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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
M mnNoR oE rnuRMAN.

The dinner which will be given at
Columbus, Ohio, by the Thurman Club,
November -, In honor Of the seventy
seventh birthday OF lion. Allen q.
Thurman, will be notable occasion,
One thousand guests will sit down, in
GLIDING nearly every leading Democrat
in the country who can attend. The
railroads have given special rates for
that date, and the souvenirs will be
something notable.
IL the Democratic party pulls through
all right week from next Tuesday it
will be Il love feast: if it doesn't it will
be consolation race. The thing is
fixed to work either way.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
STEEL IN THE SOUTH.

The opinion of William Whitwell
one Of the great English iron masters.
that with pure fuel Cranberry ores will
make almost perfect iron, and of an
other prominent visitor that Bessemer
steel can also be made from those ores,
as in part corroborative of the fixed
opinions held by the iron smclters of
the Southern iron belt
The field of invention has no certain
limit What today is beyond our range
tomorrow is in our hand. Some day
wherever iron is steel will be made.
Wherever clay bank Is aluminium
will be produced. we are only at tt o
beginning of the age of metal. This
SECTION has as good coking Goals as there
is in the country, railroads will give us
thc Cranberry ores, or tho fine Cuban
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
A Great Truth Well Put.

From the Richmoud Dispatch.
Roanoke is a great place. The vital
ity of it is wonderful and the growth
amazing, While other people are talk
ing they are working. In no other place
with which we arc acquainted is a good
idea or worthy suggestion so quickly
seized or SO rapidly materializcd. Hotels
railroads. manufactures, and all sorts of
business drift that way, or if it does no t
its energetic committees go out and lay
hold of it and bring it in.
The history of Roanoke tells what the
Virginians of this city are capable Of
True. the city never would have been
what it is but for the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad Company: but it is like
wise true that the company never would
have been encouraged to pile in there
and thcreabouts money upon money had
they not seen in the community those
evidences of thrift and progrcssiveness
which gave assurance that their invest
ments would prosper.
The Dispatch wants to see every por-
ton of the commonwealth increase in
population and wealth and rejoices that
we have within our borders such a city
as Roanoke.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
THE ROANOKE TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2s, 1890.

ores, and we are going the make steel
eventually.
In the meanwhile the safest field for
iron development has been pointed out
by Sir James Kitson, who advises the
establishment of pipe factories, stove
foundries and similar industries for
whose products we have q large and
hungry homo market.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
OUR pRIzE CONTEST.

Theiprize contest inaugurated in THE
DIMES. nearly month ago was recently
brought to close. 1t called oMt
multitude Of suggestions for the i'm
provement, and benefit of Roanoke, all
of them good many of them far above
the mark and several presenting sug-
gestions which deserve serious consid-
GRAFTON at the hands of the public.
AS previously announced all the com
munications were submitted to com
mittee of three gentlemen, each a,,promi-
ncnt and we'll known citizen of Roanoke.
whose joint verdict was to be final and
irrevocable. This committee was com
posed of City Solicitor Il. w. Miller, DIR.
a. u. koiner, and Captain j. ii. Win
gate.
They met, and their chairman in
fonms THE TIMES Of the result OF their
deliberations. In the first place, they
felt called upon to set aside large
number of suggestions for public i'm
provements on which the city govern
mont had already taken action. This
narrowed the field considerably.
Several suggestions then came to the
front as candidates for honor, but finally
one was selected upon which the com
mittec united as being, on the whole,
the best of all. 1t was, that capital
should seek Investment in building up
more wholesale houses in Roanoke We
reprint it:
FOR WHOLESALE HOUSES
To TIE EDITOR OF The TIMES: Ifthc capi-
tnlists would put their money into the erection
OF buildings for Wholesale houses, great good
would accrue to Roanoke. AS was shown by
interviews in The TIMES recently, the cstab-
lishmcnt OF wholesale shoe and dry goods
houses would add largely to our trade by en-
abling merchants to buy all their goods in Ron
nOkc. q q
We desire to state that the committee
did not know the name of the contribu-
tor of the suggestion, nor will they until
it appears in TIE TIMES of this morning.
Neither did they know the name of any
other contributor. The successful CON
tcibutor is DIR. s. B. Thompson, of ZOE
Eighth avenue, southwest. DR.. Thomp-
N'o'i 40 81 iObSho SOMSl w llOdllOhc, DuC ue
has grasped the situation with remark
able readiness He is already sub
scriber to THE TIMES, but will be
credited with years subscription.
THE TIMES reporter was unable to ex-
tract an interview from DR.. Thompson,
except the terse statement that s'any-
one who couldn't see that Roanoke's sit
uation at the convcrgence of four val
leys made it u natural commercial cen
ter was blind" The doctor is a gradu-
ate of Jefferson Medical College and
comes here with fine reputation as a
physician and surgeon.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

