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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
THE ROANOKE AND SOUTHERN.
The Directors of the Guarantee Com
pany Met Last Night

A majority of the directors of the
Roanoke and Southern Guarantee
Company met last night at the Office
of Jas s. Simmons & Co., and held
an importantmeeting.
President Simmons presided, and it
was reported that at last satisfac-
tory understanding with the eonstruc-
ton company had been reached The
road will come here. This is now
acknowledged every where. The con-
struction company have expressed
their satisfaction with the arrange
ments made by the guarantee com
pany, and in a few days the agree
ment to make Roanoke the terminus
Of the road will be officially signed.
This will forever set the matter at
rest. Colonel Fries will be in the
city in few days and then all the de-
tails of the affair will be defnately
settled.
The guarantee company will as
soon as possible have its properties
plotted and will then place the lots on
the market. The directors are conf
dent that the sale will be brisk from
the start, and that the property along
the line OF the road will be sold to
business men who propose to build
storage warehouses.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
HOLLINS INSTITUTE.
VIRGINIA..

For the higher education of young
ladies, equipped at cost of $4,000,
employs % officers and teachers, Z of
whom are male professors, of both
American and European training.
Languages, Literature, Science, Art,
Music, Elocution, ETC., are taught
under best standards. For nearly a
half century it has commanded public
confidence without distinction of re-
ligious beliefs. 1900 feet above sea
level, and surrounded by picturesque
mountain scenery, it enjoys the fur
Their advantages Of mineral waters
and a bracing mountain climate. At
tendance last session 200 from Is
states. The 4Sth session will open
September 18th. P. 0. and Station,
Hollins, Va. CHAS. H. COOKE,
iy25-tf Business Manager.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
NEWPORT NEWS sMIPBUILDISG.
C. %. Huntington Proposes Condition
ally to Build Sever al Sims

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 25.-The inter
esting ceremony of christening
steamship and raising over her the
flag of the United States was per-
formed Saturday at Newport News.
The steamship was the San Benito,
formerly the English ship Kimberly,
stranded on the Virginia beach two
years ago. She was purchased by
c. P. Huntington, and has been com
pletely rebuilt at the Newport News
shipyard at cost of 100000 Papers;
have been issued to her as an Ameri-
can ship.
This is the first achievement OF the
new shipyard at Newport News. This
yard cost about $3,000000 Mr..
Huntington says that if the subsidy
bill passes he proposes to buffdi
several ships to sail under the Ameri-
can flag to run between Newport
News and Liverpool.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN
Whnt the Washington Herald Says
AbouL It's Management.

gain the course of an extended article
on Southwest Virginia, the Washing
ton Sunday Herald has this to say
about the Norfolk and Western man
agement:
More than to anything else the
great prosperity of this section is due
to the enterprise and accommodating
spirit evinced in all suggested i'm
provements by the Norfolk and West
ern railroad. Mr.. Charles G.. Eddy,
the vice-president of the road, is well
known to all the manufacturers and
capitalists throughout Southwest
Virginia, and is accounted very pop
ular with all. The policy of the road
seems to be one OF accommodations,
and stations, and side tracks are built
wherever the demand for them is ca
pressed. No fault whatever can be
found with the management Of the
road, and its success promises to be
commensurate with the development
of that portion of the State. They
extend every aid possible to all capt.
talists contemplating the erection OF
manufacturing establishments. and
are equally careful of the interests of
home-seekers.
The road has been in active opera
ton for period of but eight year
and at the close, of the year 1889 TIN
total length of completed line wa
over 639 miles. The main line runs
from Norfolk to Bristol, Va. There
are also branches from Norfolk to
Lambert's Point, Petersburg to City
Point, Glade Spring to SaltvilIe, Rad
ford to Elkhorn, branches to coal
mines, Pulaski to Ivanhoe, and Blue
field to Honaker. AT the close of
the year the company had in stock
l05 locomotives, eighty-seven passen-
ger cars, 1880 freight, caboose and
other cars.
As an evidence of the amount of
business done during the year the
average mileage of each passenger
engine was 1865 miles. per day as
compared with 1875 miles in 1888.
That of freight engines was lob miles
per day against SO miles in 1888. In
1881 the road carried total of 215, 004
passengers, in 1889 total of S41, 1856.
The number of tons of freight carried
in 1881 was 53S, 1902, in 1889 8 435, 1877.
In 1882 they carried 1890 tons of iron
ore and 4,735 tons of coal; in 1889,
249,34 tons of iron ore and 1,543,900
tons of coal.
Their railroad premises, properties,
and franchises are valued at $4S. 1885,
50S, and their rolling stock at 1914,
2l0, making their total assets $61, 1885,
800.
OLD exchanges for sale at THE
TIMES office. 20 cents Der 100
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

