The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-05-17
THE TRAVELLER.
THE PEOPLE uE MEETS AND THE
GOSSIP HE HEARS.

GOSSIP HE HEARD.
and Small Talk About at sorts of
Subjects Picked up all Over the State.
And | wonder If Uncle Remus," too,
wouldn't come up out Of Georgia ard lee
ture for us
The fruit cropi IS good everywhere. Give
us peaches and grapes plenty, and what
difference who makes our laws
The juice OF the pine has begun its yar-
nal motion, and the naval store rcn ara
reminded when they say their prayers tn
interJect good wish for a movement up
ward Of the market
hear Of all sorts Of odd things that
people are going 60 bring To the Expos-
tion. gentleman in Moore tells me hes
will have the finest Plymouth Rock chick
ems ever seen in North Carolina.
The travel on the North Carolina road
west Of Raleigh continues to Increase with
great rapdity. When, ! wou,ler, will the
time come when it will Justify the running
Of two trains a day .... ....-
sAnd yet there are thousands of our
and time and means who don't have or
chards. How in the name Of thrift are
you TO explain that4
And everywhere folks are talking in
praiseful way Of Judge Fowle's manly and
saucy answer to the Liberals "1knew
he wouldn't foo! with the rascals-- not
| he, have heard hundred times
| ! still insist that the Republican ticket
is a matter in which the people OF the
State do not take lively interest i have
met dozens of men who usually keep we'll
! informed but who do not even know who
| the Republican nominees are-except
York. It is regarded very much al the
people regard the appointment Of officers
by any other private company Of owners.
They say that such q blackberry crop AZ
| will come this year was never heard Of
AN old resident of Winston was telling
me on the train the other day of 40 en-
ergetic woman who had nothing but a
| houseful Of children in 1865. She and
| her little ones picked berries, and in one
Summer bought them home, hid away
Ia hundred dollars, and made n fair start
in life. ........ . --.....
Have you ever thought in what pros.
porous condition very nearly all the secret
ortiers---except the temperance societics-
are in North Carolina Z. | waa struck with
the enthusiasm and Intelligence OF the
company Of Odd Fellows who were on
their way TO their big meeting at Winston
They take on a boyish spirit, too, when
they get away from home and have q
good time Of it.
There is, unhappily, no organ OF fash
ionable intelligence in North Caroiinn-ne
Ladtes' 1ZagaSine or Siik asd Cdltc.
| Weekly, or any such publication But il
| may turn one paragraph on that subject
am willing TO take an oath that the aver
age man considers the average spring sla
= that his wife or daughter or jalarky wear,
i this year the uggliest thIE0 that was eve,
constructed Of good looking straw ant
pretty ribbons.
Il saw in a group of Penitentinry con
victs the other day a saucy, sleek and IA
Negro boy not more than sixteen, "Tha
! rascal" said very shrewd observer
fought TO have had thirty nine iashes
and then let go 1t does him no good 4
, wear the States uniform in this styIe
Whipping is the thing he needed And
am in favor, too, Of all humane methods
:. you may be sure. ~ .tf --'--
have premium TO oHer-small, mot
chromo) but real premium TO anybod
: | who will spell two words for me. Tn
3 only way | can Indicate the words il I
3 say that one of them is 'ugh-ugh, y whic
means mo. F" Pronounce these syllable
, slowly and softly and they ,.1ean ives.
| Now spell 'em out 80 as to convey eac
meaning. -
| read in New York paper to-day this