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^exkrab NEWS.
-tal voting population of Virgin
Tfl , iimated t 214,000. Of this num
at
are colored voters.
Mississippi river has 16,571 miles
Thf. teamboats, and 20,221
to S
vigable to barges.
snpi»»e‘l «■»*: “** °‘
B 1 j, Mining and .Manufae
Hicomffany w Fusly located at Rns
will be
jelvillc Ala.
Texas pecan ,-rop promises to be
The Thefbtu-doned trees
very heavy one.
j bending under the weight of half
ai-e
grotffl nuts.
National bank has just been or
Y Anuiston, Alabama, with
a
it;1 i of #100,000, D. D. Parker was
elected p« sklent.
Tie Apl* Ica (Fla.) canal is being made
twenty riii-ce feet wide and seven feet
It is thought it will have to be
enlarged to seventy-five feet in
The dried fruit trade of Statesville, N.
C reaches annually into hundreds of
thousands of pounds, and it was never
previous year anything like as heavy
as this.
JIemhtis, Avalanche: Southern tar
mere will have more cash in the bank
this year than ever [before, even if the
t-off m crop be [short, because they owe
less to the merchant- aud have raised
more food this year than'any previous
year.
Wilcox county, Ala., has a baby-boy
now 14 months old, who weighs 68
pounds. The parents have been offered
ffyOOO and expeuces for the privilege of
of exhibiting the child for the benefit of
die medical fraternity. They have re¬
fused.
The Enfalla (Ala.) mills are putting
iu a new set of machinery for making
patent process flour. YY r hen completed
the rnilis will have a capacity of 400 bar¬
rels per day, aud will be the best appoint¬
ed in the country,
The Water Valley, Miss., Central is
not satisfied with the pistol assessment.
It says: “The assessors in this state can
only gather in their rolls a total of 227
pistols. We will venture the assertion
that about 10,000 lies have been told the
assessors about this pistol question.”
A special from Acworth Ga., says:
Mr. 0. P. McRoberts lias discovered
and is now opening a rich silver mire.
His show so far is the best thing we
A have ever seen in the line. He has
got his shaft open and molten shows it¬
self in a pure state as it does near the
surface. Acworth will have a genuiue
boom,
The two cotton mills in Hatches have
expended in that city in the past twelve
months over $300,000 for wages aud ma¬
terial They have consumed nearly
70,000 bales of cotton oud tumen out 6,-
650,000 yards of cotton goods aud cloth.
During the year Natclies received 46,200
bales of cotton, 14,565 more than any
previous year,
The trus tees of a colored church at
Winston, N. C., mortgaged the edifice
recently to secure $1,200 with which to
have an excursion ' to Columbia, Half
the amount required was deposited at
Winston to the credit of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad. A special train
was sent to Winston to draw the money
and take the congregation, but it steam
back to Richmond when it was learned
that the trustees could raise no more
cash.
At a recent old men's gathering at
Lewisburg, Tenn., 164 mem tiers were
present, the old est being 104 years old
There were 114 between the age& of six¬
ty and seventy: 42 between seventy and
eighty; 5 between eighty and ninety; 2
between ninety and one hundred: over
100 one. *Of this number 102 were born
in Tennessee, forty in North Carolina,
eight in Virginia, five in South Carolina,
three iu Kentucky, one in Maryland, one
nGermany, one in Ireland and three in
Georgia.
Knoxville Tribune: Yesterday Mr
Southy Nelsou a youth of 113 years of
age came to Knoxville “to have his pic¬
ture took,” Mr. Nelson lives about five
milesTrom the city, though he seldom
comes to town. He was accompanied
by his wife, a grandson, and a great
grandson. The latter is just 100
years younger than his great grand¬
father.
At Edward, Miss., two negroes nam¬
ed James King and George Gaddis were
arrested [[charged with having robbed
the grave of Mrs. Hattie Howell. They
confessed tlieir guilt, informing the offi¬
cer that they stole the body for the pur¬
pose of securing the bones of one arm
"hicli they used in carrying on their
Profession as conjurers, • One was hung
and the other shot in his attempt to es¬
cape.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
- New York Times is endeavoring
to boycott the nickel three cent piece,
■"hieh is so easily mistaken for the silver
‘lime; It came into existence with three
cent postage, and many people believe
THE WEEKLY
VOLUME VI.
that it should be retired with the same'
Out of TOO specimens of French per
turnery examined at the Paris Chemical
Laboratory, 207 were condemned as in
i„™ Of «,1 specimens
of wine submitted to analysis, only ftoi
were pronounced good.
