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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-16
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COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.
During 1890 1872 companies were or
ganized in Roanoke, with an aggregate
minimum capital of $40, 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-hve land and real estate in
vestment companies, with an aggregate
capital of S5,S64, SOC.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital Of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital 5000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
Ono slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
One paper bag manufacturing CON-
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an ag-
gregate capital of 100000.
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25, 600.
Two paving companies, 100000.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, S150,0OO.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, Sl5O,OOO.
Four loan, trust and finance compa-
MES, S2O0,o0
Academy of Music Company. $50, 900.
One steam generator company, $780,
oOo
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O, 600.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating S4,33O,OOO.
For the year 1890 the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted, with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,721,2 ESQ.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capita lSS, $685. $50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
DANCE OF THE PEoNs OF CHILE.
1t Is Mild and Modest Sort of Cancan Done
With Unseemly Gravity.

With Unseemly Gravity.
The day is ended on the large estates of
Chile with dance. After the milking, the
men and women collect in the open court
yard for an hour, and their eight fantastic
toes" are as active as though they had not
toiled from sunrise till sunset on scanty
fare. The cuaca is the invariable dance
mild and decent sort of cancan in which
only two performers figure at a time A
woman generally begins it, who selects her
partner by flirting handkerchief in the
face Of the man of her choice. They gravely
step out into the middle of the patio, and
while the rest sing and make barbaric music
by the rhythmical stamping of feet and
clapping of hands, the couple advance and
retreat, spinning around one another slowly
if not gracefully, meanwhile continually
waving their handkerchiefs, but looking
solemn as mutes at a funeral.
They do not clasp hands or touch each
other, and the space they amble over could
be covered by yard-square prayer rug. I
have seen the death dance of the Nez
Perces, the Modocs and the Sioux of our
own Northwest, but never anything SO
mirthless as this Evidently they are
happy, vet not smile lights up single
swarthy face. They sing by snatches, one
taking up the refrain and then another.
Some of the words, as nearly as can trans
late them, were as follows:
You say you do not love me!
Why 1 cannot tell,
Save that my nose is sharp
And my eyes are very black.
How many, many torments
am suffering now for you,
And you reward my love so badly
That to the grave I'll go.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
PRINCE GEORGES BIG CANE.
1t Is of Heroic Size and the Greek Hercules
sticks to It as q Mascot.

1t Is of Heroic Size and the Greek Hercules
Sticks to It as a Mascot.
Giant Prince George of Greece used an
enormous walking stick to rap the assail-
ants of the Czarevitch in Japan. 1t is a
familiar object to the members of the Rus
sian, Danish and Grecian courts. 1t is of
absolutely gigantic size and weight, bears a
striking analogy to the traditional weaver
beam staff of Goliah, and was cut especially
for the Prince in the woods around Poros.
1t is for all the world like one of those mon
strous canes, or rather clubs, which walking
stick and umbrella dealers display in front
of their stores for purposes of advertisement
This most extravagant-looking stick was
the despair of Prince Georges family and
attendants, who repeatedly urged him to
abandon it for less gigantic and less con-
spicuous article.
This, however, Prince George absolutely
refused to do, and even when in the act of
bidding adieu to his father before his de-
parture for the far East with his Russian
cousin, he laughingly refused to leave it be-
hind him, declaring that it was his mascot.
And so, indeed, it has proved to be, for
the most extraordinary honors are awaiting
the young Prince in Russia on his return to
Europe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
HOW A HUNTER WAS WOUNDED.
An Old Rocky Mountain Characters Fierce
Fight With q Big Bear.


