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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY. MARCH 25.1884- TWELVE PAGES. 1
OUR “DIXIE” HITMURISTS
the fun Ann piiif.uNopiir or the
of*i> hone.
NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS,
IX.
1 hr Cm mi I UK Nnnlir,
Daddy Jack, that appealed to, turned half
round In blaaeat, wloktd his bright little
eyes very rapidly, and Mid, with great ani
nation:
“Ho! me bln yeddy one sing-tale; me yed
dy uniao long tam 'go. One tarn dere bin
one old Afflky ooman, 'e call 'im name
Coombs. 'K go walky troo da wools,
walky Woo da fiel 1 . Ilninbye 'e is bin come
’{ion one anake-nes' (ill wit' alg. Snake, big
snake, aig big aig. Alfikjr oomans is bln
want-adem aig so bahd; 'e '(raid far tek uni,
'K gone borne; 'e is see dem aig in 'e dream
> want am so bahd. Won da nex' day
moruki' come, da Afliky oomans say
bleexn fer bad dem aig. 'K go way, 'e bin-
aee da snake nes', 'e isgit-a da aig; ’a fetch
am at 'eown house; 'e cook um fer 'e brek
wuss.
“Bumbye da snake bin a come by 'a nes'
Aig done gone.' E pit 'e nose 'pon da groan'
•e is track da Attlky.oomans by ’a own house.
Snake come by da AlUky oomans house; ’i
slix'bout'a aig. Afliky oomans say ’
hab bin see no aig. Snake see da skin wut
bin 'pon 'a aig; 'a abx wut Is die. Afliky
oomans not say nuttln’ 'tall. Snake 'a My
“ ' Wey fer you come brek up me nes' un
fekky me aig?"
“Afliky oomans 'a no say nullin' 'tall,
toss 'a head, 'a mek lak 'a no yaddy da snake
T'ice, 'a go 'bout'e wuk. Snake, 'o say:
“ ‘Ooman I you is bln yed me v'ice wun mo
cry out. You bin tekky me aig; you'll bin
•atory mechillun. Tek keer you' own; tek
ketr yos own.'
“Snakegone'way; 'esllckout’e tongue,
'a slide'way. Bimhyede Afliky oomans, 'e
I..L ........ Ill nUlr.nlnnai 'as IIIh II in tin'll
bab one putty ill pickinlnny;
all oyer. 'K Is
r lull um lin'd
iniTio wutdasiiakessy;'o toto
da pickaninny 'roun' ’non 'a babk. 'K call
usu Noncy. 'a tote um fur, ’e luh um ha'il.
“Snake, 'a bln-a stay in da busli aide;
watch all day, 'e wait all night; 'e git honkry
fer dn pickaninny,'o want um so bahd. 'K
bin slick out 'a tongue, 'e bin slide troo da
eniH, 'e bin hanker fer da pickaninny.
"Ilimboe da Afliky oomans tote-ada Noncy
tl ’a git tire; 'a pull, blnw, 'a wuk 'a gill
arm lak cat-flsh."
Aunt Truipy burst Into loud laughter at
this remarkable statement.
“Whoever is year de beat er dst!” abe ex
claimed. “Daddy Jackyougoea on owilMhua
bou’. da wltumen, dat you duaal"
'K puff, 'a blow,'apant; 'oaay:
“ ’ll. pickaninny, ’a dor git-a big lak one
bag rice. 'K drr git-a ao belTy, me yent mos'
know wut fer da. Me yout kin tote um no
mo'.'*
“Da Afliky oomans is bln-a pit da picks
ninny down 'pon dn groun’. 'E tuck up one
aing in ’a lioad, un 'o larn iln lllly gal far
answer da sing 'Kdualiow um how fur pull
out da peg In da do'. Huake, 'a is bin lay
quite up in da hush; ’e say nuttln 'tall.
“Afliky oonians is laru-a da pickaninny fer
answer da slug, un wun he ain't fer go off, 'a
any.
>• Tit da peg in ilt dn', un you no y-open
am ftiruobuily 'op' you Is yeddy me elng.’
“1,11 gal, ’a any yaaauiu, un da Afliky
oornune gone otf. Snake at-sy still. *K nulls
up iu ’« qulle; ’« yent nmol ’o tall, lium-
bye, Idas niglit-iimn. do Afliky ooninna come
Bahck wey o ill. ’K alin’ by da do', 'a talk
dla .sing:
“ 'Walla walla wltto, me Nanay,
Walla walls whlo, me Nniicy,
Walla walla wltto, mo Nouoy.'
“ K v'lse 'Cd'no liner pise da las’ tel 'e do
gitloud fer true. Da lllly gsl, 'a do tuck
answer Isk dla:
'Andoltrt Audotll Acdolol
*■ 'K know 'e niammy v’ice, en 'e bln pull
out da peg querk. 'K run to 'e mammy; 'e
mammy der hug um up. Ntx' day. ’« da
asm ting; two, I’ree.MV'm dny, ’a da item
flog. Afliky oomans bolter da stng; da lllly
gal tuek answer 'poll turrer aide da do*.
Snake, 'o lay qullo up in da bush. Tl watch
da uight, 'o lisutn da day; 'a try for I'am-a
da sing; 'a nu suv nuttln''Mil. Bumbye, one
tam wuu Afliky uoniana bln gone 'way,
■nake, 'a wait life inoa' Um fer oomans fer
come bahck. 'li gone by da do'; 'a y-opei
snout.'-, 'aMy;
“ 'Wulto wullo whldo, me Noncy,
Wullo wullo wlddo, me Noncy,
Wullo wullo wlddo. me Nouoy.
Tempy, sympathetically. “Un de po' little
creator wuz 'live?" ..
“Enty!” exclaimed Daddy Jack. Noreply
could pcseibly have been more prompt, more
emphatic, or more convincing.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
He Tnrna Ills Attention to Polities and
Hunts Mr. Tlldrn for President.
