American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-02-28
To Cook a Turkey.

The evening before you expect to cook
turkey, kill it, clean it nicely, salt well
and put it away in some good, cool, suit.
able place, where there are no unpleasant
odors of any kind. Next morning take
one-fourth of a pound of fresh butter and
one-fOurth of pound of sugar; mix the
butter and the sugar we'll together, and
with knife or otherwise plaster this mix
ture all over the turkey when cold then
take piece of stout domestic or Lowells
and make sack, into which carefully
place the turkey, and sew it up, tapping
every part of the sack so as to make it fit
close and tight to the turkey; place in
cold water, heat up, and boil for four and
half hours. The turkey will by this
time be well cooked, and in his own
juices, and will be sweet, tender and
juicy. Now take out of the sack, stuff
with good, well-prepared stuffing. place
in the stove, and roast or bake There is
more pleasure in eating one turkey
cooked thus than in eating half a dozen
cooked in the ordinary way.-Western
Rural.
The mum Der of saw-mills in Saginaw
and Bay County, designated as the Sag
NAV Valley proper, is 1O5, with an an
600 feet, and which cut last year G19, S67,
021 feet. The stock on hand unsold, JAN
l, was 191 ,17S,000; number of men en-
ployed, 4,071; capital invested in mill
property, $5,076,OO0. These mills also
cut $50, 32O50O pieces of lath and 10000
pickets. The amount of lumber manu-
featured in 1873 shows an increase of but
5000, 900 over the previous year. The
shingles cut were 1872, 600, 900, being a
slight increase over last year. The shingle
mills employ 400 men and represent a cap
ital invested in mill property of $45O,OOO.
Il BEG pardon, sir, but is your name
Wayne Hovey?" said man to the editor
of Mr.. Bergh's society paper. at is"
"All right, then, you are cruelty to
animals man. Won't you please step
round the corner? You will find man
there beating his horse to death, and there
round, and bystander raised the cry
of "Berghn' The brute who was beat
ing the animal suddenly dropped his
club and skunk away.
SOME "sawdust swindlers" are sending
the following circular to taxpayers in
Illinois:
DEAR SIR: In thorough search of the statutes
of your State (Which we made to obtain nforma-
were engaged find there il way by which u
person can legally, and without expense trouble,
evade The payment OF his taxes for This year We
will mpart the information TO you upon the re-
ceipt of one dollar.
OF course, whoever sends them dollar
is swindled out of just that much money.
THE Red River saloon, New Mexico, is
an exciting place for lunch A ruffian
known as Chunk amused himself in shoot
ing the eyes out of pictures and opening
champagne bottles with pistol bullets.
His eyes became fixed on stockman
named Allison. At the supper table they
sat opposite, each with his pistol in his
lap. Allison lodged Chunks ball and
shot Chunk through the right eye before
he had time to enjoy his coffee. The
Sheriff arrived. lie wanted Chunk for II
murder in Texas.
THE Wells (Minn) Aaos says strange
circumstance in connection with the new
artesian well in that village, from which
there is a constant flow of water through
II two-inch pipe eight feet above the sur
face, was the pieces of wood and other
foreign matter which came to the surface
after boring through the rock 1l6 feet
down. Some of the pieces are in good
state of preservation, while some are more
o, less decomposed-
A wELI-KNowN Lafayette Und.) land
owner was recently fined for allowing
Canada thistles to grow on bis farm. Be
ing somewhat angry AT the jury on &c
count of the finding, he s. let out at them
and was arrested for contempt