Fight With Big Bear.
A little side canon near the "Buffalo
Sloughs" led me one afternoon to the rude,
lonely cabin of a gray-haired hunter, writes
Charles +. Lummis, describing walk over
the Rocky Mountains. He hobbled out as
L came up and shared my tobacco on a
sunny rock "Old Monny'' was the wreck
of very much of man. His once stalwart
figure was hideously bent and twisted The
right shoulder was all misshapen; and the
right leg only an awful rope of bone in
many knots, and with hardly more flesh
than my wrist has. Five years ago that
day, roughly tender hands had carried
Monny from Dead Mans Canon cripple
for lite. He and his ''pardner' were toll
ing up the canon, their small-bore, muzzle-
loading Kentucky rifles over their shoulders.
Suddenly, from behind huge boulder they
had Just passed, numbered noiselessly huge
brown-yellow beast, heavy as a fattened
steer.
A wild screech from his chum whirled
Monny about, and looking back he saw the
huge cinnamon bear upreared over a still
alpitating corpse, whose blood and brains
were dripping from one gigantic paw.
Monny threw his long, heavy barrel to as
steady level as if the game had been a
squirrel, and drove the little leaden pellet
through the lower half of the monsters
heart. But a cinnamon dies hard; and be-
fore the hunter could reload or escape up
the precipitous rocks the brute was upon
him. Telling him with blow that crushed
his right shoulder like an eggshell, the bear
fell dying at his side, chewing his leg from
thigh to ankle to its last breath, and then
lurched dead across his almost corpse.
And that is why there is one hunter who
goes on crutch to his beaver-traps, and in
quest of game. Monny showed me the skin
of his bear-11 feet inches from tip of nose
to root of tail! Upon the feet were still the
huge crescents of claws, each six inches
long; and on one side was the wee, round
hole that had at last let out the great,
savage life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
Milk on Wall Street.

New York Times.]
A milk-white temperance streak seems to
have struck Wall street this summer. Four
well-equipped milk and butternilk carts
are now doing lively business daily in the
vicinity of Broad street and Exchange place.
These carts are patronized by everybody
men, women and boys of high and low de-
gree. Many brokers who could well afford
to buy bottle of champagne whenever they
feel thirsty prefer 5-cent glass of milk in
stead. Typewriter girls prefer buttermiIk.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
A CHOICE BIT OF BEEF.
One Carcass Furnishes Only Two Pounds
of 1t and Butchers Keen That.

One Carcass Furnishes Only Two Pounds
of 1t and Butchers Keep That
In every beef there is choice morseI,
says butcher in the st. Louis Glo6e-Demso-
c,M Butchers don't tell their customers
about it, and very seldom are there any
calls for it. We prefer to reserve it for our
own tables. This rare cut is known as
s.skirt steak" 1t is thin, fiat bit of meat,
tender and juicy as young grass, adhering to
the ribs on either side Of the fore part of
the steer.
The rarity of it is in the fact that out of a
whole beef you can get only about two
mounds of this steak 1t is so thin that it
will not fry or broil well in the ordinary
way, and the way have it cooked is to fry
briskly in clear, boiling lard. When thus
cooked, served piping hot, it is delicious
OF course it comes high.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
DRESSES MADE OF PURE GOLD.
The C ostumes of Sumatra Women Discount
Those of the Civilized Heiress.


Those of the Civilized Heiress.
have seen women of Sumatra, says a
New York Sm correspondent, wearing
dresses of pure gold and others wearing sill
yer gowns. Both these metals are mined
there in Sumatra and the natives possess
sufficient knowledge of the arts to smelt
and form the ingots into wire. The weav-
ing of the handsome and costly cloths is
quite the principal occupation of both the
women and the men.
Never in Christian countries do women
dress as extfavagantly. 1 remember that
once the chief told me he would have two
pretty maidens dress as they would on their
marriage The two bright-eyed girls were
gone some time and came back wearing, one
dress of gold and the other one of silver.
They had bracelets one above another
from the hands and above their elbows. At
the elbows they wore peculiar bracelets,
jointed to permit easily moving the joint.
In brief, their arms were armored with
precious metal They had necklaces of
gems and other costly ornaments, and the
cloth-of-gold and cloth-of-silver dresses were
made loosely fitting above the waist, and
the skirts in founces.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
Another Sunday Scene in Gotham.


