The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-17

Palmer, "watch-maker.' G. B. Roo.
mao q Jewelry store second door be.
low, l think. On a back street on this
DOCK a Mr. Thompson had a cabinet
shop- was told that he n a negro
man. Uncle Handy Lockhart. and
some other negro slaves under his di-
rectlon made all the furniture-soIid
mahogany-now in use in the Senate
ana House of
Uncle Handy Lockhart was a free
negro n very pompous. Every
pooy called him Uncle Handy" The
oaF the Yankees came Uncle
nanny (Handy vas a black negro)
was passing going TO his home. Mrs.
Scott residence. After he had pass
ed by a little way Mrs. Scott called
Uncle Handy" Handy walke back
ana IN a very pon1pous said,
Madam, [ did not know any rela-
tIonship existed between you and l.
opposite James McKimmon's
Where the Southern Express Com
pany Is was Ruttin fuckers genera
merchandise store; Williams & Hay
wood Drug Store, corner Fayetteville
and Hargett streets. A drug store
now lower down on same side of the
street was the store of Oliver & Proc
tor, merchant tailors. Their sign
read:
Merchant Tailors.
Upon asked what the three RS
meant l can recollect Mr.. divers
laugh: Raleigh Ringtailed Rousers."
On the corner recently occupied
by j. |. Johnson's drug store Harry
Keim, a German with poor English,
in a o%ne-story wooden building sold
cinnamon. cigars, candy, snuff. etc.
You could smell one of Harry's cigars
a block, a mixture Of cinnamon and
tObacco.
On opposite corner. in a two-story
wooden building, a whole-souled
IriShman kept a bar room. Also a
billiard table upstairs was owned by
+ John Kane. The young bloods Of
that day were his patrons. He was a
man respected by everybody. Near
Kane' place in a mild row somebody
knocked down a white man named
Billy Patterson. Billy carried it to
court. From hat day to this no one
has ever been able to ascertain who
struck Billy Patterson.
John Primrose kept a store next
to Fisher Building n sold general
merchandise. I think in those days
all the merchants sold groceries also.
I lived till I was twelve years old
in a one and a half story building
where h Fisher Building now is.
and where the present market house
IS was an iron pump-pump and stock
all iron. A tumblerful of water from
this pump would in a little while
have a deposit Of one-fourth inch
iron rust
Across the street. about where the
Briggs building stands. perhaps a lit
tie above, a man named Stiles kept a
bar room in a tWO-StOry wooden
building. In those days cherry
bounce was a drink much liked. A
barrel filled with Morello cherries
and the interstices filed with apple
brandy. In those days there were
thousands of Morello cherry trees;
alas, all gone. I recollect sitting on
the doorstep Of my fathers house
seeing two negroes bring a barrel to
the pump and empty the cherries out
or the ground preparatory to wash
ing out n filling up again with
cherries. An old SOW and seven little
pigs came up and went to work on
the cherries. In a few moments l
| saw q funny sight. Mother and pigs
| all got drunk, and such antics. The
mother n pigs would dance around
on their hind legs, roll over and do
| all sorts of funny things. l recollect
the fumes from the barrel smelt
mighty good to me and [ said to my
self when / got big / was golnS to
| have some cherry bounce. Strange
to say, I have never yet tasted any
| cherry bOunce.
n. w. WEST.
Raleigh. N. c., Oct. s, 1911.