The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-09-02

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a matter of interest to view the large
amount of fax being raised as one is
passing along the great thoroughfare in
the Empire State, reyiging pleasing rem
iniscences Of the good old by-gone days,
when our grand-mothers sat the long day
through at the humming hax-wheel, en-
livening with sweet songs of primitive
age their arduous task, while our fathers
and mothers INDUCED in childhoods sport
under their approving, complacent eye.
In this section cotton is no longer king.
CHEESE FACTORY.
On Saturday last l visited novelty,
at least so to me, n veritable cheese facto-
ry, conducted thus: The farmers within
the convenient distance Of two or three
miles thereto, are seen, each morning and
evening, with large tin cans, holding from
thirty to forty gallons, approaching the
factory with the milk of their dairies.-
This is received and measured and one
pound of cheese scored to their credit,
respectively, for every gallon of milk fur
nished, the manufacturer taxing one cent
pound for the cheese so made. From
eight to ten cheeses are manufactured dai-
ly, weighing about one hundred and ten
pounds each, bringing at the factory from
eleven to twelve cents a pound. The
quantity of milk disposed of, daily, aver
ages about one thousand gallons. So re-
munerative has the business proved to
dairymen that forty dollars are readily Of
fered even for ordinary cows.
THE DRAFT
Is the main subject of thought and
conversation, at present, in this section.
The CONSUMPTION takes place in this dis
trict the present week. The quota is
supposed to require one from five or six
of those enrolled in the first class. The
two points of general rendezvous are FL
mira and Albany. The process of ex-
animation Of consCripts and their substi-
tutes is searching one. The candidate
for military Eonors is taken into private
apartment and ordered to divest himself
of his habiliments. The surgeon first,
a Ia dentist, views the teeth. If the in
cisors are lacking to an extent forbidding
ease in tearing off the end of the cartridge,
the candidate is pronounced Ineligible
and dismissed. If the incisors are APP
proved, the examination is conducted with
the utmost scrutiny to the extremities, ev-
cry finger and toe even, with intermediate
hand, wrist, arm, forearm, the hip, leg,
knee, ankle and foot, and if any defect,
likely to mar the use and strength of any
or of all Of these organs Of strength or
motion exists, or if he possesses unsound
lungs, the conscript or substitute is at
once notified that he is not of Uncle
Sans chosen ones, and is permitted to
go on his way-often rejoicing.
RETURNING SOLDIERS,
Utica, few miles eastward of this
point, is, at present, especially noted for
the hospitality of its citizens toward the
nine months soldiers, mostly of Massa-
achusetts and Connecticut regiments, now
returning to their homes, most of whom
have seen arduous service under General
Banks. Not unfrequently two or three
regiments arrive in one day. A most
hearty welcome is extended TO each in
turn. A sumptuous feast is spread, to
which the well are cordially invited, while
the sick and wounded are ministered un-
to by spirits little less than angelic, but
nevertheless jewels of the sex, with dain-
ties that might tempt the pampered taste
of n prince, and cordials of the rarest ex-
cellence. And the look of gratitude for
the remembrance, given by those sunken
eyes, and the smile of qualification spread
over those emaciated faces, as tho weary
aching heads of the sick are raised from
the rude pallet of straw, or as some arm
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