Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-23
A IEYpoRE CARPENTER.

Different classes huldle in groups. Her,
for block there are nothing but shoe,
and turncd-up slippers of the Mahomctan
and footwear of satin embroidered il
gold is spread out for sale. Here is /,
score of brass merchants, and there is ,
block taken up with the sellers of vcgc
tables. Out ON the side streets you Sc,
carpenters sitting and saving, and walk.
ing through long aislcs OF IIindoos wht
are selling the g;rldicst cottons you come
TO the cashmere cloth merchant an6
llaggle for the price Of shawl. TIL,
merchant has his wares spread out on the
ground and dressed in his turban and
gown he squats with his boy clerk beside
him. His stock includes shawls worth
thousands of rupees and some which can
he bought for u few dollars. He asks
three times what he expects to get, and
in case you object is willing TO throw up
coin and let head or tail decide the
bargain.
Most Americans buy shawls in this
part OF India, and after a sale is made
the merchant invariably demands That
You write Il recommendation for him in
lis note book. This he shows to future
travellers, and find scattered over India
ihc autographs of noted American At
Delhi found Grants autograph, and the
merchant who had it under n recommcn-
daton Stain. that his wares were rood
told me he had been offered 100 rupccs
Tor it, and that he would not sell il for
100, 900 rupees. james Gordon Bennett
states that he "linds certain mans
shawls good and he supposcs they arc
cheap" and the merchant who owns the
book tells me that Bennett bought n
dozen cashmere shawls, saying he wanted
to Use them for making undcrshirts.
These were Of the kind called rin,t
smwls, so fine that you can pull whole
shawl through the wedding ring of n
lady. 1t must be nice to have an under
shirt which you can pull through ring,
and IN the case Of Il man who travels with
his extra clothing in his hat l can sec
where the advantage comes in.
The Raiaha's place is in the centre of
his capital. 1t covers great area and the
palace Arden with its flowing rivers of
water, formed by fountains squirting out of
a stone bed, would be large enough for II
farm. His Majesty is now in Calcutta, but
arrangements had been made for my visit,
AMI note from the English Secretary,
Major llcndlcy, gave me Il dark skinned
palace guide and was shown through
court after court of marble and taken
through room after room furnished with
rich Persian carpets and with satin-cov-
cred chairs and divans of European make.
In one palace there was IN immense bill
liard-room and in this and the room
adjoining the skins of tigers and leoparls
were scattered about by the hundred.
They lay in great piles on the floors.
They were hung on the walls and some
OF the divans were upholstered with
them. l went through room after room
filled with such skins, and l was told
that the beasts were all killed by the
Rajah, who is very fond OF tiger hunting
and who is M excellent shot. 1 was
shown the outside of the palace contain
ing the harcm, and the arrangements for
for keeping it cool struck me as rather
peculiar. Outside of the main hall and
running along one length of the palace
was series of great canning mills not
unlike those used by the American