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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

Tho following come from housekccpers
Of experience and judgment, who have
thoroughly tested and approve them.
"BosroN" Brown BREAD.-One pint
each of Indian and Rye Meal; cup of
Molasscs; II pint Milk or Water; tea
spoonful Soda tcaspoonful Salt. Steam
three hours, and then place in the oven and
bake until well Drowned.
Gypsy PUDDING.-Cut stale ge-cakc
into thin slices, spread them with currant
jelly or preserves, put two pieces together
like sandwiches ELL dish with these !;
make soft custara, pour over the cake
while hot, and let cool before serving.
Pop-OvERs.-1 pit. Flour; pt- Milk !;
2Eggs. Eggs beaten to froth, mix quick
ly, and bake in hot buttcrcd cups. Serve
with hot sauce.
COFFEE CAKE.-Onc cup very strong
Coffee l cup Butter; 2 cups brown Sugar;
3 Eggs; II pint Flour; II teaspoonful
"Royal Baking Powder Cor J teaspoonful
Of Soda. and l do. of G. Tartar); l cup
stoned Raisins; cup chopped Citron; l
teaspoonful of Nutmeg, and one of Alspice;
J cup of sweet Milk This will make two
good-sized loaves.
CIrRoN CAKE.-14 cup Butter cups
Sugar; 6 Eggs; l teaspoonful "Royal Ba-
king Powder" Cor teaspoorful of Soda,
and do. Cream of Tartar); pint Flour;
l cup Citron, cut in thin slices. Rub the
butter and sugar to a smooth cream, add the
eggs two at time, beating minutes be-
tween each addition. Sift the flour and
baking powder, add it to the butter and su-
gar, with the citron.
CRULLERs.-1 quart Flour cup Lard
and Butter in equal parts; l cup Sugar !;
l! toaspoonful of Baking Powder" Cor
Soda !! teaspoonful, Cream Tartar l tea
spoonfuD; pint Milk; 2 Eggs. Flavor
with Nutmeg Sift flour, sugar, and pow
der together, rub in the lard and butter,
and add the beaten eggs and milk. Mix to
dough and fry.
WASHINGTON CAKE-St. Louis, 1880.
. cups of Butter; 3 cups Sugar cups
Flour; 2 tcaspoenfuls of "Royal Baking
Powder; S Eggs; 1 cup Milk; 1 cup
Stoned Raisins; cup Currants; / cup
chopped Citron. Flavor with Nutmeg and
Cinnamon, one teaspoonful each.
RAISED DoUGHNUTs. Ono pint of New
Milk, four teaspoonfuls of Sugar, one half
cup of Yeast, and little Salt. Stir
thick with Flour, and let it rise over night
In the morning add as little Flour as will
make the dough thick enough to roll out
about an inch thick. Cut in squares of an
inch and half AS you drop them into
the hot fat, stretch them out longer, and fry
them thoroughly. They arc (said to bc)
excellent with coffee for breakfast Lard
and suet, in equal proportions, boiling hot,
is said to be bettr for frying cakes than
either alone
GINGER SNAPs.-Boil together one pint
of Molasses Sorghum is excellent for this
one teacup of Shortening (some consider
Beef Suet the "snappicst,") a pinch of
Salt, n tablespoonful of Ginger. Let it
really boH for about two minutes, then set
aside to cool When cool, add two level
teaspoonfuls of Soda, and beat all together
thoroughly. Add Flour to make a dough
as soft as you can roll out very thin. Cut
into shapes, and bake in an oven not too
hot, as they scorch very easily.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07

BY JOS. F. GIST, Judge of Probate in Union
County
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07
HARD TIMES.
DY JOHNSON JONES

