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 COMMERCIAL HOTEL.

BY D. COCKRELL.

BILL OF FARE.

MARCH 20.

SOUP.

Oyster.

FISH.

Red.

BOILED.

Jole and Green. Ham. Corned beef. Bacon and turnips. Codfish egg sauce. Beef heart egg sauce. Leg of mutton caper sauce. Barbecued rabits. Boiled tongue.

ROAST.

Veal. Roast pig. Muscovie ducks. Kentucky beef. Mutton. Barbecued shoat. Roast bear meat. Roast pork.

ENTREES.

Fricasee pork. Calf feet mushroom sauce. Bear sausages. Harricane tripe. Stewed mutton. Browned rice. Calf feet madeira sauce. Stewed turkey wine sauce. Giblets volivon. Mutton omelett. Beef's heart fricaseed. Cheese macaroni. Chicken chops robert sauce. Breast chicken madeira sauce. Beef kidney pickle sauce. Cod fish baked. Calf head wine sauce.

FRUIT.

Almonds. Rasins. Pecans.

VEGETABLES.

Boiled cabbage. Turnips. Cold slaugh. Hot slaugh. Pickled beets. Creole hominy. Crout cabbage. Oyster plant fried. Parsneps gravied. Stewed parsneps. Fried cabbage. Sweet potatoes spiced. Carrot. Sweet potatoes baked. Cabbage stuffed. Onions, boiled. Irish potatoes creamed and mashed. Irish potatoes browned. Boiled shellots. Scolloped carrots. Boiled turnips drawn butter. White beans.

PASTRY.

Currant pies. Lemon custard. Rice pudding. Cocoanut pie. Cranberry pies. Sliced potato pie. Chess cake. Irish pudding. Orange custard. Cranberry shapes. Green peach tarts. Green peach puff paste. Grape tarts. Huckle berry pies. Pound cake. Rheubarb tarts. Plum tarts. Calves feet jelly. Blamonge. Orange jelly

A stage-coach conveyed the railroad passengers from the hotel to the station, which was a mile or two out of town. As we were entering the coach the driver observed with a