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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
WEDDING suPERsTITioNs.
Tho Scottish People Much Given to Be-
lief III Old Saws.

Tho Scottish People Much Given to Be-
lief III Old Saws.
In the matter of courtships and we'd
dings Scottish people preserve an extra
ordinary number of peculiar customs
and fanciful supcrstitions, writes cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript.
It is decmed unluclsy to alter the first
width of an engagement ring. Many
troths have been broken as result.
The giving of brooches and pins by low
crs is full of ill consequences. Noyoung
man or woman, in the tender relation,
will take 4 pin from the other without
returning the same after use. Pins,
needles, etc, are nll cmblematic of the
cessation of friendship and affection.
1t is very fortunate for the bride to
wear some borrowed article of apparel
Mt her wedding. Ifswinc cross the path
of the bridal party before it, 1T is an
omen of the direst import; but if they
should cross its path behind the party
it would bc n happy augury. A we'd
ding after sunset entails on the bride q
joyless life, the loss of children and an
early grave. In the south of Scotland
rainy day for marriage is an I'M
lucky one. The bride is then called "a
grcetin' brides" whereas, "Blcst is the
bride that the sun shines on" To rub
shoulders" with the bride is sign of
speedy marriage; the first among the
unmarried female friends who succeeds
in doing it will be the first to we'd; and
SO have myself witnessed scrambies
on the part of buXom Scotch lasses for
precedence quite closely approaching
fisticuffs AS newly married wife
first enters her new home, some elderly
person must throw cake of shortbrcad
into the door before her. One securing
piece of cheese cut with the brides
own hand before she has left the we'd
ding feast is certain to be shortly hap
PLY married. And it is everywhere in
Scotland as inauspicious for the brides
mother to be present at wedding as it
is unfortunate in our country to have
the same individual arrive to remain at
my subsequent period.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
BREvITIEs.

The Improvement Company is having
the brick pavement on College avenue
completed from near the bank building
to the passenger depot.
Attic meeting of the Ciceronian So
ciety Of Roanoke College the young men
discussed free trade vs.. protection. Mr..
j. f. Crigler, of Virginia, was elected
president of the society.
Mr.. Chadwick, of the Two-Wheeler
Company, is registered at Hotel Lu
cerne.
Charles Mead, colored, was brought.
before Justice Weber today for as
saulting and battering Betty Doubt on
Water street, and was fined $3.50 and
costs.
Last Sunday morning Rev. j. r.
Bridges baptized four children at the
Presbyterian Church, and at the same
time and place Rev. Mr.. Ghiselin bap-
tized of Mr.. Bridges children.
Thomas, the 13-yea--old son of Mr.. j.
NJ. Mcdaniel, died Monrdy night after
long illness at his fathers house, on
Lee street. His remains were taken to-
day to Floyd Court House for burial.
The Juvenile Missionary Society of
the Baptist Church, known as THE
Sunbeams," will be addressed next Sun
day at p. M. &C the Baptist Church by
the Rev. q. j. HOLIDAY on the subject Of
s'Indian Missions" Tho children will
carry out special programme that
afternoon, and the general public, par
ticularly the Juvenile portion, are cor
daily invited to attend. The public
meeting last month of tho "Sunbeams''
was both interesting and successful.
The Corbett Mill Suppl, Company
have already work enough ordered to
keep them going night and day for the
next two months. They have already
900 rolls to sharpen and corrugate, and
as they get from SIP TO SIS for fixing
each roll, it is easily seen that they
have good thing Of it.
Mr.. T. Speer Dickson. prominent
lawyer OF McVey town, Pa, having large
interests in Salem, has moved with his
family here and will now make this
their home.
Mrs. j. NJ. Thomas, of Union street,
lost good mich COW, which was made
into sausage meat by the 1920 passen-
ger train, Monday.
The town street force are now at work
grading Broad street. from Main to the
I boundary of the Monteiro Companies
1 property.
In the Associated Press telegrams
published in Tuesdays TIMES was one
announcing the death of Rev. w. w.
Houston in Talladega, Ala. The gen
Sieman was the pastor of the Salem
Presbyterian Church from 1869 to 1870.
he was born September 81, 1899, a,
Wheeling, w. Va, was licensed by Lex
ington Presbytery July 16, 1858, and
from that date to the end of the wal
3 was @. S. A. Chaplain.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
USES OF THE eAMeoo.
1t Serves Moro Purposes Than Any Other
Plant That Is. Cultivated.

