Agriculturist) was brought forward, hong ta¬ 
bles fairly groaned under the contributions of 
dozens of competitors. Hut that one plant from 
Boyt>en, with its hundred immense berries, and 
leaves almost like the leaves of cabbages, when 
planed on the table, silenced at once all quustiou 
as to who should take the first bailor. No Jeal¬ 
ousies were created by the decision in favor of 
Hoyden. That berry caused a new scnmtUm in 
horticulture. Mr. Hoyden had grown line 
strawberries before, but they were not brought 
t promiucutiy before the public; nor would this 
He was anxious to find out how far they would 
he useful as feeders upon insects. Somo years 
ago he took great pains in making a fish-pond. 
But no other use was made of the fish than as 
pets. Ite taught them to take food from his 
hand. He had a favorite cow—of his own rais¬ 
ing. Last fall he took her to the State fair and 
kept her there throe days, attending her all the 
time tumseff, actually lodging upon somo hay In 
a part of the sumo stall every night, so anxious 
was he that nothing should happen to her. Ho 
was awarded a premium of twenty dollars for 
the time fixed l'or the visit of the Committee, 
a person called atul carefully examined No. 30, 
fruit, and plants. This person had also been 
around to see other competing berries fur (ho 
Gkeelry prize, mid had reported that No. 30 
must necessarily take it. 
Hut, it may bo naked, why should that prevent 
the Committee keeping theirengngcmcnl — mak¬ 
ing their visit and awarding tho money? Let 
us follow tho matter a little further. And I 
give liia own languageSoon after this I re¬ 
ceived an order from the chairman of that Com¬ 
mittee iWh, 8. Carpenter) for all the plants of 
No. 30 that t could grow bet ween ihen and fall, 
and the money to pay l'or them was sent in ad¬ 
vance.” In my opinion Seth Hoyden was 
cheated. How and by whom the American In- 
81 il ute should investignle. l'or that Committee 
to award the Greeley prize on the best seedling 
strawberry was appointed by the Horticultural 
branch of the Institute. Ills said we have ux- 
grimling ami shmp-praelioe by the Committees 
of this Club. I do not know. I know that this 
Committee was not a committee appointed by 
this Club. The man who would prevent that 
good, kind, gentle, modest old man getting Mr. 
GRKELEy’s one hundred dollar prize, that ho 
might tho more easily monopolize all the pluuts 
el' No. 30, at u mere nominal price, should not 
be a member nf (lie American Institute or any 
other Society. Iu conclusion, Mr. Hoyden told 
me “ he should experiment uo more with straw¬ 
berries." 
Coni Ashes for Corn.—W. B. Smkdi.ey, Lcon- 
ville. Pa., writes the Club:—"Last winter we 
saved our eoal ashes, sitting them and keepiug 
them dry till spring, when we mixed with about 
half tlieir bulk of groifecl plaster, and when tho 
corn was well through the ground, net a boy to 
putting tho mixture on flic hills, at. the rate of 
about a half handful to each hill, going over 
about hail' the field nf twelve acres, and thought 
nothing more of it until harrowing, time, when 
I noticed, in crossing the field, a very distinct 
difference in the appearance of Hie corn; that 
where the ashes and plaster had been applied 
being very dark ami lieu I thy, theoilier part, pale 
and feeble. However, tho whole Held made a 
very bur crop for a dry season, but I am satis¬ 
fied find ibuf part, where Hie plaster and ashes 
were applied made fifty bushels more shelled 
corn than where there was liouo—and the ashes 
were coal ashes. Plaster alone had never acted 
so well for us. 
Club-foot Cabbage. P. Tuurell, Greenfield, 
N. Y., gives tho following remedy: —"My 
remedy is pork, fish, or hoof brine. 1 make a 
hill shaped like a. saucer, then turn In from a gill 
to a half pint to each plan!, whenever the plants 
are affected ; ami 1 havo often saved plants that 
were so badly wilted Unit the leaves would not 
straighten out with the dews of night; and it is 
seldom that I have had to repeat tho dose, 
though if applied at different, times after it will 
nothurt the plant, but on the contrary serves 
as a liquid manure, and will assist much towards 
forming the bead, t have never failed to raise 
excellent.cabbage for the last ten years; but 
previous to that and before I commenced to use 
the brine the heads would invariably come un¬ 
der ground. 
