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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
THE MOUND BUILDERS.
Relics Showing What Manner of
People They Were.
Rare Treasures Contained In tho Museum
OF tho Cincinnati Society of Natural
Undergraduates Explorations Now
In Progress In Ohio.
tCincinnati Special Correspondence. !

lNihSiHHutt Spcciai SOrTeSpOnucncc.
Continued explorations among the
ancient monuments remaining in the
Ohio vallcy.maintain the general inter
est in those people whose existence was
before the time of written history, whose
relations to the rest of mankind have
never been discovered and who arc
distinguished simply as mound builders;
that is, they arc known only rs the
authors of the most enduring of the
monuments that survive them-thosc
great piles of earth, whether raised for
sacrifice, sepulcher or war. But hid
den beneath these, and being every day
disclosed by tho pick and shovel of
archaeological research, are the smaller
but equally voiccful relics that tell of
the everyday life of this extinct and
peculiar people.
The museum of the Cincinnati socic-
ty of natural history is stored with n
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

once received Skull. showing fracture
terrible blow on and process of healing.
the side of the head that crushed the
skull, but who had under careful treat
mcnt recovered from the effects of the
blow. DIR. Langslon, an eminent surgeon
of Cincinnati, examined the skull and
says that the adjustment of the parts of
bone and the way in which they had
healed shows knowledge of practical
surgery scarcely cxcelled ut the present
day.
The relics i'll the museum Of the Gin
cinDati society show also that these
people were vcrscd in industrial arts,
there being the remains of hammers,
mers, knives mica ornaments,
beads, wampun, decorated shells,
pottery and many other things. Among
these are some that have puzzled the
scientists to determine to what uses
they have been applied. One is the
bone shown in the cut. 1t is q femur,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
= '''s 49, '''' 49, .'''.' 80 '''-
GENUINE SHERIFE'S SALE

THAT sounds absurd, doesn't it? But
there arc so many bogus sheriff's sales
that it was to be expected some one
would hit upon the idea. The things
overdonc, l tell you. The fire sale was
n good scheme originally, but it has been
worked to death, and tho public can't
be caught that way any moro. Same
way with shcriffs sales. Somebody's
got TO invent something new pretty
quick, or advertisers will have to go out
of business" :
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

tho other a "CINCISNATI Tablet"
psychological witness. Thetablct is re-
marliablc and curious stone. Two others
of similar hicroglyphical decoration, but
plainly of less advanced philosophical
idea. according TO the deduction of
learned men who have examined them,
have been found in Ohio mounds, one
near Wilmington and the other near
Waverly. And not only does the Gin
cinnati tablet illustrate n more adj
vanced idea: it is also of superior work
manship and in a better state of prcser-
walton. An examination of the accom-
panying cut of the Cincinnati tablet"
will discover upon it several foetal de-
signs that have been interpreted as
symbolical of those gcstativc and pro-
creative mysteries which must have
powerfully affected the minds of man
in the rcmotest early ages. The design
OF the tablet shows that its author had
knowledge of the stages of development
at various periods of foctal growth, and
tho tablet, bearing these symbolizations
OF the existence before life, was no
doubt used in connection with the ccrc-
monies Of scpulchcr and possibly by
way OF comparative conjecture concern
ing the hidden things of the life beyond
the grave. One thing is certain in his
tory, that this is n sentiment that was
evolved in the earliest moments of phil
osophical thought, and has been devcl-
oped up through the ancient philoso-
pliers OF the far east and the later
Hebrew and Christian books to the
present time, giving justification to the
claim that in the scientific mystcr
les of life and in PHILOSOPHERS
deductions the mound builders were the
forcrunncrs Of all, and that the tide OF
human Development ever pressing il
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
PLAN OF MOUND BUILD

Elk ASH PIT. to the rcmarlla-
BILE collection, which is cquallcd only
by the ono in the Peabody museum,
that was filled and is still supplied from
the same sources. y study of these
shows that the mound builders were a
manufacturing and agricultural people,
Industrious in the arts of peace us eycll
as in the precautions of war. with con-
siderable educational and scientific at
talnments, and that they had rites and
ceremonies of religion and burial as
distinctive as any that characterize the
people Of the present day.
Illustrative of the physical character
istics of the people the Cincinnati mu-
scum has a number of skeletons taken
from the mounds around the city and
from the reccntly-cxcavated cemetery
near Madisonville, and there arc rows
upon rows of grinning skulls from
which the learned members of the soci-
ETY. have drawn many lessons touching
the mental qualifications of the ancient
people. They have dctermined.that the
shape and chronological points preclude
the possibility of their having belonged
to any Indians of whom our histories
furnish information; but there are
StTOu0 TcStM ounces TO the Skulls OF
some of the Asiatic tribes, to whose
known habits of life and social customs
it is claimed the mound builders could
easily have adjusted themselves. Stu
dents OF these anthropologicaI remains
place their conclusions alongside the
conclusions of those who compare the
architectural monuments Of the far
east with the corresponding ruins in
Ohio valley, and additional information
is had of the similarity in the lives of
the people. There is also in the rooms
OF the society a piece of woven cloth
taken from one of the mounds in this
state found lying close to skeleton
that occupied almost the center and
bottom of the mound $50 that it must have
been placed there with the corpsc) that
in texture is almost identical with cloth
found among the ruins of ancient Baby
lonia and Assyria and the farther east
An argument in the same line of rca-
soning is drawn from two relics in the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

