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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-18
INCREASED INSURANCE..

MINNEAPoLIs, Dec. 1S.-Local
insurance agents have received in.
structions from their home offices
that dating from today, rates on
risks, on wholesale merchantile es,
tablishments will be advanced from
20 TO 40 per ceat. This advance is
to be general over the Country. The
company declares that losses from
these fires in jobbing establishments
more than absorbed all the premiums
paid during the year on all classes s
of risks.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-18
RARrHoUAKR

HARRisBURo, Pa, Dec. ls.-A
very ierospible earthquake shock
was felt IN this city aud surround
ing towns a. $50 this morning. No
damage was done. but houses were
shaken as by an explosion.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. ls,-The
supposed earthquake was caused by
an explosion OF s50 pounds ~ dynA-
mite At steelton. Nobody hurt.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-18
pEHr wArER ooNvKNrIoN

DEkf WATfh CONVENTION
DErRoIT Dee Is When deep
water Ways convention re essinbled
this morning the cOninllliee on res-
olulions introduced q memorial 70
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-18

CHICAGO, Dec. lS.-The national
Prohibition committee met here this
afternoon for the purpose of decid
ing upon the time and place for
holding the next national conven.
tion to nominate candidates for
president and vice president of the
United States.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-18
Proposals for Supplies.

HNHE board of trustees OF the Oregon
sealed proposals for furnishing at the asy.
lum, near Salem, Oregon, the following
supplies for the six months ending July l.
1892:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
vINTON..

Simeon Taylor, who has been linger-
ing at the point of death for the past
two weeks, died yesterday evening at
2 o'clock, and will be buried at Bedford
City to-day. Mr.. Taylor was native
of Bedford county, and camo to Vinton
about year ago. He was member OF
the Methodist church and consistent
Christian.
Mr.. T. A. Gish, popular real estate
agent Of Vinton, who has been indis-
posed, was able to be out at his place of
business yesterday.
A regular communication was held at
the hall of the Vinton A. +. and A. NJ.
last Monday night. The work of the
evening was comforting the initiatorY
degree upon Taylor Overstreet, of Blue
Ridge Springs, which was done in a
very impressive manner by the S. W.,
w. A. Pedigo. There were number
OF visitors; among them were Philip w.
Brown, proprietor Of Blue Ridge Springs.
The lodge is in fiourishing condition.
It started eighteen months ago with
fourteen men; now it has membership
OF forty. The lodge has purchased two
lots for the purpose of erecting build
ing suitable for their use. 1t is doing
some of the best work that is done n
Virginia as lodge, under the govern.
ment of the efficient w. NJ, d. McLeon
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08

what curvelinear ut the sides. In roll
ing themselves up there is no opening
visible, and the animal represents O
solid ball with u hard surface.
Our engraving represents the scanned
glomeris (glomeris limbnta) to be
found singly or in groups of different
sizes under stones, dccaying leaves and
in damp places, mostly in the woods.
They are completely harmless, of
glossy brown black color, and each seq
ment has q ycllowish rim. They are
very lazy animals, and lie most of the
time rolled up in their hiding-places.
In case of danger they roll themselves
up and remain in this position for long
time. The glomeris makes use of this
faculty for more rapid locomotion,
where the surface is slanting-thcy SIM
ply roll down hill.
Their food consists of decaying plant
remnants. OF their development little
is known. They shed their skin, dig
ging into the ground for this purpose,
where they remain until the Skin has
hardened and the light color has
changed to dark brown black.
Considerably larger than the Euro
pean species are some found in Africa
and Asia. Among the latter is one in
8ornco more than two inches in length
The general color is rusty brown, in
clining to red, the head and front seq
mcnt edged with blaclsish brown The
surface is shining and polished, and all
the segments, except that at the end of
the body, are marked with deep longi-
tudinal impressions, and for this reason
the animal has received the name Of
zephronia impressus.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
Sensational in Hanrinc.