Dh JOHNSON JONES
OH take mo, friend, oh ! take me where
Hard times none ever cry,
Where bread and butter grow on trees
And sausagcs close by,
Where oysters dwell Ia constant stews
Aud dcvird crabs fall out
Where clans come ready cooke to hand,
And cooks can never pout.
oh ! take me to some wilderness,
Far, far away from town,
Where turkeys roasted run about,
With gravy dripping downi
Where people never have to work,
As some do night and day;
Where one can get just what ono wants,
And nothing have to pay.
Oh take me where 10 wicked still
OF strychninc whiskey's found,
Nor where champagne fills every rill,
And Cognac doth abound;
But where the most delicious fruit
The eyes have ever seen,
Spontaneous rolls from mountains down,
And every hill ice cream.
Oh take me to the land of peace,
Where nc7er comes dun,
Where people never so to law,
ana lawyers never come:
Where crops are good and never fail,
And each one gets his share,
Where one may eat, and drink, and sleep,
Without an anxious care.
Oh take me, do, where all tho folks
Get plenty clothes TO wear,
Where fashions never change, and pants
Do never burst nor tear;
Where of satins, silks, and bonnets, oil
May have a full supply;
Where children are obedient,
And babies never cry.
Take me where wives good humor'd grow,
And gossips never talk,
And parsons less by preaching judg'd
Than by their daily walk;
Where doctors charges are unknown;
Where none grow gray and old
Where chills and fevers trouble not,
And quinine is unsold.
Oh ! take me, for pm awful sick,
Far, far from banks away,
Where ne er another note I'll give,
Or have bill to pay.
Oh ! take me to some wilderness,
Where oil these things arc found
Oh, take me, take me quickly, for
Pm almost run aground.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07
The State of South Carolina,
COUNTY or UNION.
In the Court of Probate.

BY JOS. F. GIST, Judge of Probate in Union
County.
Richard Kirby, Patscy Mitchell, Rcncy Chare-
wood, David Lewis, John Kirby, Wright
I Kirby, Henry Kirby, Brown. and
other defendants, whose names are not known.
Greeting:
VOU arc hereby required to appear at the
l. Court of Probate, to be holden at Union
Court House for Union County, on the second
day Of July, a. d. 1878, to show cause, if any
you can, why the Real Estate of Oliver Kirby,
deceased, situated in said County, bounded By
lands of j. l.. Wood, Madison Kirby and others
and containing one hundred and fortysix
acres, more or less, should not be partiioned
or sold for division, allotting to the petitioner,
u. !. Bates, one-cighth part thereof, and the
remaining scven-cights, In equal portions, to
the said Richard Kirby, Patscy Mitchell, Rency
Charewood. David Lewis, John Kirby, Wright
Kirby, Henry Kirby, - Brown, and the other
defendants, whose names are not known.
Given under my Hand and Seal, this fifteenth
05th) day of May in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
eight, and in the one hundred and second
year of American Independence.
JOS. +. GIST,
Judge of Probate.
To the defendants, Richard Eirby, Fatsey Mitch
ell, Reney Chnrewood, David Lewis, John Kir-
oy. NrlShS hlroy, Henry hirby, - Brown,
and the other defendants, whose names arc
not known:
Take notice that the summons in this action,
of which the foregoing is copy, was filed in
the Court of Probate for Union County, Mt
Union, in the County of Union on the fifteenth
day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy
eight and that the object of this action is to OBJ
tain partition of the premises above described,
to he made among the owners thereof, by Com
missoners appointed for that purpose, or to OBJ
tam sale thereof to be made, and division of
the proceeds, If partition cannot be made,
without prejudice 10 the interests of the owners,
no personal claim is made against you.
Union, S. c., May 10Th, 1878.
EVlNS & BOMAR,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
May Is 20 Ct
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07

A fashion writer says: Patched trousers
will be much worn this season.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07

Pats description of fiddle is very old
but it has never been cxcelcd 1T was
the shape of turkey, and the size of a
goose he turned it over on its back and
rubbed its belly with a stick, and och . St
Patrick how it did soualc ~
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07

