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ROOMS FOR RENT.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18th, 1890,

at ) o'clock p. m, the following de
cribed property:
a parcel of land with a house there
on, in that portion of the city of
Roanoke, laid off by Henry S. Trout,
lying on the southwest corner oe
Peach Tree and Hill streets, fronting
on Hill street 40 feet, and east TO the
line of lot Of Joseph Martin, thence
with said Martins line, south about
$40 feet to an alley, thence with said
alley, west 40 feet to Peach Tree
street, thence with Peach Tree street,
north about lao feet to the beginn-
mo
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Cash as to so much of the purchase
money as shall be necessary to pay all
costs and charges incident to the exc
cution of this trust, and the amount
of money with interest that remains
unpaid. The balance upon snch
terms as the said Borton may direct
or as shall be arnoupced upon the
day of sale. j. ALIEN WATTS.
jy II, 10, 26. aug 2, 8, 16. Trustee.
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THE ROANOKE TINES.
DAILY AND WEEKLYl

An Independent Democratic paper
devoted 70 the material and political
interests Of Roanoke and Southwest
Vii rinia.
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TRUSTEES SALE
OFT
CITY PROPERTY.

BY virtue Of two deeds Of rast exc
cuted by G. F. Borton, IL first TO
James 3. Gregory, being substituted
as trustee, dated September 2Gth. 1883,
to secure to Julius Oliver the pay
ment of one hundred dollars with in
terest from date. and the record dated
December eth, 1888, TO me rs trustee to
secure TO Julius Oliver the payment
of one hundred dollars, with interest
from date, default having been made
in the payment of the amount therein
recorded, | will sci! at public auction
on
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{, HENANDOAH VALLEY RAIL
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s. r. TYLER. Receiver.
Schedule il effect June, 2, 1890.


Schedule il effect June, 2, 1890.
ARRIVE AT ROANOKE.
go p. N. DaiIy-Memphis Express,
from Hagerstown and the
north. Through Pullman
sleeping cars from New
York and Philadelphia to
Chattanooga and Mem
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Philadelphia and Baiti-
more, making connection
through 10 the south
Carries through Pullman
palace buffet sleeping car
from Philadelphia to New
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yia Harrisburg, Hagers-
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land, Calera, and J.. & y.
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bu.i Sleeping car frorn
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wjthoar change, via Ha-
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Carries Pullman Palace
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harrisburg.
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nation and through schednles upon
application 10
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Knoxville. Chattanooga, Rome. AN
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-06-09

the True Meridian Magnetic Variation, lode q
So min East. The Location Notice If tbs
mine is recorded in the Recorders office UI
Railroad Mining District, in Book K, page
TO of the records OF said Mining District. The
Sky Blue; OH the South. the Mounted Ledge;
and OH the west the Bullion and the Web
Foot. Any and all persons claiming adver
ly any portion OF said Cleveland Mine or
surface ground, IRE required to file their uC
verse claims with the register .: the United
States Land Office ut Eureka, in TIE state o.
Nevada, during the sixty days eriod of pub
tue Of the provisions of the Statute.
d. ii. HALL,
Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing No
ticc Os Application for IL Patent be published
for Il period OF sixty days. or ten consecutive
Hceks, III the ELFo INDEt EVIDENT, Il daily
newspaper published III Elko, Nevada.
ID. ii. HALL, Register.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

3 o.
fell "kersquash" into the alley, fol-
lowed by q racket as Il . dray-horse'
was galloping for his life. In three or
four minutes Giveadam Jones returned,
the right leg of his trousers split to the
Knee, and his breath coming hard, and
as he sat down Brother Gardner arose
and said: "s.
MY frens, de- difference between .
philosopher an q fakir is sometimes so
powerful fine dat de best Of men are dc.
ceived. It's my opinyun dat We got
nold OF de wrong animal, but dere's no
great harm dun. I reckon he won't
oodder US no more, an perhaps he has
left US few grains OF wheat among de
chah. We will now annunciate home
wards. "-Detroit Free Press.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Servants In tho Austrian Capital.