Capt. Montagnac, who was executed
in France during the religious wars, but
was rescued from the gibbet by Mar
shall Turrene after having hanged by
the neck for nearly three minutes, said
that he had lost all pain the moment the
trap sprung, and even complained at
being rescued and taken away from a
beautiful light that defed description.
Another culprit who escaped through
the breaking of the rope said that after
4 second or two of suffering light ap-
peared, and across it a beautiful avenue
of trees. All accounts seem to agree,
in one particular, at least, that the suf-
fering is but momcntary; that a pleas
urablc feeling Immediately succeeds;
that colors of various hucs start up be-
fore the eyes, and that when these have
been gazcd at for limited space the
rest is total oblivion.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08

Der for his native county in the assem-
bly, of Canada. From that time on
ward he took an active part in the
transactions of the house, notably in
reference to commercial matters. He
was made Q. G. in 1862 and for a short
time was member of the Sandfield Mac
donald ministry as solicitor general. In
1864 he introduced and fought through
the house the ''insolvent act" probably
his chief work us n legislator. In 1867,
upon confederation, Mr.. Abbott was
elected to the house of commons. In
the negotiations of the syndicate, Of
which Sir Hugh Allan was chief, for
the Pacific railway charter Mr.. Abbott
acted as counsel, and through his con-
fdential clerks trcachcry the famous
private correspondence which caused
the Pacific scandal saw the light. In
the defeat of the government ut that
time Mr.. Abbott shared, and remained
In private life until 1880. lie was
elected in that year and sat through
parliament until 1887. when he retired.
He was subsequently elevated to the
senate, of which he has of late been
the government leader. Next to the in
solvency act, the measure by which his
reputation has been most enhanced, is
the jury law consolidation act for lower
Canada,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
Empcror wliliam,s araidcn spcech.

What was probably the maiden speech
of the present emperor of Germany is
described in n Berlin letter to the Phila-
dclphia Times. 1t occurred in 1880 ut
Kocnigsbcrg, the occasion being ban
quet rendered to Frederick. then crown
prince, and his son, Prince William.
The crown prince sat ut the head of tho
table, pipe in mouth and n big bumper
Of clarct in front of him, to all seeming
enjoying himself to his hearts content.
He showed no particular inclination to
talk-a fact which seemed to have q
restless effect upon his son, for the
young prince suddenly got up, bowed to
his father, and launched out in passion
ate vcrbiagc on the duties of n soldier
and the Glorics of the Fatherland. The
crown prince ut first looked astonished,
and then smile of satisfaction and
pride wrcathed itself amid the puffs of
his pipe, and, turning to an officer who
sat by his side. he said: "Wcll, William
is not quite his mothers boy, but he
snits his fGther to perfection"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
OVER THE FENCE.
The Prcdicnmcnt of u Russian and His
American Sweetheart.


American Sweetheart.
Perhaps one of the happicst of tho
long list of marriages between Ameri-
eldest daughter of Gen. Edward Beale,
now the wife of Mr.. Bal1hmeticff, Of
Russia, secretary of legation at Athens.
Twelve or thirteen years ago, as an at
tache of the Russian legation, the young
foreigner met and ut once foil dcsper-
ately in love with Miss Bcalc. The
young people carried on their lovemalk-
ing under the cover of friendly dark
ness in Lafayette square, Washington.
One night the Waterman went his
rounds, as usual, says the Pittsburgh
Dispatch, and thinking the square to
be empty, carefully locked the gates
and departed to his homo. Uncon-
scious of this fact the lovers reused
from their absorbing conversation and
prepared to leave tho square. Their
CONSERVATION Mt finding themselves i'm
prisoncd was nowisc improved by tho
discovery that not Il soul seemed to be
stirring on the streets who could como
to their rescue.
There was no help for it. The only
way out of the difficulty was to climb
the massive iron spike fence. With
great difficulty the young lady climbed
to the top. when, to her horror, Just as
her feet sought to secure resting
place in the descent, the gruff voice of
n policeman shouted menacinrly in
their cars.
Rapidly giving instructions in French
to Miss Bealc to proceed with all speed
possible and run for home while he en-
gagged the intruder in conflict, Mr.
Bakhmetieff successfully tusselcd with
the fellow until, happy in the know
ledge that his instructions had been
carried out, he gave himself into the
custody of the officers, knowing that,
asa member of a foreign legation, he
would be liberated Immediately upon
arrival at headquarters.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
commanded

short of stature and of swarthy COM
pleXion. When trouble was brewing
between Balinhcetla and his congress
COL Canto proposed toast to the con-
stitution and the three powers it estab-
lished-the legislative, the executive
and the judicial. Balmaceda ordered
his arrest and Canto suffered several
months imprisonment and was finally
sent to the north of Chilli in exile.
When the revolution broke out Canto
escaped and Immediately joined the
congressional party and was put ut the
head of the fast forming army. The
wisdom of the choice had been appar-
ent. He felt that he was leading one of
the most righteous revolutions that ever
took place in South America He fought
as he felt. He will now undoubtedly be
promoted to the full rank of general.
While he will not be the highest in
rank, there being several veteran gen.
erals still alive, he will be tho idol of
the country
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
Drug Store Isores.

