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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY MARCH4,1884- TWELVE PACES. 11 I ' FARMS AND FARMERS, SHORT TALKS WITH FARMERS ON FARM TOP'CS. pYe'rollcltshort lettcrsfiom practical fanners on practical matter*. Wiltons brliIlf your ezperl- once on any [olnt about the farm, Yoursugges tion may help a brother farmer. We hare engaged a competent agriculturist who will answer auy inquiries on farm matters. Write plainly, give your full name and address and mark ???Ag'l. Dept.??? on the corner of your ??ard, or envelope. Addrcea Tm CoBSTnnnoa.l An "Ole Man??? Answers tbo ???Ole ???Oman??? ontbe Fence Question. I., w. u. Dear Mr. Constitution, I???d like a word to aay, To that ole 'oman, who, f ah "feuce,??? Writ you the tother day. Well, mum, In thebeglunlu*, You make a mighty miss; "No fence,??? ea I kin tell you, Will trlmmln folks aaala'. Yea, even that lone wlddor, With ablllun to be fed; Au' foch whole sake you "almos' wish That every man war ded." This law makea the big farmon Apaatur havotohau', With water runnin??? through It, For all whd renta the tan'. An??? when you aee o' cattle, We kin keep a fewer hod; Less trouble an' mo' money, 'Cause they la better fed. An??? now spoeo you la wautlu??? To lek mo' acres InT No waitin??? fuh tho fences, No elbow-grease, no tin. I reckin' you???ano Chilian To help you? Stme'a with met An???efwejea lived closer, How handy ltwould be. 1 For I could drive you cattle, An' you could milk 'em all An??? I would he thar dost enough Toanigrat joucill. ??? So pleaso writ me a loiter. An??? tell me ef yon kuowa 0'enuyoao with lau??? to sell, A-Jtniug on to yours.' An' pl*aae J!?? ohatjge the spellin' O' that inzifltln' word; Let "no fence,??? not "no sense,??? agin, By all the Ian' be heard. Host to Save Manure. Editobs CoasiiTCTios???Having travel ed extensively In all parte of tho etate during the past eight years, I desire to say a few words upon the above qneation. Perhaps there is none more important to the southern farmer, than how to restore the fertility ot land. Shall he buy phosphates, gusno, and other expensive fertilizers; or can he bring abont the resnlt in some other way ? First, if yon please, we will talk a little abont HOW NOT TO DO IT. We will suppose the case of a planter, farming six or seven hundred acres of fair average land. He has, say twenty mules, threeor four horses; and eight or ten hesd of cows and other nent cattle of different ages. He is a reasonably enterprising man, reads tho newspapers, employs a considerable nutm her of good hands, raises each year seventy, five or one hnndred acres of corn and fifty of oals, raises his own meat and all the cotton he can; so far, so good. He keeps bis mules in a big ???mule lot" an acre or two In extent; threshes out his oats, ' and burns up the straw pile in the spring, ???to get it out of the wny.??? The oats and corn are fed to the stock, and with it they are given the corn fodder the hands pulled in the summer, and they are also turned out oc casionally on the pastures, or after the cotton is picked Into the cotton fields. The cows and young cattle get their living In the pastures, the oat' slubblo and the cotton fields, or arc turned out on the range in the woodlands. WHAT IS TUS ntSUlT. The dropplnes from the mules are distribu ted over the big mule lot, this generally where It is convenient to have It so,being on a hill elope, so that it will drain ofT well, and keep dry; the rains wash the manure down into the ditches and creeks, tbs creeks carry it into the rivers, and the rivers do their duty and bear it on to the gulf of Mexico. Then comes a dry spell, the snu shines, the wluds blow, the mules trample Iba surface of the lot Into dry powder, and puff! away it goes into the highways and woodlands,whore It is finally wetted away again and lost. A little pile, perhaps twenty loads in all, has accumulated at the side of the stable where tbo horses are kept, but this Is wanted for the sweet potato patch and the garden; so the farmer has nothing with which "towonts noicoavAcaxs.??? and must either buy fertilizers or go to the expense of clearing, breaking and fencing newground, for he begins to realize that farming upon lands that once produced a bale to thn aero, but now only a quarter of a bale, won' t pay. Let ns see if he could not do better. . , , , , ??? Wo will auppose he mekes his mule lot a greet deal smaller,or better still, makes It in to four lots each one quarter the alze of the original lot. . ... . , He does not burn his straw stack or have It to rot all In one place In the field, but has it hauled up to the mute lot end every day a good supply Is toesed to the mules; they msy not eat much, but it will amuse them greatly, and it will form a mat beneath their leet which will hold tho manure, and each morning he hss his men rake and fork It np In piles, and toss it over the fence. His cows and other (rattle are treated the same way, kept under sheds or In small enclosures at night, and thus half of their droppings saved. In this way the planter finds himself In uoesetston on the first of February szvcbaI. ucsnazn tons - ct excellent manure, which will do for bis soil what the commercial fertilizers cannot do, namely, add to the humus or mold; and a few years of such treatment will restore bis land to iu old standard of a bale to the acre, making his farming operations much more ecomomical at thoeame time, as it costii J 0 ??