A PLUcKY BUSINESS WoMAN-Gov-
crnor Randall, of Wisconsin, who died sew
eral years ago, left his wife with from S15,-
600 to $4,000, and this, mainly, in an
unproductivc homestead in Western New
York. BY the advice of a supposed friend
she sold her property and put the proceeds
in herd Of cattle in Southwest Nebraska,
and, subsequently, learning that things
were going wrong, she went out to Ncbras-
ka, assumed $4,000 of liabilities, bought
out and took the management Of the whole
concern into her own hands. and succeeded
so well that her herd is now clearing her
$4,000, year, and constantly increasing in
size. She is her own superintendent and
personally looks after everything, both on
the farm and at the cattle rancho. In the
three years she had managed her herd she
had never been molested, insulted, or inter-
fered with in any manner by anybody
Here is notable case, not only Of fem ale
capacity, but ofpersistent pluck, in one who
had hitherto held the highest social position
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-08-08

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- lCIi)I.,


Ia CENTRE W. r., July p, 1878.
The people OF this vicinity were yesterday
shocked by as sal an Occurrence as has ever
happened in our midst. Early in thc morn
ing report was circulated throughout the
neighborhood that Martin Petersen, a man
living about one and one-ha!f miles northeast
of this place, had gone out for a short hunt
ON the day previous and for some unaccount-
able reason hal failed to return. Accord
ingly the axe seythe, and grain cradle were
thrown aside, guns substituted in their place,
and there was a general turnout for the pur
pose of determining the fate and the where
abouts of the missing man. On our arrival
at the home of the distracted family it was
asccrtangd that the report of gun had been
heard by the family not long after his depar-
ture bat Che different members were not all
agreed as to the location of the spot from
whence the report proceeded. Some thought
it came from the green timber north of the
impression tha. it came from raviue on the
east. The search began between o and 10
o'clock \. III, two proceeding into the green
timber. and the remainder started % exam
inc the slopes OF the ravine. 1t WAS an ar
duraus search Fallen timber ami dense
croNth Of brush and fern rendered our pro-
grcss slow. Every trail and hy-vay was eD-
amincd with care: numerous Indications of
% D s.
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Virginia is the mother OF Presidents,
Ohio the mother Of office-holders, and
Louisiana the mother of lies.
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Newspaper Decisions.

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from the post-officc, whether directed in his
name or anothers, or whether he has sub
scribcd or not-is responsible for payment.
:. If II person orders his paper discontinued
he must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
then collect the whole amount, whether the
paper is taken from the Office or not.
g. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the post,
office, or removing and leaving them uncallea
for. is prima facia evidence of Intentional
fraud
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W0shinOtOn market.
Main street, one door south Of
MdrOR'S store.
Joseph Burke Il Co., Proprictors
l.EEF.
PORK,
MUTTON.
VEAL.
GAME,
VEGETABLES, Etc.

Customers supplied with choice lots at from
q to II cents, according 10 cut.
Highest cash price paid FOR beef cattle, hog>
and sheep.
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Eliza Pinkton's rccantation proves
to be a fraud. She declares that
her original statement Of atrocities
against her husband and herself was
strictly true, and denies that She
ever knowingly declared otherwise,
though she was offered and refused
$4,000 TO recaut.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03
a Town ON wheels

Gariand IS town on wheel; when
ever the Denver and Rio Grande rail-
road finishes a section Of road the
town moves 20 the end Of the line
The people OF Garland are determin-
ed to live az tie terminus Of
Earrow-guuge, 40 matter where il
takes them As the line will be ex-
tended to Alamosa next week
the festive Garlsnders are now pre-
pairing to pack up aud move-or dust.
as they put it. The houses are being
taken down ; in week or ten days
the present site Of Garland will be
deserted both by friend and foe. Gar
land was built in week and ia one
time bad about l 200 inhabitants. Il
Is a healthy place il WAS located
apout one year sgo, and there have
been but seven deaths. So yon see
there are few that die but when thew
die they die suddenly. The csmete-
~ on the bill contains seven graves.
and we climbed the steep decliviiv in
the early morning 10 inspect il. One
is the grave Of q wee babe, whose
little lamp Of life went out after an
existence Of two months. The second
IS that Of al aged mantle Judge"
be was Familiarity called, who died a
natural death. The remainder met
violent deaths one was hung BY the
' Figilanee Committee and four were
shot dead in the saloons. Net unlike
Texas this is place. as described by
IN old Texan, who after being asked
oy a stranger whether il was necesss-
y TO carry weapons, replied that long
intervals might possibly elspse before
weapon was required, but when
ron do want pistol yon want ore
mighty bad"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03

