Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21

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ton.
They have a court house here that
would do credit to more metropolitan
towns. Built of red and gray sand
stone so abundantin thisregion, with
wide halls and ample and comforta-
BILE court rooms, it is enough to in
spire hesitating advocate or encour-
age Respondent prisoner. In the
centre of the building flows a fOun-
tain of crystal water from the little
mountain stream, and as it gurgles
and dances about seems to say "who-
soever will may come" and drink
their fill. Over the two front doors,
cut in the stone, were the legends in
Spanish and English, "Casa de C0rteS"
and "Court House, for the benefit of
the two populations, and distributed
through the building, printed in the
two tongues, were the sterotyped in
hibitions against smoking, damaging
the walls, etc. The principal room
was model of elegance and conve-
nience. Large oil paintings adorned
the walls; on the one side, illustra-
ting historical events; on the other,
portraying scenes on the frontier, in
which Indians, buffallOs, cowboys
and miners were the chief actors. AS
| sat and looked at these paintings,
at the garrulousla lawyers and the mot
ley crowd of idlers, many of whom
were MeXicans Of dark compilations
and sinister eyes, | thought of the
painting in the dome at Washington,
representing party of emigrants on
their way to find homes in the prai-
ries of the West, and beneath which
is the writing-"No pent up Utica
constrains our powers; the whole
boundless continent is ours" and my
respect for the undaunted spirit of the
Anglo Saxon race rose higher. The
Menicans here are, in the main, poor
and ragged, and remain so, constitu-
ting mostly the laboring class of the
community. Some were at work on
the railroad, some in the streets, do
ing this and that odd job, and making
just enough to keep soul and body
together, and to supply them with
cigarettes and cayenne-absolutely
essential to their being. This is the
rule, though there are a few very
wealthy. Brown & .Manzanares as a
supply house, is known all over the
Southwest and is located here.
A very comical sight was Mexl-
can drivinga droveof "burros," load
ed with stove wood, to the city.
cannot tell you just what a burro is.
Their pedigree is probably not a sci
entific fact, but they are in some way
connected, either genealogically or
otherwise, with the Warren county
ass. They are about as big as a good
size back log, so to speak, and about
as active, but for all the purposes of
carrying on their kindly backs every
thing that a Mexican could want to
move, and doing it in the most anna
BILE, obedient way, they are, in the
language of the young lady / saw
riding outat the Springs, livery love
of creatures" An old lady on the
train told her companion that her
husband called them "bureaus," and
the idea seemed so comical, that, in
her demonstrations of merriment,
she was the cynosure of the eyes of
all her fellow passengers. | thought
the pronunciation rather suggestive,
when it is remembered how much
they have to carry on their not very
capacious backs. Las Vegas is a great
resort for the cattle men, who, being
a liberal class, keep a good deal OF
money in circulation. The town is,
in fact, supported by the cattle inter
est. Comparatively speaking, it is a
pleasant little town, and flourishing
as it does in the midst of desert prai.
RE, it seemed to me a blooming oasis,
planted there providentially to give
comfort and refreshments to the tired
children of the plains.
From here took the train for the
Hot Springs, only a fifteen minutes
ride. On the road side, were two OF
three Mexican villages, consisting O
a score or more Of small lily Lighted
and ventilated dobes, in front O
which sat dusky, dirty women, sun
ming themselves and over-fondlins
their ugly, greasy, hairless dogs. Thc
Springs are down in hollow, sur
rounded by high rugged hills, cover
ed with pine and pinon trees. Natur,
has done everything for the spot, anC