Coney Island is the Sunday afternoon cir
Gus for New York and Brooklyn, and truly
it would make every single hair on every
blessed head of our whole Law and Order
Society rise up, straight as ramrod, with
holy horror if they could have seen q, 600
or more people disporting themselves on
the seashore Sunday afternoon. Beer mar
lunch rooms, ballet entertainments, flying
horses, merry gO-rounds, brass bands
everything in full play. Children
without clamoring for rides, and circus
lemonade, and ginger pop. One concession
has been made to the religious people who
take in all this hilarity and Sunday diver
sion. The bands must not play secular
music. Hence the minstrels dance to sacred
music and sing plantation hymns The
merry-go-rounds fly past the beholder to
inspiring strains of "Hold the Fort" and
Moody and Sanky hymns are played in the
beer halls in Difference to the religious SEN
timent of the day. No wonder Talmage
says s'the world is off the track" and may
peradventure go to smash.
The grand boulevard from BROOKLYN to
Coney Island is crowded with handsome
carriages, spanking teams and gorgeous foot
men, and all manner of more modest con-
veyances The railroads and electric roads
are jammed with people; the boats from
New York unload immense crowds at the
pier. The ocean air, the holiday amuse-
ments have attractions for the multitude far
beyond the Sunday schools, or afternoon
sermons or Bible reading. The grown people
of to-day used to be shut up in penitential
seclusion on Sunday afternoon, and con-
demned to the catechism and the command
ments when they were children, and the
contrast between them and the myriads of
the children of to-day, playing upon the
ocean beach, riding on the flying horses,
eating and drinking and enjoying all of the
gayeties and festivities of this mortal life,
seemed very strong. The thought could
not fail to come up as to whether this
absence of puritanic precepts and prejudices
would conduce to happiness and good citi-
zenship in the future. 90
RESSIE RRAMRIE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
How to Counteract the Effects of Impure
- Water.

Mr.. L. NJ. Martin, superintendent of the
st. is,-DesMoines & Northern Railroad,
says: son my return from recent trip
South, where the water was very impure,
was attacked with violent case of cholera
morbus. Having heard great deal of
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy concluded to try it, and with the
most beneficial results" No household
should ever be without bottle of this
remedy. wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
BUY TOBACCO INSTEAD OF BREAD.
A Boston Doctor Says He Finds 1t Is Eco
nomical to Smoke Cigars.

nom1caI 20 SmOKe cigars.
A single cigar, says DR.. J. H. Carrier, of
Boston, in the st. Louis Globe-D Democrat will
lengthen the progress of digestion two or
three hours; and 1 found that when 1
smoked say three 70 cigars on d it
meals. When didn't smoke at all L was
obliged to resort to the three regular meals
of previous custom. The subtraction of a
meal didn't in any way affect my general
health injuriously, but, ON the contrary, the
digestive function was performed more COM
pletely if more slowly; and from being
regular sufferer from constipation, also,
was entirely relieved of that disorder
L think the man who wishes to economic
on his food might get along very well on 20
cents worth of cigars in place of IS cents
worth of victuals
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05

