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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05
From tie salisbury Et0uei7ae3-.

The Hon A. NJ. Scales, who was nomi-
mated yesterday by the Bourbons as their
candidate for Governor, is good man,
candid man, a manly man, with none of
the clown or the blackguard about him
He was a true SOuthrOn, a brave soldier
and is an honest politician.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05

The excursions along the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley Road each way (and
there have been scveraD have all been cx-
ceedingly pleasant, we'll conducted and
well patronized.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05
THE TRAVELLER.
The People he Meets and the Gossip hc
Hears.

The excursion business il again coming
down to a fine point. You can go either
to the sea or 10 the mountains for very lit
tie money and get big fun.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05

! have happened to hear Of great many
North Carolina people besides delegates
who are going 10 the Chicago Convention.
1t is good departure. Who ought To go
To see the thing well done il not our pco-
pie
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05

Everywhere in the West hear the State
Democratic ticket spoken, Of in words Of
enthusiasm. The Republicans have not
few boilers in the transmontanc counties,
but the Democrats-none that | have
heard of
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05
Fighting the Farmers.

From the NeaOto,a Enterprise
We have struck one gentleman who has
potatoes weighing two pounds each. This
is indeed great season
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05

There are no less than twenty prcten-
tious and good new hotels that have been
opened at accessible places in the State for
this summers pleasure; and the general
verdict is that all are as good AS the most
of the best used TO be.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05
A Negro on the Negro.

From intet UieaU in the ". Y. Tribune auth Prof.
Greener ,CitO recently lectured in Ialeig1t.
AS a labOrcr or peasant class, the negro
is to- day better housed has better food,
wears better clothes and has less difficulty
III getting hold Of the soil than any like
class in Europe. He is not yet an unham-
pered citizen, for his vote is only counted
as the dominant party pleases, and the
law is in many cases perverted to discrim-
mate against him. He is thrown into the
penitentiary for the most trivial offences
and thus disfranchised, and the chain
gangs are filled with these unfortunates
* < The South is OF the eve of polit-
ical breakup English capital is an en-
tering wedge in all the Southern States
The foreign element, too, is gradually con
trolling trade. One sees the same names
on the street signs that you find in Broad
way, and Samuel Of Fosen' is on every
train. AS if to compensate for the ne
gro's political majority, there seems to
be more consideration paid to those ne
groes who have acquired competency or
attained position in their respective local
tiles. Among white clergymen, politi-
clans and business men with whom | con-
versed l found an unvarying interest ex-
pressed in the negro's advancement and
qualification at it,
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05
What President Primrose Says.

On his return from Washington, Whith-
er he went with Mr.. John Nichols to invite
President Arthur and Senator Hawley to
the State Exposition in October, President
Primrose was interviewed by THE CHRONI-
GLE HThe President, said he, received
us pleasantly, in company with Senators
Vance and Ransom and other North Car
Dina representatives. In reply to our in
yitation he could not give definite an
sWer, owing to the uncertainty Of events
that would determine his movements, but
he showed an uncommon interest in the
Exposition, and said that even if he could
not come at the opening he might find it
possible to come at some subsequent time.
The impression left by the President on
those of the party who know him best was
That it was very probable that he will
come"
But Senator Hawley's answer" con
unued Mr.. Primrose, ''was given readily
without conditions or doubts. He will be
here October l. and will deliver the open
ing address He said that it would give
INN very great pleasure indeed to visit
North Carolina and he hoped even to have
time to go to his native place Laurel Hill,
Ilchmond county-and visit the old Pres
byterian church there, which he had not
seen since he was an eleven year old lad.
senator Hawley, you remember, was Pres
ldent of the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia in 1876, and is the foremost
Exposition man, so to call him, that there
Is III the Union. His presence at our
opening will be feather in our cap, for
10 Exposition since the Centennial has
mad his presence"
Yes, we were received everywhere in
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05

Capt W. b. Kendrick, General Agent
in the South for the University Publish
ing Company, is visiting the various edu-
cationaI centres Of the State The Cap
tain weighs only $50 pounds, and is pleas
ant and genial accordingly He was
wounded in twelve different places during
the war.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05
IF THE III. TRY II.
A Hundred " omen in %0Til, Carolina
will Find That They sEav" Use c5aIiss
" III III !
Power,