possession of the
S o C i C t y one
known as "thc
IN C q S u r ! ng
stone," the other
as the tablet of
Of life, or more
commonly : the
..Cincinnati tab
let" because it
was taken from
ne of t h C
mounds marking
the site of the
city-thc former
a mathematical,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
RACING.
RACING.
SPRING RACES,
AT TIE
LAKE AND DRIVING PARK,
ROANOKE, VA,
June 9, 4and5
PROGRAMME, WEDNESDAY,
Juno 3, 1891.

Race 1, Running, Hotel Stakes. Five
elghths OF a mile dash. Purse SIPS.
Ss5 to first; $40 to second.
Race III, Trotting, Roadster Race, to
wagons. Purse ono hundred dollars.
Sixty dollars to first; twenty-five dollars
to second; fifteen dollars to third. Mile
heats, two in three. Only horses owned
in Roanoke county since January /,
1891, and have been used exclusively as
road horses arc eligible to start En-
tries close at p. NJ. day before race.
Race III, Running, Mile dash. Purse
one hundred and fifty dollars. One hun
dred dollars to first; fifty dollars to
second.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
GEO. S. MCDOWELL.


"Thc advertiser is ut his wits end
nowadays" remarked merchant to Il
Chicago Post reporter. Every device
to interest people seems to be exhaust
ed, and it grows more and more difficult
to attract public attention. How bad
the case Is with some people is aptly
shown by sign on State street:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT COM
PANY.

Another of the valuable industries Sc
cured by tho Roanoke Development
Company is tho Virginia Blanket Mills,
manufacturers of wooden blankets OF all
grades, spinners of yarn, and scourcrs
and sorters of wool. These mills will
secure the pick of the heeces of South
west Virginia. where the shcep-raising
industry is developing more rapidly and
moro proftably 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,
ARLINGTON GiLPlN,
General Manager Roanoke Develop
ment Company Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
L Timely Kcnindcr.

81 know the man who has started tho
impression that I'M an idiot, and I'm 60
ing to kill hin!' roared Chappie.
Don't. Suicide is so vulgar" said
Cynicus.-IIarpcr's Bazaar.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

"a piece of sand
stone, as shown
in the cut, about
five-cighths of an
inch thick, n half
ellipsc in shape,
exactly 0 inches
on the flat side
and IL on the
curve, the dotted
lines in the cut
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

MOUND BUILDERS MEAS indica ing the
oRiNa STONE. comp c ted ell
Gpse, which is the exact model of tho
mound in which it was found. Learned
mathematical analysis shows this stone
to have been the basis of oil the meas
uremcnts for the great mounds and
earthworks in the Ohio valley, and
that the same numbers, 0 and l2, are
the key numbers of the measures used
in the construction of the architectural
works of the ancient Chaldcans, Baby
lonians, pre-Scmites and Egyptians,
while the latter number remains To this
day the English standard. We aro US
ing to-day for the construction of tho
buildings that we raise upon the sites
of the mound builder civilization, and
the roads with which we are network
ing the country, the very same standard
of measurement that was used in sur
veying the sites of the monuments of
this ancient race
The accompanying cut of the skull
taken from an excavation near Cincin-
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
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Summer is Coming.

Spring is here and summer is ap-
preaching. Prepare to keep cool by
having WILKINSON & LALLEMANp,
Salem, Va, make you an awning for
your hlorc OF residence. aprl4-2m.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

wealth of these
curious and in
many cases in
applicable an
tiquitics, n n d
the explorations
that arc in prog
ress among tho
III o IL II Il S u II d
forts in the Lit
tie Miami val
Icy under the
direction of DIR.
Metz, of Nladi-
sonville, O., are
almost CIV cry
day bringing to
light additions
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

natl is presented
to illustrate the
assertion t Il u t
t Ii C 5 c people
were we'll verscd
in surgery. 1t is
t h c skull of Il
man who h q d
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ROANOKE THE MAGIC CITY.
The Story of Its Growth Boiled
Down.

