Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-29

upon them. The climate delighted them
They found the hills rosy with peach
blossoms. Every summer, in their postic
Language, ''was an extract FROM Pera-
dise Stately French families, writing
aristocrstic particles bsfcro their names,
were fonnd intefmafrying with the Swede
SvenssoDs and Dutch Staalksppss.
Freuchwomon stood on their washing
benches in the Bandywine ard taught
The amazed Swedish Housewives how TO
wash IN cold water. In a little cottage
on Sixth and Frsnch streets Lived a
Marchionsss, who adorned 1t, according
to local tradition, with the manners OF
Versailles, tho pride of Lucifer, and the
temper of the Faubourg St. German.
There was the Marquias de Souci, who
was maintained by her son, ct frat By
making fancy boxes of gourds, and thsn
by bnilding boats, at which he became
very expert. He was drowned, however,
ia enc OF his own boats before regaining
the atle to the family estates. Colonel
de Toussaud lived In farmhouse whose
walls he lined with painted canvas in
imitation of the decorated walls of his
chateau. Major Pierre daquette settled
on the Long Hook farm, where he lived
Mi his life in comfort and prospsrity,
happily married TO u pretty swedish girl
BE Joined the Methodists in later years,
after hearing Whiiehsld preach. The
old house Is pointed out, having narrowly
escaped destruction BY the fearful oy.
| clone which visited Wilmington laet
August. Their there was the old French
blacksmith, Joseph Isambrie, who left
HIS vito to blow the forge fise while he
told of his campaigns in Egypt under the
1 great Napoleon and 10 doctsur Bayard,
Who would take no fees frcm his untor-
tunats compatriots, recouping himself, 1t
was wickediy said from his stranger
patients and DR.. Capelle, one OF the
| army surgeons OF Louis XVI, who bound
up their wounds aud set their bonss
! without money and without price. There
! were also famous teachers among them =
NJ, Michel Msrtsl, an emigre of 1880, who
was skilled in Is languages. ava of which
4 ha impaired to Theodosis Burr and Moses
I Dsrgerac, later professor in st. Mary's
/ College al Baltimore. Another teacher
OF French in Wilmington at this time was
man OF different csiibre. William Cob
bs,t, the famous English Liberal editor
and pamphleteer, who lived on Quaker
sill from 1894 10 1895 OIL the procseds Of
his FRENCH lessons. and Of French
grammar whirh he had published. Ooh
be.t vent to Phi,adelphia in 1896 to edit
his Peter P01cupifle's Gasstts, saying to a
friend, who rallied him On the odd title,
TINT he meant to shoot bis quilts wherever
he could fnd game principle that he
followed faithfully to the end o. his
} career. Another interesting character Of
/ this closing decade of the century WIS
Archibald Hamilton Rowan, ono Of the
Slated Irisemen" OF 1897, who lived in
garrets and cabins, aud won bis way TO
all homes by his gifts OF laughter and
music, and who, after o few years Of pen
ury here, was called bsck to Ireland to
the enjoyment Of fortune Of $50 900 s
year. Latrobe, too, the real designer OF
the present national capitol at Washing
ton, lived here in the opening years Of
tho present century, ohiehg, it is said
because 1t wac convenient TO Washington
: where he was restoring the capitol, and
to Philadelphia, where he was building
water works, banks, and handsome priVat,
: mansions.
Ihe most interesting feature of vii
, minpton is the Old Swedss Church
? standing on the outskirts of the city, nea
) the Christina, just above the rock
q where in old days Minuit planted hi
fort. / am of the opinion that we hqvr
no church quite so interesting, as regard
4 age, origin, and architecture. 1t is prot
!, ably the Oldest which remains exactly a
9 if iett tho nRod Of itE builders 1888
l. is the date Id iron letters on the wes
r gable. The binding stands in q wild
!, place of graves. little pack from Chris
!. tina creek, and milo west Of the Del;
9 ware. The church is built of gray stone
b qusrried on the spot, aud is so feet long
e 80 feet wide, aud 90 feet high. Tt
= walls are six feet thick at the bass an
d three feet at tho windows. There era fiy
IS of the latter, large, and srched in th
n style of the old Norman, as are the thre
y heavy doora. There are inscriptions o
?. all four sides in iron letters set into Ii
q walls, the main inscription being on IL
q west gable.
1t Within the church is as quaint aud oil
IS az when Dutch Peter, the bst;le.searrs
D. sexton, haGlsd live Goals from the oil
ID cannon stoge upoa the brick floor to war;
81 it. This old cedar roof, fir pews, an
"a quaint pa'pit, with it's high soundin
le board, are very Interesting specimens il
W deed Of early church furniture
of The Inscriptions rscals the very int
81 eating circumstances undey which u
10 church was bRilt. After tho capture |
40 ths Dutch t1655) the Swedss were vel
ia much seat Tered, and found it ex:Game
Or difficult 70 seanre pastors. They we're
% It's Lutheran falth Of the pure Auas3Ni
"a confsseiou, aud secured now and then
e minister fsom the churches Of New YQt
10 the,r last one from this sourgB being Il
% Rev, Jaeoous Faoritius, called III lg7
70 who bee ma bind and inespaoitatcd
y 1889. They m ida frequent but vain d
% paRls TO the home church to slad the
OIL ''two ministers with Bibles, catschisnl
and other Rqdiy books to project TIE
10 from the false teachers and strange sect
II by whom they were surrounded.
o. last, in 1903, they appealed to Oharl
~ XI OF Sweden, an appeal very interestil
81 to as from statement it cont ira I'll
rs there were then lSS Swedish fAniiit
y comprising 9i2 persons, living on I
Delaware. Charles WAS much interest
Y, by the ietters, but the d4ath Of hia once
ea Ulsica Eleanor1, coon after, aud pfessi
n affairs Of state, delayed the Americ
Se matter for ZONE time In 1896 it was !
IN vivad. Andrew Rldman, caldlist
nr was selected % missionary TO Amesit
" AND ha In turn chose two other eoa
sh men, Eric Bjark and Josias Aurran,
90 companions and co.worksrs. The XII
81. gave for their outfit thirteen nHudtea d
10 isrs "copper" mint,n and $40 COPIES
ng Lathsr's oetheehisD, with Bibles ptsti
~ gnd chuych books, each bearing t
az kings name ia silt letters. AS the thr
a. were about 10 depart no granted then
"a personal interview, OF which he gave tbs
oi one hundred dollars silver mYnt" adj
60 tienai for their voyage, and inform
in anhapsaaar Il, 7 nudon ~ ,yoc,-a ~
sir norris and sea tbsn s5fsly m thai, H.
ud $50 now no concluded ltin tba ~,