Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-18
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YESTERDAYS NEWS IN SHORT
PARAGRAPHS.
FROM SHOP AND SIDEWALK.
Personal. Shipments Of PscahoRtas
Coal. The Excursion Party to fhe
Peak Crock Coal and Iron Company
Mines Postponed. A Runaway.

Mr.Gsorgs Gsddes, ofthG farrell Safe
company, Philadelphia, is in the city.
Mr.. J. D. Martin, of Floyd county,
is registered at the City Hotel.
Mr.. George P. Hodgson, Of Column
bia, Fluvanna county, is in the city.
Mr.. F. W. Craig returned yesterday
from visit to his family at Marion.
MIR. D. H. Spring, of Raleigh, N. g.,
is in the city.
Mrs. J. H. Fsatherstone, who has
been visiting relatives at Appomattox
courthouse, returned Sunday afternoon.
Mesars. A. G. aud J. H. Bear, of the
Bear Lithia Springs, are registered at
Hotel Felix.
Yesterday was county court day and
a large number of lawyers from this
city went to Salem.
Mr.. Ike Cohen, son of the large whole
sale merchant of Petersburg, is visit
ing friends in the city.
Mr.. T. Wilbur Walthall, OF the
Lynchburg Advance, was in the city
yesterday.
DR.. H. Mayer, an oculist Of Vienna,
Austria, is in the city and will prob
ably locate.
Row. Telfair Hodgson, Of the Uni
vsrslty of tho South, at Suwanee, Tenn,
is registered at Hotel Felix.
Mr.. H. H. Spindle, OF Warrenton,
is in the city prospecting, aud may
locate here.
Mr. j. McH. Board, of the Bedford
Democrat, published at Liberty, was
in the city yesterday.
Mr.. .. S. Engledove. of tho dry
goods house of Guggenheimor s. Co.,
Lynchburg, was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. ]. E. Oyler, who has been sick
for several days, has recovered suf-
fciently to be on the streets again.
Mr.. e. B. Davis, who has beon visit
ing his son, Jefferson Davis, the grocer,
returned to his home in Alsbmnrlo
county yesterday.
Mr.. Harry L Crouch, Of the Palace
Hotel, has accepted the position of
night clerk at Hotel Felix and entered
upon his duties last night.
The shipments OF coal by the Poca-
hontas Coal company for the wsek
ending March 18th, were 32.C0S tons,
and for this week including the 18th,
62,O52 tons.
DR.. w. Hodgson, OF New Jersey, ar
rived in the city Yesterday and is at
Hotel Felix. He sontsmplates open
ing a first class drug store in East
Roanoke.
Mr.. H. L. Lane, large contractor
OF Big Stone Gap, is in the city. He
says that town is on the eve of big
boom, which will eclipse anything
Southwest Virginia has yet seen.
Mr.. NJ. Schlo.s, of the Philadelphia
one price clothing house, returned yes.
terday from a trip to Northern cities,
whsre he has been to purchase his
spring stock OF goods.
Mr.. c. B. Harris, of SCOTS vile,
Albsrmarls county, who has baen in
Southwest Virginia for the past month
prospecting, returned 10 his home yes
terday after investing heavily in real
estate.
On account of the inclemsnt wealth
or yesterday the excursion party to the
mines of the Peak Creek Coal and
Iron company did not take their pro-
posed trip. They will leave, however,
tomorrow on the morning train and
spend the day at the mines.
Two horses attached to a wagon
belonging to Mes,rs. w. P. Camp &
Co., took fright in East Roanoke yes
terday and ran away at break-neck
speed down Commonwealth and Shen-
andoah avenues. They were stopped
near the freight depot. The driver was
not injured.
Mr.. VIM. Lunsford and others spgag-
cd in organizing the Oriental Cigarette
company who will use the Ludingtop
machine, have secured the requisite
number Of shares and will hold a meet
ing of the stockholders today.