To Remove Chaff from an Animal’* Eye,— 
Mrs. Peter Peck, Quoensbury, N. V., writes:— 
“ All that, is needful Is to roll a piece of paper 
around a little stick any length or size desired, 
and put into a quill some white coffee-crushed 
sugar aud blow it into the eye. Hold the cow by 
the horns aud take by surprise. Generally two 
applications are sulficluut, if tho film is com¬ 
pletely over the eye, the sugar scours und 
cleanses aud heals all at tho same time. I tried 
it twlco in tlio winter of IWH on the same cow 
with COPI(lieto success. Both times it was from 
oaf chaff, and both times the white film had cov¬ 
ered the eyes. Pulverized loaf sugar is equally 
good to remove tho Dim from tlio human eye.” 
How to IHnnnge Onion Set*.— I. J. SIMONSON, 
Staten Island, writes;—"There are Boveral va¬ 
rieties of onion sets, and tho manner of their 
culture varies considerably. I will only men¬ 
tion the ordinary kinds—those raised from seed, 
tho potato, the top, and shallot onion. Those 
small onioua arc planted tor the reason that they 
give the otiiOU much earlier than those raised 
from seed. For the sumo time the flood is sown 
the small sots may be piauted, and while tho 
seed takes from three to four months to ma¬ 
ture, the sets may be used after one month’s 
planting. For the common onion sots, such as 
the Wouihersfiold Rod, White, Portugal, and 
Yellow Danvers, the seeds are planted the same 
as to raise tho large onion, witli the exception 
that the seed is sown very thick. And the onions 
grow so thickly that they cannot, grow large; 
and when the season comes to pull I hem—that 
is, after the onions are ripe—they aro allowed to 
lie on the ground to cure; they are then gather¬ 
ed and kept over I lie winter for spring use. Po¬ 
tato onions are uot grown from seed, but are 
raised from the bulb multiplying in Itself. First 
you sot out the small onion; this grows till it 
becomes a largu onion the first year. You plant 
the same onion the next year again, and it pro¬ 
duces two or three ordinary-sized onions, and if 
pure, some ten or twelve small sets around 
them. These small sots are again planted for 
large ones the following year, but those that 
grow inside should not be planted for seed, for 
if tiiey are, the seed will soon run out. The 
shallots are grown much tho same as t he potato 
onion. The top onions are entirely different 
from the other varieties, as the small onions, or 
sets, grow on top of the Stalk. These setts must 
be planted the second year to make large onions, 
and the large onions planted to make sets. 
The C*e» of Hoot. — John Hague, Clinton, 
Iowa, writes that in England farmer* and gar¬ 
deners pay high prices for soot to chimney 
sweeps, and use It liberally, especially upon root 
crops. He adds" It is an old aud well-known 
istusstons 
AMERICAN INST. FARMERS’ CLUB, 
Notes of Discussions, Extracts from Let 
ters, ifcc. 
Biography of Seth Hoyden. — D. B. BRUEN, 
Newark, N. J., an old friend and neighbor of 
Seth Boyden, who had been requested by the 
Club to prepare a biographical paper commem¬ 
orating the useful life of this great inventor, 
read the following appreciative biographical 
notice: 
Agreeable to the request of the Farmers' Club, 
I have andertaken to give some historical facts 
concerning one of the most extraordinary men 
of our time, though least known, obscure, and 
almost a hermit in relation to his associations 
with mankind. H is ingenuity is stamped in every 
household, and on stationary and locomotive 
steam engines and railroad cars; one whoso me¬ 
chanical or scientific ingenuity never failed him 
in accomplishing everything he has ever under¬ 
taken. and whose inventions have done more to 
Bave labor and enrich our own country, and 
from which more private large fortunes have 
been made in mechanical pursuits, than from 
the inventions of any other individual in the 
present age. And although being so great a ben¬ 
efactor to the human family, his whole life was 
spent In incessant hard labor, he always finding 
it necessary for tho support of himself and fami¬ 
ly; and he died at the age of eighty-two years, 
with mAny projects undeveloped, which, had 
time and Ilia physical powers been equal to his 
ambition in consummating all that he hadunder- 
taken, they would have been accomplished. 
