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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02
NOTICE.
Monday, the ord Day of August, 1897,


! COMMISSIONERS SALE OF MOUNTAIN
| ~ LAND.-The undersigned who was APP
pointed by decree of the Circuit Court of Au
gusta county, Va, rendered December nth, 1887
VS.. Walkers legatees, a commissioner to sell GER
tain lands of the estate of said James Walker
decd, hereby gives notice that he will offer said
lands for sale at public auction, in front of the
court house in stanton, OH
Monday, the z7th Day of July, 1891,
that being county court-day.) Said lands are:
ht An undivided one half of tract contain
ing 1,se0 acres, situated in Riverheads District
in Augusta county on the Western slope of the
Blue Ridge. adjoining the Mt TORY Furnace
lands. the Yost 4 Ellis Kennedy Furnace lands,
and other large properties; the other half of
said tract of Loco acres having been sold num-
Der of years ago as the property of William J.
shumate, and purchased by the late Orlando
Smith.
End. An undivided one third of tract 600
acres that was owned by said~James Walker
Jointly with William j. Shumate and the heirs
of William s. Sprowl. This tract of land also
lies III Augusta county, on the western slope of
the Blue Ridge, and adJons the tract of LOGO
acres hereinbefore mentioned. Said tract of 1900
acres also adjoins the Mt. Torrey Furnace lands,
the lands of the Yost & Ellis Kennedy Furnace
tract and the lands of A. A. Low, formerly the
Trotter lands.
The lands now advertised for sale are in one of
the most important mineral regions of Virginia.
Iron ore and Manganese exist in abundance on
adjoining lands, and in all probability on these
lands also. The understand is authorized to
state that If reasonable price is offered for the
interests Of James Walkers estate in these prop
eTCleS ue oGef iilGefeStS III beIn VIII De sou III
the same time Perhaps the two tracts, contain
ing 1000 and 1900 acres, respectively, will be
offered as one whole.
TERMS fourth in cash: the balance in
three equal inStallments at g. IL and Is months
from the day Of sale, the purchaser will be re-
CURED to execute bonds with approved security
for the deferred installments, and the title will
be withheld until all-the purchase money is paid
as ultimate security.
ALEXANDER B. LTGHTNER,
Commissioner
Virginia. to- with the clerks office Of the
Circuit Court of Augusta county, hereby GER
tify that A. b. Lightner, commissioner IN the
above entitled cause has executed bond as such
in the penalty of $500 with security, and con-
ditioned according to law
C. S. W. BARNES,
june % IDS Deputy Clerk.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02
CHESAPEAKE 81 ONO RAILWAY Co,
OFFICE OF THE PREsID ENT. :
RICHMONE. VA. June 18th. 1871, !

Mayor 7. p. BoaoEes, CLIFTON Forge, "a.
DEAR SIR have yours of the 18TH and
agree with you on the disgraeeful situation to
day. Hope 1 have got influence enough witt
the Management of the c. Il o. to get it righted
Yours truly,
NJ E. INGALLS, President
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02
List Of Unclaimed Letters

inp saturday June 21th 1881. Parties calling tor
these letters VIII please say they are advertised.
A. G. FOSTER, Z. NJ.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02

LEWIS HARTMAN,
SEC'Y AND GENERAL MANAGER
Clifton Forge, Va, June II, 1891
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02

f. +. V. CAST FLYING vIRGINIANa Vestibu-
led Limited between Cincinnati and New York
via Washington. Pullman Vestibule Sleeping
Car Service is maintained by the F. F. v. be-
tween Louisville, Lexington and WASHINGTON,
ltnrough Sleeping Car Tickets being sold be-
Cincinnati and Old Point Comfort. Pullman
Sleeping Car Washington to Boston. Through
Dining Car between Cincinnati and New York.
10 page leafiet giving Time Table of the F. F. v.
and also of the Washington and Cincinnati Fast
Line.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02
Did.

GWINN.-On Wednesday, June 10, 1891, at
Green Sulphur Springs, Summers county, of
pneumonia, Mr.. Homer Gwinn, son OF Mr.. Har-
rison Gwinn. aged about IS years.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02

LADIES LIST.
Brown, Mrs. Polly cooper. MISS Lucy
ZambkinS, Miss Maggie
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4 FRANCISCO Sunday, June IA, 1891, at his
| hone near Red Sulphur Springs. in Monroe
: county, W. Va of consumption, Mr.. Logan
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
WILD BEASTS HIS FRIENDS.
The Queer Stories Told About n PIonee
WASHINGTON Ranchor.

