The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-03-15
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THE TRAVELLER.
THE PEOPLE mE uEETxAND THE
GOSSIP HE HEADS.
Ru@or~. Fnrts. ranrt~.. NksrrsDasIUs.
nsd Saalt Tatk AAost stl nosts of
ssst~css Picked ~ ala Over sAe state.
Ih. biggest ssorc in the state IL said TO
t-e the Ncssrs~ Watkins's sf Henderson.
4 hint gwen by a cigar manufacture
Let the campaign committees have n cheap
and vile cigar named for their candidates
and give al hands n frrr snake. rsi
label ON il would ,r god campaign liicra-
'ure. II would brat badges so death.
honestly believe that IL the Democratic
boys of North Carolina had their wa,
about il, our Tncl. Samuel would b. The
Presidential candidate not s.s much i-.
cause of the ''old issse. as bccau.-s the
'arih or no tariff would have 90 kind %
lie low.
A discussion took place the other day
| between men who were trying to deter
| mine how far the old soldier ciemsn, has
| an unconscious influence on our politics in
tins year OF grace. But they 1>mc 60 mo-
conclusion and leave your readers To
| think IL over
| one of the most instructive and enter
| tanning experiences you can have inst now,
| If You have the good for.anc 20 know Mr..
Richmond Pearson is to hear him tell Of
his winter solenrn and travel i'm tho West
| Indies and especially in Mexico Being
one OF our very best~traveled men and a
student by nature and training. he makes
| his whole large circle Of acquainfanccs the
broader and wiser for knowing him.
l met Georgian on tho cars who hnd
| got the situation in North Carolina down
very finc-his name was White aud he
lives IN Augusta. II ask people nj tho
old fashioned towns hc said, chow bus+
ness is. They answer, oh. pretty good.
nothin' p'rtiek lar. II ! ask little Mtg,
ger at a tobacco town how the town ID
| thriving, he grins and giggles Lord
boss, gwine right cr long. Everybody
| busy hore.' -
If the public We're 10 take IA much in
terest in other sorts Of things as IL takes
| in politics, We should get along nj dou.
| ble-quick rate. To illustrate read that
Wilmington needs and wants a big hotel.
If everybody IN Wilmington or who goes To
Wilmington were TO talk about Il an much
| as they talk about Mr.. Stcaflman for Lieu
| tenant-Goycrnor Wilmington would have
big hotel directly, and everybody would
| go TO 1t.
The talk about the South Carolina Caahcs
and about the Mccarthy Wise impossibility
of duelling has called to mind that there
! wa never man in the whole history ok
Ger 10 roli.ia who killed .snothcr ~ \,
pro4res-.. s..s.sA - - -
duel that did not suffer the condemnation
OF public opinion. Isn't that sos We
were never such code fellows a. our neigh.
bors On the North and on the South. And
yet when there was real fighting to bc
| done, our folks were there.
The very ground OF North Carolina
| must feel new sensation. The mud that
for three centuries-very nearly--has full
filled its mission in clinging to Anglo-Sax-
on shoes, is now going into bricks soon
1t Will go into the mammoth new Duke
Tobacco Factory at Durham and into the
extension OF the Blackwell Co.'S factory
the woolen and cotton malls. and I ku~yg
not what. What tale OF wa1ying Tor the
Anglo-Saxon brains and push to supplant
the Anglo-SaxOn feet this mud might tell.
1t Is a liberal education that man with
two eyes in his head can get by going from
cne end of North Carolina to the other.
A well-inforrned Piedmont gentleman re-
marked with all seriousness last Sunday
that they had nothing down East but
chills and fish I! On the contrary there /,
editor and schoolmaster who lives in ths
East that expressed wonder not long age
that with all our various resources ".
have no coal in North Carolina What
little part OF Gods footstool, the man see
, who don't ever get over his own fence
A personal friend cf our two historians
Wheeler and Moore, who knows a histOr,
when he sees it, declares that the bes
chance for keen pen, broad man ant
lasting fame that ever came is th.
chance now lying loose for a clean, clear
uncompromising history Of North Carroll
, ma since 1850 But" he added, 9TH,
r historian, while he would have tale o
t hcroism, Of pity, and Of pathos to tell
, would be cternally cursed by a number D
, living shams, who now hold high head
and would have to wait for the next gen
r Grafton for outspoken praise
The Oxford 1oycllligtt calls Mr.. p. NJ
, Hale Captain Hale" and Mr.. Julian s
Carr major Carr" II may be allowed
! wish to ask the IorcAlfgAs to hold 1t
ear close to my mouth while I tell il a lii
tie story There was great and goo,
man in North Carolina who once went int.
. the manufacture Of Colonies and Major
, and Captains and he throve while our mil
: itary memory was fresh But in the mids
OF his prosperity, good nan. the publi
notion suffered a change, and his Major
and Colonels and Captains turned agains
= him. He is no longer what he was. alas
This military industry, dear IorcAiight, /
q effete.
! met "A man who argued thus: eth
Exposition said he. s.is a private con