ASIIKVILI.fi CITIZEN TlftTRSDAT, Sept. 26, 1878. OIB(UI 9r«aa of lit linui; ■' *f Bmiroabe ■rial Ofinorrmtlr Org»« •! the Blchih l>l»lrlr«. fWTTint ASHEVILLE CITIZEN l*.pnh»ahe Va. The chapel to which it is to be attached contains the room which was Gen. Lee's office when he was President of tho College, and which is preserved in the condition in which he left it. Bli'TCRKBl.tU SHBtiP. 1 One of the great reasons ' why mutton and Iamb ate not more generally eaten and i eUslied is be cause, nine times ont of ten, we - might eay ninety-nine Ont of' a hundred, there is a taste and scent about both even after the most careful cooking that is ttnbeatffBle. It is most obnoxiously and offen sively of the sheep sheepy .-pw'taking strongly of the odoriferonSness of the William Goat, •. It has been thought by many that this is caused by the wool coming in contact with the flesh, in dressing it. Capt- Tom Lenoir of Haywood is .well known ft* a mutton epicure, for none finer than he enjoys, in fatness and dressing, can be found on any man's table. He tells us that the wool story is altogether a mistake bnt just what imparts the offensive taste and smell to mutton he never could satisfactorily discov er. His method of dressing is about as follows: the mutton, always a magnificent South-down, from two to fonr yoar old, is laid down with his neck across a solid stick of wood. At one blow of the axe the head is severed, and. as quickly as it can be done, the feet ore cut off some 4 or 6 inches'above the boofB. Then the skin is taken off, the mutton hung np and the insides removed and the mutton thorough.^ ly washed out. % . More deliciously tasted meat Deter entered . our mouth. - in the fainter. farmer of Richmond, a contributor, Mr. J. 51. McOue, writes tba;journal up on the subject of dressing mutton aud says: “That this unpleasant smell and taste is not imparted from the wool, but wlmt is far worse, comes from the contents of- the bowels. To pvove.it to hi*, own satisfaction, he has wrapped" mutton, property dressed, up In the skin, next to the wool, which does not impart a bit of sueh taste or smell. -His invar table and never departed from rule is, to remove the entrails as soot, as the sheep is hung up—and then to remove the skin. In corrobora tion ofthin idea, is the fact that the lard from the small entrails of the "hogs, is as sweet send free from taint, as that from the kidneys, even after the bog has been killed some time, when that from the largeentrail will be much tainted But if the entrails are removed1 from the hog immediately the hog is cleaned, as should be done, and the fat removed at once and prop erly fried, my word for it the nicest connoisseur cannot tell entrail laid. 'TfCD3”ieif f5r“ “TeEr all'"interested note these facts.” ■ , o luiuk iub juttiier oi m essing motion and lamb an important one. Good muttcn should be Sold in Asheville every day, abd would if it ware fat and properly and decently dressed. But ancb as iB ordinarily offered for sale -is, not wanted, sanch and frequently.’ * Onb pound «&>04*b^ -Krirutz, the executioner of; H6e dels (the would be assassin) is the - lion of the day in Berlin. He is a neat littleinan of 35. He wore a fuil evening dress when he behead ed Hot*del, and on his breast were models gained ,in the wars of 18fiU and 1870. He would accent Wo compensation for his work, consid ering himself paid by the honor it afforded. Magistrates and court • fBciato warmly shook his hand af t- r the deed, and he was invited to ; many festivals, “1 * ‘ Go North, South, Bast and West, and you will Bad coughs and col da at this sea^n of the year. A remedy wbltft norer fails to give: satisfaction is Dr. Bull s Cough Sjrup. Pricfc 25 cents. la N«w OrleaM. «.: t - - of muiaitl Copittwcltlj “WitbiutbspMt wtelf^be jggreatg; has been so great that notone fourth .of tbe cases are reported, through lack of the tune on part of the al. tending physicians. Houses in the First, Seeund,!Tiiird and Fourth Districts, which have been exempt so far are very ' fe|r ludeerf, less frequent than those in which the entire family, has been stricken. Passing up the fashionable streets late at night one see if the jinn sick lamp burning in nearly every house, and hjs walk will be sliort indeed if he does not see the now familiar sight of parlors flaming with light, but containing tjje . hideous shape which envelopes the dead: I saw eleven^bodies laid out last night while returning home from a sick call. Tnere were three in due house ~~two children and - the mother. ‘•I:» the cemeteries everything, is quetand oderly. Hut few graves, comparatively, are dug, the remains being for the most part deposited inwoven like vaults Tor which New~ Orleans is famous. When the body Ts deposited iu the earth it is hard iy sunk below the surface, for at two and a half feet there is Water. In the PoLter’s field, however, there is activity and horrible hurry. VY'hen a mimber of dead come out at once a trench is dug cap-.ble of bolding five or six. This is just deep enough to enable the workmen to cover the cotlin—nothing more. Some of the dead are in rough box es, loosely Ueld together; others in pine cottins, bearing the name in chalk. No distinguishing mark ..is pl^ced upon the gqnre; but ifi one obliterating Sweep the burial is ac complished, and the identity of the friendless dead ist4oit f raver. unu a portrayal the scenes of misery resulting from the plague would require the pencil of fc)ore or the genius of Poe. A. visit to the quartt rs of the poor reveals a slate of destitution, dis, ease and death, that ,the mind re* fuses to accept as reality, and re members onlv as a feverish, horri ole dream. Hfo every sense there comes a horror, and with the blis tering heat of the patient's - brow still burning the palm, the stench of tilth ami oiseuse yet lUltng tbe nos tnla, the aoilniLi of tliii. groans and : prayers and shrieks of the delirious yet ringing > in the ears, and with bis eyeo still haunted by the images of ttic writhing forms, swollen Tea lures and maniacal expression of the sick, or by the memory of tlie discolored, spotted, hideously yeU. low dead—the visitor to the lazor house passes oul only tO\thin&~»nd dreary .the sc^nei oter. apd over again without respite, until imagin ation ami memory are exhausted and the'mind refuses to act. Still, in the calm beauty of these exquis ite Southern nights, when the last oar has hummed into distance, and Took forth, into the peace of the moonlit street and find it hard to believe that wit’ in a circle of one mile raiius there are ten thousand sutierera tossing on the^rfcd of fever, and that an invisible spectfe is beckoning nearly a hundred a day to Hie grave.’’ * * . * "There are tiroes when heroism and cowardice each aland revealed in strongest light and every human trail can he delected. The braggart that six weeks ago was Wfieutfirg YuV’tliimrtYy hY' woiiien, and jesting coarsely at the expense of the first few seized by the fever, is pitifully unmanned, and with ashy cneek and nollow eye is selts. pilloried as a coward—while those who Mere .justly alarmed at .the 'threatening "ii'e" now braving" the danger with perfect calui and self possession. Ministering angels are no longer iu disguise. .They are wateltin3> by-ewery .bed side, they;■ are reason to the delirious, strength to the exhausted,'soothing pillows to the dying and friends to the un known dead; Ti*e vigil is inces sant; there is nota sigii of despair or gtoan of anguish passes unno ticed ; not a pang uneomforted ; not a change in the. Dickering torch uu secn. Mansion or liovel it is tlie same—rich and poor, .black and white, all are equal in the balance. 'Pallida Marti ceyuu putsat pede pait perum taUrnat, reguttitjue turret.' This is realized on eveiy side, and so, too, are charity and mercy uuiied iu comrnou cau^e, irrespcc tive of xaoe or condition, fke attendants upon Hie sick are often unaoclimated persons to whom the . ' • 1 •• •• :-% 1 1 1 .■ ■*;* ri*» *» nothing weighed against tk*, appeal u> compassion. Yonr oor-. respondent saw a young girt yea CeriJay nursing a friendless women who wag in the lash stages of tli*. disease, lie. asked, as a eummon placo I "TTon have had tire fever ?” “ Oh no," was the-reply, a* hot I do not fear it. . I might as well take it here as at home.*' She hail been' up all night, and was pale from' fatigue. There was no tie of blot $ there; no Blisl instinct; no interest!? no motive save tbit*- pure, sponUu meoiiS love for doing good -which making mom heroes and heroines ^ere- in one aay aliatt doe* maiy tial ambition * rfcujjdied r Tmik: - ties. She bad. simply heard that the poor woman was stricken, and at oace bad flown to iue rescue* regardless of the sense of seltv : preservation, ‘This is merely cited as an example of what occurs on every side/’ .. , ... .. ;. OTERWHIXYIKP B¥ «E¥CK -. ' owl rvT™' Th« Month'* finulmdc forlhk Ciifle Wot from .the Northers Klalri. The committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday received the following telegram® from Vicksburg and New Orleans : Vic&sbuhq. Miss., Sept’r 16. Henrg Hertz, Chairman, NeU) York. Vicksburg to her generous friends throughout the country sends greeting. The distress of the South has only been equalled by tho generosity of our friends North, The responses to our ap peals have been so generously met that we think the aid already re- ' ceived will carry us through to the end of our troubles; ind that the public charity of the country may not be imposed upon, we request that Jail future subscriptions for our relief be held subject to our fu ture calls, of which notice will be > given when required! W. M. Rockwood. President Howard Association. - New Orlkans, September, 17 78 , Henry Henlz, Chairman Relief < Committee, Chamber of Commerce, New Xwrk Your princely generosity and that of our fellow countrymen has ; amply provided us for any conlip* gency. Canhut telTvou how many ease* are on hand ip this city. \Ve have about six thousand ; lquug Men's Association about one thou% sand. The worst has passed hero I think. Holly Springs, Canton, Grenada, Port Gibson Grand Junction, and .other points south ot Memphis will be cured for by us. Don’t raise any more money. We are overwhelmed by your liberality. What we have on hand, and "what is already in sight with you, Chica go, Boston, San Francisco aiid oth er points, is already more than enough. We thank you all from 7JhV*Ti6afts. "' Muy" I feav en * rewar ct * you. P. li SoUTHMAYD, Secretary Howard Association. Tiik trial of Hope C. Secrest, for the murder of his wife und step daughter in Burke county tome eighteen months since under pecu liar und mysteious circumstances, was in progress at .McDowell Court last week and-.continued info this week. All the evidence is circum-. stantial, but itsV.hain fs so com j'Aff’ uiTu} fe&viiDdifoub'f of' the* guilt of the accused. He had dri ven in a buggy from Union county with' Mrs. Stevenson and'her little daughter, the two were married, in Catawba as they passed though,. ■and two- (lays after -riecrest, 'was. seen driving back towards liisohi borne alone. Nothing- -was everj heard of the woman and child UhtA about ten months after, when thee remind* *•*)» dis&fvererl mablisK; low grave in the woodsabout three' miles west of Hickory in' burke county—becrest was - arrested on suspicion of having murdered the two,.and everything points to his guilt. We have hot heard at the time of this writing tbe-result of the trial. The gang of ourglars who work for seven straight bouts to hammer a safe to piece ..to secure fourteen cents know how a country minister feels next day after a donation visit. 1 Farmers, says the Graphic, cease to notie the poetic beauties of ao tumn when they fail to get fifty dollar premium op a pig worth .eight dollar* and a half.