Year: 1871

From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.


The Chinese residents Of the eastern
part Of this city last night had another
musical tussle with the devil--a tussle Of
exceeding great vchemence. A large
drove Of hogs, nearly all black, was
lately brought from California by the
Alexanders, the well known stock men,
aud turned into vacant lot near China
town. The first day that the hogs were
put into this lot, the fence was constantly
lined with Celestials, teasting from with.
out their big eyes upon the pigs within.
Some rolled rocks against the high and
tight plank fence, and standing tip.toe
gazed longingly upon the plump ones Of
he herd others doubled into the form
Of figure four, and bent one eye upon
the grand display of pork in the raw
state, through such favoring cracks and
knot holes as they could find The
heads and tales above the fence wagged
to the heads aud tails at the knot holes,
and ,hero was power Of goose talk and
gesticulation. The many pairs Of glitter
ing eyes and the broad mouths that
trinkled as if with brown gravy, bodied
no good to the. more favored in flesh
among the occupants Of that big pig pen,
Tor though Chinaman will any day or
night barter his liberty fora yellow. legged
hen, he will unbesitatingy sell his soul
for a fat hog. From all the tumble.
down shanties in Chinatown como the
Celestial inhabitants, great and small
male and female came they, as tho ami.
mails went into the ark, all TO gaze, in
some way, at that drove Of six hundred
and odd fat pigs. A more peculiarly y
dressed assemblage has seldom been seen
All the afternoon this scene continued ;
then the great priest Of the joss house,
arraycd in his long blue robe, was seen
coming from the temple, bearing in his
hand an incense pan, from which was
spread upon the evening air the aroma
Of burning sandal wood. This wise dis


ciple Of Contucius, and big dog of the
Buddhist lanyard, walked in odorriferous
silence about the enclosure, gazing in
tently through cracks at the porcine herd.
At length he uttered a loud, wailing cry,
which was echoed by men women and
children. He pointed out q particularly
large hog, dropped something into his
incense pan which created dense smoke
aud a stencil which the very air seemed
to hasten to leave behind, when he set up
a chant, swinging his incense pan, and
then began craw6shing from the place,
safely guarding the rear of the now thor.
oughly frightened and retreating mob
That night there YVES q great uproar in
Chinatown and above all could be heard
the tinkling cymbals and sounding brass,
| which always announces that his Satanic
Majesty has been unearthed. Ever since
the most strenuous exertions Of the whole
musical portion of the Chinese population
appear to have been required for tho in
timidation Of "Auld Clootie." Last
night the blue robed big gun of the pa
CODA had all the people in front Of that
institution, whore in the yard, to the east
ward Of the gate, stood, large as life, the
image of black hog. The image was
stuck full of joss sticks, and as they were
slowly consumed great bowling and
pounding of gongs aud kettle drums was
kept up. At length the high priest,
rightly timing the burning of fuse,
entered the temple, and returning with
one of their biggest wooden gods, stuck
full of peacock feathers muttered short
prayer of exorcism, when he elevated the
lido. and with dull explosion and abom,
Unable stencil, the image of the hog was
blown into thousand fragments. The
priest rushed into the temple with the
Idol and slammed the door, aud the peo
pie scattered amid q great noise. The
hogs are now nearly all sold and gone
from the pen, aud the explanation Of the
whole affair seems to be this: The Gun
ming priest saw in the drove of hogs
great temptation set before his people !;
unless he exerted himself they would be
sure to 70 to hog stealing aud get into
trouble. and in order to prevent this he
went out into the hog yard in their pr es.
ence and detected the devil 10 one Of the
beasts. He kept them IN q terrible
fright until nearly all the hogs we're gone,
when by blowing up the image Of the
black hog, he sent the devil and all their
troubles "kiting," tuking unto himself
and his ugly god all the glory Of tho
achievement.


A Cincinnati woman has a singing
mouse. "ilis singing is not loud, but
is sweet and tender, with very rapid in'o.
nations like the twittsring Of whole
dock Of birds. lie does not open his
mouth to sing, but seems 10 have way
Of producing music without using that
organ. But his great delight is to get
into the little cylinder ATTACHED to his
cage aud sing while he runs al full speed,
whirling the cylinder as adroitly as the
most prac'iced pet squirrel"


Near Wytheville, Va, last week, q
young laly attempted to leave the mater.
nal mansion at dead Of night, by lower.
ing herself from her chamber by means
OF pulley and rope fastened to the
window. She had just reached the