THE TIMEScan be found regularly on
sale ct the following places:
Roanoke-.George Gravatt, Jr.: NJ L.
Smith's, Dallis & Dennis. Hotel Roanoke
Salem-<Effred S. BuH1ette G. Co.'S
Pulaekt--Maple Shade Inn.
Bluefeld--BluefieldE
observation-disclosures Inn.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Washiugt Wizards, The MetropoN-
tan.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
Good Gunncry Practice.

WASHINGTON, Oct. a5.-[Speciall-D
grams of the first target practice on the
new cruiser Philadelphia have just
reached the Navy Department. The
practice was at Gardeners bay, October
4, with 6-inch, 3-inch and 1-inch rapid
fire guns, and the results were remarka-
BILE. At one range of / 600 yards GO of
62 shots were lodged in an exact verti
cal line extending twenty feet above the
water line, which means that every one
of them would have hit an ordinary war
vessel in. very nearly the same place.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
UNDERWEAR, UNDERWEAR

OF all sorts from lowest grades to best
qualities. Ladies' heavy, Jersey ribbed
vests at % cents. Mems good heavy
merino shirts at % cents. Children's
vests from Is cents up.
We have all grades in white, natural
wool, scarlet, etc, for ladies, gentlemen
and children.
Bargains in blankets comforts and
counterpanes.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

The TIMES controls the fran
chises OF both the Associated
Press and the United Press,
and is the only paper in the
city publishing regular tele-
graphic dispatches.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
MARVELLOUS MAX MEADOWS.
The First Days Sales Foot up the S, .,,,
Sum of &315,OO0.

INC FIRST Lays Sales Foot up the ST. .,,r
Sum of 8.73,O0o.
MAN MEADOWS, Va, Oct. %. rc,o
ciall-The total sales of 10 9 to-d,v
foot up the magnificent figr .os ne cor,
Geo. Only those were p :. nm on which
there were more than ono ,nnlicant nm
the company's list AS a natural re-
suit s"a5; the Dia nl was sharp. Tho prices
i.': w % invariably above the list
ar! Not tnfrcquently over 100
p per cehs' Above, the average being fully
~ PEI 1T. above the list
l. iEs reporter was on the spot
Ne"' estate agents were thick and buyers
Pr enty all the way from Bristol on the
west to Buena Vista and Lynchburg to
to the North and East, Tho sales did
not begin until 1870 owing to the nom
arrival of train No. l, and closed only a
few minutes before the train left at
| O'Clock. AS samples of the way prices
won't, many lots started at $500 were
knocked down at from $1,000 to 81 500
and the highest, which started at S700,
was bid up to 81, 100 without break.
Those present for the first time ex-
! pressed themselves very strongly as to
to the beauty of the place and a, the cv-
licences of substantial growth already
! present.
Express directions were given the
auctionecr to knock down the lots quick
! ly, rs the company did not desire to have
! prices run up to unreasonable figures.
| The officers of the company who were
/ present expressed themselves as more
| than satisfied with the result of the
! sales.
The sales were conducted by Mr.. VIM
d. Pannell, of Norfolk, and Thos Pan
nell, of Petersburg, two of the best
auctiOneers in the South
+. b. Kemp ~ Co., sold $3.50 of the
| total w. E. W.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
Dress Goods is our Speciality.

