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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26
DOMESTIC RECIPES.

10 BAKE POTATOES.-Io bake potatoes
quickly, pour boiling water over them and
let stand minute or SO before putting into
the oven.
Neutrality-suspicious. peck of ounces
and two pecks Of apples; pare and stew
separately; take pound of sugar to a
pound of fruit. Mix we'll and cook for
one hour, stirring all the time.
Conn AND TOMATOES. If corn is boiled
on the cob, aud then cut of and canned
with tomatoes, in the usual manner of can
ming tomatoes. it will keep we'll and be an
excellent dish. Have twice as much toma-
toes as corn.
SWEET PICKLE.-For seven pounds of
fruit take three pounds of sugar, ono pint
Of vinegar, half an ounce each Of unground
cloves and cinnamon. Boil the fruit till
soft, then put it in syrup made up Of the
other ingredients; boil all together five
minutes and pour into jars.
SPANISH PIcKLED ONloN-Cut onions
into slices, put a,,layer Of them into n Jar,
sprinkle with salt and cayenne pepper
Then add a layer of onions and season as
before. Proceed in this way until the jar
is full, and pour cold vinegar over all till
covered. Will be fit to use in month.
PICKLED CAEEAGE.-Takc two gallons
of cider vinegar; Of ground cinnamon,
cloves and alspicc, each teaspoonful
put them in thin cloth, tie them in with
the cabbage, and just let it come to boil
ing heat in porcelain pot. Then put it
in jar, cover tightly, and set it away in a
cool place.
CUCUMBER CATsUp.-Grate large Gu
cumbers before they begin to turn yellow
drain out the juice and put the pulp through
n sieve to remoye the seed fill bottle half
full of the pulp, discarding the juice, and
add the same quantity of good vinegar;
cork tightly; when used add salt and pep
per, but salt kills the vinegar if put in when
making. This is almost like fresh sliced
cucumber when opened.
RAW CUsTARD.-For diseases Of the
stomach when very delicate food is required
this custard is excellent Beat up an egg
with sugar to taste; add cup of milk and
whatever flavoring liked.
OUNCE AND APPLE JELLY.-Take
equal quantities ofquincos and apples, stew
them separately till tender (the quinc IS
VIII take the lonSest), strain the juice, mix
it, and to every pound Of juice allow three
quarters pound Of pounded sugar; proceed
as for ounce jelly
WATERS. pound -four, two table,
spoons butter, little salt !; mix with sweet
milk into stiff dough roll out very thin ;
cut into round cakes, and again roll these
as thin as they can be handled; lift care
fully lay in pan f.; bake quickly; -four
the baking pan instead of greasing. Nice
for invalids.
INDIAN LoAF.-Takc one pint of sour
milk, one tcacupful Of molasses, one-half
teacupful Of butter, two teaspoonfuls of
saleratus, one large teaspoonful of salt, three
eggs, one pint Of wheat -four, one quart Of
yellow Indian meal; bake in deep tin
basin, in an oven ofsanc heat as for cak :,
jor onC.dnd.a. haif hours.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

CLEANLINESS AND HEALru.-We are
desired to remind housckcepers that when
they commence the periodical renovation of
their domicilcs, especial attention should be
given to cellars. They should not only
have tho benefit of thorough ventilation,
but they should be whitewashcd, and any
particle of decayiug vegetable matter or
other Objectionable substance removed
Scrupulous care in these particularo may
prevent sickness.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

How TO BECOME GRACEFULLY he
Young |Voman'S Journal thinks refined,
graceful manner can be acquired by any
woman 1t says: "The best grace is per-
feet naturalness. Still, you must study
yourself and form your manners by the rule
Of that art which is but carrying out the
law of nature. But if it is your nature to
be forever assuming some unpicturesque,
ungraceful attitude, pray help nature with
a little art.
IF you are stout, avoid the smallest chair
10 the room, and be sure you sit on it, not
to lean back in it with your hands in front
Of you just below your waist, especially
while the present fashion lasts
If you are thin, do not carry yourself
with your chin protudng and your spinal
column curving like the bowl of q spoon.
DO not wear himsy materials made up
without ruffle, or puff or founce, to fill
up the hard outlines of your bad figure, so
cruelty defined by the tightly pulled back
draperies.
Study the art of dress. We once knew
very plain woman who dressed so taste.
fully that it was an absolute pleasure to look
at her.
IF you have been moping until you are
sick with the thought of your own hopeless
ugliness, be up and doing. Forget your
disappointments, forget the past and the
sneers Of your own family over the mistakes
that you have made"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

