Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-10
non, PIEs, - CabbaEes.

sstire:
The Hon. William Maxwell Evarts
arrived yesterday at his farm in Wind.
sor, Vermont. The house which this
industrious Granger inhAbits during
the season of seed time and harvest Is
known IS the Manor house, to distin.
guish 1t from the numerous and expen-
sive structures which have grown up
around It as costs grow up around 8
claim in litigation The Manor house
Is a comely enough piece OF architec-
ture, but II 10 overshadowed by an i'm.
posing hencoOp in the Elizabetho.
Jacobean style, with here and there a
touch Of the Veneto-rococo. The Hon.
Mr.. Evarts takes great pride In his
E!iZ4betho-Jacobean hencoop. II is
said that If the Hon. Z. w. Stoughton,
who was q guest at the Manor house
five or six weeks ago, had manifested
that degree Of enthusiasm over lite arch
itecturSl merits which Mr.. Evarts ex.
pected, and had a right TO expect, he
might have been Minister 10 the Court
Of ST. James's to-day. Destiny often
hangs OF tribes. Opportunity appears
in commonplace garb, and being re.
ceived with trivial heedlessness or
ponderous indifference, glidesaway and
is gone forever.
AS Mr.. Evarts drove up to the Manor
house he heard with satisfaction a
pronounced cackling in the adjacent
edifce.
at lie the exultaut voice Of materni.
ty," thought Mr.. Evarts. THE logical
inference is that n OF my hens has
laid an egg"
After dinner the Secretary sum-.
moned the various heads Of Executive
Departments to confer upon matters
Of Administrative policy.
Gentlemen" he observed, II trust
that u domestic affairs have pro.
/, ceeded during my absence smoothly
aud satisfactorily, and that our foreign
!, relations, whereby / mean our inter-
course with the neighboring powers
and our commercial transactions with
J tradesmen, from whom we import, and
: consumers, to whom we export, are
still upon a peaceful and advantageous
basis; with which expectation await
; your several reporte.'
: Them hens, your Honor, bought
and paid fancy for said the CLiet Of
. Poultry, "have quit layjn'.'
"You alarm me" said Mr.. Evarts,
; land you astonish ii for | certainly
heard a cackling as catered the prem
ises. Are there any wilderness of con.
certed action on the part Of the fowls;
that is, was the di. Fiction spontane.
Gus, or was it apparently the result Of
a conspiracy? y
, First the brahmas quit continued
the Chief Of the Poultry, and then the
: gray dorkin's and the ~creev.curs. The
Plymouth Rocks and bantams held out
for a spell, but now they've quit, too.
} We have to buy our eggs Of Jepson.
The cacklin' your honor heard was pro.
bable the old brown settin' hen. The
brahma rooster smashed her clancy
egg, and now she's 'tarnally cacklin T.
"This is very serious" said Mr..
!. Evarts "for, as it appears, there is not
A only a complete disOrganizttion Of la
Dor, but there Is also intimidation and
. even destruction Of property. Every
hen has a constitutional sight 70 lay
eggs in fact, she Is constitutions Is ex.
pected to lay eggs-this | lay down
without hesitation as q deep constitu.
tional principle. The obstructive atli-
tude Of the poultry therefore becomes
r%iotous it Is insurrecti0nsry aud sub.
verslve Of all public interests. and must
be met with vigorous yet carefully con
o sidered measures"
81 don't see what your Honor can
do" remarked the Chief of the Poultry.
e dol" exclaimed Mr.. EvArta, rising
from his chair, his eyes flashing,
bis index finger quivering with ex.
element, and his long arms swAying
; In the air like branches of q weeping
willow. "Dol | shall declare the hen.
coop In q state Of insurrection, and shall
bring all the power of the central Gov
eminent to bear upon the insurgent
fowl. Do! | shall issue a proclamation
d commanding them to disperse and re.
sumo their functions before noon to-
morrow; and II they pay no heed to
the warning, / shall issue smother
proclamation, and, il necessary, an.
q other and another. -
At this moment the deliberations OF
the council and the Websterian elo-
quence Of the Secretary of State were
interrupted by the entrance OF q bare.
foot boy, who rushed Hnceremoniously
u into the room and shouted, as soon az
his agitation permitted him 10 recover
his breath "Our pigs Is in Jepson'a
cabbagesp
The entire party, with the exception
Of the Hon. Mr.. Evarts himself, started
3 up and would have proceeded forth.
with In q body TO Overtake and chas.
tise the aggressors had not the Secreta-
a ry calmnly motioned them to their seats
and 10 a diplomatic and judicial man
l. ner addressed them as follows:
u Gentlemen, restrain your precipi.
e. tate, yet not unnatural, impulsiveness.
u This is a matter involving foreign re-
u lati0ns ola delicate and c%oncatenated
10 nature, and IL behOOves us to act with
J caution. A pig is eG vi termini an an.
u imal prone 10 indulge his appetite for
cabbages, and being intellectually inca.
i, pable Of understanding the rights OF