The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-04
BREAKFAST-C CHAT.
THE sHELL-ROAD.

"Thero are many things in your little
ly,"-writes a complacent merchant
-"that like. Your persistent advoca-
cy Of the improvement Of Norfolk, the
mending of its morals, the increase OF
its business, the development of its
latent resources: your frank complaints
OF those in authority who neglect. their
duty: all this / like. Go on in this
way, and delve it into the public, and
in time, they will take hold and wash
the sad face of our city, and make the
town place fit to live in. Then we
shall all change in appearance ourselves.
The bankers of North Carolina, it has
been observed, resemble the sand heaps
among which they exist. While Nor
folk looks melancholy, her people will
wear similar expression. But l set
out to thank you, for suggesting the
building of o shell-road, from Church
street to Ocean View. 1t would be a
great benefit to the city, aud could be
constructed at very little cost. The
hundreds of unemployed negroes could
do the work this winter. The authori-
tiles Of Paris, when they find work get
ting slack, and the number of idlers in
creasing, make new thoroughfares, in or
del, as much as anything else, to find en-
ployment for their poor. We here have
the double motive. We need work for
the idle men and boys who crowd the
streets by day, and fill the dens of infamy
by night; aud we want the drive, too.
Go ahead on this shell road question"
This is very kind in our mercantile
friend, to ask as to "go ahead."' To
advertise the matter is as much as we
can afford to do. Another gentleman
stated, verbally, yesterday, that he
would invest five hundred dollars in the
stock, If a company should be raised to
build the shell road. These indications
are good.
MORE COPY
"More copy" is a very clever parody
of an EDITORS daily experience, as well
as of Poe's Raven.
Once in August, wet and dreary, sat
this writer, weak and weary, pOndering
DER q memorandum book of items used
before; book of scrawling head-notes
rather items taking days to gather
them, In hot and sultry weather (using
up much time and leather), pondered We
these items DER. While we cOn'd them,
slowly rocking Through our mind queer
ideas fiocking), came quick and nerv-
GUS Notwithstanding at the sanctum
door. "Sure, that must be Jinks," we
our door; links, the everlasting bore"
All, well do we remind us, in the walls
which then confined us, 1.-THE ex-
changesu lay behind us, and before us,
and around us, DER the floor" Thinks
we. links wants to borrow some papers
till tomorrow, and twill be relief from
sorrow to get rid of links, the bore, by
opening wide the door," Still the
visitor kept notwithstanding louder
than before. And the scattered piles
of papers cut some rather curious
capers, being lifted by the breezes
coming through another door; and
we wished 1.-THE wish was evil,
for one deemed always civil that
links was at the d., to stay there ever
more there to find his level-Jinks, the
nerve-unstringing bore! Bracing up our
patience firmer, then, without another
murmur: "Mr. links, your pardon,
your forgiveness we implore; but, the
fact is, We were reading Of some curious
proceeding, and thus it was unheeding
your loud knocking there before.n Here