Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-08
Mr.. GreeIey's Wood Farm.
THE SCRUBBY LOCUST GROVE SOLD FROM WHO
HE EXPECTED so MUCH.

HE EAPECTED 50 MUCH.
Among the recent en- -ries of real estate slles
of the land office in White Pains, is one for
eighty three and five-eighths acres at Chappa-
qua, sold to A. j. Quinby for $4,000. The
property is memorable as being portion of
the Greeley farm, though not Immediately con-
necleG with the old homestead. This still re-
mains in possession of Mr.. Greeley's daugh-
tiers, Ida and Gabrielle, who are living at Tar
rytOwn, Ida, with her husband, Colonel Smith,
and Gabrielle as a member of the household
Many who were privilege to visit Mr. Cree
ley at his Chappuqua home will remember the
hill farm, or the wood land known far and wide
from the mention of il IN the "Racoections"
of Mr.. Greeley. When bit of leisure offered
itself from grubbing among his sll cabbages,
or carrying out his very radical ideas on pun
ing, Mr.. Greeley would harness up monde
clpt vehicle. known in the whole country
around as "GreeeyS ark, 'and drive out about
two miles to the eighty-thre acres just now
ing bit of landscape as the eye of man ever
fell upon. Some few spots of it might have
been turned to possible use as a sheep pas
ture, but the rest was Strewn with powders
and filled with ruts. Mr.. Greeley had planted
over the whole plot a crop of locust trees
t'ugr1cOta arbOrenl ceret,' &c, and these had
come up IN rather promiscuous fashion. Mr..
Greeley drove his stout piece of hOr ,efiesh
among them, in his short IghtedneSS paving
not the slightest attention to such tri1ng OBJ
stacles as holes yard deep, powders as high,
young SapjngS or overhanging bOughS, tn ugh
his guests were apt to be- of different mind,
and all the time would talk on about the great
advantages OF forest planting from poitico-
social scientific view. When no visitor offered
him victim he found his way out to the wood
farm and chopped about with an axe. To-day
he plot is covered with a Scrubby growth of
IocuStS as big as mans arm.
SHETLAND DAINTIEs.-The luxuries OF Shet-
of. One mornng-1 had been in Lerwick for
about ten dayS-0ur landlady brought I'D for
breakfast wel-griled bird. She thought
we might like scorie by way of a change"
/ / mot hnn II
ing OF scOrie. Upon asking my friend OppO-
site he replied with much clearness: "What is
scorie?,why-lust scorie.' 1 concluded it
was some kind of game peculiar to Shetland
and l had already discovered that dainties were
rare, and that nothing must be too rashIy de-
splSed Ii was very good tender and delicate
and in the end | learned that it was nothing
but Young sea gull a gull OF the first year:
when its feathers are yet gray, and il has nor
long used its wings. Most people would dislike
the idea of eating a-gull perhaps should
have done so i'm any other place than Shetland
l can only say that i returned to the charge
another day, and without reluctance. 1t is 4
very eatable bird, without suspicion of fiShi.
ness, unless cooked when little too old. The
Shetlanders will not, as rule, eat these SEQ
es They 70 further and fare
easily obtained, they will take a great deal of
trouble TO secure young cormorant. They
cook and eat these corm0rants, which are
coarse, Impossible food to any but Shetland
er: They also make them into soup which 5hey
think delicious: a strong, unctuOus liquid that,
from its appearance, must possess some of the
more wholesome, though not agreeable quail
Ties Oh cod liver oil The Argosy.
JEALOUSY AND MsRDER.-The wife of Jesse
Billings, jr., a large owner and builder OF
\. Y, was fatally shot in the head about eight
O'Clock Tuesday evening, the shot being fired
throus h "a window. Mrs. Billings has beel
for long time jealous of her husband, and
there Las been much trouble between them IN
consequence. Recently woman living over
Mr.. Billings Office commenced suit against
Mrs. Billings for certain alleged SLAM
derous words spoken. There is great ex-
element at Bacon Hill in regard to the shoot
ing. The suspicious are very strong AGAINST
the husband. Billings, iI is said shot his
brother many years ago, and exeu ed 1t as ac-
cidental.