A , New York lumber . dealer - , recently ,,
imported, from the Pyrenes mountains,
a walnut log which is twelve feet long
and nine feet in diame er and weighs 22,
000 pounds. , It estimated , . to , . be worth ,,
is
i 2,000 as it lies, and when it is sawed
into veneering it will yield sixty-six thou¬
sand feet which will be worth f5,000.
Thf.be are custem-liouscs which pay
and others that do not. To the later
class belong the following, tabulated
from a recent official report for the fiscal
year ending June 30: Atlanta, Ga,, col¬
lections, #21; expenditures, §1,068; St.
Augustine, Fla., collections, $133; ex¬
penditures, #2,228; York, Me., collec¬
tions, $34; expenditures, #312.
The largest cattle ranelie in the world
is said to be that of Charles Goodnight,
at the head of Red River, Texas. He
began buying land four years ago, secu¬
ring 270,000 acres at thirty five cents an
acre. In the meantime the price has
advanced from $1 to #2 p°r acre, but he
is still , buying . and , controls . , 1 00,000 acres.
To enclose his landed possessions 21 ft
miles of fence is required, On the
range he has 40,000 cattle.
The official statement of the cotton
crop of the United States for the year en¬
ding August 31, 1883. issued by the na¬
tional cotton exchange, shows a total
crop of 6,949,756 bales, including re¬
ceipts at the shipping ports 5,009,612;
and shipments by rail routes overland to
northern spinners direct from producers,
641,801 The report shows that the
southern mills consumed 313,373 bales.
The increase in the total crop, compared
with the previous year, was 1,493,708.
The takings of the United States spin¬
ners for the year were 2,073,096 bales,
an increase of 103.561.
A tabulated statement of the receipts
and expenses of the average cost of col¬
lecting one dollar of revenue in all of the
custom districts of the United States for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, has
been prepared at the treasury depart¬
ment. From this statement it appears
that $216,780,869 were collected at a cost
of $6,422,127. The cost of collecting one
dollar ranges in the different districts
from one cent to eight mills in New
York, to fifty and eighty-four cents in
Atlanta, the average cost in all of the
districts being two cents, nine mills and
a fraction. In twenty-nine out of the
one hundred and thirty districts the cost
of collecting one dollar was more than a
dollar, and in thirty of them it was less
than ten cents.
HIS POETliT.
Bayard Taylor never fully reconciled
himself to the vocation of a prose writer.
He believed that the world should have
demanded nothing of him but poetry.
Concerning tbis he used to tell a good
story at his own expense. During
his last lecturing trip through the West¬
ern States be was the guest, in a small
citv, of the chairman of the lecture com¬
mittee, a self-satisfied and prosperous
citizen, who met Taylor at the train, and
carried him home to his own smartly
furnished house. While waiting for the
evening repast the well-fed chairman
said, with manifest pride, that probably No,
Mr. Taylor did not remember him.
Mr. Taylor did not, “Why,” said the
chairman, “you were here in this town
ten years ago this very winter, this very
month, and stopped with me, as you are
stopping now.” Mr. Taylor professed The
his interest in the important fact.
chairman, glancing wound on the
chromos. the new carpets, aud the glit¬
tering white walls of his home, saul,
since’then. “Yes, you see I have been prospering
Yes, the world has been a
pretty good place for me. It has for
you too, Mr. Taylor. I have watched
your course ever since I got acquainted
with you, ten years ago, and I suppose
I am one of the few people who have
read everything you have wrote.”
“"What,” said Taylor, “everything?
“Yes, sir, everything 1 could lay my
hands on. ”
“Then,” said Taylor, “perhaps you
will tell me what you think of my new
‘ Lars’? K
poem, “Gosh 1” said the “do you write
man,
poetry?”— Harper's D rawer.