Robert Fagans, the colored driver
of Mr.. Joseph NJ. Humphreys, who
lives in Henrico county, claims to
sleep every night on the bedstead in
which President Jefferson Davis was
born. He says he purchased it from
Mr.. J. c. Redwood shortly after the
evacuation of Richmond for $3.50.
This bed was brought from Mississ-
ippi when President Davis moved to
Richmond.
New Baltimore and Ohio shops are
to be built at Cumberland, Md. A
contract has just been closed between
the railway company and the city OF
Cumberland, by which, in considera-
ton of a subsidy of $15G.000 voted by
the city, the company agrees to build
extensive shops there, costing with
machinery not less than S150,000.
A New York correspondent reports
Mrs. Cleveland. as looking thin and
worn.
The first cotton steamship will
leave Norfolk September 6.
Mrs. Susan Riddleberger, mother of
the late ex-senator Riddleberger,
died in Shenandoah county last Mon
day. She was sister of the late
Henry Shryock, of Baltimore.
Extensive iron workers at Middles-
borough, KY, near Cumberland Gap,
are projected by the South Boston
Iron Works, which are likely to end
in the transfer of the entire business
of the company to this point. The
works are for the manufacture of
ordinance and heavy machinery, and
will be of the most complete modern
type, including a series of four to six
basic open hearth furnaces.
The first bale of North Carolina
cotton has been received at Norfolk.
a genuine case of Asiatic cholera is
reported IN London. The patient
walked around the city for day be-
fore going into hospital.
ALI over Virginia the reports indi-
cate extraordinary crops.
La Grippe has again appeared in
New York.
The value of lands in eight of the
best agricultural counties of the val
ley anu Ulie dOJOlulAS ocouioH VI ouO
State has fallen off this year $4,030,-
$50. These counties are Loudopn,
Frederick, Prince William. Shenan-
doah, Warren, Albemarle, Augusta
and Clarke. The comparison is made
with last years, and not the assess
ment of 1885.
DIR. Alexander Bear, the Democratic
nominee for Lieutenant 6 GOVERNOR OF
Nebraska. was born in Fauquier
county, Virginia, in 1910. he went to
Nebraska 10 1865, where he has prac-
ticed medicine ever since.
The Luray News has been sold to
Messrs. George G: Marshall and T. E.
McCorkle, and will be changed to the
Luray Times. Mr.. E. G. r. Hum.
phries, formerly of the Lexington
| Gazette, and more recently of the
Glasgow Herald, has assumed editor
ial management.
Kr. John +. Allen, formerly of tbs
firm of Allen & Gjnter, died Monday
morning at Richmond. z
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
Sieve EIkius yyiIl NOT Ruu.