Seth Boyden, the subject of this article, was 
born at Foxboro, Mass., on the 13th of Novem¬ 
ber, 1388. IDs early occupation was tilling the 
soil, aud occasional ly work in a smith's shop, re¬ 
pairing the agricultural implements for tho 
farm. Iu 1803, at the ago of fifteen, he repaired 
watches. I find among liis papers that iu 1800, 
he, at the age of 21, was engaged in manufactur¬ 
ing wrought nails; and I find drawings and de¬ 
scription of a machine made by him in 1810 for 
making wrought nails. In 1813 ho Invented ma¬ 
chines for cutting files, brads of different sizes; 
also machines for cutting and heading tacks of 
different sizes. In 1815 ho came to Newark, and 
brought with him a machine (of ins own inven¬ 
tion) for splitting leather. The inequality of the 
thickness of hides made it necessary for many 
purposes, to shave the leather down to au even¬ 
ness of substance with the splitting machine. 
Leather cannot only bo reduced to a perfectly 
uniform substation, but when too thick, it can 
be split a number of times; and each split can bo 
applied to some useful purpose. The splitt ing 
machine has increased tho quantify of leathern 
from thick hides more than double in quantity. 
There, have been improvements made in the 
splitting machine; but tho direct principle of 
splitting the bide, is essentially the same. From 
this invention alone, fortunes have been added 
to the wealth of the world. 
In 1816, during the revulsion in business, after 
the war of 1812, in order to employ his time, he 
put up his machines for cutting bmdsand tacks. 
The rapidity of the motion of these machines, 
if it could havo been put on a straight course 
with lightning, would hardly have come out 
second ocst. In 1818, lie was in the silver plating 
business, and commenced experiments to pro¬ 
duce a varnish or japan, to form a coating to 
make what is known as patent leather. In 1819 
he succeeded. For the want of proper furnaces 
for drying tlio japan, and it being a novel arti¬ 
cle, he made but little of it, and used the most 
of it himself for blinds of bridles and other 
harness work. In 1823 ho commenced the man¬ 
ufacturing of patent leather as an article of 
merchandise. The demand was limited; his 
sales for three years, up to 1821, amounted to but 
$20,091.45. It is unnecessary to particularize the 
results of this valuable Invention, or to mention 
the advantages derived from it, not ouly by the 
city of Newark, but by the whole country. In 
the year ending Oct. 1st, 186(1, there was pro¬ 
duced In Newark alone over four millions in 
value of this patent leather, constituting it 1 he 
leading branch of manufactures in that city. 
All ladies’ and gentlemen’s fancy gaiters, boots, 
shoes, many necessary conveniences of dress, 
carriages, reticules, carpet bags, and a thousand 
articles in the manufacture of which patent 
leather is an indispensable material, carries with 
it the name of $eth Boyden. 
During the time Mr. Boyden was interested 
iu the patent leather buslne»s ho commenced 
experimenting to convert the hardest laminated 
cast iron into soft, malleable iron. On the 4th of 
July, 1826, be succeeded in his experiments. 
During the period from 1826 to 1831 he paid some 
considerable attention to astronomy and elec- 
tricity, and the natural laws which govern the 
latter, lie manufactured his own telescope, 
electrical machine and necessary apparatus. 
They were specimens of superior ami elaborate 
mechanical skill. He could not procure tho 
boxes and rcfieOtOrs for his telescope to suit 
himself, and he procured tho necessary materials 
and made everything connected with the instru¬ 
ment himself, producing a telescope of great 
power. 
In 1831 Mr. Boyden sold out his Interest in the 
patent leather busiuesa and continued his 
malleablo Iron until May, 1835, when he sold it 
out. The invention of malleable iron castings 
has perhaps been of more benefit to this coun¬ 
try, in the saving of labor, and has been the basis 
of more kinds of handicraft than any other in¬ 
vention in this ago. It is used extensively in 
manufacturing tin and sheet iron ware, saddle¬ 
ry, and hardware—almost universally so; also, 
carriages, machinery, hay and manure for Its, 
reapers, mowers, plows, and almost every kind 
of agricultural implement that is manufactured. 
Compared with wrought iron, itcau be manu¬ 
factured at oue hundred to one thousand per¬ 
cent. less money. 
I was engaged iu the malleablo iron business 
over twenty years, and have made castings that 
would not cost over ten cents each for compli¬ 
cated tools and other articles, that could not be 
made of wrought iron for less than five dollars. 