1t Serves Moro Purposes Than Any OTHER
Plant That Is. Cultivated.
1t is hoped b. the department of agri-
culture that the bamboo may yet be cul-
titatcd in this country as it is in China,
where it supplies large part of the
wants of the people, being applied to
more than five hundred different pur-
poses. In the fiowery kingdom it takes
the place of both iron and steel, says
the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The farmer
builds his house and fences out of it,
his farming utensils as well as his
household furniture are manufactured
from it, while the tender shoots furnish
him with most delicious vegetable for
his table.
The roots arc carved into fantastic
images, shapcdinto divining blocks to
guess tho will of the gods, or cut into
lantern handles and canes. The taper
ing culms nrc. used for the props of
houses, the framework of awnings, the
ribs of sails and shafts of ral1es; for
fences and every sort of frames, coops
and cages; and the handles and ribs of
umbrellas and fans. The leaves are
scwed into raincoats and thatches. The
shavings and curlcd threads furnish
material for stuffing pillows, while
parts supply the bed for sleeping, the
chopsticks for eating, the pipe for smok-
ing, the broom for sweeping, the mat
trcss to lie upon, the chair to sit upon,
the table to cat on, the food to cat and
the fuel to cook it with, ETC., etc. In
fact, its uses are almost without num-
bcr
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
FIGHTING MONKEYS.
The Sircwd Scheme OF an Organ Grinder
to Mako Money.

The Shrcwd Scheme OF an Organ Grinder
to Mako Money.
An organ grinder who has been work
ing the city recently has new scheme
Which is making his fortune. Instead
of the customary one monkey this en-
terprising worker carries two. When
he stops ut saloon he doesn't bother
with any of the customary tricks of
climbing and begging. He sets the
monkeys to fighting and then bets free
ly with the crowd as to which will win
His bets find plenty of talk ers, says
the Buffalo Express, and they rarely go
against him. The result is tn at where,
under the old method, he would proba-
bly, be getting pennies, he now gets dol
lars, and it never occurs to the sports
that their money is going to n profess
sional bcggar.
"Eow can YOU tell what monkey to
bet on?' asked him
"Oh, lSnow!" he answered slyly.
BY watching him close l soon discov-
cred his system. lie always bet on the
samc monkey, which was probably
trained to be the winner. The two
were just alike, except for their caps,
and when they would como to him after
passing these around he would transfer
them from one to the other. When
asked him if this was not true he
smiled and said: IL playa; they give-a
me nick, Gala me bcggar; / BETA, they
giye-a me doll; thinlsa it sport"
The organ man has the true book
makers instinct of how to make the
people give up their money without
thinking they are giving it for nothing.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
RAILROADS
N : e :: w Aorfo|ksWesternR.R

,sohEDuLE IN EFFECT AUGUST 30, 1881.
wEsrBouND, LEAVE noANoKE DAILY.
S So a. m. Tor Bristol and intermediate stations
0''o y; IN; lot hndford, Pulaski Bristol: aso for
piueMSlI, focahontas, Elkhorn Clinch ynl-
by SS,,n Urts lSI and Louisville via Norton
i. ",,sia nnd sieepers to Memphis and New Or
c.,r icaIs ana 70 Louisville via Norton = ~
o'io =. IN. ior bedford, Pulaski Bristol Con-;
h heSts ut ,nadrord for Bueicld and Poca-
T H1ntas, Pullman slecpers to Memphis VIC
r son AND EAsTDoUND, LEAVE ROANoSE NAVY
% I3en q. IN. Tor petersburg and Richmond. -AT-'
i<oo y M TOT ungerstown. Pullman sleeners tn
a. new forx Via Harrisburg and PhiIadeIphia :
LAO p ~ daiiy Tor Richmond and Norfoik pill
co.. man paror car TO Norfolk
S.S S p. III. Ior Lynchburg; no connection beyond
o;xSP III. Tor shenandoah; no connection beyond :
ll'2cp H. Tor Richmond and Norfolk PnfIman
mond. " MICH
11:2Q r. m; for Hagcrstown. Pullman sleepers IN
washington via Shenandoah Junction andtc>
-, New York Via Harrisburg. N W
Cincn valley Divlsion-Leaves Blucleld dnilv
.:OO o. IN. Tor Norton, and 1885 ~ m for Nor
ton, Louisville and points on l.. Il n. r. r.
via Norton. ~ ~ Ne
North Carolina Diyison-Leaye Pulaski aa;lv
LoO a. m. for Ivanhoe and 1870 p. M for Ivan
d noe ana Sossan and 500 n m. Except sun
Office or to ~ n kEVfI = NAee
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
The Plant TO be Replaced.