* as much to plough, plant, chop out, and cul tivate the acre that bears a quarter of a bale, as It dues one that bears a bale. And the cost of the manure is almost nothing, as it can be hauled out, dumped, and spread upon the lands, at a time of the year when the hands have nothing else to do. Much might be said upon theqnestion of deep plowing, sheds to shelter stock wmi manure from ralmplta tocatchind save the 11- quid manure from the stables green crops to be ploughed under, etc, bat all these are minor questions, compared with the one we nave Cl The formers of New York and Pennwlv??nla have bocn obliged to learn this lee??ra, their severe climate and poor Mil leaves them no option. They are obliged to keep their stock up, are obliged to feedstx mouths In the year, and mu--', have manure for their lends. In order to save it they mnst have plenty of wheat or oat straw, bay or other litter to rente the mat. His lands under such treatment It worth from $100 to $125 per acre, lands not natural ly as cood. and that will not produce more dollar* and cents to the acre per annum, than millions of acres of cotton lands in the south, if the latter were bandied In the same * Therefore the harden of my e??rmon ts.rnis* pl.nty of oats, peas, barley, wheat, rye, mil let, grasses, any tning that will make plenty of straw, plenty of litter and with It save the manure. The great question is not whether you shall buy your corn or raise It, though doubtless this is an Important question; but whether you snail save the millions yea billions of tons of manure that are now wasted; buy fertilizers or save that which you have. A change in the policy of the south in this respect will In the humble opinion of your correspondent make the south rich and pros perous, E. M. PniLLtfs. Continued from last week ] FARM LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND, Hew tbs Fsraser epsada Ills tvuter la lnwBmt Lstlmiro-1 Uwc'r and tm Karat Ply tare. The traditional ???January thaw??? comes nnd sets all the brooks a-roariog and makes lakes of the fiat meadows, while the south wind blows with a spring-like Mftness and sighs itself asleep. The aky clears and the north wind awakes and outroars tho brooks till it locks them fast again and turns the tlooded meadows to glitteriog ice-fields whereon the boys hare jolly skating bouts in the moonlit evenings. Many another snow-fall comes, perhaps, but every dty the sunshine waxes warmer, aud the snow melts slowly off the roofs and becomes ???countersunk??? about tree-trunks and mullein-stslks. The tins of weather beaten grass appear above it and tho great drifts grow dingy. It becomes pleasant to liDgerfnra while In shirtaleevcson tin-sunny side of the bsro, listening to the steady trip of the icicled eaves and the cackling of hens, and watching the cattle lazily scratching themselves aud chewing tbelr cuds in the genial warmth, Tbe first crow comes, and now, if never again In all the year, his harsh voice has ?? pleasantscund, Roans grow ???slumpj??? and then M nearly bare that people begin to pon der whether they shell go forth on runners or wheels. home esrly lambs enter upon their short life, and knock-kneed calves begin to make the old barn echo with their bawling and the clatter of thetr clumsy gambols. The gray woods take on tbe purple tiDge of swelling buds. Tbe brooks resume thetr merry music. Tbe song sparrows come, tbe bluebird s carol Is beard, tbe first robin ventures to come ex ploring, and high overhead the wild geese are wloging their northward way. Though Jack Frost strives every night to regain tits sway and often for woole days maintains a foothold, his fortunes slowly wane and spring comes coyly but tnrely on. Her foots'epa waken the woodchuck from his long sleep and be comes to his door to look abont him with eyes unaccustomed to the sunlit day. In the plasby snow of the woods the raccoon's track shows that he has wandered from den or hollow tree. South ern elopes, then broad fields, grow bare, till all tbe snow is cons from them bat theMlted drills In the hollows nnd along tbe fences; ia tbe woods it still lies deep,' but cosrso grained aud watery. , The blood of tbe maples is stirred and in sugar making regions tbo tapping of tbe trees is brgua. A warm, day following a freezing nlgnt sets all the spouts a dripping merrily into tbe bright tin tubs, and once or twice a day tbe oxen and sled go winding through the Woods hauling a cask to which tbe sap la brought from tbe trees with bucket and neek yoke and then taken to the sugar house, Tnls is sat, if possible, at tbe foot of Mme hillside or knoll, on which th.e sled may be driven M that its burden overtops tbe great holders standing beside tbe boiling pans witbin. Into these holders the sap Is dis charged through a pips. Now the boiling begins and tbo thin sap thickens to rich syrup as it seethes and bubbles in its slow conrso from tbo first pan to the last, while tho woods abont- are filled with the sweet odor of itssteam. Following up this scent and the sounds of merry chatter, one may come upon a blithe sngar party of young folks gathered In and about tbe sugar bouse. In Ibis earliest pic nic of the season the Mle refreshment is hot sugar poured on dean snow, where it cools to a gummy consistency known as ???waxed??? sugar. Tbe duty of the rustic gallant is to whittle a little maple piddle (wnlcb is held to be the proper Implement for sugar eating) for his mistress, ana to keep her allotted por tion of tho snow bank well supplied with the ambtfr-hued sweet. In the woods the snow has shrunk to tbe cold shelter of tbe ledges and the arbutus beglas to blossom half unseen among its dull green and russet leaves and liverwort flow era dot the aun"y slopes with tufts of white and pink and blue. Sap flow and sugar making slacken, so that a neighbor finds time to visit another at hla sngar works, and asks, "Have yon heard tbe frogs?" Only one ???run" of tap after tbo frogs peep is the traditional rule. 80 tba frogs baring peeped, tbs last run comes and sugar making ends. The fields of Winter wheat and rye, if tbe enow has kindly covered them through the bitter weather take ou a fresher green and tbe southern slopes of pasture lands and the swales show tinges of it. Tbe Mwer Is pacing >he fall-plowed ground to and fro with measured tread, scattering tbe seed as he goes, and, after him, team and harrow scratch the mold. In favored places the plows are going, first streaking, then broadly patching, the somber fields with the rich hue ot freshly turned sward. Then