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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
THE CITY COUNCIL

Listens to Propositions for Street Railway
Franchises.
The city fathers met last night at the
mayors Office and all were present OK
cept Councilman Duncan, who was
absent on account of the illness of his
wife.
President A. M. Bowman, of the
development Company, in behalf of the
Salem Street Railway Company, which
has charter from tho legislature, ap-
peared in person before the council and
presented petition for franchise for
an electric or horse car street railway.
The line this company proposes to
build will be belt line extending tho
length Of College street, down Main and
down Union across the river and then
back to the starting point.
w. Leverricr, of Bristol, Tenn, APP
peared before the council, also asking
for franchise for an electric street rail
way, which would pay tax of 3 per
cent. of gross receipts to the city.
A letter from George l.. Colgate was
read, asking the council to receive a
proposition from him for an electric
street railway, when tho council was
ready to consider the matter.
Messrs. Uarveycuttcr, Francis and
Chalmers we're appointed a committee
to draw up specifications for such a
street railway as the city wanted and
send the same 10 the petitioners.
Petitions from citizens for tho light
ing and grading of Elm and Maple
streets, and for the removal of Heller's
slaughter house in East Salem, were
referred to proper committees.
A petition for the appointment OF
James II. Smith, as city policemen,
was laid on the table. Sewerage district
No. l, aS described in THE TIMRs, was
made to take in all the old part of town
east of Georgetown.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
TEE ROANOKE TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH, Z.
SALEM NEWS.

new book and stationery store in
Salem, left for his homo in Washington
yesterday for short stay.
w. o. Critz, of Critz & McClung, is i'll.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
SALEM ADVERTISEMENTS.

A TTENTION, SOUTHWEST VIR-
"a GINIA-Delivery wagons, hand
made, furnished on short order by the
SALEM CARRIAGE WORKS, Salon,
Va. mar4eod4t
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
Meeting Of the Y. p. s. G. E.

A meeting of the social committee of
the Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor of the Presbyterian Church
was held Thursday evening at the resi-
dence Of j. II. Palmer.
Miss Annie Palmer presided. 1t was
determined that social should be held
within two weeks from tho date of the
meeting. This society is very popular
and has q large membership. The
officers are VIM. NJ. Montgomery, presi-
dent; D. McGruer, vice-p president, and
Miss Ellen Blair, secretary and treas
urer.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07

WANTED = Two boys to deliver
w The TIMES in Salem. Apply at
LIE Times Bureau, Hotel Lucerne
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
MINERALS A SPECIALITY

All persons having mineral, farm or
timber lands are requested to list them
with us for sale. The long experience
OF our senior, MIR. j. A. Daily, in mining
and sale of real estate warrant us in as.
surfing our patrons that their interests
will be properly guarded in the sale of
their property, and all money coming
into their hands will be promptly paid
ovor. Owners may, if preferred, employ
their special agent or ttorneys.
Persons, in sending descriptive list of
property, are specially cautioned against
giving overdrawn descriptions, as it
lessons chances of sale. We also advise
against giving options on mineral
properties, they often interfere with
sales and lead to litigation.
We shall do legitimate commission
business.
Active, reliable agents wanted In
every county in Southwest Virginia.
All city property listed with us will
have prompt attention, and sold to best
advantage.
We have booked for sale list of i'm.
proved and unimproved property, bust
ness and dwelling houses in different
sections Of the city.
Persons wishing to buy or sell are
respectfully invited to call ON US.
Office, Room 8, Moomaw Building,
Jefferson street!
Refer to First National Bank of Roa
noke, Virginia.
]. A. DALEY, SONS g. co.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
RAUM AND HIS BUREAU.