Too Earnest.— A feature of the Santa
Fe celebration was to have been a sham
battle, intended to represent the cap¬
ture of an Indian pueblo climbed by the Span¬
iards The Indians to the top
of one of the buildings, brandishing their
bows and arrows, and emitted shrill, ear¬
piercing shrieks. The bold Spaniards
paused. There was a hitch. The
inal plan was for the cavaliers to
to assault the pueblo, and the
were to let fly a shower of blunt
into the ground at their feet. But it
eurred to the knights that arrows might
go astray, and they declined to take tha
risk.
CONYERS, GA.. SEPTEMBER 21, 1883.
THE COUNTY CLERK GOT MAD.
The True Story o! n*» I'nloriiiimte Hiiiituro
in a Pike County Fire Deportment.
No ^f"t'cS?SeS it
resigned as a member of the Milford
Fire Department, of which he, together
with a lit tv -foot hook and ladder truck
^ ^ ex . Distriet Attorney, had long
been an important appurtenance. He
was led to sever his connection with the
department by what he alleges was a
piece of deception on the part of deception tlio ex
District Attorney, by which
his usefulness and two panels of board
fence were simultaneously impaired, and
and his dignity as a citizen, a man,
a grandfather greatly injured.
According to the accepted account of
the affair, it seems that at a session of
the boys at the Crissman House the
athletic exercise came up for discussion,
and much difference of opinion was found
to exsist as to the individual merits of
certain pedestrians. This discussion
grew warm, and the ex-District Attorney
was finally prompted to remark that
when it came right down to powers that of
endurance as a pedestrian, he felt
he himself would never be called upon
to take a back seat for any one, where¬
upon the County Clerk, who had failed
to agree with the ex-District Attorney
on any rather point contemptuously during the evening, ejacu¬
lated that some
people could do more wonderful things
with their mouths in ten minutes than
they could perform with their bauds and
feet in six months. This was taken by
^ ex .L>istrict Attorney as a direct per
sonal allusion, and be obtained the
floor to remark that if some people
whom he might mention would mix
more water with what they drank they
would probably be better qualified for
steady pedestrian exercises themselves.
The County Clerk replied with some
heat that, water or uo water, he would
bet $5 with the ex-District Attorney, if
the latter thought he could borrow the
money to put up, that he (the County
Clerk) would walk the shoes off of him
(the ex-District Attorney) the best day
he ever saw, and do it easy. The ex
District Attorney said that was all right,
and if the County Clerk wanted to get
mad he could get mad and be blamed to
him; and as for money, he could show
just as much as any one in the crowd.
The County Clerk said if that was the
case it might not be a bad idea for the
ex-District Attorney sitting to there show a little, as
they had been all the even
ing, and he hadn’t seemed to be very
anxious to sling much around. It 1st not
known what the ex-District Attorney in¬
tended to reply, or what the result of
this bandying of pleasantries Jake might have
been, for just then Schorr, the
stage driver, who was returning from a
late train at Port Jervis, came dashing
down the road, with his team and crying
‘‘Fire!” ‘‘Fire!” at the top of his lungs.
Then there was a hurrying to and fro
among the boys. The hook and ladder
truck was housed in the Crissman House
barn. The County Clerk and the ex
District Attorney rushed for it at once.
The former seized hold of it at the rear,
while the latter handled the tongue.
The night was very dark. The truck
was quickly shouted: taken out, and the County
Clerk
“Now let her go, boys ! I’ll push be
behind aud you handle the tongue.”
Then he added to himself: “I’ll see how
much pedestrianism there is in that Dis¬
trict Attorney, now, you bet. He’s got
to be a good one if I don’t wind him be¬
fore this run is over.”
Away they went. The fire was up¬
town, three-quarters of a mile away.
Before they had gone half a block the
County Clerk was clearing ten feet of
ground at every step.
“Sweet Christmas!” thought he, “what
an infernal gait them boys have struck.
If they keep that up the District At¬
torney’ll be dead before he gets there,
and I’ll bet on it. ”
By this time the County Clerk’s feel
barely nad time to touch the ground at
all. His hat was gone, and he swung
along behind the truck like a kite tail in
the wind.
