The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
ALLIANCE WORK IN HEREFORD.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
CHARLOTTE N. O.


lotte July 21st for a weeks canvass OF
said county in the interest OF the ALI
ance. We left Charlotte at $50 q. M.
over the Southern with that old veteran
Bro. McCandlish Jones at the bel-cord.
We run under the car shed at Raleigh
at Has, stopped 10 minutes, then
headed east. We arrived at the station
on the Atlantic Coast Line, 1875 miles
east of Raleigh, at 4 o'clock. Not hav
ing travelled over that section of the
State since the time Abe Lincoln and
JEFF Davis had the spat, we tried to
get a good glimpse of the country.
Q ute a number of apparently thriv-
ing towns have sprung up On the line
of the road, among the number we re
member are Garner, Auburn, Clayton,
Wilson, Selma, Jerome, Ksnly, Lu-
CANA, Contentnea, Elm City, Sharps
burg, Rocky Mount, K~iDgsboro, Tar
boro, Hobgood, Palmyra, and Aulan
der. All are new towns except Tar
boro and Rocky Mount, and they were
only wide places in the road at the
close Of the war. We were reminded
when passing Rocky Mount and Tar.
boro, of, some little incidents of wal
days. We remembered when passing
Rocky Mount that on one occasion a
farmers 300 pound hog attacked our
self and some of the other boys after
dark, and before day that hogs hide
was buried on the railroad track. Sol.
diers never allowed hogs to be turning
over pots and kettles about their mess
tents.
We remember at Tarboro in 1868 we
saw q poor fellow shot to death by
order Of q drum-head court martial,
and the offence vas leaving the army
without the necessary red tape and
going to see a sick wife. From Selma
TO Tunis We had as a seat companion,
Miss Carrie E. Walton, of Salem, Mass,
who was returning to her home with
16 other delegates who had been at,
tending the seventh convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union Of
America at Chattanooga. We found
her to be a very interesting and well
posted talker on almost any subject ex
cept raising peanuts, tobacco and cot.
ton, the three money crops Of North
Carolina. She was frank to say as she
looked out on the large green fields of
the above nem9d crops that they were
all new 30 her. She has quite a repu
tation as a correspondent.
We forgot to say anything about
the town of Tunis, our stopping place.
Abuilding about 90x4O makes the town,
45x40 makes the depot or warehouse,
one 45x40 is cut up into railroad, express,
postof 20 and waiting rooms, and is
built out in the middle of Chowan river
and the river is half a mile wide at
that point. 1t is also the warehouse
for two lines of steamers that ply the
river daily.
The high sheriff Of the county-that
broad-mindej, big souled man, James
s. Mitchell, took charge of US and con
veyed US to Winton, the county seat,
and as the cook at the jail was not at
hons and we appeared to the sheriff to
be very humble, he allowed US to stop
at his hospitable home that night.
Winton, the county seat of Hartford,
is a town of 1 500 souls built on the
ChoWan river. The streets are so near
level the water scarcely knows what
way to run except in day light. IT it
rains at night, the water stands on the
street till daylight.
We were billed for Brantly's Grove,
10 miles from Winton, Thursday, the
22d. Bright and early the sheriff
hooked a good horse to his buggy and
soon had us IN the ground. We found
a large crowd of the substantial farm
ers Of the neighborhood, their wives
and daughters, on the ground. At Ii
o'clock time was called and we went
to the box and punched them one and
a half hours. The inner man was then
supplied with the good things from
farms and gardens of the country. At
3 o'clock the crowd assembled at the
stand and listened to Prof. Shaw, of
Wlnton High School, make g speech
on education.
At 4 O'Clock the crowd dispersed and
we were turned over to a young M.
Barnes, who conveyed us to Como,
across the Meherrin river, 8 miles from
Winton and about Is miles from
Brantly's Grove. We were quartered
for the night with Capt. R j. Taylor,
q well-to do farmer and q 16 TO 1 ALI
anceman, where we were royalty
treated till IL o'clock Friday the 28Sh.
We went to the Alliance hall and mot