early potatoes are planted, gardens made, corn ground made ready and houses unbooked, letting daylight into cellars once more As pastures grow green the sheep are tagged a-.d released from their long confinement in shed and yard. With load rejoicings they go rushing along the lane to tbe paslnre, eager for the first nibble of tho anforgoiten herbage. Not many days later cows are turned out and the lush feed turns tbelr pale bmtertogold. Young lambs now claim the farmer???s care. Eacli day he must visit tbe flock to see If some unnatural mother must not be forced to give suck to her forlorn TeanllDg, or if some, half dead with tbe cold of night or storm, need not be brongbt to the kitchen fire to be warmed to life. The hickory has given the sign for corn planting, for its leaves are as large as a squir rel???s ear (some say a squirrel???s foot.) This important labor having been performed, tbe grotesque scare crow is set at his post or glit tering tins or twines festooned from stake to stake do duty in his stead. Now there comes a little lull In work be twlxt planting and boelng, during which boys and hired men assert their right, estab lished by ancient usage, to take a day to go ft-fithtag. Our rustic angler uses no nice akill In play ing or landing his fish, but having him well hooked, jerke him forth by main strength of arm and clamsy pole and line, with a force that sends him, whether he be perch or bull- jottt, or by lucky chance, pike-perch or bass, a a curving flight high overhead and wallop; Ing with a resounding thud on tbe grass far behind hla captor. . , Perhaps ail bands go to the nearest seining ground and, baying a haul, stand an eager group on tbe sandy botch, joking feebly while they nervously wait and watch the rippling curve of floats as tbe net comes sweeping slowly in, bringing, may lie, tor tbelr half dollar, only a few worthless clams and suDfisb, or if furtnue favors, may be a floundering crowd of big fish, which, strung on a tough twig, they carry home rejoieiog In the list of the blossom freighted days of May If one that each yesr grows dearsr to os. There is scarcely a graveyard among our hills bat bis Its little fitg. guarding, la ana and ???bower, the grave of some soldier. Hither come farmers and villagers with evergreens and flowers, no one M thoughtless tbat be doee not bring a spray of plum blossoms or cluster of lilacs, no cbitd an poor that It does not bear bunches of violets or dandelions, while tbs mothers rob tbe cherished home plants of tbelr bloom and girls bring all the flowers of the wood. One kind of "Use,??? as these gstberingt for mutual help are called, which uss only Istely gone out with tbe oxen, who were the chief actors in ir,wsa the ???drawing bee.??? A farmer having cause to change the site of a barn or I other structure, would, with the carpenter???] help, usually in early spring but sometimes I in the fall, gat runners under his bulUliog. (These were long timbers of something more thin the building's length, cat with an Bp- ward ilopeat tbe forwaril end. Having prop erly braced the inside of his barn to wltu- stand the rack of transportation, all bis oxen- owning neighbors were bidden to bis aid. After hoeing, the deluge???for tbe sheep; for tiny must be washed preparatory to shear ing, which important event in theirs and farm life now draws near. In some pool of a stream Or sheltered cove of a pond or lake, wbero the water is hip deep, or under tbo outpouring stream from a tapped mill-flame or the farmer's own pond made for this espe cial purpose, they suffer this cleansing. Within a fortnight or so after this comes the shearing. Tbe farmer engages the ser vice of os many as he needs of his nclghhois and their Mas as are skillful shearers. The baro floor and its overhanging scaffjlds are carefully swept. The skies are watched for tbe day and night preceding the first day of shearing, lest a sudden shower should wot tbe sheep, which, if so threatened, must bo got to the shelter of the barn. If this fore thought hss not been needed in the earl; morning of the great day. all the avatlab'e force ia mustered, such farm hands as can be ???pared from the milking, the boys roused from their morning nap and some helpful, r imeiy coming shearers to get the sheep home from the pas,ures. K inged along the floor, each in his allotted place, are tbo three, four or half doz-nor more shearers, bending each over his aheep, which, under bis skillful hand, shrinks rap. idly from umber plumpness to creamy-white thinness, undergoing a change so great that when released she goes leaping forth into the yard, her own lamb hardly knnwa her. At bis table, with a great reel of twine at bis elbow, is tho tyer, making each flsece into a compact bundle. At tbe stable door is tbo alert catcher ready with an unshorn sheep as each shorn one ia lot go; and these, with a boy to pick up scattered locks, constitute tbe working force. ' Now the wagon comes surmounted by Its rattling "hay rlggtn???,??? with the legs of tbe pitcher ana tba unfortunate who ???mows away??? and ???rakes after,??? dangltug over Its side, and tho man who loads, tbo captain, f ilot and stevedore ot this craft, standing irward driving Ida horses, for the oxen and cart, too slow lor these burryiog times, have lumbered into tbe past. Tbe stalwart pitsher upheaves tbe greet forkfuls, skillfully be stowed by tho loader till they have grow Into a load which moves off with ponderous stateliness across the meadow to the stack ct Darn. Seen from astern us it sways and heaves along its way, ono might fsocy It un enormous elapbant with a yaukeo mahouton ils back. Soon the nights have a threat of frost In their increasing chilliness; birds have done singing and tnera is the maurnfulneas of speedy departure In thetr short, business-like notes. Tbe fuam of the buckwheat fields, upborne on stems of crimson and gold, is flecked with pale green and brown kernels, inviting tho cradler. The blonde Ireasos of the corn are grown dark; the yellow