“If he ain’t a runner, I’m Mowed !”
be said. “If they don’t get to that lire
blame soon, or if he don’t fall dead, I’m
a goner.” burst of speed the
A still greater on
part of the truck lifted the County Clerk
off his feet, and he struck out behind the
machine as straight as a coupling pole.
An instant he hung poised. Then ho
lost his grip. He shut his eyes and
went right on. He rushed through
space for fifty feet. Then he met a
board fence. He took two panels of it
with him as he went through it. As he
rested in the middle of a five-acre potato
patch he said:
“Well, I’ve heard of good running,
but if that don’t rather knock the spots
off of anything ever done, I’m a tfiree
legged pot.” the County Clerk learned
So, when truck
that he had been following that
with Jake Schorr’s horses hitched to the
tongue and taking it over the ground at
twenty miles an hour, and that the ex
District Attorney had coolly ridden on
it every step of the way to the fire, he
felt hurt. He said that if they wanted
to run a Fire Department on such prin¬
ciples they could, but as for him, no.
And he resigned.
The most an Arctic explorer can do
now is to follow in the tracks of those
who went before him, freeze his feet and
write a book.
Whisky punches are not found under
oak trees, but a man knows that they
are ache-horns the morning after he
has been out with the boys.— Syracuse
Herald.
IN A BERRY SWAMP.
.linking a Livinf Ainotts Snake* and IJa>
arils Picking Huckleberries.
On the “wild lands” of the Delaware
Peninsula—that is, on the lauds of farm¬
ers where the swamps are located—if the
owners do not interfere, hundreds of
men, women and children, barefooted
and bareheaded, invade the swamps and
manage to eke out au existence during
the summer bv picking and selling ber
lies. The berries are picked first into
tin pails, strawberry baskets or anv
small article that can be conveniently
handled and dumped into an ordinary
water-bucket, which when full, will hold
eight quarts of berries. These are cov
ered with a piece of moistened canvas,
in order to preserve their healthy ap
pearance, and set away until another
bucket is filled. About sundown, along
the main roads and by-paths ramifving
from the swamps, men with buckets on
tlieir arms, women, sometimes carrying
trudge babies who keep up vociferous with squaring,
wearily along a bucket, and
little barefooted boys and girls follow
behind with tin pails, alien their way to
the nearest store in town.
There the berries are exchanged fm
dry in goods, groceries, cash tobacco and snuff,
or, some cases, is paid for the
berries, from forty-five to fifty cents pei
bucket being paid. Four buckets, oi
thirty-two good dav’s quarts work, per but day, is regarded
as a sunrise must
find the pickers in the swamp to nccom
plish this task. The store-keeper, if he
thinks there is no profit in their shipment
to the markets of the larger cities, has
them peddled about the town, and the
thrifty housewife uses them for jelly,
sauce, or dries them in the sun and puts 1
them away for future use.
Just-back of this little village rejoic
ing in the euphonious title of Blmles
ville—a sort of detached surburb of its
more enterprising rival across the river,
Seaford—is one of these swamps a full
half mile long and perhaps a trifle wider.
On a recent hot July day the writer,
after journeying through blinding hot
sand almost knee-deep, arrived at the
entrance to the swamp. The tall
shrubs, rising fifteen feet high, grew so
close that their numberless branches
overlapped each other, forming an ap¬
parently impenetrable led thicket. A wag¬
on-way through the swamp, so
there if was strict no possibility of becoming
lost, a adherence to the admoni¬
tion of the popular song of “Keep in de
Middle of de Road,” was maintained.
The prattle laughter of children could be heard,
peals of arose from the hidden
depths of the malarial lied, and the
strains of a favorite cam]) meeting hymu
broke upon the ears; but there were no
visible signs of human beings. Proceed¬
ing some distance along the road the
first thing encountered was a snake
coded up on a rotten log, contentedly
basking in the sunlight; little brown
lizards crossed the road at intervals,
and the gnats and mosquitoes hovered
ov*x(\«ad. As I advanced further the
an became oppressive, almost stifling,
cud I was on the point of retracing my
steps when a voice near at hand startled
me.
“Hot day, boss, berry hot day,” and a
colored man, hatless aud shoeless, with
a bucket of berries hanging on his
brawny arm, parted the shrubs and
came out into the main road.
