Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-11
The South .Revisited.

Enfield, N. O., is fair sized village | with some passable houses and picket fences. The soil in the village is dark. A little outside it is reddish, with oaks and cotton fields.
 Whittaker's has 200 inhabitants and two churches, Zone unpainted) Methodist and Primitive Baptist. Noticed cotton bales on the depot platform and the first OK team I have seen thus far.
 In conversation with North Carolini- an about the "unpleasantness' he remark | ed: ''I was smart enough to keep out of 1 the war" I find many who were bitterly opposed to the whole movement. Battelboro has brick depot. The will | lage is small, the houses one-story and | mostly unpainted. There were several stores. The land rolling with pines, oaks, l stumps and clearings. Corn and cotton fields and long piles of wood. Soil dark brown. Piles of ashes and other fertilizers | in the fields. The soil changes again to 1 yellow and then almost white.
 Rocky Mount is village on the Tar riv- CT. Several stores and one large, modern house. Brick depot. Ladies out in straw hats, (March 12) Gentlemen better dress say "Sir" to one another. Qt was "you nigger" before the war; Some good houses in the village; outside are cabins. Heaps of fertilizers in the fields showing better cultivation. Long wood piles be- side the track. Brooks and creeks ire quent. Dark soil. Churches, negro cab ins and clearings. ''The first "well l sweep" I have seen in the south. Lum- Der mills, stumps, and deserted cabins. "Corn shnck'' stalks for fodder. Soil grows "whity" again. Corn fields, pines and oaks.
 Toisnot. Stores and three small brick blockf. Not blade of grass cd the pub lie square. Outside the village the usual negro cabins. A brick yard and the first ditched land I have passed. The land well cultivated and ditching frequent The cabins better; clap-boarded and shingles.
 Wilson's. Change for Raleigh. Three thousand inhabitants. Houses fair; streets sandy. Glass windows in the cabins. Farther back saw woman blowing with one OK. Cross creek with an outlandish get it. Woman in calico gown and light blue sun-bonnet. Cabins poor and shabby. Land rolling. Negro woman in the long old fashioned sun-bonnets of fifty years ago. The first class cars are fur nished with spittoons. A forlorn country. How many portions of North
 Carolina ever came to be settled and in
 habited is beyond my comprehension
 Primitive brick yard with barrel for a
 miserable cabins, poor land, desolate coun.
 try, parti-colored hogs feeding, 'tWater,
 water everywhere, standing and stagnat ing in the woods and beside the track
 Kirby. Steam sawmill. A few wretch
 ed houses and cabins. The inevitable bar
 room and country store. Piney woods
 again. Dead trees and standing water 4
 brook with clear water. Pass first lager
 beer saloon.
 No stop at the next village. Steam saw
 land.
 Selina. Change for Fayetteville" Two
 small churches, steam sawmill, severa stores and cabins. ''Twenty-e milel
 to Raleigh" The squares and streets have some shade trees; no grass; pigs foragine on the square. This is the first regularly laid out town have seen. Pines and oaks
 corn and cotton. An occasional comfort
 able house, unpainted. Woods less ire
 quent. Cross Mouse river; higher and bet ) ter land; larger felds under cultivation ) less standing water; ditching frequent.
 Pass village with fine country store | and little church, comfortable houses, more frequent clearings. A field with five ol
 six teams ploughing The first barn ot
 matched boards have seen in North Caro lina Land more rolling as we approach Raleigh. Clayton. Two small churches, square and sandy streets. Pines and oaks. Cot ton bales at depot Houses unpainted. I cannot but admire the pluck of tht i North Carolinians in staying in such
 country. Soil whitey again. Pass tn. first good school house. Log cabins in habited by "poor white trash"
 Garner Station. Some painted houses l A negro boy flying kite. Less woods and more frequent clearings. Soil red I Raleigh in sight.