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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT COM
PANY
THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT COM.
PANY.

Is prepared to negotiate with
responsible parties seeking the
Best Location in Virginia for
Manufacturing P ur p o S e S.
Fuel, Raw Material and Labor
can be obtained and handled
at this point to the greatest
advantage.
The Fine Table Lands
along the Roanoke river are
exceptionally we'll adapted for
INDUSTRIAL BUILDING SITES.
Rapid Transit by Electric
Railway to the center of the
city has been assured.
Ample Railroad Facilities
for shipment to and from all
points North and South.
1t has already located four
large and valuable industries,
employing over 600 hands.
For particulars apply to
ARTHINGTON GILPIN.
General Manager Roanoke
Development Company, Roa-
noke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
RAILROADS.
n s s : A0rfe|ksWesternR.R

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY "a, 1891.
wESTB0UND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
1:55 u. IN. Arrives Radford 0:25 H. M, connect
ing at ItadfOrd with Now River branch
leaving daily ut 0:45 q. m. Bristol LIS D. m:
connects with e. Il. v. 4 G. X. II. for ali
points South.
10iO a. M, Arrives Bristol 40 p. IN. Stops at
all stations. Has no connection with New
River train.
6.25 y. M, Arrives Bristol 1I.35 D. IN Connects
at Radford with New River branch leay-
ing KadfOrd sos p. III. daily for Bluofied
and POcahontas Connects ut Bristol with
e. L. v. i G. X. X. for all pointe South.
7:55 j. IN. daily for Radford and intermediate
stations. Has no connection beyond Rad
NORTH AND EAsrBOUND, LEAVE ROANOKE
DAILY.
$50 a.. m. for Lynchburg Petersburg and
richmond. Has no connection for Nor
1880 p. m. for Hagerstown, Harrisburg, Pbi1a-
deiphia and Now York. Illus through Pull
man Slecpcrs.
richmond and Norfolk
5'O pm. daily. Arrives Lynchbury n m
5.4o M. for Basic, Shenandoah and intcrne.
diato stations.
1l.20 p. IN. for Lynchburg Petersburg. Rich.
m0nd and Norfolk. Has sleeper for Nor
folk and Richmond. 'A WI
ll.2u p. IN. for Hngerstown, Harrisburg. Phils-
delphia and New York. Has through Pull
man sleepcrs to New York and to Washing
ton via Shenandoah Junction and r.. &6.
r. X. N 80 W.
Ofhcc or to w n 1lIsVJTT
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke Va
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
WINDOWS FOR PLANTS.
Suggestions for the Benent of Windo
Gardeners.

Suggestions for the benefit of window
Gardeners.
In order to grow Plants we'll in the
house they must have plenty of light
Unless this can be given, they will bc
spindling and weak, and there will be
fow, If any, flowers, and these will be
inferior.
Tho bost exposure is southern one;
tho ncxt best an oastern ono. A south
window is the one in which to grow
geraniums. lantanas, hcliotropes, and
all plants fond of much sunshine, while
the eastern ono is better for begonias,
fuchsias. and such plants as care more
for the sun in the early part Of tho day
than they do for it after its rays become
more intense. A west window gives too
much heat unless shaded considerably,
but 1t is better than nc window at all,
and il you hayo no other to give your
plants, don't go without them. A cur
tain Of thin muslin will temper the
heat greatly, and vines can be trained
over tho glass in such way rs to break
tho ncrceness OF tho suns rays. A north
window is not suited to tho needs of
towering plants, but some which arc
grown solely for foliage can DO kept
thore. Forms, palms. aspidistra, ficus
and lycopodiums will DO quite as vol
there as in a window exposed to the sun.
English ivy can be trained about it.
Tradescantia, in baskets, can DO hung
up in it, and thus it can be made beau
tiful without flowers If you have a love
for "groen things growing. "-Viok'a
MAGAZINE
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
Baseball Yesterday.