How greatly this invention has benefited the 
country, every manufacturer can testify. Many 
large establishments aro so wholly dependent 
hpou It that, without it, they would be unable 
to carry on their business. In any other hands 
than Mr. Boyden’8 it would have made a prinoe- 
D' fortune for the inventor. 
In 1835 Mr. Boyden had accomplished all ho 
hud undertaken. Gain was not the impelling 
den. He contracted with tlio Company to build 
a locomotive (the first lie ever buiJt) which I 
would do the work wtthoutany auxiliary power. 
This engine differed iu somo respects from any 
locomotive before manufactured. In it he made 
an improvement by attaching tho connecting 
rod to the driving wheels outside, iu the place 
of the crooked wrought iron crank axle, work¬ 
ing underneath, at a great loss of power. The 
connecting rod outside made tho wheel a substi¬ 
tute for tho old-fashioned crank axle, thereby 
gaining the highest possible leverage, the most 
direct action, the minimum of friction, and tho 
saving, as 1 am informed by a skillful machinist, 
of $900 on the cost of each engine. The first, 
train was taken up the grade on 28th September, 
1833, by the first engine built by Mr. Boyden, 
Ho also invented a car box, which was put ou 
the cars of tho Morris and Essex Railroad in 1838, 
which is of very great advantage, and for which 
he never got. a patent. I have Ms description 
and drawings. John Ltohtnkr obtained a pat¬ 
ent, Novemher 21, 1848, for a car box, the princi¬ 
ples of which are identical with Boyden’s. Mr. 
Boyden’s greatest, invent ion, undone which has 
become universal where steam engines are used, 
which saves millions of dollars every year to the 
world, and without which a steam engine would 
be considered almost useless, is what, is known 
to engineers as the cut-off, which regulates the 
quantity and expansion of steam that, is admit¬ 
ted into tlio cylinder. Before tho useof tho cut¬ 
off was known, steam was injected into the cyl¬ 
inder through what was known as the throttle- 
valve, without tho power iu the machinery of 
the engine to stop nr check it at any desired 
point; by the use of the cut-off, (connection 
with the “governor,") no matter what tho pow¬ 
er of tlio engine maybe, it will reduce or in¬ 
crease I lie power of the engine, from its greatest 
or least force, to any deal red power between tho 
two extreme points. Mr. Boyden made his 
drawings and description of Ids cut-otf, (which 
took up fifteen closely written pages,) and sent, 
thorn to the Patent Office l'or a patent, Iu 1845. 
Mr. Ellsworth, tho Commissioner of Patents, 
wrote to him, March I, 1845, that he must for¬ 
ward a model, as well as drawings. Mr. Boyden 
gave the matter no further attention, No en¬ 
gine, marine or stationary, is made at this day 
without the out-off, which, iu point ol’ utility in 
tho useof steam power, is next in value to the 
steam engine. 
In 1818 he invented a furnace for smelting 
zinc, which was a success. In 1810 he held a cor¬ 
respondence with Prof. Mouse in relation to 
taking daguerronn likenesses, and made a specu¬ 
lum for hiiU for a dagueneau machine. Mr. 
Boyden took the first daguerreun likeness that 
was taken in this country. During the time 
that. Prof. MORSE had thousand of yards of wire 
stretched iu a room, experimenting in tele¬ 
graphing, lie had Mr. Boyden nod Mr. V ah. with 
him to aid him In ids experiments. Mr. Boyden 
made a superior quality of Russia Iron. Ho 
made electricity one of his greatest studios. His 
theories differ from the scientific world. He 
never took a position until ho had fully proved 
it. His theory is, that if an electric equili¬ 
brium is to be maintained, even in thunder 
storms, the lightning cannot all come from one 
direction, and that there Is just as much a priori 
reason that bolts of lightning should pass from 
the earth to the clouds, as from the clouds to 
the earth. To tost this ho sot up au electromo¬ 
tor, showing the direction of the currents, and 
found that somo of tho most violent strokes 
came from tlio ground and went to the clouds. 
A subsequent study of the Incidents of lightning 
Strokes confirmed him iu this Idea, and his con¬ 
clusion was that a surcharged earth is quite as 
likely as a surcharged cloud. 
There woro other useful inventions of Mr. 
