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t 10 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