The State Of Georgia is creating . big
sensation in every part Of Tho Union by
suddenly sending forth onaeltsI electric
women \ Miss Lula litlss Eas gone
North and gives exhibitions IF her power
to make chairs t14n oxcr, -aba- dance,
canes twist themselves ia sWo and tie iise
by merely touching hem -Ana now
Mrs. Coleman Of Atlanta, las tie same
power. Last week lie gave public eZhi-
bition in Atlanta. Anon those present
We're ex-Gov. Bullock. l.. l. kimbalI the
Rev. Mr.. Thomas, j. {. himball, W. NJ
Scott and Memo White, and about tWen-
ty ladies. Mrs. Coleman was at first
somewhat embarrassed. but as She pro
ceeded with her task She became calm and
succeeded in everything she undertook.
A stick held by Mr. Scott and Sir hinball
was made to pass around freely, despite
their strenuous efforts to hold it. One of
the gentlemen was compelled, much
against his will to give up a pleasant chair
in which he was sitting; the chair turning
over and throwing him out, while a table
was raised almost entirely from the floor,
simply by Mrs. Coleman's holding out her
hands upon 1t. The masterpiece was per-
formed by Mrs. Coleman with walking
cane; she held to one end and by simply
touching the other end to the edge Of the
table made the table stand on two legs
only. During the entire entertainment
the gentleman watched closely, but could
not detect anything resembling trickery.
They all declared that the lady's power
was something wonderful, and while all
said that she was equal to Lulu Hurst,
some declared she excelled her. Mrs.
Coleman is at the same loss Miss Hurst is
to account for the power she commands.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-05

The Roanoke ter-centcnnial celebration.
like many another good project that has
to depend on the will Of politicians, has
ingIoriOusly gone nowhithcr in spite Of
Senator Vance's patriotic efforts. But IL
is good to sec the general return Of the
celebration Of the Fourth Of July by the
good white folks of the land. The old
fashioned Fourth Of July Of the ante
bellum times was one Of the most glori-
GUS days that the calendar Of any people
had in it.
Miss Annie f. Johns, author of "Coo
leemee," Indian word meaning Cool
Spring. a tale Of the last war, and a
writer Of some note for the periodical
press, is attending the Teachers Chautau-
qua at Waynesville. She is Virginian
by birth, but her present home is in Leaks
vile. She is an elderly maiden lady, about
so years old, and wears short iron-pray
curls She has travelled q good deal
both in this country and the Old World.
and is ready and interesting talker.
hear some talk Of opposition to o/Gen-
eral Bob Vance for Congress. Mr. Gar.
land Ferguson, Of Waynesville, and Mr.
Thomas johnson, of Asheville, are spoken
of for the place. Some complain that
General Vance has filled the place lone
enough, while some of his friends vow
he shall stay there as long as he lives
The following was heard from a hardy
mountaineer the other day: They had
better be keerful how they swap OF sold
Bob; I've been knowin' him q long time.
and he's as sound as a dollar !'s This
seems to be the opinion of the great ma
jority.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
Living ON His Dead comrade.

Winnipeg Special: W. B. Mcbride
If Chicago, who has arrived here from
. trip to the Rocky mountains, brings
word that q man named William Owens,
q California miner, was found by some
railway navvies near Kicking Horse
river a few days ago in q famished and
partially demented condition. Owens
said he started june Is, with Joseph
Williamson, from Kamloops on a pros
pecting trip, expecting to strike the
Columbia river, but their supply of
provisions gave out before reaching
there. They travelled for six days and
! half without food, when Williamson
laid down and died. Owens then cut
strips of flesh from his dead companions
legs, which he ate sparingly, and pro-
eeeded on his tramp. He had been liv-
ing six days on human flesh when found
md still had a quantity of the dried
Hesh in an old handkerchief. He was
rery weak and emaciated, and told his
story with difficulty. He repeated the
horrible details on several occasions
md all who heard him are con-
7inced that the story is true. He had
/ large roll of bills with him. The police
have taken the matter in hand and will
investigate it.
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Portable Piepeus,