THE WAITER CAUGHT HIM-When
they serve you brandy in Paris it is brought
in little caraffe marked off on the sides so
as to show exactly how many glasses are ia
ken out. When you come to pay, the gar
con has only to look at the caratfe, and the
amount remaining tells how much has been
used. This gave an ingenious gentleman
an idea. He would drink three pctits ver-
res and then pour in. water so that it would
appear he had but one. He thought no.
body observed the trick.
After two or three days this customer
found the brandy very feeble, and he called
the garcon.
"Garcon," he said, "what is the matter
with this brandy?"
at is the same, sir"
"That cannot be. Day before yesterday
it was delicious, to-day it is hardly stronger
than water"
II have The honor to inform Monsieur
that it is not only the same brandy, but that
l have carefully given Monsieur every day
the same bottle.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26
a sacRE9 TRUST FoR THE SOLDIERS OF THE
~ 81 So SOUTH,

a s&cR92. TRUST ron THE SOLDIERS OF THE
The following letter is addressed to Gen.
Randall u. Gibson, of Louisiana, to whose
care Gen. Hood, when dying, commended
his orphan children
New ORLEANS, Aug 80, 1879.
Dear Generals Knowing your love and
esteem foy Gen. Hood and his family, l
thoughC afeiyS particulars of the sad event
would not Bo' uninteresting to you. Mrs.
Hood, after her last confinement, was bottcr,
and had an easier time than on any former
occasion. Friday week, feeling so well, she
imprudcntly took bath. immediately after
son having left on the 1st of this month,
DR.. Bcmiss was called in. heard him say
Mrs. Hoods case was the most remarkable
one he had ever seen in his practice; that
there was was not single symptom Of yell
low fever, and they did not know that she
had it until the black vomit appeared. She
died at halfpast 8 o'clock, p. NJ, Sunday
night, and was buried at 10 o'clock, Mon
day morning. | never in my life saw man
so completely crushed rs Gen. Hood was.
was with him Monday morning till the
funeral. He said he'd rather God should
have taken every one of his children in one
day than to have lost his wife !; that he
was completely ruined, and now, without
his wife, he had nothing to live for. The
precious little lambs who had gone to bed
Sunday night, knowing nothing of their
mothers death, began to come in one by
one, until niue came in, and such scene
never wish to witness again. After the
children left, he said, "Major, have never
had the fever, but if should have it, and
it is Gods will, am ready to go. l have
requested Col Flowers to take charge of my
children and appeal to the Confederate SOL
diers to support them" He was taken
Tuesday morning at o'clock, aud died
Friday morning at halfpast 3, per-
fectly in his mind to within ten minutes of
his death. At about 2 o'clock he asked the
doctor if his time to die was not near at
hand The doctor said, "Yes, General."-
Then minister was sent for at his request
to give him the last communion. AS his
death was announced and no hour fixed for
the funeral, very few were present. A de-
tachment Of "Contincntals" fired salute
over his grave, and the last sad tribute
was paid to our brave, generous and Chris
,ian friend.
hear his house is mortgagcd to its full
value and he left but little insurance on his
life, not being able to keep up his policies.
lie told me his book was finished and he
was just about starting to Philadelphia to
make arrangements for its publication. |
think it is altogether the saddcst death |
have ever known. Old Mrs. ucnnen can
live but few months; and here are eleven
| little lambs left tatherlcss and potherIcss
Oh, how much better if God in His provi-
dcnce would take them ALL
WALTER V. COUCu.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

'Landladj,' said he, this coffee isn't set
tied no., she replied, but it comes as
near it as your last mouths board bill does ;
and that man never spoke again during the
meal.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

We hear of men sowing wild oats, but
VINO ever heard ola woman sowing any.hing
but tarcs
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

No hotel porter ever tried to smash an
elephants trunk.-Ncto York NcWs.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