The Queer Stories Told About n Pioneer
Washington Ranchor.
Among the visitors to Seattle recent
ly was Peter Gallagher q ranchcr liv-
ing three miles from Renton. Mr. Gal
laghcr is one of the pioneers of the
sound country, and has lived on the
same place for twenty years or more,
taking up Il quarter section us n home
stead from the government. BY wears
of hard toll he has cleared up and i'm
proved splendid place, which, though
secluded from the outside world, is n
model ranch of which the owner is lust
ly proud
Press, is not given to hunting and does
not modest wild game of any kind, and to
this may be ascribed the tamencss of
number of animals which make the
woods in that vicinity 4 home. One of
these, n black bear, has for year Wis
tied his stoclsyard almost daily and
eaten with the cattle, lying down among
the calves and displaying neither fear
nor fcrocity. Mr.. Gallagher goes among
the stock and frequently passes within
two or three feet of his bcarship, not
only in the yard, but in the woods. lie
pays no attention to the bear and the
latter never offers to modest him-on
the contrary, eats with evident satisfac-
ton pieces of bacon and other scraps
from the table that are thrown out to
him. The bear is n handsome three
hundrcd-pound fellow and appears to
enjoy the company of the cattle.
Other pets are "a pair of fawns that
run around with the Young stock on the
place, eating with the calves and Fling
down among them as contcnted as
though with their own kind. They
evidently came from the vicinity of
Cedar lake, where considerable hunting
is done and from which section game is
being driven. Mr.. Gallagher says he
had rather part with the best COW on
his place than one of the fawns. This
is the second time fawns have taken
up their abode mt this place, the first
pair coming there about five years ago
and remaining with the stock for two
years; even going into the stables and
being locked up over night. He gave
them to n ncighbor, who in turn pre-
sentcd them to friends at Snohomish
and up the Shahit.
This sounds tishy, but not only is it
vouched for, but it is further said that
wild ducks and geese alight in his yard
and show no fear in his presence,
though the appearance of stranger is
the signal for flight. Mr.. Gallagher
never hunts and will not allow hunting
on his place nor interference in any
way with his pets. either quadrupeds
or winged.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
THE PARCELS POST.
Great Success of Its Operation Through
out tho UnItod Kingdom.

out tho UnItod Kingdom.
Henry George writes as follows from
London to tho New York World: The
British postal system presents three
great advantages over our own in it,,
parcel post, ITS postal telegraphs, and
its postal-savings banks, all of which
work with the smoothness, chcapncss,
and efficiency Of the lctter-carrying
service.
Tho English railway companies arc
required by law to receive, without
notice, all parcel mails rendered ut their
stations on behalf of the post office, to
convey such mails to their proper dos
tlnations by their ordinary trains Tor
steamships, and there hand them over
to the officers appointed to receive
them. AS q rule parcels are forwarded
separately in baskets or other reccpta-
clcs, but in some cases they arc sent in
closed in the'lctter mails. In no case
arc the railway companies expected to
deal with loose parcels, but only with
closed mails.
In remuneration for their services
the railroad companies arc paid 55 per
cent -(eleven-twenticths) of the gross
receipts of the post office on all parcels
conveyed by rail. With few unim-
portant exceptions, the parcel post net
extends to tho whole of the RAILWAYS
of the United Kingdom, and under GER
tain conditions the rest may be in
Guided.
From the outset there has been q
steady increase in tho amount of the
business done. During the first com
plcte year in which the system was in
operation 2a,o1O,o4o parcels were post
cd and in the interval tho number has
been more than doubled, the latest re-
turn showing Il total exceeding 10000
600. The sums paid for postage, which
III the first year amounted to e5OS, PAT,
have grown to over g1,0OO,00O 4 year
The annual receipts of the railway COM
panies on parcels sent by rail have
risen from e25G,572 to e40o, 012, or little
short of half II million n year. Durinr
Christmas week of last year about
100000 parcels were carried in Lon
don, those posted on the Esd of Decem-
Der alone amounting to 1S5,0OO
So far Us the public arc concerned the
benefit Of the parcels system has been
twofold. They are able to send parcels
by post to the furthcrmost parts of the
United Kingdom, and to have them de-
livcrcd at the addresses house ut far
lower rates than by any other agency,
and the competition of the parcels post
has brought about very considerable
reduction in the rates charged by ordi-
nary carriers for local parcels or for
parcels sent over short distances.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
sixty Years in sibsrIa