At Chicago-Chicago, B.; New York,
2. batteries: Hutchinson and IKittridgc;
Rusie and buckley.
At misunderstanding, 5; Phila-
delphia, 6. Batteries: Radbourne, Duryea
and Herman; Esper and Brown.
Rain postponed Pittsburg
game at Pittsburg, baltimore Columbus
game at Columbus, and Boston Cincin-
natti game at Cincinnati.
AT Louisville-Louisville, 2: Athletic,
z. Batteries: Doran and Cahilf; Cham
berlain and Milligan.
AT st. Louis-St. Louis, II; Washing
ton, 5. Batteries: Griffith and BOYLE;
Quarles and Lehman.
At acknowledgements 4; Brook
Ign, 3. Batteries: Young and thinner;
Caruthers and Con Daily.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
SHE PREFERRED TO TALK.
A Theatrical Incident Which was Not ON
tho I<ilIa

A Theatrical Incident Which was Not on
tho Bills.
Just imagine yourself settled in tho
theater, ready for full and apprecia
tive enjoyment of the play, the great
charm OF which lies in the fact that YOU
have ncver seen it. Tho curtain rises
on beautiful opening scene, when a
voice on the back of your neck-a fe-
malo yoice-says in loud, harsh whis-
por:
Two seen it before l knew / had
That man is own father to that girl, but
he doesn't know it. Thore's dance in
this scene, too-it's 4 Jig"
Tho people on the stage arc talking
but a divided attention prevented YOU
from hearing something which is loudly
applauded.
second act" the voice at your back con-
tinues, "he turns out to be the villain Of
tho play. There's a reai moon some
where. That old woman steals the girl.
Fee seen it before"
The girl is singing q love song 1t is
worry sweet, and the orchestra gives q
moro ghost OF accompaniment. You
strain your cars to catch tho words and
music of the song and hear this:
Nothing but paste. And that lace is
cheap imitation. Here, take my glass!
There's Jack Dawson looking at us.
What's he scowling at? o. I've heard
the song before. You're not missing any
thing"
This is evidently said in answer to
remonstrance on tho part of the escort,
who probably has some sense Of what is
due to other people
After few moments Of restful silence
thoro Is another cold wave of talk.
That's hor photograph-no don't
want ono. 1t isn't bit like her-makes
her look about sixteen. She isn't any
any chicken. That's powder and paint
her stage makeup. Wait till you ace
the Mird act Her father rushes in and
there's a.. o, ,chat draught! No,
I'm not losing any thing. I'd rather talk.
I've seon it before. "-Detroit Free Press.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
BROKE UP a LYNCHING PARTY.
How Maj. Carpenter Saved n Negro Assail
ants Life.

How Maj. Carpenter Saved n Negro Assail-
ants Life.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 2s.-lSpec-
iall Negro Patterson, who shot two
negroes, held up two white men and
then Shot Fred Carpenter on Sunday
was this morning lodged in the Knox
vile Jail. 1t was on the cards last
night to lynch him, but Maj. ID. A. Car
penter, farther Of the wounded man,
heard Of the plan and set to work to
prevent it.
The names of the lynching party were
known to him and by personal appeal
and by letter to the chief of police, in
which he asked that ever precaution be
taken to defeat the attempt, he broke
the backbone of the scheme. Major
Carpenter is on record in this particular
as he has broken up several mobs since
the war.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
Escorted From tho Town.

WARELAND, Ind, May 2s.-I Special
This city is in ferment and time of
here. Yesterday morning committee
of strikers called upon Paymaster Park
hurst and informed him that he must
leave town at once. The strikers es-
corted him to the outskirts of the town.
The master mechanic and five comrades
were also compelled to leave. Sheriff
McCluskey is comforting with the strk-
orS
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
a Soldier Uprising.

WAILA WALLA, Wash, May 81
[Speciall - Tho sheriff of Walla
Walla county has telegraphed Governor
Ferry asking him to send arms and
ammunition, as an outbreak of soldiers
is possible when the arrest of soldiers
indicted for completely in the Hunt
lynching was made to-day. The Gov
ernOr sent the necessary order
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
AMMUNITION is WANTED.