The management of the pension bu-
reau under Republican rule is bound
to be scandalous and rotten. The
avowed policy of the administration
with reference to it is the scoop
shovel policy. Harrison condemned
the use OF apothecary scales in doing
out government mama to the pretorian
patriots, and ever since, whether under
Tanner or Raum, that policy has been
adhered 10. Raum is doing his duty
as it was prescribed for him by the
head of the administration, and if it
leads to scandalous looting of the treas
ury he is not solely to blame for it. If
he retained the apothecary scales he
could not long retain his Office.
Neither is he responsible for the dis
ability and other grab laws enacted by
a Republican congress, and if he hap
pens to have slick son or two that is
only his misfortune, as it is OF one
higher than he.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

During his last year in New York Dr.
William A Hammond is credited with hav-
ing made over Sl5O, 000-probably the larg-
est medical income ever earned in America.
DR.. Pinel of Paris has found that hyp-
motto patiens obey the monograph as read
lily as they do living speaker. He, there
fore, discards tine whole theory of animal
magnetism.
Mrs. Frances Woodring is superintend-
ent of a coal mine at Ashland, Pa, having
occupied the position since the death of her
husband several years ago. She is popular
with the miners, who number $780, and is
energetic and successful in her work.
DR.. jacob, the great specialist in dis
eases of women and children, says that the
baby of to-day has much better chance of
life than the baby of fifty years ago. Pos
sibly this is due to the fact that infants are
not dosed with SO much medicine now as
they were in former times. and are dressed
more sensibly.
Frank F. McGurrin of Salt Lake City
claims the championship as the fastest
typewriter in the world He does not
glance at the keyboard while reading copy.
He covers the board with his hands and
uses the finger movement instead of the
wrist movement. His record is l241a words
d minute.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the South
ern novelist, lives in a pretty home on
Spring Hill, the shady and picturesque
suburb of Mobile. As Mrs. Wilson grows
older her remarkable erudition, which
characterizes all her novels, increases, until
she has come to regarded by her neighbors
as an unquestioned authority on every
thing, from the concoction of culinary
dainty to the method Of building an Etrurian
aqueduct.
Gen. Booth, the Salvation army COM
mander, whose authority extends over
million soldiers, is loose jointed and rather
awkward man of medium height He is
angular and narrow-chested but the pos
SCISSOR, nevertheless, of great physical
vigor. His eyes are dark and piercing, and
an iron-gray beard falls in profus ion over
his chest. His hands are large, and remind
the observer of the typical horny hands of
the sons of toll. Gen. Booth is now sixty
two years old, and for forty years he has
been preaching the gospel. He is a man of
great earnestness and force, and seems
entirely devoid of sham and pretentious-
ness
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
cities on the gulf. The great West wants
deep water and don't care where the harbor
Is located. -[BroMnNood Banner

