The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-13


"doing' the town, though its hills are
50 nearly perpendicular that to climb
them on wheels is at the peril of life
and limb. Driving up steep streets OF
porous black lava, between houses and
walls of volcanic stone, surrounded by
blooming gardens in which black
knots and Jumps scorched by vol
canic fires, appear everywhere amid the
most exuberaut vegetation, we ascend
to Richmond Heights to get piano.
ramic view of the situation. From the
fort on top, which now holds neither
guns nor soldiers, you may see the three
"Bocas" of Trinidad, and on clear
day can even get vague glimpse OF
South America, whose nearest point is
only sixty miles away. The rest OF
the prospect is charming-a perfect
paradise of bloom and fruitage, gar
dens and orchards. stone mansions and
plaintain-endowered cottages, and hills
variegated with verdant poppies. The
interior of the island is highly pictur-
esque, its irregular but continuous
chain of mountains attaining an aver
age elevation of 5000 feet, and branch
ing off into lesser ridges with deep,
green valleys between them. Grenada
reminds one of Madeira. her features
being never grand, but always soft and
noble. The mounds of ash and lava,
basaltic boulders and cliffs of horn
blende, porphyery and red sandstone
are washed by innumerable sparkling
cascades and draped with forests of cot
tonwood, giant mombines (hog-plums),
and the whole palm family, and are
alive with chattering monkeys, bright
winged birds, gorgeous butterflies and
brilliant Jewel bugs"
To be sure the average temperature
from year to year is So degrees Fahren
heit, but one does not feel the heat
much. unless exercising too violently,
because ocean breezes are always blow
ing. Earthquake tremblings are fire.
quently experienced, but hurricanes,
which have so often devastated the
northern islands, have never yet ex-
tended so far southwark.
1t is also worth a climb to the Gov
eminent House, which is situated on a
ridge at the end of Hospital Hill,
whence the view is that of the Bay of
Naples on one side and Of a poets
Arcadia ION the other. The prosaic
planters themselves, who are chiefly
Scotchmen not overburdened with SEN
timent, seem to have had such notions,
for they have named the vale below
Tempe, the river Peneus, and the cloven
eminence near it, where the finest
sugar of the colony is grown, Mount
Parnassus. One morning we drove
out to suburban villa to call upon a
disgruntled countryman "a Kentuc-
khan. who left the United States in a
huff when the civil war did not turn
out to suit him. He has prospered in
Grenada, despite his politics and the
abolition of slavery even here, and is
the contented possessor of an ideal
home, which stands in a green knoll
about 500 feet above the sea. The
winds from the eastern mountains
sweep fresh and cool through his wide
halls and lofty rooms, and the drawing
room windows open upon lawns fra
grant with Transplant bushes, whose
odorous, rose-colored blossoms grow at
the ends of almost leafless branches.
There are gardens and orchards,
tennis courts and croquet grounds,
swings for the little ones and bowl.
ing alley for children of larger growth,
and perfect riot of the same flowers
we plant at home with many unfamiliar
ones; and behind is wonderful SWEEP
of green, wooded hills, rising tie1
above tier, with cottages and farms in
their hollows.
AS to Georgetown public buildings
there are the usual offices of Colonial
officials, a custom house and court
house. and in the yard of the latter two
beneficent institutions-a whipping
post and treadmill, which the lazy
blacks dread more than anything else
The Church of England is beautifully
situated on little green plateau, ant
has neat spire and excellent clock
and close by is the pretty parsonage
The Methodists have a big stone meet
ing-house and numerous congrega
ton, and the Catholic Chapel is long
wooden building, in the rear end O
which rusty bell continually call
upon the faithful. The stores O
Georgetown are larger and more Eng
lish than anywhere else in the West In
dies, with handsome counters and fin,
rows of shelves and showcases. The,
are real "stores, " not shops, for nobod,
hereabouts confines him self to the sail
of one line Of articles. 1t is a seriou
affront in Grenada to call a store ,
shop, for by the latter you infer tina
its proprietor is shopkeeper, it'll
which Englishmen greatly resent
They are all gentlemen merchants wht
are not negro hucksters, and there ar
no middle men" between them.
The island is said to contain upwar,
of $4,000 inhabitants, only 500 O
whom are whites. Since slavery day
there has been considerable importa
ton of coolies for the plantations, a
the freed negroes cannot be depende,
upon for steady work; and after "a gen
GRAFTON or two the result is plainly ap
parent in a different tinge of complex
ion among the "colored" population.
There was formerly House Assem-
bly, at Georgetown, but not now, sine