WHEELING. w. Va, Aug. 25.-The
nomination of Hon s. b. Elkins for
Congress in the Second West Virginia
district, against Hon. William l..
Wilson, the tariff reform leader,
has been looked upon as one OF the
certainties of the present campaign
until today. The Wheeling lntelli-
gencer this morning prints letter
from Mr.. Elkins, in which he posi-
lively declines to allow the use of his
name, giving as his reason that his.
private business will render f6 impos-
sible for him to do so.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
A Republic i'm Hawaii.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug 25.-Admi-
raj Brown of the flagship Charleston,
which has arrived from Honolulu, in
an interview expressed the belief that.
the incoming steamer from the Haw-
allan Islands will bring news thata
revolution has broken out on the
islands and that probably a new re-
public has been declared.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
WOODLAND PARK SOLD.
s. W. JanisOn Purchases IL at 500, 900.
To be Subdivided.

Mr.. S. w. Jamison yesterday closed
the purchase of Woodland Park. The
price paid for the property was
100000.
The park has a magni cent growth
of shade trees, and is beautifully 10
Gated on high, rolling ground in the
eastern part of the city just south of
the Machine Works.
The park contains - 9-10 acres, and
about three years ago the Roanoke
Land and Improvement Company Of
fered to deed it to the city if the
Council would agree to fence it and
convert it into public park.
Mr.. Jamison intends to have it laid
out into building lots Immediately.
Its height and the delightful shade
it affords insure the sale of the
property as soon as it is placed on
the market.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
The London Press CrIgic.ses.

LONDON, Aug. s5.-TheS newspapers
have taken advantage Of the passage
of the meat inspection 2ill at Wash
idgton, to renew Glazing against Amer
lean beef. This new measure is de-
nounced as anunwises and ungracious
attempt to force expcsrts.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
RasE BaLL SCORES.
Records OF the Various Associations
Saturday Night.
Bose BaI, Cnmes of Yesterday.

Players League-Boston, s. Chica-
go, 1. Philadelphia, 6; Cleveland, 2.
New York, 8; Pittsburg, 9. Brooklyn,
5; Buffalo. 5. National League-Bos-
tor, 10; Pittsburg, 2. Philadelphia,
5; Cleveland, 2. Cincinnati, 4; Brook
Ign, 1. Nav York. 5; Chicago, 6.
American Association Syracuse, 5;
Brooklyn. a. Rochester, 4; Athletic, 5.
Toledo, g; Columbus, 0. st. Louis, 10;
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

To be Tnkcn to the Asylum

Miss Mary Eads, who was adjudged
insane by the board Of lunacy last
May, and who has since been confined
in the city jail, will be taken to the
Southwestern Lunatic Asylum at
Marion by Deputy Sergeant r. A.
Wright this morning. Miss Eads
would have been removed sooner but
for want of room in the asylum.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
Deash Of Represenfatiye watson.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Congress
man L. F. Watson, of PennsyIvania
died very suddenly this morning at
the Shorehan Hotel. The House inn
nediately adjourned upon assem-
bling, the death of Congressman
Watson having been announced.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

the running of trains caused by the
accident. The rails. were torn up for
about seventy-five feet, and a tempo
rary track around the mass of debris
had to be built. The grading was
ready, and it was not long before
trains were running smoothly.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
Big ON Fire In West yirginia.l

PARKRRsBURe, w. Va, Aug: 2255:--
The oil tanks of Brown Brothers,
Johnston s. Island, in the Bellmot
oil fields were set afira Friday night
The tanks on the Taylor farm caught
and all were destroyed.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
suraIl Pox Ia Texas.

/ SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Aug,
SIN j pox has broken out here.
Waco, Tex. Aug. 25.-simals pox
prevail to an alarming extent in this
city.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
iae FaiIed no. Annear.

Robert Jackson was brought before
Judge Williams yesterday morning
on warrant sworn out by S. w.
Stewart charging him with larceny.
Jackson was admitted to bail on his
own recognizance to appear at p. III.
Failing to do so, he forfeited the
same. which the judge had fixed at
$50.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
notice

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If the stocEhofd efs OF stite II nis EerssaII;
EIeStric Railway gna Conc
Wednesaay tfI at & sz
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
weather rod..y.

