The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-08-21
PIEDMONT CAROLINA.
The Charleston News and Courier, Cor
respondent Finds Some Interesting
Items in Our Land OF the Sky.

AtC"> tu ou1 oI shy.
have Just returned from a flying trip
up the Western North Carolina Railroad
from this place on through StatesvIlle.
hickory and other thriving towns com
prloing the heart of The Piedmont section
IA Journey fraught with many pleasant
incidents aud unlocked for sights, and IN
which business and pleasure, lnvigoratlng
health renewal and additions to my stock
Of information in regard to the Eden of
the Old North State, were most delight
fully commlngled. The State Guard had
PASSED that portion of it belonging to the
eastward counties-down this same road
IA few days previously, returning home
ward from their encampment near Ashe
vile; and while their sayings and dOings,
their haps and mishaps were in every
body ) mouth on the cars, the all absorb
ing topic was the revival, after three years
Of disastrous failure, of agricultural pros
poets in this fertile region, aud the visible
signs on every side of an uncommOnly
large yield at the autumnal gathering of
the boHntiful and varied crops. A broad
glln Of universal hope and satisfaction
was fast becoming stereotyped upon the
average rustic face. Men who, through
spring and summer, had mOrtgaged, tug
ged and worried for means to carry on
farms denuded of subsistence by continu
Gus failures, We're now buoyant and con
fident of paying out with a profit The
fact is, had a similar drought to those of
the past three years taken the place of the
coplouS rains, most men would have been
broken and ruined. Then a new inter
prise IN the production Of tobacco has
opened up lately all over this western
slope, and should this succeed, in con
junction with the heavy corn and cotton
yields, it will certainly create an agrlcul-
tural Independence unfelt for many year,
perhaps not since rfle war.
OF course there was much talk on the
road OF the recent military encampment,
its success in the main and its failure in
part; and discussions bstween passengers
were rife and frequent, pro and con, as to
the wisdom and feasibility of the adjutant-
generals almost unfOrt unate and now no
torlous General Orders, Nos. and =
On account of the first he has been pOunced
upon by all those who neither overflow
with sentimentalism. nor are inclined to
bald forgetfulness of the many NAL ;td
minstrations of the great man who was
mentioned for third Presidential term
| ''No. ~ is about to raise a row between
HIM and the companies whose officers he
thrt atens with dismissal on account of
their leaving camp with their men before
the day set for the final departure of the
mass-the with or without leave seeming
10 be Il debatable question between hlm
and some other authorities on the field
The amount of the matter seems to be that
extra haste produced the one error and
some misunderstanding the other. Of
course they are all sensible, honorable
men, more accustomed to the details OF
trade Just now than the tcchnicalitieS of
the tested field, and consequently rather
,I,.fy< ~ h.
! latter. AT least this seems to be the view
of the conservative popular element.
The enthusiasm for the new era of
| growth in manufacturing interests, was
aroused by the enterprise unparalleled of
the young town Of Hickory, where tobacco
factories wagon and wood shops of all
sorts have sprung into existence aS II by
! magic in he last ten Years and are IN rapid
4 course of erection at the present. Vet its
/ push and vlgOr have found a atea'iy com
petitor in old Statesvile. Which has lately
rushed up 50 many factories and other
buildings and - increased in population
that ii Is la dly recognized beside tint
ante bcllum village on the ruins OF whoso
Kp Van Winkl ism the New South i
rearing "A Western North Carolina city
Tobacco is the lever which is lifting the>,
and Il dozen other towns hereabouts into
tll1HttIt VI itlltl II lUt Notit
market for the weed continues good, VT
may expect this whole section 10 increase
more in wealth during the next ten year.
than it has for the last twenty FIVE
The historical old town where Green,
and CORVALLIS slept by turns, the site o
the Confederate prison the SLOW an,
sure" corporation of Salisbury is gons
ahead too with no uncertain, feeble step
She is building, building, building New
manufactures and residences are constant
" rising within her limits, and the open
ing of navigation on the Iadkin, and th
Yadkin Valley Railroad are planned, ant
will be executed for her eventual CONNER
cial prominence.
Stepping from the ears yesterday int
the shops adjoining the depot | saw som
of the handsomest cars ever built in tn
South They are marvels of architecture
convenience, elegance, and comfort ant
beauty, little palaces on wheels. where tn
tedium of travel will be almost forgotten
amid the idealism of a moving home,
locomotive drawing room.
Davidson county, adjoining Rowan, 60
which latter Salisbury is the county seat
on the east, has always been noted for tn
fertility of its Jersey settlement.
am informed that here, in the iudgmen
Of her best farmers, corn will be produces
this fall at the rate of sixty odd bushel
to the acre and perhaps the finest as ais
l. the heaviest tobacco to be found in til
I western yield. may be at once sampled.
The hotels have been crowded here 70
weeks With an influx and etttuX of trave
lers going hIther and thfther in search Q
pleasure aud moving over the hllly cOul
try. At two hotels alone 81 registere
. within the past week.
! The clerks IN our court room are jus
,, now biting the nethor end Of their pens
waiting for the unwonted lull in the al
/ mails of crime to pass by, and the facile il
struments to be again sent flying over tn
{ blank spaces III warrants and summons
, and King Alcohol and King Murder ar
taking quiet walk somewhere and gath
5 ering their forces. The jail is nearly emf
ty, and, barring few petty thefts, W
hear little of the startling revelations
our own bounds on which the sensation
loving newspaper reader feasts. Over
J., MocksvilIe. eighteen miles to the nOrtf
$ somebody lifted fifteen chickens from OF
roost one night last week.
The summer heat has been intense e'
erywhere this season III WilkesbOrO, or
Of our mountain towns. tanned 5nYarlahl
t BY Il semi Alpine air, the The rml2ilnetey hs
staod ~ degrees uAdel the roofs and II
i degrees III the rays of old Sol.
A young man named Rowan Hartze
has been recently jailed in Statesyille, al
cuSad of arson at ElmwOO0 a station In