Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

| dynamite 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 writhing cone against and
upon the machinery; while a stentorian
burgher waved his arms and shouted to the
multitude: "Ees cooms o Hamerican inwen-
tions! They puts willin' hands in tn
workus, an howdashusly stoaps oop our
streets. Down wi en-, say Oii' And
|'t'Down wi EMP sang they all as they
struggled to "Oop wi EN-, an avail Per-
haps they are at it yet in Penrith town.
Once Was Almost ImpregnabIe.
Ancient Carlisle, a portion of whose cas-
tie was built over 1920 years ago, is fine
example of the once almost impregnable
border town. It stands at the edge of the
foothills of the north English mountains,
on one of their farthest out-juttings, and
hill, town and castle have Typographical
look of pugnaciousness as the whole faces
the misty Scottish mountains Between
the city and the border stretches vast
fertile plain, once q fen over which Scottish
raiders slowly waded, and their delay al
ways gave the Carlisle warriors time to get
into good fighting trim. Indeed the strong
hold was the chief weapon of William
Rufus to 'bridle and render insecure the
possession of the Scottish kings in the two
northern counties" Poor Mary Queen of
Scots was shut up here sometime after her
landing in England. The east window of
the Carlisle Cathedral is probably the
largest in Britain; while within the same
area can nowhere be found so great num-
Der Of ancient castles of residence and de-
fense.
Among these I visited Rose, Corby and
Naworth castles, the latter the seat of the
Earl of Carlisle, and have not come upon
such tremendous battlemented walls else
where in Europe. Even in Carlisle itself it
Is not uncommon to find ancient houses
with walls from to feet in thickness; and
splayed windows and bartizen towers of
feudal times are SO quaint and frequent as
to form one OF the most curious and inter-
esting studies among the border towns.
Over the Scottish border where the
Tweed, as 1t leaves a region of glorious
tradition and is lost in the tides of the Ger
man Ocean, stands Berwick, looming darkly
in high antiquity. No man can tell its
origin, or trace its early history. It comes
first automatically into view in the early
part Of the twelfth century.
Resisted Scandinavian Invasion.
1t was then town of mark-the capital
of Lothian; and it figured for some time as a
great seaport, as place of rich churches,
monasteries and hospitals, and as one of the
first four royal burghs Of Scotland. The
Scandinavians made descents upon it, but
it was built for such visits and they did lit
tie harm. The English acquired claim
upon it in the time of William the Lion,
stormed it during the time of Alexander II
and inthralled it during the dispute for the
succession of the crown. 1t thenceforth be-
came an object of continual jealousy be-
tween the English and the Scotch, being
valuable for its great wealth, its mighty
Notifications and its extensive command of
the border districts, andit often suffered the
horrors of siege and capture.
Berwick's ancient mighty ramparts
against which the first cannon fired by the
English in warfare were pointed, have
been transformed into a beautiful PRONE
made. A railway station stands on the site
of its once almost royal CASTLE But stretch
ing across the Tweed, the Old Bridge, built
nearly 800 years ago, still remains, monu-
ment to the spirit of those troublous times,
and is simply chain of tremendous battle
mented forts on piers. Musing upon its
messy old spans, wandering about the lofty
bell-tower where the alarums were rung in
time of olden war or foray, looking from
Halidon Hill where the eye sweeps from
far sea horizon to the very peaks of the
mist-swathed Cheviots, or listening to the
soft notes of the curfew bell at eventide,
wondrous and stirring past is blended with
the brightness of to-day IN this one old bor-
der town. What host of mighty men and
women have played some act of their his
toric lives in Berwick
The early Morse Kings, the Saxon Thames