The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-03
The DAILY DISPATCH.
Richmond. August 3, 1853.
A Hog in n Csurse of Sprouts.


biped, at the elbow Of the frst speaker.
Yes. ! vow it's quite astonishing how
much pork is sold here, and ct up by some.
bcdy,' continued the old gent.
'Et up, says the other, whose physic al
structure somewhat resembled fat iath, and
whose general contour made it sslfeviden,
that he was not given to frivolity, jaun.iIy
fitting coats and breeches, of perfumed and
fixed barberaliiy extravagance.
Ell up?' he thoughtfully and earnestly re
peated, as his hands rested in the cavity ol
bis trousers pocket, and his eyes rested Oh
the first speaker.
you wern't never in Cincinnaty, guess?'
NO, never was replied the old gent.
Never was! Well, cal'clated not. Never
been in a pork hou.eT
Pork houser says Yankee. 'Welf reckon
not-don't begin-t'aint noihin' like-not q
speck 10 puddle TO pork house-a Cincin.
natv pork housen
I've learn that they carry on the pork
business pooty stiff out there says the old
gentleman.
.Pooty stiff? Good gravy, but don't they
Pears to me KNEW yeour somewhere says
our Yankee.
You might cautiously answered the ole
gent.
sMy names johnson, sir
johnson! Oh, in the tin businessv
oh, no, I'm not in business at all, sir wa:
the reply.
mo! Oh!' thoughtfully eckoes the Yankee
wall, no matter. | thought p'rhaps yeou
were from up aour way. I'm from neal
Maoun Peelier, Stale of Vermont"
An, indeed!'
Ya-as.'
Fine country, I'm told, says the old gent
'Ye aa-s' u.s. was the response of the Y an
kee, who seemed TO be revolving something
in his own mind.
Raise great deal of wooi-fne sheep coun
irv?
'Tis great on sheep. But sheep aint nothYn
to the eyerasin, haog craop!'
Think not, ehi' said the old gent.
Il swow ten pucker if | haint seen more
pork in Cincinnaty than would bust this
buidin' clean open.
You don't tell me soT
by gravy, l deu, though. Yeou haint Eey-
er bin in Cincinnaty?'
Never
Never in pork. house"
Never
wall, yeou've hearn tell of Ohio, reckonf
On yes! got daughter living out there,
was the answer.
'Yeou don't say so!'
Il have, in Urbanna, or near it, said the old
gent.
"Usbanny. Great kingdom! why, know
ten men living out there; ones radin'-
t'other's keepin' school, maybe yeou know
'em-Ssmpson Wheeler's one, JetEro Jones
o'other, Jelhro's a cousin of mine; his faiths
er-no, his moiher-married ied-my name il
Small-Appogee Small, and | was jist talk
in
about the hog crop, Cineinnaty pork
houses.'
"Ye-a s; vol, I went aout West last fall
stopped at Cincinnaty-ieu weeks Dreadful
nies place, by gravy, they do business there
beats salvation haow they go 1t on ste amboats
bust ten day, build SIX
As it possiblet says the old gent. 'But the
hogs
'Deu beat all. went up the pork.haouses;
fust thing you meet is q stFing-'bout a mile
long of big and little crulers, greasy and sassy
as sin; buckets and bags full of scraps, tails,
ears, shanks and rib of haogs. Foller up this
line and yeou come TO the pork.haouses, and
yeou go in, if they let yeou, and they did me
so went tu an almighty large haouse-big as
all aout doors, and feller steps to me and
says he
'Yeour're a stranger, s'pose?
"Yeou do.' says |.
'Ye as, says he, spose so, and up and
said was.'
WALL says he, sef yeou want to 90 over
the haouse, we'll send feuer with you."
So went with the Teller, and he took me
away back, daown stairs-aout in lott and
everlastin' sin! yeOu should jst seen the hogs
-coada'r caount 'em in three weeks.
'Good gracious excaims the old gent.
Fact by gravy! Sech squealin,' kckin'
and goin' en-, sech cussin' an hollerin,' by the
fellers pokin' 'em in at one eend of the lot and
punchin' on 'em aout att other. Sech smell
of hogs and fat brissels and hot water,
swan teu pucker, never did calc'late on
afore.
Wall, as fast as they driv' 'em in by droyes
the iellers kept a craowdin' 'em daown to-
wards the pork haouse, there two fellers kept
shootn' on 'em daown, hull gang of the
all firedest dirty, greasy lookin' felers aout-
stuck 'em, hauled 'em down, and afOre yeou
could say Sam Patch them hogs were yank
ed aout of the lot kilt and scraped"
mighty quick work, guess, says the old
gent.
Quick work! Yeou ought to see EN-
Haow many hogs deu yeeu calc late them tel
lers kilt and scTaped dayP
Couldn't possibly say-hundred expect.
Hundred! Gre a.at king Why l see 'em
kill thirteen hundred in ten hour5-did, by
goliyn
You don'tsay sol'
sYes, sir. And feIer with grease enough
abaout him TO make barrel OF saft soap said
tina, W hen they hurried EN- up some ,ney Kill
ed, scslded and scraped ten thousand hogs 10
| day; and when they put on steam twenty
| thousand p,rsers were killed of and utup IN
| a single day..
j want 10 know!
.Yes sir. Wall, we went into the house,
where thew scnlded the critters as fast as they
brought 'em 10. By gravy, il was amazin now
the bristles few. Before hog knew what II
| was abaout be was bare as pumpkin
hook and tackle in his snout and up tney
| snaked him on to the next floor. vow, tnev
kept shakin' and shakin' 'em in and up
throug h the scutts, just in one stream
Let US go up and see EN- cut ina hogs'
says the ieller.
up We goes. Abaout hsndred greasy lei.
iers were hacken on 'em up. by goiiy II
was death to particular people The way the
grease few. Two whacks-fore and aft' as
Unc'e Jeems used 10 say-split the hog; one
whsck By a greasy teller with an everlasting
chunk of sharpened iron, and me hog was
quartersd, grabbed and carried Oh TO anotne,
block. and then a set Of sayagereus iookin,
chops laysd TO and cut and skir'ed Ground
|! ham, and shoulders going ono way, SIDES