The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-31
FINE TRUCKING AND FREE SILVER
Eastern North Carolina for julie Carr
and the White Metal.

Goldsboro, n. c., May 29.-(Staft
Correspondence.) Eastern North Car
olina is Just now about the busiest
section of the State. The strawberry
crop has been gathered and marketed
and has been the heaviest in the his
tory of the section. Mt. Olive, on
the Atlantic Coast Line has shipped
more than eight hunderd thousand
quarts this season, Warsaw, Falsons,
Burgaw, Rocky Point and Wilmington
are not far behind in strawberry ship
mentS
Cabbage, beans and potatoes are
moving now in great train and snip
loads.
Goldsboro. Newbern, Kinston and
other eastern points are invading the
great markets with these products OF
our great eastern section.
Talk about silver, but Eastern North
Carolina is for it at ratio of about
100 to /, including Democrats, Popu-
lists, Prohibitionists, Republicans and
one-half the negroes. / have been in
ten counties during the past few days
and have not seen an average of five
gold standard men to the county.
The gold-bug has hummed till he has
busted his hummer,
The straddle-bug is mum but we are on
TO his hummer,
But the silver-bug is ''some" for the
balance of the summer.
The Gubernatorial question is being
| talked every where and the almost
unanimous choice of the Democrats
] have talked to are staunch advocates
of the nomination of Col. Julian ,.
Carr. of Durham, as the man to lam
the vanity out of Dan1 l.. Russell.
A gentleman, who voted the fusion
ticket in "a, told me that if the Chi
cago convention nominated a silver
man and the State convention nomi-
mated Col. Carr, that the Democrats
would cary Onslow county by an old
time six hundred majority.
/ met Judge Russell at his summer
cottage at Wrightsville a few evenings
ago. The judge is corpulent as ever,
| but is as mum as the CLAIMS that are
| caught in Wrightsville Sound; that
buoyant spirit of confidence that char
acterized him during his fight for the
nomination has departed, and it is
perfectly evident that the revolt
| against the judges nomination has
taken just about siNty-six and twoz
| thirds per cent of the stiffening OUT
of this Gubernatorial improbablity.
He calls the roasts that he has been
getting ''ice-bergs." compared with
what he expected, but they have sure
ly cooled his ardor. and put him to
thinking. He may or may not have
written TO Senator Pritchard that he
would Withdraw, but it is perfectly
evident that without some assurance of
Populist support he is not 'spilin to
make the campaign.
| | met at Faisons, in Duplin county
some days ago Solomon Hill, a we'll
educated and successful colored mer-
chant. Support Russell?' He said,
no, sir, but | am going to do all |
can to defeat him, and you can just
rely on it that he will not get twenty
| five votes-colored and white-in my
township. The negroes are not all
| savages. nor are they all FOOLS" said
Hill, "and Russell will find this out
when election day comes
Duplin is Abe Middleton's county.
| BY the way, a merchant in Warsaw
| told me that Abe was very flush when
he returned from the State convention.
He, bipself, cashed draft for Abe
| for thirty dollars. drawn by Taylor,
of Wilmington. the man whom Rus
sell is trying to get in Fred. Rice's
place.
| / met another rather interesting
colored man in Onslow county. His
name is Solomon Urine, and he is one
of the trusted employees on the famous
Glenoe stock farm. / was driven by
| Sol. over this beautiful farm, behind
a twenty-five hundred dollar horse. |
| incidently asked him how he stood
on the political question. Il never
cast a vote in my life" he replied, land
/ never expect to unless i know just
what / am doing when / cast it
Wouldn't l be nice somebody" said
SOL, ito be going up to the ballot-box
and putting in a vote against the
white men who feed me and feed my
family. No, sir, / am not that kind of
a negro. | know how to manage Mr..
McIntire's horses; / have been work
| ing for him eight years, and have never
had either Mr.. McIntire or Mr.. Whit
ing. his manager, nor Mr. Freeman, his
superintendent, to speak cross word
to me, and the reason is that / attend
to nay business and let politics alone"
| took my first trip on Friday last up
New river. This is one the most
beautiful rivers in the world, and is
probably the most productive In Ash,
oysters, CLAIMS, crabs, etc, OF any other
river of it's length in America. 1t is
the only manageable river in the United
States that begins and ends in the
same county. 1T is about thirty-eight
miles long and averages nearly two
miles wide, and into it flows two
dozen or more smaller streams. Fish
ing here is good all the year round. Its
oysters are delicious from Christmas
to Christmas, and it is the winter home
e. al, g Il
geese. 1t is called the sportsman
Paradise, and well deserves the name
F. j. ARENDELL.