Port Royal Standard and Commercial, 1876-12-28

when the story is varied, as it sometimes is, by the rum of the truant, her destruction is commonly due to her -willingness to sacrifice herself for a place of refuge. There have been several escapades on the part of young girls in New York lately, all of which have terminated happily, and all of which go to establish this fact, that girls should not run away from home, for the simple reason that they don't know how to do it with any credit to themselves. Nature never intended them for runaways. Their style of dress is not adapted for running away. Their hearts are too tender to bid an eternal farewell to home in anger. They can't hire a hack or buy a railroad ticket without exciting suspicion. They can't sleep out under a haystack; thev can't make a living by hiring out to drive mules on the canal. In fact they are incapable of doing anything that befits a decent runaway. They were designed for the domestic circle, and ought tu stay there. It is their kingdom, where with due discretion they can rule absolutely. To run away is simply to abandon their crown, as King James did, and a restoration is their only chance for power and happiness. Look how neatly and effectively a boy runs away. He has vague longings for hunting buffalo on the Western frontier, or fighting Indians, or sailing round Cape Horn. When his mother misses him some fine morning there is little anxiety about any bodily harm coming to him, but a dread settles over the family that he may not bo back for years. Theie is no need to search among country cousins for the wanderer; no use in hunting about the byways of tho city; the vigilabt detective watches the whale ship3 bouud for the Northern Pacific or the traders sailing to China or Japan; he looks after traveling circuses and makes inquiries concerning all red haired, blue eyed, snub nosed boys on tbeir way westward by the towpath of fhe Erie canal, or stealing rides ou the freight trains of the Central railroad. He settles to his wora seriouslv ? ^ 1? t l. _ 1 Ui1~

window in a crowded ballroom be suddenly opened, sudden condensation of the atmosphere takes place, and a fall of snow follows, covering the dancers with flakes. A gentleman, on walking oat one Sanday evening, met a young Scotch Eeasant girl, whose parents lived near is house. " Where are von going, Jenny?" said he. "Looking for a sonin-law for my mother, sir." A Canadian farmer missed a valuable heifer, and, after several days' unavail ing search, foand that she bad eaten her way thirty feet into a straw stack. She had taken a winding course inside the stack, which acoounts for her not having eaten her way through. John Kelly, chief of the Tammany Society of New York, war) married to Miss Teresa Mullen, a niece of Cardinal McCloskey. Mr. Kelly is fifty years of age and his bride twenl;y-six. The parties were married by the cardinal at his residence, with the simplest forms of the Roman church. The mail from Cowra to Forbes, in Australia, is carried by a mounted carrier, The distance between the tw* places is sixty miles, and thisonenndividual has ridden the route six times a week during seven consecutive years. The distance be has ridden in that period is 131,160 miles. As to Dr. Donghty'n personal appearance, much depends on Tilden's being inaugurated. D/. Doughty lives in Covington, Ky? hnd .sixteen years ago he vowed that he would wear the hat that he was theu using until a Democratic President was sworn in. The old hat is exceedingly dilapidated. The Engineer gives instances of the highest railway speed on record. On several of the English railwaye a speed has been reached equal to seventyeight, seventy-five, seventy-two and sixty-nine miles an honrs. If somebody would give statistics of the safest railways, it would be interesting. The lowest temperature in the Arctic seas recorded by Capt. Ross, iu 1820, was fifty deg. below zero ; by Dr. Kane in 1858, seventy deg. ; by Dr. Hayes in 1861, sixty-eight and one-half deg. by