We have the handsomcst collection of
novelties. plaids, stripes and plain ma
terials of every sort ever opened i'll
Roanoke.
Our assortment is equal to those of
large cities. Our prices are correct, and
you can do better shopping with us than
you can in the city.
BE sure to see our line of silks and
black and colored dress goods.
Ladies' cloaks, Misses cloa1s and
children's cloaks of every sort now
ready. The garments shown by us
represent the latest conceits of the
mode, and every garment is made in a
thorough and most stylish manner.
You will find our prices correct.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

'-Look pleasant"
Miss Ella Ewing, of Fairmont, Va,
has broken the record on feet. Her shoe
measures 1914 inches in length, and Az
inches in width at the ball of the foot,
and there is enough leather in one of
the heels to build five pairs of ordinary
ladies' shoes.
The bill for'thc shooting
or stately Miss Ewing,
Will be some mans undoing.
We learn from good authority that
Queen Victoria takes her medicine in
whisky; we were under the impression
that she took it inside her.
Straw hats and overcoats
W-h-h-hew! Please shut that door.
Our race is declining, so say the
savants, hence the scarcity of blondes,
type indicative of high race develop
mcnt.
The Philadelphia Record, in recent
issue, informs us that it is possible to
fry apples. Every ole culled Chloe in
Virginia knew that long befo' de wah
INN
Arc You furnishing a new house?
Remember that a good engraving is
much better than poor painting, and
remember that one really good thing
adorns a room and cultivates the taste
far more than any number of inferior
pictures.
There is rage for ctchings.
Are you getting your trousscau re:.dy?
Then do not refer to your travelling
suit say my going-away-go and
do not speak of your expected bridal
tour" say my wedding journey"
ss&*
An old fashion in wedding cards has
been revived-that of ticing the two to-
gcther with silver cord.
A lady, of Lexington, Ky, while out
for Il walk, was disturbed by some hard
substance in her shoe. On investiga-
ton, says the Lexington Press, it proved
to be diamond earring which had been
misplaced while she was dressing. We
+. f. VS. call them corns
MN
The train of wedding dress worn by
London beauty last week was of white
silk, lined with satin, and hung loose
from the shoulders, fastened by ropes of
white silk and silver
&kx
Mr.. Douglas Grants bride held n
silver-bound praycr-book during the
performance of the marriage ceremony.
*XX
suede
For golden wedding, use golden rod,
yellow asters, marigolds, and other vel
low flowers for decorating dining room,
hall and parlor
The tops of long gloves are useful in
making many fancy articles.
prominent journal says that in our
large cities saleswomen with good fig
ures receive much higher salaries for
trying on dresses and cloaks than women
with university education can hope to
earn in any intellectual profession. Yet
this is the nineteenth century
MN
DO not buy an expensive fur cape UNI
less YOU can afford to get another hand
some wrap. The capcs are pretty and
stylish, but, in very cold weather, have
an incomplete out-at-elbow look, how
ever comforto ole they may be in reality
MN
Who decreod that mirrors shall be
banished from washstands? We hoped
that such soul-satisfying fashion
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
TELEPHONE NUMBER ia.

Tuf TINES will be delivered ih Roanoke, Sa-
EN-, and vinton every morning by carriers Tor
cents per month.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

Entered at the Postof!ioc at Roanoke us sec
<ond-claSs matter.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

ROANOKE, VA, OCTOBER &c, 1890.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

THE WEEKLY TIMES.
THE WEEKLY TIMES, containing the ncws of
the week IN more condensed form, one year,
yl.00 in advance.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26

We arc now ready with complete lines
of new dress goods in every department.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
THE ROANOKE TIMES.
EVERY MORNING. EXCEPT MONDAY.

ROANOKE TIMES PUBLISHING Co,
Publishers and Proprietors.
TIMES BUILDING,
Third avenue and First street, southwest.
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Advertising rates made known on applica-
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TERMS, BY MAIL, Postage prcpaid.)