What Roanoke Hns Dono anu What She
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ME- AL lsiNU ll.aNIS
are as follows:
Roanoke Machine Works s., 0Oo. 600
west End Iron Co.. 100000
Grocer Steel and Iron Co...... 100000
American Bridge Works 500 10000
Rifles Hydraulic Engine
Works .................... O.O0O
roanoke canning Factory -. $4,000
Roanoke Rolling Mills . 2Oo.O 600
Roanoke Spike Factory ~ 10000
Roanoke Iron Co., Consisting
of a 200-ton Furnace. Muck
Bar Mill and Plate Mill... 500, 900
Roanoke brewery. ........... $4,000
Bridgewater Carriage Com
pany, Of Roanoke. ....... $4,000
1amblll FIGURING Mill Co..... $4,000
Roanoke Milling Company $4,000
Roanoke Gas and Water Co. . $50. 600
Roanoke Electric Light Co.. so, 900
=. l.. Terry Milling Co.. . %, ooo
Diamond Ice Co. 50, 600
ROANOKE Ice 20. 80, 600
West End Brick and Tile
Works ............... 10000
Adams Bros. & Payne Brick
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rive planlng mills. .......... 10000
Two tobacco factories. ... 80. 600
Two cigar factories 5000
One mattress factory. ..... %, 600
Cold storage company. 50, 600
Norwich Lock Manufacture
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Duvall Engine Works. ...... $4,000
Virginia Blanket Mills Co. Sc. 600
Roanoke Glass Factory. 4O,O
DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES
Some OF the most important companies
ornanized for the development of Roam
oke and this section are:
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Virginia Development Co.. 5000, 900
Buena Vista Land Co. ....... 300, COO
liz Land Companies, ......... 1000, 900
This list is in no sense complete
one. 1t is given to show the diversity
of industries in Roanoke. Scores of
enterprises, employing capital OF from
$4,000 to SOS, 900, are omitted for lack Of
space. Numerous enterprises, with
hundreds OF employees and capital reck-
oncd by tho hundred thousand, are
negotiating for foothold in this South
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

Why pay thousands of dollars for a
residence lot when you can get one in
Crystal Spring for 500? mayS.lm
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

Special inducements are offered par
ties desiring to build residences on
Crystal Spring property. A 500 rcduc-
ton will be made on a lot when house
costing not less than 81 500 is com
plctcd, or the company will lend $500 to
parties who will build at once.
mayS-lm
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14
s.r.na C..r..M Mir -ni.

A mineral discovery has been made recently, near the Grand Canyon oI the Colorado river, which from surface indications promises to ecIipse any thing in the way of mineral discover ies yet made on the continent. It is nearly due north of Prescott Junction and is from 65 to 75 miles from that place, and within six to eight miles of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
 The ore is found in a succession of blanket lodges, one above the other, and which are clearly dehned against the ,Eoothly cut edges of the perpen- diculsr walls Of the canyon. Water in abundance flows down the canyon, while wood is plentiful. The ore will work s75 ID gold and silver.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14
SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.

A TON of tomatoes as they come from the field, it is estimated, will fill from 100 to 450 cans.
 IN a minute an express train goes 8 mile and a street-car 32 rods; the fast est trotting horse 14s rods and an aver age pedestrian has got over 1s rods.
 THE latest article to be manufactured from corn is soap. Experiments have shown that busheI of corn with the proper amount of allai will make 200 pounds of soap.
 A BUsHEL of peanuts subjected to very high pressure yields one gallon of oil. In some countries the peanut. castor oil bean and sunhower are grown extensively for oil alone.
 THERE are only about twenty really great diamonds in the world. The most famous of them have come from Golcon- da and Brazil but the largest are from the South African fields
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14
CLAPPING THE HANDS.
A Mode of saIutstIon Amoas Savage
 African Tribes.

Among the u-:-z. .s-Tshisn two Hrandees' meet, the junior leans for ward, bends his knees and places the palms of his hands on the ground on each side of his feet, while the senior claps his own hands six or seven times. They then change round, and the junior slaps himself first under the left armpit and chen under the right. But when a swell meets an inferior the superior only elaps hands, and does not fully return the salutation by follow ing the motions of the one who first sa- lutes. On two commoners meeting they pat their stomachs, then clap hands at each other, and finally shake G- c., takel hands. These greetings are observed to an unlimited extent, and the sound of batting and clapping is almost unceasing." Serpa Pinto found this ceremonial clapping in vio- lent exercise among the Ambuellas- Paul du ChaiIlu reports the salute of the Ishogos to be clapping the hands to- gether and stretching them out alternately several times Among the walunga in the morning on every side continuous clapping of hands goes on with the accompaniment of "Kwi-tata, kwi-tata?" wfich is their mode of say ing: How dye do?' If chief passes they drop on their knees, bow their heads to the ground, clap vigorously and hum bly mutter: "Kwi-tata, Kwi-tata?" The clapping distinguishes the ceremony from that of mere prostration--Col 6arrick Mallery, in Popular Science Monthly
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14
Through inc Weary Hour.