Making a president is a right big thing. It
la a kind of special privilege that belongs to
tbeee American people and one that the tub-
jectaof klrgsand querns and omprrora do
not have. I don’t think the privilege
amounts to n.uch so far as the common run
ot folks is concerned, for tbey’have precious
little to do with it, and don’t know what la
going on until the thing has happened. A
common mm knows that two men arc run
ning, but he dan’t understand the machinery
that a-i. ft. in up aud pitted them iigjlnstoti
another. Cuba swears that he never voted
for a president in bis life, and wanted to
know of me who elected ’em. When I told
him l:o.v it was and all about the electoral
college, “Wall,"aaid be,“Idorecommember
voting for a passe! of fellers, and the folks
told me it was sginst General Grant and
Bhcrmau anil all them fellers what come
along here and burnt us out, and that’s
all I wanted to know about it?"
“But." said I, "you voted for General
Hancock four years ago, and he wasn yankee
general and fought us like blasts.”
Hancock—Hancock!” Mid be. “I reckon
not, ’iqulre. 1 never voted for a Hancock
but one time in my life and that was tor con
stable, aud he got beat, and the other feller
got hold of a little judgment agios: me and
levied on my truck uuten spile, and 1 haint
voted for a constable since; and here the
other day 1 went alter my fodder that I left
ever yander when I moved, and an infernal
constable had that loviad on tor rent. I paid
all my lost year's rent but live dollars, and
disfuruistied my family, and them folks said
they would wuiton me till next crap for that,
and I thought it was ail settled, but one ot
them new-fasbiuned '.quires that they call a
notorious republic got out a vsri: of rouater
aginst me tor the little dab of rent, and now
1 reckon the coat ie about us niueb as the
debt, don't you?"
I'm afraid it is,” said I.
I tell you what's a fact, 'squire," said he.
‘I've been livin’ here nigh onto 30 year, and
1 never ktjowed any good to cotue of these
courts and those constables and sheriffs, and
all rich. All they uo is to slip around aud
take ail umlerholt and underwares of a poor
feller jeat for a little dab of coats. 1 never
hud u ufllvln tny life; I never even wumod
the namts to work on the road, but I’ve had
to dig for a livin'all my life, and now it
looks like I'm jeat obleeged to have that fod
der for this here mule, lor she made it and
she are entitled to it,"
Well. Cobs got his fodder and that was a
hlgg-r thing with him lhau making a presi
dent, but atill moet everybody lutes to be
consulted even if they don't have a baud iu
the business. It help* a man to bo called on
for tile opinion ani his preference. There is
a heap of civility In sending n man around
to interview the sovereigns. These little at
tentions dont cost anything, and it’s like
pu< ting axle grease on the wagon, for it
makes things run smuoth for a little while,
It's a kind of compliment and swells up e
ban man a little, and makes a fat one square
himself with dlgnltled satisfaction. It is
like sending out seed and pub-docs to tho
humble people, for it flatters the whole fam
ily and makes them think they are not ut
terly forgotten, and are of some little oouso
quanoe to somebody.
Well, nobody has been to see tne yet about
this presidential business, aud I’m suffering
for taflV, but you can telegraph lo the Now
York Herald that Bill Arp Is for Tilden and
that he will siy in Sunilsy’s Cossmtution
tlmt he wanlahim noinlnatcdjby acclamation
and elected by the uatlnn for its own salva
tion. For the truth is, if patriots don't unite
on reform In the government, the great
Aou-rioan nation will go the dogs. I’m far
Mr Tilden because he has got rclortu on the
■iu. He cleaned nut the augean stables in
New York, and knowshow todo it. He fought
rrupllon eluglo handed and whipped the
{ residents most all die nowadays, or get I plant sight—you air—git down, I tell you,'
Hied. Since I can remember four have died I giving her a jerk, for she was a Axin' to set
soon after they got in, and another never got I tbar; lowed she was wore out a stuntin', and
in at ail. When the convention meeta they I didn’t keer who knowed it—abe was tired
ought to look into the V. I’s office mighty I and wasn't a gwipc in for looks. Jes then
close and give us the best man in the party I old Miss Patience I’otter come in, and I wiebt
if they know him. It wont do to holler for 11 may die If the starch in her eye-brows
Tilden all the time. It wont do to act like I wasn't so thick you couldn't tee a bar. She
he was the only man that was fitten, for we I looked all around like she was buntin’ for
have got severs! and are proud of ’em. We something, and atter she hon-dye’d os she
have got faith in ’em, and faith is a good I said: “See here, Mister, is this here the
thing When James K Polk was nominated I place wbar yon go to git yourptetur struck?"
