The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-19
ABOUT THE HOTELS.


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ABOUT THE HOTELS.
State Senator Johnson, of Chris
tiansburg. was in the city yesterday,
and eat dinner at Mnrshal's Cafe
with MIR. f. T. Brinkley, who was at
one time the Superintent of the
Roanoke Land and Improvement
Company. Senator Johnson is very
highly spoken of us Il candidate
for the Congressional nomination
which meets Here In August.
| He would make a good
representative at Washington and his
experience in the State Senate would
stand him in good stead. Besides
this he is rs II lawyer equalied by but
few in the Southwest, or indeed III
Virginia. If he decides to go before
the convention hewill have q good
strong backing.
The Hotel Lounger yesterday met
Mr.. Thompson, OF Norfolk. who pro-
poses to make Roanoke his home in
the future Mr.. Thompson is an old
Snowman and anim;l tanner and he
ltmps little from the effects ola lions
teeth which were i.nbedded i'll his
thigh years ago. Mr.. Thompson
travelled through koanoke when it
was the hamlet Of Big lick and
showed at Salem. Roanoke was too
small town those days, and the peo-
pie had TO so to Salem for their
amusements.
wonder the lion didn't finish you
when once he had you down. re-
marked the lounger He'd tasted
blood hadn't he?
'Well | should say he had" was
the answer "Bnt it is u great mis-
TIA Ike, and n quite general one, to think
that afteran animal tastes blood he
is more ferocious than before. Up to
score of years ago every Snowman
thought this was the case, but they
have got over it now. A trained
thinks nothing of letting an animai
lick the blood from his hands after
feeding him. But it is a useless risk,
and not many of them do it.
Nv
Mr. j. F. Hass, the clever young ed
itor OF the Flat Top Monitor is i'll the
city. Mr. Haas comes originally
from Shamokin, Pa, and his
father is Colonel Haas, the
we'll known mineralogist OF
the West End furnace. Editor Haas
likes tho Southwest country and the
beautiful little town of Bramwell,
where he prints.his paper and runs
Que OF the most complete Job Offices 10
in the State. He thinks this section
has Il great future before it. and says
that when he comes 20 Roanoke he
feels as If he is on the metropolis. he
will stop here until Sunday.
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Ex-Attorney- General Refus y, Ay-
res passed through tine city yesterday
on his way home. He is looking "a
young and % handsome as when he
wrestled with State affairs down al
Richmond, but noW be is more profit
ably engaged IN booming the South
west country, where once he was a
farmers boy. General Ayres is quite
IL frequent visitor to Roanoke. where
he has many friends. The sea breezes
of Old Point Comfort where he has
been stopping for the past week, have
tanned his complexion Il rich brown.
and he says he rather prefers the
mountain breeZes Of his home.
!. Yesterday the rudy face and bnshy
white whiskers of General Jubal A.
Early looked out OF a window of the
Pullman sleeper going South. He
would not talk about his trouble with
MOTOR Lacey, of fredericksburg, and
seemed more inclined to sleep than
else. ITO see General
Early reminds me oil story said
George Case, who was standing
onthe platform II was AT
the White Sulphur Springs a
couple OF years. So was Genera!
Early and also John "A. McGauil, the
famous manager Of opera bouile III
New York. BY the way, the latter
is native of the Southwest, and like
everyone down here he likes good
horses, and as at that time he had
plenty of money he had them. One
morning he drove up in front OF the
hotel porch where Early was ssttinS
in a gorgeous coach. 1t was Il four
INLAND, and the manager was driv-
ing.
John said the General in his
most piping tones, ''is that the band
wagon OF circus you've got there!"
NO, General said McCaull, Its
not. It's the advertising wagon OF
the Louisiana State Lottery. Won't
you get up and rider
The laugh was on Early.