Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-31
THE CAROLINAS.
NEWSPAPER THAT EVERYBODY
READS.
oseensboro's Progrsss-Ics In North Caro-
lina-violets In south
Carolina.
rcorrcsnondonce Of tho Richmond Dispatch.

tfN IRAN. So 49,
To n Virginian who is proud OF his
State and her enterprises it isl gratifica-
ton as he travels through the Carolinas,
especially in the Old North State, TO see
how popnlar the Dispatch is. You see it
AT all the principal hotels, andperhaps hall
A dozen waiting for it. You hear 1t called
for al every station. The newsboy be-
tween Danyille and Charlotte, n. G.,
saws he sells more Dispatches than any
other paper, and yon may consider your
self fortunate il he has one left for You
and you have an opportunity to perlse,
undisturbed, its familiar columns.
Twas more impressed with the growth,
stir. and business energy OF Greensboro
than any other North Carolina town L
saw. Its so near the Virginia line, you
see. There are three or four large new
tobacco warehouses there, and great
deal of pretty, bright wrappers changing
hands. The prices are fine, the farmers
in excellent spirits, money circulating
freely, and every day getting better. The
town is full of new houses, has crowded
itself across the railroad and gone a-gal-
loping in the country at a great speed.
Among the new public buildings you
may notice a fine. substantial Govern
ment building, large, artistic-looklng
court. house. a pretty Baptist church, and
a fine, connections city school-building
inst completed. The last two were built
bv Mr.. Woodroffe, the well known
North Carolina contractor, who Temod-
elled the Centenary Methodist church
in Richmond, and built the Stanton
Opera- House, and the Miller Scool editice
in Albemarle county.
The weather was very cold in Danville
and Greensboro; ground covered with
snow, pavements covered with sleet.
ponds covered with ice, and ice covered
with boys. The snow lies well on the
ground and the housetops until you
PASS Charlotte, and all at once you don't
see any more, and then you are in South
Carolina. here the people say they have
not had any snow tins winter. Come on
down near Columbia and you see the
vasheryomen with their tubs and ket-
ties. washing out in the yards, the YER
benas showing bright in their beds, not
having been nipped yet; lunches OF
blue and white viOlets on the banks, ana
oats and grass looking green. While the
people on the car will ride with the WIN
dows up, those at the stations Will
lounge around the depots in their
shirt sleeves. 1t seems strange
for twelve hours travelling to make such
a change in ones surroundings, but 1t IS
fast time we are making.
The last of the cotton crop OF 1887 is
piled on the depot platforms, and the
trains and depots are grooming with thou
sands of tons of fertilizer and "gohan-
Ma" as the darkies call it, coming IN for
the next crop. The negroes are yawn-
ing and stretching themselves as If get
ting ready for another years work, for 1t
takes time for them to get ready forany-
thing. Two gentlemen who got on at
the last station say they can get but four
days' work out of the darkies in the
week that they have to go to town
Saturday. and 90 they will if they lose
their wages and the farmer his crop by
it. Then they spend Sunday aud sun
day night at church, and Monday they
sleep and get ready to go to work Tues
day. They are very religious, too, after
their fashion, especially since the earth
quake. Everyman, woman, and child goes
TO church whenever there is any service.
They sing and pray devoutly, give most
hberally-don't stop at a tenth by any
means don't swear much but drink
whiskey? Don't talk Still my neigh
bors tell me they like to work them.
They are very polite and well behaved,
too, since they have got to be good Dem
ocrats. When they were Republicans
in the halcyon days of Governor Moses
they were insolent, thieving, treache-
rous, murderous, and everything went
wrong both with them and the whites.
That sort of thing couldn't last, you
know. The negroes discovered that they
were making themselves disagreeable,
and they got tired of voting with the Re
publicans but they must vote, so they
commenced voting with the Democrats,
and had such nice time afterwards that
nearly all of them are good Democrats
now, and a Radical has mighty little
show in South Carolina now. Vox.