The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-04-12

sure that Maj. wm. A. smith uiIi be the
Republican candidate for Congrcvm from
thus district.
Maj. Crenshaw, of rorsssayillc, says that
he and his Jersey heifcrs afS very w-il.
thank you. and that they all wsns~r-d IL
IN good condition.
For downright genius aud osidify com
mend You to the fraternity of Aursioneers
IN the tobacco warehouses They are
notable set Of mcn.
hear quiet words said nj a good many
places by good many people that Col
I. NJ Holt may get into the race and couac
with a strong following. for Governor.
Every man that have seen and have
seen dozen or two who SAN thc great
forest fire, was impressed by il ~ vividly
that he talked eloquently for once in hts
hfe, nj least.
Tobacco Is king-surc am told that
when the new mammoth Lockhart ware
house IL opened IN Durham, Gov. Jarvis
viii be present. And there will be big
time in general.
company of young English noblcmcn
who felt like seeing the sun came over sew
eral years ago and planted a sort OF aris-
tocratic colony in Iowa. hear now that IL
is too cold there for their lor,fships, aud
that there is talk of their coming to North
Carolina.
The reason we all love the old land, i'm
spite Of tornadoes and forest fires and all
the many ills We complain of-you know
don't you When this Spring air comes,
and the skies are blue and the whole world
Is glad, by Jupiter our sunshine and air
are royal, and man feels better here than
at most places on top of the ground.
There is n genius Of darkcy porter on
sleeping car which runs from Weldon To
Portsmouth. One night last week .hc
train ran by the branches Of tree which
had fallen across the track, and all the
windows on one side Of the car were bro
ken by it. Men were suddenly aroused
from their sleep by the crash Of the glass,
and one passenger i'll fright, asked the
porter what was the matter. "Oh, moth
in, boss, but dc wind blowed 40 hard Jest
blow'd de glass out, sir Fix il all pres
| en'ly-jest blow'd glass out 'er little, sir"
Our average North Carolina life Ii not
yet that which goes in the cars and stops
| at the hotels and spends 81 TO *5 per day
| for bed and board. IL goes in wagons and
camps out. A plain practical kind Of a
man said the other day that If there were
a good lot and plain but weather
proof building erected near the Exposition
grounds, we should be surprised To see
/ how many farmers would drive their fam
lies to it and put up for a whole week.
They would bring their own fodder and
bacon. The old lady would cook the food
| and spread the pallets and the average
man could afford to give solid week to
such an excursion.
! There has ncser before been such eager.
ness -ameng al eise4es of people in all sec.
tior.s of the State for new r ...2.~- bid
you ever see that wonderful chart made
son,e fimc ago bs Mr.. Edward Atkinson
by which he showed that prosperity in the
several sections of the Union had kept
very even and uniform pace with railroad
buildings Our interest in roads is good
augury. We were not always so. Wher
the North Carolina railroad was built
everybody knows, it was DETECTED In order
not to go by the University, because Il
would have bad moral effect on the stu
dents. Several other good old Al istocratit
towns didn't want and wouldn't have 1
IdilTOdu "a
this-Warrenton, for instance. BY thu
way, Warrenton is looking up, eyerybod,
agrees.
/ was talking to a manufacturer O
smoking tobacco the other day and he toit
me that he was in favor Of retaining tn,
tax on tobacco. Il am not talking abou
the politics Of the thing" he said, "but on
ly the business side of it. In my judg
ment, the tax has been the making OF tn,
business. j doubt very seriously whethe
this great industry could ever have growI
to such proportions in the South but To-
the tax We used to put up smoking to
bacco in sacks like flour sacks, and il wa
weighed out and retailcd like sugar Al
long as that system prevailed the trade re
manned very much like the country trad
in -four. But when the tax was impose.
the manufacturers were obliged TO put /
up in small packages and to label ever
package. This was an extraordinary op
portunity, it was even necessity to ad
vertise And it reduced the business TO
: systematic basis. What il needed" h
continued, '.in all kinds Of business in tn
South, is greater business system. Tki
has been the making of the great tobacc
trade"
| lSPuDdNo sAS oAGA asOAAA. b0W ca
Judge Tourgee on the train the other day
looking somewhat older than he used :
look, to be sure, but hale and sount
yet. fell to thinking of his remarkabl
career For dozen years the puny an
bungling ra.cals i'll the North had bee
playing the game Of the bloody shirt i
their own rough way. But it was th
coarsest kind of work till he took it i
hand. Fools Errand" was by all odd
the best campaign document ever got q
in America and it elected Garfield.
was the bloody shirt dextrously played
that's all. The silly novel readers mil
took it for literature. The amusing an
unfortunate fact is that Tourgee himse
mistook it for literature and conclude
r that he was novelist. A very great mi,
! take, he made them; and his weekly MAJ
Z azine is literary venture that is hardl
likely to meet such success as he anticips
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