The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-01-28


body else viii X likely 70 oppose j. Ia
Noria 1ro..ua- hat Senator vance can-
not do, Your small fry will give VI as An
impossible job. Besides Senator Vance.
a. every body knows and - every North
taro!li4lan Is proad - aeAuaw lt4lSe. d the
hrpadcst man IL brains and heart ~ have
IN public lie eutirvly sincere anl patfi-
otc @ and honest obstruction and the
stronger the better i the t--~i thing =
good eaGse can encounter. Their. II enh
one unfortunate thing about IT, lis aN8N-
IL opposition 20 The reform y making him
the laughing stocA ~ great MANY - the
foremost men and journals south and
North. ci course II i causing a good deal
ot lying 10 be done North, West. Hast and
South, about North Carolina The ltln.
TetormerS faUd there are dudes and hNuo-
erltes enough among theml arr SAYING that
all North Carolina Is spoIls loving State.
and the dishonest fellows on the aer side
are again saying that no man can be i
Democrat and favor the reform Oh well
We have all learned long ago that 1t Is only
the patient and calm man that is trust
worthy. Those that howl loude>t against
the distinguished senator or against those
who know that he j, wrong iii is piece of
cowardlce 10 say YOU believe he Is wrong
a man y no has convictions knows things
lhose thtt get angry or say bad words or
declare the other people are humbugs or
lack patriotism or are not true to the State.
or All such nonsense-they do nobody any
harm Let us all wait and see. and while
We wait love one another. And what "A
chance Gen. Cox has to show his bao kbone
and TO make the biggest record in Congress
made for 10 years by any man from our
state, If he is rs bold as he is excellent
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tons OF life, he can step up among the
very foremost men in Congress.
Strangely enough New York is now put
ting on airs as a famous winter resort.
During this exceedingly cold weather II has
been more pleasant here than al most places
IN the Union. The deep snow has brought
the great winter sport known as toboggan
ing. y toboggan is nothing but Il plank
on runners and togobbaning is nothing
but going down hill Oh the snow as fast a.
possible. But the gravcst and most ven
crable persons get the most hilarious pleas
ure from it in New Jersey. They lay out
slides with an engineers precision and
equip togobbans at great expense with buf
falo robes and hot bricks, and sliding down
hill because the absorbing diversion Of
young and old The thing is not perfect,
howeve", for lack Of ''httle niggers' to pull
the things back up the hill. No civiliza-
tion can be complete without the small d.,r
key, no spolt supreme, no life worth living.
An important event in American history,
at least i'll the history Of American art and
its development, is taking place here nov.
Operas are given for the first time by
Americans While we have long ago got
to doing all sorts of things for ourselves
even the making Of poetry and the paint
ing Of pictures and while we have pro
duced singers of the highest merit, the
Italians have sung opera for us in their
own tongue and even done the ballet dane
Ing for diversion. a school of American
opera was opened early in the winter, and
every singer who presented himself or her
self and showed proper promise and indus
try and cultivation was put into training
and all the world now goes to the Acade
my of Music to see and to hear the Amer
lean opera 1t was so well done that the
Italians and Germans are ultimately likely
to be banlShed from the American stage
except, of course the few very greatest
ones. Finally, too, il is now hoped Ameri-
can talent at nu ical composition will he
stimulated that we shall actually have
operas composed by Americans as well Il,
Americans to sing them.
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