WASHINGTON, Aug %. irs
GINA Light showers stat onary TEN
perature.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
For Rent.

Desirable office or store room in|
TIMES building, corner Third avenne
and First street, 8. W The best lccts-
ton in the city or terms and par
tigulsfs; This uflise
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

THE TIMES office has been removed
to the new building corder Third
avenue and First street, southwest.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
costly Nayai sil anenyers.

LONDON, Aug. 25.5y.It is estimated
that the accidents to Athe various war
ships during the }recent naval
maneuvers will cost Sin s5o, 900.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

The TIMES office has been removed
10 the new building corner Third
avenue and First stree t, southwest. Z
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
NEWS NOTES.

OLD exchanges for sale at THE
FINES office; 20 cents per 100
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

THE TINES office has been removed
to the new building corner Third
avenue and First street, southwest,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26

SELECTING piano or Jorganis some
what like selecting q wifi practically
glife time affair. ,her, Safore be sure
YOU set good one. N one but old
established standar Esiakes of instrus
rnents are sold by the gHobbie Music
CO., ynchbnrgs Va They never
touch shodd y, low sra s geaGa Gata-
aogues free.
Hassyour Gctors you of bleod
disease ,S. OF aEGeSla
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-26
A WEST VIRGINIA RIOT.

OLD exchanges for sale at THE
TINES office; 20 cents per 1C0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13

with the statement of S2I,257,ooo
as the value of the commerce of
the city for the past year, is a
showing which at once command
ed the attention of the committee.
But Mr.. McCord labored hard and
for the first time in years, if
indeed it was ever done before, a
federal building bill was reported
favorably by the house Committee
on Public Buildings, and Grounds
before it was considered in
committee in the senate. This
is credible to Ashland in being
able to make so telling a showing,
and is credible to the Ninth
district member in crowding the
bill so well with the committee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
MIR. McCord will get to the Front.

The Medford Star and News
editor strikes the nail on the head
when he says: Representative
McCord has introduced bill in
Congress to provide for the
erection Of public buildings for
post offices in towns and cities
where the post office receipts for
three years preceding have exceed
ed three thousand dollars annually
If this bill should pass, it would
an injustice now done to
patrons of the mail service, and
Postmasters holding presidential
Offices. Now, only very large
cities can have public buildings,
and in those not so favored the
postoffices are crowded into rooms
intended for stores, and in no case
are such quarters convenient for
either offices or the public. The
greatest injustice, however, is done
to postmasters in the smaller
towns, where this bill would apply.
The officer is given a salary based
on the receipts Of his office, and
out Of that salary must come
office rent, lights, wood and clerk
hire. He is compelled to buy and
keep in repair the fixtures of his
office, and the box rent goes to
the government the income of the
money purchased with his own
money. In towns like Green Bay,
Oshkosh and Lacrosse where the
salary gives the officer merely a
living, it is rank injustice. The
government should own the build
ings and fixtures, and then the
dimly lighted, cooped-up quarters
now occupied as postof6ces in all
small and moderately sized cities,
would be no more. We hope Mr..
McCord's bill will pass, and he
should receive the hearty support
of all fair minded people in this
matter"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Complimentary to Judge Webb,

That a public official can so
administer the duties of his office
as to win the warm affection of all
with whom his position has to do,
is Que Of the impossibilities of
this world. That a public official
can SO perform his duties as to
win the respect of those not in
sympathy with his acts, is possible.
No words could more forcibly
express the popularity of an
official, than the total absence of
all opposition and criticism during
candidacy for reelection. Since
the Marathon County bar started
the boom for the reelection of
Judge c. NJ. Webb, few weeks
ago, not one word of opposition
has been heard from either the
press or bar. During the six
years Judge Webb has been upon
the bench. he has attended to his
trying duties faithfully and fear
lessJy, and while one-half of all
litigants have been invariably
beaten in his court, they will all,
to a man. support him at the next
jucGcial election. Veyauwega
Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
AN OBSTINATE GOVERNOR,

