MISCELLANEOUS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 90, 1 August 1871, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

Qnick "Work. The '' Anglo-A mcrican " says that America will drive till competitor •» ia the food-preserving trade out of the market when it fairly turns its attention to the subject, for what is required is the abundance of provisions and ingenuity in their preservation rather than labour. There is nothing more curious than the history of what is calle.l the "bog crop," and it illustrates in a remarkable way the truth of our statement. At Cincinnati, one of the gi-oat porking centres, the animal is driven up an incline to the factory, caught by machinery, and run along by the hind legs, killed, cleaned out, cut up, and packed in brine so speedily that the look of astonishment remains on the face of the porker when immersed in the barrel.

A Flint to Anti-Chinese Agitators.—A certain judge living in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, having had a load of wood brought into his dooryavd, a Chinese wood-sawyer applied for the job of swing it. " How mujhee )" asked the judge. " Ha">-dollar," replied John. A bargain was about to be struck, when an Irish-American citizen demanded the job. "How much P' again asked the judge. " A dollar-and-a-half," replied the American citizen. The judge demurred, replying that the Chinaman had just offered to do the same work for half-a-dollar. " However," he said, "as I prefer to encourage white American labour, I will pay you ;> | dollar-and-a-half.'' The judge returned come houi'3 afterwards, and to his surprise found the Chinaman, and not the white man, a! work on his wood-pile. " How's this ?" said His Honor, " who told you to saw my wood I" i'• Melican man,'*.said John. " How muchee Ihe pay V queried the judge. " Hap-dollar," js ud John. Tiie judgj ajeepted the loss >n in i protection to native industry. ! In the District Court, Qneonstown, on j the '2lst it lb, His Honor Judge Ofay indicted a : lino nf .£">:) (confirming a previous decision o£ I Mr He etlnm) on the owner of an accommodation I house, for selling spirituous lisjuora without a !i----i cause. This should act as a caution to many I ot'iiei's vvho follow the same practice.

A miraculous and providential escape of several miners occurred yesterday week at Old

Packer's I'mtifc, Upiwr tfllotovor. Tt appears Thomas Martin and his two mates were working in their tunriel claim on that day, and had driven into the h ! U a dUtaneoof some forty foot. At about 20 iaiimt.es to 12 o'clock thoy lomid that their candle? were done, hi conse [iienco nf which they knocked n;T work and went, to <!">- ncr. They had no sooner got out oE the drive than they were surprised hy tho sudden fall of ahout 200 tons of earth : f;o that, liy the mcr<?

ac.'i.h'Jit nf hj tviiu; no nine, candle, they \vor« «;ivi;d from .1 certain terrible rlenth