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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-04
OFFICERS:

PREsIDNNT-GEN. FITZHUGH LEE,
Ex-Governor of Virginia.
lsr VICE PRESIDENT = PEYTON l..
TERRY, President Roanoke Trust,
LoaE and Safe Deposit Co.
2D VICE PRESIDENTS. w. JAMESON,
Secretary and treasurer Roanoke
Trust, Loan and Safe Deposit Co.
SECRETARY JOHN OFT. late Cashier
City Bank of Richmond.
TREAsURER-J. c. DAVENPORT, Cash.
Ter numerical National Bank, Roa.
noke Va.
GENERAL CoUNsEL--IIo C. 4. Nc
HUGH. Counsellor Law, late Of
Charleston, S. G.
GENERAL MANAGER OF AGENcIEs-D
d. JESSE, late of Lexington, Ky.
GENERA. TnUsTEE-IIoN.ss HENRY S.
TROUT, President First National
Bank. Roanoke, Va.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY = Roanoke
Trust, Loan and Safe Deposit Company.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-04

Tie curious experiment of nsskfrs9
lens of ice to light pipes and cigars has
been tried with success by skaters in
London The experiment. wss first
brought to notice by Dr. Scaresby
when in the polar regions, to tho great
astonishment of his companions who
did not understand why the icn did not
freeze the solar rnys. Prof Tyndall
when tutor ii the Royal Institution
on several occasions set fire To little
heaps of gunpowder with the rays Of TN
electric arc concentrated upon tho po1,,
der by lens OF ice. His cxplanation
was that although leo absorbs RVS of
certain WIVES OF light, and Is gradually
melted thereby, other waves arc not alb
sorbed, and those latter produce tho
heating effect Mt the focus of tho lena
1t Is wholly question OF the rclutfye
motions OF tho molecules OF frozen
water and the motions of the wav;as Ct
light.
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MENTAL PHENOMENA.
usstopccs OF Loss of Memory and TIA Sub
scQuent Roturn.

NsstoDccs or Loss of Memory ontI TIA snb-
sepuent Roturn.
Three instances of what doctors call
S'pc..-in15c amnesla" wero related 10 me
by physician nttechcd to the New
Soc;S hospital, says writer In the
New York Tribune. Tho Orst was that
of u yoaa, American woman who, ON
s~-alling from protractcd slulnbcr,
lost memory of all sho had b,ton,
learned. Her memory had boon cap,s-
cio,r' and well stored with % copiouastrck
of idcas. Unexpectedly sho fell into
profound slceI, which continued SOW
e-al hours beyond tho ordinary torn.
On wwal,sny she was discovered 70 h,vs
lost every trace OF acquired lsnowlstlz,.
All vesslgNss, both OF words and things,
wcSc obliteratcd. By now efforts siso
again acquired the art OF spelling,
reading, writing and calculating, ani
gradually bec2Iac acquainted with per
sons aad objects Hike a being for the
first time brought into the world. In
these exercises she inada considerable
proficiency.
After few months ;lisothor fit of
sunooicncy possessed lrc-. On roirsing
from it she found herself restored To
tie st2tn slsn was in before the first par
oNysna, but wns wholly ignorant of
every event that had bcfallen her after
waIo}. The former condition Of her en-
istcrlcc She used to call tho old state and
the latter the now state. In tho old st;,t,
She possessed fnc powers of Dcnnail-
ship In The new she wrote q Door,
awkward hand, having had neither the
time nor the mean. to become q, en-
pert.
The second cassr WIS t,lnt of Indy In
the last stages OF chronic disease. She
was csTlSc1i from her home to u house
in the county. There her infant
daughter was taken to visit her, and
after short interview carried back to
town. The Indy disd fcw DAYS after
ami tho daughter grew ur without any
recollection of her mother. Years
aftrrwerl the daughter visited this
saIao country house. not knowing that
ni,o had cvrr sean It before On enter
ing the roam where her rnJther died
she started und said: Il hove u dis
tinct impression OF having bscn ii this
room before, and that ii lady. who was
in BID, and xscn,:ed very i'll, icsinesf orr
Inc, kissed me, aud vrpt."
Another authenticated cas-, Is that OF
Il ciclynr1l who went abroad with u
party of friends to visit castle which
he had no rceollcction Of having over
sccn before. Ills conviction that io
must have visited Che casstlc on Some
former OCCASION rneslc him inquire from
his mother If she could throw any light
on the matter. She informed hin that
when he WIS eighteen months old she
he'd visited the castle with party Of
Friends
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A Wonder Worker.

