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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-18
HUSTINGS COURT.
Sam Wright Gets Two Years In the Peni-
Tertiary for Forgery.

Sam Wright Gets Two Years In the Peni-
Tertiary for Forgery.
A large part of the time of yester.
days session Of the Hastings Court was
consumed in the hearing of the cases
against Sahi Wright, colored, charged
with forging the name Of John Davis to
a number of checks. On the first in
dictment the commonwealth's attorney
entered a mol pros. In the second case
Wright was convicted and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
Charlie Hill, who was indicted for
felony, was bailed out by p. R. Jones, in
the sun of $500 for his appearance at
the May term of court.
Nearly all the important cases on the
docket have been postponed till May,
inc if all the cases set for that term
come up it will be full of business.
An amendment was made to the charter
of the Southern Finance Company, re-
moving headquarters from Roanoke to
Danville.
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War! War! War!

We have declared war in favor of our
friends and intend to fight it out
if it takes all tho summer
To put them on the best property is our
Watchword.
To make them big money is our desire.
Invest now, or you will regret it.
We have property in all parts of
Roanoke, on every street and in every
addition, and as cheap as any can be had.
We have also for sale a new 10-room
house in Salem. Lot 6Ox17C; beautifully
located. Price $4,000. Usual terms.
This house is we'll built and is a big
bargain.
We have also a three story brick store
on College avenue, Salem, Va, two
nice stores below and elegant offices
above. Price SID, 600. Can be rented
for 5000 a year.
This is a rare bargain. Come to see
us quick if you wish a good bargain.
DardGD, Clement & Pope,
No. is South Jefferson street, Roanoke,
Virginia.
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Hotel Brunswick
90 Campbell ST., noxt to postofice.
FIRST-CLASS EUROPEAN HOTEL.

Table d'hote dinners from 1890 to @
p. M, soc; cuisine the best in the State;
service and appointments first-class; hot
n cold lunches always ready; oysters
rs you like them;
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Summer is Coming.

Spring is here and summer is ap.
preaching. Prepare to keep cool by
having WILKINSON &c LALLEMAND,
Salem, Va, make you an awning for
your store or residence. apr14-2m.
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ElpctrO-Platinn

We are now prepared to do all kinds
of clectro-plating with gold, silver or
nickle. Bring your old watches, chains,
knives, forks, spoons, walters, pitchers
or anything you have to plate. We can
do it cheap. RICHARDSON Bros, TINES
Bldg. apr1l-tf
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If you want an awning for your
store front store or windows drop us a
postal and we will como up and make
estimates for you. WILKINSON e LALI.E-
MAND, Salem, Va. apr14-2m
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10 to Donaldson's for servants iron
bed steads. Last forever. No bugs.
apr1G-1m
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For fine residences, fine brick stores,
and all classes of good buildings, see 7.
c. Oakley, office is, Moomaw block,
Jefferson street; residence 534 Salem
avenue, S. w. aprl7-t.p.
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Do NOT place your orders for blank
books for 1891 until after you have OK
amined our work and prices. Ham
mond's Printing Works and Book
Bindery, 10 Jefferson street; telephone
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For best tonic use Virginia Brewing
Company's beer. aprl7-3t
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Awnings. Awninesu (.

The Virginia Brewery is now supply
ing the trade with book beer. ap17-3t
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Fancy residence awnings a specially.
WILKINSON & LALLEMAND, Salem, Va.
apr14-2m.
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is THE TIME

Whom the poet says the young mans
fancy turns. The old mans fancy turns
too, and every ones fancy turns who has
IA little money. This pretty weather
makes the man who has been afraid all
the winter, look around now for some
good lot to buy. Well, sir, we've got
lust what you want, 100 feet out on JEFF
ferson street, that we can sell you for
ST. 900 less than anything in that section.
Terms easy but if you haven't the
the cash don't apply.
d. S. s. CO.,
80 CAMPBELL STREET.
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Steamed a Speciality