All papers sent out of the city must be paid
for invariably In advance.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11

state makes showing that will be dis
appointing to all our people. According
to the vote cast last year the state con-
tanned more than 100000 inhabitants
and this years immigration would con-
siderably swell that total. Partly owing
to official incompetence and partly to
the cost of performing the work in the
mountain camps and on the plains the
enumeration was as incomplete and in
adequate as possible. Entire mining
camps with their hundreds of inhabi-
tants are reported to have been left un-
visited because the enumerators could
not afford to journey to them and the
omissions must easily have run into the
thousands in the aggregate. Helena in
directly suffered shrinkage in this way.
This city is the home Of 5000 to 1000
men engaged in mining and wood camps
who go to their work in remote districts
in the spring and return to the city
when snow falls in the mountains. A
census OF the city taken in February or
March would show a population of moro
than 10000. Of course the figures make
little difference so long as these enumer-
ated workers contribute to the enrich
ment and advancement Of the city and are
is bone and sinew whether the census
nan records their existence or not.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11
CONGRESS and tho Lottery.

Minneapolis journal: Speaker Reed and
Chairman Bingham, of the house commit
tee on postottices and roads, have shown no
desire whatever to carry out the earnest re-
quest of the president that IN anti-lottery
bill should be promptly passed. These
gentlemen have great responsibility in
this matter. The chairman of the commit
tee which had charge of the bill is espe-
cially censurable for indifference, and
Speaker Reed could certainly open the
was for the consideration of the
measure in the house. There is no ex-
cuse for this indifference. And it is
shameful that it must be admitted that
the lottery people for months have had
the power to paralyze all effort to defeat
their nefarious work. The presidents mes
sage did have the effect of forcing the post
office committee to reluctantly report one
of the many anti-lottery bills they have
had pigeon-holed for months. That bill
should be called up and acted upon if
something else has to wait, Otherwise this
congress can, with some reason. be charged
with being the servile tool of the louisiana
Lottery company.
The address of the anti. lottery conyen.
ton in session at Baton Rouge, La, pub.
lished elsewhere in this issue of the Jour.
nal, emphasizes the necessity for speedy &C
ton against this corrupt and corruptine
organization.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11
Austrian. Taken by Br,ea.ds.


Baron Won Calico and Herr Won RADIO
witz, the Austrian and German ambassadors
in Constantinople, have addressed notes to
the porte on behalf of the two Austrian
subjects who have been captured by brig
ands on Turkish territory, says the London
News. The note calls attention to the fact
that this is but repetition of similar in
cidents, and that it Is high time for the
porte to take energetic measures for pre-
venting them. The capture took place in
the villayet of kubasija, in the north of
Asia Minor. The railway line from Scutari
! to lsmid was completed many years ago.
| 1t is now being continued a. far as AngOrA
the capital of the yillayet of that name. The
engineers were surprised between Adabazar
and Eski Shehr by a party of Circassians.
who had originally settled in the Dobrud-
| scha and Bulgaria, but were removed by
T turkey to Asia Minor according to the
stipulations of the Berlin treaty. Herr
Won Gerson is of very good family, and is
distantly related to Herr Won Radowitz.
He was formerly connected with the con-
struction of the ArlberR railway and sew
eral local railways in Hungary. Yesterday
Herr Mejor was released on his promise 10
fetch the ransom. which the brigands re-
duced to 81 600. The company consented
to pay the sum. but when Herr Mejor ar
rived at the appointed spot with the money
the brigands had decamped with Herr Won
Gerson and retired 10 the mountains This
Was owing TO the fact that the Zaptiehs had
. already started IN pursuit. Great appre-
hension ID felt for the safety Of the cap.
tive.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11
THE genial Inter Mountain fails to

THE genial Inter Mountain fails to
score hit in its charge that the Mon
tana smelters are in a combination to
lower the price of lead ore. Every one
of the big capitalists in the smelter
companies is largely interested in mines
and is consequently interested in seeing
lead ores command good prices. We be-
lieve it is the intention of the members
of the Uaion Smelling and Refining
company to buy and work new mines
Their smelters have the capacity to han
die all the ores of the Occur d'Alene dis
trict and they could profitably use more.
II the Inter Mountain would investigate
this lead business little it would find
that the men who are depressing the
prices and iniuring the mining interests
Of the northwest are the white lead
manufacturers, the gentlemen who had
the fat fried out Of them in 1888 by Col
Quay for the benefit OF one Benjamin
Harrison. The Montana smelters ant
the lead miners have every interest il
common. Smash the republican whit,
lead trust, neighbor. and the lead bust
meas will DO all right.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11
DR.. S. G. Baldwin has taken Stedman's
Library of American Literature.
Gethselnana