“Yes, it is exceedingly warm, here at
least,” I answered, wiping the great
beads of perspiration from my forehead.
“How do you manage to exist in this
place all day ?”
“Mus’ do it, boss,” replied the
darkey, with emphasis, “mus’ do it or
starve; kase you see nobody’s gwine to
keep up lazy niggass.” picking
“Are there many people
here?”
“Lot’s o’ white people away an’ in de
middle—young, delicat gals little
chilluns.”
I watched him for some time, as he
proceeded along the edge, picking his the
berries and putting them covered into his tin
pail, as he had already
bucket and set it away. Presently
there emerged from another mysterious
opening a woman, pale and careworn
looking, bare-footed and carrying a
basket on her head, filled with berries.
She was followed by two children, a boy
and girl, perhaps eight or nine years
old, with bare feet, dirty brown could hardly faces,
and a medley of attire that
be called clothes.
“Look out. thar, mammy, you’ll
tread on that thar darned snake,” came
the warning from the little bov, and
looking down, a hideous creature was
just disappearing in the slimy water.
There are now thousands of quarts of
whortle-berries picked in this indiscrim¬
inate way. Should the experiment successful of
practical cultivation prove
larger and better fruit will be the result
and the swamps yield a profitable rev¬
enue to their owners.
“Little will’die,” baby is very ill, Charlie; I am
afraid he said the mother.
•‘Well, if he does die he’ll not go to the
bad place, mamma.” “Wliv, Charlie,
how can you know that?” “Oh, I
know he can’t, mamma, because our
Sunday-school teacher told us they
guashed their teeth in the bad place,
and baby has no teeth to gnash.”
Professor Huxley holds that an acre
of good fishing ground wiil yield the more best
food in a week than an acre of
land will produce in a year. Huxley
evidently never tried catching fish > him¬
self. If* he had he would know that one
fish to each square mile of water is about
the average nowadays.
NUMBER 2G.
1YOXRERFUL WORK OF A HEN.
Aided. Ahmed, unit Akk 1 i.hi! by » Had
Boy in llie PoM-Orti<T.
According to a Syracuse ] a per, Mi>
Wliitnal, the estimable wife of a humet*
maker of Erieville, Madison county,
N. Y., heard her favorite hen cackling
m the barn in a strange and unprece¬
dented manner, Upon reaching the
nest she found an egg raised of ordinary characters. siz",
but emblazoned with
^hich , . , nearly- , caused her to faint, Stag
tJ “ b ? ra l ,lto tke 1,onsf ‘
^played the hen s miraculous product
to h er son f and daughters, some oi whom
™ 8hed u , m }' aud 8 P read the akrm amol: -
the populace.
A » blrtb f workou lhat dav - sus j
pended. Men w oi k mg m te held pu .
np their horses and tools in ic barns,
after which they gazed anxiously at the
M hffmdresidence. The exi itement wa-
intensified when the report was con
firmed that samuel Curtis, an honorei
shoemaker and a brother of Mrs. Wh.t
“ al -, had become so unnerved at the sight
th ® egg that he bad taken to his
bed . \ n alarm - aud reluscd to 1,0 C0K1 -
Tiu ' skeptical were convinced of
„ \ e sa f ed « genuineness when it was
of tak Mr. « n _Whitnal h(del s sons. and exblb The > ted c nnacte ^ two s
^ urt> ralsed U P° U tbc she11 ’ as d
iad b f n made upon the inside and
puffed de out by tood some interior boMly agency. the n
f ® » ut figures
] f 4 ' On another side was a cross,
aIld °“ a 1,,rd 8ld ® was astrnB S e *?' v -
^’„ wh > c h s ° me thought was a letter halS
C > while , otkera he,dt 11 was a
“oon. The latter theory when was the more
gencm ly accepted, W since, something which egg
wafi ] f d 0 tke
resembled a face was discernible in the
concavity of the character Th s was
mferrod to represent the man in the
moon.