Mr.. Frank Huffman, a young man of
burlington, Ohio, states that he had
been under the care of two prominent
physicians, and used their treatment
until he was not able to get around.
They pronounced his case to be Con-
sumption and incurablc. He was per-
suadcd to try DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, and
at that time was not able to walk across
the street without resting. He found,
before he had used half of dollar bot
tie, that he was much better; he con-
tinucd to use it and is to-day enjoying
lung or chest trouble; try it. We guar
antee satisfaction. Trial bottle free at
Budwel, Christian ~ Barbce's drug
store.
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western Golconoa, ano arc coming
monthly, weekly, almost daily.


COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.
During 1890 1872 companies were or
gained in Roanoke, with an aggregate
minimum capital of Sl0,2I6, 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-fivc land ard real estate in
vestment companies, with an aggregate
capital of 5,S6i, SOC.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital 1000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
900.
One slicer manufacturing company,
10000.
One paper bag manufacturing com
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an ag-
gregate capital of S22O.0OO.
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, Sl50,0OO.
One cold storage company, $50, 900.
Two banking companies, Sl5O,00o.
-Four loan, trust and finance compa-
MES, S200,OOO.
Academy OF Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator com pany, $3.50,
600.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, 500, OOO
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74o,OOO.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregatinG 1880, O0O
For the year 1890 the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted, with an aggregate minimum
capital of S1,721.25O.
The increase in tho number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-tliree, and the increase in the
minimum capita lSs, 525, $50.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transac oions last year
amounted to Sl7,t67, 96O from 5,IO3
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 900 from
about 5000 real estate transfers, SO
that the increase in Roanokc's rea! es-
late transfers during 1890 over 1889
was approximately $40. 600, 900, and the
increase in the number OF deeds, 900.
The building operations in Roanoke
IN 1880 amounted to over $1,000, 900.
The progress of Roanoke in 1890 NAV be
summarized as follows:
In buildings. ...............s o,oou.Ooo
Real estate transactions. 80. 1000, 900
Companies organized . IL ,oOO, 900
Increase in realty values ac-
cording to assessment on
taxation. ................. 5000, 600
Total. .................. S35 .O0O, 900
The population increased 5000
The nprovements in Sight for 1891
are summarized as follows:
New buildings. ..............S 3,Ooo, 900
New industries secured ..... / ZOO. 600
Improvement of industries
established and construc-
ton CT industries formerly
secured Observation-Disclosures. 900, 900
City provements. ....... 5OO,o0O
Railroad Improvements. 800. 5000. OCO
Land companies organized. 1900, 600
Total 800. ...... 81 G, 900, 900
There ara fonr public cohoo =; a.,
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Eupersy.

This is what you ought to have, in
fact, You must have it, to fully enioy
HE Thousands are searching for il
daily, and mourning because they find
1T not. Thousands upon thousands OF
dollars are spent annually by our PEG
pic in the hope that they may attain
this boon. And yet it may be had by
all. We guarantee that Electric Bitters,
II used according to dircctio and the
use persisted in, will bring you good
digestion and GUST the demon Dyspepsia
and install instead Eupcpsy. We recon-
mend Electric }itters for Dyspepsia and
all diseases of Liver, Stomach and Kid.
ncys. Sold at SOC. and Sl.00 per bottle
by Budwcll, Christian & Barbcc, drug
EiaCS. tu-thu-Sat
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KEEP YOUR EYE
This Column and Find Out
Whore the Bargains Are.