Negro Miners Excite the Strikers mt Iowa
Galleries.
OTTUMwA, Iowa, May 2s.-[Special] :
Trouble is anticipated at the Mystic
mines. Two carloads of negro miners
shipped in at that place yesterday, and
the strikers have been gathering in
large numbers, evidently determined
that the visitors shall not go to work.
Brown e. Bowers, extensive operators,
have wired for one thousand rounds of
ammunition and supply of guns.
This is the very heart of tho strike,
and as it is master woriman's home
there is fear of an uprising.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT COM.
PANY.

Among the industries located by the
Roanoke Development Company is the
Duvall Engine Company manufacturers
of steam engines and boilers About
10000 already in use in the South. This
company is equipped to furnish castings
for machinery, and make repairs to all
classes of machinery, boilers, etc, ETC.
1t will make great change through
this section Of the South, shortening
the haul on all its manu- fac lures hum
dreds of miles over Northern competi-
tors, besides furnishing superior pro-
duction. For particulars address
ARLINGTON GILPiN,
" General Manager Roanoke Develop
ment Company, Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
Yet Another Conflict.

LISBON, May 2s.-lSpeciall-A dis
patch received here from Laurence
Marques, South Africa, says another fight
has taken place between the British and
Portuguese on the banks of the Benz
bema river. The Portuguese were de-
feated.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
willing to Commute It.

We'll give you just twenty-four hours
to leave town." said tho chairman OF the
Vigilance committee.
DO you believe that time is money"
asked the undesired visitor.
Yes, certainly"
Then how much cash will you give
me to leavo st once?" = Munsey's
Weekly.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT COM
PANY.

One of tho valua bic industries secured
by the Roanoke Development Company
is the Norwich Lock Manufacturing
Company, manufacturers of all Shelf
Hardware for Builders purposes. Their
goods are known throughout the entire
country to be first-class. 1t is therefore
important that all Industrial concerns
using this class of goods should know
that they can loca to in Roanoke to great
advantage. This is particularly appli-
cable to Door, Sash and Blind Manu-
facturcrs, as well as to many others.
For particulars address
ARLINGTON GlLPIN,
General Manager Roanoke Develop
ment Company, Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29

There are now more than 300 men at
work upon tho extension of the West
Virginia Central railroad between Bev-
erly, Randolph county, and Elkins, and
nearly as many more on the Bellington
extension. The West Virginia Central
Is making extensions in all directions.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
The Roanoke Development Com
pany.

The Bridgcwater Carriage Works, with
an enlarged plant and increased capital,
will go at once upon the property of the
Roanoke Development Company. No
section Of the United Stat of the same
population is buying as many fine car
riages as Southwest Virginia. 1t is pre-
pared to furnish all kinds of vehicles
Manufacturers of spokcs, hubs and
wheels, springs, tires, axlcs and other
parts of carriages and wagons, will find
at Roanoke center for their industries
for which market Of hundreds of miles
in extent is ready and active. The tim
Der supply is inexhaustable and of the
best qualities. In the same line har
ness and leather manufacturers will
find markets which need no drumming
Tho Roanoke Development Company
desires to negotiate with such industries
For further particulars address
ARLINGTON GiLPlN,
General Manager Roa noke Develop
mcnt Company, Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
MEN OF MILLIONS.
Tho Greatest Aggregation OF Wealth In
he World

AS fortunes go nowadays in America,
says tho New York World, one of S1o-
100000 is not considered particularly
great There are thfrty-fve fortunes of
that or greater magnitude in this coun-
try. Thero are three men who arc
worth 100000, 900 or more. The list Of
Americans who count their wealth at
SIS, 600, 600 and above is as follows:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29

The greatest offer ever made. The
weekly edition of The Times for one year
end your choice of either Dickens or
Waverly novels complete for So.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29

GREAT sACRIFICE.-TWO SEC
~ ond-hand thoroughbred Columbus
buggies at remarkably low figures for
sale at SALEM CARRIAGE WORKS.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT COM.
PANY.

Another Of the valuable industries Sc
cured by the Roanoke Development
Company is the Virginia Blanket Mills,
manufacturers of wooden blankets of all
grades, spinncrs of yarn, and scourcrs
and sorters of wool. These mills will
secure the pick of the heeces of South
west Virginia, where the shecp-raising
industry is developing more rapidly and
more proiitably than in any other part
of the United States. Manufacturers
of fine cloths should seize the opportu-
nifty to locate in the midst of a wool
raising country and close to their yarn
supplies For further information ad-
dress,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Early RaiIroading.