AS already published in THE TIMES,
the plant of the Mineral Fibre Company
was entirely destroyed by fire Monday
night. Yesterday all that remained of
the busy little concern was the cupalo,
boiler, engine and ton or two of min
eral wool. The cupalo is uninjured, the
boiler considerably burnt, the engine
ruined and the wool Sigh tly discolored,
but still in the market. The present
company will have receiver appointed
to wind up Hts affairs, and new COM
pany will be organized who will erect q
larger plant, to be built of corrugated
iron. with several other Improvements.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
A I LEM
SOLD AT AUCTION.
susan Watkins Effects Disposed
of.
ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,
HoTEr. ,LITCERNE, SALEM, VA

Monday afternoon Auctioneer Hun
sold tho contents of the two trunks be-
longing to the murdered wife of Charles
Watkins, realizing from the clothing
and jewelry tho sum of Sl51.7o. The
clothing was of good quality and readily
sold at low figures to the negroes, one
of whom bought a new black silk dress
for ss.75. The jewelry was mostly
houpht by white people A pair of dia-
mond earrings which cost Susie Wat
kins 1928 were sold for S46.25 to Mr.. j.
w. Mcdonald, one of the diamonds was
slightly discolored and the pair did not
match. The gold watch. nearly new,
with her name on it, brought S22.25, the
auctioneer himself buying it. The rest
OF the gold chains, pins, and trinkets
all sold for from 81 to $40 each.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
HoUsE-FURNlsHING GOODS

Cedar wash tubs, first size, usual
price Csc; this week. .... 4!
Cedar wash tubs, second size, usual
price 75c;, this week. ..... So
Cedar wash tubs, third size, usual
price 81; this week.. 7(
Cedar wash tubs, fourth size; usual
price Sl.25; this week.. 9(
3-hoop cedar buckets, usual price
40c: this week. observation-disclosures. 81
2-hoop plain buckets, usual price
l5c; this week. ................. Il
Table oilcloth, 54 wide, usual price
soc; this week. Q;
Bird cages, all brass, extra size,
usual price Sl.25; this week 49,. 0s
Bird cages, square and round,
painted, usual price 75c; this
week. AZ
10-quart Touring tin pals, usual
price zoe; this week. ........... II
2-quart covered tin bucket, usual
price loo; this week. .........
4-quart covered tin bucket. usual
price 15c; this week. ...... 1.
Coal bod, shovel and litter, usual
price 4Oc; this week. ....... 2.
Blueing, usual price SC; this week
Splash mats, usual price 10c; this
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
SPECIAL SALE
In order to make room
for Holiday Goods
we offer for
ONE WEEK ONLY
The following goods at re-
duced prices.
Sale begins
MONDAY, OCT. 10.
GLASSWARE.


Glass mugs, usual price, Sc; this
Glass sets, consisting of butter
dish, cream pitcher, spoon holder
and sugar dish; usual price, 45o;
this week 81
Large extra fine glass set. usual
price S5c; this week. ....... 60
Gypsy Queen goblets, usual price
85c; this week. GO
Elegant glass cream pitcher, usual
price 20c; this week. 10
Handsome engraved tankard pitch
er, usual price s5c; this week. SO
New pattern butter dish, something
nice, usual price $50; this week. 90
Celery stands, extra large, usual
price 35c; this week. .... 90
LAMPS.
Nellie Bly, night lamps, usual price
4Sc; this week. ............ IS
Imported night lamps. nicely en-
graved, usual price 39c; this week rs
American night lamps, usual price
29c; this week. Observation-Disclosures. 10
Decorated parlor table lamps. sin.
shade, usual price $40; this
week. $3.50. S1.40
Decorated parlor table lamp, extra
size, usual price So. 60; thia week 247
Largest assortment of plain
lamps in the city at
like prices
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
Tilex IIAYe Arrlyad

IN every variety and are fresh. Ladies.
you should call to see them. Canned
goods Of every kind ut Hassell's, the
t'Cash Grocer at 303 Jefferson street.
opposite tho new Terry building. Tile
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
A Small Fire.