kernels begin to show through tbe parted husks and the cutting ot this most beautiful ot grams begins Tbo small forest of maizs becomes an Indian village whose wigwams rjra corn shocks, in whose streets lie yellow pumpkins with tbelr dark vin-s trailing among tbe pigeon grass and weeds. Tbe pumpkin. New England's well beloved and tbe golden crown ot her Thanksgiving feast, mlgh. be her sym bolic plant aaold England's rose and Scot land???s tbistla are theirs. How the adventu rous vine, rough, prickly nnd Mmewhat coarse, even its flowers, wanders forth from its psreut hill, through bordering wilderness of after math and over rocky mountains of walls, overcoming all and bearing g ilden fruit afar oil, yet always holding on to the old home, yankee like, and drawing Its sap and life therefrom! b The apples are growing too heavy to bunt longer to tho parent branch and. with no warning but the dick of Intercepting leaves, tumble, perhaps, on tba hoad of some un profitable dreamer even la practical New England. Tboy are ready for gathering, and the Greenings, Northern Spies, Spltzsnbcrgs. Russets, Pomeroys and Tillman Sweats, aud all whose virtues or pretensions have gained them a name, are plucked with the care be fitting their honored rank and stored for win ter use or market, while their pleblan kin dred, the ???common??? or "natural??? apples are unceremoniously beaten wl'b poles ortbaken from tbelr scraggy, untrimra-d bong is and tumbled into tbe box of tbe farm wagon to go lumbering off to the elder mill. This, after its ten or eleven months of mns'y emptiness end idleness, has now awakened to a short season of buttle, otnriudlog and unit ing and fullness of casks and heaped bins nnd the fragrance thereof. Wagons are un loading their freight of apples aud emp'y barrets and departing with full casksafterihe driver has tested tbe flavor and strength of the earliest mads cider. And now at the cellar hatchway of tha farm house the boy and the new come cider barrel may be found In conjuncture with a rye atraw fur tha con necting link. Tbe traveling tbrpshor begins to make the round of the farms and establishes his ma chine on tbe barn floor, whence it belnbes f, nil, with resounding din, clouds of dust In which are seen dimly the forms of the work men and the laboring hones climbing an nnstabla hill whose top tboy never reach Outof the dust cloud growa a stack of yellow straw alongside tbe gray barn, which it almost rivals in height and breadth when the thresh ing is ended. , About apple plektng time aud for a month or two af ar, ???apple cuts??? or ???piling bees??? used to be frequent, when all tlieyonng folks of a neighborhood were Invited, never sllghi- iog tbe skilled parer with bis machine. After acme bushels of apples were peeled, quarter ed, cAred and strung fir drying, the kitchen was cleared of its rubbish of cores and skins, and after a feast of ???nut cakes,??? pumpkin pies and cider, tha plays began to the tunes of ???Come, Philander, la's be marchin???,?????? ???The needle???s eye thatdo'h supply the thread tbat runs so true,??? and " We???re marchin' on- wards towards Quebec where the drams are loadly heatin???,??? or tbe fiddle or ???Llsha'a??? Mogof "Tol-lld-dle, tol-llddle, tol today, do- day-bum, do day-hum, tolli-dsv??? set all feet to'jigging ???Twin Sisters" or ??? French Four ??? These jolly gathering!, though by many yean outliving the old fasnfoaed husking bee,hare at last fallen into disuse and their hearty New England flsvor is poorly supplied by the insipid sociables and abominable surprise pirtits that are uow iu vogue. Tba bulking bees in which girls took a part when a red ear was a coveted treason, are remembered only by tbe old; but tho rollick ing psr'ies of men that gathered to husk In the fields by moonlight or firelight or by lan tern light ia the barns, that rang again with their sooga and noisy mirth, held a notable place in oar farm life till within a decade or two of years. Bat they, too, have pasted away, and basking hss grown to be a hum drum, work day labor, tnougb not au un pleasant one, whether Urn spikes of gold an unsheathed in the field In tbe bszy warmth of an October day or in the barn, when tbe fill rain ia pattering on tbe roof and msking brown puddles in the barn yard. In these days tbs cows ore apt to come late to tbe milking, for the cow boy loiters by tbe way to fill bta pocket with hickory nu>s or crock a hatful of butternuts on theblgstone which, with rime small ones for boatmen, seem alwajstobesetuader every butternut tree. Long,straggling columns of crows an mov ing Mutbward by leisurely eerisl marches, and at night and morning tbs clamor of their noisy encampments disturbs tbe woods. Moat of the summer birds have gone. A few rob- bins, hopping silently ant tog tbe leogte of wild grape vines end flicks of yellnw hints, lad now in sober gsraients and ottering met- cancholy notes ss they glean the seeds of the frost bitun hemp, an mmost the only ones left. Then are no songs of birds now nor any fliwers, but here aod therein the pas tuns an uatimely dandelion; and in tbe almost leafiest woods the pink blossoms of herbrobert and the pale yellow flowers of tan wi ten-basal. The lost potato is dug end stored, tho buck wheat drawn nnd threshed, the lust pumpkin limn-il mm the entile rv.