my friend, Omberg, met me on the street in I "No, it aint the place," says he, and while
a crowd and heard the newa. and he threw I she stood gazin'around, he,tuck his pencil
up till hat and aaid, ‘‘be is the very man— from behind his year and drawed her plctur
the very best man. Hurrah! for—and tel you’d a knowed itany wbars, butshenever
then he stopped and said, "what did you say I seed it Then we went on in tolber house to
hie name woe?" and when I told him he I git the beads, and I thought Cal would choke
ahouted, "hurrah for Yames Kaypuck—he is on her ginger-cake a laughin’. Cousin Pink
der man." labs untied the comder of her hankercber
That is the kind of faith to have, and If I and tuck out her money, and her mouth wes
every democrat had it we could elect Mr. (chock full of snuff, and she lowed. “Uncle
Tilden like a daisy, and keep him alive in I Nelson's wife, that’s Annt Charity Clemen-
the bargain. His time is most ont according I tine, sho axed me to (then she walloped her
to nature, bat tbed they say he is from a I looth-brush in her month and spit on the
long lived family, and that be still notices I floor) axed me to fetch her a good strong
pretty women with alacrity and brightens tip I piece of check cloth, four and four io the
s-nartly when they come about. That’s agood I warp and the tame in the fillin'. She wants
sign. At least it is a sign that he is willing to I it to make her a bonnet and a apron, and me
live. Bile Akp. I a bonnet oifn what's left,” and the man
I tore it off, and Cal got her beads nda
BETSY HAMILTON’S LETTERS I we holt on to one another's hand and went
de,ioi nanuuiun o ic.no. i , oa|1 the atnre9 aDd 8eed aU we couId
. . land we went to the blind and deef mute
A Trip to Talladega. I arsenal, and seed folks blind as a bat playin’
Lazy Farm, 1884. We have companv to— I on the piauny, and the mutes araakin' signs,
night, and are etill seated around the tea- ‘“Htin’ hw'er’n airy one of ns, and not sayia’
i.uio I a word, not openin'ther mouths But I tell
*’ dlacuMIng various topics. Aunt I y Q|1 Uiem g„|, „t tho Presbyteen school
Meely has removed the cloth; ClifT is boat- J opened they mouths enough to make up for
ing a muffled tat-too on the table with isi31 it. It drizzled a raiu, aud was tumble muddy
knuckles, humming a low tune. "I beg par- »? d we w " aI1
,. i_ ui. . I Simpson foliered us all around and blowed
don, Mid he, suddenly running his hand in his new harp the endurin’ lime. Iky Bober-
his pocket, "I came by the postoffice and | son he bought a new ’cordion that clay, and
brought a letter from Cousin Betsy, and by-1 buddy he got a new fiddle. Pap he got light,
your permission ws will see what .he h„ to
say abou. her | tel they was about to take him up. I clung
March igai’HUtLoci tSiMdcm Co Ala I to him and got him to the waggin. If they'd
n! c ! • tv I’ 1 ™ they'd a had to tuck me too.
h« ,i. C „^H faLch«A I We camped out at tho age of town that
whnia cin,,/ et Tifen < t.i?t S i!• n fu’i* 6 I night, bat pap he wouldn’t leave town nairy
Ih!e ?*tlTh« fnd d |.^ i I «t«P »•> he shuck hands with Judge Milter,
“•j? ““ l nd Your’n, Bktsy Hamilton.
we tins alt riz. The boys had fluegon tuckry I week. "Old Miss Gbke.v and Old Miss
log* and light ood knot* and kap up a good I TamouM.")
lire all night, so we mighty quick got our
OUR MAIL BACf.
•t.
■Go way funs dey der! Ms mimmy no
holler da sing lak dal!'
"Snake 'e try one, two, Pros lime; 'e yent
no use. Lilly gal no y-open dado', 'o no mek
answer. Snake '• slick out '• tongue un
slide 'way; 'e say 'a mus' l'arn-a da aing sho
•tuff.
“Buiubys, dt Afliky eomans come bahck
Elinllerdaaiug:
“'Walla Walla wltto, saeNoncy,
Walla walla wltto, me Noncy,
Walla walla wl'.to, ms Noncy ,
“Lilly gal My: 'Da me mammy!'
answer da sing:
Andoke! AndoUl Andolol'
“Snake,'e quite up in da clilmmerlycor-
ner;'« hoi'V bre'l fer liastin; 'e der larn-a
d* sing. Nex' day inornin' da Afliky oomans
bin a gone'way un 1st’ da lllly gal all by
’esu'f. AI1 de da long da snake 'c link about
da song;'« say um In 'e min', 'o say um (or-
wutl, 'e My um backwud. Bumbye, in-is' toze
sumloa n, 'e come at da do'; 'e couie, 'o hoi
lerdaiiug:
" -Walla walla nitlo, me Noncy,
Walla walla wltto. me Noncy,
Wall, walla wltto, ra> Nouoy.
“Ds til gal, 'e tiuk-a da snake bin 'e mam
my; 'e is answer da sing:
“'Audolecl Andoll! Andolol
*K mek answer lak dat, un ‘e y-open da do'
a neck. 'E run 'pon da snake 'to' 'e is ibum
nake, 'e bin-a bug da lllly gal nto' tern
> mammy; 'e la twis' 'a tall 'roun' um; 'e it
ketch um in 'e quite. Lilly gal 'e holler. V
■quail;’• squall, 'e hollar. Nobody bln-a
Sunn l>y fer yeddy um. Snake, 'a 'queea' um
fight, 'e no f'em go; V 'quecs' um tight, 'e
waller uni whole; V bre k a no bona; e tek-
cy da lllly gal lak > atan’.
“Buusbyr da iil mammy oorae home at 'e
■souse. 'K bailer da aing,'e git a uo anawer.
look all 'ronn', ’• aee way da snake bin-a crow
da road 'K holler:
*' ‘Ov, me Lard! da snake bln come swaller
me III Noncy gal. I gwan bunt 'frn up; I
gwau fuller da snake pas' da een' da yet'.
“ 'E go In da swamp, 'e cut 'im one cane; 'e
corns bahck, '• fiae da snake track, un 'e do
toiler'long way'e iMd. Sntke > so full wit
de lllly gsl 'e no walk fM'; III gsl msiumy, 'c
bin mad.'egostret'loug. Snake '* to full
Wit da liliy gal, 'e coma sleepy. 'K Isy down,
’• shed-i 'e y-eye. 'B y-open um no mo',
continued DidJy Jack, moving his head slow
ly Irons side t > tide, and looking as solemn u
be oonld. “Da ooman come 'pon de snake
wjm ’« bin lay dar sleep; 'e come 'non 'im,
on V tekky da cane un brs'k 'e head, 'e mash
umfla-. 'B cat ds snake open, 'eline da liliy
K»! assn lak 'a bin sleep. 'K tek um home, >
wish am all. Bumbys da lllly gal y-epen ’*
y-eye.ua toon '• mammy, '• answer da sing.
