The Durham daily globe., 1891-09-23
KEEP OFF THE GRASS.


COLONEL J. d. CALHOUN, the loathsom
cuss who writes obituary notices in tn
lincoln (Nebr) Herald, after writing t.
several North Carolina hotels for term
for gentleman, etc and being Informed
that they were cash, and money demanded
in advance from passengers without bag
gage, thinks to get even with the state BY
the following libeious and what might be
termed scurrilous article, which appears
in recent issue Of that sheet:
For years | have been reading about
the attractions of the mountain region
Of the old state of North Carolina, both
as summer and winter resort. All the
hotels advertise the hunting and fishing
as being beyond compare, and as | am
getting little old and rheumatic, sub
ject to malaria, and not free from sus-
plclons that my digestion is becoming
impaired, | had about made up nv min d
to 60 down there for a season. The
sporting papers contained the most at
tractiVe advertisements of cheap resorts,
Where the fare was elegant and the
charges nominal, where a fellow could
drink ozone from the purest air in the
WOrlG, where freestone springs Of ice
cold water bubbled up on every hand
where squirrels and quails abounded, and
"here the Skilful sportsman could get all
the deer he wanted and might now and
then take in good fat black bear. AS
tor the succulent and toothsome o'pos-
| sum, lie was as common as house cats,
incidentally, it was suggested that the
| woods were full of the most delicious
fru1t-the persimmOn, the grape, the
| muscadlEe, haWs and berries In endless
variety, and all that sort of thing. In
short, here was an outdoor paradise.
1--WE ell, as | said, [ was on the point of
gong there and have a revel. But [ be-
thought myself of the address of friend.
and l wrote him to send me few comics
OF the local papers, which he obligingly
dId. You can imagine my dismay and
disappointment at finding their advertis-
ing columns bristling with notices that
no hunting, fishing or any other form of
trespassng would be allowed on the lands |
OF the slgners. So far as | could Judge |
from the numbers ofathese notices there
lsE't an acre of open ground in the whole |
Blue Ridge.
mo. [ don't propose to go to North
Carolina. And it would be a good idea
tor the landlords to take in their signs so |
far as hunting and fishing are concerned,
1t looks like confidence game was being
played by somebody. A man can obtain
Tor his family the freedom of hotel back
yard and the public roads without going
to the Tar Heel state for it,"
1t is all very we'll for MIR. Calhoun to
attempt to pass himself off as thorough
bred Yankee and feign ignorance OF
everything east Of the Mississippi and
south of MASON and D1xoN's line.
But it wont work in this Junk shop.
The elderly gentleman of this printing
knows all about Mr.. CAL
HoUN and remembers as Yesterday the
time when they skinned eels together and :
ate raw opossum when swamped way
down IN Georgia. He knows all about |
who his mother was, his grandmother, s
his great grandmother and paternal an |
2eStor seven times removed, with such {
other relations and family connections as {
nave bearing on this history. c
And the editor of the The GLOBE /
Knows that COLONEL CALHOUN knows /
nat what he has here written is base i
ma constituencies misrepresentation of a
he greatest state in the Union. t
AS tor the sign boards, no man knows O
letter than COLONEL CALHOUN havinp n
pent the greater portion of his life where G
uch practices were common, that thew Il
we're simply scheme of the real estate e
gent to produce the impression abroad d
hat there were some people living in G
'orth Carolina, and to disguise the real a.
act OF the business that the Elderado to =
men they sought to entice the unwarv Il
,ranger was merely a barren waste and 81
bowling Wilderness T
Had COLONEL CALHOUN approached gi
carer to the boards, he would have in
'und them to be simply notices to to
Keep Off the Grass" provided said
cards had not been devoured by the -
'StIve mountain goat which inhabits W
lis region. And as for there being no ar
tme, he would have found the cele- ne
,a'ed razor-back hog running wild in lii
e streets Of our principal cities together tn
I'm the wild ass, the six-legged jobber- is
ock' the horned jepthzychpz, and such to
her varieties as bring thousands of Su
lnters to the state every season and M,
men have earned for North Carolina ga
e fame which she enjoys among north. clr
n spOrtsmen. TT
But seriously, my dear colonel, let Us mc
honest. 1,
" ny not add that the North Carolina at
siSiature has never been called upon OLD
an appropriation to prevent star are