Boyden’s which would lengthen out my paper 
beyond tho indulgence of tho Club. Mr. Hoy¬ 
den was a profound thinker, aud nothing ut¬ 
tered or written by him ever contained a word 
of embellishment. No Chairman of a delibera¬ 
tive body would ever have been obliged to cull 
him to order for wandering from tho subject In 
debate. 
I will close my remarks by using lho language 
of tho obituary notice of Mr. Boyden published 
in the Newark Daily Advertiser: 
“Mr. Boyden bad a gentle, quiet, lovely and 
contented nature. Sympathy lias been express¬ 
ed for bis poverty. He never needed pity. His 
wants wore strange and simple, and were al¬ 
ways supplied without incurring auy sense of 
obligation to others. A more independent life 
never was. nc had home, comfort,and his own 
way. Best loved by those nearest him; modest 
to a fault; careless in money matters, yet so 
frugal as to bo always out of debt; reverenced 
by all men of sense, and honored for ids achieve¬ 
ments, his heavy, bonded, plainly clad form 
passed almost unnoticed in the streets: and the 
rough, rugged face, marked with coutiuual 
thought, had not a line of care upon it. It was 
a singular face, homely and .irregular, yet pleas¬ 
ant, the eyes meditative and sometimes in¬ 
troverted, as if he was reading from the scroll 
of his brain; never sud nor sour, to him God so 
tempered the winds sorrow never smote him 
heavily. He was ouiy half oonsciousof himself. 
He knew that he bad painfully toiled to results 
which a little early education would have placed 
m his immediate grasp, but lie never compre¬ 
hended the fact that lie himself was a genius, a 
benefactor to Ins race. Ilia was a strong aud 
unselfish life. Let us rejoice that it was one of 
unceasing toll, knowing no luxuries, aud poorly 
SETH BOYDEN, THE I N“V id NTOR, NEWARK, N. ,T 
havo been except for his kind friend Governor 
Ward, who not only insisted upon its being ex¬ 
hibited, but actually bcough( ii from Mr. Hoy¬ 
den’s place in the country, lionii^ ten or twelve 
miles from here, and carried it in ids arms from 
the ferry to the place of exhibition. Orange 
Judd bought all tho plants- except one. 
Mr. Hoyden’s next berry was the Grcou Pro¬ 
lific. At that time this was his favorite. In 
several respects he considered it superior to tho 
Agriculturist, and time has proven that lie was 
correct. Among many others came Hoyden 20, 
but these did uot satisfy him. At tlio time tho 
Peabody Seedling—a Georgia berry—made such 
a sensation, Boyden got some of the plants, but 
like others who tried it, gave it up. Soon after 
this, Lm asked mu if I hud any plants of this 
berry, I replied that I still kept a few, and told 
him where he could find them in the garden. 
“ But," says I, “ what do you want with a berry 
so inferior, especially in our latitude ?” Ho re¬ 
plied, “It has one good quality l wish to Incor¬ 
porate iu a new berry,” Tins was in the spring. 
In July I visited him one very hot day. Ho was 
In his garden, barefooted aud burcheudod, plant¬ 
ing strawberry seeds. Adam, in the Garden of 
Eden, before he had been bothered with Mother 
Eve, could scarcely have looked more innocent 
or have been more innocently employed. From 
one of those soed3 came that greatest of straw¬ 
berries—Boyden No. 30. Mr. Boyden was then 
au old man, and did uot care to wail, a whole 
year l’or the frosts of winter to prepare these 
seeds to germinate, and he made for them an ar¬ 
tificial winter by subjecting then: to it freezing 
mixture. The earth in which they were planted 
had been carefully sifted und then gcully 
sprinkled with water. 
Seth Boyden was a botanist, and believed iu 
solouce. He fertilized strawberry blossoms with 
ids own hands, lcaviug nothing to the wayward 
impulses ol' Insects or winds. Somo doubt this 
—butt have been told by Gov. Ward Unit he 
and the late Nicholas Longwouth once found 
him so engaged. And to guard against insects 
frustrating bis wishes, ho had millinet carefully 
spread around such plants as were intended to 
propagate from. Seth Boyden practised cross¬ 
ing in creating strawberries. And some of them 
had a numerous parentage. Tho defects of one 
were counteracted by the good qualities of 
another. A long experience summing up in that 
rare combination of merits—No. 30. The size of 
tho fruits was the result of feeding llio plants 
with such fertilizers os chemical analysis and 
his own experience had proved the beat. While 
Mr. Boyden did not believe in extra deep til¬ 
lage, he did believe in that careful, constant 
stirring of the surface so necessary for growing 
pJants—especially in dry weather. 