The servants and mistresses of Wen.
ma have to manage their affairs under
the superintendence of the police. The
latter keep servants book" in which
each girls dismissals and re-engage-
ments are recorded, together with
copies of character given by each en-
ployer The character has to contain
the three words, tre,t, .t1eissig, sittsams
(honest, Industrious and we'll conduct
ed). A mistress may leave out any OF
these three words if she finds cause,
but few venture to do so. The day
after she has dismissed servant with
a defective character, she receives q
summons to the police station, where
she has to swear on the crucifix that
the girl is either not honest industri-
GUS or virtuous. She is vigorously cross
examined, and If the girl insists with
her denial, the visits to the police Office
are repeated over and over again. A
written character in Vienna, there
fore, means nothing, and mistresses re-
sort to other means of getting informa-
tion.-Frank Leslie's Illustrated News
paper.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
TWO PRAYERS.


Dur minister gifts up to pray and let's the spirit
flow, && @- III "
An: tells the Lord q lot Or things he thinks He
ought to know,
Tells Him about tho government. how politics
~ turn %
Coz uo don't mix in politics an he. no way 70
learn. i
He peaches on the President, an describes his
evil nntur'.
AM gives away tho Cabinet and our venal legis
latur.
Shows how corruption tcster., an tells 'ot
things, l fear. i,
rhet the Lord-thcy como SO sudden-wiu be
surprised to hear.
He takes the cyclopedy an he weaves 1t in his
prayer,
sandwichcd In 18th choice statistics which he
picks up everywhere;
They say the Lord knows every thing-so:no.
times uster doubt
Now l know our pastor tells Him--thet's the
way He fines it out.
In the mcetin' t'other evenin' he lifted up his
An much interestin' gossip laid before the
Throne Of Grace:
Chunks Of useful Information did he shrewdly
.interspcrSe,
Thet would make the Lord enlightened OF to all
Then Jim Drew. the drunken sailor, list riz up
there in the aisle.
AN though twas in . holy place we couldn't
forbear to smile.
But Deacon Briggs he nudged me hard: seq he!
Don't grin that way,
For don't ye see he's sober, an the rsscal's
goin' to prays"
BE started in and sea: "Ol Lordl I'm 1es,
chuckful or sin,
An there amt no place, reolxin for your mercy
to squeeze in;
For I'm iist good for nothin'. an an OF wreck
from the sea,
Take mel ain't wuth talsin'-but I give myself
to Thee"
Then he broke down an hlubbered out an jes,
set down to bawl.
An then there came o loud Amen" thet near
bust through the wall;
We knew spark Of Heavenly fire had touched
this earthly clod,
For his soul in all its nakedness had shown It.
self to God.
There warn't much learnin' in his prayer. bu,
yet it travelled far
An went tloatin' up to Glory where the shinin
angels are;
The pastor's prayer, so weighted down 'i.h fig
gers, facts an proof
Got lodged among the rafters an didn't git be
yond the root.
IS. W. Foss in Yankee Blade.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

Stories about the pigmies of Africa
have been common in classical as we'll
as modern literature, and yet always
read as q fiction, pretty fable to enter
tain children or embellish q poem
Three or four centuries before Christ
the Greeks were really aware Of the ex-
istence Of . people Of stuated growth
inhabiting q district somewhere about
the source of the Nile. It was reserved
for Gchweinfurth, in 1859, to discover a
race Of African pigmies in the Akkas,
since which time Krapf found the Do.
ko or Berikeemo dwarfs, Du Chaillu tho
Obongos, and Stanley captured one Of
the dwarfs said to live north Of the
Wakuma country; so that abundant evi.
dence now exists n proof Of the claim
so long ago made, that Africa was tho
land OF the pigmies. a.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
BOUNDARY MARKS.
Tho Exact Limo Which Separates Our
Country from British North America.

