Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-06


 eral thing, one does not mind the demnition expense, but it's the rapidity with which the legal sandbagging oc- CUTS that is likely to result in fatalities. If the legal superintendent of the hold up system of toll brigandage would only drop in early in the morning and courteously ask for tribute in shilling lots for the day, and be done with it, there would be a reduction of whole, sale profanity to begin with and whole some relief in the end It is the sud- den halts by the wayside bandit in charge of the toll-gate that aggravates the peaceful man. It's the dribbling of pennies and sixpences and shillings in tolls and tips that makes a letter of credit dissolve like beautiful dream and causes hideous bankruptcy in strange land stare the wanderer grin ningly in the face. Beggaryl That naturally leads to think of beggars There are a few of them in South ampton, at least that have come under my observation Perhaps they all start toll-gates. Bright idea. If have to make an assignment I'll start a toll
 
 Speaking of settling, it's a matter of history that the Romans first settled Southampton. That settles it, ;" remarked Aurelius-I am not sure about the first name-C8sar, as he marked off few acres for building lots, with public bar at every corner for the sale of Roman punch, ito be drank on the premises" as the signs here read. There was Roman fortress here about the year one that was called "Glausentum. They were awfully hard up for names in those days. From the fortress road ran to Winchester, the cathedral town twelve miles from here. 1 took the same road, so the driver of the coach told me, when l took stage coach drive up there. The driver was simply disgusted when l asked him if the Romans built the cathedral, but when 1 asked him if they took boarders at the cathedral he said could come back to Southampton by train if I wanted to. I never used to disgrace myself this way, before I ran around London with the Devilbug.
 About A. D. All the native Britons
 
 broke and returned to Georgia.
 Then some people came whose names in the tax-list of A. D. 755 read like this: Gynewulf, Witan, Sigebryht They named the place "Hantunscire The railway timetables kept making misprints of the name until the year s37 A. D., when the town was known in the Bradshaws of that period as Hamtone, and little later the alder men from the Tenth ward introduced an ordinance asking that the name of the town be changed to "Suth-ham- tune" The ordinance was referred to the committee on streets and alleys, and was eventually passed. Vote, ayes T. nays 6.
 Pretty near all the kings England ever had had their fingers in the Southampton pie and dabbled in the adjoining real estate-which mostly belonged to the crown. The castle, and the walls, and the great gates of the city are all works of the engineers of the monarchs of early England. The men who worked for living received only penny day in those times, and walking delegates received their pay in stocks. There is pair on exhibition at Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight.
 Many evidences of the grandeur of these edifces and the fact that the rulers of the dark ages had money to burn. even if labor was cheap, are still to be seen, and all within few min utes' walk of where these lines are written. The poor people of those days paid the freight, just as they do to-day.
 Further down Southampton is Net ley abbey, which was built early in the thirteenth century. It is now in ruins, and must have been in that interesting condition for centuries, if it is true that the fort at Netley was built from the stones taken from the abbey. And the Netley fort is no youngster Nor is Calshot castle, on the other side of the estuary, which was built in Henry WILLS time, and is therefore over three hundred and fifty years old, and never has worn spectacles or ridden on railway train. There is a house here where Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn are said to have taken apartments to- gether when on visit-attendanee OILY SlNpeuc6 0AGTd. IuSLGdu Ol DtluB ashamed of it, the present proprietor, who rents the same rooms to lodgers- attendance only sixpence extra-has sign outside the house stating the al- legged facts of Henry and Anne's visit. Scandalous Other more or less royal personages have visited Southampton since.
 The Bar Gate marks one of the en- frances to the old town, when it was fortified clean around the city limits, and the people in the suburbs had to take chances against raids by the Danes and Norwegians, who, before they commenced to emigrate to Ameri- ca-it was long before, from S37 to 994 were content to ravage England un- der their leaders, Svein and Olaf It was in the settled time of old King Canute when the town commenced to extend "above the bar" The Fore water is pleasant walk along the sea wall and where the town flirting is