The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1883-12-15

Ihe People he Meets ou the Road and
the Gossip he Hears.

the eossip he Hears.
si'eciai eerresE-,aie@oe - ya< CsrS~s.ess
j ! have not met a proiectionisf Democrat
this week
When meet North Carolina editor in
h'gh haf on Southbouni train now.
say. Hello did you gct 1t ~ Get
what THAT little office =. washing
ton, you know -
Mr.. Robert liusAe came along from Fay
etteviilc the other day and smiIingly aud
triumphantly remarked that The ancient
capital of the upper Cape Fear l. bound -
be the biggest city in the State And.
pray, why not:
met dealer in toys on the tram the
other day who has notion that pine cones
vanished would become ''rage' with the
lovers of brio a-brac In New York. They
come. YOU know, from that distant and
dim country, the South Well. why not
God made them, and they are very vel!
made.
There |. talk of a party OF Freuchmen
buying a tract of 'and in Richmond or
Montgomery county TO settle colony OF
silk-yrowcr- and winc-makers. The grape
is AT home there. and the mulberry will
thrive. Skillfnl management and little
patience would make the land fat with
wine and give II garments Of silk.
dealers in fancy things--the booksellers,
the druggists. the toy-dealers, the con!ec-
tioners and the grocers-are making for
Christmas in every town that | have re-
Gently visted-Charlottc. Greensboro.
Durham and especially Raleigh old
Santa Claus's difficulty in getting his pack
will be the difficulty OF selection
Col Thomas NJ Holt l. Democrat--no
doubt Of that. He Is likewise "A nanuiac-
~. .Nfx I'll - + IL -
He is also "A tariff for revenue man and has
always been. Think OF this when you
hear your peanut fellow aud your axe
helve maker crying, Protection or we
perish - BY the way, what II a good
many costly things should perishs
Mr.. Patrick, the State Agent OF ImmI-
grafton, told me this week that since the
Exposition at Boston closed fifty Northern
parties that he knows OF have made pur-
chases OF real estate In North Carolina.
Nearly ali OF them propose tn live here
A few lands have been bought also by
spectators. Mr.. Patrick Is very proud OF
the sale Of the swamp lands. The buyers
will spend 100000 in clearing and ditch
ing and that wilderness will blossom as
the rose.
l read in the Charlotte Observer the 9TH
er day that Messrs. Witousky q Barouch.
the entcrprisng dry goods merchants Of
every part OF North Carolina but TO half a
dozen other States as well. | happen to
know that this is a true bill against them
Work, we'll directed, will accomplish the
same results in North Carolina as In New
York. What fool a man would have
been considered ten years ago who should
have predicted any such thing as this.
l have recently found out that the mer-
chants of Hickory and other Western towns
send not only such truck aDDIes. which
by tradition, grow better I'm the West
than in the Middle counties, but also
onions and cabbages all along the line of
| railroad to Raleigh The country people
in Wake county who have gardens where
all these vegetables will grow, buy them
from the West. Hard times down near
THE CHRoNICL.B'S headquarters, is it
Why, | never hear such complaint up in
Catawba. There they have hard work.
1t is rnmored that an effort WIN b. made
to have the law against cock-fighting re-
pealed. A lazy lover of the pit, who grew
angry with the powers that be as the con
versation continued, informed me this
week that by charging % cents admission
to the sight he could make more money in
Raleigh than the circus ever carried away.
lis it a free country" ne asked, when 4
m Al is prevented from fighting his own
chickens? | could knock the Governor
himself down on Fayetteville street and it
wouldn't cost me as much money as q
square and fair old manly cock fight would
cost / suggested that a distinguished
editor i'm Elizabeth City or in Edenton
somewhere down there, and / don't know
which or who he is) Is a devOtee OF the
sport and would no doubt take pleasure
in giving him moral" support ! am not
informed, but, perhaps, cock-fghting IL
chivalrOus.