How He "LIvENED 1T Up"-There
was oompositor not only discharged from
the San Jose (Cal.) Herald the other day,
but also fired down four flights of stairs by
the infuriated foreman of that admirable
journal. 1t seems that the typo was re
quested to "liven up" certain speech de-
livered at the Workingmon's' State Conven-
tion, held in that town, with the usual marks
in parenthe is. The. .s.joury sho was car
rying little moro beer than was necessary
just then got hold Of the wrong proceedings,
causing the eloquent resolutions of Mr.. Van
Arman, referring to the death of member,
to read something like this: "Whereas,
it has pleased Divine Providence to remove
from our midst our beloved comradc, Azariah
McMuck, Cloud applause who has been cut
off in the flower Of his usefulness (laugh-
tcr) and promise, it is Resolved, That we
tender to his borcaved family (checrs) and
friends our sincere sympathy in their hour
of affliction (crics cf Put him out and
'ordcrO, and assure them while we humbly
bow to the will Of Ga voice, Three cheers
for KearneyO Heaven, lament our departed
brother (roars Of laughter,) fellow-citizen
of enlightened mind, statesman-like views
(cries of ooh shut up! Let's adjourn
and broad and generous sympathy for his
kind. (Terrifc cheers.) He is not lost but
gone before (derisivc cries of oh cheese it,
and continued laughtcr)" &c. In fact, the
McMuck widow is hunting for that unfortu-
nate primer yet, and cherishes the convic-
tion that he is still hiding in the hills.
The CALIFORNIA ELEoTIoN.-"Judse
Ord, of San Francisco, now stopping in
this cit, says the California election is
likely to be satisfactory to tho conservatives
of all parties, and may lead to the practical
disbandmcnt of the Workingmcn's party
whose success was csseptial to its continued
existence. The Republicans, he said,
seemed to have elected the greater part Of
the State officers, while the judiciary will
be Democratic. There will, therefore, be
two checks thrown upon the Legislature,
should it attempt to pass laws which are
necessary to carry out the extreme measures
proposed by the new Constitution and the
adhcrents of tie parties who supported it.
The Governor will have the veto power,
and conservative Supreme Court have
the Interpretation of the new laws. 1t will
be found that there arc two possible ways
of interpreting almost everything under
the new Constitution, and between the Gov.
ernor and the Courts the new party will
find its progress stopped" Nee Torh Pa,
per.
| tIanllnly said hn ttbis cofroo ;en't cot
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-09-26

"Wild Bill, )" the frontiersman, who in
his day was as notorious as Kit Carson, anu
who was killed three years ago. has turned
to stone from scalp to toe. His remains,
which were buried at Deadwood, in the
Black Hills, were taken from the grave for
re.interment at another place, when they
were found to have become petrifed. The
features are as natural as life, save that a
whitcness overspreading all givics to the
face the appearance of chiseled marble.
COSTLY CAMpAIGNING-The Portland
(Me.) argus mentions as a rumor that Sen
ator Elaine spent $4,000 of his private
fortune to carry that State for the Rcpub-
licans at the lAst election. The same paper
asserts that tho I.cpuI.;c1n campaign in
Maine cost ,nat party 500 900.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
An Humble Heroine.

Mary Ann, or Grandma Wilson, as she
is called, is vendor of peanuts in New
Orleans, an industrious, cheerful, with
cred old woman, who has piled her hum
BILE calling in St Charles street for more
than forty years. She is the most
famous yellow-fever nurse in tie south
fact which one would never learn from
her own lips. She took excellent care
of the patients during the prevalence Of
the scourge in 1887, and again in 1858
she was faithfully at her post. Two
years later, when the fever ragged at
Norfolk, she went there and rendered
efficient service. she went at other
seasons to Savannah and Memphis, and
did her utmost to relieve those who had
been attacked by the pestilence. Last
summer found her at Grenada, where
for thirtyseight days and nights she
battled with the disease. ministering to
the sick and dying with tenderness of
devotion not to be exceeded. She has
done world of good, but she never
speaks of it. She, noble, simple soul, is
once more in St. Charles street selling
peanuts, apparently unconscious that
she has done anything more than her
plain duty.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
False Impressions of Spaip Cor
rected.

I had considered Spain a worked>out
country; the undeveloped wealth of her
natural resources is great beyond all
calculation. had presupposed people
proud, intolerant, bigoted, Indecent,
shiftless, lawless. 1 have found an upper
class courteous and considerate to their
equals, kind and familiar to their inferi>
ors, fairly liberal and enlightened in
opinion, and very wide awake to the
faults and shortcomings of their coun-
try; peasantry full of self.respect, of
manly independence, honest, hard>work.
ing, law abiding, sober. With such a
grand substratum for national tranquil.
ity, prosperity, progress, how comes it
Spain is tho home of chronic disorder,
revolution, strife? Because nightmare
OF fear, distrust, lethargy, paralyzed the
country. To prosper in business, to be
enterprising, to amass a little money,
was to become prey. The goods and
ehattels of him who fell into the clutches
of the black algoocib were the perquisites
of q body of men craving for gold, and
utterly irresponsible Literature was
made an engine of ignorance; govern
ment one of plunder. The intelligence,
talent, enterprise of the country was
banished, destroyed or silenced.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
A COrpse in the Reservoir.
St, Leuis Times.