A party of Texas, Kansas and Illinois
capitalists two years ago organized for the
purpose of obtaining deep water on the
Texas coast and concentrated their erer-
gies and capital on the mouth of the
Brazos, a river that boldly enters the Gulf
of Mexico without d bay or delta. This
company went to work on the bar, with a
depth of only four and one-half feet Of
water. After two years OF labor and an
outlay of 81 500, coo it reports a depth Of
seventeen and one-half feet and claims that
the attainment of channel whose depth
will be twenty feet is but the work of few
months more. This makes Velasco, in
Texas vernacular ''the Eli of the gulf
coast" Many improvements are under
way and much effort is being made to at
tract the attention of the outside world.
If these attractions are just what they are
represented to be, and there is no ground
or reason upon which to base doubts, it is
undoubtedly fine opening for capital and
labor in every branch Richmond Va
New South.
The obtaining of deep water at the mouth
of the BraZos, on the coast of Texas, is al
event of no small Importance, says the
vate company, with private capital, and
without government aid, has constructed i
system of jetties and obtained deep water
across the bar capable of floating vessels
drawing eighteen feet of water Once
across the bar the BraZos furnishes har-
Dor unequaled on the Texas coast, and
among the largest and best of any on the
coast of the United States. A new city
called Velasco has been laid Off and the
completion of 4 terminal railway by Novem
Der l, will place it in connection with the
whole railway system of Texas. Extensive
wharves are being constructed. many other
improvements are rapidly under way, and
Nelasco hopes speedily to become the Liv-
erpool of the gulf coast
Too prompt and emphatic approval can
not be given to the energy and enterprise of
the men who have thus given to Texas 4
deep water harbor. That great city is
destined to grow up at the mouth of the
Brazos cannot be doubted and the men who
have created the conditions whereby such
seaport city is possible on the Texas coast
are certainly entitled to favorable COM
mendation.
In this connection it may be observed
that very decided tendency is noticed in
the grain trade to divert itself toward the
gulf, and this tendency has created no
small amount of uneasinesS in Chicago. Jay
Gould is completing New Orleans connec-
ton for the Missouri Pacific, which will
send millions of bushels of wheat to that
port. The Santa Fe has just made an eX-
port grain rate from all points in Kansas
and Nebraska to Galveston, with the inten-
ton of rivallng the movement of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. These are facts which indi-
cate the turning OF Missouri traffic
from East and West lines toward the Gulf
ports. 1t is certain to have rapid growth,
and will not only infuse new life into New
Orleans and Galveston, but assures to We
lasco substantial propsperity.- Houston
Press
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
SOME CURRENT COMMENT.

The Republicans complain of the ''calam-
ity shriekers." The workman SHOULD never
be ashamed of his work. The calamity
shriekers'' are direct outgrowth of Re
publican calamity Observation-Disclosures
phis Appeal-Avalanche.
The movement to bring the veterans of
the blue and the gray together in one grand
encampment At Chicago in 1898 is a mission
of peace and fraternity which will present
to the assembled nations spectacle unique
in the annals of mankind. To be consuuI-
mated it will need money, and It is essential
TO its impressiveness that it shall be the
outcome of voluntary offerings. fPhila-
delphia Record.
Every thoughtful person will approve
the remark OF the commissioner of Indian
affairs in the report just submitted to the
secretary of the interior, that the time has
come for a declaration by congress to the
effect that hereafter it will not recognize
the Indians as competent to make war;
particularly as the purpose of the govern
ment is to change their status from that of
wardship to citizenship. - [Pittsburg
Times.
While the eyes of all true Democrats are
anXiously turned toward New York and
Ohio, and the progress of the canvass in
those states is watched with the keenest
ihlCiCot, lLC SdliuhV hSil tidt 10 uoN btlLS
made in Iowa by Governor Boies for the
Democracy in that state should not pass
unnoticed. Eight years ago Iowa was as
safely Republican as any state in the Union.
Yet to-day the chances are largely in favor
of her going Democratic this fall, and for
the second time in succession.-[ New Or
leans New Delta.
!. The reptiles on the Ohio Republican
press. in addition to accusing Governor
Campbell of the crime of being ''hard rum
"a most heinous offense in these days of
Mckinley filled trusts and monopolies-
charge him with a failure to pay hotel
bill, which the hotel keeper, himself
strong Republican, promptly denies. This
recalls that at the Chicago national conven-
ton of 1880 John Sherman ran up hotel
bill to the amount Of $500 and utterly re-
pudiated it, and it would have remained un-
paid until this good day had not Charley
Foster stepped up and paid it himself. John
Sherman is q statesman that has made
millions out of politics; Governor Campbell,
on the other hand, does not seem 10 have
made politics pay. In Ohio money and liars
do most of the talking.-[Louisville Times.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
A Legacy Lost by Carelessness.