’E My:
‘"Andoke! AndoUt Andolo:'
“WeM, wall, well!” exclaimed Aunt
lie never talks about the tariff or the Mor
ns, or Bismarck, or the heathen Chineao,
hul lie talks about liiiquity iu high places,
and corruption, ami thieves ami plunderers,
Ho is thu man they swindled out ot the
presidency because they were afraid of him.
And if Im it nominated uguln they will
epeuit millions to defeat him for the same
reason. Mr. Tilden Mid when lie ran before
that the federal government could be ad
ministered safely and well tor one half it was
then costing, anil he would pledge himteil to
■In It if sustained by congress. Thet is what
the people want. Tusy want reform. Why,
crowding lo the committee's report, the
whole blvaaed ynnkre upturn is on the pen
■ion list, end the pensioners have quit dy
ing and are just living on and on forever.
|In fict they gat more thicker, more denser
every year.
1 traveled with a man the other day and as
he looked out of the car window at a mer
chant mill on a river, he said: Why dots'.
von people put in for an appropriation for
falls liku those, and build tfp n big manu
facturing town? Then he explained how
the people of Mineapoiie got tueir member
of congress to put their riveron the pension
roll (or a hundred thousand dollars to clean
it out and tuakw it navigable, mul as it was
impossible to do that they spout the money
in making it uu-re perpetually uunavigable,
for tiiey built a dam with it at St Anthony’s
Kalis and weather-boarded the river at an
angle of IS degrees, and then built up their
hii: flouring mills alongside, and over sines
they got the river on the roll they have
been drawing fifty thousand dollars a year
to opeu it up to navigation, aud the mauey
ie spoilt iu working on the dam aud tixlng
up lor more liig mills and now they have got
more mills than any ciiy in the world and
turn out thirty thousand barrela of flour
every day. except 8uinlay, and are going to
doll Sunday wuen Bob lugersoil gets elected
president. That is the way they do thing
up north, said he, aud you (elks down south
are behind the age.
But the like of ffhat is nothing. It only
shows the common idea, and that is plunder,
and tiow when our folks waut a little pension
money for the Mexican veterans they raise a
helakaloo all over the north aud My, "Look
out, them fellers down south are trying to
get their liawa in tho treasury.”
I want Mr. Tildeu because he don’t hanker
after (he office and wout make any bargains
to get it. Most all our etateamen nowadays
are intrigu-rs, and they form their syndicates
for office just like railroad men do for sys
tems and lines that arc to break down other
tinea, and it la all on the idea that you can't
accomplish anything by an open, square
•tralgbt up and down policy. When Uncle
Sammy gets in I'll bet he makes bis own cab
inet. and nobody else will have a baud in it.
I want him because he will give dignity to
the office and to the American nation and
the government. He wouldeat approve any
■ucli fool resolution aa Totu Ocniltree got
through on the aly about Lasker. I’m en
Bismarck's side tboul that and think be did
exactly right.
I want Mr. Tildsn because he it entitled to
it by courtesy, end I would give it to him if
I thought be would die in two weeks after he
wa. ineugereted. I expect he will die before
bis term is out, and I want a firttclass man
put on the ticket with him. None of your
accidtncvs like we hsva had. In fact, the
vice president's office is looming up, (or the
breakfast and pitched ont for town. The road 1
waa strode plunt full of waggins, and Iher I
was a big drove of us a walkin'. It. so hard!
on the critters lo pull the wayglns up hill I’d WHAT OUR CORRESPONDENTS FIND
drnther walk m to ride. r I TO WRITE ABOUT AT HOME AND
Old Miss Strong drivherownsteertbatday. I ABROAD
He Is a old oue-eyed. mnley steer, and turrl-1 w»«m»irrs»
ble hard headed anil onruly kep buddy or Washington gossip.
sap one or t’other watebin of him ail the I Glimpses of Kes sad rtiluxa In pad About tbe Cap!
ime. Once’t we hearn somebody holler, and I t.i-nin.r Tuples srtkeUar.
looked back anil lo and behold old Muiey had ] Specie', correspondence of Tho Constitution,
allpl the yoke and was jist a (oarin' through I Wasihsoton, March 19 —On 8t. Patrick’.,
tho wooda hard ns he could slave, and thar I do y the green badges were liberally scattered
” Strong hiked tip onhorwaggin I through the house. In coma cases they were
yelliu Ike shewas burnt.liuddy lovedif I appropriately worn, as when they appeared
lie liadnt a seed what waa the matter he’dla I Richelieu Robinson and John Lmb.
