The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12
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N0RMENT AND DOCkERY
THE EE-CORNERED FIGHT
IN TIE SIXTH DISTRICT.
SOME PlTHY POLITICAL POINT!
And Other Small Talk Heard on the Railroad
Trains and 'tIzwhere by a
Traveller.

l had the pleasure of meeting the
other day at Lincoln Lithia Springs,
| Mrs. \. Il. Grady. of Athens, Georgia.
| the venerable mother of the lamented
Henry w. Grady. Mrs. Grady is a
very charming representative of the
| best and most talented of our elderly
| Southern women. She is almost as in
| tcrcsting to talk to as was her distin-
I guishcd son, and she is well informed
on all the current topics of the day. and
| there is withal vein of humor in her
conversation that is very entertaining
and intensely edifying.
met also at this popular resort,
Lieutenant Governor Hull and Mrs.
Hull, of Florida, and Il number of other
distinguished guests who were enthusiasts
| tic in their praises~/of Lincoln Lithia
| Springs, and its most excellent manage
| mcnt
| was told Il few days ago by Mr.
Burroughs, the railroad agent ut South
ern Pines. that the fruit growers \of
Southern Pines had shipped already this
season over million and Il half pounds
Of fruit.
The J. Van Lindley Orchard Company
has shipped over one hundred car loads
of peacheS-over thirty-iivc thousand
crates
1t is intimatcd that Mr.. Van LindIcy
and his associates will make Il net
profit this year, on their famous four
hundred acre orchard at Southern Pines,
! of more than twenty-five thousand dol
lars, and yet Il few years ago these
sand bills were said to be good for moth
ing, except to hold the world together.
II " Il
Dr. r. NJ Norment, if one may judge
from his own expressions. is Il very
determined candidate for Congress ia
the Sixth district ! met him at Hamlet
the other evening and saw him holding
some seemingly very interesting confabs
with several Richmond county Rcpuh-
lioans. During the evening | approached
him sitting on the veranda smoking a
long stem pipe with a bowl as big as a
goblet.
Are you still in the Congressional race
Doctor" | ventured to ask.
Yes, sir. he said, and when you hear
from me the next time, | will be in the
race. Il am organizing my campaign"
he said, ''and am ready to meet all
Corners"
Il am very anxious to meet my two
opponents, BcIlamy and Dockery, and
if possibly ! am going to have Il joint
! campaign. 1t is threc-cornercd fight.
and / am not in it for fun and before
the campaign has progressed very far,
| intend that the people of the district
shall know just where every man stands
and how many platforms he proposes to
stand on.
Henry Docllery," continued the Doc
tor. pledged the Republican convention
that his brother was Il Republican and
had 'pented of his Populist bolt in '96,
and Il week or two afterwards Oliver
himself pledged the populist convention
that he was still Populist, and | have
II copy of II letter from him to Cy
Thomson, chairman of the Populist COM
mittec, which is going to make mighty
interesting reading before this campaign
is over.
''Ies, sir, my tickets will be at the
polls in due form, and | am going to
make it mighty lively for the county
Republican organizations and candidates
claims in favor of Il man who voted
against the last Republican president,
and is pledged to vote against the next
Republican nominee for president"
IL
| am going to risk the statement that
the incest and most richly furnished
little hotel in the State, is at Hamlet. 1t
is the newly completed Magnolia annex
to the Gresham and Jamison hotel at
that place, and is Il perfect gem, the
furniture is made from the richest and
daintiest bird-eye maple. The beds are
brass tipped pyramids of ease and cJm-
fort; the carpets are the most costly and
gorgeous plush, bright and cheerful, and
as soft as snow. 1t is small, but very
swell.
/ saw the other day four generations
on one train, Il great grandmothcr, Il
grandmother. mother and daughter,
they were natives of the Cape Fear Soc
ton and neither of them, so | was
informed by Il gentleman on the tram,
had ever been out of the State. They
looked strong and healthy, even to the
Observation-Disclosures herself, who had
passed her ninety-hrst year. She walked
in and took her seat without any assist
ance, and seemed to stand the hot, aus
ty ride as well as any Of the passengers.
This was IL little history in four volumes
that tells of the healthfulness Of good
old North Carolina
Several months ago Il good deal was
being said pro and con about the merits
of Il new yarIey of cotton known as the
african Limbless." j went out the
other evening to take ii look at lot
of this cotton now being grown by Mr..
w. A. Myatt on his farm one mile north
of Raleigh. Mr.. Wyatt has one acre
planted in this variety and if appear
ances count for anything the yield is
going to be wonderful. The cotton will
now average six feet high. 1t is AS
buovant as can be and has already an
average of forty bolls and squares to
the stalk 1t is practically limbless ana
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