No matter how carefully lawyer draws
a will, some other lawyer can be found to
pick flaws in it. S. j. Tilden was one of
Americas great lawyers. and left a will
written by himself, in which he could de-
tect no defect. Yet, hardly was it pub
lished after his death when some of the
heirs began a legal fight that lasted for
years. The same state of affairs exists in
England, but in the recent case of Totem
ham versus Ely, on trial at London, care
lessness was shown to have played large
part.
The late Lord Ely bequeathed $1,000 to
his cousin, Adam r. G. Lotus, son of his
late uncle, the Rev. Lord Adam R C.
Lotus, unless he should Immediately on
the testator's death succeed to the title of
Marquis of Ely. The name Adam r. C.
LOTUS" was a mistake of the craftsman
for that of lord G. H. LOTUS" Paroi
evidence is allowed to explain latent am
biguities, but here the ambiguity was
patent-thar is on the face of the villas
the gift was to nonexistent person, and
Mr.. Justice Kekewich refused to permit
parol evidence to be adduced
This is certainly hard. and as the will
gave him another designation besides his
name. namely, 'son Of my late uncle" and
as he was, both at the date of the will and
on the death of the testator, the only sur
viving child Of that uncle, some attempt
might have been made to obtain the legacy
for him on the ground that the rest of the
description of him WAS falsa demonstra-
ito. Still this would be dangerous. as
testator might intend the gift for person
whose death he had not heard OF, and not
for the person who best answered the de
scription ST the time of the execution of
tine will aud the testator's death
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

until they now number countless millions.
At first they lived entirely on insects. The
later birds prefer fruit, vegetables and
grain, and have ruined hundreds of farmers
and gardeners.
1t is said that gun has been invented
for firing under water, and that one is in
course of construction at Bethlehem, Pa,
for the United States ship Destroyer. The
gun will be thirty-fve feet long, and is eX
pected to throw a prOjectile twenty-five
feet long, charged with 400 pounds of nitro
glycerine, 1890 feet through the water
According to the last reports. there are
at present on the Federal pension roll $50. 900
names. According to other authorities
there were enlisted in the Federal army
5000, 600 soldiers. The war lasted four
years, and the Confederate forces NUM-
bered in the aggregate e50,0oO. Where the
fighting came in is easily seen.
According to census bulletin No. 100 there
are 45l0 nurseries in the United States,
covering IL, sos acres Of land and represent
ing an investment of Sc, 1875 $50. In Penn
sylvania there are 81 nurseries, occupying
659S acres, valued at 81 ,2l0, sos. The total
value of the yearly product of the nurseries
is upward of 500, OO0, 600, il sold at market
rates. but 20 per cent Of the product is
wasted.
The last Indian census shows that in the
past ten years the natural growth of India's
population has been 27,5O0,000 The popu-
lation now numbers $50, 000,0 600. One can
hardly appreciate what these figures mean
except by comparison. India contains more
people than all Europe, exclusive of Russia.
Its provinces are as populous as great Eu-
ropean states. Bengal contains a pOpula-
ton larger than that of the United States
and all British North America, and fully
one-ffth of the entire human race lives
upon this little peninsula jutting out from
the coast of Asia into the Indian ocean.
i New York Sun. -
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

The fall state elections will be re-
gardeG as an index of the drift of polit-
ical sentiment in the forthcoming ma
tional campaign. The contests to which
particular attention is being devoted
are those which occur in Ohio, New
York, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
sets and Maryland. All except Penn
sylvania select governors, and in all
save the keystone state the canvass is
being made principally on national is
sues. While Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio
and Massachusetts, are Republican, ex-
cept in tidal wave years, they all now
have Democratic governors. In New
York, which has been Democratic for
several terms, the Republicans calcu-
late on prospect of victory.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
DEEP WATER FOR TEXAS.