Col. Ginty in The Chippewa
Falls Herald: Several Democratic
papers are very prolific in their
advice to Gov. Hoard as to what
he should, or should not do,
regarding state matters. No use,
gentlemen. He won't listen to
advice-not even from friends.
Ed. McFetridge, Hold Taylor, and
an individual "Who don't want to
be known in this matter, you
knoW"-all Of them old friends of
the Fort Atkinson Churner-
advised and urged him not to be a
candidate for Governor. They
pointed out the fact that the salary
wasn't high enough-that the
position brought trouble and
vexation Of spirit-that his hand
would become Paralyized signing
notary publics' commissions, and
pardons for democrats-that in the
excitement Of the moment he
might veto bill making Kansas
grasshoppers legal tender for cos
tive granger, under the impression
that it was a measure drawing the
color line" on Phil Armour
oleomargarine = that Madison
wasn't healthy place to live in
anyway-but all to no purpose
He was as deaf to good advice as
Joseph was to the Wiles Of Mrs
Potiphar. And SO, when Squire
Hoard won't listen to council from
disinterested friends, is it to be
wondered that even the democratic
press cannot move him =?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Renews hRe Youth

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co, Iowa, tells the following remarka-
bic story, the truth, of which is youched
for by the residents of the town: y
am IS years old, have been troubled
with Kidney complaint and Iameness
for many years; could not dress myself
wishout help. Now l am free from all
pain and soreness, and am able to do
all my own homework. | owe my
thanks to Electric Bitters for having
pieteiy all Id diseases and md pain" Try f2gH a
bottle, soc. and 81. at Woods Drug
Store
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
LEGALS.
IN PROBATE,

ST4 W6o Of G Co8g3T Wood County Court
Notice is hereby given, that at special term
of the County Court, to be held in and for said
county, at the court house in city of Grand
Rapids in said county, on the 18th day of Feb
ruary A. D. 1890, the following matter will be
heard and considered, to-wit: the application
of Bertrand G. ChandOs for letters Of admins
tration upon the estate Of Marian L. Bensley,
deceased.
Dated Grand Rapids Wis. January 10Th 1890.
BY the Court, GEO. L. WILLIAMS
County Judga-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
PATENTS.

Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained,
and all Patent business conducted for
MODERATE FEES.
Our OFFICE Is OPPOSITE q. S. PATENT
OFFICE and we, can secure patent in
less time than those remote from
Washington.
Send model, drawing or photo, with
description. We advice if patentable
or not, free of charge Our fee not due
until patent is secured.
A PAMPHLET, Glow to Obtain Pat
ents," with names of actual clients in
your state, county, or town, sent free.
Address,
G. 4. SNOW & co.
OPP. PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. g.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13

Hon. M. H. McCord is doing
good work in Washington for
new member. Read what A. 7.
Dodge, of Washington has to say
about his efforts: The report
which accompanies the bill for a
public building at Ashland is one
Of the most comprehensive and
and strong documents ever
presented upon like measure in
the House This is due to the
shrewd calculation on the part of
Mr.. McCord in being able to
bring to bear most of the strong
points made in the interests of the
bill for the prosperous and rapidly
growing commercial center on
Lake Superior. The wonderful
increase in population Ashland
has shown in the past ten years is
a point that astonished the
members of the Committee on
Public Buildings of the house, as
the population figures show a
growth from 95I in 1880 to 10000
in 1889. The figures on improve
ments for the year 1880 amount
ing to 100000, and coupled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
BuekIen's Arnfca SaIve.

Tie best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, litter, Chapped Hands
Chilblains Corns, and all skin Eruptions
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded
Price p cents per box. For sale by 81
/. Wood q Co