The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-02-10
Marvellous Metaphors.
HARNESSED on A SOUTHERN TRIP BY A RICH
M0ND BUSINESSMAN.
For The Dispatch
WELDON. \. c., January I, 1881.


For the Dispatch
WELDON, \. c., January I, 1881.
~Twas midnight" none Of your sable
goddess arrangement, but a regular old dog
bowling season, aud | lay in the bottom
kennel Of a slteping-car. We set sail from
The city Of moody muddy reservoirs ana
"Open air" depOtS just as the caudal APP
pendage of retreating day slid over the
fence with friendly winds and a calm sea.
But neither wind or sea. nor the creatures
thereof. bad any idea OF the circus we were
soon to have.
Speaking Of snOring-snOTiDg's science,
and there was fellow in the garrett Of the
same tenement that was in who knew il
all. | think he intended il for the exclusive
enjoyment Of his own family, who were
roOsting up there with him but there was
o man at the other end of the car who took
part to himself, ard decided 10 make his
acknowledgment, just as my friend over
head was doing the finishing touches 10 the
last strains OF his nineteenth "Potpourri,'
aud il you could have seen him kangaroo
ing down that aisle with boot IN one
hand and pillow in the other you would
have sworn him Pawnec Indian squirrel
hunting or practIclng The "fOrward-and-
back" step Of midsummer wal dance.
Somehow his clothes didn't seem TO fit
hm-Old stylo-too short at one end;
lie looked more like pair OF tOngs
at bali.mast. | lay low, for sin was
in his eye, and the one little tuft Of hair on
the top OF his head looked like the cupOla
on blackmg.bIush. All OF a sudden he
stuck his face under the curtain and ,ays
he, "Mi,ter. does you singi" Said |, ain
the sPring." He gasped gasp, shed those
furniture III war, and struck for his hole;
bot 'twan't no use; they just diyed from
them shelves like frogs from canal-bank,
and lit on him. such panorama, such
&qualling, such a pyrOtecbnlc display Of
Dangling, glisiening, fo!ked-i%htning can
dle.snuflers, spawned newell-posts, and
dCyil-chascr, amt been told. And then
that man that sung gave one yswn that
seemed to open the whole back end OF The
car, and, sticking his nose through packet
hole, wanted TO know " how about Brown
in Negrofoot precinct - "Is he solidsv
Did you ever hang up overnight in a
town where you didn't know ANYBODY aud
anybody didn't know you, and riSQ pGrsa
one OF these weatber-boarded pavement,
blind-duch cutb,tOpc, and barrel..tayc
fence corporations, with two boarding.
hOuses-ihc statiOn-hOuse and the hotel
(The INST Is rather hiSh-toned-" red
tapedN There i au air OF restraint about
the place only suited to the more - swclI70
Now, a hotel! with orthodox creed-Ibai
l., rOtfs-tQfy soup and -dOGOiOsu piC--is
boss" when you can dine out with
friend, ane IL should baye the PRAYERS Of
every trHe American citizen who has the
proper appreciation Of Self-eXisteuce lin
gering ia his BOSOM and nowhere eLee to go
10; bat TIE Jlan that can sit Tor twe hours
before bedtime around red-h0t stove:~ilh
a" niger two commercial tourists, a
hight-elerk, 2nd dog, aud temark that |
~ Tue hours ate NiewlcsS angels tbat still go
gliding by,' il az honor 10 his bringing up !
and-a fool. ThrCe is a sOmetki ing, not |
81 tbLs world about toe ;mesage no. |
tel nigth.eleik. az IA "nigeer," ! forget
which. lie can gRfse 50 wide open that his
care look like hag signals at the moath Of q
tunnel. ~ can snote IN fourteen different
languages band-0rSsn into eternal silence.
lie can curl up in tbefront piazza Os q Stat.
betiomed ehsir. and he dead asleep before
ne gets through curiag, and the MAole
swiss amily Betl-Ringefs, with Sol. Smith
RUSSELL atlaedme OF, might cang away the .
cain,ssi OF Se1lce." g. Of purgstosg,
uatit tbe last geBg-donged "Call Bell"
'iad t'.S seFen-s eaF WbeeziL2 asthma: and ,
toen eiess towels lsd drinking water would
oe az sealee IN your room a. silence IN a 4
female @issionaiy society. There is Just one ,
ingredient In tbt MAI cup OF q kotel-keeDer /
mat siuhs seience-and thar il, how that ,
man can charge sou for two whole aays when +
you aunt spend but one and tbIse.ouar- ,
iers' and not say word about meals taken /
OUTSIDE, ana ihen look you square IL the 7
lace with the expression of an angel and n
ask. as you are kdring, IL " there's sny. a
lhing that he can contribute 10 your cos,- .
orr" '"' 0VS1
am In for sending all the hote, keeplrs q
o Enngress. As Committee on VANS n
me Means" they'd pay oa Che pubic d, bt h
shn the scraps now round loose. aud make c,
Iash 4Jt OF Tie balance enough to run nine n
lssiOn;ries 10 The Feeiee I.lanos until lLo q
annlhaa were ready for a pic ME. "
The piase. when the trains are in, has nj
opniatIou a. sboUf 1900. Blacks 10 whites M
'out as our State debt is TO the ability OF OF
e people TO pas u. Take away the rail. II
ads, and tber1d be about AZ much OF bl
elqon len as there Is to any ordinary Ii