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THE OLD NORTH STATE. 



Surrey County, N. C, April 26. — Editors Constitution : 

 The biggest man in the world was fattened in North Carolina, 

 having reached the enermous avordupois of one thousand 

 pounds. The anecdotest man in the world lives in that state. 

 The largest lump of gold was found there, too, and the Bun- 

 combe part of that state is without a rival for its cabbage 

 heads. 



If you stick a pin through the map, near the coast at the 

 northeast corner of North Carolina, about Currituck, and 

 whn*l the old North State around with your finger, you will find 

 the southwest corner, in the circumference made will brush 

 both the states of Maine and Florida, and that it embraces 

 within its territory a greater variety of products than any 

 state in North America — from cotton to tobacco, rice to buck- 

 wheat, tar to balsam, goobers to chestnuts, coal to iron, nickle 

 to gold, corundum to diamonds — and let it be ever remem- 

 bered by all Americans that it was from this old North State 

 the first bugle notes of independence were sounded, whose clar- 

 ion blast awakened this great continent, and its sound went 

 across the great waters to the shaking up of kingdoms. Great 

 is the old north state. 



Recently I listened to a song of the old North State, ren- 

 dered by a Surrey county young lady with so much patriotic 

 pathos that I caught the inspiration. As each verse proceeded^ 