unpleasant in tone. His pronunciation is a
little off. He invariably said 'tNuthern"
and "Suthern" when speaking of the armies
of the North and South. Both of these, he
claimed, were equally earnest, honest, brave
and deserving of praise. In conclusion he
said:
II have been waiting for some years for
some one else to twist the two garlands that
l to-day twist-but no one is doing it. In
the love of God and my country, put now
my hand to the work, and next spring about
this time, if I am living and well, will
twist two more for Northern and Southern
graves, and every spring time until some
man or woman whom may have cheered a
little in their struggle in life shall come
out to Greenwood and put pansy or two
on my own grave. But if the time
shall ever come when this land shall be
given over to sectional rancor and dema-
gogism, and the North and South and East
and West shall forget what God made this
nation for, and it shall halt on its high ca
reer of Righteousness and liberty and peace,
and become the agent of tyranny and wrong
and oppression, then let some young man,
whom l have baptized at these altars, go
out to Greenwood and scoop up my dust,
and scatter it to the four winds of Heaven,
for do not want to sleep, and L will not
sleep, in land accursed with sectionalism
and oppression.
Too Much Trouble to Scoop Dust.
Now what good it would do anybody to
go out and scoop up his dust and scatter it
to the four winds is pretty hard to see.
Moreover, we venture to say it will not be
done under any circumstances. The young
men will have other things to scoop, and the
dust of Brother De Witt will probably re-
main under his tombstone until the trumpet
shall sound and the dead shall arise.
Another thing was noted in this sermon
ualist, although he has so strongly de-
nounced spiritualism. In speaking of the
dead soldiers, he said their bodies sleep,
but their souls live unhindered-that
no two cities on earth are in such
rapid and constant communication as earth
and heaven. He also asserted that Ulysses
5. Grant and Robert Z. Lee and William
L. Sherman and Stonewall jackson are to-
gether up there dwelling in perfect love,
and that tens of thousands of ''Nutherr'
soldiers and "Suthern'' men, who, though
they once looked askanceat each other on
the banks of the Potomac and the Chicka-
homing and the James and the Tennessee,
are now holding high jubilee with some of
the old angels who 10 centuries ago
chanted peace and good will ON the plains
Of Bethlehem. This really would seem
as if the blessed brother had been consult
ing weQ-posted "mejium" concerning the
condition of affairs ON the other side of the
river. He, however, hailed these blest
spirits as though they were present, and
gave them kiss of welcome.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05

Pittsburg, and 1 am told that the prospects
OF great meeting were never brighter in
the history of the local track. Everybody at
all interested in trotting and trotters knows
that the number and quality of the horses
this year are better than ever and that more
than one very good authority thinks that
even the remarkable records of the present
time will be lowered. But whether there is
any record breaking or not, it is safe to say
that there will be some wonderful going.
The circuit classes are all well arranged and
there is bound to be some phenomenal rae
ing The directors of the local track are
leaving no stone unturned to make their
meeting even more successful than those of
the past. Secretary McCracken tells me
that the entry list is sure to be grand one,
and it is needless to add that all the lead
ing drivers in the country will be here
Everything that can be done will be done to
make the track one of the best in the coun-
try, and altogether the directors have dis
played remarkable courage in putting
out so much money for the meeting Their
venture can only be made successful by the
public bestowing hearty patronage on the
meeting. 1t will require large sum of
money to reimburse the track authorities
for their outlay and it will be a thousand
pities if such big affair is not a very big
success.
Some Pugilistic Matters.
1t is long time since We had such dull
week as far as pugilistic affairs are concerned
as the one just ended. Almost the only
feature of the week has been the echoes of
the late Slavin- -Kilrain affair. And these
echoes have mostly been relating to the
comparative merits of the Australian and
Sullivan. 1 am in receipt of several COM
munications regarding what 1 had to say
about these two pugilists two weeks ago, but
really 1 utilized SO much space on the
question then that 1 see no necessity for
dealing with it again at present. There is
one thing that L want clearly understood by
the readers of these reviews, viz, that no
opinion herein is formulated merely to
please anybody. write my own opinions
and they must at all times go for what they
are worth, whether they agree with the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
/. O. O. f.

