File:Our next-door neighbor- a winter in Mexico (1875) (14577914667).jpg

Identifier: ournextdoorneigh00have (find matches)
Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
me, the enemy rages and rises at times into ferocity ofhatred. At Toluca it assailed with riotous bands the little congre-gation, shouting Death to the Protestants !* At Tirajaen a gangset on fire the house of a family, while all were sleeping, andwounded the father severely with the sword. At Cuernervaca aRomanist stabbed one of the brethren with a poniard, and killedhim. At Capulhuac they killed one and wounded three. At thecapital, earlier in the movement, one was assassinated. At Aca-pulco a mob killed and wounded a dozen. It was suppressed byvolleys discharged into its midst by the commandant of the place,which resulted in several deaths. Other persecutions have oc-curred, and may occur; for the country has hardly yet been pen-etrated, and the pagan, which is the village population, may risefiercely on the teachers and preachers of a better faith. But riseand grow that faith will. The labors of Riley, the martyrdoms * See Appendix I). •2 c n> If: > o > G r - F5o o Z wn
Text Appearing After Image:
RAILROADS.—PYRAMIDS. 453 of Aguilar and Stephens, the heroism of Aguas, the vigor of thepresent workers, shall not be in vain. To-morrow shall be as thisday, and much more abundant. Another topic, touched upon in the beginning, deserves notice atthe end. I had the privilege of going out in the same steamerwith railroad managers, abode in the same hotel with them, androde with them over the same paths. Success has attended effortsin that direction. Mr. Plumb, former secretary of legation, and ason, I believe, of a missionary, has succeeded in getting an agree-ment signed by the Government which insures a railroad to Leonand to Texas. He was not the representative of the party I wasmost conversant with ; but it is with railroads as with Christianchurches: it is not of so much importance who build them as thatthey be established. His bland manners, admirable tact, elegantbijou of a house, fine command of the language, and knowledge ofmen, with a constant perseverance that was not to be

Note About Images