Crabs. Holsters, shrimps and game in
season. Virginia Brewing Company y
beer drawn through wood. The bar
stocked with the best foreign and do
mestic wines, liquors, alcs and beer.
Give us a trial. febl4-6m
The Iola register., 1891-02-13

there seems 20 be no good reason WIZ
the poor man should be barred IRON
whatever there may be In this conai
ton OF affairs for him.
CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL
II the choice lay between beginning
married life in any boarding house
within the means of a workingman and
buyinp enough furniture on credit to
make little home of his own habitabie,
the latter seems to me to otter fewer
disadp antages. But make the debt
small one. 1t is wiser to furnish one
room at a time. and TO pay the bill be-
fore contracting another, than ever 1t
is to assume large obligations. The
contingencies of illness and disaster
must be looked out for.
And what about the home itself?
Rents are high and flats in blocks with
in the means of Jack and Margaret are
little better than the old-fashioned OBJ
jectionable tenement house, and-bu,
that will do. Why hire? Why pay
out in few years hundreds OF dollars.
as YOU would do in a boarding house.
for shelter that leaves you, the instant
YOU take your hand out of your purse,
as unprovided for as you were at the
beginning? There is no good reason.
Leave the flats and the hotels, and the
apartment houses, low-priced or high
priced, for people who have, for one or
another real or imaginary reason, no
resort but to these makeshifts- The
cheapest of them are too expensive Tor
the poor man. He must plan to invest
his money, not to scatter it.
There are now in every city lnstitu-
tions where, not for greed, but for in
terest-paying philanthropy, every in
aucement is offered to people who with
no capital but their capable heads and
hands and stout hearts TO secure a home.
IC NAV be a modest one. 1t should be
q thoroughly well-built house, and well
located always. because this is not to be
a temporary abode, but a permanent
home for Margaret and for the children
for years to come.
And when prosperity moves the
family into a finer residence, the first
property will be an excellent invest
ment.
LEAVE OUT THE HONEYMOON.
Air castles? Well, it seems almost
as fair, but there are facts-not SO COM
mon as they are bound 20 be in the next
decade. because the possibilities are
still so little comprehended. 1t is the
poor man, not the rich, who cannot af-
ford to be wasteful and eXtravagant. 1t
is upon the working people Of this coun-
try that, to certain extent, its future
veal or woe depends, and there is bound
to be lack of good citizenship if the
home life of the people is to be encroach-
ed upon. The boarding house evil
spreads appallingly. For a matter Of
temporary convenience the boarding
house has its woes, but as place to be-
gin married life in, to set up the family
hearthstone in, it is dismal failure.
Never mind the wedding tour. 1t is
going out of fashion, and was always out
of place.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
ATnrnInt Free.

l had heard about the man in Kansas
who was giving away town lots free,
and one day | left the train at small
station and hired a man to drive me
over to the site of the future great city.
found sixty-acre farm staked out
| inlO lots of twenty teet front by fifty
/ deep, but only one house and one person
was in sight. The house was farm
| cabin, and the person was the owner oi
| it and the one | wanted to see.
Come for lot?" he asked as We
drove up.
YES, in case my Information is cor
rect. Do you give them away free?"
II do"
II had heard so'
''GO right out and select any one you
| like. Those selected are marked with
red stakes; those not yet taken by black
ones"
| selection, and he found the number, and
said:
You want an abstract of title, of
course. Here it is, and the fee is S..
When | had received it he hunted
out a deed already signed, and filled my
name in, called in the teamster and his
wife for witnesses. and said:
Here is yonr deed. I'll have to
charge you 81 for that
paid him the sum named, and he
then got down q big book and said:
You want it recorded. of course.
am the County Clerk. The fee for re-
cording is $3."
| had it duly recorded, and just then
dinner was ready. He invited me to sit
down, but when we were through he
said:
My charge for dinner is 40 cents
The taxes on your lot will be due next
week and yop had better leave the
money. The amount is S1.75, and my
commission FOR receipting it twill be -
CENTS"
paid him the sum named and was
about to get into the wagon when he
said:
The charge for bringing you over
and taking you hack is s.. Half be-
longs to me, as own the wagon. One
dollar please" D"
Can you think of anything further"
| asked us handed him the dollar.
well, you'll have to stop at the
junction about four hours before the
eastern train comes along. own tu4t
restaurant there. Please eat all you
can"
Il have" | said. after a little figur-
ing. paid you $l3.7j for Il lot you ad-
vcrtise TO give away free. How much
do you call this land worth an acre."
"All of So, sir. I've been offered S.
and wouldn't take it,"
Then I've paid you more than the
value of two acres to get lot large
enough to bury couple of cows on.''
Exactly, sir-exactly, and l con-
gratulate you on your bargain"
Then you don't call it swindle?"
mo, Sir! No, sir! A man who
would kick on buying a chunk Of the
glorious west for less than Sl4 isn't
straight, and, Mr.. Tompkins, I'd advise
you to keep an eye on him going back,
and see that he doesn't jump out of the
wagon and blk you out of your dollar. "
New York Sun.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
Little to Hope for frem the Country

