New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-28

CITY ITEMS.

THANKSGIVING We should be always thanksgiv-
ing vet we are not and the Governor sets apart
dsy to be devoted especially to that purposes and
ole of the ways contrived to make u thankful is by
indueing ia an immoderate quantity of roast turkey
and chicken filings.
In New-Jersey, Thursday, the 23d Of November,
1884 apart for this indulgence in good things
and the Sunday previous, accord TO usage, il was
announced from the pulpit, and the people adnon-
ished TO prepare for It.
One old woman who did not read the papers -thers
are good many of hat family YET living 10 that
State some of whom wear forked petticoats that do
not take the papers-was quite taken absck that
thanksgiving day was so near at hand. II was
whole week sooner than she expected jim Rake
straw che said told her that he read in the York
papers, that Thanksgiving did not come till next
week, and now minister Gays it's coming this week;
and for her part, she should believe minister sooner
than oil the Jms in Jerfey She understood what he
after: he wanted to get ahead of her An sell all
bis poultry before she could get hers into market
She saw how il was but luckily she went To meeting,
while he, no doubt, at home, hard az work getting
ready. And then TO pretend to her that he had read
it in the newspsper-the lying thngs-when Thanks
giving Day coming; but they couldn't fool her.
She would have as many turkeys in market as Jim
Rab estraw."
So at it she went, all day Monday aud Tuesday,
hanging up turkeys by the heels and bleeding them
TO death with a pen-knfe thrust in the throat, and
choking chickens by wiring Of tn. neck, while ducks
and geese were doomed to give up their feathers 10
the old adys bed, and their bodies to those who de-
signed to duck goose for their dinner
Thanksgiving Day in Gotham.
Three large bakets were filed, and il was goodly
lot of welled fowls and would have brought good
ly price the day before Thanksgiving"
As Jim Rakestraw was her greatest rival in the
poultry line, she took special care not to let him
know that he would find he would not have all the
market to himsef-that he wouldn't.
Wednesday it rained; but who ever heard OF a rain
that fell fast enough to stop Jerey market woman
who had three bskets Of Thanksgiving poultry all
ready for the New York market So she had old
Dobbin bitched to the wagon and, With John to
drive padded through fifteen miles of mud-buoyed
up in her feelings OF pride and profit that she should
be instrumental in filling Thanksgiving tables and
her own pocket That made the day, though it
rained, one of thanksgiving TO her. She was thank
iul, too, that Jim Rake was not on the road
She began to think, after ALL that he had deceived
himself as well as her. She fairly pitied his igno-
rance, trusting to what the papers said to know when
Thai ksgiyiDg was coming.
In coming to The City, she met two or three scons
OF old stocks that che knew going home to Thanks
giving, who stopped moment to pour out an excess
OF thanksgiving for escape Of day from toll TO
join ibe feast at the old Homestead.
81 How my turkeys will SELL" said the old lady to
John.
John hoped they would, but "Darn tse rain"
The old lady sat back in the wagon, well under
cover, and Didn't mind little sprinkle outside.
They reached Washington market in due tune
time enough to learn that turkeys are fiat Geese
are dull" Ducks won't CO." "Coickens are
nowhere" IL was a warm, rainy day, and the
market was full of stale poultry. And would you
believe it," said the old lady, with tears in her eyes,
that pesky Rskestraw right after all; Thanks
giving want s-going to be in York State the same
day it was in jersey, and did Mt get as mucn for
my poultry, by more than twenty dollars, as should
at Thanksgiving time"
Poor old lady, she did not feel "a though she bad
had a bit of good Thanksgiving. Joha suggested
that they bad better take the papers mex. year but
she thought they had Iost so much by the stupidity Of