Tho Exact Line Which Separates Our
Country from British North America.
Formerly great difficulties were ex-
perienced in locating the exact line
which separates our country from that
belonging to the kingdom Of Her Maj
esty, Victoria l.; now all that has been
overcome. According to the treaty of
Ghent, the British were allowed all the
land lying north of point 4,70O feet
south of the forty-ninth parallel, thence
running west to the Pacific ocean. In
April, 1870, surveyors at work establish
ing an Indian reservation discovered
the fact that a great error had been
made in the calculations of the commits
sioners who had established the line
400 feet south of the forty-ninth
parallel, which. if followed west as laid
out, would take in the British fort at
Pembina. The surveyors communicat-
ed this startling fact to the general
government, and the Secretary of State
informed the British Minister, where
upon new boundary commission"
was formed forthwith. Few of the 49,
600, 600 of people in the United States
at that time knew that our country was
without q northern boundary for two
years following April, 1870, but such
was the case. During the summer of
the year last named Congress, by joint
resolution, appropriated 100000 for
carrying on the work of establishing the
true boundary.
BY the end of 1879 the boundary COM
mission had done its work; stone cairns,
earth mounds and wooden and iron pill
lars had been set up at intervals of
from one to eight miles apart from the
Lake of the Woods to the Pacific Ocean.
There are exactly SS2 of these land
marks between the Lake of the Woods
and the base OF the Rocky mountains.
The Red River Valley is marked only
with iron posts, which are set at the
exact distance of one mile apart All
the iron-pillars used in the consumma-
tion of this great work were cast at
Detroit Mich. They are feet
high, inches across at the base
and 8 inches across at the top; cast hol-
low. They were made hollow so that
they could De set permanently oY CIV
ing cedar posts through the hollows.
Each post Is inscribed with this legeAd:
"CoNvENTIoN OF LONDON, OCTOBER 20,
1915" -
When stone cairns were used they
were made 8 feet high, feet square at
the bottom, tapering to 81 feet at the
top. The mounds Of earth used as
marks were made IA feet square and Z
feet high. How many of the mounds
cairns were built between the Rocky
mountains and the Pacific ocean, only
the co,nmis issioners know; suffice to say
that as long as stone, earth and iron
will last, the question Of our northern
boundary is settled. st Louis Pe-
public
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
The peculiar performance of a pas

The peculiar performance of pas
senger on the steamship Iroquois was
the cause of considerable excitement OF
a recent trip from New York to jack
sonville, Fla. Just after crossing the
bar he tied the lead limo around his
waist and jumped over the side for a
swim. He was jerked through the
water at frightful rate of speed, and
the ship had to be stopped and the
erratic gentleman hauled aboard. He
said he merely wished to take an ocean
dip, and thought that b could keep UP
with the ship.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
LITERAL TRANSLATION.
A Frenchman's Peculiar Notions Regnr
ing American Grnaahonnara.

A Frenchman's Peculiar Notions Regard
ing American Grasshoppors.
Miss Cooper, daughter of tho novel
ist, James Fennimore Cooper, states
that when in Paris she saw French
translation of her fathers tale, 1.-THE
Spy" in which there were several mis-.
takes, but one of them was such that It
was almost incredible that any one
could possibly have been guilty Of it.
The residence of Mr.. Wharton, one OF
the characters who figure IN the story,
is spoken Of by the author as 1.-THE
Locusts." Now, the translator had been
evidently ignorant Of the circumstance
Of there being any species of trees bear
ing this name. Having, therefore.
looked out the word in his dictionary,
and finding the definition to be given
as Lies sauterelles," grasshoppers
thus he rendered it in the text. Pres
emily. however, he came across a para.
graph in the novel in which it was
stated that a visitor to the house of Mr..
Wharton had tied his horse to a locust.
Then it might be naturally supposed
that the translator would at once have
discovered his error. Not bit of it
His reasoning would appear to have
been somewhat on parity with that o.
celebrated countryman of his, wher
he declared that IF the facts do no.
agree with the theory, so much the
worse for the facts" Nevertheless, the
writer seems to have been consciou:
that some explanation was due of 81
extraordinary statement as that {
horseman had secured his steed to {
grasshopper: So he went on to gravelJ
inform his readers that in Americs
these insects grow to an enormous size
and that in this case one of these =
dead and stuffed--had been stationed q
the door OF the mansion for the con
venience Of the visitors on horseback
RoOkmark
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
STARVATION CAMP.
Ono of Stanley's Terrible Experiences n
the African Wilderness.

