Connecticut western news., 1892-10-27

not amounting to S200, and yet with heroism inconceivable, eight men ap- piled for admission on trial in this con- ference to do the hardest of hard work at the smallest of small salaries, because Christ had said to them "Go preach My Gospel"
 Leaving Pulaski, IT miles further on. Abingdon, the county seat of Washing
 ton county, was reached, one of the lar gest shipping points for lumber in the state, but it's greatest honor is it's ladies' seminaries, the Roman Catholics, Pres byterians and Methodist Episcopal church South having hourishing institu- tions The Presbyterian is a memorial to Stonewall Jackson, and IS called by his name. The Methodist, which is larger than the other two com bined, has a long, honorable and successful record, and is called the Martha Washington Female Institute. It's faculty numbers 15, its head being a Litchfield county
 boy, Professor Barker, from Winsted, man in the prime of life with all Yan- kee's push, grit and go. It was my
 pleasure to attend a complimentary con- cert given by the musical staff assisted
 by the teacher of elocution, and finer entertainment could not reasonably be desired SsThe school is crowded, and
 new building for extra dormitories is
 being put up. Since Prof. Barker's ad
 vent the old school has taken e new
 lease of life. Abingdon is fitly named the "Cave City, large cave running under great portion of it. The finest and most imposing erection in the city
 is the United States public building,
 containing court rooms and post office.
 It is we'll lighted city. it's streets and
 many of its stores and churches being lighted by electricity. Nowhere else are the old and the new brought more sharply in contrast, slowly ''The old or der changeth. yielding place to new" On the Sunday morning spoke to fine intelligent audience in the M. E. church South. In the afternoon found my way to theAfrican M. .E.Zion church, little unattractive shanty on stilts, to keep it out of the mud, and listened to bright sermon, by Q young colored man, delivered to less than thirty peo- pie. At the close of the sermon they wanted to raise collection and accord ing to custom began to sing, and one song was evidently original, being found- ed on the sermon. There was recita- | tive in minor tone, and then chorus which as near as could make out was: ''Nol we don't want to go down in the storm, No we don't want to go down in the storm, No North, no South, no East, no West,
 No we don't want to go down In the storm" {" | The contrast between the two services | was remarkable.
 "On to Richmond" Fifteen hours was being crossed and the historic capi- | oI 1f U.~,~.r.a Th.. point of interes. was the state capitol on | the summit of Shoeke Hill, in the cen- CT of a park of eight acres. It is sim | pie stately building in the Gr@co-com- posite style of architecture, with DOT | tico of Ionic columns. Beneath the | lofty dome in the Central Hall is Hou- l don's celebrated marble statue of Wash | ington in the uniform of 8 revolutionary | general, and made from casts taken from | Washing tons o wn person. In @ niche near by is Houdon's marble bust of
 Lafayette. In the hall of the House of
 Delegates the Ordinance of Secession
 was passed, and here the Confederate
 Congress met. The state library con- tained documents of priceless valne, and fac-similes of the Ordinance of Secession and other documents of historic value,
 such as Jefferson Davis's bail bond with the name of Gerrit Smith, Horace Gree ley, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at the head The Librarian was courtesy em-
 bodied, and answered readily any query put. In the grounds of the capitol are three monuments of no common inter-
 est, first and foremost being the one of
 Washington, the finest have seen. It | is an equestrian statue of heroic size.
 Around it's granite base are grouped the
 bronze statues of Patrick Henry, the
 fiery; George Mason, the author of the
 Virginia Bill of Rights; Thomas Jeffer-
 son, the father of the Declaration of h.
 dependence; Gov. Thomas Nelson, Jr.
 Andrew Lewis, who led the Virginians
 to victory over the Aborigines and open
 ed out 8 way to the West; and John
 Marshall, the great chief justice, all sons
 of Virginia. Below these are 8 number
 of allegorical groups. All in all it is
 peerless and unrivalled. Within stones
 throw is the Stonewall Jackson statue
 with the inscriptions: Presented by
 English gentlemen as tribute of admi,
 ration for the soldier and patriot, Thom-
 as J. Jackson, and gratefully accepted
 by Virginia in the name of the South.
 ern people. Done A. D., 1875, in the
 hundredth anniversary of the Common
 wealth." A little distance away is a can-
 opied marble statue of Kentucky's great
 orator, Henry Clay, a fine specimen oi
 quiet genuine art. Leaving the capitol
 grounds, St Johns church, where Pat
 rick Henry made his great speech
 which was the keynote of Amer1can In
 dependence. was next in order and SCOT I was standing on the historic spot try
 ing to recall the scene SO momentous Not far away was Libby Hill, where {
 soldiers monument, simple marbl,
 pillar with Corinthian capital, is being raised in honor of the Boys in Grey. few rods distant is the oldest building in Richmond, an old stone house nor, than 200 years old, which is known a Washingtou's head quarters and is nov turned into museum of war curiosi
 ties. From there made my way to tn, other end of the city to see the monu } ment to General Lee. It is about 50 fit high and grandiy simple. On plain massive pedestal there is an equestrian statue. The artist has made one move } change; the four feet of the horse ar 3 planted firmly down and not as usual, seen one of the fore feet kicking out D Hollywood cemetery, the Greenwood o : the South, next demanded attention @ Here were the graves of many men o mark; among them. President Monroe 8 whose resting place is marked by t beautiful gothic monument; J. E. B D Stuart, the great Confederate calvalr 8 general; Bishop Doggett, of the churc d South; and Dr Plumer, tho great teach }! CT and divine. The monument to tn r. Confederate soldiers is an immens O pyramid of rough stones, now well nig 7 covered with running vines, literally a IT evergreen memorial. The Southerner 8 are by no means ashamed of those wh IT died for the Lost Cause The view froI