vocation.
The principal products exposed for
sale are, Chill Colorado or red peppers,
(Which, by the way, are as staple
here as flour, and used about as extern
sively,) all kinds of vegetables and
garden truck, an endless variety of rude
crockery ware. which is made by the
Mexicans, gam9-cocks and small dogs.
Should you wish to purchase an arti-
Gle, you simply point to it and say
''quantus vallie?" And then the native
will tell you the number of Tlaco's. a
TlacO is about one and half cents of
our money. The ladies of our party
invested largely in Chihuahua dogs.
These animals are about the size of
small cat some of them nearly hair
less, and probably will have to be kept
IN hot houses great portion of the time
in this country. What the ladies want
ed of them is q mystery that no mortal
man can solve. We took dinner at a
Chinese restaurant and got an excel
lent cup of tea made a by pig tail disciple.
The police regulations OF the city are
very fine, and any thing that
pertains to boisterousness is strict
~ prohibited. Prisoners are made to
) sweep the streets and carry the filth
away, consequently the city is beauti-
fully clean. We noticed some Ameri-
cans as well as Greasers with ball and
chain ornaments, engaged in this de-
A lightful occupation. In the middle Of
2 the day the sun becomes very hot, and
one will notice the curious fact that he
is standing very nearly upon his own
shadow. All the well-tO-dO natives en-
l JOY the luxury of a siesta. They do
2 not, take 1t, however, as Hamlet pro-
! posed TO do "With bare bodkin," but
inside o. massive walls where the tenn
L perature is cool, and emusic of sweet
+ lutes and murmurs of low fountains that
gush forth in the midst of roses,'
lull them to repOse. From noon until
three O'Clock IL is virtually sleeping
: city, then the inhabitants throw off
n their lethargy, rub their sleepy eyes,
: and business proceeds as usual.
,. We visited several dignitaries of the
place, among whom were Senior Don
Pablo Ochoa, Attorney General, Senior
S Don Juan Zubiran, Mayor of the city,
and His Excellency, Don Tarassas,
o.. Governor of Chihuahua. They are all
. polished gentlemen, but the latter seems
: never to forget the one very Important
d fact, that he is Governor of Chihuahua.
} We noticed in the Chihuahua Enter
/, prise, periodical published by Z. B.
d Mills & Co., an advertisement that read
e something a. follows: 1.-THE Interna-
/ tiOnal Lumber Company, Juan Il.
/. Zubiran, Prest., and Geo. L. Anthony,
Sec'y." The latter is Ex-Governor
= Anthony. of Kansas. He has a beauti-
i full residence IN his sunny home, q gar
l. den filled with fruits of all kinds, where
+ carOllings of birds and fragrance of
flowers, fill the air with poesy, good
business, and is well treated; but not
/ withstanding all this he prefers the Wig,
IL orous young state of Kansas, and ex-
s poets to return some daY.
); Society lines are sharply drawn in
Chihuahua, and although Mexico is a
q republic, there is as strong an aristOcra-
cy here as in Spain. They have a pri-
K waite club called the Casino, whose
a members consist of the ''creme la Gre
e ma of the city. It is very exclusive,
strictly private, and neither their own
u citizens excepting members) nor Amer
leans, have ever been invited within its