awore she was a shoutin’ for abe squealed Several representatives pinned them on their
tine blank like shedone in meetin’a Sunday C0al8 in m * er# compliment to the Irish mom
Right smart of folks overtnek us fore we got I hers
fat ’ll ’i rl P B °i ( Many of Mr. Carlisle's friends think he
°, rid 1,0 muc, J 1-lleHn and | m * de a mistake in goiug to tho Free Trade
gee-hawin agwine on pap be lowed it nil ml-1 c | U b bumpin', and aworse mistake in making
ed him of when he was a boy, lime his (oiks I asoeecli there
L n 7“ ,! ? in V\ t ! d “ ,‘ u <* I'arson JohnE. Massey, who Is contesting
em up ards of six weeks to git thar. That I j 0 h„ Wise’s seat with an excellent show o
” mm,y rai l ro «d» was made, andjis getting it is famed ' through Virgipia as a
^ u!, i 'l k ^“ W yoU fS" ^ so , flttiok, I campaigner. His colloquial stylo- on the
us Buck Simpson says, like you was shot out | s tunip gets him down close to the people
of sgiiu. Cousin l’mk never bad been to W hile his facnltles of handshaking and re-
town in her life. Caleilony had Imen^^thar lne mberlng names are of invaluable service,
right smart of times, and so Cousin Pink and Hs straved off with the readiuster secession
. .--i ,, , ----- . ..—r - i luiuu Mary Andervou has written to a lady
was skeered so bail lpinncti my hankercher friend in Washington that she thinks the
under my bslt and belt on to Caledony’a Kng n sh for i afer j or to , he Americans in the
• hetirn. I don't know what I'd a o{ social life, and that the difference is
donoif ithadn’t a been for Caledony. Me f nore striking among tbe men than the
f” d Wa ®Sfi ” wfi^ I WOIUen * 8llw R,lds » However, that sh« has
a tralpe It around we let down on Mh» Wil- reca t»«d uniform courtesy while abroad, and
man s steps to rest, and folks gazeu at us like tll8t ln0 , t of the st0 ri eJ concerning the
they never had saw nobody afore, lap he I inoi d cii)s of her stay in London are pure
w« U wunt U al? i!v«rbiSns phLwlf^'ni 0 '^’^ I (»h'icatIons. Bbo remarks that the tone of
0, » ®?‘r. ,, ? d M»i pa?ss crlticiams.uiKm her has been exceed-
Uitln a red apple in our hands. And Cale- I | n g|y kind, While very exacting in an artistic
fSf * Sunday-go-to- ,s^. Mild Anderson sneaks ot Ellen Terry
calik«rlrock that day. Mttw the had I » «<»hn thn Ent?iuii staire "
told me to git a blue un and you mought bile CongrSsman-at-large' Ris-leu T. Bsnnet t,
it aud it woulun t fade, but I sot iny oye on I „_ d rinnrresaman Scales, are both UDirants
aim wuen sue spu in oer mum it was as uiue ■ mi.-,
as iudigt r, ao I tuck the red un; and them l “ BBOoa ' e “ ow8 '_
gsis liken to u took a fit. Cal lowedshe dld’nt I WINTER TERRORS OF DAKOTA.
Keer, she waa jiat as good or better'n airy |
to Ain gat herself. That was long time ago | t.is .r is.
when 1 was n little gsl, aud tother day when I ... M nd . Th consUlution
we went to town wo lowed to go thar to Mias s >* c “ l cortcipuodeuc-o of 1 he Commotion.
Wiinuu's agin amt git in some more ginger I No ono will ever know how many people
cakes. We usd hearn about the new A. and Nave perished iu this region this winter from
A. railroad, and we crossed the track of it exposure and cold. The newspapers make
out thar lenient Borzle’s, anil when we iusignificsnt rnent on of the circumstances
driv in town wont should we see sot right attending the freezing to death oi a family
thar whar Miss Wilmau's old cake shop used “t><* there is on the part of everybody a inpu-
to be but a g eat big turn house, the A. and I tfest disposition to say as little aa possible
A. depot. It putty nigh fetched tho tears to »*»3Ut such occurrences. Nearly every muu,
my eyes wheu 1 though: about the time me I woman and child iu Dakota is a lauuowner,
and Cal sot ou the steps and rested and at I «ud all, therefore, have a personal interest in
our cakes. Pap he was a tryin' to stop old I keeping up the grand delusion that, white it
Lou i sy and old Bill, and ho.lerin’ to loud 'nay ha colder in this latitude than it is fur-
you could h<-ar him all over town, ' Whoa, I ‘her south, “ you don’t feel it.” Men bury
cotue here. Ball—gee—whoa ho-ho! I tail I their frozen wives, children, and other rota
you Blast my buttons ef l ever try to work I tivia aud strangers with many seif-comfort-
a old blind mar longer a head headed steer I ing observations on tbe mysterious dispeusa-
agiu. Whoo-bol Look a tier.-, Timothy," I tiona of Providence, and boom their town all
says he to buddy, “1 know I ham", drunk, I I the harder tbe next day. Every little collcc-
haiut seed ndrap, but it peais totue the town I tioa of wooden huts catling itself a city boasts
or mo one or tother is turned around wrong I one or more daily papers, out these ponder-
side foremost, or metibe we’ve tuck tho I ous organs of the real es ate agent and tax-
wrong ma t and coaie in at tother eend of I collector fled no room lo give more than a
towu, for I wish: I may lung of that ar aiut I hare mention of occurrences which elsewhere
whar we alien uot onr girgjr bread.” I i*> 'his country would possess a startling in-
Maw she axed in a minute who lived thar, I icreit. If u mau or a woman aud a child dis
and old Miss 8troug she piutod at the court-1 appear, me newspaper is good enough t.i
house and axed who lived thar. I chronicle the fact, and to- express the fear
I tell you the new depot is fine. I hearn I ‘hat they may have perished iu the storm,
a 'imian say it cniombleda “Chinessgopada," I In the sprint', when tkele.ous begin to peep
and I reckon it do, I never have saw one. I out from the diminishing snowbanks, the dia-
The railroad is sorter like them cicloaie I covery of the remains of n human being:!
harrycanes, it tars everthing rnri’n its way. I usually dismissed iu threoliucs, as ‘•probably
Its tore off tho eend of Miss Haydenses gar-1 los: in oue of last year's blizzards." To dilate
di-ii, and tore down Miss Biker’s hen 'ouse, I upon any of these little incidents of life in
and tore down them big planks that had all I me frozen north-west would be rank treason,
theuithow picture on ’em, too, to let it I If newspapers in other puns of the country
through town, but they ere all monstrous I wish to learn the facta, tney must eend their
proud of it, and they are tixin’ to run au-1 mm after them, for no resident can see mote
oilier'u from thar to Newuan,. Georgy, that I than a mere “ natural death" notice in any
will blaze right through our tater-patch. (such occurrence. Sometimes an enthusiastic
They’d a done wade it fore now, but two of I railroad telegrapher, impressed with a id sur-
the men got to quxrredn'about which one of I prised attho fact that with the mercury‘45
'em thought of it fust, and so now they are I degrees below zero be is still alive, letegrapbs
gwiue lo run two roads, one right spang side I tue iuforma-ion abroad, but denials are
ot tother. Ualedony hope maw sell her I promptly sent out (torn forty diflcrent points,
chickens and aigs and things, but she was I If a st-.tenieut gets on the wires that a family
■nightly besot about her raff soap. It never | has been fr.zeu to death, a stage lost, or a
fetched much. Maw she wanted we'nns all I mail-carrier buried in tne snows, somebody
to stick cIom together feared some of ns I will deny it from a point 300 miles away,
mought g'l lost. < I where nothing is known about it. It is a
0:d Mist Strong never got two laches from I fact, nevertbeles*, that dozens of people have
maw, and July Auu Crabtree kep up with us I been lost in the storms here during tbe past
all dayaluggiu her yesrllu baby on her hip I winter, aud tne winter has not been unusa-
all over town and hit a squuilin loud as it I aliy severe either.
