The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-23
Personal and Social.

Ashevilie.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Avera 60 to
Virginia White Sulphur this week.
Mr.. Sterling Price is engaged in ar
ranging the cotton seed mill in this city
Miss Ella Troy and Miss Peyton are
visiting Mrs. Chas. e. Mcdonald
Miss Sudie Cumming Of Wilmington
is visiting Mrs. Rev. J. NJ. Rose at Colds
boro.
Mrs. Hennie Cramer Pogue of Hen
dersou is visiting Raleigh, where her
friends are many.
"A North Carolina lady recently paid
s75 to have her hair dyed. And very
pretty il is said to be.
Miss Bessie Grimes and her guest,
Miss Josie Myers, were the recipients of
many attentions at the Durham Bali.
DIR. Skinner has moved into the sty-
lish residence of Alfred w. Haywood,
Esq, which he has leased for a term of
years.
Rev. j. W. Primrose is filling the
pulpit of the 1st Presbyterian church du-
ring the visit of DR.. Watkins to Virginia.
Col. Coke last week brought home
his daughter, Miss Matte. and Master
| Octavius, who have been with their
grandmother, Mrs. Wood, at Edenton.
Miss Ella Mitchell will sing at the
Goldsboro festival, aud Mr.. Charles
Lumsden play the cornet, in the contest
for premiums.
Registered a. Virginia Beach. near
Norfolk, last week were Bishop and
Miss Lyman, DIR. Hogg and Miss Hogg,
Mrs. Hawkins and Miss Mamie Clark.
Senator Vance and family went to
Nagg's Head last week; and it is said that
| 81 persons from Tarboro and vicinity are
at the same point.
Mrs. Maj. A. b. Andrews and fam
lily are summering at Waynesville /; the
major giving his personal attention to
the completion of the road to Nantehala
by Sept. LIST, as required.
Love your neighbor'' saith the
scripture, and this is one injunction
which doesn't need to be ''well shaken
before being taken. provided she is
pretty. But suppose { a man, a dude,
who keeps a fiddle and saws on its
.'breadbasket'' until Il O'Clock in the
morning?
Miss Mollie Pescud, who has been
spending several months in New Orleans
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Geo. w. Cat.
ling, near Petersburg.
Col. and Mrs. L. +. Pcscud are spend
lug the summer at Pass Christian, {
fashionable resort about 100 miles below
New Orleans.
AT Morehcad, Miss Maggie Merri'
mon, Miss Olivia COwper. Mrs. Capt
Williamson, Miss Lavine Haywood, Miss
Matte Fuller, the Misses Englehard
Miss. May Miller, Mrs. Geo. III. Snow
and daughter, Mrs. w. II. Pace, Miss
Ella Holt, Miss Jessie Gray, Miss Kerr
Morehead, Miss Maude Amyett. Mrs
Alf A. Thompson, Mrs. and Miss Mon.
teiro, Miss Fannie Bryan, Miss Bessie
Bryan, Miss Matte Dowd, Miss Mary
Manly, and others.
White Sulphur Springs has a distin.
guished rather than crowded assembly
this year. We notice the names of 6
great many prominent pers6nages with
their pretty and p%etticoated Belongings
Two OF the young ladies, Miss Florida
Yulee of Florida, and Miss Mary Pendle,
ton, OF Ohio, are interestingly inyalided,
having to use crutches by reason of ac.
cidents in the lawn Tennis lawn.
La the Washington Capitals cores
pondence we note the following paragraph
concerning North Cardinals fair repre-
sentative at The White" 1t says
"Miss Sadie Green, who is with her faith.
err, Representative Wharton Green, per
hapt the most fascinating young lady that
graced Washington society last session,
and whose personal and intellectual at
fractions have given her a widespread
reputation, represents n. C."
We dined last week with a Raleigh
merchant whose five acres, in the heart
of the city, are a miniature farm COM
prisins an handsome residence, neal out.
buildings, orch2rd, grass plot, vegeta-
BILE garden, flower garden. End grapcry.
The pear trees are literally loaded down
VIII large and luscious fruit big as a
bell, and averaging half-bushel to the
tree, though the latter arp as yet only
four-yeals olds. The tomatoes, trained
on poles Ike beans. looks clean enough
to eat Oft line vines. The truck and
melon patches were tgim and flourish
ing, and Of fine varieties.
AT dinner the menu included chicken.
ham, butter, green corn, 1.-TWO styles),
potatoes, 1.-TWO kinds), tomatoes, 1.-TWO
styles3. Gk-a, eggplant, beets, melons,
(two kinds), etc, q cstera (and "et,"
you bet y, all Of which We're raised IN
der the merchants supervision, in the
aforesaid four-acre farm. This is-'liv-
ing at tcm1." and making your own sup
plies.