Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-05-02
ABOUT THE CITY
SHORT PARAGRAPHS PICKET
UP BY THE REPORTERS.
WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN A DE-.

WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN A DE-. :
Marriage License Issued. Unlawrr 1
Gambling. Breakage I'm the DUNN: Z.
Didn't Got the Money. a Rand
Gypsics In the City.
&Mr. Fl. Ramsey, of the Housto l
mines, was in the city yesterday.
Mrs. S. M. Brophy is spending Sc,
eral days with friends in Lynchbur.
Geo. P. Carr, of the Roanoke Bo--
Ting Works, spent yesterday in
Lynchburg on business.
Mr.. ]. w. Crow returned yssterda !
from a visit to friends in JohnsG l
! City, Tennessee.
Hon. Absolom Koiner, of August l
county, is here looking after his re. |
estate investments.
Mr.. T. s. Pennybacker, retire |
merchant of Mt. Jackson, is in ii )
city.
The dummy car did not make lis
1 o'clock trip yesterday owing to |
breakage OF the steam brakes.
Mr. Jacob p. Brugh, of Botetou t
county, has purchased property il
the city and will locate here.
Mr. j. w. Coon, president of tt ?
Commercial National bank, return
yesterday from II business trip ID
Johnson City, Tennessee.
A marriage license was issued Ly
Clerk Brooke, of the Hastings Cou
to Mr.. Will Jones and Miss Susie II
denbeary.
DR.. e. d. Wright, dentist of Rict :
mond, is registered ut Hotel Roanok,
He is accompanied by his wife az
will probably locate.
Miss Laura Norman, of Lynchbur {,
returned yesterday from Rock y
Mount, accompanied by Mr.. Geore e
Helm.
Awnings are being put up in frol
of the windows in the Office buildil =
of the Norfolk and Western raiIrou
company.
Lizzie Wade was fined S. yesterds y
morning in the police court for d j.
turbing the quiet and good order +
the city and resisting arrest.
Messrs. j. II, Northcross and S. J.
Walstrum and Misses Mary and Ma :
ME Pepper, of Carnegie City, we e
registered at Hotel Felix yesterday.
The real estate firm of w. A. Pedi, 0
& Company, of Vinton, moved il o
their new quarters on the corner f
First and Lee streets yesterday.
a band of rowing Gypsies ha e
pitched their tents in the woods ju It
opposite the Grocer Steel and Ir, II
company's works in the East End.
Messrs. J. X. Lupton and j. 90
Yancey, of the Harrisonburg lmproT =
ment company, are lin the city in Il g
interest of that town.
Mrs. J. R. Bland, of Farmville, WI 0
has been visiting her son, J. r. Blan .
jr., of Fifth Avenue, returned to Ii :
home yesterday.
Mr.. j. w. Lowe. senior member #
the Baltimore firm of Lowe & Mead :,
shirt manufacturers, is visiting Mr.. l..
G. 7. Jordan, at Hotel Roanoke.
Mrs. Blankenship, wife of cond :
tor S. G. Blankenship, of the Norfo i,
and Western railroad, and Mrs. r. ;.
Adams, were in Christiansburg yests :
day.
Mr.. r. 0. Smith, OF Vinton, l. 3
moved his store from Main street D
the corner of First and Lee streets, o
the building belonging to L. j. Blu =
nett.
Mr.. ]. A. Jamison, of the Ter Y
Milling Company, returned yesterd; y
from Blackwater, Franklin count
where he has been to visit his moth =
who has been quite i'll.
Thanks are returned to Messrs. =.
Sale & Co., real estate agents of BE; =
ford City, for Il handsome lithogra 4
of the new Hotel Bedford now /
course of erection there.
Judge Samuel CT. Williams issu,
a warrant yesterday against Will 4.
kefauyer and John McQuerie for b: :
ting at the gambling table. The CT e
will be tried this morning at 0
o'clock.
Mr.. Charles jackson, of Lynchbuc :,
has accepted position in Marshall 5
Cafe. He is a very popular you
man in the Hill City and will be !,
valuable acquisition to the establis :
ment.
Mr.. Vincent Gray has resigned J! S
position at the Roanoke Machil
Works and will engage in the re.
estate business at Salem. Mr.. Roblt y
c.. Stearnes will be associated wit
him.
The work of removing the "Omr
bus Block" is progressing finely, al;
by tomorrow evening not a vesta!
of the old landmark that has so loc :
been a source of annoyance to ever
one, will remain.
Rev. V. w. Wheeler, formerly e
Vinton, but now stationed at Clifto !
Forge, was in the city yesterday. Fl
will leave for his home today, accom-
panied by his wife, who was unable I }
make the trip when Mr.. Wheelt
moved his family to his new charG'
Number one, volume one, of T.
Advance, seven column, four pae'
weekly published at Basic City, q
the Shenandoah Valley railroad, w;
received today. 1t is a sprightly Ii
tie paper owned and edited by MIR. ,
H. Lindsey.
A car load of mules passed throug
the city yesterday from Lynchbur
consigned to Elkhorn, West Virgini;
They belong to Captain E. S. Moo
man, large contractor on the Ohio
extension of the Norfolk & Wester,
railroad.
A colored man named Cal Horton
who works in the stone quarry in TIL
East End, struck his.right foot with |
pick yesterday afternoon and cut
frightful cash in it. 1t is probabl.
that the member will have to be all :
putated.
Richard Scruggs and Nathanie
Porter, two colored men, were al
rested yesterday morning on tn,
charge of stealing the box of none
70 ION from tho lion of r. OnDer