Seven rooms, Frank lin road, an ele-
CANT bargain. First class in all respects,
$500.
Twenty-Five feet on Robinson street
near Roanoke and Southern depot at q
sacrifice. Don't fail to sec this.
House Of rooms on Center street
near Park, 62,lOO, 300 cash balance on
easy terms.
Fifty feet on 9th avo. Something
handsome and cheap, Sl.SOO
House and lot corner jefferson and
4th ave- N. W., cheap, "see this"
25 feet on Commonwealth ave. next TO
Rse Hive, % per cent. of If sold at once
$4,000 will buy . Salem ave lot 5Ox20O,
between TIN and 9th streets.
l3C feet within one block of L. & S.
depot. SIS per front foot-improvcd.
Ask us to show you our houses on the
installment plan. 5000 cash. balance easy.
VIII give some party with $4,000
chance TO double his money in six
months in business property in New
Town.
The above is only partial list Of the
many bargains we arc now Offering.
F. w. CRAIG & CO.,
No. 10 Salem Ave. 9. W. (up s.airs.>
mari2hm
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!. INSTALLMENT STOCK. - Nom
bcrship fee, 81 per share, which carries
the stock the first month, after that the
monthly dues are 60 cents per share.
2. PAID UP INTEREST," BEARING
STOCK.-s5O per share (par value, slO0).
yielding dividend, payable scmi-an-
nually, January /, and July /, OF per
cent. per annum, which is duly renittcd
by check to the shareholder.
3. Tho stock is expected to mature in
seven years from date Of each series re
spectively, the Same being issued
monthly.
4. There is no nves tment anywhere
safer or more profitable than it's stock
With tho assets Of the Association in
vested in first mortgages on improved
town real estate, duly insured for the
benefit of tho Association, on a basis
not exceeding so per cent. of it's value,
as ascertained by appraisers who are
themselves stockholders of the Associ-
alton, while tho debt of the member
borrowing is being curtailed every
month OF it's o. istenoe, it is difficult to
conceive Of safer investment than it's
stock affords to the prudent investor.
Apply at Homo Office, ITO jefferson
street, or TO
JAMES R. TERRY. or to SIMMONS.
CARPENTER 81 TINSLEY, Roanoke,
Va. apr10-1y
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Rucklen.s Arnion solv.

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~ IS guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
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Old papers for sale at. The Times Office,
10 cents hundredA
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BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.
A FIRST-CLASS INVESTMENT.

We offer the best security in the city
and pay somi annual dividends.
As a saw INGS BANK
this institution offers special induce
ments. Paid up shares $50 each. In
stallment shares 81 per month. Shares
may be subscribed for t any time. For
further information address
THE PEOPLES PERPETUAL LOAN
AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.
VIM. f. WINCH,
Secretary. and Treasurcc.
Masonic Temple. iani.tf
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BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.
The Iron Belt Building and Loan
Association
OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA.

AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, So, 600, 900.
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DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES,
Some OF the most important companies
ornanlzed for the development of Roam
oke and this section are
Roanoke Development Co. >. 81 100. Don
virginia development Co.. 5000, 900
Buena Vista Land Co.. 300. COO
liz Land Companies, ..... 1000. 600
This list is in no sense complete
one. 1t is given 70 show the diversity
of industries in Roanoke. Scores OF
enterprises, employing capital OF from
rs, ono to 600, arc omitted for lack of
space. Numerous enterprises, with
hundreds OF employees and capital rock
oned by the hundred Thousand, are
negotiating for foothold in this South
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-04
ROANOKE'S WONDERFUL RECORD
The Story of Its Growth Briefly
Told.