new encampment in the East End is
under consideration.
Lambert. Nicholson and other lodges will
visit Iron City Lodge tomorrow evening.
The new lodge should be chartered with not
less than 200 members. Some very energetic
workers o. . 5S5 are the hustlers.
The late P. &. L. B. Thomas was a member
OF Conner Lodge No. 81, and had been a con-
Btstent member Of the order for 40 years.
Canton Allegheny No. 80, Patrfarchs Mill.
tant will give its concert, drill and recep-
Zion at New Turner Hall, South Canal and
Cherry streets, Allegheny, Wednesday even
ing next. 1t Will be one Of the successes Of
the season
At the regular meeting OF Elias Wildman
LODGE $50 Tuesday evening, at G7 Fourth ave.
nue., the th5-d degree was conferred before
. large delegation of brothers from other
lodges. Several proposals for membership
were received.
Henry Lambert Lodge No. AS paid a fra
ternGl visit to j. B. Nicholson Lodge Thurs
day evening. At least 20 different lodges
were also represented. TIE visiting brothers
outGumbered the members by at least 3 to /
Probably 200 Odd Fellows were present.
Next Tuesday night the Chevaliers of Cam
ton PltUsUurg No. Is, and Canton Alleghe-
ny No. g. viii meet at the Cantoinment Hall,
NO. % Federal street, Allegheny City, and
march 20 New Turner Eall on South canal
street for the purpose Of ba atallion drill
Last Tuesday Montipere Encempment No.
3o7, was instituted a: No sos Liberty avenue,
D. D. Il. ?. $ W. Je1fI1es acting as Grand Pa
triaTch. Alter the work the special session
adjourned at $50 for supper which was in
waiting close by. At the evening session
the d. D. q. P, s. W. Jeffries occupied the
chair, when 3 complement of officers for the
new enCImpment was elected and installed,
after which delegation of 35 members from
r. A. 1ambeTton Encampment No. l25 paid
the first tTaternal visit TO Montipere En-
campment No. S07, and wished them God
speed. There was also delegation Of 20
members from Pittsburg Encampment No. o
who came TO help along the good work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
The Problem Solved.

When buying Christmas presents why not
get something novel? 1t don't cost any
more and pleases the one who receives it
better. George w. Biggs s. Co., the lead
ing jewellers, whose establishment everyone
knows is at the corner of Smithfeld street
and Sixth avenue have now on exhibition
many unique articles in the line of bric-a-
brac and jewelry which are suitable for
presents for everybody. A person that's at
a loss to know just what to buy should visit
Biggs' and they can find the very thing they
want. You can get present there that
will make your mother happy, tickle your
father, throw your sister into paroxysms of
delight, give your brother more real joy
than he has had since he got his first pair of
red-topped boots make your sweetheart
think that you are just the dearest one on
earth and that you have the very best taste,
and you will get so much unalloyed pleas
ure out of it yourself that you can celebrate
Christmas with the ligntest heart you have
had for years
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
G, NJ. B, A,

The Advisory Councils last regular meet
ing for the year viii be held tomorrow
evening.
The branch at Turtle Creek is making
great preparations for an open meeting De-
cemDer -.
Denuty f. J. Brady, of this city. reports
branches under way at Johnstown and
Lulys. The one at Johnstown had Is signers
&c the application FOR charter.
Branch 81 C. NJ. B. A, will hold its next
meeting next Wednesday evening, Decem-
Der %. instead OF Friday. Christmas. The
new officers of the branch are: President
II. L. Charles; First Vice President, DR.. A. j.
Hopkins; Second Vice President, John B.
hCNultv; Record ng Secretary, p. G. Nash:
Assistant Recording secretary, James S.
Mcclure; Financial Secretary, j. Grant,
seventh term): Treasurer, Thomas NJ
Hughes; Marshall, Michael Sullivan; Guard,
Edward Manda; Trustees, William Loxter-
man, John B. McNulty: DELEGATES to Grand
COIncl, z. q. Nash and W. NJ. Dillon; Stew
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20

Past Ruler L. n. Eicher, OF Pittsburg
Assembly No. 2S4, is organizing am assembly
at New Castle and Beaver Falls.
Pittsburg Assembly No. 234 will in Feb
ruary hold an entertainment for the benefit
OF their members, families and friends. A
banquet will be q feature of the entertain
ment.
Pittsburg Assembly No. 2S4 has elected
the following officers: Ruler, John T. Keith;
Instructor, Charles NJ Grace; Councillor,
Frank h. Adams; Recording Secretary,
Bailey L. Hobson; Financial Secretary,
James W. Swoger; Treasurer James H.
Crawford; Prelate, n X. Hoffman: Director,
John j. Sharra; Guard, James 4. Dalzell;
Sentry, Jacob Delaney: Trustees, William J..
Wilson, George j. Gildroy and Joseph L.
keihl. They will be installed by ID. S. D.
James W. Swoger, January ..