Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-08-30
GIN GIRTY's BEEF STORY.

not think il fair play to be without meat in
cane country. where there was SO ma
ny fa, cattle.
So rs usual, they selectedlhe best aud
fa,est they could find. They obtained
nne that would weigh about 700 pounds.
They dressed i, neatly aud took it on
board.
About three hours afterwards fourteen
men came rushing down to the boat with
rifles. Charging Jim with having stolen
a beef.
Jim did not show fight. The crew paid
no attention to wha, was going on-some
were sitting on their running boards, with
their feet dangling in the waler-several
were lying upon deck on blankets-every
one seemed dull and stupified. Jim was
seated OH the how Of the boat, his head
resting on his hand, when again assaled.
Il say your men have been stealing The
best beef in all these parts"
"There must be some mistake" said
Jim. very quietly.
"You lie; your men were seen sSlnnlng
it,
"There is strangers about here may be-
said jim.
ayes. yes. we know there is strangers
here on board this very hoat; they have
the beef OH board, and we will have it,"
The boat is open, 90 look Tor your.
selves, gentlemen. but you will find it a
mistake cerlan--bu, satisfy yourselves,
gentlemen, on that head"
!"That $50 will, and in instant order have
the beef,'
So a, it they went, first having placed
three men as guard, TO see that The crew
,lid aot play some trick. The Others made
search by rolling and re rolling every
thing in The boat. and still no beef was
found. One fellow declared lha, they had
no place unsearched where the four quar-
,ers of a cat could hide, let alunc a big
ox...''
The same slaviiy was preserved by him.
"He wished the gentlemen 10 be salts
fed.rs
The fact Sas, while The crew were skin
nipgihe beef, Que of them discovered a
man watching them from from behind a
Tree. They took no notice of il. but when
they came to the boat, they told Jim they
were caught. He scratched his head a"
while. and then prepared Cor just such
visit az he received. ..5..
He placed The four quarters Of the beef
onlhe deck OF the boa, and spread The
hide eiover Them. on lIlis he spread all thc
the blankets, and four men lay down on
these blankets. jim, as before stated, was
on tho bow OF The boat, continually wish>
ING the gentlemen 10 be satisfied hut they
would 5fnl a,n:isiake, sarlain."' Look a.
+ boni, ,genilemen.-look where you please,
i gentlemen, and: satisfied, but there is, one
Thing linus, ask of you not TO disturb them
tits. always. The wors, thing you can do 10
disturb a sick man. especially ifhe be near
his last; it kind of makes the blood fly 10
the. head 10 be disturbed" Bul long be-
fore he closed his:s,ory, be had 90 lislen-
ers.s ,,slilyzs 40 ta,,s r., -.
ssIf everlhere vas pale faces, fallen jaws
) and ghasIly looks amongst set Of meu,
il was about that lime and place-tlley
moved off without speaking a word. Jim
got clear Of his visitors and kept the beef.
NJ Western Boaima,,.
Discovery of Mummies at Durango,
Merico.-The Texns Star states lha, a
million of mummies have been discovered
son the .envisops ofDuranso, in Meyico.-
They are in. a sitting posture, but have
the same wrappnss, bands and ornameu's
ofihe Egyp,ians. Among !hem was found
n sculptured head with a poignard Of 1int,
chaplets, necklaces, sc. of alternaled col
ored beads, fragments Of bone, polished
like ivory, fine worked elastic tissues. (pro
badly our modern ludia rubber clo,h) moc>
casins worked like those Of our Indians
to-day, bones Of vipers &c. |, remains to
continue these interesting researches, and
America will become another Egypl 10
antiquaries, and her ruins will 60 back to
the oldes, period Of the world, showing
doubtless that the ancestors of the Monte
zumas lived on The Nile.
MANURE.-It IS well known that in
q close stable, where there are good
many horses, there is very pungent
smell, affecting the eye and nose, more
particularly when the Stable is being
cleaned ou.. This smell is occasioned
by the flying of Of ammonia, which is
the essence Of manure, and which vola>
lilizes or flies eff at very low temper
ature--evcn the warmth of the manure
in a stable will send it of, and it goesolf
in great quantities by the common heat
of the manure in barn-yard, whether
thrown III, in heaps or not. There is,
however, very chcap and simple rem>
edy for this. Before you begin to clear
out your stable, dissolve some common
salt in water; if a four horse stable, say
4 ponds of salt dissolved in two buck
cts Of wa,es, and poured through the
nose of a watering pan over the floor
Of the stable an hour or So before you
begin to move the manure, and the
volatile salts OF ammonia will become
fixed salts from their having nnitcd
the muria,ic acid of the common salt,
and soda thus liberated from the salt,
will quickly absorb calbonic acid for
.,:.o .,, hnnato of cnda. ,huS yrn Uill