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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-18
NOTE.

This company is formed to meet
growing necessity. The phenomenal
development in Virginia presents un-
rivalcd opportunities for safe invest
ment and large and quick returns. Cap
ital can nowhere earn surcr or more spec
dy profits than here. whether in town
property, mineral lands, stocks or Sc
curitics. Large fortunes have been lc-
ultimately and quickly acquired by in
Vestmcnts, both by individual effort and
especially by combined capital To
those who have the time and means to
come and see and invest for themselves,
no field offers richer returns. But the
visitor is embarrassed by the very null
titudc of opportunities offered him on
every side in the many localities. and
can with difficulty, determine where it
Is best Tor Kim TO place his money.
Again: Even those upon the grounds
arc often compelled to let slip rare op-
portuniticS daily presenting themselves.
simply because OF lack cf sufficient in
dividual means. 1t is frankly believed
That this Company meets both Of these
cmbawassments.
This Company Will Not Confine
lis Operations 10 Any One
locality, but Will Seek
Out The Best Where
ever Presented in
All the Places
Named.
Tho investing Committee will give
their personal inspection and Judgment
to all Investments, both as 10 their
locality and their nature, in all Of which
they will have common pccuniary in
terest with al other stockholders. With
tho aggregated capital Of tho Company
large and varied investments will be
made that arc denied TO tho smaller
means Of the individual. Every think
ing man can sec that no plan can offer
more advantages to invest carefully and
wisely than that of this company.
Real estate will be bought and sold;
investments in stocks and securities
Will be made, as stated, wherever the
best may be found, combining the scope
OF tho company to no one locality. Rich
returns have been had from similar or
CARNATIONS whose operations have been
almost, if not entirely, confined to Roa-
nokc and vicinity alone.
Subscription books now open at COM
pany's Office, Exchange Building, Ron
nokc, Va. For particulars apply to
D. C. GALLAHER,
Scc'y and Treas.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
AN ABscoNDING TELLER FOUND.
Pope, who Skipped From Louisville with
$780, 900 OF a Banks Money, Located
in Germany and will be
Extradited.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. lS.--Pope has been
located in Germany. There are nc trca.
ties between the United States and the
States making the German Empire by
which he can be extraditcd, but, never.
theless, he can be brought back t. this
country, if the United States Government
will, through the usual channels ask for
it. The police department, urged On by
President Leech, are still making every
effort to get Pope back here. They Know
where he is, but do not wish to,oucr hi.
arrest until it is certain that the home
government will ask for his extradition
Some time ago Mr.. Neumeyer, secretary
of police, wrote to the chancellor o. tie
German Empire, asking him if Pope could
be brought here if arrested. He received
yesterday an answer from the Imperial
German consulate at Cincinnati. Tie
letter stated that while there were 70
treaties by which he could be cxtraditct.
that the German Government would un.
doubtcdly allow Pope to be extradited ii
the request be made by the United State:
Government through diplomatic channels.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
A Plneville Murder.
lpineville, KY, Specially


A bloody murder occurred here la
night, George Coovert, policeman bein:
shot and mortally wounded by Bill Goolin
a notorious character, who has ds'
ured in more than one shooting scrap,
in the early days Of Pineville. The kill.
ing was most unproyoked and cold
blooded affair, and great indignation j.
felt in this place over its occurrence.
Covert was shot from behind BY Goodn,
while he was talking to Bob Goodn .
brother of the murderer.
The affair was brought about as iolow.:
The Goodin boys, two brothers, Bill and
Bob, and cousin, Eb Goodin, and another
man Harvey King, were all drunk aud
creating disturbance in an ILLEGAL
whisky dive, near the railroad station.
Coovert was trying to quiet them. and bad
induced two of the party-Bill Goodm
and Harvey King-to mount their horses
and start for home.
The officer was standing with hi back
toward the two men talking to Boil Gootin'
when he was fred upon.
Three or four ehots were fired. one o:
which took effect in his back, ranging
downward. inflicting wound from which
he died at $50 this morning The officer
made dying statement in which he iien'
tilted Bill Goodin as his murderer. TIE
Goodin boys are the ones who figured u
the big circus fight which occurred !
Barbouryille two years ago, and in .hlcG
old Judge Goodin, the father of Bob aad
Bill, was killed. Covert has been IL
Pineville about year, and was painter
by trade. He had been on the police
force about six weeks, and made III excel
lent officer. He leaves a wife and IS
small children.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
Combine and CONQUER,

