The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-15
For the Farmer and Mechanic.
Window CIimpses In fo'~
CITY by a North Caroiintan.

read your article on kimpton last
week with peculiar interest. had Just
-aep him. 4 policeman who patrols
This street. happening to know that
,as from the South, stepped into my
Office about 10 p. m. and said: Don t
raff want to see kimpton OF South Car
alma fame. he is Just passing, come
vrrb me and | viii show him to YOU"
IF was bitter cold. rain. hail aud snow
r,s driven before a strong east wind.
-gopucrs, shop girls, business men all
muflcG in their wraps, were hurrying
alI speed to the grateful shelter and
comfort Of their homes. One figure
moved slow, !istlcssly in this hurrying
thr0ug. apparently needless alike OF the
ucop.e and the cold.
Crippled by rheumatism, contracted
+. the IJiups Of prison cells, and by eX-
ug-u.c On the streets, he could step only
.aqat y inches. Under the glow Of
Tie electric lights, / could see his old
battered Derby hat, a thin old faded
.rlg coat. evidently made for a man of
smaller dimensions. AMI greatly worn,
4ra.r OF ragged, dilapidated boots, and
.aut, that that hung literally in shreds
aud ribbons about his shIyeriu9 limbs.
How .uexorable the law Of r%etributiou ,
"It has only been a short time since
--,uJ him up for 10 days on a charge
.. E~t-raucy," said the Oh Ger.
pcuuIiess, iriendless, homeless, a
.LtHY be9gar, whose p~leadings for a
penny, aud UNDECIDED 10y the men who
.aly a few years ago trequcnted his gor-
-.aI- furnished apartments, and re-
.e.yyd such a welcome as only the FL
aauDaI Agent OF S. c." could give.
by the way, did you know that he was
once u citizen OF our state: | am in
.u-mcd that hc and Col. b. s.. Pardce
were copartners in the mercantile bus
70 Elizabeth City, aud conducted the
largest store there for about two years
Just after the war.
"lou can see many strange things on
Ills street if you viii keep your eyes
opens said the policeman, as Kimpton
passed out of sight. He called my at
teaaou to Il man about 90 years Of age,
who was blind. lie wore a thin old
brown overcoat with the cape turned
ur over his old slouch hat, and was
blowing On a little ) cent harp. He
wore u belt to which was chained his
-u .e and guard-a Spitz dog. This
faithful animal goes before him and with
human sagacjty leads him carefully
around obstacles and dangers, and by
IBIS bark notifies you, if there is danger
of guur running against the old man.
This man. [ was told lives il a misera-
hH. basement, but that he owns valua-
bic real estate in the city, and that about
sixteen months ago he paid $1,000
cash for "a piece OF property. How does
he get his money | inquired. Just at
what you see him at now, -begging - or
nj least | never heard OF his doing any
thing else"
Every movement in regard to the inn
pending var between England aud Rus
s.l. is watched here with deep interest,
the >Aarpers in the Exchanges watch
eagerly for chances to speculate, and
the General business man hopes that by
some chance, perhaps a heavy demand
for many Of our surplus manufactured
wares, The general depression in bust
ness may be relieved. The politicians
are all at sea-" Cleveland, the mag
u.ictnt listener has a way Of doing
tlugs right 'tOther way" and they
ara bctuddled.
y profound interest Ill ten. GfauIs
condition pervades all classes.
l.. l.. i.
EDITORIAL NoTE.-"The Colo
mel" b. 5. Pardee, who wrote the letters
to New Haven Paladium III praise of
the Jarvis-Butler Blowout at Boston,
is the gent who made the tour of this
State IN 1884. and leetured on the per
~u.c.ousness OF Southern Frying Pans"
and other domestic iniquities.
Who paid his expenses in that cam
pain : We have been unable to find a
copy of the Finance Report of the
Agricultural Department for IS8I-'S2 '83
Was one printed: II as interesting as
the one for IS83-'84, It would be news"
to the people at large.