The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-01-19

The People he Meets on the Road aaA
the Gossip he Hears.
Al this season Of the year there II an
ominous silence, on the cars II least, about
the perpetual verual beauty OF our noun
tains-
Fast schedules are the coming thing
that IL they fetch us who travel the faster.
They are bonnd to be. Keep Il UP on that
line. All we who live on the road believe
In that doctrine.
One noteworthy thing that may bear
mention just while the talk II about the
State Exposition Is that the Northern set
tiers who have already made their homes
In North Carolina may be counted on ~
enthusiastic for IL.
The cut Of the State capitol which ap-
peared in the last CHRoNICLE is iopen to
severe criticism. as every other cut that |
ever saw is-it shows simply the naked
building, whereas the trees and grounds
are even more imposing than the structure
itself
People are beginning 10 talk about our
next Senatorial election. because, perhaps,
they are having such things In Ohio. Ken
tusky, Maryland and other States. The
average traveller smiles when mention Ia
made OF any other than Mr.. Vance sue
ceeutnS MT. tanCe.
met Connecticut man the other day
who had come down to the Sunny South
to See what he could see. He came near
freezing to death that cold Sunday, aud
declared with some vehemenee that we
must teach either our weather or our ''sun-
ny" takers about this climate better man.
ners.
All over North Carolina people are ask-
ing why In the name Of push aud grace,
the people Of Raleigh who cause SO many
pretty speeches to be published about the
State Exposition do not cause little item
preceded by the to be published. Money
makes more things than the mare 20. And
it is time for cash.
/ have canning establishments on the
brain. Everywhere l go, l find canned
fruit, to say nothing of fish and flesh. To
eat and it all comes from Northern estab-
lishments. l never eat a bit Of It but n
| my vision. Our Western orchards ought
to supply the world.
After all, we are very gossipy people.
! In almost every part OF the State (and
have nearly made the whole round this
! about the high old bachelors "shin-dig'
at Fayetteville on New Years So con-
| clude that even old bachelors have some
| good things in them.
In city of such hotels as Charlotte, it
is interesting to look, and it will soon be .
| last look, at the old Charlotte Inn, which,
l have heard talk and now see confirmed
by the Observer, is to be removed for the
erection Of the Masonic Temple. What
| old time revelries the dingy shanty has
known in days when an inn was an inn
The ghosts OF Jolly old-timers, fancy,
will wander restlessly on the night when
| the building disappears. But Charlotte Is
| paying little attention to ghosts.
l asked Durham man the other day
| about the tobacco trade. Capt. Parrsh,'
said |, "for instance has made fine for
| tune with the warehouse which Is now all
his own, and he began few years ago
| with nothing. Now, is this the good luck
of the business or is it Capt. Parrish's ge-
Mus? Could you or or any other busi-
| ness man OF energy and good sense learn
the business and hope to meet with sue
cess ?'' ''Not bit Of it, was his reply
''You or might work like beavers at the
| business for twenty-seven hours day
and we should soon run ashore. It's the
| man, not the business. 1t Is is Capt. Par
rish, not tobacco
A shrewd Yankee said to me the other
day II wish to see your Governor Jarvis
| before leave North Carolina He made
wonderful impression in New England,
and tell you what would take, and you
| can't afford to miss that chance to push
North Carolina ahead-start a boom for
Jarvis for Vice President. Well, it may
seem strange, but there is no other man
in the South whom the people Of New
England look upon as the impersonatiOn
of so much industrial push. 1 don't say
he'd get the nomination. I'm not poll
tician, and ] don't care anything about
that part. But the New England Demo-
Gratis would yell for North Carolina, and q
State that is going forward like yours ought
to know how to keep itself to the front. {"
STATE POLITICS.