On that night the morals and manners
of the village of Erieville were excellent
beyond parallel. New resolutions were
formed aud bad habits sworn off. Hus
bands and wives no longer exchanged
doubtful compliments and flatirons, hut
tenderly embraced each other and agreed
to await the coming of the Lord in a
commendable manner. Mrs. Whitnal’s
household was too excited to sleep,
Her daughter Sarah was quite ill,
and it was feared that the sacred egg
would tend greatly to shorten her life,
Alarmed at tliis,FrankRichardson, a clerk
iu the post-office, acknowledged that
the miracle had been performed through
his instrumentality.
He explained that to get even with
one of Mr. Whitnal’s sons be traced
the characters on the egg with tab
low aud then placed it in vinegar,
After the acid had sufficiently eaten the
shell as to allow the parts traced with
fallow to become prominent, he visited
the Whitnnl burn, deposited the egg in i
nest, scared an innocent hen and de
camped. Richardson's has had the
Mr. expose
unfortunate effect of dispelling the moral
influence exerted by the egg. The
villagers have returned to their former
nays.
A White Mountain Runaway.
I was riding to Bethlehem one pay,
says a White Mountain correspondent,
when I came opposite a place where two
roads met, and where the inferior road
came “Here,” out there said was the a driver, rock opposite. “is where
we
had the big upset nine years ago. It
killed four people.” ?” said I.
“How did it happen
“Well, sir, one of the best drivers in
the mountains had one of the big Concord
coaches, with four or six horses to it. It
was packed with people, aud they were
thick on the roof, too. Coming down
the hill at a pretty rapid run, the driver’s
foot slipped from the brake and the
coach struck on the horses and some of
the breeching broke and then there was
a runaway. As the stage came around
this turn it upset from top-heaviness
and killed one passenger on the spot and
na or tally wounded three others. They
were thrown from that height against
this big rock you see here, and of course
there was uo chance for them. ”
“What became of the driver?” I
asked. tongue
“Why, he crawled along the
and got to the mouths of the horses and
hung on to them and saved them and
himself. He didn't drive for years after
that, feeling distressed, though he had
done everything a man could do for the
passengers, but he was a conscientious
man and his pride was hurt. However,
lie is driving again now. ”
A Bad Experience.
A Southern boy who wen t from the
country to New York city to make his
fortune, gives us rather a desponding
view of the situation. He says he had a
good business education am $ in ns
pocket when he landed After finding
employment, ne adds, I ma e up my
mini to do my best and s i <> a
,
business. I have stuck four months
aud have been very economi a , j < i
have not been able to save one dollar m
four months. My until 'wages are clock *‘ P e at
week and I work ten o
rants, and go hungry half the time at
that. On Sunday I am so tired that I
cannot go to church, and so it is the
same old round over again every duy. I
God knows I am sick of it all, and had
have wished a thousand times I
never seen New York city nor a business
college.
Donmiie Hints And Helps.
It von are afraid that your yeast cake*
are a* little stale, put one of them in a
cup of warm water with a good pinch of
liops, let this stand for an hour or so Ire
fore using; it will have an excellent
effect on the yeast and will insure go<xl
bread.
Veal salad, if made with care, will ac¬
tually take the place of chicken salad,
and will deceive the epicure. Use at
this season of the year a little lettuce
torn in small bits and plenty of celery
salt. Make the dressing just the same
as if the meat were chicken.
Corn fritters, or "oysters,” ns some
humbug-loving cooks call them, are now
in season. To six cars of grated corn
add one well-beaten egg, a little salt,
and a rablespoonful of sweet milk, with
enough flour to make a stiff batter.
Drop iu hot lard and by a delicate
brown.
An economical and appetizing way to
cook very small new potatoes is to wash
and scrape them well, boil them, ami
the instant they are done drain off the
water, dry them off, and then in the
kettle, right with them, make a milk
gravy. This is a nice dish for breakfast
or supper.
Au excellent meat sauce, for use at
any season of the yenr, calls for four
quarts of ripe tomatoes, one cup and a
half of red pepper cut in bits, one cup
of chopped half onions, one cup and a half
. f sugar, a cup of salt, one pint and
a half of vinegar, one teaspoonfnl and a
half of cloves, the same quantity of cinna¬
mon, one teaspoonful each of ginger and
nutmeg. Let this boil for three hours,
then bottle and seal, or put in tin cans.