could bawL She gin it ginger cake, and she I a snow (ill which in some localises would
gin it apple, and she giu it water, and she I acarceiy make good sleighing, because in this
moat kivrrtd it with brown sugar and sot it I region a foe to human life of almost iucou-
up on tbe counter, aud auli it yelled and I c.uvabie fury Tue dikes are always small
kicked—and tbar stood Crsb'reo with his I aad dry, aud borne along by winds of inch
hands crammed down in his breeches pockets I power as to make locomotion almost im-
and never hope her nu-s it a minute. Old I possible; they cut the flesh like razors. The
MIh Strong lowed, (aud he hearn her too,) I blizzard comes up suddenly, like a tornado.
Mys she “I lay if hit was my young'n he'd I wrapaieg the earth in seim-darkness, and yet
hum it, or it would go on-nuued. 1 ’ Maw she giving everything the appearance of wbue-
WM a trsdin out her suff soap money for a “*-'*• Objects a dozen yards away are shut
bsle of spun truck and a parof cards, and old out from view, and thewavfarer is blinded
%,i — Strong was a jewin tne man on a leetle 1 1 't<* -xiei.
vent a man from losing hie way in a blizzard,
so nothing in the shape of clothing can pre
vent his freezing to death if he cannot find
shelter from the coid which follows. It is
very difficult to tell just when it stops snow
ing. The wind keeps the air filled with icy
particles long after tbe clouds have passed
away, and so furiously is tbe light scow
driven by tbe gale that even then tbe vision
is almost as circumscribed as before.
A stranger experiencing this stage of a bliz
zvd would protest that he never saw it snow
sc fast, but in the momentary lulls of tbe
wind be would see tbe cloudlers sky and
know that the blinding blast was but the
afterclap of the great storm. There will be
drifta ten feet high packed so bard that a
human foot wi‘l sink Id them bat a few
inches. Then there will be acres of wind
swept earth as destitute of snowas in mid
summer. To live iu these blizzards is almost
an impossibility. No horse can be made to
face the blast, and only men who have long
been accnstomed to the rigors of the north
can breathe in them. Tne re is something
sufioenting about the wind. The nostrils and
tongue seem ready to congeal, and the eyes
ache far back in their sock-
es. Ten feet away may yawn
a chasm, yet the driving snows wil) hide it
from view. There is a ringing, roaring noise,
snob na is sometiuivs faintly heard undertel-
egraph wires on a clear, cold night. At times
the roar of the storm will resemble nothii-g
so much as escaping steam, like a thousand
locomotives blowing oil at once. When this
dies ont for an instant the ringing noise will
rise and fall, sometimes a shriek and some
tildes a hum.
One of the saddest of this winter's s'orrn
tragedies was that which resulted in the death
of tbe Nolson family,who lived near Sanborn.
They had not been in'iho territory long, and
they knew comparatively little about tbe
fircenesscf the blizzards. They were poor,
snd had made but scant provision for the
winter. Running out of fuel, they bad been
burning elraw, and as the consumption of
this article was enormous during tbe severe
weather, it was fouDd almost impossible to
keep enough of it on hand to last m-.ue then
a few hours. When the last great blizzard
swept over the country the Notions found
themselves with only a little s raw near at
hand and their neceeai'ies very great. Tlie
nearest stack was only half a mile from their
house, but they feared to brave the storm in
an ellort to reach it.
Hoping that the tempest would soon spend
its force, they economized the fuel they had
at hand as best they could. Doling nut the
straw sparingly, they managed to keep their
liuvol tolerably warm, and to cook such food
as they were supplied with. Economical os
they wr re wi'h tho straw, however, it was
spent before tbe storm showed any signs of
abating, and as Aic cold grew more intense it
became n question of securing more fact or
freezing to death. It is believed that they
realized the desperate sitnatlou they were in
and the possibility that if they once ventured
out in the blinding cale they
might not return. None of them wishing io
remain in the cheerless home, the father and
bis two children started out. ft is known
that thpy reached tho straw stack, and, each
having secured a load, started back; but, ln
changing their course, they lost their way,
and wandered aimlessly about until, exhaust
ed and benumbed with cold, they could gj no
further. The father then appears to have
dug a cave in a huge snow drift, at a point as
littie exposed as possible, into which he put
the children. He then started out in search
of assistance, bjU, folding none, he succumb
ed to the snow and tbe cold. Becomiug tired
of wailing for him, and probably crazed by
her suffering, one ot the girls left her retreat
and wandered aimlessly abont tbe prairie.
All perished. A searching parly found the
body of one little one in tho oavr, that of the
other a le w rods away, and that of the father
about half a mile from hia own door.
Almost every blizzjrd that sweeps over this
section causes similar cases of suflering and
death. They will continuo until people
coming here to settle understand in advance
that they are braving an arctic climata iu
winter, and that wWen the blizzard rolls about
their habitations they must stay Indoors and
wait for clearing skies.
