The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-12-30

0SSooiOut t-~euA eAhSA Wv 'Hos pawn
age has been exploded, every "lit-
Ito codger" strapped, and all the
littlc scraps Of any size picked up
to SEQ If they wouldn't "iz," all re-
tire from the field without a scratch,
feeling at the stOmash asif some
thing was there desiring to get
fresh air and couldn't and about
the head, as if you were in a fly
ing dutchman, making sixty revO-
lutions minute, and would just
as leave the machine would stop
and let you out as not. But then
the idea that you were the only
one ir the crowd extensive enough
to smoke-who wouldn't suffer sea
sickness for the glory?' (That's
sperience.")
1t is really enjoyable to look on
and see tho rising generation (and
they see by telegraph these days.
relish the sport, as we look back
and bring to remembrance, when
We would work a week at least, for
FIVE cents and spend it all at once
for something that would make
one "crack moro enjoyable than
to eat roast turkey, cakes, pies and
"stufftionary" after butcher.
ling time, when almost every
one has been foundered on
sausages, puddiugs, pigs-fect, head
Cheese, souse, backbone, spare rib
and buck wheat cakes.
| say Christmas comes tho wrong
time O. year; it or butchering time
should bo changed, but then Christ
mas time is fx,d fact, and hogs
getting. fat enough 10 kill about
the same time is another.
Blu, / almost forgot what l in-
tended telling when took up my
pen. According to previous ar
rangement Chat sentence borrow
ed) the Basil Band gave Concert
and Oyster Supper in Basil [ hrist
mas ove., (now I'm getting at il
and it was just what it was intond
] ed to be and moro too. But, tt
mako remarks short as possible,
will make a pen diagram of th'
fold of operations. In Basi
r (Which is situated up hcrc) are tw'
!, school. houses, standing about tel
feet apart; about fifty yards from
them is what We call the "Ol,
q Church." now used for exhibitions
: &C.. Its exterior bears the mark
}, of time and looks somewhat shah
/. by, but internally, it is comforta
ble-good seats, with gallery o
three sides and stage on tho othc
, The seats and desks were remove
= from the scbool.houses--a cool
, stovo put in one, with u chief COO
and assistants, and tables in III
other for the supper. supplied wit
walters, q don't mean ON top
= the tables and such tables the
:, had to be strong with good undo
" pinnings to stand tho "pressure
u. N)-for they werc loade
d with roast turkey, chicken, bee
10 pork, cakes, pies, &c, &C., viii
Q. the oysters wcro piled up in Il
cooking department like q Poi
barricade, no doubt wonderir
where they wereJtO gbe put aft
being released from their cas-
: mates; but they soon ascertain
~ that fact after the seats at the
=. bles were filled with tboso wi
!: = love them stewed, fried, raw or
the "run." OF course oil the r,
:, ishes belonging to tho oystcr fur
- lily werc Oh hand, to mako the
:. "better ash good" But hold !
!. have such q bankerihg after oy
-, ters, that am forgetting tho CO
~ cert which was given in the chuN
80 Well, if you don't think tho Ba
Band can play, come out and he
them. Ask any person who hca
them that night-.ask thcir teat
IA er; yee, ask apyperson not r''nn'
ed an opposition machine Of the sa
Of kind. But never mind, dont
IN surprised ifyoa Lancaster printe
ny devil and all, are awakened 80
- night ere long with the sweet
up strains you have heard in "sE
Dg of ages" They are o good set
ird Industrious men and boys, hi
ay good Instruments, and know h
'ull to blow them. They have lat
!, bcen under the instruction of PI
rye Wolfo of your city, and he 81
de they play we'll. Every ono pr
der eut WIS we'll pleased, and ma
We said ii was too much enjoym
Her for the money-fity cents for, 8
tho per and concert. Over one b
to hundred ate at tho tables,
enough left in the "locker" for