The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-26
NOTES By THE WAY.
SOME THINGS THE EDITOR HEARS
PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT.
Folks VIII Talk. Often Forgetting the
Hafim "A Chiefs Amanc W Takin'
Notes and Faith he'll preut it,

| 1t was a newly married couple and they
+ we're fastening 10 the nearest railroad
/ station 10 lake the first train for their new
home They We're married some five miles
IN the country and the carriage was NOV
ing aioug al a satisfactory pace while the
| couple were saying those sweet nothings
which folks viii say before they are aceus-
toned 10 married ways. suddenly one IF
the horses cOughed. stopped still in the
| road, and then fell down. one horse
couldn't pull the carriage The train
| wouldn' wait. Here was pretty how -dy-
DO. The blushIng.bride (of course She was
bluahing. Don't they all blush = got out
/ OF the carriage and took a seat on i stone
Oh the road side The groom walked up
and down the road rubbing his hands to
gether. The driver whistled w, won't
go home till morning"
This was the sad plight when a solitary
horseman' was seeu III the distance com
ing towards them. He took iii the situa-
tlon 1T a'glance dismouutcd hitched his
horse To the carriage and hurried them on
to catch the ,rain. They reached the sta
tlon Just III time and departed with many
thanks to the kind horseman \. b
This solitary horaeman, " part Of the story
IS strictly true and can be proved in any
court.
You can sec them on the train any day
now the ''prithee merry maidens' re
turning from the sea side resorts. As you
see them give EN- a good look and see if
the following has not been true:
With fiery eyes looked down the sun
At summer watering places,
And treckles now are seen upon
Most pretty maidens faces"
: read in paper the other day, said
an irate citizen, THAT the GUESTS at --
Hotel were having a delightful time, etc,
etc y week after left the place and my
bill was so big that | felt like following
the example of the Texan, who, when the
clerk in a New York hotel told him the
amount of his BILL said Guess again; I've
more money than that" | tell you that
| am tired Of reading in the papers about
the GUESTS of hotels. 1t is an improper
use of the word. They ought to be called
PATRONS. | hope the CHRONICLE will not
fall q don't think it has as yeti into that
habit of speaking. whenever go to Il
hotel,' he continued, 81 don't want to be
called GUEST pay as | go and want
to be called PAYER or PATRON.
''Who pays the way of the delegates
who attend the State convention :" asked
a gentleman as he WAS watching the dele
gates going to the hall. Each man pays
his own expenses, | replied. THE honor
of it is worth the cost and in some coun-
ties so many men desire to be delegates
that the county has not enough votes in
the convention to go around. Then there
are counties far removed from the central
part of the State in which there are no
men who care to spend the amount nee
essary to attend and they are sonnet mes
not represented. At State conventions
years ago Tom skinner from the East and
kopc Elias from the West held the balance
Of power by reason of appointment as
proxy Of the far removed counties. The
last convention refused to receive proxies
and now those counties which do not send
delegates have no voice in the nominations
Il have been living in North Carolina
fourteen years, said gentleman who
was born i'll the North, land up to date |
have not seen anything that could be call
ed prejudice to Northern settlers. The
people of North Carolina with whom have
come in cOntact''-he Is q business man
''have always been cordial to me ana given
my opinions as much consideration as they
deserve. No sir" he continued, North
Carolina people don't give bona tide North
ern settlers the cold shoulder They do
hate the carpet haggers' who have by their
rascaGty deserved hatred. Northern set
tiers who come to stay hate these fellows
who come down with a view to make
living by deceiving the negroes equally as
much as those who are native here and
to the mannOr born ;"