Retail druggists have two classes of
patrons whose patronage does not help
swell the profits of the business. And
yet, says the New York Times, these
patrons arc very numerous. They arc
the people who ask: MAY look Mt
your city dircctory?" and evil you
please sell me postage stamp?" All
drug store proprietors are slaves to the
custom of keeping city directory for
public nsc, and but few of them can
give any good reason why they should
do so any more than retail grocers or
the keepers of cigar shops But the re-
lcntless slot machine has intcrposed be-
tween the npothecary's profitless good
nature and the postage stamp and city
directory patrons. An automatic clasp
is now attached to tho city directory,
with this busincsslil1c inscription across
its face: Drop one cent in the slot and
it will open" and in many drug stores
may be found neat little case in
scribed: drop in nickel for two two
cent postage stamps"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
Tho Deyil,s KnelI.

Among the famous bells of Dews-
burg, Yorkshire, Eng, is one known as
"Blacls Tom of Soothill," which was
presented to the church in cxpiation of
n murder. BLACK Tom" is always
rung on Christmas eve. It's solemn
tolling as it strikes the first tap Mt ex-
actly midnight is known all over York
shire as the Devils Knell," it being
the notion that when Christ was born
the devil died Legendary superstition
has always invested bells with miracu-
lous powers and strange influences, but
why the so-callcd spirits of darkness are
credited with n strong aversion to their
din has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned. In many Catholic countries
bells are rung during the time of great
storms, so that the devil may take
flight and the tempest subsidc."
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
QUEER END oF a lawsuit.
A Judge Who was Equal TO All Emer.
Genctcs. 10

gencfcs.
There is an impression that judg-
ments nkin to those of Solomon arc
only given in the east, but it is evident
that n judicial cleverness like that of
the king of Israel is also to be found
down east. Tho Lewiston Journal
tells OF two Maine farmers who bought
IN old-fashioncd pair of steclyarts.
Each paid part of tho cost, and used
them whenever he wished to weigh his
produce for market.
After time dispute arose, and each
claimed the ownership of the steel
yards. Tho matter was carried into
court, and the jury disagreed. Then tho
case, on some technicality, was sent to
the law court, and was again sent back
for trial The costs, up to this point,
had reached about five hundred dollars,
about n hundred times the price of the
steclynrls themselves. |
When the case came up again, Chief
Justice Peters was the presiding justice.
lie told the counsel that if the case
were carried further, the costs would
be increased to such an extent that ono
or the other of the parties would lose
his farm in order to pay. He advised
them to enter it neither; party" and
divide the costs. After consultation
the parties owned themselves willing
to do that, and it looked as though tho
case would be settled. Suddenly, how
ever, ono of the contestants. rose, went
over to his counsel in the courtroom,
and asked:
"But who is going to get the steel
yards? He shan't have them"
The other contestant made the same
declaration.
Then the counsel rose, and said that
the case was just where it stood before
any talk of settlement had been made.
They were willing to stop litigation and
divide the costs, but what could be donc
with the steelyards?
'I'll fix that" said Judge Peters
"Lct the sheriff of the county take the
steelyards ut night and go down and
throw them in the middle of the river,
letting nobody know tho exact spot, so
that they can never be recovered"
The contestants agreed to this propo-
sition, each paid his proportionatc
share of tho costs, and the case was
dropped.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
The NIan-Facod Grab.

One Of the most singular-looking
creatures that ever walked the earth or
"swam the waters under the earth" is
the world-famous man-faccd crab of
Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in
length, yet the head is fitted with n
face which is the perfect counterpart of
that of Chinese coolic; n veritable
missing link, with eyes, nose and mouth
all clearly defined. This curious and
uncanny creature, beside the great like
ness it bears to n human being in the
matter of facial features, is provided
with two legs, 'iyhich seem to grow from
the top OF its head and hang down over
the sides of its face. BESIDES these legs,
two 'feelcrs," each about an inch in
length, grow from the chin of the
animal looking for all the world like n
colonel's forked beard. These man
faced crabs fairly swarm in the inland
seas Of Japan.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
Cape Cod Dlsappenrinr.

