Show mexican charles H dark of tho hartford courant now traveling in mexico writes one custom prevails on this road that the has long urged for connecticut wherever they kill a man they put up a black cross you see them all along the road here 1 thero 8 at ono spot are 14 take connecticut with its 1100 grade crossings and its annual butcheries but cheries and before long we would havo rach an array of crosses that the grado crossing would havo to go here of course the road is the rarity no fence pens in the railroad if anything is on the track the engine removes it A train hand told me one trip being late they hurried and in consequence killed three steers and five bancs in eight hours all along the track arc skeletons stripped by the turkey buzzards and whitened by the eun but cattle are as plenty as they are big down this way |