A number of land companies own the
land in and about Big Stone Gap. There
are the Big Stone Gap Improvement Com
pany, the East Big Stone Gap Improve
mcnt Company, the Fayette Land Com
pany, the South Appalachian Land Com
pany, the Southwest Virginia Mineral Land
Company, the West End Land Company;
and then there are General Hardin and
the Shields Brothers who have large pri-
vate holdings in addition.
1t has been impossible for these various
companies toagree upon any concerted plan
of action for the improvement of their
property. One company do not feel dis
posed to donate u part of their property
to have factory or furnace built upon
another company's property, and no one
company feel able to donate any consid-
cradle portion of their property to have
such enterprises located upon it. when
other companies, who donate nothing, will
Icup QluOot tuC panC bQN NS tDC
one who does make the donation.
The result has been selfish hold Oh to
all and give up nothing policy. The Big
Stone Gap Improvement Company and the
East Big Stone Gap Company are the only
ones, We believe, that have offered sub
stantial inducements for manufacturers to
locate here. The others have done little
OF nothing.
Now the difficulties that obstruct im-
provement can easily be removed by the
consolidation of all these companies under
one management and one head. The do
nations TO establish manufacturing enter
prises here would then be made by all,
and the benefits resulting from them would
be enjoyed by all. There would be COM
mon'and uniform sacrifice and common
and uniform benefit. No one company or
individual would bear an unequal part Of
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
KENTUCKY CONFERENCE.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
of Zion Is in Session at Chicago.
Chicago Specially

In the Kentucky Annual Conference Of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church
of Zion to-day committee reported that
the Conference would recognize the Star
of Zion, printed at Salisbury, N. c., as
the official organ as soon as certain abuses
in the papers management were corrected
The report was rejected, SO the Star of
Zion is no longer recognized by the
Kentucky Conference.
There was lively time at the last even
ing's session. The church steward com.
planned bitterly that many ministers we're
not turning the proper amount into the
general fund, although they don't fail to
collect their own salaries" He named
three pastors, and an uproar followed.
After much talk, Presiding Bishop Lomax
took the floor and scored the delinquents.
He added: UNLESS you all collect and paw
in your proportion to the general fund you
will compel US to leave some of YOU at
home The difficulty with colored min
listers is that they too often preach about
what they do not understand. They take
somebody's book and write from it long
sermons, and they stand up and read
firstly, thirdly, secondly" laughter and
shouts of That's it'll" and finally your
iong-winded sermon blows out of the
window, your congregation is asleep, there
is no interest in the church, and YOU col
lect no money. You should not borrow
long-winded classical sermons. Leave
that to heightened white ministers, preach
something that you understand and you
Will have no difficulty in having good con-
gregations, who will pay literally to the
church. If you cannot manage your
church as you should, go at something
else. Get young mule and 60 to pillow.
ing" Voice, "Now YOU are talking. 2,
and uproarous laughter}
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
PROSPECT FOR a ROW.
blaine and Reed Don't Dwell Together In
Maine as Brethren Should.
Bangor Specially