When railroads were first introduced,
the engineers, as we call them-or the
engine drivers, as they are called in Eng
land-ran their trains almost as they
liked, making up time when they had
fallen behind, picking up such informa-
ton as they could as to the state of the
track ahead of them, and for the most
part plunging ahead with their ma
chimes without much more than sur
mise whether they should bring up at
their destination or at the bottom of
some high embankment.
Some of the results of this want of
system would have been amusing if they
had not been disastrous. Mr.. Laurence
Olphant, an English traveller and author,
tells in one of his books a rather grim
story of trip which he made by rail, IN
1855, from Chicago to New York. Over
a part of the distance the train made the
extraordinary speed, for that time, of
fifty miles an hour, and presently it ran
off the track.
Fortunately, the cars were imbedded
in a soft clay ditch, and no one was
seriously hurt; and in the midst of the
commotion, Mr.. Oliphant says he heard
the engineer thus admonish the switch
man, whose carelessness had caused the
accident:
''Now, Tom, this is the third time
you've forgot to set that switch, and the
last time there was twenty people went
under and the rest was bruised. So
mind what you're about, and don't for
get that switch again, for if you do I'll
tell the boSsr'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
An Estimate of Carlyle.

81 never knew Carlyle" says the au-
thor of "Glances of Great and Little
Men," except by sight. To tell the
truth, 1 did not greatly covet his ac-
quaintance in those last days of his,
when alone l could have known him.
1 was even not without a certain dread
of this roaring apostle of taciturnity.
Once, however, finding myself sitting
opposite to him in Chelsea omnibus, ]
ventured to address him. l tried the
weather-the recognized conversational
aperient-but in this case it failed of its
usual effect. He gave no answer, but
sat there, leaning ON his staff in brood
ing silence and with interpretive eyes,
until he reached his destination. When
he had got out, 1, affecting not to know
him, asked the conductor who he was.
The latter had touched his hat to him
"'Oh, yessir, I know him well enough.
Z orfen rides in my bus. Els wot you
call a fttery gent-writes books wot no.
body can understand
"The conductor paused, as if mentally
summing up from his superior stand
point-the footboard poor Carlyle's
characteristics, and then added, with a
touch, half of pity, half of contempt in
the voice:
''''E's bit of his chump, like many
of those gents; but he amt a bad sort if
you take him the right way"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
AS She Is Spoke in India.

Native English in India still furnishes
much amusement to the European traE-
eler. When the governor of Madras
lately made tour one admirer wrote to
excuse his non-appearance at the rail
way station as he ''had the pleasure of a
scorpion in his left leg" but promised to
'bring my invaluable lutte to play be-
fore your excellency as an indulgent
son." A railway official lamented that
a panther invaded his platform, but he
''met the attack by shutting himself in
his Office and ringing the station bell, "
while another complained that his
poiutsmen had been fighting, as the ag-
gressor ''threw stone at Ram Buksh,
which fortunately hit Ram Buksh's
wife" He added that ''unless both these
men are scattered in different directions
by opposing trains there will be murder
and suicide, including to myself" On
visiting a local hospital the governor
was presented with petition against
the surgeon in charge, who, said the
complainants, 'had string loose over
his subordinates, and will never secure
heaven. Quite the contrary will surely
be his fate. London Graphic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
A Vegetable FlY.