Of many & night made doubiy long by it's protracted agony the rheumatic sufferer losses to and fro on his slsep- less couch, vsinly praying for that rest which only comes by fits and starts.
 His malady is one which ordinary medicine fail to relieve, but there is ample evidence to prove that the eff cient blood depurent Hostetter's Stom- ach Bitters affords the rheumatic re- liable means Of relief. Check the nal
 sdy in its IBcipisIt stages, when the first premonitary twinges come on with this agreeable medicine and avoid years of torture. Whatever he the rat ionale of the active influence of the Bitters upon this maladv. certain 1t is that no evidence relating to it's effect is more direct and positive than that which relates to its action in cases oi rheumatism. Like all sterling reme- dies, however, it deserves protrscted systemicatic trial and should Lot be abandoned because not at once rem edisl. It is equally efficseious in dys- pepsis indigestion and kindred dis eases, .
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14

CoToTs scsips are worth S5 each in Cs ifo-nia. The scalp and ears only are introduced as evidence oi ihe aeath of the saImal. An enterprising Tombstone man is investing his spare change in scslps and will express them to friend in Mono county. who will turn them in at 5 each, realizing a profit after paying all expenses, O S4 50 each. The legislature of Arizona would do a wise act in protecting this industry by enacting s law that no female coyotes should be killed for five years.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14

A oABIEGRAM was received at San Diego from London Saturday, an pouncing that contracts had been Ter for the construction of s road from that city to San Quentin, Lower Cali fornis, distance of l62 miles. The road is to be built as so n as the Mex ican government approves the survey. A cargo of supplies for the road i- now on the way from England. The company is to receive sS 900 per mile subsidy from the Mexican govern, nent.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14

Of ranger company a, this place or send company here. The rangers are wanted to suppress a well organ ized band of thieves who are operating along the river from point above Las Cruces to Fl Paso and between Fl Paso to point below Fort Hancock. The of eers assert that this band is about sixty men strong and they are contin ually stealing horses, cattle and sheep and running them across to the Mexican side.
 DALLAs-The Dallas Land and Loan Company made an assignment to c. E Bird last night. The liabilities are s3O0, 900 and the assets nearly sl. .5O0,- OOO.
 wALLA WALLA-The grand jury em pannelled to investigate the lynehing oi A. J. Hunt by the soldiers on April 25lh, has made a report to the super for court. The report says in part ; "we found true bill against only seven of the enlisted men of the Unit ed states cavalry. yet we are certain that there are a number of soldiers against whom insufficient evidence is procurable to warrant An indictment, that are equally guilty with those in- dicted.
 ST LoUIs-A Fort Worth Texas dis patch says:
 J. W. Davis, who murdered B. c. Evans three months ago has been sen. fenced to hang on August 10th 1891.
 ST. LouIs-A special from Gaines
 
 vile Texas. says reports received here give heart rending accounts of the fear ful havoc to both life and property in the overfowed valleys of the Red river in Texas and Indian Territory. Since Sunday the river has been higher than known for years.
 LoNDoS-Sir William Gordon Cum. mings has resigned from all clubs Oi which he was member. His costs in the suit were s25,OO0.
 DESvEg.-The six days go-as-you' please walking match, which began al the Coliseum, ended in fizzle at noon today, the men becoming disgusted ;:;. =;::;4 .e.;ssiTist ee..;ssiTis to oontinu- tiie contest Nc: o=cr dozen people paid aimiss- ion during the three days, and the manager is out s5o0
 ST. LOUISA special to the Globe Democrat from Ogden Utah sa ss:
 The committee appointed by the NJ E.. Conference which has just closed | to audit the accounts of Sam Small in connection with the university report that they find him in arrears over sIO,OOO.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-06-14

THE Congressional party of Chilli is not pleased with the action of the United States in taking the arms and ammunition now on board the ,Itats Fl Nacionsl, in an editorial says: We know we have the sympathies of tho people Of America; also of the people of all other civilized nations, but the act of the United States government against weaker power in arms for it's liberties and for its rights is not in harmony with the traditions of that government" The article continues "Let Americans take our ship and our arms, but let them reflect that they leave nailed in the hearts of three million men, the sentiment oi having been deceivedin their hopes and of having lost faith in the nObleness oi mind and hberality of sentiment of the government at Washington