course the ingredients are separately prepared, and afterward thoroughly mixed. Plum Pudding.?Weigh out two pounds of the best beef suet chopped as finely as possible, and one and a half pounds of bread crumbs?made by rubbing pieces of stale household bread through a wire sieve; put these with half a pound of flour, into a large bowl, and work them well with the hand uutil perfectly mixed. Pick some currants and stone some raisins with the greatest care. Take two pounds of each and mix them into the bowl, then take one half pound of mixed peel, chop it up small and mix it with the rest; lastly mix in one and a half pounds of brown sugar. Continue working the mixture with the hand for some minutes, and put it by. Put fourteen fresh eggs in a bowl (breaking each into a cup first to ascertain that it is fresh and to remove the speck), add to them grated nutmeg, powdered ginger, and powdered allspice, accordiug to taste, and a large pinch of salt; then stir in a quart of milk; beat all up together, and pour it gradually into the other bowl, working the whole mixture with the hand for some 1 time. Continue to work it with a wooden spoon for at least half an hor*. Scald two pudding cloths, spread <ach in a bowl and dredge them we'*' with ' flour. Divide the composition *ito two equal parts, put each in its clo^t and tie up tightly. To boil the pudding place two inverted plates in saucepans filled with water, and when t^e water boils J fast put each pudding &to its saucepan. < Let them boil four *ours, keeping the < saucepans full by adding more water as < it is required, avd taking care that it 1 never ceases baling. Then take the < puddings out. and hang them up till the { noxt day, wten the cloth of each pud- 1 ding shouU bo tightened and tied afresh, 1 and an hour's boiling as iu the first in- 1 stance *ill make them ready for table, i a u-bh a sDrie' of holly stuck on the 1

hours, according to size. Gravy.?Mince an onion finely, fry it in butter to a dark brown, then add three-quarters of a pint of good stock, pepper and salt to taste, a small piece of ham minced finely, a sprig of thyme, one of parsley, and a little Worcester sauce; let the whole boil five or ten minutes, put it by till wanted, then strain it into a sauce boat. Truffle and Chestnut Stuffing.? Mince one pound of iat bacon and a couple of shallots, give them a turn on the stove in a saucepan; then put in one pound of chestnuts, boiled and peeled, and one-half pound of truffles, both cut up in moderate sized pieces; add pepper, salt and spices to taste; also a little powdered thyme and majoram. Give the mixture another turn or two on the fire, and it is ready. Horseradish Sauce.?Grate a quantity of horseradish, add a pinch of salt and two or three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, then stir in a gill of cream beaten up with the yolk of an egg. Plain Boiled Potatoes.?Peel the potatoes, pack them in a saucepan, and fill it up with cold water, add salt to taste; let them boil half an hour, then drain off the water, cover the saucepan with a cloth dipped in hot water, and folded up, and set the saucepan by the side of the fire. Christmas MiNCEMEAr.-Three pounds of rib roast beef, five pounds of apples, one pound cf fresh beef suet, two pounds of raisins, stoned, one pound whole, two pounds and a half of currants, half a pound of mixed candied peel, the grated rind of three fresh lemons, the juice of two, two pounds of sugar, two nutmegs, dessertspoonful of mace, one of cinnamon, one of allspice, one of ginger, one of salt, a fruit syrup, and a pint of golden syrup boiled in two quarts of cider until reduced one-fourth, and then poured over the whole. Of -- A _ 1

Olieil CUUUgU, kUOJ aiD J uou ao luauiu tu be discharged at a v^pek's notice, even thongh they have been years in the house, and been faithful in every way, and all this for from $8 to $15 per week. The head bookkeeper of a prominent Broadway honse gets a salary of thir- j teen thoueand dollars, while under him are no less than six meD, having the brunt of the work to do, who are paid three dollars a day. There are men in other houses who enjoy princely incomes, because they have drawn one of the prizes of trade; they have a trade of their own which briDgs in large sums to their employer; they are paid for their work with unstinted hand. But all around them are men without this special advantage, though competent, who are barely getting a living. A large tea house that employs sixty clerks has only five who receive over $10 per week. How city clerks live !?considering the meager condition of the salary market. Living any way, in New York, is expensive, as living in a great city always is. Ten, fifteen, twenty dollars a week in some places gives a man all the comforts of modest expectation; nay, often gives one a trifle for the saving fund, or the luxurious. Not so here. Decent board will range up to ten and fifteen dollars; decent board?which means a narrow, close room, clean food ?very plaii^-and nothing more. And then you come down peg by peg to the horrors and misery and slack and discomfort of New York boarding house life?the cheapest and meanest being five and six dollars a week. Clerks pack themselves away in these holes, making them just sleeping and eating places, cast out from all amusement and society upon thotown; or else they hire lodgings in some obscure

