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Year: 1877

That's right, laugh. Every one does
when hash is mentioned, yet every one
likes it when properly prepared and duly
certified to - established as it is by
pledges of public confidence and near
ly everybody eats it. Hash is vastly
abused dish. 1t is made the scapegoat
for about all the gastronomic sins IN the
kitchen calender, not to say colandar.


There are not many of US who boarded
at home, when home meant a superln-
tending mother in the kitchen as well as
elsewhere, but can recall the delight we
felt, in those days of innocence and sim
legs stomach, when We discovered there
was hash for breakfast. Was there any
thing superior tothat rare combination of
minced corn-beef and potatoes as 1t came
steaming from the kitchen; and have
your noses ever enjoyed more savory
treat than that which emanated from the
maternal hash? What is home without
mother? And what is a mother unless
she can make good hash?


But the average boarding g-house hash
is different affair. 1t is often either
not half chopped or else it is chopped so
much that it is mashed into a sticky,
ugly-looking compound that nobody
could consider palatable. Hash, like
sausage, needs to be cut. not ground, and
to be good. it should be prepared over
night and stand with the seasoning in it,
and that seasoning is the rich point; it
must not be so hot as to burn the palate,
but it must have good sharp taste of
pepper and be as salt as possible not to
taste salty. II any other seasoning is ad-
ded We prefer little sage. 1t should be
put on to cook in n hot vessel, in which a
little butter or drippings has been melted,
covered closely, stirred often, and only
enough water added to steam it thorough
ly, not enough to make it soupy.
Year: 1877

A notable tree is the sack tree, of Wes-
tern India, the inner bark of which forms
very good material for sacking, and also
for cordage. 1t often attains height
of one hundred feet, with diameter of
six. The native method of making sacks
of this material is very simple. Usually
about one foot in diameter is chosen, and
from this q section of the length desired
for the sack is cut. This log is stepped
for some time in water, in order to soften
the bark, and is then beaten with clubs.
In this way the outer bark is removed,
and the inner detached and rendered soft
and pliable. Next, it is folded over on
itself at the end, like skinning a squirrel,
and turned inside out. All that is required
to complete the sack is, that one of the
ends be sewed up, which is readily done.
But sack may be made without stitch or
seam. This is done by arresting the pro-
cess of skinning some two or three inches
above the farther end of the log, and
then saving off the latter at that point.
The sack has then solid wooden bottom.
These sacks are extensively used in West
ern India, Ceylon, and serve their pur-
pose we'll The same material is some
times employed in the manufacture Of
clothing and for paper-making. To pre-
pare it for the former purpose, the bark
is stripped off in pieces, which are then
thoroughly soaked and beaten out till the
texture becomes white and rough like fur.
1t is then cut according to the required
shapes, and stitched together.
Year: 1877

SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT STILL AND LIVELY


CHASE.


Acting upon Information received by Collector Free
land OF the First Internal Revenue distrct Brooklyn
on last Monday evening, Deputy Collectors Cocheu
Phillips. Young and Jacobs proceeded expcdi-
ton under cover OF night 10 seize Illicit whiskcy
discry which was located In y small frame structure
on point Of land extending out into small bay In
Fiatlands, between Sbeepshcad and canarsie. The
place, which was isolated, admirably adapted for
nue. department, but was not proof against tho
trcachery OF persons who were In the secret When
within couple Of hundred yards OF the still tho rev.
enue raiders alghted from tue vehicle In which they
had made the journey from Brooklyn AND silently
stole upon the Illicit establishment. As they neared
the place they saw two men, on either side OF the
building, keeping watch. One OF tholmen was taken
prisoner but his companion took TO his heels and ran
across the swamps In which the revenue officers sunk
knee deep as they attempted to follow him. Tho
iugitive swan across two creeks, and. landing upon
small island ne openly deed and deridsd the govern
men ocias who dared not brave the marsh ana water
They learned from their prisoner that the namo Of
the fugitive ON The island Duffy and that the dts
tlcry was owned by one ughea On their return TO
tho still they destroyed 900 gallons OF beer and took
possession OF 200Rallon capacity Still, with copper
worm: one and y half barrels Of molasses and half
saw two mon driving wagon, In which were three
barrels OF molasses, toward tho place; but Tho
mon. who evidently guessed the character
Of me approaching parry, turned ana drove
threw the moasses out OF tho wagon They next
turned into poughed Held, and det aching the horses
from the wagon mounted them Rnu rode into the dark
ness, eluding their pursucrs. Tho latter contonted
themselves with The possession OF the swests and the
Wagon. Yesterday tho prisoner, who gave his name
as solomon smaliman, was committed to the Ray
low his examin alton being set down Tor Monday next
Search for the other accused parties Is In progress
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Why did the officials OF the steamer D. R Martin
sell tickets ato as Sunday afternoon last, knowing
at the time that the boat would cease
tween New York and Staten Island on that evening :
No Official warning was given, not even much as {
notice was posted the dock In any part OF the
vessel tnat the public kept In total ignorance
OF the fact Many persons mrsed the seven O'Clock boat
10 the city on the following morning on tho Wander.
bilt line thinking that the D. X. Martin would make
her usual trip ut ten minutes past seven A. NJ. Such
conduct ought not to pass nnnoticed. When mar
Issues spurious check the reason 10 asked, but
notice has yet been taken OF this breach OF faith
On Monday accompanied several workingmen who
had tickets hand to get money refunded and
reply were informed at tho office OF the company
that no arrangements TO the return OF the money
thus obtained had been made. SUFFERER.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR op THE HERALD-