1t is said to be beyond doubt that
Cape Cod is being gradually eaten away
by the hungry ocean. Not acentury ago
the government placed lighthouse on
the hcadland of the cape. The decd to
the property calls for ten acres of land,
but at the present time the Enclosure
measures scant six acres. On point
just north of the marine stations at
Highland light the face of the bluff has
moved in nearly two hundred and fifty
feet in the last seven years. At this
rate it is only question of time when
Cape Cod will be Il thing of the past.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
SALEM
ROUND ABOUT SALEM.
The News of a Day Boiled
Down.
ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,
HOTEL LUCERNE, SALEM, VA.


The regular monthly public meeting
of the Y. M. c. a.. will BIO held in the
Presbyterian Church next Sunday at
$3.50 p. NJ, and will |, be addressed by
Rev. J. G. Holiday. superintendent Of
the Orphanage. A special musical pro-
grammo will be rendered by q chorus Of
twenty-five voices, with instrumental
accompanimento of claronet, flute, cornet,
trombone and baritone, under the
leadership of Mr.. Paul S. Davis, of the
Bank of Salem.
Mr.. Jackson Beale was suddenly
called to Scottsville last Saturday by
the death of his father at.that place.
Mr.. C. S. Repp, young blacksmith
at the Salem Wagon Works, has been
sick for two weeks or more, and being
an Odd Fellow and away from his homo
and lodge, the members of Salem Lodge,
No. 1O0, I. o. o. F., have been sitting up
with him every night. He is also K.
here seem to have left him to the care
of the Odd Fellows, which seemingly is
the only order here for the working
man.
The other night the peach orchard on
the Marshall Frantz farm. near town,
was literally skinned of peaches by
thieves.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Sixth district of the State Y.
NJ. c. A. will be held this Thursday
afternoon at $3.50, in the Office of Chas.
Il. Towson, for the purpose Of arranging
for the district convention to be held in
Salem the last of this month or early in
November. II. o. Williams, the Sta,o
secretary, is expected to be present.
DIR. e. A. Herring and son, of Rock
ingham county, are in town looking
after their business interests.
Mr.. John Peter Saul, who travels for
the Baltimore clothing house of r..
Walter & Sons, has moved his family
from Christiansburg to this place, and
has rented one of the three villas on
the Boulevard hill, near the dummy.
Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Burt, of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, are visiting Mr.. Thomas l
Preston. These ladies were the Misses
Brown, of the Hollins neighborhood.
More operatives for the Chadwick Two
Wheeler are expected to arrive from
Olean, N. Y, tonight.
Academy street, from Main to the
house owned by Mr.. c. M. Weber, is
being covered to the depth of foot
with river gravel. Messrs. Johnson &
Harveycutter have the contract.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08

muslSets were pointed at the redskins.
The timbers and floor boards are of
massive oak, hewn out with primitive
tools On one side is an immense
chimney, built outside the walls, the
fireplace being about ten feet wide and
six feet high. The rooms are small and
dark, owing to the deeply recessed and
small windows, and the ceilings are
scarcely seven feet high. The house
has been somewSlat modernized, the
assures in the walls being no longer
visible, and the fireplace has been
boarded over, the house being the Stone
House Farm headquarters, but it re-
mains one of the most interesting relics
of past generation to be found in this
cOuntrp
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
cANADA's NEW PREMIER.

Something About tho Man Who Succeeds
the Late Sir John Macdonald.
John j. Caldwell Abbott was born on
March ~, 1928, in the rectory of ST.
Andrews parish, county of ArgenequiL
Que. His father was Rev. Joseph Abb
bolt, M. A., who in 1918 came from Eng
land and settled at st. Andrew rs the
first Anglican incumbent Mr.. Abbott
graduated from McGill college, Mon
treal, and at once entered upon the
study of law. AT the age of twenty
seven years he was called to the bar of
lower Canada. 1t was not until 1850
that he entered political life as q mem
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
YE oLDE STONE HOUSE.
Guilford Comm Residence Built Several
Hundred Years Ago.

