The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-20
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each of the years following and, in addi-
ton, perhaps thirty or forty dollars for the
last year Of his service. When tie app. en-
tice gets out of his time he gets an APP
polntment to city shop at a hundred doll
lars year, and board and lodging on The
premises.
When the country woman comes in to
the village she carries in a basket on her
arm eggs and butter for sale 10 the grocer.
She gets for her eggs from eight cents a
dozen in summer. when eggs are Ileatisui,
TO eighteen and twenty cents dozen in
winter. And he buys her butter, which
she brings in meascans Tor stack-shaped
lumps) of three or four pounds weighu
each, at every price from ten to twentys
five cents pound, according to the mar
ket
In return she purchases from him tea al
thirty-hve cents a pound sugar at five
cents pound, starch at ten cents a pound,
tobacco (for the old man at home) six
cents an ounce, and snuff for herself al
zen cents an ounce.
The Publican and Mountain Dew.
The publican does not now make an
much profit he did when poctin pot
teen--illicit whisky was more in evidence
He retails his whisky, gin and rum at
cents glass, or 60 cents a pint:
cheaper quality of whisky and all his
wines and cordsals at cents a glass; his
mineral waters and porter at cents Z
| bottle; his ale cents bottle. Whiskiaa
and cordials are the principal drinks calis
| ed for.
| As every gallon OF whisky bears two
| and a half dollars duty the temptation Ia
| purchase mountain dew at an insignif-
| cant price is strong. At one time the
! publicans in our Donegal villages traded
| pretty heavily in dew manufactured Ia
artificial caves in the mountains, snug-
| gled into the village and sold under tha
nose of the gauger and police. A favorits
method of smuggling the kegs of poteeu
was to bring them into the village hidden
| In carts Of turf (peats), which were meant
| for sale; and many and exciting are the
| hair-breadth 'scapes the smugglers cau
| tell about. / remember a comicai case
/ in which a smuggler on his way to tha
village learnt that the police. acting on
| information, were waiting for him-and
| his informant warned him to return homa
and do away with the keg which he had
\ in the heart of his turf. But he knew a
| better trick. He snapped carts with q
| comrade who had no whisky in his load.
| and then both proceeded to the village.
| His comrade delivered turf and keg safes
| ly with the publican for whom st was in
| tended, whilst the police sergeant Stop
/ ped the smuggler. and In most innocent
| fashion, insisted on purchasing the smug-
| glers load of turf The latter made great
| protest. saying this load was "bespoken, :,
i and that under the circumstances he would
| not sell 1t for less than-an exorbitant
price mentioned. The willy sergeant closed
/ the bargain az a snap, gladly paid the
smuggler double price for the turf, emptIed
| the load and-found himself a much NOR
| titled man
The chief duty or the police (''peelers'y
| of these villages used to be still-huntlnr.
| or poteen seeking. Armed with gun and
| a long steel rod for testing ground WHERE'S
buried kegs were suspected. they tramped
| the mountains all day lonR-and were sell
Il fol
| detected smuggler was usually the op-
ton of $50 fine or a month In Jail In
| Donegal the police are known as "stili
hunters" and "dunghill stabbers -
Through the action of the present Roman
Catholic Bishop dr. O'DonnelD poteen
| making has been almost stamped out OF
| late years. 1t had a very demoraIizins
effect and merited stern suppression.
| Pubcans pay license varying ac-
cordlng to the size of their premises from
500 to $40 per year. They must not sell
between ten az night and seven in the
| morning on week days and are not all
lowed to sell at all on Sunday-except 10
travellers. One who has slept on the pre-
| vious night not less than three miles from
the village is reckoned a bona fide trav-
eler.
All stores are usually kept open from
! o'clock in the morning till 10 at night To
| the stores of many mountain villages cus-
| toners often have to walk ten miles Each
| village has usually q radius of at least
| six miles.
The Mail From America.
The mall (which usually consists of
| three score letters-half of them Ameris
cam, comes into Sessiagh in the fore-
noon-brought forty miles on a jauntina
car, which sets out on the return Jour
| ney an hour after arrival. When our cit-
| liens travel out into the world they de-
| part on the mall car. and by II return
again, If they return at all. And the tour
lists who come to see our country travel
| on this car likewise. The fare is about
| five cents a mile-and whip-money to tho
driver. Travellers (by which we always
signify ''drummers) from Dublin, Belfast
| and Derry come with their traps upon
| special cars, for which about twenty cents
| a mile is paid.
Sessiagh has its money lender. a pri-
| vate individual who has amassed abouI
| seven hundred dollars, and who lends
small sums to farmers in a pinch at 20
per cent.-or advances money on their
| lands.
The only time when Sessiagh Is really
alive and active is fair day, which Is held
| on the second Wednesday Of each month.
On that day cattle pigs donkeys and
| sheep are brought in for sale from within
| radius OF twelve miles-and purchasers
| (obbers) arrive from outside the noun
fains. The fair is held on the street, where
bled together. Tents are erected by hawk
ers on the street, also. for che sale OF all
| sorts Of pe5dlers' wares, fruits, biscuits.
fish and dlisc, "a very palatable sea-
| weed.) Gamesters, too, are there I'm plenty
| with their shooting galleries, ring-throws.
| trick-o' -the-loop, card tricks, Jacks farm
| et hoe genus omne. And. not least the
| ballad singer with bis Come all We young
| men and maidens fair, I pray We do at
tend"-singing Of Dan oConnell. Parnell,
| the latest political sensation, a recent
| hanging or a lovers romance.
The boys and girls of all the district
| for ten miles around come TO Sesslagh on
| this day. tricked out in their finest and
| best. They meet and make merry; tho
| boys buying fairins for the girls or treat
| ing them 10 n glass of cordial, parading
the streets with them and conveying them
home I'm the cleaning, happy with the
| gaiety of hearts that are innocent and
| that--one might imagins-never knew care.
| God bless them. Seumas MacManus.