Topeka, February 6.-After heated
debate in the senate this morning. Sen
ator Carroll's bill providing for the ab
clifton of the boards of police commits
sioners at Leavenwortn and Wichita
was laid over for special hearing on
third reading Tuesday. Senator Berry
of Marshall, declared that the only Oh
ject in continuing the matter from day
to day was to gain time, and that the
senators who supported it did so against
their best judgment. Senator Carroll
became indignant and made spirited
speech, resenting the charge that he or
any friends of the bill were sacrificing
their convictions. The motion to post
pone was made because several of the
senator's supposed TO be friendly to the
bill were absent, and if il had been
brought to a vote to-day it would have
been defeated.
Speaking of the motion to postpone.
Senator Bentley of Wichita, said that if
the republican party was built up in
Kansas it must come through the repub-
hcans in the cities. The republicans in
the country had all left the party and
Joined the alliance.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
The Wedding Couldn't iEJceed without
Him, Yet He We Left.

A policeman at the Polk street station
yesterday morning walked up to a young
man he had observed hurrying to anC
fro in feverish way for an hour or more
and said:
MY friend, what is the trouble? Ii
there anything 1 can do for you?"
do for me? Jee-roos'lum. No, No,
unless you can bring back that S:35 train.
I'll bet 81, 900 it left ahead of time"
Can't you go on another train?n
Certainly. That's what l am wait
ing for. But the train doesn't leave till
$3.50 this afternoon. and won't get to
where am going till about midnight.
and that won't do at ALL
If its anything important can't YOU
send telegram"
t'Send telegram? I've sent a half a
dozen already. The fact is. am on my
way to wedding to take place at
O'Clock this evening. l have some pres
snts for the bride"
well, said the policeman, the case
isn't so bad. You can deliver the pres
ents the next morning. The wedding
viii be over. of course, but-n
Wedding over? Jumpin' Jupiter!
1t won't be over! That's the trouble
''Why not?n
Because it can't come off unless I'm
on hand. I've got to be there. I'm the
man that's going to be married. Police
man, you mean well, but you can't pour
ony of the Oil of JOY into my wounded
bosom. I'll feel obliged if you'll 90
away somewhere and sit down."IChi-
cago Tribune.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
KALAKAUA IN MISSOURI.
The Hon. James n. Burnes Successfully Im
personatcs the Swarthy King

When King kalakaua visited the
| United States ten or fifteen years age
every cordial attention was paid TO him
the west being particularly eifusive in
its greetings and liberal in its hospital
ity. When the king visited Missouri
! he was invited TO visit the state capital
and the legislature. happening to be in
session at that time, made extraordin'
airy preparations 10 welcome his dusky
majesty with an imposing whop and
hurrah. James n. Burnes, subsequent
ly a representative in congress. was al
that time banker at st. Joseph, and
although personally known TO but few
people, had already come TO be felt as
| a political power in the state. He was
one of the party that met the Hawaiian
king at St. Louis and accompanied him
to Jefferson City. Kalakaua was might
ly pleased with Judge Burnes: in fact,
Burnes was fascinating man and a
few there were who proved insensible to
his charms. Kalakaua WAS so delight
ed with the banker politician that me
insisted upon his remaining with the
royal party during the journey thro' the
Missouri valley. and Burncs consented.
At Jefferson City Burnes ~ss introdu-
ced by Representative Bittinger 10
the waiting crowd as the kings prime
minister. and the joke was certainly a
plausible one. for Burnes was of the
swarthy complexion that distinguishes
natives of the Sandwich islands. kala-
kaua enjoyed the decep'ion-he was
a humorist in his way-and after the
party had dCnt the grand at the Mis-
souri, capital and re-embarked for the
western trip his majesty insisted that
Judge Burnes should enact the role OF
king whenever the railway train stop
ped and there were demands for a speech.
Accordingly at Upton, Sedalia, War
rcnsburg anu other points up to within
twelve miles of Kansas City, Judge
Bwncs faced clamoring crowds and de-
livercd speeches of u most felicitious
natre-none could say happier things
cNtcmporaneously than he-aii in the
guise of the Hawaiian pOtentatc. the
kings imposing cloak thrown over mis-
shoulders and the kings bejeweled mill
tary hat on his head. The consequence
was that kalakaua became Immediately
a prime favorite all through the Crack
er Neck country, and to this day the
long haired gentry Astounding in the
historic locality speak with pride of him
as the "'dUrncdcst smartest nigger we
ever seen"
The Impression made by the real king
at Kansas City was hardly so agreeable,
for having subsisted for fifty-siX hours
on Ike Cooks Imperia, his majesty was
not in a condition to address civiliza-
tion intetligently. and the difference OF
opinion between k2ns1s City people and
the rural democracy as to the Ha@aiion
potentate became so acrimonious that
the best local historians regard it as
the oogirning of that bitter warfare
which for many years obtained between
sc metropolis of the kaw Is party o!
% first part and the other cOmponents
the congressional district Is parties
the second.-Eugcne Field in Chioa-
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
I.Ie ISoy's Man.