A lake of soda water known as the
Lake of Lonar, in India. has hereto
fore formed one of the most useful as
well as picturesque features of the Hy.
derabad Assigned Districts. The salt
collected from this has been widely
used for washing and dying chin,zes
and when, the dry weather, reduces
the level Of the water, vast quanti.
ties Of soda were gathered on the
shore. From an official report. how
ever. which has Just been issued, we
gather that the supply Of soda now
greatly exceeds the demand, which
owing TO the distance OF the lake
from the line OF railway, has always
been local one. No fresh supplies
were taken from the lake In lsT6-7T,
as large stocks Of unsold produce re-
NAMED on hand from the accumula-
tion of the preceding year.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03

that woman. Daring the last three
tmontbs Of those yesrs / notiesd thai
she grew pale and thin she never
was betrayed iato speaking Of her
self Sometimes, when | would ask
her il she felt worse than usual, she
would answer.
"Oh, no. I'm q little tired-that
is all -
One evening she kept me much
longer than was her custom, while
she arranged lessons, and laid out
work enough it seemed to me for
months.
why so much tonight ," j in
quired, conscious that nv heart
aehed, and suspected the cause.
Because, dear, " she answered, Il
do not want you to come next week,
and | an anxious that you should
have sufficient work 10 anticipate, as
well as TO keep YOU busy. | think /
can trust you to be 9 good boy,
John 2"
II think you can ma'am," | an
swered, almost sobbing.
'If | should see your mother, my
dear boy, before long, what shall /
ito her for YOU -
Then knew all, and my grief
knew no bounds. II is no use to go
on. She died two days after; and
when | hear folks saying. There's a
woman at the bottom Of it." | feel
like telling the whole wcrld wha.
woman did for me
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03

William began a Second street
woman the other morning as she laid
aside the daily paper, "what ia the
new metric system proposed by Alex
ander Stephens ?"
at is q very wise measure, indeed.
my DEAR" be replied Suppose you
want new dress costing 81 q yard. "
Yes"
Under the metric system you
write to your father in Wisconsin for
the money 10 buy it with The
money comes. you take balf Of it aud
buy me pair Of pants, and then ycu
take the rest and purchase fifty cent
dress goods 1; Is a very good
measure"
And they propose to make it
law, do they p
They d0.n
well, sir :" she exclaimed show-
ing a red spot on each cheek "when
the metric system comes into practice
in this family, divorce viii follow.
and Alexander Stephens Is a fool, sir,
a fool
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A FafIure.

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III yguge -,
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W ell
10 ascer5alh-
,r re aheau.
no" hlucu-
MS SOUNDS IKE business thought
'Ne 1ouf.,
no" Hucn VIII u GUS
1es, yes
INV nIen wiz y Cos, ~ In an
u uai deu Inohien'' / sheuil De selz-
eu g WIN q sl'Asm anu Shouid sm,te
'Le "Iuiah VINO uGuoieS - ' 'r1Aoie,
g'eI lne D.oN WIN Ihe IN ol my
ueAIeF nnge'
Le' ms t uaIt Is'qnu' sa'd me
.Out' ~ Z % Wisu % AhoN 'ne iehai
y ,iSI igI VIE peA,Ins Is !" { Il
nas ,ne Eng 'ish 0I J.
~: " en- A9ous 3 tn'I'y uay5'
N y N"f .epeS'eu ,he hea-
Pe.Aet p.. MAJ i!t 'uuse, ~9'id t9u lei
= -.. ssl go. ~ t-.sI 'Du. % slus Ci
r ioOa nNNiS IL PiO'es'
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03
Flint once was sponge.