a Napoleonic veteran has lately re-
turned to st. Petersburg from Siberia.
This old gentleman, who is Pole by
birth and native of wilma, is named
Amitsetzky, and has attained the age
OF one hundred and three. He was Ma
poleon LIS adjutant, took part in his
world-famed expedition to Russia, and
was decorated by the emperor with the
Legion of Honor at the battle of Wa
gram. He was taken prisoner at Ber-
esina, and, receiving pardon from the
Car, remained for n time in the Rus
sian service. But, for having taken
part in the Polish rising of 1882, he was
condemned to twenty years imprison-
mcnt in the mines of Siberia. On the
termination of his sentence he was free
to quit Siberia, but he has been forty
years in taking advantage of his per-
mission.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
Return of MIR. Smith and Bride.
LEMON ELIXIR.


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For all sick and nervous headaches,
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Ladies, for natural and thorough or.
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DR.. Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
s AI.EM
THE BAPTIST oRPHANAeE'
The Building Will Soon be Com
pleted.
ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,
DILLARD g. PERsrNGER BLDG,
a-H Nov %


At o recent meeting of the executive
committee of the Baptist Orphanage,
Rev. DR.. Tyree was elected chaplain,
with the privilege of acting with the
executive committee. 1t was decided to
publish 10, 600 copies of a detailed state
ment of the workings of the institution
for general distribution. The superin-
tendent was authorized to put up
fence around the grounds to protect the
trees, and to have the present building
to be known as the John nj. Evans
building-insured. The board OF trus-
tees have elected w. R. Whitescarver
to take tho place of the late John NJ.
Evans on the board Of trustees and
various committees. 1t is also almost
certain that Mr.. Whitescarver will fill
the position of treasurer made vacant
by the resignation of Mr.. Thomas 1.
Preston.
Superintendent Holiday informed a
TIMES reporter that the Climax gas ma
chine, ordered from Baltimore firm
for the institution, was shipped to-day
and that workmen have already COM
menced putting in the gas pipes, which
will probably take three weeks to COM
plete. There will be one hundred and
fifty burners. Messrs. R. II. Carper Sc
Bro. are getting along we'll with the
steam heating arrangements. AS soon
as all the pipes are in place the rooms
will be plastered.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
Caucasian Curiosltles.

Caucasia constitutes vcritablc mine
of archaeological curiosities, but most
of the treasures become the property Of
foreigners. who transport them to their
respective countries. The natives,
knowing the liberality of foreign tour
lists, willingly show them the places
where curiosities can be found ard help
them dig out tho treasures. According
to the New York Sun, an American
named William johnson recently pro-
cured in VladilSavkaz IL collection of
fourteen hundred and twenty-five ar
Theological curiosities among which
are ornaments, weapons, tools and pot
terry of the bronze, iron and granite
ages, and human skulls of prehistoric
ages The government officers of Ba-
koo recently stopped the expectation of
several boxes filed with such treas.
urcs- The Russian press now advocates
that special measures be enacted
against the removal of such treasures
by foreigners.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
A Twentx.Foot Snake.

On the banks of the Cedar river, about
one mile northwest of Cladwin.
farmer keeps quite number of hogs
and pigs, which run in the field ut their
pleasure. a short time ago, says the
Detroit News, he began to miss some Oh
hisyoung hogs. Night after night some
of them would come up missing. He
searched the ncighborhood, but to no
avail. Then he shut them up in q
tight pen, but still the dcprcdations
went Oh, until ct last he set guard to
watch for the thief Night wore away
and no one molcstcd the pigs. 1t was
inst at the break of day, and as the
Waterman was about to seek rcposc he
heard commotion among the hogs,
and on his approaching near to get u
sight of the burglar he saw n monster
snake crawling away from the pen with
n snoat. Wit;i stout ironwood hnnd-
spike he killed the snake. and upon
measurement Il was found 10 be ninc-
teen feet scTca inches long
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
HoPPERs A LUXURY.
The Diggcrs Considered Them n Dninty
in Early Days.

