The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-09-13
SEEING
SIGHTS.
Judge Ali and Sheriff Burton
Visit the National Capital.
From There They go to Philadelphia
Whose Size Impresses Them.


am thinking Of going on farther East
and stsying over 70 the National
Prison Congress 10 which Gov. Bradley
has commissioned me a delegate, which
meets at Hartford, Conn, Sept. 23d 10
9th, feel like communicating with the
taxpayers who may fear have left and
they be deprived of that patriotic pls as
ure OF making their annual contribution
Of taxes. To such 1 will say, fear not,
am coming and further wish to tell
you in our good county paper, something
Of what we have seen.
Judge VIM ALL and family and
myself, together with our two disting
uished colored citizens, Felix and Crit
HambletoD, left Hardinsburg Sunday
morning, September 3D.. We arrived in
Louisville on time, and found John
Daniel. We then lost both HambIetous
and John and have not found them yet.
The Judges wife and daughters on ar
irving at Louisville, stopped OF and
placed the Judge in my hands to guard
and to guide, which have done up to
this date to the best Of my ability.
We took passage on the Q. and o. and
had rough night. Daylight on the 4th
found us at Thurmond, West Va. We
continued to climb the Allegheny noun.
tains and the Kanswha river for about
100 miles to the Virginia line. l must
say 1 have very poor opinion of West
Virginia. 1 like the State for but one
thing and that is base ball The best
place l saw in the State for yard the
left fielder would be at least 400 feet
higher than the right. On such a
diamond work would be preferable, and
more profitable.
At Clifton Forge we changed from
Central to Eastern time, hence we had
to set our watches up one hour. We
passed over some of the finest mountain
scenery IN the world, and finally reached
very nice country down in Virginia.
Took a good look at Bull Run, where 80
much Union blood was split By the
way, Virginia soil has drunk more
patriotic blood than any State in the
United States We passed over the
Potomac river at 3 o'clock p. m. and
took look at the Capital and grounds
| Tuesday, September 9th. We first Wis
tied the navy yard; We found it very
beautiful. The first thing OF special in
terest was Two Cannons, captured by
| Commodore DeCateur from the TripOE-
tans IN 1904. They we're maize in Bar.
celonia, Spain. Tue students of that
town, but about 10 months since, acted
in such way one would be led 70 be-
lieve they knew nothing of this history,
though l guess they have had arrminder
since, which will call up "Reminiscences Of
American courage. The vast amount,
and pOnderOus weight and destructive
ability of the machines brought into ex-
istence here, should teach every nation
on earth to respect liberty, and every
American TO love his country. can't
mention but few, as my paper is sure to
be too long to fit anything but the waste
basket. One of greatest interest is a
rapid hiring gun that could shoulder,
and when mounted, can be handled
easily by one man. 1t sends forth
400 shots as large as hens egg in one
minute. l will mention one other, and
that is a gun ready to mount ON our
good ship Kentucky. 1t is 81 feet long
and will cost, when mounted, $3.50, 900.
Each shot will cost about $500 think
there is but one menace to liberty ON the
American continent that would Justify
such an expensive shot, and that one
thing is Goebel, and the good ship Ken
lucky should FIRE it.
We next visited the Library Building
which is said to be the finest building in
the world, and believe it. There is no
use for me to try to describe its grandeur
and beauty. Suffice it to say there has
been enough OF the finest marble in the
world wasted here to have erected a
monument to every man, woman and
child in Breckenridge county, and each
made sufficiently. large to inscribe all
their good acts and many of their bad
ones, There lie something like one hum
dred great marble columns about forty
feet tall which l did not fully under.
stand; but they seemed TO be used for
distinguished visitors to inscribe their
names on. On one We saw Moses,
another Plato, another Goethe, another
Tsnnyson, LongfelloW, Burns, Fulton,
Newton, Franklin, etc. They had guards
there TO look after the house, and want.
ing 10 do right about it, asked one of
them if those columns were 10 carye the
names Of visitors Of distinction (which
question he answered with a nod and
stroug smile. Whereupon introduced
him TO Judge Ahl, Of Breckenridge coun-
ty, KY, and told him was the sheriff
and perhaps the largest one IN the State,
and with his consent the Judge and /
would use but one Of the columns, pro-
duoing a rusty knife to do the carving at
onoei but only got his consent TO leaye,
which we did. But think he repented,
and would have given us the column
for he called 10 us 10 come back, old
Kentucky bat we went on 10 the Capt.
tol and hired a guide 10 show as less Of
the building than we could have seen by
ourselves But We wanted the people 10
knnu that sya Kauttsolfana haI Ok 800.