The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-07
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y TnE ST. LOUIS REPuBLScAN Stakes: "Our Con0l
oul ut Tunchal, Island of Madeira, in q communism
ton 10 the State DepartrsoHtat Washington, giv8e
. detail of the prccess by Shich the Madeira wiQp
is prepsred for tie United States market.
Gays that the Madeira win6s'now mostly sent
this country are prepared by the method he de-
scribes. These are generally the low priced articles
which find the resdiest sale in this country, such
as do NOT bear a creator market value where pro-
duced than from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty dollars the pipe OF one hundred and ten gal
Ions. Many of these wines, though puxs, are
brought to q marketable state by a process or artiI
fcal heat or cooking, and arc ~knownin tho marketl
where prepared as est,yed ,oines. L result of
the eslsyed process is to make q wine which is only
one year old appear as il it were three years Old
or as If it had acquired tho flavor Of a three year
old wine in the natural way. The cooking PROCESS
is after this fashion: The wine is put in casks in
which the bung. or stopper is left out. In this
condition the liquid is subjected for several
months,to an artificial heat of about oneshuAdred
and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, during which period
a kind Of second fermentation takes place. After,
tho vino has remained in the tstaJd, or heated
room, a sufficient length Of time to have acquired
a marketable age in taste, it is racked %, and
then offered for sals, or shipped to foreign couns
tries and muohfof the wine shipped to the United
States is said to DO Of the estuted kind, doubtless
the most Of it. This vine, whom offered for mar
ket or shipped, 10 in no respect adnlterated other
than by the process indicated, which can scarcely
be called adulteration. II adulteratsd at all, such
Of it as is shipped to this country, it is done after
it gets into American hands, and there is little
doubt that this is done to considerable extent by
some American liquor dealers 80 as to increase tho
quantity at the expense OF the quality. Such, at
least, is the prevailing notion. The favor Of the
est,yed ,oine is said tl bo quite different; from
that which is left untouched, and allowed to ac-
quire mellowness and flavor by the lapse Of time
alone. The difference, 1t is said, may be readily
detected by an expert, But as there are compare
lively few experts in our souatry, bscRusei the OPP
purtunities to test the agod article are yery few
tho estaJed wine passes current. It would be
we'll it this we're the only dootoring which our
Madeira wine gets"
REV. F. 0. MoRR1s writes to tho London Morn
ing Herald from Nunburnholm Rectory, Heyton,
York, to direct attention to the scarcity Of birds
nests this season. He says: ''This rectory is thick
~ surrounded by trees, and in othor years birds
of various kinds, being always unmolested and UNI
disturbed, have built their nests and reared their
youngin neutrality-suspicious. in every corner,
biackbirds only too many-the blaok-cap, the gar
den warbler, tho thrush, the mistletoe thrush, the
wren, the spotted Aycatcher, the willow warbler,
the chafinch, the dunnock, the ox-eye, and ON one
occasion the golden-crested wren; robins, star
lings, swallows, martins and %sparrows, OF courHe.
wagtails; tho partridge, too, within half a dozen
yards Of tho house, tho white-throat, till some
bushes in which they built we're out down. and,
just outside the fence, the chiff- ohaff, the Yellow
hammer and the whin-chat. This year I do not
believe q single green6nch has built here, nor
more than one pair ofrobins, one or perhaps two
Of fycatch0rs, one Of ox-eyes, one Of black-caps,
one of wrens, ono Of blackbids, also q pair OF red
starts, the first that ever built 80 near. Ihavs
only seen one young thrush about, and even that
may not have been reared in the grounds; COM
paratively few sparrows, and no others except
martins, starhnga and sparrows. One pair Of tho
laet-named built on q rafter in the stable, but
though I had the door left open all night that they
might have thor exits and their entranceeas, and
thoughpthe- birds roasted close by the nest every
night, no eggs were laid until September. The
South side and East end of our ancient little church
used to give many a 'coign OF vanta 3e' to the 4ent-
ple-haunting martlet,' but this year not a single
p liz has domiciled there. Of tho several pairs
which likewise used to build over the windows In
front Of the house, this year, being disturbed by
the painters, none returned to It again, but in the
back OF the house there are seven nests. Our
fruit, OF which we have had the most extraordinary
quantity l ever saw, was well protected with nests,
but there has scarce been o black-bird to run the
blockade. In the winter we had one with q white
tail in the garden, looking like some foreign bird,
but the very hard weather we had took him awav.
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