A writer in -. Nicholas saws
"You never would think it, would
you bat I'm told that flint is moth
ing more nor less than sponge
turned 10 stone Once the sponge
grew at the bottom Of toe sea, as
sponges grow now : but that vas
ages and ages ago, and since then
the sponge turned TO flint and has
lain covered by rocks and earth Of
many kinds piled thick above il.
Seen with microscope flint shows
the make Of sponge in its hbers, sad
somtimes you can see bedded in il
the tiny creatures on which ihe
sponge had fed Now and then
inside flint will be found bits Of the
sponge not vet changed. That las.
proof settles il but i must say it is
bard to believe-hard as the fiat.
almost
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03
Violence and Robbery.

HARRIsBURG, June 10 John,
Isaac and Peter Hawn, bachelor
brothers, whose ages range from so
10 So years, were attacked in their
house, six miles from Huntingdon,
this afternoon, by two irsmps, and
beaten numerically. John and
Isaac were beaten until unconscious,
and the latter Is considered beyond
recovery. The tramps then knocked
down the housekeeper. one Of them
holdicg her while his accomplice ran
sacked the house. They carried of
bonds to the amount Of $4,000, some
money and other vslusbles. Upon
the alarm being given they were pur-
sued, but turned and fred upon their
pursuers The chase was then given
up, but now the entire neighborhood
has been aroused, and the woods are
being secured 10 search Of the mis-
ereants
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03
where Gold Was Almost unknown

There was queer and very inteI est
ing sight al Willimantie SATURDAY.. II
was payday at The Willimantic thread
company's mills, and the managers
paid of their help in gold coin. 1t
was the first time in the history Of
the concern that gold had been ac-
tually used for the payment ofwages,
and its reception by the throng Of
women and men and girls and boys
as they came up for their pay was a
curious study A few of the older
workmen who had lived abroad were
familiar with the stuff, bat to most Of
them it was a strange sight and use
less thing Oae woman. after re-
ceiving her pay (Sl9) and counting it
over, came back t0 the overseer
with:
1--WE brought back the money.
Theirs a dollar, a half dollar and
some cents"
She had received a ten-dollar gold
piece, fve-dollar gold piece anu
two and a-hsltdollar gold piece and
a dollar bill and q silver half. The
last TWO she knew-"a dollar and a
half dollsr"-but to her all the rest Of
tie stuff was some cents" and she
was bound to have il corrected.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-03
The Freight Brakeman.

He lives amid peril from the
moment the engineer whistles Up
brakes until be calls them down
from the time be steps upon his train
until be leaves, he is subject 10 perils
and hardships such as no class of
men in the world must endure. The
sailor before the mast is indebted to
ship-builders for at least a little
thought in providing for his safety.
No ship Is ever launched until il is
ascertained 10 be seawortby and
however some shipmasters NAV ne
gleet the means of providing for the
safety of crews, oil maritime nations
have enacted laws TO insure these
precautions. But in the case of the
freight brakeman and freight crews"
generally, the law-maker has never
deigned to devote d thought. Rail-
road companies have no restrictions
placed upon them as TO aifording
these men any specific facilities for
the performance of their duty; the
cars are not constructed TO facilitate
their labors-we have never heard of
an improvement designed expressly
for the benefit of q train hand-of no
platform constructed for night use
of no car top so arranged as to af-
ford him safe footing-of no brake
that will enable him to work with
ease. All patents" on freight cars
are designed to extend their capacity
or cheaper their construction. The
mere matter of freight brakeman
conductor or fagman is of no ae-
count. II one is killed the company
can supply bis place without cost
but if platform is broken, car
wrecked, 1t costs money to repair or
replace it. In winters storm, sum
mer's heat, the flash of lightning, the
roar Of thunder, the howl Of the
storm, it is all the same with be
brakemsn-he must stand firm when
the shrill whistle indicates his ac-
tion-Harper's Weekly.