Wilmington journal., 1876-01-07
I. ID 0EkIAI. COIsak akESPOSDENs;E'
HoT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.
Taaa O1 1879 &

might have been seen leaving their
hostelry in one of the most popnlous
portions of that ancient burg, c,lled
the Monumental City. Paus;ng for
moment upon the thresh-bold, and
glaucing hastily around, they entered
as quickly as possible the carriage In
III waiting, and we're rapidly wh1rlcd
over the rought streets. Arriving AT
Il place, known as Camden station,
thev left the carriage and with through
tickets and through checks for Hot
Springs, Arkansas, entered Pnilman
Palace sleeping car, on the Baltimore
& Ohio Rail Road. One of these "soi-
itary travellers" as the late lamented
G. P. r. James would say, was DR.
William J. Hawkins, of Warren conn
ty, for many years President Of The
Raleigh & CASTOR Rail Road Company
The other was your present cor
respoudent. The i ctor's cxten-
sive and varied Information and i'I>
keen appreciation Of the humorous
and ludicrous, make linn most excel
lent travelling companion. What es-
capes his eye is not much worth see
ing.
A BRIDAL PAITY.
g From Baltimore to Malvern, Arkan-
sas, the only change Of csrs was at
St. Louis. The travel all the way to
S. Lous was light. In tue Pullman
Car wheu It left Baltimore there were
not DOZEN passengers, nor were there
anv more in IT, Other coaches for
very long dian At the breakfast
II uSe, however. mex. morning. at
Gi: ffcn, in West Virginia, there WAS
"A very pleaaa+.t addition to til" number
III it. s!ap" If party just returning
homr from H tour to the eastern States
At first it was difficult to determ' II"
the relative status of the ynuog lady.
th,, very young gentleman and the
quite elderly one composing the party.
Tie y,nrg lady wore good clothes and
she were them nn rs If accustomed to
wear aucb was very well looking. and
evid ltIy yonig. Tt trau>pired, how
ever, :rt III the conductor, that it was
III id1l party. 1he old gentleman
being the groom and the younger one
his son, by some form marriage
The groom was fifty five years old and
the bride twenty-three, although she
really DID not look to be twenty. There
vas .i,erN|~Ii:nns i'll that bil'' evident
ly. The elderly groom made noue Of
tic demonstrations usually Witnessed
Oh railroad cars between newly mar
ried people, until the bride happened
TO be taken with sudden sickness,
"a,,sed by the rocking motion of the
cars going around tie curves, of
wl:ch there are so manv, on the Baiti-
more < OhiO Rpa Ian occurrence not
by any r-eHns unusual to pa@sengers
on s3Iti. roads. Indeed Oh the Penn
sylvauiu Road, it was found necessary
to place the sleeping cars Immediately
in the rear Of the engine and tender
III order TO prevent nausea among the
pas st i;grrs. When the old mans dar-
ling got 8 OK. it WAS fun to see him get
the c,,i'.gne, Eartshorne and lemons,
and tve'y thing el e he could think Of,
but for all that, she was a sick woman
for while; fortunately, however, be-
ing III palace car, she cOuld be made
{.
been IL an ordinary passenger coach.
Aft ! awhile, about dinner time, she
got better and then The old man had
his reward, for she frightened up and
talked 10 him quite lively, especially as
they Dire near home. That girl is all
right ara her head is entirely level
She looked the old man straight i'll the
eyes as contidng1y and innocently as
ii she re ,lie - well, as if she really
iutcn !cd to fool him the balance OF
his ,iay". She said sire meyer intended
to 60 away f;om home again, tha she
had enough of it. We Were really
sorry when the party left us at their
home nca, C,uc.nnati.
TILE COUNTRY AND THE CROP:
The face OF the country as we hur-
ried along thr ugh Ohio, Indiana and
IliiuUls ~ vsented very different ap-
pearauce from anything to be seen in
the sou h I'D States. The whole coun-
try along the line Of the railway was
il cuitivution The corn was still
stardif e, generally with fodder and
tops untouched and apparently so dry
that fire would sweep through it like
an old field. Occasionally there would
be fields Of corn cutdown and shocked,
mp ard sometimes ehucled ont. Our
Northern brethren do not pull fodder
as we do but cut the stalks down, ears,
fodder and all, shock it up and after
wards stuck 1T ont. Nor is the corn
that we saw shucked out like the corn
we plant, being very much smaller.
1t is really magnificent sight to see
the valleys filled with the waving
corn" The cattle, however, disap-
han cait be seen on any railway III the
S"Itti.. Not so though, was it with the
Shoe p. On every place they could BE-
seen rnd apparently in good condition.
EoKTH CARoLINIANs EVERYWHERE
Ou 'anrhing St. Louis as We step
ped from the car, almost the first
face en was that Of North CaroIin-
ian, Francis T. Bryan, formerly of II q
United States Army. He received his
baptsim Of fire at Buena Vista in COM
mand Of q section of Bragg's battery.
Go where you will you are sure to find
North Carolinians, for like all others
OF the Antyln-Saxnn races they are en-
phaticaljy migratory people. The
last census returns show ihat one
fourth Of tie people born upon North
Carolina soil ana now living, are citi-
za, Of otht r States The exact num-
be- IF those who had alicned them