The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-24
Another view--Not 20 Cheerful
On Train After tho Charlotte
Blowout.
TUESDAY, May %, 1882

TUESDAY, May %, 1882.
Well, | am glad the great annual is
over, for about all that Charlotte can
work up is a semi-occasional blast to it.
Ancestral ghosts, and faith that of Itself
is something to do; for the spirits that
did give it push and vim are gone. aud
they ought to be celebrated. They we're
a grand lot, and it is a pity more of EN-
weren't kept Tor seed
4 Railroad man says ii it we're not for
the people that come II Charlotte from
elsewhere, the Future Lond IN couldn't
'.lusber' worth A cent. She is like the
Old fellow who was always giving barn
raisiDgs and corn stockings. When the
work was done, the house was crowded
and table flied with the big bugs who
CANE and ltoked on, 80 that the work.
men hardly got a seat. and he seldom
went to one of hi. neighbors doin's,
though he sometimes would let one OF
his little SONS 20 half a day and fill up
with pie.
Nell, there was cheering, and
~speaking, aud crowding, and sweating,
and huugering and thirsting, (but not
for riehteousness), and some music, and
gun poppiug, and a little cork popping.
and some Caster county liquor: won
20 into ''exotics' over the thing, as old
Dan MINK used to say, for no doubt
YOU viii Gull all the best reports of the
quiilipeds and give Zeb's trousers all
in full, and what Thomas Jefferson had
to tell about the Wah-Sah; and how fine
Col. Vim. Jonsing's new hotel building
looked to the working men OF the neU
Libercan publilal party, anti promotion
of any good under the canopy, and pro
whiskey, which is destructive OF what
little good there is in me1. And speak
ing Of whiskey leads q fellow right
straight back to Castor county, and the
few days | spent there before this con
founded cannon firing, ear bursting. last
Saturday, which Charlotte let loose GU
An indoor man, came up. Q told me
afore | left home that you dldn want
MANY scollops nor frills on my letters, you
wanted some facts about Industries, and
crops, and SIGH. | know you will get all
the crop of M~ecklenburg dropped into
your Office, big taters and all, besides
what is in Mr.. McGehee's back room,
tall uillet with II heads on a stalk,
foot rye, rubber plants these are. cause
thew stretch SOY &C., &c. But here IL
CASTOR with only one little newspaper,
that has a good talent to run it, but a
lean pocket and a constituency that isn't
worth a durn to subscribe for eithera
dollar a year newspaper, or a railroad sys-
ten which throws every man $ nous 10
less than eight miles of a depot, a county
in which is forty full blast Baptist distil-
ieries Il say Baptist because they average
40 gallons each per day. and yet you
can't buy a drink OIL q pint at retail in it.
not even on surgeons certificate of dis
ability" a county that sends more than .
half million dollars a year out OF It to
other banks, and hasn't a bank OF 1t.
" acc a county n s that has '', ana yet i has
more wealth, more industry, more snap,
and less vim, more money and more man;
ufactures than any county OF its size and
population in the 4 surrounding States
as well as North Carolina:
Maybe you'll send me here again IN q