The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-02-09
OLD GOA TILE GOLDEN
ITS SITE IS NOW ONLY "A VAST AND
GRASSY TOMB.

The once splendid PoEfuErueScE City
In India aInEa Accent wilderness.
It's aiaKterpiece OF Art the Tomb OF
st. Francis xavier.
II was said that during the prosper
Gus times of the Portuguese in India
you could not have seen a piece OF iron
in any merchants house, but all gold.
and silver They coined Immense guam
titles of the precious metals and used.
TO make pieces OF workmanship In
them for expectation The very sol
diers enriched themselves by com.
merce.
But then at last came the lnquisIfion,
which Celebrated its terrible and deadly
rites with more feryor aud yeheinence
at Goa than In any other place ReIi
gious persecution. pestilence and wars
with the Dutch, disturbances arising
from an unsettled government, and.
above all, the slow but sure workings
of the shortsighfea policy OF the Portu-
guese In intermarrying and Identifying
themselves with the Hindoos of the
lowest caste, made her fall as rapid as
her rise was sudden and prodigfons.
In less than a century and a half ait.
er Da CANA had landed ON the Indian
shore the spIendor of Con had departed
forever. The inhabitants he'd before
the deadly fever which soon fastened
upon the devoted precincts of the city
and In 115s the yiceroy. transferred his
headquarters from the ancient capital
to Parjina, about eight miles distant
Soon afterward the religions orders
We're expelled, leaving their magnia.
cent converts and churches all but ut
terly deserted, and the inquisition was
suppressed upon the Recommendation
of the British government.
The place is now grass grown will
derness. But still the firm and wei;
built causeways of this olden city and
Its moldcring splendors are reminiscent
of echoing pageants and the tramp of
armies which once sounded there. As
we tread the ancient wharf, long.
broad road, lined with d double row OF
trees and faced with stone. more sug-
gestive scene of desolation can hardly
be conceived. Everything around teens
with melancholy associations, the very
rustlings of the trees and mur1nur cf
the waves sound like a dirge for the de
parted grandeur of n city.
Towering above mass of ruins q
solitary gateway TANKS the entrance
staet aiSs,, 49, ~.
streets q, Ill,
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saint ~ G;oo yvba,, tl,e ,,,5,.., ~,
fured nv AlhnonerGIa IN tie nav ~
her festival Groves ~ cocct, NM, n, I'M.
and mango zones no,,, ine,,,,1l,e,. tl,s
Ground ones cr,.e,.o,I ~ troo,,s ~ ,,o,.ss
The wealth fI,a b,ey 'lifa a nd tbe. NV.
nrv Of the old nIoce are 1ool ISttes
and cobras Infest t,,e crr,nhlino5 h,,IIs
which once rcsonn.Ied wifi, t,,a HIM.
met and The fnnca and noygbt Inf i,
few Md montFs and n,,ns l,eers ,-;,,,,
amid lis desolntion tofIay
But Goa nossesses ono treasure of
great interest This IL the ton,l, ~
ITrancIs xavier the oraat Ias,,i+s mis-.
sionary 10 tbc eastl n Is Ia I,e found II,
the Chrrcb - Re-, Ies,,s = ~ ~ e ,aa :,
terniece az ort 1vbic,, q loot Ia nh INT
tbe cos,,at x,ts,tors "a ala 900 soyaa
have yentured IA s,,gcest t1,ot no otl,er.
|fnausoleum IN indfn or even In Asin az.
cent the Tai NrahoI on, ennal It TT n 10
bnilt Of rici, n,nrhle az va,,ies,of e,l col.
ors. The lowest stago is ~ red and