A correspondent reports to the Massachu-
sets Ploughman satisfactory tests of the plan
of penning pigs in various places about the
farm, and mentions advantages resulting from
the practice:
81 have for a number Of years had a nova
BILE pen for my pigs. 1t has four separate
sides fourteen feet in length; each side has
four pieces of narrow boards one by six inches
nailed to an upright two by four inches, and
placed six inches apart These four sides are
fastened together at the ends by hooks; it en-
closes nearly 200 feet; two men can move it
easy. Two pigs of fifty pounds each will root
up one-eighth of an acre of bushy pasture in 3
season, pulverizing the ground as fine as done
by piow and harrow; if the ground is free from
bush a much larger area can be gone over.
Where l had my pen three years ago not a
bush has appeared, and this spring the grass
had started and was TO be seen some time be-
fore its appearance i'll the rest of the pasture.
Last season l run the pen through my
orchard, now | am having it along a hedge-ro
of twitch grass. In three days they root up 200
feet of grass, which, is all destroyed. Soon l
shall put it into pasture. One will be sur
prised to see how little feed they require where
with little grain until September, when I add
more grain. BY this method you make your
pork cheaper and better; they are always IN a
clean place away from the house, your lands are
improved, the bushes destroyed, the orchards
manfred, and the hedge rows made the same
as the rest of the field, and, finally, to compete
with the great West, we must bring our cost OF
corn and pork raising down to the lowest
figures"
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The Oldest of English Families.


Lord Palmerston's country residence
is we'll known to have been near Rom
sey, Hants. In the course of his ac-
customed rides in the New Forests he
saw a laboring man burning lime and
entered into familiar conversation with
him, asking to be obliged with his sur
name. The man replied that it was
Purkiss. Now, this was the reply that
was sought, and Palmerston exclaimed.
Il thought as much" He accordingly
asked the man if he was descended from
the lime-burner of that name who carted
away the body of William Rufus after
his unfortunate fall by the arrow of Sir
Walter Tyrrel. The nan answered in
the affirmative. "Then give me your
hand" said his lordship, "for though
you are a ~laborer. I must not forget
that you are a brother Hampshire man"
at the same time handing the man (if
my memory serves meg the medium of
procuring some refreshments at his ear
lest cessation from toll. "Thus," said
his lordship, in relating the incident,
II have had the great honor Of con-
versing with an honest workingman
who is descended from the Oldest family
and bears the Oldest urname in Eng
land."-Notes and Queries.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
The Empress and Neighborly HON.
age.

In the seelusion of the domain of
Marlborough the widow lives buried in
regret-regret of the magical, unex-
pected, %ephemeral past; regret of the
husband who gave her power and lost
it; regret Of the young son through
whom alone it might have been recon-
quered, and about the matter Of whose
death she has been ever SO strangely,
SO determinedly, sc generously silent.
This is, however, what is told as fol-
lowing her arrival at marlborough.
Col.-, who commanded the re-
giment in which the illfate prince inn
perial served, owned considerable pro-
perty in the immediate neighborhood Of
the estate purchased by the empress.
When she had finally settled in her new
adobe the colonel craved permission to
conform the custom and to lay his
neighborly homage at her feet. A fort
night after the interview his property
was advertised for sale.
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Farmers and Their wives.

H. 9. Blake OF South Barton, Vt, is moved
by Miss Putney's essay. He says: Twelve
years ago l stood up before the parson with a
blooming farmers daughter, and promisingto
love cherish and protect her, I had an idea also
meant that if she put her shoulder to the wheel
wath me, if we won any of this worlds goods
she was certainly entitled to her share. Keeping
this idea always in view, lam proud to say that
my wife has never yet known the humiliation
of begging for money, and that such of this
worlds goods az l have bestowed upon
her, that were not needed for the family,
have SO improved under her care, that to-day
the assessor calls on her for almost as
many dollars as he does from myself. And you
who have already Travelled many leagues in the
journey of life, just try my plan for q while,
and sec if the bright smiles and quick steps Of
your wife do not pay you q hundred-fola
broad acres and his fiocks and herds, forgets
that he owes a great deal Of all this to the pru-
dence and hard labor of his wife. Then why
not give her some substantial token that she
may truly feel you appreciate her labors and
are willing to reward them? Once moreI say,
ry lit"
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Tho Matter Of Thirty Yeara

