The daily state chronicle., 1891-04-19

self, old horses, that have been run
hard and taken from the turf for years,
rarely succeed we'll, in second training.
The following extracts give pleasant
view of his simple farm life and contain
an account of the new process of curing
tobacco which has brought so much
money to the industrious raisers of
bright tobacco.
Buck SPRING.
2o April 1929.
We had frost last night, which fear
has injured the fruit and mast, aud it
is 50 cold to-day that am writing near a
pretty good fire; tobacco plants uncom-
mon small, for the time of the year, and
! do not believe that | have one as large
as the eighth of dollar. More tobacco
intended to be planted in the county
this year than the last.
One of the countrymen cured his to-
bacco in the new way. and sold it for
thirteen dollars hundred. 1t was sold
Immediately afterwards for $14 Mine,
old fashioned averaged little more than
"a. expect to be scuff I'D to keep even
with the world in mouey affairs, but
shall try to do it, my own wants are not
many, bat others who think they have
a just claim on me, for support, are not
80 limited; they are young, but not ex-
travagant for the times.
i have had the skirts of the an old coat
cut to mend the sleeves, and a pair of
pantaloons, this was done because had
not time to have cloths spun and woven
as yet. Yet have kept clean of the AC-
CURSED THING tariff.
In his later life Mr.. RANDoLPH's eccen-
tricities were such that he received the
criticism, and often the harshest and
most severe criticism, of the press of the
country. Much Of it was due to the
fact that he was blunt and outspoken
and violently opposed the policies ad
vocated by most of the papers. These
criticisms and rebukes, which often de-
scended to abuse, were very CALLING to
Mr.. RANDoLPH's friends, and to none
more so than to Mr.. MACON. In that
same letter, written from Buck Spring,
April 2sth, to his friend, he writes:
Printers are printers, the trade is to
support them and Editors and printers
of newspapers are like the long S and
the short or the straight and the
round Dali the same. l am certain
that you will never repent retiring from
public life, though no man ever retired,
whose retiring was more regretted by
the honest good livers of the country
government of Editors, would be gov
ernment of the hungry, if half they
state about themselves be true"
This indicates that he did not have
as high a conception of the dignity and
the calling of an editor as is entertained
in these days Perhaps many of them
were not worthy of it.
The following letter is both pastoral
and political. He uses words of truth
and soberness when he denounces Judges
who are influenced by political consid
erations. 1t is such an easy thing for a
Judge to allow political bias to control
his decisions, and so difficult for him tc
keep in view the fact that when he goes
upon the bench he ceases to be parti.
zan, that there is need in this day to
emphasize the impartiality which ought
to characterize the bearing of Judge.
We need MACON to thunder phillipics
at partizan Judges. The letter is as fol-
lows:
Goth Oct, 1880
The mast it is thought.
will fatten hogs in some places, not so
about me; Old corn is now three dollars
barrel, the new crop not great, wheat
in no demand.
If there was capital at Weldon or Hal
flax the Roanoke navigation would no
doubt succeed, as most people seem anx-
ious to carry their crops to one of the
places.
Clays speech at Cincinnati and John
SONS eight points which You have doubt
less seen, surpass all the electioncering
nave ever seen; one candidate for the
presidency, the other Supreme Judge.
cannot comment on either. They both
seem to go too far for me, to say q word
about them; but when candidates for