Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-10-13


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Foreign Correspondence. Of the Delaware Gsz-tte.
ALARK1T MORNING IN BREMEN.
To an American in Bremen, not the
least among remarkable things is full
blown market. There is market in bud
every morning in the week, which must
excite the wonderment if not the risables
of every one but German, and which
none but Teutcnic stomach can begin
to appreciate. But to that, no one has
any right to doubt it ,schmecks gut -
1t consists, mostly, of carrots, cabbages
and beets, and of beets, carrots and cab
bages, alternating in baskets, buckets,
wagons and boxes. Three times week.
however, there is a fa1LL-bIoaOn market,
which. doubtless, differs very little from
those held in the same places hundreds OF
years ago. There is no market house, no
stalls, no covering whatever, but some
'hof (open square) covered with pro-
visions of every kind produced by the
land and the woods, and with the vehicles
which brought them there. Sometimes
these vehicles are drawn by two horses,
sometimes by one, sometimes by oxen.
sometimes by dogs, sometimes by men.
and sometimes by women; according to
the amount they have and what they have
to bring.
We will start around, beginning with
the cabbage and beet end, for these are
things that we cannot slight if we were
so inclined. Here is a small wagon, we
would think nearly large enough for a
small horse, but 1t has a tongue with a
| handle at the end, evidently prepared for
1 human hand. and no tackling for har-
ness. So we look again, and there stands
I f6iof hTTf fbo 10 Of II
to deal out any kind of kohl" cabbage
you may wish. At home we have always
/ heard there were two kinds of cabbage
winter and summer cabbage, but here
| from the number of styles or fashions,
think they must have one for every month
in the year and an extra one for Christ
mas. They have brown kohl, white
1 kohl, red kohl, and kohl without
color. They have kohl with heads
kohl with divided heads, and kohl
without any heads; they have 'kohl'' top:
with turnips on the bottom, and kohl
bottoms with turnips on the top, and i
my memory serves me right, which is (
little confused, they have several othel
kinds too numerous to mention.
A little farther we see radishes, tur
nips, carrots, a kind of parsley and salad
! all of them in great abundance. Here i
a large wagon, with wheel rims twice o.
three times as thick and heavy as our eye
are accustomed to, and loaded with ba
of APPLES, packed in tight and heape,
high-a load for two horses we woult
say, but, 10 there is a large log, hewet
off a little, and one horse fastened to
side of it. How they keep the wagol
from running off sidewise on the road
more tim can tell; but some way it. an,
many others like it, gets to market in tn
appointed place. These apples are har
and green, most of them terribly sour an
none very large This is not accordin
to expectation, but it is said this is not
good year for apples, and one can believ
it easily.
Then, here we come to several bushel
of plums and prunes, which are very nict
wonderfully plenty, and can be bough
r everywhere for less than three cents pc
pound. These we meet in baskets all owe
the market place and are next to cabbag
in abundance. Here are dozens of bag
standing up singly and in groups full {
potatoes, which we would consider almoi
too small for use unless in scarcity. Man
not larger than bullets and certainly car
not have more than one eye apiece
These stretch along, alternating with al
pies, pears, plums, cabbages, carrots, etc
for long distance, watched over by me
not remarkable in appearance, by wome
in short wooden dresses and calico sack
, or kerchief crossed tightly on the breas
with black hoods, or with white musl
caps on their heads, also by young girl
dressed conveniently for work, with ha
: braided very tightly as near to the top
the head as possible and fastened by pil
over the ears.
Then comes long row of women, mos
ly with white caps on their heads, sit
ated on the side of the square opposite
the sun, with their backs towards it, al
with baskets and boxes of butter befo
them in the shade. The butter is weig
ed out out in pound rolls and placed
separate plates, then these spread out
boards and covered with cloths. Wi
the butter they also have their "schmie
kase," put out in little cakes spread
plates, and this, perhaps, isvery Tempt
to many.
Next to these come the game and fow
some dead and dressed, and some ali
= with fur and feathers undisturbed. TT
game is brought in large and small '
hicles, and often in immense baskt
which men carry on their backs by mea
of two sticks, one end of which they he
in their hands while the other, after pa
ing over the shoulders and crossing, ST
y. port the basket. And it is not unco
ur- mon to see a man and dog working
RS gether to draw along clumsy cart. Be
'PG iG pork etc, are not brought to market, |
kept in shops.
Beyond the game we come to tu
g. strings and troughs of fishes aud ee
-. fishes Aoundering around or swimming
''' water, and eels from a foot and half
8 70 two and a half long, lying in dark, d
and mant and snaky mass, except when, e
and anon. some brawny-armed won
- giyes them a thorough stirring up fr
? bottom to top, when they squirm
=, crawl and look as vile as possible.
Io bSy But in no part of the market pl
oois ware the cabbages, carrots, salad and W
a derful quantities of green beans prob
5ing E1 tied. They stand at the beginning n
Iber dle and end; they form the foundati