In Early Days.
A gentleman just in from the Con-
sumnes, says the Sacramento News,
announces that they have been bothered
some with grasshoppers this season,
but their dcprcdations are not nearly
so bad as in former years. When Cali
fornia was first settled by the whites,
Immediately after the discovery of gold,
there were estimated to be over sixty
thousand Indians.
There were several large campoodics
on the Consumes river. and an in
vasion of grasshoppcrs, which we look
upon as calamity, to them was n YER
liable blessing. I remember very well
the great ''grasshopper year." as it was
called 1t was in 1885. During the
last of May and the first of juno the
entire counties of Sacramento and San
Joaquin were covered with locusts or
'hoppers, and nothing to equal it has
been witnessed in the state since.
With the Digger Indians the grass
hoppers are a great luxury and are
used as meat and eaten in various
ways. That year Indians swarmed
into the valleys from the mountains
and had royal feast for several weeks.
Some would catch the grasshoppcrs,
thread them on string, hang them
over the fire until done brown, then eat
them from the string the Same as chill
drcn cat popcorn.
Others would set the grass on fire,
which both disabled the choppers"
and cooked them, when they were
picked up and eaten or stored away for
future use. The most popular way,
however, when the choppers" were
thiclkest, was to dig n hole SO deep that
they could not jump out and drive them
to the center and into the receptacle
prepared for them. In this circle.
which sometimes covered many acres
were all the women and children in the
camp. They carried brush in each
hand and would drive the choppers"
without difficulty. When the drive was
over the choppers" were put in bags
and baskets, saturated with salt water
and laid to one side for use in winter
They were eaten then as white people
cat shrimps. They are also mixed with
their acorn or seed meal, after being
ground into paste.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
THE SUMMER BoARpgR
The Airs sho Assumes on the Doardinr
House Piazza.


House Piazza.
The summer boarder is abroad in nj,
her glory. One uses cher" advisedlv.
for somehow tho male adult rarely
poses us the summer boardcr. He stands
it over Sunday, perhaps, but n consecu-
two fortnight. of undilutcd summer
boarding house life would, as he tolls
his ncighbor in the smoking car as thew
arc being whirled from tho city on
Saturday, put him in Bloomingdale at
the end of it-and his neighbor agrees
with him. So tho summer boardcr has
come to DO n noun of the feminine gem
der. The genus is the same, the species
is several.
Perhaps, says the New York Times,
the most interesting as study is tho
woman of forty or thereabout, who. as
housekeeper all the rest of the year, be-
comes for six or eight weeks in the
summer boardcr. At home she is q
simple, moro or less practical woman;
in her new environment she becomes
quite different being. She finds her
self on her arrival invested with the
transient halo of the laSt-comer, and shc
feels that to this circle of strangers she
may present whatever personality she
desires. So she takes on few little
mannerisms and affectntions which she
has some time admired in another
woman. She does not usually say
"cahnt" or "ithcr;' she says both now.
She wears her best wrapper to break
fast and puts up her hair every morning
in the way she puts it up every after
noon at home. The children have al
ways called her ina" she teaches them
to say mamma" here, and they do
when they think of it. They, like her.
self, enjoy the Importance of good
clothes all day, and try instinctivcly, at
first at least, to live up to it.
Meantime, their mother gets &C
quaintcd with the piazza ladies, reads
their books, admires their fancy work,
initiates some of it, perhaps, learns all
they know of one another, talks glibly
to them of her home and surroundings.
and remembers every time to speak of
her one servant as maid" to call the
sitting-room, with the chilcren's school
books and the encyclopedia in it, the
library, and to expand the somewhat
scrubby yard about the house into a
lawn.
And she has n beautiful time, I'M
less, as occasionally happens, somebody
from her town somebody who knows
all about hcr-arrivcs. Then she is
crushed. 1t is not that she has actually
said or acted anything alarmingly I'M
true. In point of fact, she has imposed
upon nobody. But she thinks she has.
1t is from her own exaggerated height,
the pedestal upon which in fancy she
has placed herself in the eyes of others
that she falls. And if the newcomer
announces stay of any length, our
heroine, if possible, makes change of
abode. She packs her trunks, finding
brief consolation in the distinction of
coming departure, and with her chill
dren makes her exit, to resume-on an
other stage till the season is done-hcr
role of summer bonrder.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
Many Weddings to Soon Come of,


