Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-21

Sidney Smith, the colored boy. who stole
an old pair of shoes from Kahn Gernsberg,
the Webster street shoemaker, last Saturday.
| was sent to jail for thirty days for the
otfense.
NOTES BY a NEW HAvENER.
His Visit to Mexico-A Flying Trip
observations by tho Way-Thc People
Their Spiritual And Temporal Con-
4 ditiOR.
Following is letter to the Humphrey
street church Sunday school, from New Or
leans, by Mr. Horace P Shares, superinten-
dent, and read recently before the school,
My Dear Friends:-Whsn I wrote to you
some time since, expected to write more
frequently than L have, but circumstances
have prevented, I soon after entered
Mexico and have been too much occupied to
write
You have been studying about PauI's third
missionary journey. History is repeating it
self to-day in Mexico. Different societies
have in the last few years sent their Pauls
to establish schools and churches in the land,
and as I have had the opportunity have Wis
tied some of the missions. You cannot
imagine how badly off the majority of the
people are. Most of the working people re-
ceive twenty-five cents per day. In some
places visited eighteen cents per day and
two pounds of corn vas the regular price for
a man to support his family upon, and every
thing is higher there than with US. For in
stance, ham is thirty-seven cents per pound,
which means no ham at all for ninety out of
a hundred; and everything else is in proper
ton except corn. A mans wardrobe con-
sists of cotton shirt with short pair of
pants made of the same cloth. When l come
home l shall have to tell you how the boys
aud girls and women dress, the cost being
from twenty-five to fifty cents for the whole
outfit. 1 know you will be thankful that
have seen man, a donkey
and a woman hitched to the same load draw
ing abreast through the streets of city half
as large as New Haven. The farming is done
in about the same way as it was in Paul's
time. l have seen seventeen yoke of oxen
plouehing in one field, each yoke hitched to
a crooked stick and the yoke strapped to the
horns The wheat is threshed ON the ground
by driving mules over it and then thrown up
in the air to winnow. In the large cities
every Sunday bull fight is arranged In
the City of Mexico the Sunday 1 was there 1T
was stated to me by those travelling with NE
that six thousand attended the fight. Four
bulls were killed, three horses and one young
about Is years of age were instantly
killed. Sometime when I am with
you I shall have to describe
more particularly notable things and places
that have seen. Most of the people here are
very active and strong. 1 have seen three
away he would go like boy. The climate of
Mexico is splendid and it is nice country to
live in if the people could only be Christian
lied, and it is for this purpose that we find
to-day going through Mexico establish
ing schools and churches. This work meets
with opposition just as PauTs did. 1 was in
troduced to young man whose father and
brother were shot Ia st October in the village
where he lived beca use they were preaching,
and yet he is conducting the school and
preaching and God is blessing him and his
work And others in different parts of
the land encounter opposition, but some
sixteen thousand have already united with
Protestant churches, and as many more are
attending churches and Sunday schools that
are not members. More men than women
have thus far been converted.
am glad that you are getting along 80
we'll. My prayer is that God will bless you
and that you 1aay all belong to his king
DOM