The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-04-05
THE TRAVELLER.

THE TkAHELLER. ~
THE PEOPLE HE MEETS AND THE
GOSSIP HE HEARS.
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Rumors, Facts, Fanctss, Speculations
and Small Talk About all Sorts OF
Subjects Picked mp ALI Over the State.
Go to plug tobacco town now and you
will hear the Summer melodies begin.
People on the cars talk more about the
Exposition than about any other single
subject. '.;f1f
These few real Spring days have brought
reports OF extensive hopes in all the high
Western towns of whole armies of Sum-
mer excursionists this year.
have a belief from all that hear from
educators, and have talked with dozen
or two this week, that our people are gen
orally in favor Of National aid to educa-
ton.
Say, let's have q popular uprising and
send a wholesale petition to Senator Vance
asking him to move to appoint . commit
teelof the Senate to investigate the Gin
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Oxford to have a railroad to Clarksville,
Durham to have railroad through Per-
son and thence on into Virgins, and an
other down into Chatham, the New York,
Norfolk and Charleston to open our north
eastern counties-there is talk of these
all along the line of business gossip now.
While talking about North Carolina su-
perstitions to an old soldier the other day,
he said that during the war not few men
wore amulets of the hair of their wives or
mothers or sweethearts as charm against
Yankee bullets. Whether he was joking
or yarning or telling history, don't know.
81 will tell you," said gentleman ION
Sunday too) who has dabbled good deal
in politics, s'why the coalition movement
attracts no attention and why the anti
Democratic crowd has no earthly chance
to whit is Presidential year. The De-
mocracy never forgets itself on Presiden-
tial years."
Tobacco men of experience tell me that
they do not think the newly established
Tobacco Exchange in New York can last
Trading on tobacco futures is made almost
an impossible thing by the lack of unit
of measurement of grades. In cotton
middling is middling the world over; but
in tobacco there are so many grades that
no standard can be found.
Mr.. W. III. Avera told me that the farm
ers of Johnston are generally preparing to
do little with tobacco this year. The
difficulty and the only difficulty is their
lack of experience The land is all right:
that has been demonstrated. Raleigh is
bound to be big tobacco market, and it
will not be a great while before it begins.
Then some of your boys will see rosy For
tunes in their dreams.
l have recently met half dozen clear
headed men who live ON the Raleigh and
Augusta road and who are in no way per-
sonaliy Interested either IN the French
| colony or in Vineland. They all agree
that there are vast possibilities in each :;
and two of them confessed that at first
| they were very skeptical. By the way,
am reminded to remind some of your
Western contemporaries that they have
| got their geography wrong. Vineland is
not near Hamlet. It is in Moore county
on the highest ridge on the whole railroad.
| I saw an interesting announcement in
the New York Herald the other day. A
! traveller to Central Africa has carried a
phonograph with him. The phonograph,
you know, is a sound -bottling machine.
He will have a savage talk into it, and
when he brings it back to London it will
repeat what the savage said This is a
good hint. If the good Republican breth-
rem will send phonograph to the Coali.
tion conventions in Raleigh on May 1st
and let it tell all it hears to Mr.. George
William Curtis
Maj. Robbins, of Statesville told, me ol
plan he is advocating to secure better
working of the roads ga man who owns
no stock but merely walks hog gpath,
said he, sought not to contribute as mucl
to working the road as man who owns
teams that continually cut up our tho
roughfares. My notion is to require ever!
man by reason of his manhood to worl
the roads one day, say, in given period
Then take the tax-lists and require ever,
. taxpayer to work (or, of course, to sent
hanO an additional day for every Ger
tain amount of taxables"
Another Liberal Issue.
l. From tAs 6atSsoxsx Exasstssr.
While our fathers were under the yok