"A City of Over $4,000 People, with MILL
tons I'm Great Variety of Industries.
What Has Been Done and What is
Still Doing for the UpbuildinE of the
Confer of Virginia's Industrial Deyel-
opment
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There are four public schools in the
city-three for whites, with eighteen
teachers, and one colored school, with
five teachers.
Public school buildings to cost s75, 900
will be erected this year
Congress has appropriated S75,OO for
the erection of public postoflice build.
ing.
Roanoke will soon be city of
churches. The Southern Methodists,
Presbytcrians and Catholics all have
handsome brick houses OF worship The
Methodist Episcopal ard Christians
have neat churches.
The Baptists arc erecting two fine
brick churches, one to cost SIS, 900 and
the other $25.0t0. The Lutherans arc
erecting magnificent stone church
to cost not less than $4,000. The
Eplscopalians are erecting n 1900
stone church and rcctory. The Southern
Mcthodists will erect this year Il $50, 600
church, one TO cost $40. 900, and one neat
frame structure. The German Reform
ed Church will erect house OF worship,
and the Prcsbyterians will erect a
$4,000 church.
Roanoke has well organized ire de-
partment of $50 members The citv
has recently awarded the contract for
tho Gamewell fire alarm telegraph.
The department now has ono fine build
ing and another is soon to be erected.
All OF the three companies arc supplicd
with modern equipments.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-06-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SENATOR ABBOTT, the new premier of
Canada, has succeeded in forming "A
cabinet. 1t is practically the same as
under Sir John Macdonald.
KuBURN j. Brown, a conductor on
the Canadian Pacific railway, was dis
covered TO have been for ten years
smuggling goods, thus defrauding the
United States government out of over
500, O0O
AT all the North German coast
cities hurricane did great damage and
scores of persons lost their lives at
Hamburg, Kiel, Stettin and Dantzig.
AT the request of Premier Rudini,
Sig. COrti. late Italian consul at New
Orleans, prepared report on the New
Orleans affair. lie affirmed that the
victims belonged to no particular So
eiety, but were murdered because they
were Italians and were competing in
the labor market against natives.
In the railroad bridge accident at
Basic. Switzerland, $50 persons were
killed and the injured numbered 300.
Ir was said that plan had been dis
covered in Guatemala TO annex that re-
public To the United States.
"A bfIAl COlAldltlAtl- NAfNth AsNfotho
was struck by squall and upset in
Rice lake near Peterboro, Ont, and
John Foote and his two daughters We're
drowned.
The bill to prohibit children under II
years of age from working in factories
was adopted by a vote of POS to 1856 in
the British house of commons. This
was a liberal victory.
FIFTY lives were lost by the cloud
burst in the Mexican mountains near
CatOrce.
THE four children of a family named
LaChance were playing in a boat near
Port Neuf, Can, when waves from
passing steamer caused the boat TO fill
and they were drowned.
Mrs. DAVID CLARKE. of Blenheim,
Ont, who was deserted by her husband
and left without means of support,
drowned herself and her two children.
IL one day sixty earthquake shocks
were experienced throughout the prov
ince of Bengal, India, and many build
ings were destroyed.
FIFTY of the crew of the ChiliGn war
ship Esmeralda were killed by the MAJ
tives of the Labos islands while trying
! to secure provisions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-06-25
ART AND LITERATURE.

THE proportion Il Anglo-Saxon
words in the English Bible is ninety
seven per cent. of the whole.
TIE Metropolitan museum Of art has
enriched its collection of antique
bronzes by a statuette Of Hercules.
The diminutive hero stands four inches
in height
CONGRESSMAN BEIDEN has offered To
build and give to the city Of Syracuse,
n. Y, freproof library and art build
ing to cost not less than one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars
THE Press club of Brussels intends %
give a medieval tourney, with all proper
appartenances, knights in ar-nor,
beraldS at arms, galleries with ladies',
compar.soned horses, and the rest.
AT a recent art sale in Florence the
so-callcd throne Of GiulianO de Mediea
"a sort Of sofa, with high back sup
ported by eolumns). carved by Bacclo
d'Agnolo in the sixteenth century, was
sold to an Englishman for $1,000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-06-25
WOMEN OF MANY TYPES.

WHEN a young Chicago stTeet-car con
ductor suddenly sickened on his trip
the other day, his sweetheart donned
his cap and collected fares until re
lieved at the end Of the run.
A WOMAN who was killed in run
away accident at Waterville, Me, in
life had red hair, but when her body
was taken up It was found that her hair
had turned To a very dark brown, prob
ably through fright.
FIVE years ago a st. Louis girl was
caught by her mother being kissed by a
painter at work on the house. The old
lady rushed out and pulled the girl into
the house That was the last anyone
saw Of the girl. Since then her room is
locked and the shutters tied and no one
sees her.
A WOMAN appeared at College Point
l.. T.. a few days ago with a beautiful
collection of birds. which she called
Australian warblers. She sold them
rapidly at one dollar each. The birds
turned out to be common English
sparrows. with their feathers artistical-
ly painted
a FoBKsTON Pa woman has applied
for a divorce because she IS compelled
10 fght wildcats too often. The part Of
the country where She and her husband
live il infested with these animals, and
as lie r. fuses to move, she wants to
leave him. She says that in the last
three years she has killed forty-three
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-06-25