-- fit gun tu r-ceive their daily allowauce of corn-fudder. People begin to feel a pride in slie increasing cold end compare jveather nohs and speculate and prophesy concerning the coming of win ter. The old farm house is rnado ready f jr winter. I s foundations ere again reinforced with banking, its outside windows and s ornt doors are set on their long guard of the win ter we tiller and all tilt's > ,s ,,n.i dabgliters of thn old house have g ttbered front far and near to hold the Now England (now the national) feast of Thank-giving, and have dispersed. Tue las???, wedge of wild geese has cloven rlie cold sky Th ire is a wintry roar in tbo wind s wept hills ami os the first snow flakes and as the last sere leaves corns eddy ing down together our year of farm life enos Fisa Ponds in tub tfuria.???The flsh Indus try is assuming an importance beyond what was expected at the outset. No less than a half das-a ponds have been arranged ia and near this place. They are neatly arranged and tho attention they receive is a guarantee of tho prominence the business will attain in the qear future. We look upon this as n very encouraging sign. Nothing ia more in dicative of a future prosperous condition of a section than a marked disposition of the pro pte to diversify their industries. While the importance of cotton manufacturing in the south is being agitated it Is important that industries requiring small capital and which msy be made almost an immediate success, should be given some consideration. There are hundreds of farms In every county upon whiob ere admirable locations for poods. With an outlay of a small capital and some labor, ponds could bo arranged nnd stocked, which, in a year or two would afford a hand some return upou tiie investment. The only thing necessary is for tho farmers to Incorpo rate Into their present methods a litilo orfgt- Inallty. No serious consequences can result from a deviation from old methods. An ex periment in tbia business will not involve suf ficient capital In make (t a serious Tenture. t he introduction of this business together with poultry raising, would domuoh to lessen the monotony of farm life; and if persisien lu itwith the determination and energy which characterises the production of the Muthern pet, cotton. would ere loug prove an impor tant factor in the rural economy. J. W. Phillips, 8??neca City, 8. C. SOCIAL LIFE IN NEW YORK. More romantically sod startlingly than In tab leau! has one of our aoclety beauties figured. She has became the talk of the faahlonablo part of town aud, ai har escapade was not disgracing to her, I may as woll be tint to print it, She bad fallen in lore with a young gallant o! tho tax hunting gsn- ilemau-Jockey ktuil. Tho wooer waa anlduoni, Eventually, tho bead o( the glrl???a family Intimated to him that the household desired a little tlmo for rest aud recreation. He was compelled to ceaao his visits for the time. The daughter thereupon con- c-.-lred tbs Idea that tbe man whom the adored waa being abased. 8ho wrote to him. He wrote to har. It .--att-oue evening at ball past nine o'clock the beauty ot the family went np stairs with her mother aud a number of other ladles from adtuucr oariy wntch wason lu the diningroom. The ladles disposed themselves ss they usually du while watt- Ing fir the men tocumo np stairs. While the eld ers dozed and the gtrlsgwslped, tbe daughter stole quietly up stain to Per room. Halt au honr later uofmaid went down the servants??? staircase with twu large satobols, kissed the cook good bye, stole out of the hutment door, and clambered wtta great excitement and couvuUlveue.s Into a cab which stood hsrd by, Ten minutes later the trout door opened Kitty, and out stepped tbo beamy, clad iu a travelled drees and earning a sbawl. Too man at tho door did not lecogiilz) her, but as tho emerged from the awning which led from tbe front dour to tbe sidewalk, an old coachman, who had formerly been lu the employ ot her lather, but waa now .driving for somebiely. Clio, recognized her She stole with theatrics! craftiness to tho. o irnor, sprang Into tho cab wbero her maid was slready stlltug. clasped both the maid???s hands and sat mere tn at-j-ot terror Willis iuousbmsn drove them to tbotlraiid Central depot, there thetuvur, wearing a Newmarket cout, a tweed hat, a stogie glass, a satchel, aud a big cigar, was nervously walking up and down the sidewalk. The can stopped. He opened tho door, assisted the girl tn alight, and follo wed by tho maid, entered tho wait Ingroom. They sought the most secluded corner, sat down, end gradually grow pale. Tho Albany train would tint leave for thiee qtiartcrs of an near. They beearao moro and more nervous, dean while, tho ex-coachman, having nothing to do, had wheel d hla way around amt Jogged un Uteavenue alter the cab which bsildtka mtsstrers and the maid. He taw tho girl alight at the depot aud recognized the man who motlt-r. Has whipped uohls hoitesand wont tearing down the avenue aa though going to a tire. When he got to tbo bnu<o. ho calk'd tho footman to bold tbo bone. dftthed up tho eUqn, Into tho houo *nr! down to tbo dining room, where the muter was tolling one of his after dlnnorHorltH. ???L ??ir," ho griped. "*ho's gono and done It." "rihe nu. eh? Who ia ahe and what did aha do tt for?" oaken tho brat, imllluq Hfftbly upon Ills iUeatR. mod giving them to uudewtoud by aagnlfl* caut wink that he wm about to hove??omo fan with tbfl co??chratn. , . "Ynur dou??hfer. Mr I Rho*s runnod off with tho younx gent that wean* tho gogyle glam and rides ot all ??ho race*" . . .. With which tho. father ??hot from hto chair as though a pcrpoudlcu???ar bartering ram had been sprung beneath him. flow up stairs. Mumbled into thn carrlago and arrived hailcm and ovnrcoilkHJ ton ml uu e?? la tor at tho grand central depot. Hh Iked 11 briskly, took his daughter's am. pill ...mild on the spot, discharged her, bundled his d slighter into tho cab. pul lad tbo geutlum-in Jio*. ey???s now. returned to his dinner aud flnlrhcd his auirVs fro ends tho romance of tbo rich young girl There was a man nbo found out, this week, lo o Bowery museum, that bo was not so peculiarly endowed by natura as he had supposed. Measure yonrown nose, and if It is an inch long???from the upoor lip straight ont to the tnd-you ars> quire suOleloutiy provided for all pnrpote* of utility or be??u'y. An inch more would proverbially be a great deal. This man had it, and in consequence no overrated hla nasal importance. 1 **** *??? * ???** * *&!* length of now is to m; entitled to be rogardeu ???, - . .......... But a test has proved that it does uoi render him thrilling to tbo masses. He is a clgtr miker by trade. Whenever ho took bit walks abroad he was g??z.