and understood it. " Oh, that's all very tine," she muttered, contemptuously. "A new broom sweeps clean. Wait a few weeks, and then we shall see." It was two weeks before Christmas, and Mary was busy preparing for the holidays. One evening, after putting baby to bed, she ran down to the parlor to get her sewing, which she had left on the table before tea. The door did not open readily, and she tried it again, but found it was locked. She was sure she had heard Henry's and his mother's voice within, and thinking the door had become fastened accidentally, called out to Henry to open it. " Oh, is that you, Mary ?" he answered. " Run up stairs and get my cigar case, will you ?" Mary did so, and when she came down again, found the door open, rnd Henry sitting by the table reading. " Where is mother?" she asked. " Wasn't she up stairs with you?" replied Henry, keeping his eyes fixed on nis book. "Why, no; I thought she was here." "Weil, yon see you are mistaken, " he answered. Mary-did not reply, but took up her work and sewed away busily, her thoughts keeping time with her fingers. She was positively certain she had heard Mrs. Grey's voice in low toned conversation with Henry, and yet he had the same as denied her presence there. It was the first time he had ever equivocated to his wife, and 6he could not overlook it lightly without knowing the reason. Why had he done so? Was there anything secret between him and his mother from which she" was excluded, and if so, what could be the nature of it? Wf?ll. never mind: it might have been

want to show you something," said Henry, as h9 helped her out of the sleigh. When she came down stairs, he was waiting in the hall; and, drawing her hand through his arm, conducted her to the parlor. * " What is it you wish me to see, Henry ?" she asked, a3 they entered the room. " Find out for yourself," he answered, playfully. She raised her eyes, and then gave a shrill scream of delight, and, with a bound, was across the room, standing beside a superb pianoforte. " Oh, Henry, where did this come from ? What a perfect beauty ! Is it really for rne ? Oh, how can I ever thank you ?" " One question at a time, my dear; but I will answer your last one first. You have no right to thank me for this Christmas present. Here is the giver," replied Henry, going up to his mother, who had stood a quiet spectator of Mary's pleasure, and putting his arm around her. " Mother I is it possible ! Oh, you darling? how can I ever thank you?" cried Mary, throwing her arms, too, around Mrs. Grey, and giving her a rapturous hug. "I am well surrounded, I see," said she, smiling on them proudly. " I am glad you are pleased with your piano, Mary, and you shall repay me by getting all the enjoyment from it that you can." " It is something I have wanted ever since we were married," said Mary, " but Henry could not quite afford i.t."g " And now you have your heart's desire," said Henry, " but at the expense of a little sinning, I am afraid. Do you remember one evening, about two weeks aaro. when vou found the parlor door

Those in this country engaged in trade and commerce, says the New York &un, aro liable at any moment to be overwhelmed by financial panics, political disturbances, and other causesagainst which no human foresight can provide. The millionaire of to-day becomes the bankrupt of to morrow. We have had notable instances of reverses of fortune among the rich men of this city, the most recent and the most notable being that of Mr. Edward Matthews, the great real estate owner. Mr. Matthews owned buildings in the heart of the down town business portion of the city, renting hundreds of offices and stores in Broadway, Bond street, Wall street, ;md Exchange place, all at high rates. It is said his income from real estate alone, in ten years, be- i ginning with 1863, amounted to over 88,000,000. Mr. Matthews became involved, and his creditors are, as we understand, now seeking to throw him into bankruptcy. For many years Mr. Matthews, his house on Fifth 'avenue, near Eighteenth street, his choice col- t lection of pictures by modern masters and his faultless equipages, have bep much talked of in fashionable circsia this city. At one time nobody ?rncd out a better appointed four-in haf d than Edward Matthews. Now he h in very serious difficulty. On the tweatiethof October 1 ist ho conveyed all *hs roal estate to his son, J. Brander tlatthows, for a j consideration of $50,003 It is charged j that this conveyance which transfers j property valued at over $3,000,000 even ] in these times, is assailable. Certainly j in this case the wheel of forinne made , a sadden and disastrous turn for a gen* ?lir I