Guilford Comm Residence Built Several
Hundred Years Ago.
What is probably the oldest house in
the United States stands in good state
of preservation in the pleasant village
of Guilford, Conn.,, says Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper. Besides it's an
tiquity the structure is extremely in
tercsting from it's novel construction.
The house stands on Whitfield street,
the approach being wide pathway
across the broad lawn. Guilford-then
called ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS settled in
1889 by Il party from England, headed
by Rev. Henry Whitfield, and the stone
house was built in that year, SO that it
is now over two hundred and fifty-two
years old. The walls are of stone,
some four feet in thickness, and
plastered inside and out, narrow ifs
sures being left in them through which
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
RAILROADS
N i = :: w NorfoIksWesternRR

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT AUGUST 80, 1891.
wEsrnouND, LEAVE RoANoKE pAILY.
S:eS a. m. for Bristol and intermediate stations
00o Rnsao L3r bedford Puaski Bristol; also for
iniucneid, Pocahontns, Elkhorn, Clinch VAL
rnliman sleepcrs to Memphis and New Or
e.,r leans and to Louisville Via Norton.
o'lo p. IN. Tor Radford, Pulaski, Bristol. Con-
meets at kedford for Bluchcld and Poca-
n1ntas. Pullman slecpers to Memphis via
MONTH AND EAsTBoUND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
10y an a. IN. Tor Petersburg and Richmond. =
i%ov y. III. Tor Hngcrstown. Pullman elecpers to-
a, NEW L ork via harrisburg and Philadelphia
l2:4o p. M daily for Richmond and Norfolk Phi
man pnrlOr car to Norfolk.
e e:99o p. ~ ior Lynchburg no connection beyond.
o:sSp. IN. Tor SHENANDOAH; no connection beyond,
liA p M Tor Richmond and Norfolk Pullman
sleeper to Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rich
1120 ?. m: for Hagorstown. Pullman slecpcrs to
washington via Shenandoah Junction and to-
New DIRK Via Harrisburg -
Clinch Valley Division-Leaves Bluefeld dailv
zoo u M. for Norton, and 1885 d. m. for Nor
tom Louisville and points on L. & N. II. r.
via Norton 49, - -
North Carolina Division-Lcavc Pulaski daily
TOO n. M. for IyanhOc and 1870 D. m for IyaIi-
hoo and Gossan and 500 o. nj. (cxcept Stfn-
day. for Betty Baker. -
For all additional information apply Mt ticket
office or to w b. BEViIL
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
AN APPEAL TO BURNS.
It Should Move the Scottish Bard
to Grant Redress.
A Plant on Behalf OF the Sufferers from
tho Granting OF His Fatal Wish Put
I'm Rhyme by n Detroit FREQ
Press Poet.

DEAR ROBBIE BURNS:
Once on q time,
You wished in smoothly flowing rhyme,
That ''some kind power the giftio gio us
To SEQ oursels rs tthers sec u.s."
ALL had you humbly prayed for this;
I" Obi give us ignorance and bliss,
" Help US to boar our present lot,
Nor flee to ills that wo know not"
The coming man your name had blessed
Instead sstt sst&s s%ss&
ss@** (thc explanation is supprossed),
For some i'll power your wish o'erheard
And you were taken ut your word,
And We con- see without disguise
How VIC appear to others eyes,
But tits no boon, us you shall SEQ;
1t brings instead, much misery.
uighwaymcn bold, that In your day,
PROVIDED up and down the kings highway,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
A Hardy Little Fish.

a correspondent of Nature quotes n
case in which an ice bag for application
70 an invaiid's head had been filled in
July from an icchousc which had been
stored with ice the previous December.
Inc ice was thus six months old, and
YET, when the bag was emptied after
use,' little fish was found swimming
from il.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
The Furnace Blows In.

After numerous delays from one cause
and another the Salem Furnace was
blown in precisely at o:45 Tuesday
night, at which time little Miss Marian
Baohman, daughter Of the superintend-
ent, in the presence of a few ladies and
started another Salem industry. Up to
the present writing everything has been
working smoothly, and the chances are
that before daylight run of orc will
be made.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08

war with Peru
and greatly dis
tinguished him
self. To his mil
l t a r y t n c t,
b very and
ability rs n lead
or in that war
he owed his pro-
motion to the
rank of colonel.
He is one of the
most able off,
C Q r 8 o + t h o
army. Ii o j 8