The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-01-05

The People he Meets - the Road aaa
the Gossip he Hears.

The People he Meets sn the Road aaa
the Gossip he Hears.
may DC mistaken. but IL seems TO me
To be mistake for 80 many business firms
as one always hears OF at the hrsf of the
year TO change; that Il. for firms tc dis
solve-espccially prosperous firms. They
lose the benefits land these benefits arr
large and continually becoming largerl of
long establishment. The very location
and name OF prosperous and old busi-
ness establishment are worth so much that
I'm large cities business men avoid changing
by every hook and crook. But hear OF q
good many firms In all the leading towns
on the railroads which by dissolution Ut
terly 60 out OF existence. Jones & Smith,
for instance. dissolve. Mr.. Jones carries
his personally won trade with him. aud
Mr.. Smith carries his; but there was a deal
OF custom that Jones and Smith got simply
by reason OF their long establishment,
which neither will get hereafter.
Ii Is nothing new, perhaps, but | think
IL worth making a note OF. that the
Library Association OF Wilmington has
made such excellent engagements with
lecturers. On January 9th and nth MIR.
Milburn lectures, on the 2lst and 22nd
Rev. Mr.. Hawthorne, of Richmond. on the
2Sth Mr.. VIM. Cumback, OF Indiana. and
in March the celebrated Mcndelssohn
Quintette Club. OF Boston. viii give a
concert there. There Il hardly anything
that can think Of which would do more
as public educating influence, or more TO
| entertain our people and lift us all from
our tendency to provincialism than popu-
lar lectures. The illustrated lecture has
| not been fully tried in North Carolina. Ii
| would take" and ''pay," and be a means
OF good all round. This Is hint TO an
| enterprising manager for next winter.
have read in half dozen newspapers
an extract from the Hotel Gazette that the
''recent failures In the wholesale trade
have seriously interfered with the financial
| prospects OF a respectable army of com.
mercial travellers. In New York the
| compensation OF a commercial traveller,
including salary and commission, averages
| about 81 900 year. The number Of high
priced, first-class drummers is largely in
excess OF the present or possibly future
| vacancies / don't know what effect this
will have on the genial good fellows whom
have come to know very well from fire.
quent meetings on the road. But can
| say this that not only the hotels and rail-
roads would miss them, but the compan-
ionabie travelling public I'm general.
There Will be a time When the dow9ffS
| blossoms Will glaUden the early woods No
more: hesloes tne number Of shuttle and
boDDln lactories thsst have already been
iong estaolsneo IN Ii'e State, recently two
in Cary, and now h,'nar ',n tha, cry M ana one n,
| Houston, who lives neal. Matth.,,s. Csi
Roads, in Chatham, will Use the c,en., E'..s
and Yadkin Valley railroad r. ssnJ s.;,1
more to our weaving New England breth-
soon we shall have nothing fnatter tSSo"s'
few old fogies to remind us og the "@nod
old times.'' '' sooo
The margin OF profits is getti.,,o ,,o
to very narrow place in all s.i,Jo J",t -,
trade-of course, as business skin .1 ~
competition become greater. vel :, al" anu
cessful business man, whose succt
matter for frequent praise all over CeiH's.a.S9 -
North Carolina, told me the other day iLa. i".
he would break utterly IL he did not Ha1
count his bills 81 always pav cash. ahs,,
on bills for sixty days usually get a dix
count of five per cent. That is thirty per
cent. a year, you see; and, IL were to fail
to get the benefit of that should not
make any money"
A bright idea: an unthrifty Pennsyl.
vanian who has been trying with i'll sue
cess to dig a fortune out Of the mud of 4
Wake county farm has given up the lob.
'''Twon't pay to farm. I've just found
out what my place is good for. Pm going
to make brick out OF the ground as deep az
my title will allow me to Dig
Tread that Santa Claus brought President
Arthur half a dozen gold-headed canes.
and as many gold handicapped umbrel.
las, and several cases of wine and boxes
of cigars. A good many OF us Jared that
well. So what's the use TO worry ones self
over much trying to get the nomination
next year?
Just before Christmas the trains were
crowded not only with passengers, but
every conceivable thing that man, woman
or child could make a bundle of-from
canary birds to bushel of apples. But
since then they have been almost empty.
. Everybody's at home. I suppose. squarinp
accounts with the Old Year.
II we had veritable Vennor among us
who should couple the red sunsets and the
uncommOnly mild Christmas weather and
make thereof dire explanation and
prophecy, he would scare some Of US mig
> gers to death.
: The Section al Boot on the Other Foot.
From the Boston Post (Dens.)
Colonel w. p. Canady, OF North Caro-.
lina the newly elected Sergeant-at Arms OF
the United States Senate, defeating Col.