The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-03-31
PREPARATION FOR THEPAssovER

The annual observance of this institution,
(which the Bible reader need not be told
dates back to the period of the exodus of
the children of Israel from the land of the
Pharohs,) commences this year on Wed
nesday, tho eth of April, and the Jewish
population of the world are already making
preparations for its celebration. The pre-
liminary requisite is to obtain the ''unleav-
ened bread" Ofthis the Louisville Journal
says:
"Matzot cake is baked almost exclusively
in the city of New York, and thence sent
TO all portions of the country. It is made
solely of the best wheat flour and pure wa
ter. A certain quantity of water is added
to certain weight of flour. 1t is mixed up
not kneeded as the housewife or ordinary
baker does common dough, with the hands;
nor yet as the rilot bread baker does,
with his feet''-but broken with a sort of
lever, one end of which acts upon hinge,
and the other end is raised up and down by
q boy, who sits upon it and springs himself
up and down very much as boys do who
broken, undergoes a rolling process, be-
tween two sets of rollers. 1t is then placed
upon the feed board of an apparatus similar
to craker machine, and it is then subject
ed to another rolling, after which it falls
upon linen duck apron, which carries it
along under the CATER. Here, it is by one
operation, cut into round cakes. and at the
same time perforated with small holes at
equal distances. After the cake is baked,
it is packed and sent off in baskets.
The Matzot is very good and pleasant to
the taste, but modern Christians could hard
ly reconcile themselves to eating it almost
exclusively for the eight days the Feast of
the Passover continues.
MURDER.-We learn that murder was
perpetrated, in Chester District. Sunday
last, by - Carter on the person of man
named Gibson. A quarrel arising from a
domestic broi that occurred between them,
and Carter had thereupon threatened to
shoot Gibson, who was his tenant. Mt sight
Sunday afternoon, as Gibson was entering
Sdlici yalu' the Idtler approached within
few feet, and, without a word, shot him
through the heart,-of course, killing him
Instantly. From all that we can learn, the
crime is of an unusually outrageous charac-
ter. Gibson was man of family, and had
recently moved from Virginia. Carter has
been arrested.
A MODEL BILL OF GOoDs.-A friend
has furnished US with the following sscuri-
osity." which came from the county of
Rockingham, Va. If any of our readers
can make it out, it is more than our sdevil',
could do. We give it rerbatin ct literatiza
ct pWnctuatina:
Dec the % ISi5 william Brit one pal
Ion key mulberry and two COW chains To
scots and thred and goards at WIN kellers
one potrack one scillet and shovel and tongs
and one gardenhoe and one brod hoe and
georges axe and my axe and slate ane au
ours and drawingnife and hammers and
som do bole shoemakers tools and in Jars
and too lbs of rolls and one hand saw at will
lin Bomans one melesiye candle mold hives
and forks and spoons straner and rol ing
pin ladies and backing brushes enc bed
cord one hamper has ket and georseris lit
tie chist and picture and big chist and bed |
cloths, and at armin trouts table lining and |
tunnel and wash pan at Bo mans.