BANGOR, Me-, Sept. l6.-That which the
republicans have long feared seems TO
have finally happened. The gauntlet has
been thrown and war publicly declared
between the two factions of the republic
can party in Maine. Whether or no Mr.
Blaine really, through political jealousy
or policy, secretly fought Speaker Reed Is
matter of conjecture. His friends deny
it emphatically, but Mr.. Reeds lieutenant,
Congressman Boutclle, believes so, as his
savage editorial. in his paper to-day on
Mr.. Blaine and his followers shows.
Desperate efforts are being made to per-
suade Boutelle to withdraw the remarks,
for fear the contention in the party VIII
spread outside the State and paralyze
national interests. Mr.. Boutelle has long
been brooding over what he believes to be
Mr.. Blaine's secret enmity, and the follow
ing is digest of his words. Wherever IN
the editorial Mr.. Blaine's name appears II
is printed in small capitals.
WHAT BourELLE SAYS.
Congressman Boutelle says: "The re-
publican triumph of Monday is more sug-
eestiye of exultation than moralizing, and
vet it would he great mistake to lose
sight of some of its obvious and significant
lessons. Of these one of the most con-
spicuous is furnished by the superb VIC
tory of Speaker Reed over the combined
efforts of the democratic party and the
influences within the republican ranks
that have been insiduously arrayed against
him. 1t is Il matter of public notoriety
that a democratic collector of customs in
the city of Portland has been already held
over several months beyond his full term
because the senators from this State have
insisted upon being allowed to select his
republican successor, with entire disregard
and even contempt for the. wishes or
Judgment of the member of congress
who now holds the second office under our
government, and who has just received so
remarkable Il manifestation of the conti-
dence of his people.
"The attempt Of any set Of men to
dominate the politics of this State by
farming out patronage and organizing
treacherous warfare upon all who may
even fall under the suspicion of standing
in their way, will never succeed in the
present enlightened state of public affairs.
Inc rcPuDiicahS vi h"ihc e"hIo' NC beiu
in leading strings by any self-appointed
rulers and they will Indignantly resent
unscemly interference with the exercise
of their political rights. Whether it be
the attempt, however unsuccessful, to
organize the entire machinery of the fed
eral congress in hostility to the republican
congressman of one district, or to UNDER
mine another by packing custom-house
with his enemies, the fair-mined republic
cans of Maine and the country will have
none of it,"
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
Friday, September 10, 1890.
Tux last issue of the Posr has been ii

The last issue of the Posr has been in
great demand. Every copy left over has
been sold, some eastern capitalists order
ing as many as one hundred extra copies.
In addition to this demand two hundred
and fifty regular subscribers have been
added to our list during the week and the
work goes brayely on. The Posr will soon
secure additional telegraphic news, and it's
columns will be made more and more
attractive to its readers as public patron
age justiies the outlay. The success of
the paper thus far has greatly exceeded
our own expectations.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
he burden or reap an unequal part o.

:
the burden or reap an unequal part Of
the profit.
If the owners of stock in these COM
panies and the individual owners of the
other lands are sagacious business men,
they will readily sec the advantages of
such consolidation and will promptly
enter into it. Such combination of
interests, under proper management,
would result in Immediate and rapid i'm
provement and corresponding advance
in the market value Of their properties.
The wisdom and Importance of this COM
bination are too plain for argument. To
any one who has an appreciation of the
situation the suggestion of it is sufficient
II remains to be seen if the parties in
interest can agree upon an equitable
basis
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
CAMERON QUITS.
He VIII Have No More to DO With the
Republicans, and He Gives His Reasons.

PETERSBURG, Va, Sept. 17.-Ex-Gov.
Cameron is out in & letter to W. S. Dash
iell, of Richmond, Va, in which he re-
nounccs his allegiance to the republican
party. He details at length his reasons
for his present action. Among them he
says that the party has become sectional
and is now trying to keep in power by
reyiying the passions Of the war.
He denounces the party for its failure to
pass the Blair Educational bill; condemns
the Lodge bill, which he says is regarded
by one section as blundcr and by
another as crime; says the president
has done nothing south of Mason and
Dixon's line, since his Inauguration,
except to recognize with reluctance that
any such country has existed; and says
his appointments in the South have been
of men without capacity or influence. He
concludes:
But this remains in my judgment for
us to dO-for men who recognize higher
duty than that which can he expressed by
q party name-and that is, to free our
selves from all part and lot with party
which has no faith too sacred for violation,
and recognizes no pledge as too solemn to
be broken. / cannot lend myself to the
oppression of my people; and, if there is
no political organization which meets the
full measure of our approval, We can at
least leave that which violates our every
idea Of right and sentiment. Not pre-
Stunning to set for any other man, or set of
men, IA standard Of duty, and willing to
concede to every one else that freedom of
thought and action have always claimed
for myself, my resolve, founded on desire
to be true to myself and my country, is to
refuse all sympathy or cooperation with
the republican party in the crusade
against this section which it now espouses
and under the leadership to which it sub
mits. WILLIAM E. CAMERON"
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
A Good Proposition.