uetH80u8u0.
On the very lowest slope of the Mount of
Olives, deep down and unseen beyond the
inclosing wall of the temple area. lies the
garden which is 80 associated with the
sacred story-Gethsemane. the scene of the
agony. says Blackwoods Magazine. Al.
most opposite to it, on the other side Of the
road which traverses the narrow valley, is
what is now called the Golden Gate, sup
the temple. 1t would be the natural and
nearest way by which to reach that sacred
retirement. By this gate no doubt the be-
trayer and his stealthy band would follow
the steps of the Lord to his tavorite haunt,
stealing down under the twilight
skies to where the shade of the
pale olives sheltered His prayers and
mysterious anguish, and the troubled doz-
ing OF the disciples sleeping for sorrow"
confused by the strange uncomprehended
tide of events, which are drawing their feet
toward something they know not what.
And by this path again, no doubt, they led
their prisoner back. avoiding the peopled
ways, hurrying Him into the stronghold of
His enemies.
1t is said that there exists Moslem tradi-
ton that by this gate the Messiah is to ride
into the holy place, taking back His king
dom, and consequently the precaution has
been taken-a curiously Intellectual one.
building up the gate. There is something
even in this superstition which is grateful
to the imaginative mind. And the singu-
larly touching juxtaposition of the temple
gate and the garden is still more memora-
BILE. Gethsemane itself, a site about which
there is no manner of doubt, is now gar.
den of flowers, protected by trim palinRs-.
| modern garden, orderly and we'll cared
for, which gives certain shock to thu
mind, but rather for the first moment thar
permanently.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE.
A Dog Finds Lost Handkerchief an
Squirrels Bar Out Two Owls.

A Dog Finds Lost Handkerchief and
Squirrels Bar Out Two Owls.
Can any one match the following as an
instance of canine intelligence? asks the
Christian Union. A party of children had
spent the forenoon in a huckleberry pas
ture. A dog belonging to Mr.. Prindle,
father of one of the children, had been
with them. Of he was like dog know,
he had hunted out patch of blackberries,
and had gone into business, picking and
eating, on his own account.) Upon their
reaching home, 1t appeared that the Prlndle
girl had lost her pocket handkerchief. The
dog, being remarkable animal. and up to
came home after a while, dispirited and
without the missing article. As it would
never do to allow precedent like this to
become established, the owner went back
with the animal to the field, and waited to
see that he properly performed his task. He
hauohes for several minutes in state of
evident mental detection. Suddenly he
started up, all alert, with the air of having
solved the problem, and what he did was
this: He took his position rod or SO from
the outside wall, and made a swift circuit
OF the entire field, keeping that distance
from its boundaries, Returning to his
or two inside his former one, and surround
ed the field again as before. His next
course was at the same distance inside that,
and so he kept on, till, as must in time in
evitably happen, he found the handker-
chief, and gave it to his master.
| have to confess that there is an element
of tradition about the story of Mr.. Prin-
dies dog, in this respect, that it belonged
to former generation, and that, while my
informRnt-himself a member of that gen.
Grafton and acquainted with both master
and dog-held it an unquestionable fact
cannot now absolutely verify it. This is
not true of the owl story. which is a story
of to-day, and can be had at first hands b.
anybody who cares to take the trouble. The
home of these owls has been from time i'm
memorial in an aged elm tree that graces
the front yard of one of the old mansions
| in our town. In a hollow caused by the
breaking off of large limb the owls have
taken up their abode. Three winters agt
some squirrels took possession of the sam'
tree, and waged continual war with thu
| owls. The latter maintained their rights
and the contest was holly carried on until
at last, incautiously, the owls took fancy
to spend the day out a-visiting. TIL
squirrels seized their opportunity. an,
stopped the hole full of sticks. twiRs. ans
even branches of considerable, size. whicl
thew drove in so firmly that all the storm
of the succeeding winter did not dislodg
them. For that year, then, the owls gave
up and made their homes elsewhere, bu
they are back at this present writing, ant
matters are going on as of old.