Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-03
Correspondence.

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CORES pondenre.
For the Pomsroy Weekly Telegraph.
City Varieties.
CINcikNAri,e o., Dec. %, 1859.
Editors of Telegraph: This is Christ
mas week and the people here appear as
happy as souls just relieved from purga-
tory. The holidays have brought into
town thousands of people from the ada
cent'cities, villages and country, mostly
for business, some for pleasure, others
| for convenient mixture of both Men
come in to make money, their wives and
daughters to spend it, and find no diff
Guilty in accomplishing their object in
this city of attraction, which are pre-
sented irresistibly by their accomplished
owners and statesmen. Here, during the
holidays, thousandsof dollars are spent
in costly presents-such as rosewood pi-
ano -fortes and other ornamental articles,
ranging from five hundred dollars down
to five cent toys, which are made by faith
ers to their families The. city was pic
turesl over with snow and ice last week,
and the streets were vocal with the merry
sleigh bells on fine horses and driven by
fast men.
The city last Friday and Saturday
nights appeared like one vast curiosity
building. For every store window was
crowded with toys and the markets well
| filed with ornamented dressed, beeves,
sheep, deer, elk, buffalo, bears, pigs and
all kinds of domestic and wild game.
lIzspW two AmonAer pxssSis,ssn heeNes.
which weighed, gross, thirty-fve hum
dred, and cost on their feets four hun-
dred and tsVealty tiue dollars each The
mark houses were embellished with
evergreens, and brilliantly Illuminated,
which gave them magnificent appear
ance at night. It is customary here,
withthe butchers, to presen. their yearly
customers with fat turkey, pig, fowl, a
quarter Of fat lamb or round of pre-
nlium beef. Presents, both great and
small, have a representative uatue, which
sometimes is much greater thantheir in
trinsic worth. For instancethe United
States of Greece could confer nohigher
honor upon a conqueror than to place
on his brow aswreath Of ivy leayes-its
clustering victories proclaiming its value.
During my thirteen weeks residence
here, | have attended as many different
Churches, and heard more than that mum.
Der of star Lecturers in other places, on
literary and scientific subjects, which
weresa greatstreat to large audiences.
cHRIsT's CHURCH ON FOURTH STREET.
| attended Divine service on Sunday
last in this gorgeous temple, and heard
the Rev. Mr. Goddard preach to a
large audience a supremely classical
and eloquent sermon. Thisripe scholar
overhowed with eloquence, and every
word he uttered was literary mouthful.
The Rev'd gentleman said that ssthe
domes and spires over the globe reflect
the glory of God
The other day stepped into one of
those rolling palaces ON the city rail-
roads, paid five cents to- the conductor,
in fifteen minutes was carried three miles,
and landed at the Brighton House,
which is thes headquarters for drovers
and butchers. Annually in this neigh
borhood over a million of martyrs yield
up their lives reluctantly to thoseswho
take the liberty to lord it over the brute
creation. Here, availed myself of an
invitation to go into one of the slangh-
tering houses, where thirty two men
murder and dress three thousand hogs
daily, Sundays not excepted.
PROCESS OF KILLING AND DRESSING
HOGS.
The hogs are crowded in lots, as pur-
chased, into a twenty feetroom, in which
two men knock four down each minute
with large hammer, with a two feet
handle in it. Two other men haul them
out as fast as they are down, on an in
clined plane, with an open fat door, so
as to let the blood flow freely and to fa
cilitate their passage into the scalding
water. On this open bottom platform
stands huge Dutchman, with sharp
knife in hand, which he applies quickly
to their throats. Instantly tive other
men roll them into an oblong caudron
of boiling water, in which ten or twelve
hogs are constantly floating to he#other
end and taken out on a platform by
others and passed on between other men,
who grab off the hair as the hog isrolled
over to the other end, where he is hung
up on revolving wheel, and as the wheel
turns man makes an incision in the
whole length of the hog, and as the
wheel goes on the next man takes out
the entire contents; and then, as he still
is moved around, others dash on buck
cts of water, and he is put on the back
of huge negro and taken to the cool
ing room, when he is again hung up on
a hook where he is scraped and rinsed
down for the last time, the whole ope-
ration taking four minutes from the time
the hog was first knocked on the head
This sanguinary work is all done by
thirty-two experienced men, who are paid
by the season some two hundred dollars
EACH others fifty, according to thep parts
they perform.
Hoping that you had merry Christ
mas and wishing you mtny New Years,
I am yours, truly, r. BIssELL.
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