The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-15
Personal.

DR.. Eugene Grissom was caiieh %
Charlotte last week TO testify IN a case
relating /, the mental competency oil a
iodv testator. DR.. G.. is becoming more
and more engros,ed in his profession
He saws there i, no political oihce-
whatever. that he would accept IN ex
change for bis present position, az tue
Head Of a great Institution Tor the care
az the Unfortunate aud Mind Dcreit-
NAV be of interest TO q that Ut
e.. who in physique, as 10 mental CUTS
FAR above mediocrity a sev
enteenth child. Nh Geo. T GatilnG
and his cousin, Mr. +. t. Pe-cud, Of
Raleigh. are shooting Sora IN the
marshes near Petersburg, the lH"tf
.ay.-Miss Hattie Avery. daughter
Of Judge Avery, Is visiting Charlotte.
When Miss Lavine Haywood was
visiting Nrs. Glenn in Rockingham
county. a grand fox hunt VA held ;
more than fifty ladies and gentlemen
participating. TIE pace grew very
rapid; but Raleigh's fair representative
was among the fe at the finish. "
The M9rgahton Biade says -'Mls
Mamie Rufn, OF Hill>boro, Is visiting
At Ms. Gov. Caldwells, Miss Mamie
/ Chambers, of Statesyllle. at Mrs. IL. VI
Chambers; Miss Title McEntire, OF
Rutherfordtou, y. c., at Col, Bynums;
Mss Nabrv, of Tarboro, and Miss
Rankin. of Charlotte, at Maj Wilson's
The Hillsboro Obserrer says: W.
Carl Brown, the celebrated artist oil
Washington City, was arrested IN Dur
ham the other day upon an order OF ar
rest for debt, he being a non esldent
Brown, who followed his profession IN
Raleigh for several years, iell IN debt to
the Roulhac estate for lent OF property
s,uit was made and judgment obtained.
Mr.. Brown being in Durham. Tuesday,
the Executrix OF the Roulhac estate
procured an order of arrest from DR..
Pride Jones. Clerk of the Superior
Court of Orange county. A motion was
made to vacate order of arrest, and
argued before the clerk last Wednes
day. r. f. Carr and p. Nj. Briggs
represented the defendant, and John
W. Graham and w. w. Fuller, plain
tiff. After hearing argument, which
was ably presented from both sides. the
motion to vacate was set aside. We
learn that the amount OF judgment
against Mr. Brown is about $500. Mr..
Brown is now in the custody of Sheriff
Blackna.l, Of Durham county. -"
When Messrs. S. NJ. Carpenter and
George Latham of the Ne,rJerntdn.
nominated Col. John n. Staples for
Governor in 1884, Mr.. Henry London,
of the Pittsboro Record arose to suggest
the name of Col. Paul B. Means for
Lieutenant Governor. But Mr.. K. Ii.
Cowan, of the Arson Times, favors Col.
Chas. Il. Jones, Of Charlotte, for the
latter place. We second all these mo
tons. MIR. Geo. g. Jordan new
daily will appear, we hear, shortly after
October lst. He is an experienced
man, and knows how to con
uuer success. Miss Mary Lewis will
spend the winter in New York; first
visiting Yorktown Centennial with her
f lend Miss GARNER, OF Norfolk. They
are now at Beaufort ia dog ran
after a cow in the streets Of Ashe-
vile. The COW ran over the wife
Of the mayor of the town. The NeUs
lays Mrs. A. L. Summey was serious
" injured but not dangerously SO. 1t
was on Sunday evening. " Mrs. Judge
Osborne, of Charlotte, is visiting Nor
canton. Mr.. Chas. n. Vance is book
keeper to Harrison Watts, cotton buyer
at Charlotte. Dir. John H. McAden
and II. Gratz Springs will 60 to New
York to enter Wall Street as Stock
Dealers, so says the Charlotte Observer.
Mr.. }. +. Finley, one of our Wa
tauga county subscribers, has a fine
farm overlooking the river, and a single
field Of IS acres of meadow. Over this
grassy expanse roams an herd Of blood
ed stock, including the Duke of Dur
ham, a bull weighing 1000 Ills. -
The Charlotte Observer of Sunday last
was very newsy. Besides railroad news.
elsewhere given, it reported three fights
(Wm. Miller VS.. VIM. Ross, \ernon
Asbury vs.. Manlius Means, Justice Of
the Peace Hilton VS.. John Carr, an
accident in Concord by which two ne
groes were blown up runaway acct
dent whereby Ernest Young and a
young lady were spilled from a buggy;
and 81 students at Davidson College;
and the report that B. r. Smith & Co.
made a profit Of 800, 900 on a Tennessee
iron ,pi,iOr Cpaculatiop