Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-09
HOW STREET CARS ARE RUN.

Inerei ore everybody patr0p1ZeS the horse
cars, and the tariff charged for a ride,
whether it be for five miles or block, is q
Colombia real, coin which equals in value
about 10 cents American money. The
horsecar drivers carry tin horns, which they
are continually footing with might and
main to notify people in their houses Of the
trains approach. Throughout all Spanish
America the street cars are never run
singly but always in groups; that is, instead
of sending out cars five minutes apart they
wait altogether at the station half an hour or
more, and then all sally forth at once, six
or eight of them close behind one another.
to the other end of the line, where they wait
in a group as before. But in this Arcadia
nobody is ever in a hurry. Often the
whole string of cars is halted while some
body who Is coming finishes his chat en-
casa and goes through with the elaborate
and long-winded adieux which are the
fashion among these excessively polite
Castilanoes. And whenever a passenger
gets off, especially if it be female, another
wait ensues while she embraces all her
acquaintance who may chance to be in the
same car and exchanges with them the
customary kisses and come and see mes"
The other day we visited the barracks,
whose lofty blank walls line one side of a
pretty plaza. Among other curiosities we
were shown some old bronze carronades, one
of which is highly priced for its HISTORIAN
inscription on the breech showing that the
Spaniards captured it from the French at
the battle of Pairs. The artillery of the
Colombian Guard are furnished with Arm
strong mountain guns and q few Gatlings.
Among the latter one whose vicissitudes
deserve especial mention.
STORY OF GATLING GUN.
During the last general revolution the
conservative party (Which included the
church element and was opposed to the So
called Liberal" government), received in
formation that Gatling gun, which should
have been delivered to the Government long
before the revolution began-had at last
arrived at Barranquilla and was about to
be shipped up the river to Honda. Now,
the insurgents were wofully short of muni-
tions of warfare, and had almost nothing
Tor use in the interior; therefore, they deter
mined to possess themselves of that blessed
gun. But how to do it was the question
especially since it must come through
Honda, which at that time was the main
stronghold of the Government forces.
They hit upon plan which never could
have been carried out except In country
like this, where mems minds are densely
clouded with religious superstition. The
revolutionists sent secret dispatches to their
sympathizers on the coast; and these having
received the gun from the ocean steamer,
transferred it by night from its original case
to another big box, which they labeled as
the image of saint, designed for
q church that was being built at Mapza-
mares; and thus they shipped it up the Mag
dalena. On its arrival at Honda other un-
rebel agents received it with SOL
emn religious ceremonies and carried it
through the streets to the cathedral, where
they deposited it on the platform in front.
There it remained all day, and was pub
licly blessed and sprinkled with holy
water, in the presence Of an assembled null |
titude, including battalion Of Government