Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-02
RICHARD HARRIS,
Died February Is, 1877, Of
DELIRIUM TREMENS.
A pad Al wears
Aged Al years.

Mrs. Richard Harris, widow of the de-
ceased, ordered the monument made
after a design of her own, and placed it
at her husbands grave about two months
after bis death.
Mrs. Harris still lives in Atchison with
her son and daughter, the former youth
of fifteen and the latter handsome girl
of eighteen The boy has the blonde
features and vivacious temperament of
his father, while the girl inherits the
dark complexion and taciturn disposition
of her mother.
Her mother, it is said, was never
beautiful although, even now, it would
be hard to suggest an alteration in her
features which would make them more
nearly perfect. There is something
about her countenance which most peo-
pie find repellant. Either the sombre
history OF her life in Atchison has left
its imprint on her features or she assumes
a cold and naughty air because she pre-
fers to be let alone. AS it is, she has few
intimate friends and mingles very little
with her neighbors.
She first came to Atchison from Georgia
in 1867 with her mother. Her name was
Loretta Hullett, and she was then in her
nineteenth year. Her mother started
private boarding house, and the girl,
who was very sklllful with her needle
made good money as a seamStress. After
twelve months residence in Atchison her
mother was taken i'll with a fever and
died, and the girl was thrown upon her
own resources. She opened a millinery
shop, but having no capital to carry on
the business was soon obliged to give it
up. Then she secured employment in
several private families as a seamstreSs
for short periods, and finally went to work
at the house of DIR. Chalice. The
Doctor was wealthy. His mother in law,
Mrs. Harris, was a widow, and her son
Dick lived with the Doctor and his wife
The Harrises, too, were possessed of
large means. Both families had recent
Iy come to what was then almost the
frontier from the East. They were very
aristOcratic and moved in the best So
ciety. When Loretta HulleCt came to DR..
Chalice's house to work as a seamstress
Dick Harris was a young man nearly
twenty-siX years of age. He was tall,
handsome blonde, with light brown hair
and gray eyes. He had spent four years
at Harvard and graduated, but he had
devoted more attention to athletics and
midnight suppers during his college
course than to his books, and the con-
sequence was that he never stood we'll in
us class, ana narrowly escaped Delng
4'plucked" when final examination day
came. In Atchison he studied medicine
in the office of his brother-in- law, DR..
Chalice. He seemed to have natural
aptitude for the profession and tact
bordering on intuition in the treatment
of diseases. Old residents relate re-
markable cures effected by him after
physicians of long experience had pro-
nounced the cases practically hopeless.
But he exhibited the same dislike for
medical works that he had shown for his
Greek and Latin textbooks while at
college, and employed himself mostly in
taking long horseback rides into the
country in the daytime and carousing
about town with congenial spirits at
night. Notwithstanding his notorious
habits, however, his genial disposition,
his native wit, and the standing of his
family, made him welcome in the best
society.
Indeed his reputation as a fast young
man seems rather to have commended
him to most of the young ladies, and his
corquests among the fair are said to
have been very numerous. His engage
ment, to first one and then another, was
freely talked of IS settled fact on sew
eral occasions, but whether or not these
reports lad any foundation the weddings