It has been told far and wide that Mr, Boyden 
believed that he could make strawberries as 
large as pineapples. 1 never believed he said so. 
He was too modest a man to boast of anything. 
Hut t<> sot the matter at rest 1 asked him the 
question. “ l never said so,” was his prompt 
reply. " I believe 1 could make still greater im¬ 
provements if 1 could live long enough, but that 
idea is absurd.” 
Boyden was a great lover of nature, and won¬ 
derfully found of pets—a very Cowder ui tills 
respect. In his last illness, when his appetite 
failed, it was proposed to shoot him a bird 
“What bird?” said he. “A robin; they havo 
come.” He forbade it absolutely. Lust summer 
1 saw him feeding some young English sparrows, 
the best Cow of her class, but he never called for 
l ho money, merely replying that the Society 
might us well have it. That money has been 
collected since his death and has been used to¬ 
wards pay lug Ills funeral expenses. 
The last time 1 saw HK/rn Hoyden he was pa¬ 
tiently at work compounding metals. Not like 
the ancient alchemists, attempting to transmute 
the baser mu tills into gold, but so uniting differ¬ 
ent ones as to make a substitute for gold iu tho 
manufacture ol knives, forks, spoons, watch- 
cases, &o., &o., so that i.hoy should bo as bright, 
as solid, and as durable as the pure gold itself. 
He was at work In an old green-house, tho gloss 
rOOf affording a perfect light. Ills little furn¬ 
aces, blow-pipes, and other apparatus seemed 
wonderfully inadequate for such purpose. Ills 
experiments while I was there all failed. The 
different ingredients would not melt together, 
or would not weld, or could not be hammered, 
or were too hurd or too soft, or defective in 
color. But I have heard it said that Seth Boy¬ 
den mastered everything ho over undertook. 
Ills industry was untiring; and what patience, 
what perseverance I I have been told that he 
even worked out that problem. The alloy he 
sought after was actually compounded, but Hits 
secret is burled with htrn. Hero is a fork mado 
iu the progress of this investigation. Mechani¬ 
cally il, is not. perfect, but he was then nearly 
eighty-two years old. 
After hearing Mr. Bruen's most interesting 
account, and knowing as I do of so much more 
that Seth Hoyden contributed to the good ol’ 
mankind, I am reminded ol' the language of Dr. 
Johnson on a well-known occasion. Th railm, 
the great London brewer, ohoso Dr. Johnson as 
one of tho executors of his will. The property 
was to be sold at public sale, and Johnson mado 
proclamation of the terms. "Gen I lemon,” said 
ho, " wu propose uot only to sell you these 
mighty buildings, these enormous vats and this 
wonderful machinery,blit wo will put into your 
possession tho means of accumulating wealth 
beyond the dreams of avarice.” That was the 
language of a poet. But where is the poet 
whose imagination can comprehend tho amount 
of benefits tho geuiusol' Seth Boyden has con¬ 
ferred upon ii is fellow-beings. 
Horace Greeley has given several targe 
premiums for improvements iu horticulture. 
One, of a hundred dollars, was offered by him 
for the best seedling strawberry. Mr. Boyden 
brought forward his No. 30 at au Exhibition of 
the American Institute, in this building, and 
No. 30 was pronounced the best by tho Commit¬ 
tee having the subject in charge; but tho condi¬ 
tions required two years experience, so that the 
berry receiving this premium should be well 
tested. Mr. Boyden was ready the next year, 
und the Committee appointed a day and hour to 
visit him, so as to sec the plants as well us the 
fruits. The old gentleman became quite excited 
with the prospector such u visit, and invited his 
friends and neighbors to meet thorn. He pre¬ 
pared an elaborate entertainment; u bountiful 
table was spread; wines, foreign and domestic, 
were added. To show the No. 30 to advantage, 
he had made a trip to Nawark to buy a large 
glass dish, costing two dollars, and carried it 
home himself, Probably no rrnui, living or dead, 
ever saw such a dish ol' strawberries, 'fids en¬ 
tertainment wus the lifetime extravagance of 
Seth Hoyden. But that Committee did not come. 
Why t 
Mr, Boyden told me that a few days before 