One of the most curious natural pro-
ductions of the West Indies is the famed
vegetable fly, an insect about the size
and color of drone bee, but without
wings. In the month of May it buries
itself in the earth and begins to vegetate.
By the beginning of June a sprout has
issued from the creatures back and
made its appearance above the surface of
the ground. By the end of July the tiny
tree, known ON tine islands as the fly tree,
has attained its full size, being then
about three inches high, but perfect
tree in every particular. much resem-
bling a delicate coral branch. Pods ap-
pear on its branches as soon as it ar
rives at its full growth; these ripen and
drop off in August.
Instead of containing seeds, as one
would naturally suppose, these pods have
from three to six small, hard worms upon
their interior. The pod soon shrivels up
in the hot sun and bursts open on about
the third day after becoming detached
from the parent stem. The little worms
roll out and bury themselves in the sand,
anu 8iueI uHucISolllS 1lio OhSAhSo IuOA
dent to all caterpillars become flies,
which, when the proper time comes, bury
themselves in the ground to furnish nour-
ishment for another miniature fly tree. :"
Dr. Martinisque, of the Royal institute,
who has received several boxes of these
flies upon which he has made repeated
experiments, gives a long scientific ex-
PLANTATION for the seeming impossibilities
attributed to this insect, which is, at
best, wholly unsatisfactory to the general
reader, even though his coworkers in
that branch of science may consider it
explanatory and conclusive.-Cor.S st.
Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Actors Who Paint.

Speaking of people who paint, Edward
W. Kemble, the artist, said: 81 know
many actors who are artists with the
brush and pencil, and very fair artists at
that. Joseph Jefferson goes in for water
colors. Dixey draws queer caricatures,
and l saw one of his eccentric drawings
on a Parker house Boston) bill of fare
only the other day. Louis Harrison, the
comedian, is rapid draughtsman. Tim
Murphy used to be a house painter in
Washington, SO he comes rightly by his
taste for pen and pencil. His dressing
room wherever he may be is covered
with daubs roughly but effectively done
in grease, paint and crayon. Lotta,
Minnie Maddern, Madeline Lucette and
Alice King Hamilton draw very neatly.
E. H. Sothern has made sketches which
Dan Frohman considers worthy of hang
ing framed in the lobby of the Lyceum
theatre. George Fawcett Rowe used to
go in for oils. Alexander Salvini, son of
his father, has presented a very neat
water color to Marie Burroughs.-New
York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

A popular lecturer who has appeared
before big audiences ON hundreds of
platforms during the past ten or twelve
years, says that lecturing is the hardest
way of earning living. The lecturer is
all the time exhausted with travel from
place to place by railroad or steamboat,
or stage coach or other conveyance. He
cannot get solid sleep any time. He
finds himself in uncomfortable quarters
in all sorts of hotels. He cannot get to
bed till nearly midnight after any lect-
ure. He is bothered with committees
and agents. He often finds that both the
audience and the receipts are light. The
lecturer here quoted says that he is worn
out down to the bones after few weeks
of lecturing, and that he never had as
exhausting work when he was deck
hand aboard ship as he has had during
the years in which he has been on the
lecture platform. His nervous system
has been shattered by it.-New York
SrO
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Something about Coal.

1t makes the present generation smile
to read the accounts which have come
down to us concerning the prejudices
which were formerly entertained against
certain articles which are of every day
consumption.
For instance, it is said that when coal
was first used in England the prejudice
against it was 50 strong that the house
of commons petitioned the king to pro-
hibit the use of the ''noxious" fuel
A royal proclamation having failed to
abate the nuisance, commission was
issued to ascertain who burned coal
within the city of London and its neigh
borhood, to punish them by force for
the first offense, and by the demolition
of their furnaces if they persisted in
transgressing. A law was finally passed
making it capital offense to burn coal
in the city, and only permitting it to be
used by forges in the vicinity 1t is
stated that among the records in the
tower of London document was found
according to which man was hanged in
the time of Edward for no other crime
than having been caught burning coal.
1t took three centuries to entirely efface
the prejudice. Siftings.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
SHERMAN AND GRANT.

New York Mail and Express.
One of the noblest things about Gen.
Sherman was his self command. His
freedom from jealousy was as great as
that of Gen, George II. Thomas. Once
he was asked how it was that he had
always been willing to fight under Grant,
without questioning, or caviling, or op-
position, or backbiting, or trying to
supplant him. His answer was charac-
teristic and a key to the situation. He
said: 81 could always plan dozen
different ways of accomplishing mill
tary object, and Phil Sheridan would
declare that he could fight any one of
them out to victory; but we could neither
of US tell which was really the best plan
Then we would go to Grant. lay the
whole of them before him, and he would
tell us which plan was the best, and
why; and then we could see it, too.
Grants place was where he was, at the
head" What a splendid, noble responsel