Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-22

KfttreII, North Carolina-A Fine Place for Health Seekers - Henderson, the EtCenter of TObaccodom'' - Prosperous CoIored PeopIe-Shad in the Neuse- Raleigh and Some of Its Institutions. RALEIGH, N. C., April 2S. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 Before reaching this place we had been
 ''traveling about down South" noticing with
 pleasure the great improvement in the places
 in which we have stopped and through which
 We have passed, since we were here some five
 years ago. The best place at which we stop
 ped was Kittrell. This place ''Kittrell" I
 consider the place in the South above all
 others for the man of over-worked brain, nervous prostration, or the individual with
 weak throat and lungs. Here it is that Dr. T. B. Townsend and our friend Elisha Flagg came so many years in succession and de- l rived so much benefit from the pure air and
 water, and so much enjoyment in bagging
 the quail and wild turkey. Kittrell is on the Raleigh and Gaston railroad, sixty five miles from Weldon. You can leave New York at
 o'clock D. m. by way of Richmond and arrive
 here at 6 o'clock the next day and if you wish to take the Bay line oid Fort l ress Monroe, Norfolk, etc. you must leave N0W 1OTh cdEuGE III the OdA
 Kittrell has a delightful climate, and
 with it's elevation of five hundred and forty feet above the sea level pure air, water, and freedom from all malarial inf1u- ences is a natural and most agreeable, health full midway stopping-place for the invalid and
 others wishing to escape the cold seasons of the North and East, and also when the South becomes too hot to be agreeable The hotel,
 which is only few steps from the station, is kept by Colonel w. F. Davis, who, with Mrs. | Davis, personally superintends everything l and truly 'knows how to keep a hotel '" | Colonel Davis is well known to the Boston l public as the former proprietor of the Win 1 throp House." This hotel has six hundred | feet of piazza enclosed with glass. facing south and east, making a most desirable promenade for guests. It is furnished with
 the best of hair mattresses and spring beds l open fireplaces, etc. The table is perfect in | every respect.
 Kittrell having been dubbed the North | Carolina Aiken" by the Rev. ". c. Winslow of Boston. Mass, has become very popular
 with Bostonians and other New England peo-
 pie; also many from Cleveland and Philadel- | phia and the ever present Gothamites are to | found here, as we'll as New Haven and Hart
 ford people, and in summer this place is ire 1 quented often by those who live further | south"
 Nine miles from Kittrell is Henderson, to which is delightful drive. It Is the center
 of tobaccodom and contains some Oe0 in
 habitants Tuesdays and Fridays are the days | when the sales of tobacco are made. The to-
 bacco is piled up in the immense storehouses | in small and large piles according to the
 quantity each farmer brings, and is seld at l auction. The bidding is quite spirited at | times. Large tobacco warehouses, factories l for making the plug and chewing tobacco | line the principal streets, and make a busy | tboroughfare. Much of the value of to
 bacco is in the color I have been told the | color is taken from the soil, thus red, yellow | and brown produce like. The values range from | 20 to so cents pound, 25 to 8 being an av- 1 craze. The warehouses, which are of several | stories, are stored with tobacco. In one story | it IS in piles for auction sale, in another it is | being assorted, in another it is being sus- | pended from the ceiling and so in different 1 forms of storage. A single stalk of tobacco 1 will produce sometimes the varieties called
 tips, middles, best leaf and plugs, the leaves | in the center being the choicest. The land l yields from l POO to l 1,500 pounds to the
 acre, and is considered in this part of the | State (provided Jack Frost don't come and
 take it for his own the best money crop.h
 The colored people prefer cotton, fair aver
 age of which is three-quarters of a bale to
 the acre. Grapes are raised here in great
 abundance. The North Carolina company at
 .Kittrell took the first premium at Atlanta for
 native wine.
 The dr1ves about Kittrell are good The
 views are picturesque and beautiful. The
 walks through the pine woods are delightful,
 and the odor from the pines is refreshing and
 very healthful. The mail arrives in the morning and evening and everything is done