The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-05-03

THE PEOPLE ug MEETS AND TINE
GOSSIP HE HEARS.
Ramors. Faets. Faaei~s. speeslatiens
aso s9ali Talk 4 Ahoss ali sorts OF
sss1ees. Picked sp all Over the state.
And has politics o,s~curd tho Eastern
hope OF the Roanoke celogration
ANA Grscnshoro. ioo, am obliged -
rcmark. with It's Spring garments on. trcas
baddcd out. shadcd ssrrrss and airy and
fr.sh appearance generally. Ia q very hrAn-
utai plac. these days
hay. air, ally heard of drrss<x in ccur~c
OF preparation for the commencement
ball at Chapel Hill The boys dance even
II the churches yet insist on having all
denominations represented I'm the Faculty.
Politics down East don't s<som 10 be tho
most absorbing subject in the world. Yet
the talk that comes from that direction
about the prime importance of the ofiicc
OF superintendent of Public Instruction
has good deal OF meaning In IL.
An excursion over the new Cape Pear
and fadkin Valley ro~d Il now 9Th.
thing, and everybody reports that il is
worth all II costs. Several parties that
have met have gone from Raleigh to Fay
etteville by way of Grcnsboro for the fan
of taking the trip.
! observe that various newspapers con.
tinue To raise howl about the % mar
riage license; but | observe also that when
Virginia couple get in dead earnest, they
spend good deal Of money 10 come quick
n
they can have the privilege Of having the
job done for 81.
This day on which ! now write In tho
day before the Republican convention. ]
have seen not less than dozen delegates
some IN their political broadcloth and
some outside of political broad drinks
Yet the people all round about don't prick
up their ears at all, or seem To realize that
the world will soon be going in the other
direction.
Raleigh reaches out far In many direc-
tions. On the train that / CAM, out on
the other day were six Raleigh men, sll
going good distance to ply their occupa-
tions. One was physician, smother a
plumber, another a journalist. another a
publishers agent. another a LAWYER and
the sixth-wcll his busincss-gucss !! Ho
wasn't preacher.
The blackberry crop will come along
soon. And you would bc dumb founded
if you don't already know, 10 look at the
figures the trade in them gives. Yet il lis
all wild yet and done in "A half hap hazard
way We will beforelong be cultivating
them and growing varieties ~ we now
grow varieties Of peaches. They do this
way in New Jersey
Ny landlord of the McNeclcy House Mt
Salisbury, they tell me is an all nightly
| hospitable fellow. ] have time or two
| found him as lively as a cricket after md
night and fellow traveller told me the
| other day that by reason of the break
down of train he got to Salisbury be-
| tween and O'Clock, and 10 . there he
was, fresh and hospitablc +,
There is Pennsylvania man who has
| recently moved into Moore county who
| has planted 1875 different varieties Of seeds
| Il am going to see what this land will
| produce best, !" he said. He has grasses
| and vegetables and fruits and tobacco and
l know not what else, and he works
works himself and loves it, You may bet
on him. And he's young too.
Pity the sorrows OF public man. How
| many thousand warlens and dcacons In
| private life have sworn within a month
go count the sands by the seashOre
But old Zeb's ''cuss words" have got
abroad and everywhere, and everybody il
talking about it, / heard an expert ut
| the business even declare that the oath
was vigorously and properly constructed
When a man begins to talk gubcrnato.
rial timber in my hearing now, I repeat
in his face, confound him, those classic
| words ''He is not a candidate for the
| Office; but if elected, he would carry the
full strength of the party and reflect credit
on the State" No chivalrous man will
bear such an insult, know; but II makes
bores laugh you know, and change the
subject. SO if don't get killed playing
| this game, there is promise that will get
freedom from a good deal OF timber talk.
Energy is the word. Two ladies .swork.
ed'' the trains recently on the Western
North Carolina road for all the project
was worth, for the rebuilding Of the Meth.
odist church at Newton which the tornado
destroyed. They got on the cars at one
station and solicited subscriptions from
passengers, and then got of ut a conye-
| uAcus stopping Piihoc dhu DOdfUeu another
train. 1t was a sight worth watching tr
see them make their attacks. They did II
delicately and dextrously. The drummer.
we're ready and willing as they always arr
THE good natured rascals but your busi
ness like bond holding kind Of q passen
ger generally expressed preference 10,
his own local far-of edifice Of worsaip a,
the object Of his generosity.
indecorous as any man makes himself
now who talks gubernatorial timber-apf
l know the sin / am committing-I re
Gently heard one conversation that i
worth repeating. ''Why not run ex-Judg.
Kufiin e. the talker asked. 1.-The old Dem
ocratic manner and faith no man ever be
lieved in or wore more thoroughly. He h