Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1891-07-11

Mad In Puxzltng OSer-COnsternatioE
| Caused by the Appearance of an Am~ri
can Portable Engine and Thre~hins
| Machine.
lCopyright, Ise1-l
KELso. SCOTLAND, june -, 1891.
Correspondents Of the Palladium
| American travellers Fastening be
tween the English and Scottish capitals
| miss what have often felt Is the most
interesting portion Of the two countries
That is the Border country with Its
ancient border towns, in and around
which have been fought more ferocious
contests than elsewhere in all England
and Scotland. These cid border towns
have been but little modernized. The
railway stations are about the only
structures in them that have large
windows or smell of paint. They re-
main chiefly as they stood when the
border raids were ended. They are
gray, battle SCARED, ancient. They
were built in fighting times and have
their records in their hard old faces
To wander among them is like being
whisked back four or five centuries and
set down face to face with the grimness
and hardness of fedual times. Scotland
is richest in these weird old relics.
The Scotch crowded close to the Bor-
der, built huge places of sally, and then
being liveliest on their legs "harried
the English in such brisk and occu-
plying way that they had little time on
their hands. after chasing the raiders
home, for building border towns.
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border shires of Cumberland and North
CUMBERLAND, there are but two border
cities of note, Of ancient origin, New
castle and Carlisle, unless the little
early day castle-towns of Penrith and
Keswick, the latter in the English lake
district, may be included. But in the
three adjoining shires of Berwick, Rox-
burgh and Dumfries, there are Ber
wick and Coldstream, Kelso, Jedburgh,
Melrose, Hawick. Langholm, Eccle-
fechan, ADnln and Dumfries. 1t would
indeed be
CARRYING GOALS TO NEW CASTLE
to attempt discovering much of interest
in that city beyond matters connected
with manufactures and coal. AT kes-
wick one is too preoccupied with the
scenery of Derweut vale, dominated by
huge Skiddaw, and by the memories
recalled by the lines Of Southy and
Coleridge, that its ancient character and
traditions fade into insignifcance. Little
and quaint old Penrith is a place no
tourist ever finds, yet it is certainly one
of the oldest hives of humans in En-
gland. Here are the remains of a once
huge border castle, built by the Sevilles.
That was all the canny Scots could
see when they sailed over the border,
but they knew that at it's base, in a
little hollow, stood the grotesque town,
its streets the narrowest, most winding
and may in all England, and that its
wise old burghers had much of value
hid in their tiny strongholds of houses.
1t is at Penrith, sacked scores of times
in the English and Scottish wars, and
for several brief periods the residence
of that merry murderer. King Rich
ard III.-that you will find one of
Englands most curious rude stone
monuments. 1t stands in the little
churchyard, and is known as the 'Gi-
ants Crave There are two huge stone
pillars, one each at the head and foot.
They taper from circumference OF
twelve feet at the base to seven at the
top. Folklore of the region affirms
that they were erected ages gone by to
perpetuate the memory of legendary
giant called Owen Casarius. They are
covered With Runic carvings. British
antiquarians long since gave them up as
a dead age secret, and Sir Walter Scott
nearly went mad puzzling his poor
knobby head over them.
But saw the people of Penrith in a
more vexed puzzle than this the other
day. A portable engine and threshing
machine of American pattern were be-
ing hauled down hill through its single
thoroughfare. which sharply winds to
the right and left to accommodate the
entire place. 1t was too narrow in
places to allow their passage. Present
ly the two pieces OF machinery were
wedged fast between the opposite
houses. An extraordinary commotion
followed, as all the town folk on either
side seemed at once
FURIOUS TO PASS THE OTHER,
and this sinuous street was the only
means, without making circuit of
half the place. Everything from dyna-
mite to Queens warrant and the giant |
shade of Owen Cesarius. was suggested
to relieve the city. When | left it |
mobs were struggling on either side of
the barrier. massed into a writing cone
against and upon the machinery while |
a stentorian burgher waived his arms
and shouted to the multitude: les |
cooms o Hamerican inwentionsl They |
puts willin' hands in tn workus, an
stoaps oop our streets
Down wi EN-, say Oil" And Down
wi emf sang they all as they struggled
to '.Oop wi EN-, an awar' Perhaps
hey are at it yet in Penrith town
Ancient Carlisle, portion of whose
.astle was built over l 200 years ago, is
| fine example of the once almost inn
,regnable border town. 1t stands at
he edge of the foothills of the north
English mountains, on one of their
arthest out outings; and hill, town
md castle have Typographical outlook
IF pugnaciousness as the whole faces
he misty Scottish mountains. Between
he city and the border stretches vast
ertile plain, once a fen over which
Scottish raiders slowly waded, and their
ielay always gave the Carlisle warriors
ime to get into good fighting trim
indeed, the stronghold was the chief
Weapon of William Rufus to ''bridle
md render insecure the possessions of
he Scottish kings in the two northern
Poor Mary Queen of Scots
vas shut up here some time after her
anding in England The east window
# the Carlisle cathedral is probably
he largest in Great Britain; while
within the same area can nowhere be
ound so great a number of ancient
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