THERE is not anything that the
ladies both old and young take more
interest in than they do in marriages,
and they all like nice shoes, slippers
&c. Go to Goldstein, 81 Salem avenue,
for them.
You bet don't let my husband wait
and wait and when the cold spell comes
then he comes to mo with the Same old
excuse, that the coal dealers can't get
coal. always telephone Read e.
Diggs. They send 1t at once; tel 20.
Commerce street.
HAVE everything you wish for fine
dinner; Thanksgiving or any other
kind of dinner. Hassell, the Cash
Grocer, 800 Jefferson street. Tel 1903.
GET your suits made by Lewis, the
popular tailor, los Henry street, rear
First National Bank.
WHEN you wish to appear nice have
your golfers and cuffs done at the Roam
oke Steam Laundry. Tel. 116.
For fresh candies. fruits, ETC., 90 to
Booth & Co., lie Commerce street, con-
dictionary.
LEWIS is making the bon ton suits OF
the season. l05 Henry street, rear
First National Bank.
GET your clothes made by Lewis, the
tailor, los Henry street, rear Firs,
National Bank.
CAIIFoRSIA grapes. pears, etc., At ca.
snSni's. 50 salem ARENA
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
RAILROADS
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SCHEDULE In EFFEt : AUGUST 80. 1891.
"ksTsoUND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
S oS d. m. ior Bristol and intermediate stations
Huo,cI Sf phaaiord, Pulaski, Bristol; ALEC for
low n;ri, Focahontas, Elkhorn, Clinch VAL
by DIVISION and Louisville via Norton.
ic asna IN sieepers to Memphis and New Or
615 ~ 20 " Sna 70 louisville via Norton
VIZ y, ~, aor hsdford, Pulaski, BRISTOL Con.
ih oUt Ut hadford for Blucheld and Poea.
T Gbas, Iuiman slccpers to McInphis via
nOdsTH AND EAsTBoUND, LEAVE poIrorp ,.,,v
3:oo =. III. Ior petersburg and Richmond.
A~'ov =. III; lot hageretown. Pullman sIecpers n,
a. Vow orK via harrisburg md PhilndeInhia
i~'4o y. IN. ually for Richmond and Norfo,k PnI
90, man parlor car to Norfolk "A
e e3o p III. ior Lynchburg connection beyond
PIP IN. Tor SHENANDOAH; no Connection beyond
lE2N p M Tor Richmond and Norfolk Pnilmnrs
sleeper to Norfolk and Lynehburg 10 Rich
ll'20 p m Tor Hagcrstown. Pullman slecners IN
washington via Shenandoah Jpnctionr and 70
-, New York via Harrisburg AN w
Clinch Valley Division-Leayes R,poe,,a st,
zoo n. IN: for Norton, and 1886 d. m So- IMS nIyI
via Norton " ~ A'' ~ n'
North Carolina Division-Leave Pulaski do,,v
I:UO u. IN. for ivanhoc ana 100 D. IN for IvapS
noe and Gossan and SEQ q. IN. (except SIM
day. for Betty Baker. oui1-
Office or to w n kRVfrT 0Aos
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke. Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24

WELL, the rain. The fire has been all
around us, but we are Thankful that no
such calamity has caught US yet. We
eare still selling shoes, boots, rubber foot
wear, ETC., and at no catch-penny prices,
but we sell at the lowest living prevail
ing prices. We don't wish to Drag; we
only wish to say we have as fine line
of shoes as you can find in Roanoke.
Will you call to see us? We also keep
trunks, valises, etc. j. w. Wonders &
Co., los Commerce street.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
Thanksgiying Dny-A CalI.

LADIES you know that poor man de-
ponds upon you to buy all the groceries,
etc., to eat. Come leok at my stock, l
will not claim to have more or better
than any other grocer, but do beg that
you will take look at my stock, Ihave
everything you need for Thanksgiving
dinner except meats;as for turkeys will
have them and will have nice country
butter and eggs. Hassell. the Cash
Grocer, 300 Jefferson st. Tel. 1O3.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
I Am Still of tho Same Opinion.

AND if you do not believe it call to see
me. Don't take the word of others, the
best way is to go in person and find ut
for yourself, and if you will come you
will find out. 1 don't claim to sell
shoes at such grand reduction, but the
quality and makes of my goods will
stand the test with any of them. Come
to see me when you wish shoes of any
kinds. d. Sommers, II Salem avenue.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24

ONE-pound boxes of mixed candies
suitable for mailing at Catogni's, 5,
Salem avenue.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
He Won Her at Last,

A GIRL may try to act cool toward {
man, she may succeed until he bring:
her some of the choice candy from
Booth & Co., at liz Commerce street.