What's the use for Galveston to kick7
Velasco has cinch on deep water, and will
be the only city on the Texas coast.
-[Shiner Courier.
Deep water has already been secured at
the mouth of the Brazos river through the
expenditure at 81 600, 900 private capital
Il Whitney Messenger.
All the papers are saying something nice
about infant Velasco, all of which she
justly deserves. Verify, Velasco is the
coming seaport town. Yoakum Graphic.
Velasco, little city at the mouth of the
Brazos river, claims to have deep water al
ready, which has been obtained by pri-
vate company at cost of $2,000, 600.
Il Farmersville Times.
The long discussed and vexatious ques-
ton OF deep water on the Texas coast seems
TO have been solved at last by private capi-
tai at point the government engineers re-
fused TO recommend. The mouth of the
Brazos. by the aid OF lefty work. now has
about eighteen feet of water in the shallow
est place. and is constantly deepening.
Velasco, the name of the port, is booming
and promises to become one Of the leading
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

has risen generally west Of the Tooth
meridian and also over the New England
states. 1t has fallen decidedly over Mis-
souri,. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and
OHIO, and a slight fall has occurred over
Central Texas, while over other sections
changes have been slight. The isotherm of
20 runs between Jacksonville and Titus
vile, through New Orleans. Palestine,
Abilene and north of FL Paso. The $50
therm of 60 runs through New York
city, east of Norfolk, south of
Charlotte, north of Philadelphia,
and south of Santa F'e. The isotherm of
30 runs west of Buffalo, south Of Toledo,
st. Louis, Kansas City. Rapid City. through
Assiniboine and south of Helena. The iso-
therm of 40 runs south of Duluth and Bis
marck and west of Fort Buford.
FORECAST, u MIDNIGHT.
Local forecast for Texas east of the Tooth
meridian for the forty-eight hours ending
midnight October 16: Fair weather, slight
changes in temperature, winds variable.
shifting to southeasterly. The weather will
be favorable for cotton and sugar cane.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
Beating Time by Cable.

How he once "beat time" or rather, ap-
parent time, in a remarkable fashion is
told by Mr.. Archibald Forbes. 1t is Il
story Of Geographic dispatch from the
battlefield. In the early morning OF the.
22d of November, 1878. British division
under General Sir Samuel Browne occu-
pied the Afghan fortress of Ali Musjid, I'D
in the Khyber Pass. Mr.. Forbes rode
back ten miles to Jumrood, where the field
telegraph was, and sent the news to Eng
land in a short message bearing date 10
a. m.
There is five hours difference of time
between India and England in favor of the
latter, and the London papers containing
this telegram dated 10 a. m. were selling in
Fleet street at a. m, one hour of appar-
ent time before it was dispatched. Its an
ticipation of time, however, did not end
here. Owing to the five hours difference
between the clocks of London ard New
York the message was in time for the reg.
ular editions of the New York papers that
same morning.
It was then Immediately wired across the
American continent. and owing again to
the difference in time between the Allan
tic coast and the Pacific slope the early
rising citizen of San Francisco, purchasing
his morning paper at a. M, was able to
read the announcement Of an event which
actually occurred ever two hours later in
apparent time some 1900 miles away ON
the other side Of the globe.
Puck, as Mr.. Forbes says, professed HIM
self able to put girdle around the earth
in forty minutes, but this telegram sped
half around the globe in two hours less
than no time at all.-London News.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
Marrying Cousins.
Chicago Herald

Somebody has written me letter and
asked me to say word about the marrying
of first cousins. l am as unprepared with
anything to say on that subject as the dude
was when asked to say grace at table. It
may be all right to marry your first cousin,
but wouldn't do it if l were you. Stats
tics go to show that there is a risk, and
would take no risk in a world already so
full of rickety babies and consumptive,
crippled and imbecile progeny. You surely
have less right to run risk in breeding an
angel than horseman takes in breeding a
horse. If l go into my kitchen to make
cake and snatch up my ingredients hap
hazard, not quite certain whether l am
using cornmeal or flour, sugar or salt, spice
or pepper, have no right to put forth the
result of the risk l take in cake-making and
to sell it over the counter as a wholesome
Wand. II is time the world stopped in its
blind rush and debated some CT these ques-
tons that go so far toward the making of
happy homes and Christian destinies.