Referring to your article on "Reokless Driving" in
which you givo account Of the running over of .
newsboy by the driver OF stage No. S5 South ferry


line desire ask II the said driver (or the company
Of which he is an cmpoyd will be allowed to 60 with.
out any further notice? l am daily patron of the
Wall street line OF stagcs. and have often noticed the
very careless driving Of the stages both that and
the Twentythird street and Fifth avenue lines and
have often witnessed many hairbreadth escapes OF
those who had tie temerty to cross Broadway unless
they wore under the protection Of q policeman.
Something should certainly be done once TO put
stop to this and various other outragcs committed by
the Broadway stage lines. O.
Year: 1877

Pursuant 10 adjournment the trial Of the suit OF
Rufus Story against the New York Elevated Railroad
Company was resumed yesterday before udge Robin
son, holding Equity Term OF tho Court OF Common
Pleas The action will be embered, 10 brought
to restrain the defendant company from building their
proposed road on the cast side, and especially In front
ground shat II would greatly injure the valuo
Of his property. When the case Was commenced
dress, recting detail the cause OF action He yes
terday concluded his speech and the examination Of
Witnesses was proceeded with The examination was
confined Tor the most part 10 proving the chain Of
title 10 tho premises owned by the plaintiff Among
the Witnesses examined were Messra Edward jarvis,
Nelson w. Young and Mellon CourtwrighL Tho lat
ter testified st length as 10 tho construction Of
the road. The case Is stiu on.
Year: 1877




To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


on Thursday evening last took the Fifth avenue
stage Fulton ferry, and entering found that all
tho change had consisted Of i've cent piece and q
lew pennies handed the driver ono dollar note
change. Hc HANDED down package, which
opened and found the change correct, as lar tho
count concerned. won't directly to my home
and stayed doors until morning, when,
changing my clothes, l discovered a counter.
felt hity cent piece. Now NOT having enough
change to pay my fare, and not having
occasion to change money elsewhere that evening
there be doubt TO my having received II az
the hands OF the driver. The next morning called at
the office Of the company and what supposed to
bc Of the propretors and LAID the matter before
him. Hc said he could do nothing for me; that they
had not put 1t In the package, but that the driver
might have put IL in Il does possible to
thai u driver OF . stage on crowded thoronghfare
could get chance TO DO anything OF that kind. If
person tried to pass counterfeit on shopkecpcr he
would arrested and here forced to take spu-
rious money from companies ike thc.Fiith Avenue
Stage line aud any redress for the impos
ton. What Is to be done? Are they not responsible
for thcir employees while in their service, must We
take just much counterfeit money as the driver
wants to give us? GOOD MONEY.
Year: 1877




Mr.. l.. J. Jennings, in his last letter
from London to the New York World,
thus speaks of Mr.. Tilden's visit to the
Eugllsh metropolis


"W hat may, perhaps, interest many of
your readers to hear that Mr.. Tlden has
been looking very closely into the work.
Ing of the underground railroad in Lon
don, and spent some hours in making a
thorough examination of its construction,
mode of working, etc. ] asked HIM W hat
were his opinions as 10 the practical
bility ofany similar scheme in New York.
He said:-I should think such road as
this would scarcely answer in New York,
for 1t would be too expensive. Recollect
that we should have TO contend against
water and rock the greater part of the
way. But the great want of our time in
New York is quick communication be-
tween the upper and lower parts of the
island, and lhe difficulties in the way
must be surmounted.' you don't seem
to think that an underground railroad
would do there?" Il am not prepared to
say that he answered. Il am going to
study out the problem with care, and
shall try to find some solution to it,"


