The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-08
Personal and SOCIAL Items,

MIR. n. L.. Brown anu arc
visiting in Chatham.
Misses Emma and Nellie Young are
visiting Miss Laura Blake.
Rev. Bennett Smedes and his sis
tors, Mrs. NJ. z. Leak and Miss Sadie
Smedes, are at Rawley Springs, Va.
-Messrs. Howard Heartt, John w.
Brown, Joseph Ferrall, Chas. McKim-
mon, +. A. Jones, and others are at the
Louisville Exposition.
Mrs. Senator Vance has been seri-
Charlotte. was called thither on Friday
last; but the Charlotte Observer learns
that she is improving. and so is young
Zeb.--Mrs. John W. Graham, OF
IIillsboro. is very sick.-Miss Minnie
Rodgers is quite sick.
Capt. E. p. Powers, of Fayetteville,
one OF the leaders of the ex- Democratic
,ing of the late Coalition Party, is nov
one of the Powers that Be" In Rev
enue pastures, having a clerkshlp under
the old collector with a young name. By
the Uy, we notice that Geo. f.. Tinker.
who was chietclerk to Tom Powers, the
Newborn collector, whose district Col.
Ike absorbed, has peer appointed stamp
clerk al Durham vice James Dixie, re-
signed
Cleaned from Durham Plant
Work on the Jail is progressing rapidly.
Mrs. Lougee and Miss Nellie are
in Asheville. -Mrs. Blackwell aud
family returned from Morehead last week
Misses Riddle and Rand, of Raj
righ, are visiting friends in Durham
We learn that Mr.. and Mrs. Darnall will
40 to Morehead for a few weeks. -
Mrs. Staples, of Greensboro. is visiting
her daughter, Mrs W. w. Fuller. -
Capt. Lockhart, Mrs. Lockhart and
daughter, Lille, and Miss Minnie Moore
returned from Asheville Saturday --
Mr.. and Mrs. Z c. Ray, and Miss Grace
Dewey, of Charlotte, are in New York
city.--Mrs G.E. Webb is visit
ing her brother at Orange Factory
james A Thomas has sold his
house and let to Charles Ellison,
IF Redmond, for = I15.R. r.
Walker, a former Durhamite. now
of Asheyille was in town last week -
Rev. H. Mckinnon, Of the Presbyte.' ian
church, Concord, has declined the call 10
Columbia, S. e.
-Munroe Enquirer says Mr.. r.
P. Davis went to Louisville for the pur-
pose Of exhibiting his celebrated cotton
ro,. ~ tho N IL ,.,ol =,
very handsome double cylinder cleaner
the latest improved style 'Mr d
4. Covington has returned home af er a
very pleasant visit Of three or four week,
to Wake Forest MI w. Ii liiZ
gerald, the Cashier of the i'co,.ie :
Bank of Monroe, has gone to A-hevllie
Miss Ella Armtield is visiting Friends
in Pineville.
= Charlotte Observer observes : Mr..
j. b. Harris, president of the Poplar
Tent Far Association, was in the city
yesterday booming up the tair. Ii is to
open Oh the 9Th of August, and Judge
Bennett will deliver the address Mr..
Walter Liddell is home on a visit from.
Dallas, Texas. - Mrs. A. E. Rankit,
and daughter. Miss Annie Rankin, are
at Cleveland Springs. Miss Maggie Ran
kin is at Ashevllle. -Mr. Baxter
Myers has zone to McAdensville to spend
a few weeks.Mr Burgess Nichols
is at Cleveland Springs" --Mr W.
K. Capehart, the great farmer of Ayoca,
BERTHE county. with his family, are stop
ping at the Central Hotel. -rThe TO!
iowins party left for Hende> Mnville -
lr. and Mrs Lloyd Wriston, Miss Lo.,
Nris,on, Miss Lille Bethune, Mrs Nan,
Johnston. Mrs. Jane f. johnston, Miss
Sue Johnston aud Mrs Or. Gibbon.-
Mr. Peter NJ. Brown aud Mrs. Col. j. l.
Brown lett yesterday afternoon for Tie
All Healing.
Pltt>boro Record records 1.-THE
number of visitors to our town increase.
every week. The latest arrivals are Mrs.
Henry Drane and family, of Georgia
Mr. [. u Waddell, OF New York Mrs.
Phil. Taylor and family. and Messrs. ID.
L Webster and Z. Z. Hamlet, of Raj
c IN Mrs. Lucius Green, of Durham
Mrs. Elem Aston, Miss Lucy Joyner,
aud Mr. Isaac Manning, Mrs. K. Il
Cowan and family, Miss Blanche Griffin
and Mis- Matte Saunders, of Elizabeth
THY Miss Fannie Lloyd, Mr.. Perez
Eubapks.
Al utis pltult Al NlNelU Will.
tIarnett cuunty. 70 morrow. Hon. JOS
JOS. j. Davis and Col. IL l.. Polk were
invited to speak.
The Mozart Society Of Memphis i,
organizing a musical circuit" taking in
the chief cities OF the South, which are
To combine, and divide the expense Of
bringing down the best operas. not here.
tofGre known IN the South. Raleigh,
Charlotte and Wilmington will be ''one
night" relays.
F. + SnOber, Jr., saved a twelve
year Old girl who hal fallen from a Long
bfanch b A.. The Salisbury Rrumatne,
says II Is the second time he has done the
like.
MIR John Wilson, clerk to Rev. l.
p%ranson. has gone to Greensboro, to opeu
a bookstore.
-Newbeln hmrnal says:-Mrs. Pey.
ton ervey, vi Raleigh, is visiting her
brother, Judge VIM. j. Clarke.-Maj
oohl eating, Judge Uarruth and Com
modore Oaksmith were in the city yes
tcriay.
Prof. NJ. A. Jones, of Apex, and
| Miss Laura Nil ard, of Goldsboro. were
married al the residence of the brides
mother last week.
TOBACCO BOOMING AT PARRISH e
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