If the tomatoes, onions, and. pepper are
chopped very fine, it is best not to strain
the sauce.
Green pepper pickles may la; made
after this somewhat unusual recipe;
Half a bushel of green peppers, six
heads of cabbage, two pounds of mus¬
tard seed, one of black and one of white,
one quarter of a pound of cloves and of
allspice, garlic. two ounces of celery seeds seed, one
head of Remove the from
the peppers, and cut in slices, chop the
cabbage, mix the peppers with it, and
sprinkle salt over all, and lot it stand
over night. In the morning drain the
water from it. Put the spices, etc., in
vinegar enough to cover the pickles.
Let the vinegar come to a boil, cut tire
garlic iu pieces and let it boil in the
vinegar, but skim it out before pouring
over the vegetables. Pack in a
stone jar, and cover with horseradish
leaves, a eloth over them, and a tight
cover over ail.
Hid in an Old Hog .Honse.
Among the arrivals by the steamship
Virginia of Boston, was a young lad who
came across as a stowaway. He gave
ixis name as James Walsh and his reri
deuce as Liquid street, Liverpool. While
the vessel was loading at Liverpool
Walsh managed to secrete himself in an
0 jrf dog house in the forward part of the
ship, where he remained until the ar
rival of the vessel at this port. The
voyage lasted niue days, during which
time the boy’s clothing, shoes and feet
were badly bitten by rats. His supply
0 f food gave out on the fourth day, but
being afraid of being thrown overlroard,
he remained until the vessel touched
the wharf. When leaving his kennel he
was seen by a sailor, who, learning of
the boy’s adventure aud seeing his des
titute condition, generously furnished
him with some food and a suit of clothes,
The boy left the vessel and after wan
dering about Charlestown Kerr, a few resides days
was taken by a Mrs. v.ho where
0 n Chamber street in Charleston,
he is at present being intelligent kindly cared for.
Walsh is a bright, attended good-look
jug lad, but has never n school,
and while at home his occupation was
that of a dancer and serio comic singer
in a public house. He mys that- his
mother is dead, and on .account- of the
harshness of his father, and learning of
the many advantages of earning a living
in this country he was induced to come.
He is a very clever dancer and intends,
if possible,'to go upon livelihood. the stage as the
means of obtaining a
R ii in Banished.
The Boston CommonwcaUh says;—
The labor of curing and storing nay is
not what it oDce was. “A barrel of rum
in hay-time” was the farmers usual es
timate. The great aid received from
mowers, horse-rakes, tedders, loaders,
and improved barns takes away in a
great measure the dread which the ap
proacli of the haying days season it once in¬
spired. In our early hard, hot was work; « sea
K on of long hours of a
season of intense perspiration, thirst,
and anxiety. Farmers endeavored to
hold themselves up heated, by pouring trembling rum
;3own into their
stomachs, “What smell
As says Dr. Holmes: a
nf rum there used to be all about m lay
ing time, when I was a boy ! It wm
stronger than the smell of the liay itself,
very often. We of that generation used
to associate cutting grass and cutting
bair iu an odd kind «.f a way—rum-m
the stomach to keep the heat from k itting
tie ]fl mower, from lulling rum on the th< child, he ad^ to keep the
co been
Kmn basin a great field measure and other
driven from the mowing the tends
places where exposure to sun
to prostration and debility, and cool,
pure xvater, with oatmeal and a little
molasses aDd ginger, lias taken its place.
A BASCAi ._ B< , biBW , B himself
& c]ev ,. r ama teur actor in a London
h it .,]_ He had v )ee n caught picking
a pocket, and transferred from prison on
a( . cou] |{ 0 f seeming illness. He took to
hfs bed with accurate imitations of ex
cnlc i a ti n g agony. He groaned and
cursed so terribly that his fellow patients
weie llorr ified. Then he regained com
posure, and begged to go out into th©
Gnce jn yart i j knocked the
attendant senseless, ’ scaled the wall, and
efjCaped to thifJ conntry) WJt h over
This is the season of the year when
the theatrical manager hires a man with
a pot of paint to putter around his thea
tre for a few days, and on the strength
of such proceedings will next month an
nounce the opening of his house “entire
ly refitted.”
