The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-12

no people can be any more so than L am
and yet am forgotten by this giant Ger
poration The day is surely coming wnen
the common people, the plain people, mus,
be heard. We have been too long TIE
creatures of capital Before election ouI
ewes are as the diam onds bright, but after
election, on again looking at the poll books,
we find that our names were registered as
Dennis.
/ said this last evening in speaking OF
sour Nation, Past and Present" which
was the subject of my address
To return, however, to my fireworks
order / tagged the train six or seven
times to ask the conductor if my fireworks
had come. At the end of that time he said
he guessed that would do me. i said,
Possibly you don't know who l amp He
said 10, he did not. He had no personal
acquaintance with the peasantry of Bun
combe county, this state. Drid.ed up and
said:
s.Sir, / am here under an assumed
name''-
Doubtless" said he, waving his lily
white hand for the stoker or driver 70 go
on with the train, 81 think L have tasted
some OF your handiwcrk, and if you flag
this train again / will tell the internal
revenue authorities where you are.n
By this time the train was half way to
Arden station, leaving me bitterly holding
my mule by the bride and feeling real
J.
METROPOLIS of western North Carolina, out
unjust railroad discrimination viii keep her
back. fear. We are going to hold a meet
ing here soon. however, and give express
sion to the popular feeling. We are almost
certain that within a few years steps will
be taken toward the passage of an act en-
towering and encouraging the organization
of rival corporation, having Skyland as
its termini. / say termini partly because
North and South Sxyland will be the OBJ
1ective points, and partly because in all my
literary work have never before had an
cpportunity To use the word termini.
I ordered for my pyrotechny about 200
piaces. including paper bag Of torpedoes
and a package of punk. 1t was generally
understood as far away as Upper Hominy
and Sandy Mush that on the evening of the
Fourth | would let off over 200 pieces of
pvro.echny, including part Of my thumb.
Mary children at the breast came from a
distance bringing their dinners with them
and remaining through the day. People
came from as far west as Pisgah. One
man brought the smaller OF his children in
an old band wagon. His other children,
who were not yet quite so helpless, were
loaded on hayreck and came on later.
twas q gala day for Skyland- The fire.
works had come and some friends from
ashyille brought a lemon with them. We
enread the buffalo robe on the grass and
fabIe was brought out for the speaker. For
convenience ] divided up the exercises of
the day into two parts--viz., Part /, morn
ing exercises at the grove; Part ii, evening
exercises also at the grove.
In speaking Of the grove did 80 more
for deyliment than anything else, for this
end of the state is all grove, being virgin
wilderness against which a tongue of
scandal has never breathed the breath of
the deadly upas tree, nor higot forged
chain. Oh, would that were safely back
in that bright land again, as the fellow
says.
The morning exercises consisted of the
usual selections-"Americ on the organ
cite. accompanied by child voices: reading
of the Declaration OF Independence and q
few selections from the proceedings of the
Tennessee legislature; complimentary
prayer by the chaplain: singing OF Red,
White and Blue'' by man from States
vile; piece on the melodeor, entitled pee