How well the boy knows him, the
boys man. No need to tell him this
man likes boys He knows it in all his
Rctions. IL he doesn't say anything:
there is a kindly twinkle in his eye
every time it falls upon hoy that
speaks volumes. Perhaps he has boys
at home, perhaps he hasn't, for it isn't
every father of boys who is boys man.
| have known the father of dozen boys
to be no more q cOmrade for them than
the sphynx. When they werr little
they ran and hid every time they saw
him coming. He frowned on AL their.
youthful sports and dealt unpityingly
with every boyish folly. Then [ have
known man with no boys of his own
who loved and was beloved by all the
boys in the neighborhOOd.
Happy the boys who have bOT's man
TO- a father. lie can join them in their
pleasure and sympathize with them in
their youthful griefs. The boys man Is
of eXuberent bOyhOOd. If some sour
neighbor be not looking on he wouldn't
mind taking a-rOmp with the boys him
self He is indulgent when they trample
through the garden in search of fly
luS Jail, anu ii bIley lHNduc MS OTcDdfu
il search of early fruit hr is more likely
to look the other way than to set the
dog on them. He is capital company
to go hunting or fishing with. and if he
k1Ows where the best Strawberries or
DlackDerries grow ne isn't satisfied un-
til he tells the boys all about it He is
indulgent TO the pranks of boys.
He is never disturbed by their tin
horns and frecrackers on the Fourth of
July. and if it would be any satisfaction
to boy watching around the corner to
see him kick an old hat with a brick in
it on April fools day, why he will just
up and kick it, corn or no corn. And
the boys man never licks behind. Boys
can always hang on the hind axletree OF
his buggy, or climb into the tail end Of
his lumber wagon. or load down his cut
ter or bObsleds, and he never so much
as threatens them with his whip. On
the contrary he shouts lump board
and becomes the jolly center Of their
youthful giea.-TexaS SifiinoS.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
To InvestigaIe Judge GotkIn.

Topeka, February 6.-The resolution
providing for an investigation of the
charges against Judge Theodore Botkir
of the Thirty-second judicial district
was introduced in the house this morn
ing, and unanimously adopted. -Four
petitions, numerously signed, were pre-
sented. charging BOtkin with corrup-
tio1, drunkenness, incompetency and
oppression in Office.
The resolution introduced provides
for committee of FIVE from the house
Snd three from the senate. 1t is pro-
posed to do away with the great expense
attending trial for impeachment by
the senate by having the report of this
special committee adopted in each
branch of the legislature by a two
thirds vote.
Judge Botkin and his friends claim
that the charges were preferred against
him for the purpose of forcing him to
dismiss the cases against Sam Wood as
a compromise. One of the petitions,
which embodies all the charges against
Botkin, has been ordered printed for
the edification and instruction of the
legislators.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
HENRY VI. STANLEY.
His After-dinner Talk Before the New
York Press Club. His Dis
curasements and III Luck

