Yesterday was the great autumn feast'? and though many had become greatly excited, to the extent of digging caves in the city, I think I have never seen more.elaborate preparations for having a general good time eating and drinking than at this time. Nearly every home seemed to be killing one or more chickens and hog meat seemed short before the day was over. Our school killed a hog and though we put the-price 40 cash per catty above the street price, on the ground that we do not puff the meat up with water, it "went like hot cakes" and had we killed them wa could have sold five hogs. This all indicates a degree of general prosperity above the usual, though food stuffs are all high. There seems plenty of work to do and carpenters and masons have recently had their wages more
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