81 must say that this made me feel
more confident of your having an under
ground railroad, or some other cheap and
quick method of rapid transit In New
York, than have ever been before; for |
know, and all New Workers know, that
Mr.. Tilden is, above all things; prac-
tical man, and seldom drops a thing
when he has once taken it up until he has
done what he wants with it. could not
help also thinking how much wiser it
was to set about providing rapid transit
for the people of your gre e,t city. l was
nearly writing our city, for have not
spent nearly ten years OF my life there?-
that TO set down and fret and moan over
disappointment in an election. In fact
| very much admired the spirit which the
Governor displayed OF course, he is
fully OF opinion that he was elected, and
so are many others-on the matter, how
ever, started out by saying would not
speak in the letter, nor will [. Let us
stick TO our bargain. But evidently the
Governor does not intend to let his dsap-
pointment worry him into an untimely
grave. Congratulated him on looking
so well and hearty. people said the af-
fair would kill me- he remarked with a
dry look. 'Do you think look like it?"
you look to me- said |, 'as if you inten-
ded to settle that rapid-transit ques-
tions yet, and then see one or two more
elections l asked him what he thought
about the recent strikers and riots in the
United States. He seemed To be of opin-
ion that all trouble was past and that the
chief orignators of the disorder were
foreigners. The depressed state of trade
in America has evidently engaged much
of the Governors thoughts and attention
and | would not wonder if he had some
thing worth hearing to say upon that
when he returns TO his home, which will
be in October next"
Year: 1877

GROWTH OF HUMAN HAIR AFTER
DEATH.-Dr. Caldwell, of Tow wa, states that
in 1862 he was present at the exhumaton n
of body which had been buried two
years before. The. coffin had sprung
open at the joints, and the hair protrud-
cd through the openings On opening
the coffin the hair of the head was found
to measure eighteen inches, the whis-
kers eight inches, and the hair on the
breast five or six inches The man had
been shaved before being buried. In
1917 similar circumstance occurred in
Mercer county, Pa. In digging grave
the workmen came upon the skeleton of
man that had been buried ten years.
The hair was as firm as during life, and
had growp to the length of eleven or
twelve inches.
Year: 1877

The news of Russian defeat at Batoum
and the capture OF three guns has been
confirmed by letter. Everything tends to
show that the Russians are very strong in
Asia and likely to advance quickly.
Year: 1877

in the aboriginal form of succotash.
This can hardly be called eating
corn, however, and is a mere make
shift. AS to the proper size of the
bites to be taken in eating corn from
the cob, our correspondent will find
that a kind heaven has regulated
that matter-apart from the size of
his mouth-by the diameter of the
ear of corn. A small ear compels
small bites, a large ear compels large
ones. In few cases is it possible to
take a single row of kernels, and
that should be assumed as the min.
imum; in striving after a maximum
we have only one advice to give
lately arrived foreigners, and that
is that they beware of lockiaw. 1t
is Of record that one aspiring scion
of a noble British house persisted
miserably years ago in the far West
because he rashly undertook to eat
his first ear of corn by biting
through the diameter Of the cob
instead of following its natural
meridian of longitude.
Year: 1877

Noh AOIh WOTlu.l


An Englishman lately landed
propounds to us the following ques-
ton:


"Will you please inform me as to
the correct rule in etiquette Of eat
ing corn from off the cob, and
whether we should crunch two or
three rows Of kernels at timer"


II our British friend purchases
hot corn from one of the negro
damSels who sit upon the doorsteps,
and in a mournful chant offer that
delicious and nutritious edible to
travellers passing up the Bowery at
midnight, he may greedily yaflle
the corn off the cob and "crunch"
as many rows of kernels at mouth
ful as the capacity Of his jaws viii
allow. If he goes out on u coon
hunt and builds a fire and roasts in
its embers the corn and potatoes
which he has previously Gifted" "
from neighboring farmer, and sits
down on the grass to that feast of
gods with the summer moon hang
ing over him and the neighboring
woods and cornheld rustling in the
gentle wind, then it will also be
good form for him to eat from the
cob, with the single purpose of get
ting all the satisfaction he can cut
of the operation. AT a family din.
ner-table, too, where people have
more regard to comfort than style,
no harm will be thought of him if
he takes firm grasp Of the golden
ear aud bites as if he meant it, even
us one Of Swinburne's heroes would
bite the damson cheek of his lady
love. On state occasions even, when
it is good to put on company man.
ners, we should say to our newly
landed visitor, "Eat your corn from
the cob" for SO firmly fixed in the
heart Of every American is the
conviction that only thus can the
essence, the sweetness, the true in
yardntss Of that glorious and truly
free and Independent vegetable be
got at, that no one worth thinking
about will presume to criticise his
action, If he wears o mpstache and
likes to keep his face clean, and is
particular about his hands, it may
he better, however, to forego the
pleasures Of the palate and take his
corn cut from the cob and served
Year: 1877