engagements and Ill Luck.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley was the guest
of the New York Press Club at a recent
banquet at Delmonico's. He was intro
duced by the president of the club,
Hon. John A. Cockerill. and was re-
ceived with vociferous applause. He
spoke as follows: II am sorry l am not
prepared for one of those oratorical
speeches for which the New York
Press club is famous. 1 have not had
so many opportunities of Judging ora
tory as you, for the best part of my life
has been spent in place where after
dinner oratory is unknown. l congrat-
ulate you as bearing the most intelligent
faces of any press club or body of men
ever knew. Yet | feel that you are
unacquainted with hardships. You
never knew what it was TO hunt for a
man in Africa without red cent in
his pocket. was in that predicament
in 1871 until an American furnished
$40, 900 for me to find that famous
traveller, Livingston. Each time
visited the country had many ques.
tions to decide, and, upon the advice OF
my fellow travellers, we tossed up coins,
pulled straws, ETC., but everything
seemed TO be Ggainst US, and l finally
obeyed the dictations OF my own con-
science.
THE last expedition l tried fifty-two
days of prayer, entreaties. threats and
promises of reward on Emin, but he
needed them not, and finally l took
matters into my own hands and then
Emin's camp moved. In all my travels
l have been in search of a man who
knew what to do, and how TO go to work
to do it, but have not yet found him.
| am sure if should put the smallest
member of the New York Press Club in
the position that my officers
have been he would have known how tc
act. Now, if you will accept my most
hearty thanks for this honor, and let
me sit down and listen to your famous
oratory, will close by drinking your
health"
Mr.. Stanley's speech was received by
a standing toast and a song by the club
especially prepared for the occasion.
The next speaker was Murat Hal
stead, who spoke on ''The Press" 1--WE
recognize in Mr.. Stanley" said he, "a
representative of the press. He is
what we might term highly develop.
ed reporter. He obtained high reputa-
tion as war correspondent, and 1 can
speak of that part of it by experience,
for have been in that business myself.
THE first time went into the field
to meet General Sherman, l asked him
how long the war would last. He said:
1t won't close until about dozen editors
are led out and hanged" Mr.. Halstead
concluded by eulogizing Stanley in the
latter's efforts in exploring the dark
recesses of Africa
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
Apegenerate Son Arrested.

St. Louis, Mo-, Febru r. 6.-United
States Deputy Marshal riakle arrived
here last evening having in custody W.
G. Howell of Centerville, Mo-, who is
charged with completely in the stage
coach robbery near Placerville, Colo
August -. 1890. Howell's arrest will
be a great shock to his friends and rel
atives. as his father. now dead, was one
of the most prominent lawyers in south
eastern Missouri. and was at one time a
member OF the legislature.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN.
Two Female Prize Fighters to Meet Soon
i'm the Prize Ring.

In last weeks Police Gazette an illus.
tration representing Zella Fillmore, the
woman pugilist. appeared and was ac-
companied by a challenge 10 fight any
142-pound pugilist in petticoats in
America for any sum from $3.50 to 81,
500 a side, the. battle to take place in
Washington or California.
This def attracted the attention OF
Mrs. Anna Schoen of Kansas City, and
being something of pugilist herself
If they can come to an agreement as to
the battle ground, and has forwarded the
following acceptance.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan 80, 1891.
'.Richard K Fox. Ed Police Gazette,
New York.
I'm the last issue OF the Gazette ap-
peared challenge from Miss Zella Fill
more to fight any li2-pOund female
pugilist in America for any sum $3.50
to 81 800 side, and in reply to that i
am ready to accept the challenge and will
make a match against her for fight to
finish, bare knuckles or gloves. for
$3.50 side. the fight to take place un-
der the auspices of the New Orleans
Athletic club Offering the largest purse.
and to take place within three months
from the date of signing the articles of
agreement. If Miss Fillmore thinks
favorably of this and will forward arti-
cles of agreement | will sign them and
deposit a forfeit in your hands. Respect
fully. Mrs. ANNA SCHOEN.
East Nineth street"
Mrs. Schoen is stocly built woman
standing feet inches in height and
at present weighs q little over I..U
pounds. but is satisfied that she can
easily train down TO li2 pounds. She is
pleaSant-featured. rOund-faced Ger
man woman of - years and shows 4
wonderful muscular development, is
strong and active, determined and con-
tident. and, if properly trained, will
doubtless make hard fight. She has
not had much experience as boxer.
but shows an aptness for sparring. and
under a acompetenI' professor of the man
ly art" would, she thinks soon acquire
the necessary cleyerness TO make her a
winner.
The Iola register., 1891-02-13
Afraid OF run.

Don't you ever go to see comedies?
inquired Miss Lanra.
No" said Miss Irene, Laughing
produces wrinkles"
And Miss Irene went on reading the
Editors Prawer" in Harper's.-Chica
60 Tribune.