In 1854 John Hallock, a prominent
farmer of the town of Mount Hope,
Orange county, New York, went away
from home and never returned. He left a
wife and infant daughter. Mrs. Hallock
long ago made up her mind that her
husband was dead. She never married
again. few months ago Mrs. Hallock,
who has lived near the village for sew
eral years, was notified that John Hal
lock had died in Spencer, Tioga county,
New York, and left IS to his daughter,
Mrs. Carr. The rest Of of his property
was left to his widow, who lived on the
farm on which Hallock died. This led
to an investigation by Mrs. Hallock.
She learned that her husband had mar
ried a lady in Tioga county over thirty
years ago and that she was ignorant
that he had another wife living. The
Orange county widow at once brought
suit to recover her dover right in her
deceased husbands property. Hallocki
executors claimed that he hadprocured Q
divorce from his first wife in 1856 il
Kentucky, but last week offered tc
settle with Mrs. HalIock No. / by pay
ing her $1,000. She accepted the offer
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05

every qualification for a model except
beauty. They drop into these rooms
on an average of once o month to ask
whether | want to hire q model. Some
are mere schoolgirls, one or two are old
enought to know better, while the average
would-be model is the twenty-year-old
shopgirl whom we meet every
day. on the street. They know that
models are we'll paid, are tired of
their hundrum round of work and want
to escape to more congenial employ
ment. One of the dress models in a
Broadway establishments young lady
employed to try on cloaks and dresses,
SO that intending purchasers ear see how
the article look-called in here two
weeks ago. The fact that she was a
model in one place led her to believe
that she could as readily pose as an
artists model. And so she could. Her
figure was wonderfully we'll rounded,
and [ wanted just such q form for that
group of naiads. However, I told her
of the dangers of her position; that her
place Mt the Broadway store would have
to be given up, as I could not work at
night, and she finally concluded to re-
main with her old employers. I was
glad she chose this course, though she
promised if she should conclude to be-
come a subject to let me paint her first"
1T is vanity, pure vanity" the old
man went on, shifting his position and
lighting another match. aItispersonal
vanity that leads really respectable la
dies teposefor us. They like to feel their
power over the great crowds that
hang about beautiful paintings and re-
joice in the thought that it is they who
are giving this pleasure to SC many.
Why, the models are always more anx-
ious that the picture should be good
than I am. But the only lady model
I have had during the past year has
been a young married lady from Brook
lyn. Twice a week she sits for me and
takes the money in a mechanical sort of
way. 1 know she doesn't need it, for
all she could make in q year would not
pay for her rich dresses and soft silk
underwear. She has the most perfect
ly formed form I V saw except upon
a s%tatele, and it is that she sits for. ]
keep up the fiction of paying her the
regular price, though she knows that I
believe her to be rich. During the sit
tings she says not a word, but watches
every movement and seems to gloat ov-
er the figure as it grows upon the can
vass. Yes, she is in love with herself.
[ shall steal the expression Of her face
some day and call it Narcisse. Does
her husband know she is a model? My
dear sir, I tell You curiosity is fatal to
an artist. [ would not dare ask him.
and with a sphinx-like smile the cynic-
artist tapped his pipe on his .slippered
foot and yawning gave notice that the
subject wearied HMM. Y. World.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
THE ABROAD.
How He Is Instantly Detected by His
Voice and Dress.