Ono of Stsniey's Terrible Experiences In
the African Wilderness.
After informing the unfortunate Grip
pies of our intention to proceed forward
until we could find food, that we might
not all be lost and send relief -
quickly as it might be obtained, con.
signed the ffty-two men, eighty-ons
loads, and ten canoes in charge of Cap
tain Nelson, bade him be of good cheer,
and hosting our loads and boat on our
shoulders, We marched away.
No more gloomy spot could have been
selected for = camp than that sandy
terrace, encompassed by rocks and
hemmed in narrowly by those dark
woods, which rose from the rivers edge
to the height of six hundred feet, and
pent in the never ceasing uproar which
was created by the writhing and tor.
tured stream, and the twin cataracts
which ever rivaled each others thun.
der. The imagination shudders at the
hapless position of those crippled men,
who were doomed to remain inactive, to
listen every moment to the awful
sound of that irreconcilable fury Of
wrathful waters, and the monotonous
and continuous roar of plunging riversJ
to watch the leaping waves coiling and
twisting into uprising columns as they
ever wrestle for mystery with each
other, and were dashed in white frag.
ments of foam tar apart by the cease.
less force of driven currents; to gaze at
the dark, relentless woods spreading
upward and around, standing perpetu.
ally fixed in dull green, mo burning over
past ages, past times, and past
generations; then think u the
night with its palpable b1ackness,
the dead, black shadows of the
wooded hills; that eternal sound
of fury, that ceaseless boom
of the cataracts, the indefinite forms
born of nervousness and fearlessnessl
that misery engendered by loneliness
and creeping sense Of abandonment,
then will be understood some thing Of
the true position in these poor men.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
"A retired Detroit eroceryman say

"A retired Detroit groceryman says
the most independent man on earth il
the one who pays cash and runs ne
bills, especially where he buys his pro-
visions. When he feels that he can buy
where he pleases and pay as he goes he
buys to better advantage every time
and saves money. # he runs no bill he
is not liable to be assessed for losses on
some dead-beat account. Some dealers
consider it perfectly fair to make up on
paying accounts what may have been
lost on bad ones
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THE CONSUMPTION CURE.
An Overland Journey Suggested as q
Pnsitiya Remedv.

An Overland Journey Suggested as .
Positive Remedy.
The article on "Cure of Consumption"
in late number of the Companion recalls
the fact, already passing away from all
memories, that before the railroads were
built across the plains it was a common
thing for consumptives, as a last resort, to
take the overland journey in OK carts, and
that the experiment was often successful
sometimes, to all, seeming miraeulously so.
To-day thousands try the trip by railway,
and, suddenly arriving on the coast in
climate most fatal to consumptiyes, eli
mate whose natives have as much consump-
tion as people have anywhere, are loud in
their expressions Of disappointment. 1t Is
easy to see why the old method Was so favor
able 10 a cure. No region has less of con-
sumption than that formerly called the
plains. For 600 miles west Of Northwest
Missouri or Western Iowa, where the eleya-
tion Is about 1000 feet Qhe elevation increass
about ten feet to the mile), the air is pure dry
and thin and is constantly in motion. The old
time wayfarers started in wagons, with
comfortable covers for use when necessary.
The whole life was passed out of doors.
The journey was slow one. The voice was
exercised in calling to the oxen. The tray-
elers often walked slowly along behind
the wagons, laughing talking and singing.
About midafternoon they made halt,
prepared their sup; ers and let their teams
forage and rest until morning, when, after
breakfast, they started on. Sometimes they
halted for days at favorable places, resting
and amusing themselves, or making needed
repairs. Who cannot see that the case is
hopeless, indeed, for which such life
does not work cure? Now when people
go West, if they do not take the cars. they
have carriages and good horses and spin
along, stopping at hotels. 1t needs the slow
going team, the occasional walking and
talking, the outdoor cooking and sleeping.
In days long before the railway had ever
reached the Missouri River the writer lived
where lie had the opportunity of seeing
numbers of far-gOne consumptives starting
on such journeys. Many Of them he saw
return cured, and he heard of many more.
II is not necessary to go as far as the noun
tains. To-day one can journey all
through Central Kansas and Nebraska
and find settlements wherever he
may like to halt. Why doctors per-
sist in sending patients to the South or to
the Pacific Coast, where no disease is more
common or native to the soil than con-
sumption, and why they send them-in close,
stuffy Pullmans are among the mysteries.
Long live the oX-team. - Youths Com
nnniun.