st. Leuis Tlmes'
A whopping big train load OF hungry
people came down from Kansas City On
the North Missouri express last Sunday
night. At the R. & L. junction they dis
embarked for supper and partook freely
of the salt msckerel and bacon and eggs
with which that locality abounds.
When they got back on the train
thirstier act of folks never struck a water
cooler. The ice~water tasted aw1u
good, and for an hour or so 1T WAS NIP
and tuck between the bacon ana nsekn
erel parties of the first part and the icee
water, party of the second part. About
nine o'clock, however, a small. solemn
man in the rear of the last Pullman car
inquired, in loud voice, whether any
body had noticed any peculiar taste or
odor about the ice~water and he passed
us 8 copy of Kansas City paper which
briefly but graphically described the
finding of putrid male corpse in the
vaterworks reservoir the night before.
Every passenger on the train had been
freely imbibing that water, and every
passenger read that article 1t was
great and sweeping triumph tor the
mackeral and bacon from that time On
on through the rest OF the long, weary
watches of the night. When the pas
sengers rushed out of the train in St.
Louis, yesterday morning, and tackled
the hydrant of the Union depot, their
throttlesvalves and tanks were so hot
that the water sizzled and steamed all
4 Iour
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
The Bravest People on Earth.

General Shields was fond of telling
stories, and the following one I remem~
ber particularly well. Said the general: :
Con the 18th day of September, 1S47,
the American army found itself before
the ramparts of the city of Mexico. The
city contained 100000 Inhabitants, and
was defended by 10000 disciplined
soldiers, yet $500 American soldiers
crossed those ramparts and captured that
city. Can you show me any other in"
stance of the kind in history? ? ] recollect
an old English miitaire who was there,
and after he looked at the little band he
said: rs this the army? yes We'll,
said he, all l have to say is this-you
Americans are the bravest people on
Gods earth to come here with such
an army as that"
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
How Garibaldi Rules Caprera.

London Truth.
He is absolutely lord OF that little
islam l, and, if the truth must be told,
governs it despotically. The rights of
conscience are understood by few per-
sons out of Great Britain o. the United
States, and no one need be surprised to
hear that GariDaldi allows NO priests on
the island. 4 peasant could not receive
the last sacrament if 80 unfortunate as
to die at Caprera. Similarly, during the
period OF his French command, Re
showed himself singulsrly, and, one
might add, wantonly, intolerant. At
Dijon he turned the nuns out of a con.
vent to find quarters for his troops,
which, possibly, he had a right to do !;
but he added the gratuitous afront of
ordering them to be dressed in secular
garb previously to being sent to their
respective homes. A Jew facts more to
his credit. He is essentially 90 good
fellow" to friends, kindly, gentle, gen.
ef'ojus, withal frugal. An Englishman
should make the acquaintance of Niz-
gan If he would understand what thrift
is. A gentleman I knew was once talk
ing to Garibaldi, when the latter took
out his cigar>case and profered it. A
cigar having been accepted, Garibaldi
took out another, deity broke it in half,
and restored one portion to his case
the remaining halt he lit, and composed
ly proceeded to smoke. "All I have
left of my country" he added, with a
mournful suile-for the tobacco was
Nizzsn-grown.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
Human MOnstrOsit'es.

