The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-08-30
THE TRAVELLER.
TIIi PEoPIruE MEETS ANDTuE
GOSSIP uE HEARS.
EamoF.. Facts, fanct~s. Nr~eulatiaas
and >man Talk Aboat all sorts of
>uhteet~ Picked mp all Over tho state,

6aHof.s atts. tanctrs. Ap~cutmttoas
and small Talk Asoat all sorts 0f
>uhteet~ Picked mp all Over sA~ state.
The puhlc II North Carolina woali
Ike - sno@ tfss nausc uf any individual
IN this State y bo will vote fuT Hen Batter.
The only bsmocratic danger. say. an
old political manager. Is the feeling II
l'vtnoCfaisc assurance. II every imam
~ll ~ Ia The polls all right
Iac pamphlets Alout the counties that
are IN Preparation for the htin=,siun. IL
done veil. tas there IL rrason ;o behave
they vii l-l viii h~s brand now sort OF
a chapter IN North Carolina history.
As s=pou - Sou come down East 10
Groushoro and talk about the campaign
IN the state. men out Of 10 arr 81
the opinion that il j. rather dull affair.
York don't even mAkr il interesting j. the
general impression
In spite of the scarcity of cash the pfi.
vatc schools that hare already hegun their
tali sessions and those that arc aiaut ta
begin report Al exceedingly favorable out.
look and general incrcas. Of patronage
No State Ia the Union Is advancing along
the educational line more RAPIDLY.
was talking 10 party of gentlemen
Who had been 10 the Fruit ami Cattle
Fair a Winston. and they agreed. aa.t ex.
pressed their agreement with some en-
phasis, that the twin towns are charming
places to visit Il one dces not stop in
WINSTON ~ most strangers mus. stop.
1t Is a new thing in North Carolina for
= man who has money enough Ia Begin
merchandising on = reasonably large scale
and TO buy for cash not to find house
room III "A North Carolina town To open his
wares. That's precisely what has hap
peucd IN Durham several times very re-
Gently.
IL Is piece Of news that Ia some may
seem of little consequence. but every pro.
gressive citizen of North Carolina ought
10 know in the first place that one of the
rising cities at Stanly county il BlesyiIle:
and Rllesville Is now in n condition of
| imminent eruption, because il has "A brass
band; and hear that the man who blows
the bass horn III the brass band Of Biles-
| vile is Capt. NJ. >. Parker.
" And you say they are going 10 build
| the stccplc of the new Methodist church
| IN Raleigh 20 feet higher than the Bap-
| Inst steeplcf inquired visiting architect
| IN Raleigh the other day. Well, il sins
| against architectural proportions in "a build
| ing count for anything in the general re-
| fusal 10 admit the evil into heaven. these
| folks Will never get nearer than the roof
| of that spire.'
" \ on may tell me what YOU please. -
said prosperous merchant, of Raleigh,
| the other day, "a about the gradual i'm
| proyemcnt Of the country, but have one
| fact that tells the whole story. Nv father
| divided his 400 acres OF land among his
children, and last year | sold my 2O0
acres Tor more than the 400 cost 80 years
| ago; ana ! wish that ! could now buy n
part OF the POO for the price sold il for. -
| observe that the Commissioner of Az.
| rlculture IN Georgia has expressed the
| opinion that farming does not pay in that
| state, ana that every sun sets on poorer
| men than IL rose on The farmers have
themselves been denying so astounding n
| proposition. in North Carolina. know
that our farmers wives do not walk on
velvet carpets. neither do their children
play with gold plated toys: but our far.
mers make their living and thousands
| ana thousands Of them have always made
u. III
mighty bad day for the rest us
|
| Why his Mother Wasn't Like n wheel
From 7eras Isfnfuos.
81 have been going around all day. and
now am tired, remarked an exhausted
mother
- 1ou are not like Il wheel, are you,
| ma - asked Tommy.
Why, little boy -
a" You are tired after you 20 around
but wheel is tired before il goes around. :
To Garry IA Fisherman's Worms In.
hSo7' The Llizn1eh cay J5cononfst.
Hon. T. G. Skinner sent some dowc,
| seed TO his fair constituents, who planted
nursed and tended them with care. and
| fnaiIy brought them TO perfection, and the,
| sent one Of the flowers to us and we dag.
nosed 1t III various ways, by the nose. by
the touch and by tho sight, and found /,
to be a little gourd
Very NobIy Done.
From ne Boston E1ss.
They tell a story Of a PENNSYLVANIA
farmer who cut, threshold cleaned and
made into -four three sl1caves Of wheat
and baked some cakes for the harvest
hands, all III 10 minutes from the time the
grain was standing in the field When a
Pennsylvania man tells a lie he tell truly
noble one.
4 Fortunately Frequent Report.
Frofn he Gastonfa Gazette.
| The people IF CASTOR county are AT
present thoroughly waking up on the
school question. The schools everywhere
| in the county are filled tn over6oc~;po