The roof of an old stable on Clay
street caught fire in one or two places
about noon yesterday from the sparks
from the smoke stack of the steam laun-
dry which adjoins. For time there
was plenty of excitement, but two or
three buckets of water soon caused the
great confiagration to end in smoke
without any damage worth speaking
about. The fire company with its reels
and hose were soon on the spot but
their services wero not needed. The
stable is the property of Colonel Logan.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
A missionary Society.

Some fifteen or twenty ladies met
Tuesday afternoon in the Baptist
Church and reorganized ''The Ladies'
Missionary Society,"" with the following
officers: Mrs. G. j. Holiday, PRESIDENT;
Mrs. D. B. Strouse, vice-president; Mrs.
w. w. Moffett, secretary; Miss ~.
Holmes, treasurer. This society will
meet once month, and, as its name
denotes, will be devoted entirely to
missionary work.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
Tho Finest we Have Ever seen

ARE the suits made by Lewis, the lead
1ng tailor, los Henry street, near Salem
avenue.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
Smoke "Nickelby."
FoR sale by A. Canfarotta, Salem, Va.
The Anction

SALE OF I. Bachrach will be continued
this incoming at 10 a. m.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
cRocKERY.

10-piece china decorated chamber
set, usual price $3.50; this week.
Decorated naples and bowls, usual
price lac; this week. -. ........
Decorated 10 piece chamber set, ex-
ira nice, usual price $3.50; this
week.
Decorated cup. saucer plate, per
set. usual price $3.50; this week.
102-pieco dinner set, something
grand, usual price SIS; this week.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06
~GatdGgetntr
WHEELING. NOVEMBER o, 1901.
Serious Times In Tennessee.

A hunted fugitive without raiment,
food or monied friends is not an envia-
Bile object. AT present he is numerous
in the mountains OF Tennessee, though
not SO numerous as before he began to
perish OF cold and hunger.
Tho condition OF the convicts liberat-
ed by the miners recalls and gives point
10 the message OF q colorcd convict to
the governor OF Tennessee. The dazed
man informed the governor OF what
had happened and asked what he should
do. He was in a sense free, but being
without resources and instinctivelv real
izing that he was not entitled to his lib
erty, he turned holplessly to the CHIEF
magistrate OF the state for instructions.
The state offers a reward for the re-
turn OF the convicts. Many OF them
would doubtless be glad to save their
lives by surrendering, but the noun.
taineers stand in the way and the stute
has not shown itself strong enough to
deal with the mountainecrs.
No state in the Union has ever pre-
sented SO helpless a spectacle. So far
rs the miners, their sympathizers and
the liberated convicts are concerned
there is no state government.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06
What Did 1t in Ohio.

There is no Democrat in Ohio who
could have made q better run than
Governor Campbell made. As 4 stumper
he is far above the ordinary. In the
hundred or more speeches he delivered
against time he rarely failed to enter
tain his audience. He drew such crowds
and, with one or two exceptions, was
listened to so attentively and evoked SO
much applause that he went to bed on
Monday night confident of being elected
on Tuesday. His friends agreed With
him, and the Democratic newspaper
press OF the country had no doubt O. his
election.
Governor Campbell missed it be-
cause the state OF Ohio does not en-
dorse the policies OF his party. This is
Il sort OF consolation for the governor
and the source OF decided satisfaction
to Republicans. 1t furnishes all the
reason for Democratic defeat in Ohio
that anybody need ask.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06