Prof. Pancost who has been, and is
still, explaining to medical students the
Carolina colored twins, exhibited about
the country under the title of the s'Two
headed Girl" regards them as far more
wonderful than the Siamese Twins.
These were two distinct human beings,
while these sisters have single backbone
below the shoulder blades, at which point
the spinal column branches like the let
ter Y. They were born back to back,
but in learning to walk they have SO
changed their original position that they
now stand side by side. When either is
touched below the point of conjunction,
both feel it; but above that point sensi-
tiveness is separate. These monstrosi-
ties are not nearly 10 uncommon as is
generally thought, as any one must know
who has read st. Hilaire's &c History of
Anomolies of Organization" There was
the twin monster, Rita Christina, born
in Sardinia, who was taken to Paris and
died there. Her head, neck and upper
extremities were duplicated, WI lie the
chest and abdomen were single. A child
with three heads, born some thirty-fve
years since at Catania, Sicily, attracted
much attention from scientific men. Am
brose Pare describes two girls united by
the back, belly and forehead. They
lived to be ten years old, when one of
them died. The dead girl was then
separated from her living sister, who
soon died also. The Hungarian sisters,
In the last century were united by the
back, and had one alimentary and urinary
canal. They, or she, as you like, did
not die for twenty-five years. Of all the
human monsters known, none has lived
SO long as the siamese Twins. They
lasted sixtyathree years, while hardly
any of those on record have survived
talf so long, most of them dying befo1s
hhirty.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
How a Pastor Got the Pew Rents.

The pastor a church in Baltimore
last week devised new way to collect
pew rents. Several of his congregation
being remiss in their settlements, he
ordered the pews of the delinquents
nailed up. Quite number were thus
secured, and the pastor announced that
he had adopted this means to secure the
prompt payment of the money due him,
without which he could not conduct the
affairs If the church satisfactorily. He
called attention to the fact that the
delinquents were nearly all, If not all,
able to pay. Their.wives and daughters
bristled with silks and satins, founces
and fu1 bellows, and the pew rent remain
ed unpaid. The novel egpedient has
proved complete success.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02

..He looked up very humbiy, snd
said he was sorry to be found in such
place, bat he could assure the court that
lie never was in the prisoners boz before.
" Never?" asked the court with some
severity. ''Lcok a-here, judge" said
the 7culprit "name thes fine, but for
heavens sake don't spring that Pima.
fore gag on fellow.''
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
HOPE.

HOPE.
BY IRWIN RUSSELL.
No matter wherc, we sail,
a storm MY come to wreck U.s.
a elper wind, to check US
In the quest for unknown lands,
And cast Oh the sands,
No matter where we sail.
Then, when my ship goes down,
What choice is left to me
From leaping In the sea-
And willingly forsake
all that the sea can take,
Then, when my ship goes DOWN.
still. in spite of storm,
From all we feel or fear
A rescue may be near:
Though tempests blow their best
A manly heart can rest
Still, in spite OF storml
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02
TwHsNkEETABLE. TIE BL f.

seest thou how tears still i"ilpw earthly '''Ss
Sun, shine out while yet you may
Darkness follows sure and swift.
Birds sing cheerily to-day;
Death may be to morrow's gilt.
Eyes, believe that eyes are true,
Though the future prove them moi,
lips, let kisses warm you through,
Though kiss'd lips are soon forgot
Heart be glad litu e space,
Though the years with care be rife.
Love, bloom once; then tax your place
With the sweet, dead how'rs OF life.
--Mirtans Beatrice Dedns.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-02

I fulfilled my promise, and his remains
were inferred by Lady Worth's, uncheck-
I'd by Lord Worth, who had gone abroad.
Therefore to this day, no one, save the
two faithful servants and myself, is
aware that those who, in life, were SO
heartlessly parted, repose together in
death
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-08

The LATE efficient board of County Com
missioners, consisting of Messrs GroniDger,
Mclaughlin, and Cox were present in the
Commissioners Office on Monday, to wit
ness the installation Of their successors,
Nessrs. McMeen, Wilson, and McWilliams.
From the character Of the new board it is
reasonable TO infer, and predict, that their
administration will be as successful as that
Of the gentlemen whom they succeed.
They organized by electing Mr.. Wilson
President OF the Board, and by appointing
Jeremiah Lyons, Attorney, James Irwin,
Clerk, and John Diehl, Court House Janitor,
all first-rate appointments.
The same day also witnessed the retire.
ment of Mr.. A. J. Patterson, as District
Attorney, and the induction into the same
Office CT Mr.. George Jacobs, Jr. Mr.. Pat
terson was a faithful officer, to both public
and private interests, that he was called to
give attention to, during his administration.
His successor, Mr.. Jacobs is Young man
OF first-rate requirements, and good habits.
Efficient and obliging Prothonotary Bel
dler also took his bow of departure, and
was succeeded by the affible George Rey-
no'i.. Mr.. Reynolds is an ex-Prothonotsry
and has thorough knowledge Of the work
inss Of the office.
Mr.. Parker, during whose management
the financial paper was always at Iar, passed
over the documents of the Treasury to his
successor, Mr.. John Kirk, who is young
merchant in this place.