The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-12
WORTH KNOW ING.
NEWS NOTES ABOUT WELL
KNOWN PEOPLE,
GOSSIP FROM MANY QUARTERS
Some Are Travelling, Some Are Mar
rying, And All Seem 40 be Doing
Very weII-1t is LITTLE, But Makes
Mighty Interesting Reading.

An infant child of DR.. r. Fl. Garth
right, of Vinton, is seriously ill.
Mr.. A. B. Hammond left last night
for business trip to New York.
The new city directory is out.
Young g. Mulholland were the editors.
Mr.. Harry Fry, of Pocahontas, Va,
is in the city visiting relatives and
friends.
General E. Kirby Smith claims to
be the Oldest living white man born
in Florida.
Mr.. Llewellyn Lookabill returned
yesterday morning from Il trip to
West Virginia.
Col Charles II. Johnson, of the firm
of Bartlett, johnson & Co Louisville,
KY, is in the city.
Mrs. Hattie Davis, of Cincinnati, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Rose Levine,
OF Third avenue, s. w.
Mr.. j. Harry HUMPHREYS, of Way
nesboro, accompanied by his wife,
are stopping at Hotel Felix.
Miss Lottie Spaine, of Norfolk, is
visiting her brother, Mr.. Irving
Spaine, of Third street, S. w.
It is now announced that Prince
Murat is engaged to IL middle-aSed
lady with fortune of $5,000,00O
Colonel Sylvanus Johnson, OF
Petersburg, is visiting his daughter,
Mrs. p. Lockett, of South Roanoke.
Building is reported to be unusually
Il "a
demand for skilled worlImen is large.
The stockholders of the Roanoke
aud Southern Railroad Company will
meet in this city on Tuesday, June II.
Mr.. w. E. Kessler, of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company, re-
turned yesterday from visit to Rad
ford
Mr.. John a. Hardy, superintendent
OF the Radford division of the Nor
folk and Western railroad, is in Blue
field.
Thirty-six wagons paid curbase tax
at the Second ward market yesterday
morning, the amount accruing to the
city being $3.50.
a large well has been sunk in the
building of the Wheeling ice plant, at
Wheeling, w. Va, which flows 25O
gallons minute.
Messrs. NJ. II. Pedigo and Will
Wootten left yesterday afternoon for
Bakersville, Cal, and will make that
State their future home.
The law school at the University of
North Carolina will open July and
end on the last Monday in September.
The fee for the term will be $50.
Farmers from different sections of
Washington county, Nd, report that
the prospects for good wheat crop
in that county were never finer
The grand council OF the Royal Ar
canun, of North Carolina, was organ
! lied at Raleigh, Supreme Regent Leigh
K. Watts, of Virginia, otliciated.
Deposits of Il very fine quality Of
lead have been discovered on the
farm of \. e. Layman, eight miles
| from Fincastle, in Botetourt county,
| Va.
Messrs. j. s. Simmons & Co., real es-
tate agents, sold yesterday city prop
erty to the amount OF 100000, al OF
which was sold to parties out OF the
city.
\ panther, said to have escaped
from menagerie two years ago in
Shepherdstown, w. Va, is reported
to be frolicklng about the suburbs OF
that place.
| One of the fifteen prisoners dis
charged from the Virginia penitenti
arv during the month of June was I.
A. Marvin, the celebrated big&mist
and forger.
The trial OF William 5adler for the
murder of James Lindsay, colored. On
May 1st, took place yesterday. Sad,
Ter was sent on to await the action Of
the grad jury in July.
Taylor Dennis, colored maa Of
Vinton, died Tuesday of paralysis
and was buried Yesterday afternoon.
He was good darlley and COM
manded the respect of the white peo-
pie.
The Free Church of Scotland, which
recently took steps to prosecute Pro
fessor Bruce for heresy, recently with
drew from its position by vote at
the general assembly session in Lon
don.
Mrs. John R. Ennis, OF Martinsville,
Md, has given birth to trplets. By
singular coincidence she was her
self q twin, and Eer mother and
grandmother are each of a set of
twins.
Work on the machine shop of the
roundhouse in the West End yards OF
the Norfolk and Western railroad was
commenced Yesterday morning. The
shop will be thirty by sixty feet ia
dimensions and will be completed in
week or ten days.
Our special sale of ready-,nade suits
for 81 s. proved a GRIND SUCCESS. We