appears. OF Brooklyn property worth
from S25O,OOO to $500, 900. lie never re.
ierred to his wealth, and preferred to
live q laborcr's life. lie vas not n miser,
and was well liked by the people with
whom he lived.
The c%lderberry bush frequently grows
to large proportions in the West. In
Los Angeles, CAL, there was q bush the
stump OF which was %thirty-four inches
in diameter.
A farmer living near Eugene, Ore,
has raised the largest potato on record.
1t is q Burbank Seeding and weighs II
pounds, is 10 inches long and is inches
around.
A meteorite, found q few weeks ago
in the rotten roots OF q willow tree at
Lysabild, Denmark, was seen by the
finder to fall into the tree in August,
1913.
Texarkana, Ark, has q woman whose
height is s feet q inches. She has two
cousins travelling with circuses who are
taller than she.
A vegetable cartridge shell, which is
entirely consumed in firing, is now
coming into general use in the French
army.
The largest known moth is the giant
atlas, n native OF China, the wings OF
which measure nine inches across.
4 deer weighing 80 pounds when
dressed was killed recently on the Mich
isamme river, in Michigan.
The first steamship to cross the At
lantic was the Rising Sun, in tho year
1878.
Gypsies originally came from India,
not Egypt, as is usually supposed.
Nearly n quarter OF all cases OF insani-
ty are hereditary.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06
Some Taminany Ways.

In New York city the ballot was not
so secret us to interfere entirely with
Tammany's schemes. A voter tells that
he was in the polling booth preparing
his ticket when he heard a noise be.
hind him, looked around and saw two
fingers thrust through u hole and hold
inga ballot. Then he heard a Tam
many voice saying, "You vote our tick.
ct" The voter did not take tho Tam.
many ticket. When he passed out Of
tho booth a Tammany cx.alderman
promised to have the voter so soundly
beaten that his mother wouldn't know
him.
This was almost as exasperating as
tho man who stood talking to a police
man and overheard a Tammany heller
announce his name with tho intention
OF voting on 1t. The police were very in
d%ustrious on the Tammany side, doing
all they could for Tammany and re-.
form, 1t is because Gov. Hill desires
his partisans to have these opportuni-
ties that he is set against a really secret
ballot.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06
Don't Want to Be Saved.

It is discovered thatin the iarmingre-
pions Of Pennsylvania, from which the
Democrats were expecting great aid and
comfort, there was a strange failure to
appreciate the situation and the oppor-
tunity. The farmers had a chance to
do something not clearly defined for
themselves by voting the Democratic
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06

The famous victory" OF the Demo
Gratis in Massachusetts amounts to this:
The election of their candidate for gov
ernor, the election OF the whole of the
Republican state ticket with this ex-
ception, the Senate Republican by eight
majority and the House by sixty. 1t
will take a fine rainbow-chaser to figure
out OF this a Democratic victory in the
Bay State in 1892. 1t isn't in it.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06
BREAKFAST BUDGET,

Twenty years ago Miss Mary Mitchell,
OF Buchanan, Mich, married Mr..
Sw%earinger. was divorced; married Mr..
Sherwood, became q, widow; married
Mr.. Thompson, was divorced remarked
Mr.. Thompson, was divorced again, and
has just remarked her first husband,
Mr.. Swearinger. She has been divorced
three times and married five times, and
is still only thirty-six years old.
Over sixteen years ago Nicholas "
son, OF Manistee, lost q pockctbook CON
tanning 81. A few days later the empty
pockctbook was tossed into his wagon
with I note saying that the money
would be returned as shon as the finder
could afford it. The other day Mr.. Ty-
son received mn anonymous note read
ing: "Herei is your s.. I spent the
money and never was able to give it
back until now. Much obliged Tor the
use OF it."
Prof. Bcal, OF tho Michigan .Agricul-
tural college, has been requested 10 pro-
cure four trunks OF Michigan growth
for pillars for the forestry building for
the Worlds Fair. These trunks are to
be used for pillars to support the wide
portico that will entirely surround the
immense building. and will be used rs
taken from the forest, with the bark on.
The Unitarian conference OF Illinois
has declared in favor OF opening the
Worlds Columbian exposition ut Chi
cago OF Sundays, with the p%roviso that
the machinery shall be stopped on that
day.
Anew Jersey man has invented a re-
peatcr that can be attached, at small ex-
pcnse, to any watch, which will strike
the hours and every minute OF the first
five following the hour.
A car inspector on the Reading rail
road, who was killed at Ashland, Pa, on
Friday week last, was the possessor, it