RAISING STOCK IN FLUIDA
grain of sugar and coffee to base on hand for
sickness, and Caledony jerked me to less go
in tother house, to git a string of blus beads
abe seed in the winder, and when I turned
around what you reckin—why old Min
Strong had dona clum up oti top of the
counter—bless you—and was a Mttia tbar
with her big muddy fest adangltn in the ar.
Maw lowed Mys she, “Gitdowu suter Strong,"
Mys she, “git down for many's sake you're a
and stilled by tbe whizzing clouds which en
se op him. ln thirty minutes from the be
ginning of otte of these storms it is bard to
.eli whether there is one foot or five feet of
tklltee Milk and llutter Welle Ike Oruuge Uude ere
Sweatee.
Correspondent of tho Augusta Chronicle.
Maitlasd, March 10.—I premised in one of
mV outlier letters tossy something about the
different occupations by which a Florida set
tler can snppirt himself while waiting for hia
grovo to bear.
Having done roy best to obtain tbs most
accurate nnd trustworthy information, I will
begin with an account of the Taliaferro stock
farm at Maitland. Mr. Taliaferro is a young
man abont 25 years old, a eon of Dr. V. H.
Taliaferro of Atlanta.the eminent physician of
whom the lale Dr. J. Marion Situs
nst-d to declare that tha whole
medical profession owed him a debt
of gratitude for his contributions to medical
science. Mr. Taliaferro has been living in
Maitland for about seven years, and during
that time, while waiting for bis orange grove
to come into bearing, has successfully con
ducted a stock and dairy farm. I am not a
professional "interviewer,” but will
give as nearly as 1 can in his own words the
rubstanro of the information I have
obtained from Mr. Taliaferro:
I have a herd of twenty five graded and
thoroughbred Jerseys, most of niy stock being
half breeds. I am also trying a few of tbe
best grades of Gcoreia scrubs to see wbat can
bo made of them. Generally about eight or
ten of my herd are in a condition for milk
ing. and average from two to four gallons
eneb day. forwhicli I get sixty cents a gallon.
I could dispose of five times as much if I bad
itduring tlia winter season. In summer,when
there is less demaud for milk, I can easily
dispose of AI the hatter I make at 50 cents a
pound. 1 so) ply tho hotels ot Maitland
and Winter pua'and have application from
other places for miles around. I get 15 cents
a quart for all I can spare, without the ex-
pause of delivery— eustomers comiug to my
barnyard for their supplies, ’ibere is
always more applications than I can fill,
so that I can hardly reserve enough
for my own table. I find it pays better to
sell milk than to make butter, besides being
far less trouble. I have tried making butter
in slimmer, when the demand for milk falls
off, and there is less money In it than in sel
ling milk, and, besides, I have my regular
customers around the village who take it all
the year round. The invalids who come
here in winter seem ravenous for milk, some
times women cornu from a distance of two or
three miles to get a quart for their sick hus
bands, or men to get it for their eick wives
I si ways give preferences to sick people if I
with tbe high price of labor here,
would make ft more expensive
to rai- e your own lisy than to buy it. Bermuda
grass is tho only forage plant, except our
common wiregras*, Oisttakesto theeoil with
out coaxing snd without fertilizing; even
that does not grow tall enough to cut for hay.
It is excellent for grazing, an afew acres cov
ered with it is one of the best investments a
stock raiser can make.”
f suggested the plan ot sowing grain or peas
among orange trees.
“I sow rye and oats in my grove, but unless
heavily manured they do not pay for theeeed
sown,and I find it cheaper to tarn them Under
than to cat them off and buy manure. The
same is trae with regard to pea vines, though
tbeymske excellent hay when sufficiently
fertilized.
During the spring and snmmer, while the
wire-grass is green and tender, cattle ean get
good grazing is tbe woods and require little
feeding, but in winter tbe pickings mere are
very slender, and that is where the expense
comes in."
"Wbat does your cowboy cost you?” I
asked. "His board and (5 a month in money,
and about five thousand in devilment. As
soon as be gets tbe cattle Cat of sight, he
generally leaves them to take care of them
selves add goes oft to play, and sometimes I
have to let my two hands that I hire at a cost
each of $1.25 a day nnd board waste
two or three days at a time hunting up lost
cows. I have to change
about every two weeks, or rather my herd
boy generally quits on getting his first install
ment of wages. One of them left me after a
day aud a half, and on inquiring tbe cause,
I learned that ho had had nothing to eat ex
cept what he conld steal, for several days be
fore he Hired to me, but now that he had got
agood filling up he determined to qnit work
umil starred into it again I suppose.
“As soon as I feel able to enlarge my op
erations I am going to change my plans about
feeding altogether. I shall take up 1,000 or
1,500 acres of prairie land down in some of
the southern counties and send my dry cat
tle there to graze, and keep only the milk
cows here on expense. The prairie grassgrows
taller than a man’s head,is green all the year
round, and cattle keep ns fat as batter on it
without u mouthful of other food. I wilt have
a par I ner to stay (loivn there aud look after
tbe dry cattle and send upscows to the farm
as fast as they are ready for milking,and thus
T shall have no deadheads to feed. Managed
in this way, 1 believe my stock would pay
119 «B/i A UOIIOVD IUJT DlttLB BUUIU yUj
ns well, it not better, than an orange
grove.”
"But it requires capital to keep stock on
that scale," I snggested.
“Yes, of course; it takes capital to make
money on a large scale at anything. A poor
man couldn't well afford to own Jerseys, but
he can get three or four good scrub cows to
begin with, and by proper care and good
feeding make them clear enough money to
help him ont with his other ex
penses, besides fertilizing his grove for him,
and he can gradually increase Ills herd if he
chooses. If he happens to own hammock
land, or to settle in a prairie country, be can
iced his cattle for nothing, and all that they
maze for him will bo clear gsin.