wages rise and all is tranquility and
cheerfulness. | have seen England
pass three or four times through
such critical seasons as | have de-
scribed. Through such seasons
the United States will have to pass
in the course of the next century,
if not of this. How will you pass
through them? | heartily wish
you a good deliverance. But my
reason and my wishes are at war,
and | cannot help foreboding the
worst. 1t is quite plain that your
government will never be able to
restrain distressed and discon-
tented majority. For with you the
majority is the government, and
has the rich, who are always mi
nority, absolutely at its mercy.
The day will come when in the
State of New York a multitude of
people, none of whom has had
more than half a breakfast, or ex-
poets to have morb than half din
ner, will choose a legislature. Is
it possible to doubt what sort of a
Legislature will be chosen? On one
side is a statesman preaching pa
tience, respect for vested rights,
strict observance of public faith.
On the other hand is demagogue
ranting about the tyranny of capi-
talists and usurers, and asking why
anybody should be permitted to
drink champagne and to ride in a
carriage while thousands of honest
folks are in want of necessities.
Which of the two candidates is
likely to be preferred by a work
ingman who hears his children cry
for more bread? seriously appre-
hend that you will, in some
such season of adversely as l have
described, do things which will pre-
vent prosperity from returning;
that you will act like people who
should in a year of scarcity devour
all the seed corn, and thus make
the next a year not of scarcity, but
of absolute famine. There will be,
fear, spoliation, The spoliation
will increase the distress. The dis
tress will produce fresh spoliation.
There is nothing to stop you. Your
constitution is all sail and no an
chor. AS l said before, when a
society has entered on this down
ward progress, either civilization or
liberty must perish. Either some
Caesar or Napoleon will seize the
reins of government with a strong
hand, or your republic will be as
fearfully plundered and laid waste
by barbarians in the twentieth CEN
tury as the Roman empire was in
the fifth, with this difference, that
the Huns and Vandals who ravaged
the Roman empire came from with
out, and that your Huns and Van
dals will have been engendered
within your own country by your
own institutions.


If you can derive any comfort as
to the future destinies of your
country from your conviction that
a benevolent Creator will never suf-
fer more human beings to be born
than can live in plenty, it is a COM
fort Of which | should be sorry to
deprive you. BY the same process
of reasoning one may arrive at
many very agreeable conclusions,
such as that there is no cholera, no
malaria, no yellow fever, no negro
slavery in the world.
Year: 1877





A Marriage Ceremony Postponed


aud Judge Pursued 10 the
Buffalo Courier


1t is rarely that judge has had
occasion to excoriate either a plain
tiff OF a defendant as severely as
Judge Van Brunt was provoked to
do in dismissing the suit of the
Countess Heinructh. This woman,
however, is simply only one of the
cleverest of her class. There are
scores of Others in New York who
differ with her only in capacity for
intrigue and fraud. | now have in
mind a woman who has been prey
ing upon every one she could reach
during the past fifteen years. She
has been arrested and tried at least
half a dozen times, but SO cunning
ly were all her frauds executed that
it has been impossible for the law
to get hold Of her, and is still free
to carry on her schemes of black
mail.


A few years ago this woman, who
is the mother of three grown up
daughters, forced her way into the
house of a judge, now dead, whose
daughter was about to marry man
whom the adventures claimed as
her husband. The marriage was to
take piece next morning. The wo-
man burst into a parlor where the
Judge and his daughter, and also
the intended bridegroom and some
friends were passing a social even
ing, and pounced upon her victim
like tigress. She was finally put
out Of doors, but not until she had
said enough to effect a postpone
ment Of the marriage. 1t took
place some days afterward, but the
woman still asserted her claim and
took every means to annoy and tor
ment the husband and wife. She
followed them in the street, abusing
them like fishwife, and pointing
out the man to passers by as a
scoundrel and bigamist, and her
persecution became so intolerable
that the wife at last was afraid to
go out Of doors.


Fear of public scandal pre-
vented the Judge from having the
adventures arrested. The con-
slant wrong so wore upon him that
he broke down, and two years after
the marriage he died. The re-
peated allegations of the woman so
prejudiced him against his son-in-
law that he excluded him alto
gether from his will. This led to
further trouble. The daughter
who had been carefully provided
for was prevailed upon by her hus-
band. to whom she still clung, to
contest her fathers will, and a long
litigation followed. While it was
pending the contestant fell sick and
died, but the fight over her fathers
is still going on, the hus-
band continuing it as his wlfe's
executor Meanwhile, the women
whose claims, shouted at the street
corners, were the original cause OF
all the trouble and scandal in the
family, goes about boasting of what
she has done, and seeking new op-
portunities to pluck the unsuspect-
ing. She is over fifty years old.