II is to be hoped that the proposition
made before the Baptist Association, to
establish a male academy near Big Stone
Gap will receive sufficient support from
the community to insure the success of the
institution. The field is certainly an invi-
ting one. The school system in the noun
tain counties of both Kentucky and Eir-
ginia is totally inadequate and inefficient;
and it would be well for other religious
denominations as we'll as the Baptists, to
devote more of their funds to home mis-
sions and less to foreign missions. The
dense ignorance which prevails in certain
sections of both States would be appall-
ing if it were fully disclosed, and the
various churches should realize the value
Of and act upon one of the best Of say
ings, that charity begins at home"
DR.. Curry and Prof. Harrison attempted
while here to arouse the interest of the
community in educational institutions,
and their speeches left strong impress
sion upon the large audience who heard
them. But our own people must take the
initiatory steps, and organize the much
needed movement and not rely entirely
upon outside aid The trouble is We lack
organization No one, except Senator
Mills, seems sufficiently interested in the
matter to devote the necessary time, which
is quite generally taken up in specializing
and money making, to organize and de-
velop systematic movement in the cause
of education. We lose sight of the fact
that education and morality form the most
essential part of the foundation for Il new
city. Mechanics will not come here unless
We have schools for their children, and
without mechanics it is impossible to
build city. So if we view it in the
proper light it will be seen that our ma
tcrial interests also depend i'll a great
measure, upon our educational facilities.
Mind and matter must move together to
secure intelligent and well directed prog
rcss.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
Depew When Abroad.
New York Specially

The first Fall meeting of the Union
League Club was held tonight, with DR..
Chauncey N. Depcw in the chair. Gen.
W. I. Sherman was on the platform. Mr..
Depcw made speech. He said: i'Of all
the great Americans known on the other
side, not even excepting Gen. Grant, none
are SO we'll known as James G. Blaine and
William Mckinley. They seem to regard
Mckinley as man who has been studying
up economic subjects, and has invented a
new scheme by which to close up the fac
tories of Europe and starye the people
into submission to the American govern
ment. They piled me with questions as to
the Mckinley bill, and tried to get an
expression as to the nature Of the man
and what the dickens he is going to do
with all the people abroad. Ireplied that
my notion of Mckinley was that possibly
he had an idea of inducing them TO emil
crate with oil their factories and workmen
to the great American country, and thus
help give greater consuming power to
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
froptgoruery, Ala, Special

- (H0nt&oIuefys hia'S OPSes3'J
MosrooxEnY, Sept. 17.-News has been
received in this city from an authoritative
source, that while newspapers and polit-
cians have been engaged In the discussion
Of the constftutionality or unconstitu'on.
atty of the aub-treasury scheme, the Ma.
tional Farmers Alliance, the organization
of the agricultural classes, has been dill.
gently at work to perfect plan by which
Immediate relief will be accorded to the
cotton producers Of this country.
The efforts Of the committee of tic
National Farmers Alliance who have this
matter in charge have been successful.
and meeting will be held in New York
Monday for formally concluding the nego.
tiations and entering into the contract
At the last meeting Of the National
Farmers Alliance, the matter of arrans.
| ing some plan by which the cotton pro.
dncers could hold their crops for bette.
prices was referred to the cotton commit.
tee with power to make any arrangement.
possible to effect this end. The committee
at once opened negotiations with European
capitalists, which have now been in bro.
rress several months, and it is given OF,
IN N eW 1Ork tO-ud5 tuae ehS 81 arrangements
have been at last perfected.
A prominent Alliance man from the
South, who was in the city to-day TO con.
fer with representatives of foreign cao.
talists on the subject and who is on the
inside, said to the Journal correspondent,
this morning:
"The National Alliance has achieved
great work. The cotton committee o.; rho
national body has completed arrange.
ments with European capitalists to adj.
vance $3l per bale on 100000 bales Of
American cotton, to be stored in the ware.
houses of the South for period OF onc
year, allowing the farmer to dispose Of
the cotton at any time during the wear
should the price advance to his sati>iac.
ton. The European syndicate, which ad
yances this money on the cotton, will
charge per cent per annum interest and
will be fully secured by the cotton on
which the advance is made. Thi- AZ.
rangement means that the farmers will
have the use of $64,000,000 and at the
same time keep 100000 bales OF cotton
out of the market. This money come: at
the very lowest rate of interest that could
be asked, and the arrangement canno, .ai
to produce marked advance in the price
of cotton, as it virtually withdraws a.
once over 6ne-fourth of the crop OF the
country.
"a year ago the cotton committee tried
to make this arrangement with New York
capitalists and negotiations were almost
completed to secure q like advance on
1000, 900 bales, but some little hitch oc-
CURED which upset the negotiations.
This year the committee sought Europe
for capital and everything is at last ar
ranged, and the members of the cotton
committee are now hurrying to New York
to meet representative of the European
syndicate in that city next Monday, when
final action will be taken"
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
The Political Shake up In Kentucky
and South Carolina.

