Wilmington journal., 1873-08-08
A GEORGIAN ON HES TRAVELS
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RAE NOTES..
LETTER FROM CHARLOTTE,

LETTER F1toM CHARLOTTE.
Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., July %, 1873.
Couldn't go to Vienna, SO ] came 20
Charlotte OF course there is not as
much to be seen here as Mt the former
place, still I'm willing to wager that
thepeople are better satisfied VI! h their
hotel accommodations than they would
be i'll Vienna. / was instructed to
mote the crops and state condition."
,Jt ,'Ontc, &c Right here | world ask
any unprejudiced agricultural CORES
pondent did he ever ride over tie
Charlotte, Columbia & August. Rail
road, and be able to properly note the
condition of the crops? Can't be
done No. sir can't he done The
schedule time is such that you couldn't
take Il pen picture OF Il wood and
water stati0n-but to return. ''The
crops" as viewed from the car
window, seemed to have fOrsaken the
old idea of remaining III the fields and
growing for mans good; they seemed
to have caught TIE Yale and Harvard
love for racing, and resolved them
selves into a grand steeple chase it
was very exciting, looked at in tilat
light. There was cotton, corn, r9sIn
factories, watermclons AMI big barns,
old fields and wheat fields-a!l rushing
by with lightning speed. First ''corn"
would be. ihead-then cotton, ti.en .
lot Of pine trees would JOIN III the race
all seemed rushing toward Charlotte
and as for noting tins cond:tiol. l
was like the 1rishman who colid only
count eleven chickens, because tho
other one wouldn't stay still AZ
rived here, ''cotton" WAS ahead, and
seemed to be in fine condition :it the:
end OF the heat, and WIS very closely
followed up by ''corn," who appear
ed 10 very excellent advalItase.--
Watermelons was dis.anceG. IN
fact he was not favoritc ai the Start-
owing to ''cholera" hIIgging him close
iy. | find Charlotte wonderfully I'M
proved since my last visIt-severai new
and handsome dwellings, and business
houses have been erected. There is q
very marked Improvement III the ai1-
Dearance Of the streets. Business haa
! left for the springs but was c&pectefi
back III Il few weeks, very mtci' iin-
prove and enlarged. Johnston" Homes.
Esq, editor and proprietor "f lii" OBJ
server, has lately taken mt" himself
an assistant, in other words :. hfis!e--
InhN are ttlSt'ub JtaHb 10" VIZ - '''''if
which, / hope VIII be fraugh' Will,
pleasure for both.
/ The appearance OF the Observer III
| dicatas that the Charloiteans apprer.-
| ate the advantage of advertising. ''Sc
! Local SAYS he'd like to g" OF t" tE"
! springs for his healfh-yet he IS ''Cald-
/ we'll. D." Charlotte can boast of one
thing ana that is her NOTES.-THE pro
prietors OF the "Ccntral Hotel, form
! rrlv the g Mansion House, have ex-
pended in the last year over $ coo iis
improvements. a new wing iias been
added and another story put on the
old building. It has 100 rooms, :, fine
ball room Cor court 90 feet by 80, 4
magnificent dining room-and better
than all, good attendant&-aIld Is new
" furnished throughout. The board
OF Aldermen indicted the Market
House as a nuisance-flies, tieas, "and
sich" were named in the Indictment
and a proposition is made 10 sell it
The Observer says g the butchers go
TO sleep on their stall stretched out,
this may be stretch however. | fine.
the Chronicle and Sentinel a welcome
visitor here, and notice severa! Angus
fans in the city. General Gordon ar
rived here to-day and was met at the
depOt bv Col. Johnson and number
of prominent North Carollnians- lie
is looking mmklbly well.
MaT-TOREE.