In tbe southern psrt of the
state there uro immense prairies where
herds oi cattle rove in a halt wild state, aa
in Texas and Colorado. There are men down
there who own thousands of bead of cattle,
and are rich without knowing it. They are
the most intense typo of crackers and live
in the utmost equallor and ignoranco,
though rich enougu to bay me out a dozen
times over. Tueir cattle rove about
the prairies attended by cow
boys who ere lair representatives of
their western brethren. They carry great
leather whips, from twenty to thirty feet
long, aith a handle about six inches long
ana as thick as a man's urm, and they can
crack their whips with a noise louder than
tbe report of a pistol. In driving their cattle
they use a peculiar oall, which is very mu
sical when heard in the distance.
Tne cattle are all branded with tbe rnarka
of their respective owners. They are driven
up once a year and the calves branded with
tbo mark of their dams and then ail turned
loose again. If the ownership of any animal
appears doubtful, they appoint judges to de
ctiie whose itshail be, and somi-stiiues wheu
thu decision dues not give satisfaction terri
ble battles ensue.”
It will appear from what has been said that
the ouly obstacle in the way of successful
dairy farming anywhere iu Florida is the
difficulty of raising say kind of grain or
gram on the pine land. Probably some na
tive plant could be found which would sup
ply Ike need; and I have been studying the
native grasses a little with a view to tkla
end, but too season, unfortunately, is
nut favorable to my rusarohes. I am in cor
respondence with Dr. Chapman, tho loading
botanist ot the south, on the subject, and it
my Inquiries should lead to any
practical results tbe readers of
die Curontcle shall have the benefit of them.
\Vu have been sweltering here for tbe past
week under a temperature of 91 degrees. It
is so dry that wells are failing aud the lake
margins have shrunk several feet within their
usual limits. Husky Hat.
can do so without detriment to my regular
customers.”
How does the climate here suit Jerseys ?’
I asked. “Da they keep healthy ?"
"Yes, perfectly. I have lost but two cows
out of twenty that I have brought to Florida
during tbe last three years, and one of them
was hart by a fall. The rest keep sound and
well, with proper care and attention. I have
not found they degenerate on being brought
to a warm climate, M so many people pre-
Does it not cost a great deal to feed
them?" I asked. , ,
Yes, that is tbe greatest difficulty In my
way. I have to buy all their (ood in winter,
and hire a herd boy to watch tnem the year
round, but with all this, they pay for their
own keeping and for that of my hones and
resriy covers my table expenses besides; and
thou the fertilizer I get from myrow lot is
ful*y worth every dollar that it paid oat for
It is the most valuable of all fertiliser*
f >r orange trees, and is worth here from $30
to $*0 a cord.
lie chief obstacle in the way of keeping
snow, and whether, in fact, the greater psrt! stock in this part of Florida is the difficulty
is on the ground or in i!ie air. When a ! ot mttiiur hay. I have been experimental?
bliss tnft oace a-, tacks as ?c:ion it grows colder j with various grass**, but a* yet have not
very rapidly, aud, added to tne terrors of J found any that will make forage without
people who may be caught in it on the open . greater expense than it cost* to buy. Nothing
prairies, i« the extreme probability that tney { *i!l grow on ear pine land* without an
will frees* to death. As nothing can pre-; amount of fertilising, which, teguber
Culliui; Him Up.
He didn't appear to be a baak cashier, or a news*
paper editor, aa ho atrolled into an Alabama street
grocery.
lie was simply a cix foot Claytoa county lad,
and was looking for tho State road depot.
Do ye know whether tho aglut i< thar er not?'*
he queried, after being directed to tho right place.
•I don’t," answered the proprietor. Impatiently;
'you can call him through the telephone and find
out," waving hi* hand toward that instrument.
The coautrymsn looked first at the telephone
and th^n attho merchant. At last ho blundered
out:
Mister, I reckon 1 looks purty green, but lemxno
tell you, I knows when a feller's trjln' to make fun
me, au' I won't stand it."
"Whetdo you mean?" ssked the merchant.
1 'How'u the hisses Kir Out aglut a goln* logit
thiougb that liltld hole?'' exclaimed the Clayton*
ite.
£ silling it-My, the merchant arose, transmitted
the man’s message aud received a sathfactory
reply.
For a moment tho countryman looked blank;
and then teUiug the grocery man's hand, hs sail;
"Mister, I'm au idiot; fcrglveme fer my rough
words; au', " here ho pausod, looked thoughtful
for a moment, and continued: "An'tell mo bow
yo got that agist penned up in weoh a llttlo bcx."
T»o KEFtheud. lUbultcd.
Frcra the Thomasville Times.
As tho political skies deepen with tho coming
contest the old cry about "tho ring" is being re*
vlved. This is all bosh. The democratic party of
Georgia will meet in nouuty convention*, elect
delegates to the state convention, nominate can
didates for the house and tenate.etc. These county
conventions will represent the wishes and views
be country democracy; represent
bone and sinew of the party;
It tbo democratic party thus organised, atuUbis
woiking, Is a ring, then It is the biggest rlugCur
seen, for the party can (Unut fifty thoumnd fiRt-
jorityon her banner at any election. The oppo
nents of democracy—and of the recognized essen
tial methods of the party machinery, cui make the
inosr of their oft repeated cry of the "riag." It ha
ptayed or.t—it won’t psy. The outlines of the
' cat in the meal tnb" is too apparent. Tho silliest
young rat will not be deceived hv tt.
THE BURN.NG OIL.
Three Mrs llarecd te DnU la c Terreet el Fla
■tec or,
CLKVKLAttD, March 19.—The still atMerriamA
Morgan’s oil works, in this city, exploded this
morning. The exploding oil Instantly submerged
Augustus Fithtr and Augustus Gunther, employ
ees. and the oil taking fire, a firemau wss burned
to death, in iltht of tho terrlfl s d crowd, who were
unable to a*»ts; them. The rushing stream ol < li
tiveriook W'liUm stah’maD. another employee, aa
he fi d. at d tie too burned to death- Mernasa