Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-04
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
The Raleigh Insane Asylum Investigation
Resumed.


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fspeciai telegram 70 the Dispat,h.l
RALEIGH, n. c., July 3.-1he Board of
Directors OF the Insane Asylum met this
morning at the institution and continued
the hearing in the case of DR.. Grlssom, SUI
perintendent. The examination Of wit
ncsses was resumed. Mrs. Parkinson, the
wife of a former employee OF the asylum
while he was there, SAID she knew Dr:
Grissom. He had been kind to her and
offered TO attend her family when they
should need a physician. lie called at her
house az a time when her baby was sick.
While there he made improper advances.
He afterward tried 10 bride her to keep the
matter secret from her husband, but she
told him.
Miss Ella Edwards testified 10 witnessing
several cases of cruelty TO patients. She
also testified that DR.. Grissom made I'M
proper advances to her. The examination
will be continued tomorrow.
The County Commissioners to-day recon-
sidered their action Of Monday. 10y which
they made the county license-tax for sa-
looms $500 and reduced it To 500.
Mr. Wallace c. Riddick. OF WaSe-FOrcst
College, a recent graduate of the Lehieh
University, has been engaged on the en-
gineering corps of the new city sewerage
system and will be here during the sum-
mer.
This week Rev. j. A. Speigbt. of Berk-
lev. Va, becomes associate editor OF the
Biblical Recorder. He IS a native Of North
Carolina. sad has been prominently con
nected with one of the most important de-
nominational institutions in the state.
having acted as financial agent OF Wake
Forest College.
Rev. ]. L. NJ. Curry. of Richmond, Va,
ex-Minister TO Spain and eX-trustee OF the
Peabody Educational Fund in the South,
is the guest of his brother-in-law. Rich
mond Pearson, ESQ, at the latters resi-
dencc, Richmond Hlll.n Asheyllle.
BOOMING.
Cane Fear river is booming and the low
lands are flooded. The farmers have sus-
tanned much loss by the injury 10 growing
crops. The freshet is two feet higher than
that of last spring, when immense damage
was done.
MYSTERY.
The family Of Colonel Alexander H..
Jones, Of Asheville, are distressed rs 10 his
whereabouts and fear that something has
befallen him. Last December Colonel
Jones, who had been III pad healtn; went
10 Florida where he remained until April.
leaving there for Jacksonville. Previous
TO this time Colonel Jones had been prompt
i'm writing home TO his wife and children,
but since his arrival at Jacksonville no
tidings of him have been received. The
family becoming alarmed. have made
every effort to find him, but with no avail.
They do not know how to account for his
failure to return home or his long silence,
and are fearful that he has been Killed or
that something else dreadful has oyertaken
him. Colonel Jones represented his dis
trict in Congress az one time.
MOTIFS.
The Richmond and Danyille Company
aaksd for the second instalment of bonds
an the Wilkesboro' extension yesterday,
thew having completed the second ten
miles OF the road The track Is now LAID
EIGHT miles beyond Rural Hall. The whole
line will be completed between winston
and Wilkesboro' this year.
Division No. 1, Uniformed Rank. knights
of Pythias. Was organi7ed IN Asheyille xes-