*d at in amsnmsnt. "If I am to be looked on is a curiosity." ho reasoned, "it would be batter to make a lszy living with my abnormal nose " Bo he took his big feature to the manager of atm ceutehow. "Very well,??? wastheoff.*r which ho received ??????I'll do Inst the eame by you that I do by any oihor new freak. We can???t tell what will ca*r:h on with the public. You can havn a p???nco on the pl??t* form f w a week. If you make a failure, I'll give you five dollars. If you nit ???em I'll tlx a square, liberal salary." . . ... "But bow'm I to know whether I bit cm" tbe amar??nrcurio???1iy asked. "Bv s-elog whether tho folks stop to look at you. That's tbe Ust ?????? ... Thn uo*o was trot potent. What had been novel lu private life was almost disregarded lu a profes sional It seems 10 be settled that a protuberance * ????????? ??????j fuctogtiag ineb. Fbapeux. Mom U tha Kraab From the Erwlnton. Ga., Appeal. A few day* ago wo stood in hearing, and In fact was an eye wltnei* to the following animated con versation between two woll known urchins of our town, who answer to tho rum's* of Bars, Biker aud Ruble Wood, respectively. It seems that the 1. u???s. bad been previously discussing a question mutually unconvincing to ibemtada of the youthful debit ors. when Bam. evidently to make a tea strike, and silence his opponent, blurted out: "Yes. ami my pi???s a preacher, and will go to heaven when he dies!" "Yes, and my pa???s a doctor, and can kill your it??? replied liable. _ We waited to hotr mo-o, but the boys walked off trliimr>hmily from each other, appearing like unto THB DIFFERENCE. Two brothers by a ceaseless river wander Both fool*, perbaps-tbooib of a differ The one was grave, ihoo'herrnora<*?i???-i>q' Aod mocked and scorned hi* broihw And still tbe first his own Bfftlrs attended, Nor sought to m>ddl??* witn bl?? brother's life. Content that he for Jnrilco oftcffanderL Nor lying spake to warrant envious rtrife. Of him who mocked i n'ry now ramalneth; VVM!" sid t-y^J Love lie ??????ranger e???eo Jetatoelli Where lauids twine the serious o\ r. ???'Jlaude O. Whetstone NEWS BY WIRE. TUB LATEST TELEBBAPBIO NEWS TO TUE CONSTITUTION. The Week's Hodge Podge of Crime aud Css* .titles the Couatry Over at Telegraphed by Oaf Correepoadents. Kansas Crrv, Mo., February 23.???Tho train which has arrived here from the scans of tbe wreck nn rim Hannibal and SS. Joaeph rOOd brings tho following particulars: The train which was wrecked was running at tho rato of thirty miles an hour, preparatory to mounting a steep grade When on the bridge tbe mai car struck a broken rail, which the engine and expres. car had passed over saf-ly. The mall and smoking cars were precipitated Into tbe water, c Frying down the bridge, which hod been broken by tbe crash. The coach, chair car, and- sleeping car were thrown from tho track and piled np together. A boy named Bildwtn was killed, as well at Conductor Belcher. Tnere are four or fire persons now dead. Among tho Injured are tbe following too seriously hurt to be re moved after being taken to Brookfield; J. E. Rise and T.E Tracy, 81. Ltuls; But] P ntenon, Galesburg; and James and Joseph Mulhsut and wife, Canada. About 200 oth ers received painful cats and bruiaes. Most of passengers brouvlit here. Tolxdo, Ohio, February 25.???A peculiar case boa bren decided in the common pleas court, involving tbe validity of alaro mar- rlsgrs; A colored man named Anderson married here In 1883, and thereupon was ar rested for bigamy, U being charged that be waa married while a-slave to a slave woman In Bedford county, Va., in 1801, Tbe coso hinged on tbe validity of tbe slave marriage. Tbp judge instructed tbe jury tbat slavea be ing property, could not make legal contracts, but the courts had decided tbat alavo mar- riog??s became valid by cohabitation as man nun wife after thq emancipation proclama tion went into effect in 1801. The case thus turned on a question of fact, whether the pair had M conabitatsd or not, as shown by evidence. Tbe jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. WtNNipsa, Manitoba, Febrnary 25.???Jlu more of a fight between the police and the Indians at Crocked Lake prove to havo been unfonnded. Tbo report grew out of tbe fact that early Saturday morning twenty police men, under Colonel Haruhtuore, started for tbe cabinsof tbe Indians, thirteen milea north of Qn Appelle river, whore Yellow Calfs band of seventy-five braves era holding sway. When within two rods of thsir stronghold, the Indians came swarming out, flourishing their guns and refused to allow the polled to approach nearer. Colonel Harcbmore remonstrated with tbe chlof, but Yellow Calf declined to give up any of his men or provisions which they had atolen. He said he never would surrender them without a struggle. The police were then formed In line, but tbe last man had not taken this position bsfors ths doors and windows of the cabin were thrown open, and tho open ing was fairly filled with rifles. Owing to the great odds and tbe fact that the Indians being und-r over, Coloael Uarchmore withdrew to a farm hott-o In tbe vlolnitv for the night, and returned to Broad river yesterday. The people of that place are considerably exoited aod an uneasy feoling prevails. Sr. Lome, Mo , February 20.???John Barth, an inmate of 8t. Elizabeth's hospital, ia Belleville, attompted to kill Slater Liberia in that institution late last night, nnd followed it by committing suicide. The scene of tho tragedy Is only u few yards from the recent convent calamity. Barth has bean a patient in the hospital since 1833, a victim of con sumption. About eight o'clock last night Sister Liberia went tu the Invalid???s room to look after ills tire nnd to replenish it, if need be. Birth was in n sitting postnro on the bed, and the sister asked him if ho would have Home more coul on the tire, lie replied in a surly, snAppIsb tone that everything was all right, and to let the fire alone. Tno sister, however, knelt before the stove witli an iron