The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-04

BACK To NORTH CAROLINA.-l ii. ' II. Ill
the Cincinnati Commercial. stuck away III
corner. rolled up almost like ball, was
the countryman who has paid fifty cents for
having his boots pulled of.
"PIeasc read my ticket" he said, handing
it to me :" can't read
did so, and asked whcre'he was from.
"Indiana," he replied.
Indiana, and can't read 1t was most too
unnatural, and | yentured To ask him If he
was born III that State.
"No, sir" he answered; /" I was born in
North Carolina"
Ny guess was right, after all. He was n
veritable tar-h, ell.
Chow long have you been living in In
diana 2" asked.
1.-Two years. I'm just now going back"
"Don't you like it up thrrr;'
Not so mighty well. y southern man
don't have Il fair show. You see, Was i'll
the rebel army four years. I'm willing to
acknowledge that mu whipped, but don't
want to take ali the blame on our side. tor all
the trouble. Up in Indiana they seem 10
think that all the blame should 20 agin the
South. | don't quite acknowledge them
principles. and that makes discord. The
Democrats sorter held up for Inc, but there
amt many about where live. We only
polIed thirty-four votes in the township out
of about three hundred"
You got in among the Radicals, then "
"No; the sort about where | live are not
old, straight-out 'Publicans. | call them
worse than Radicals
Are you going TO return to North Caro-
| ina!"
Ncs; can't be satisfied in Indiana. A
| southern poor man has little show there,
tell you Pears like the whole community
is suspicious of him. Then, believe every
man gets along best among his own sort
of people. The northern folks are diter-
ent from the southern-a heap different.
They don't even chew tobacco alike.
Up thele they Use what they call
tine-cut.' l don't want any of it in me.
We North Carolinians stick to the old
plug. Well, but that amt the only differ
ence. Southern people have bigger hearts.
They are more kind and conSiderating. They
don't make money their god like the Yam
KEGS. know men about Indianapolis that
have got money enough to buy out half OF
North Carolina, but still they are on the hunt
for more. Seems like they can't get enough.
So much money, or trying to get more, or
something, makes them cross. They won't
IL
ask one of them the way anywhere he will
nearly snap your head OIL. A southern
man vii stop and give you all the directions
you want, and talk with you long time,
and ask about your crops and family, and il
you won't come in and take n drink, and if
YOU don't want to come around to the field
and see some of his stock, and all that. But
up North, tell you, they don't do things
an bof Sfyia Tbay ,pnp't Stpp lon tr apnpub
TO answer you civil question. In the cities
every fellow walks like the devil was after
him. A northern man i'll city will walk
faster than North Carolina horse can go,
and they will run over you if you don't
get out of the way, which horse won't do.
never saw such people to stave ahead and
let every fellow look out for himself. Pears
like they don't care anything for one an
other. They amt joyial, and don't go in for
good time like we in North Carolina. You
can stay III Indiana year and never be in.
vited to drink, but you can't in North Caro-
lima. But they get lis Oh the money. They
have got more money than we have, that's a
fact. The two people are alike only in one
way-they have both got to die and leave
what they have, and there we have the adj
vantage, for we haven't much TO leave and
be sorry for"
$50 you don't like Indiana 90 unused.
ono; she's too cold and swift for me.
want to get back to the old North State,
where things are run more according to my
notion. am plumb sick Of Indiana. The
old woman has soured on it too. She says
she would rather have a dirt-hoor cabin in
North Carolina than whole township in III
DIANA"