The election of Mr.. c. NJ. Clay as chair
man of the Kentucky constitutional con-
vention, was significant in more respects
than one Mr.. Clay was elected by the
farmer influence, which is being felt just
now in q mild form in Kentucky, but
which is destined to become more ag-
gressive and powerful. The selection
of u farmer for this important position
was manifestation of unrest in the
masses and notice to the old political
hacks that the people are becoming tired
Of repeated disappointmcnts, and arc dis
posed to throw off their yoke. Kentucky
has long been afflicted with brood of
professional politicians and place-hunters
who have pandercd to the narrow preju-
dices of the most ignorant element,
thereby maintaining their ascendency
and dividing the public spoils among
themselves, and with few worthy 'excep
tions, doing absolutely nothing to develop
the resources of the State or to elevate it
in the intellectual and moral scale. They
have had exclusive control Of State affairs
and quite an influence in the national
councils for number of years; and NE
have as result the fact that of nine
Southern States, some of which have
increased their product of iron ore over
fifteen hundred per cent since 1880, Ken
lucky alone has fallen off, the census
showing decrease of over twenty-three
per cent in its output.
This is the result Of the indifference Of
the controlling elements to the develop
ment of the Industrial interests of the
State, some of the more narrow or more
corrupt cranks even denouncing manufuc-
turers as "robber barons" and "plun-
derers."
But what may he regarded as even q
moro serious direliction is the wrctched
condition of the public school system in
the larger portion Of the State, there
being number of counties that do
not contain single school-house, aud
nearly 100000 persons over twenty-onc
years of age to whose physical and mental
vision the letters of the English alphabet
are as mysterious as the heieroglyphics
upon the obelisks Of Egypt. 1t may be
said, too, that within one hundred miles
of Louisville, the metropolis of the State,
and city of over 100000 inhabitants,
there are many grown persons to whom
the name of Christ is as unfamiliar as it
is to the hals naked savasos who in-
habit the banks Of the Congo and the
Nile. These are unpleasant facts, but
i are facts nevertheless; and the response
bility for their existence rests upon the
politicians ulio hayelhad absolute control
Of public affairs Cor more than a quarter
OF century: They have NOT only had
srpreme influence over the policy Of the
State, hut they have most Of that time
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
Big Guns In Virginia
washington Special,

Senator Voorhees, and Congressman Jason b R'"'r
Of Indiana, went down to Culpeper to-day IN '6A
Lee TO address the voters Of that vicinity. aud 'l
Monday Congressman Csruth, OF Kentucky ~
speak at Orange Court House. The people d ~
county may confidently expect to hear a hnr 'p'''
Mr. Caruth Is an enthusiastic democrat, and j. o''
the most active men In the House.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-19
Willie and Bizxy.

Count Herbert Bismarck had q secret
meeting with Emperor William at Potsdam
Just before the Emperor started for Kiel.
Count Herbert promised to use his infiu-
ence With his father to induce him to csase
his revelations and to return to friendly
relations with his Majesty. The Emperor
declared his readiness to resume friendly
intercourse with the ex-chancellor, but
the meeting between the two was post
poned until the Emperor's return from