How He Is Instantly Detected by His
Voice and Dress.
Robert Laird Collier in the Boston
Herald thus describes the peculiarities
of Americans when met abroad:
If Americans could make London
gay, London would be gay. The Yam
KEGS are everywhere an evidence.
There is no installing the American
anywhere. On the streets, in the gal
%lieries, at the theatres, he is to be met.
For II / I'm always glad to meet him.
He is the heartiest, frankiest, all In all,
the truest man to be found walking in
shoe-leather. He is different from all
foreigners in London. He speaks the
same language as the Englishman. I
can instantly understand all he is say
ing, and so it is that his voice and in
tonation and accent seem somewhat
unframed, and, perhaps, just the least
bit underlined. OF course, I mean the
voice, information and accent of some
Americans.
Ten years ago I did not know what
English people meant who told me that
all Yankees speak with a nasal twang,
and that American ladies pitched their
voices on a high. shrill key. Ibid not
then believe it. But it is true. What
of it? Whose business is it? Yet, all
the same, it is true. I am constantly
turning around on the street to look af-
ter an American voice. It is a national
characteristic that Americans talk in a
loud, unmodulated voice. No doubt it
is a a matter of climate. In pnblio
places Americans talk in loud voices. If
[ now remember, little notice of this is
seem accustomed to it, but in England
it seems rude and il-bread to talk
socially in a loud voice. In omnibuses,
at dinner tables, at the theatres, on the
streets, one is constantly attracted by
the loudness, and sometimes the shrill-
ness, of the American voice. The soft
ness and delicacy Of the English lady's
voice makes the American lady's voice,
in comparison, all the more conspicu-
GUS.
But did they not speak at all there
would be no mistaking my fellow-coun-
try people in London. To begin with,
tll0 uTeSS WOulu lS1Ai tlo oGO1y. 1l
English gentlemen wear tall hats. II
the man is respectfully disposed he will
be sure to have o silk hat. The same
may be said of all Continental gentle
men. Therefore, the SLOUGH hat, the
soft felt hat, or the billy-cock hat upon
an otherwise Acknowledgment mar
suggests to you that he is an American.
] Clothes are rather cheap in England.
and no English gentlemen will weal
kneed-out trousers; but American gen
tiemen not uncommonly do. I otter
thing the American ladies spend SO much
on dress that they have nothing left to
spend on their husbands, for. while the
men are %undressed, or shabbily dressed
the ladies are sometimes o~verdressed
and commonly very extensively dressed
Then, there is this to be said: English
people are seldom oddly or peculiarl,
dressed. But you cannot t%ruthfully say
this of the Americans.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
Sweet Corn.

Timely suggestions as to Sweat Corn appear
in The Michigan Farmer, partly based on a
discussion of the subject by the State Horticul-
tural Society:
'rThe varieties with colored cobs,'' says Pro-
Sfessor Tracy, 'are not popular because, in
cooking, the cob diseolors the corn and makes
it unattractive in appearance. The discolora-
ton is prevented by putting in boiling water
at first, instead of allowing the corn to soak in
the water till the latter is raised to the boiling
point We may make a note of it that sweet
corn with any kind of cob should be put into
boiling water, and the fire be hot enough to
il corn is to be boiled in water at all. But
Mr.. Davis, who gave us his experience in
evaporating sweet corn, says corn should be
steamed, not boiled, for that purpose. and he
might have added that the same process is adj
visable for that intended for table use. Mr..
Davis recommended cutting the kernels to be
eyaporated twice in two. He also told ms that
evaporated corn is cheaper than canned corn,
since the price of one can of the timed corn
would buy enough eyaporated corn when pre-
pared for the table to fill three cans, Corn Is
better whenn need very soon after picking.n
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
A foreign letter-writter gives this de.

A foreign letter-writter gives this de.
scription of Lord Tennyson, the poet
laureate of England: Ellis figure is
bent, and yet it bears its rs years light
". The ice dark mass of hair, now
gray, falls back from the broad, high
forehead, while the 'knightly growth
fringing his lips is streaked with sill
yer, and the face, though rugged and
deeply lined with thought, is still full
Of calm dignity, and of tenderness
strongly at variance with the poets
somewhat brusque tone and manner.
His disregard of the conventionalities
of life is thoroughly natural and unaf-
fected. His suit Of gray, hanging
about him iii many a fold, like the
hide of q rh~inoceros, the loose, il-fitting
collar and careiessly knotted tie, the
wide, low boots, are not worn for mr.
tistic effect