poker in her hand, but bad hardly done so when Barth drew n revolver nnd fired at the kneollng woman, Tho ball passed en tirely through her left ear, grsz >d the sido of her head, strnck on tho wall behind tho stove, but rebounded nnd fell on the Hoot, The injured sister fell prostrate, nnd tho in valid might havo repoateil his shot nroro ef fectively but for thn sppoaranco of Father Gough, pastor of tbe English-speaking Catho lic church, who hss been residing in the hospital fur some time put. The father, startled by the report of a revolver, rushed iu thn direction from which tbo sound canto, and threw open the door of Barth's room. The insano patient, for them Is little doubt that ho was laboring under an aberration of tuliid, hesitated when he heard footsteps tn the hallway, but continued to hold the weapon ia his hand. Willi the help of one or two slaters tba wounded sister was romovtd to another room, aud while sbo was being conveyed Ibitbsr Barth turned tbo pistol to hisfuee, preseed Uagalnitbis forebead, pulltd tbe trigger and fail hack a corpse. For soma months psst the decessed lias acted like an insane min. Ha wu Irritable, orori, and at times inclined to bo violent. The physician of the Institution warned tbe aistera to bo aware of him. as be was danger- ou.s aud might kill Mmebody. In addition to consumption. Birth suffered with tho fiitala on his left side, which hastened bis loss of mind. Tho young man's mo'her died from bloid poisoning, contracted while dressing her mo's wound. Joust, 111, February 20.???riainfield, nine miles northwest of this city, is agitated over a social sensation. A young lady of that vlt- lag,*, named Vinnle Horton, waa bcselgsd by two yonths for Iter heart and band, nnd M persistent were they in tbelr endeavors tbst thu young lady was In a serious dilemma. Hill; linally made her choi-e, and consented to become the wife of one ui tho suitors nam ed 8 Isb Brown. When tbia news came to the cars of tbe rival, whose name is Pollard, bo swore that him atone should aba marry, and securing tbe backing of George Horton, a brother of the yonng iajy, he renewed hia claim to her h>ud. tihe went with her brother to the homo of her sister, a Mrs Jackson, to whom she told her predicament. Her abler advised her to re main with her Miss Horton then went out tu tbe sleigh together clothing, when htr brother, learning tier intention to stay with tbo JsckMDS, picked her up bodily and placed her in the sleigh end drovo to his own house, where Pollard was awattingthem. The friends ot Brown followed with magistrate and con stable, bnt failed to effect their purpose, and before daylight tho next morning Pollard brought bis bride to this city and they were quietly married. Tne belligerent lovers have each placed tbe other uoder bonds to keep tbe peace, having threatened eacli other???s lives, but no blood has been shed yr.tovcr tbe yonng tally's queer actions, though Brown's neart i?? "busted wids open??? end he swears vcpgeance. Washington. February 25.???In the com mittee on privileges and elections this morn ing Senator Sherman called attention ioa paragraph in the Richmond State tothe effect that the colored )??ople congregated abont the room, but Sbernian'a orders were stringent not to admit auy who coaid not show a sum mons. Sherman said be wbbed to say what was apparent to all who had been present, tbat this statement was an error. The only in structions wero to admit tbe first comers, bat only In such numbers os could conveniently be accommodated In the room. Benator Vance rejoined that Sherman's statement wrs in aczordance with his understanding,and that the room had been uncomfortably fail meit of the time. Congressman John 8. Wise wss rile first witoe-s. He stated the is-uea of tbe Virginis campsign, beginning with that of 88L The true i-ju-j were tho pabtlc debt _nd tbe eleinoeynary institutions of tbe state The funder party .sought to perpetuate the race Issue. The readjustees would have been fools to have sought !o keep stive the race is-ue, depending, as they did, upon the col ored vote in part for iurr-..s lie fi???eil the K'.cbruond .State of June ldtti, 18-il, an n spec- imen of tbe Issue tbo funders sought to make. He also filed a circular which he picked np In Carroll county, having but. sixty-three colored voters against 2,500 whites. It set forth that tin- tvliiKe who voted ttic read j lis ter ticket voted for repudiation, mixed schools, eta He filed a speech of ex- Senator Johnson, of Virginia, delivered in Newbern, in 1881. Governor Cameron bad said they would carry tho war into Africa. Johnson replied that be would carry Africa into the war. He filed an editorial bom the Norfolk Landmark. Mr. Vance entered bis protest against the further progress of the conrso ot investiga tion. Mr. Wise waa making a party speech. Judge Lapltam said that if the papers were to illustrate the condition of affairs, they were proper and wise. He said ho proposed to show that the whitea had brought on the omueto at Danville for political purposes, having despaired o'herwise to win their con test. Conunalnc Hr. Wise sui.mittcd fur ther papers designed to show tlmt the funders set forth tbat their opponents were seeking to make the negroes the equals of tho whites, and that the readjastera in tbeir utterances, declared tbat tbeoniy issue was this question. Mr. Csmeron, readjnster candidate for governor, was elected by a ma jority of while votes. Governor Cameron, In nis metsago, repudiated tbe idea of mixed achools. In tbe next canvass, in which Mas sey and the witness were opposing candidates ot large for congress, tho same efforts were made by tbe funders to keepalive race issues. In the last campaign witness asserted that representative bourDons bad stated in his presence repeatedly tbst antil they conld re vive race Issues they could not hope to win their contest. He submitted publications In support of these statements. They bad rought to make the race issue prominent In tbe canvasss of 1881. It