Al Altoona, ye-, rain flooded the
streets, and Mrs Barbara Reichl, aged
IS years, and Katie Brady, aged
years, were killed by lightning. Small
bridges throughout the county were
swept away 10y the overflowed streams.
IL New York on the 10Th the temper
ature was 81 degrees-the coolest June
day in that city on record.
HEAVY rain flooded the streets at
Fort Scott. Kan. and Buck run, a
ravine which traverses the city from
south to north, was transformed into a
raging torrent Several persons wero
drowned.
MARY DAVIS and Alice Jones were
killed by the cars near Union Springs,
Ala, while crossing a trestle.
AMELIA HEINEMANN was fatally shot
~ Fall River, Wis, by her jealous
lover, Seymour Turner. Turner then
shot himself. probably fatally.
IL the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the Goth were: New York,
.6l7; Chicago, .562; Boston. $50; Cleve-
land. 400; Brooklyn, $50; Philadel-
phia. 400; Pittsburgh, Alb; Cincinnati.
sft1- lAt DtAttnAdEES III GAubS III AhC
American association were: Boston.
.642; St Louis. .6l6; Baltimore, 500;
Cincinnati. 900; Columbus. .49l; Ath-
letic, 1921; Louisville, 1913; Washing
ton. 100
FIFTEEN cars of an excursion train
which left Cleveland on the Nickel
Plate railway jumped the track near
Dover, O.. and seven were wrecked,
killing seven men and injuring fifty
other persons, twelve probably fatally.
IL Anne Arundel county, Md. seven
colored persons employed as berry pick
ers were drowned by the capsizing of
boat in Curtis creek.
A TORNADO in Kentucky destroyed
several houses at Lewisport and the
Methodist church and killed George
Ray. At Boaz several small houses
were blown away. At Bevier seven
houses were wrecked and four persons
injured, one, a Mrs. Miller. fatally. At
Campbellsb urg several houses were de-
stroyed
The death of ex-senator Joseph T..
Mcdonald occurred at his home in In
dianapolis on the night of the 2lst,
aged ~ years. He was chosen United
States senator in 1873, serving one
term
AT Cairo Ill, cyclone did consid-
cradle damage, unrooting a great many
houses, tearing up trees by the roots
and blowing ears off the railroad tracks.
TERRIBLE storms visited the south
eastern corner of Kansas, causing some
loss of life, much damage to property
and enormous damage to growing crops.
Ar Solomonville. A. r, a man
named Granodo was hanged for the
murder of his wife and daughter.
A TORNADO passed over Nokomis.
H., unrooiing houses and barns and
damaging orchards. Crops were serious
ly injured.
On the 18th John Brooks, of Hills
dale, Mich, was 1O5 years old. and on
the both he died suddenly of gangrene.
Ten miles southeast of bingham,
Ill, a cyclone destroyed houses, barns,
fences and growing crops.
JOHN SMITH and Mary Coins were
killed by unknown persons in fracas
at Winston, y. c.
IL Chicago the eighth American
Derby was run at Washington park
and won by Strathmeath. Distance,
l 4 miles; time, 2:49l4 purse, S21, 500.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-06-25
UNCLE SAM LOSES.
The Government Beaten i'm an Important
Suit-A Decision Under which 1t May
Have to Refund saO,OO,OOO to $50. OOO,-
900 of Duties.

The Government Beaten i'm an Important
suit-A Decision Under which 1t May
Have to Refund @2O,OO,oOO to $50, OOO,-
900 of Duties.
PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-The jury
in the suit of Meyer IL Dickinson
against the government to recover
excess of duties levied on ma
terial used as hat trimmings returned
a verdict of S632. 40 for the plain
tiffs. The government will appeal the
verdict To the supreme court by the
verdict of the jury in this city the
government is made liable for
from 10000, 900 to $50, 600, 900 it has
collected in duties from importers of
millinery materials in various parts of
the country. The suit of Meyer & Dick
inson was a test suit and was intend
ed to test the right of the government
to collect the duties on the goods
in dispute. Other pending suits
will be affected by the YER
diet, and that is where the large
amount of money and the great inter
est taken by importers comes in. TAX
ing the suits altogether, the inn
porters claim the goods in ques-
ton to be hat trimmings, and
to be dutiable at 20 per cent
adj valorem. The government claims
they are dutiable at 80 per cent. ad
valorem under the clause of all goods,
wares and manufactures of silk, or of
which silk is the component material
of chief value.