wss not so prominent in the canvass of 1882, but it was revived in 1883. Then Gov ernor Cameron appointed two colored' men members of the school board of Richmond. Tho school children numbered 7,500 whites to 0,000 colored. This action was seized upon as a pretext for revivlog tbe race iisne. He snbmltted publications insnpportof thastate- ment from tbo Danvtllo Times. Hs read: ???Tbo Mabonitea band tho negroes together, nnd we cun only conquer by uniting the whitea against them.??? Senator Sberman asked if tbe funders were inspired by objections to tbo persons or to tbe race. Witnesa laid it was an objection to the race. The men appointed wore unobjectionable. Coming then to tbe last election for legisla ture, he said the bourbons were by a Iargs majority in favor of incorporating tliecolur line In the plutform. Ho read anilsubraittcd editorials in support of this statement. Two democrats of Lynchburg, be believed, in duced tiio convention not to Incorporate tbe color line into their written platform. In tbe canvass witness bad prceervcd notes of bis discussions with his opponents, lie asserted that from beginning to ond tboy bad sought not to win colorod votes, bat to make the coalition party so odious to tho ignorant whites as to make them band together against it. Ho submitted documents and pictures used as campaign documents. Ono of the latter displayed a black teacher whipping a white pupil. When witness went to Dan ville to speak, the local papers advised the white men to stay away. Danville and Pitt sylvania wero the moat lawless communities in Virginia. Pittsylvania county and adjoin ing counties in North Carolina were alike In this. Senator Vanco???That???s a republican county by a largo majority. Witness???Yes and wherever there ia a re publican majority there will be bourbon aho'guns. Mr Vance???'There will be a large number of convictions to the penitentiary. Witness???And crowds will go down before tiie mouttis 9t bourbon shotguns. Mr. Vance???I don???t know as there is any neceosl .y for you tooseail North Curollnahere, sir. Witness???I allude to those matters with re gret. Witness described tbo crimes which lie said had hern committed in and about Dsn- villa Ha regarded the attempt of the demo crats to atirlbuto tbe state of excitement pre ceding thu riot to Sims's speech as a subter fuge Tim excitement was due to tho inflam matory publications and efforts which huhad described. Mr. Sberman asked if witness wished to say anything about the cause of tbe riots. Tha viitness Bald that when lie went to Danville, Mr. Jennings, a readjnster at heart, called on him and oakl he was a readjuster at heart, bat had been waited upon by tba driuocrala and threatened with ruin in his business if lie aid not withdraw. Jennings wus compelled to join tba democrats. Wit- msj i-ulmilttud Hie advertisements of tlm hardware dealers from wbom tho rioters of November fid obtained their arms. In the advertisements guns, pistols and amunlllon was made to appear more prominent than anything eiio. Daring tbo cross examination by Mr. Vance several sharp passages at arms ocaured. Wise raid to Vance; When 1 first knew yon 30 years ago, you be longed lo tha ???know-nothing party," now you belong to tire N. K. negro killing party. Vanco reiterated???"When X first knew you you wero a secession democrat, now you are Wise???Hardly? I was only 0yean of age and conld not have been much of a seces sionist. Scnato |Vancc???Ah well, when a man pleads tiro iiitency act, I liava nothing more to say. A little later Wise mid tbe attitudes of men had changed. ???You," to Senator Vance, "come up to teach ui democracy and debt-paying when you had repudla'ed your own debts, and had never been a democrat." Vance admitted having been a knownoth- Ing, bm defended himself ns against tbe charge of ever being a rrpudiator. Tue men who said bo bad everudvocsteJ repudiation, stutul that which was untrue. Wisehopod Governor Vanco did not intend that to be an insult. Senator Vance said lie did not, bat wished merely to state facts. In reply to some asser tions personal of himself, Vvlto disavowed any Intention to ba offensively personal. Witness avowed his unalterable determina tion to continue tbo war upon tbe bourbon party. He udmitted that the blacks were united iu the proportion of about ninety per cent upon one aide, wniie tbe wliites were nearly equally divided fair appeals by tbe whites to unite their own kind were jus Hied, but they had resorted to wsrllke nud outrageous methods Witness knew nothing of tbe ottraclsm of colored democrats by their readjnster race fellows. The Danville democrats had ottered to pro tect the colored democrat voters, but the offer was likened to that of a hawk to chick ens, not to bunt them if they wonid come out. Witness described the operation of tbe poll lax law, which, be said was gotten up to dc- fraud tin; < dored men of their votes. admitted that readjnster speakers had been Intemperate in tbeir language, bnt Justified it m being in reply to bcurbon abate. He knew of no money be- nu- sent from W'nafiington to Virginia, nor did bo know of uny assetsmoots being levied upon tbe ofllca holders daring tbe last cam paign. Tha facta of the Danville riot had been exaggerated, but its outcropping bad not. It bad been represented by tbe whites as a negro uprising, aud tiie whiles had beea appealed to to assist their fellows in danger with their votes. This hod aided to secure a democratic victory. Io reply to Mr. Sherman, witnesa Mid tbat the present legislature bad taken steps to steal me stnt- for nil time by charigingtfie election law. Fifteen reaojoster members of the leg islature bail been ejirted, aod soma of thetr so (lessors lsa-1 not even made a contest. Wise Slid be did not advocate social intercourse between the rices. No negro ltad ever pre sumed to claim social privilege! by- reason of political affiliations with him. The colored in-mtiers of tbe legislature came to bis hoasa iii nonsuit him, but they always came to bis