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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
SETTLED AT LAST.
The Last Deeds to the Government Build
ing Site Have Been Executed

The Last Deeds to the Government Build
Ing Site Have Been Executed.
At last the question of the Federal
building site is settled For months,
at intervals, the question would arise
from the secret recesses where it had
hidden itsolf, as kind of ghost to re-
mind the people OF the $3.50 appropri-
alton, and then, unlike Banquo's ghost,
it would, somehow or other. sneak off
without bidding, and detective with q
search warrant and microscope could
not find it. With this hide. and seek
process the citizens grew weary, the
attorneys grew vexed and the Govern
ment grew tired. and at one time it
looked as though the selection of q new
site had become necessary.
However, yesterday the last deeds
were duly executed by w. II. Horton,
which renders the title 20 the site
proper, all that tho Government re-
quires. A bond for title to the ten
foot alley was also executed in the sum
of 900, with Mr.. Horton and other
good sureties upon it, These papers
were sent on at once to Col. Craig,
the United States district attorney, and
presumably everything is at last set
I'd with entire satisfaction to every
body. ..
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
MILITIA KEEPING ORDER.
They Prevent Any Bad Outbreak on the
| Part of the Striking Switchmen

They Prevent Any Bad Outbreak on the
Part of the Striking Switchmen
BUFFALO, NY, Aug. 16.-ISpecialI l.
A vigilant military patrol of the freight
yards of the Lehigh Valley and Eric
roads last night and to-day has prevent
ed airy mischief by the striking switch
men, but it is very apparent that with,
out the aid of the troops affairs would
be in bad shape. There has been slow
movement of freight trains to-day, but
each train was made up under the super
vision of strong guard to prevent the
strikers from drawing coupling pins,
cutting air brake hose and abusing non
union Switchmen.
New men are constantly arriving from
other points, but oven with their aid
but little impression been made upon
the accumulated freight car blocade.
Passenger and milk trains arc not mo.
Tested by the strikers and are moving
freely. A number Of militia companies
from the central portion of tho State
have been ordered under arms, but not
as yet received marching orders. There
is considerable apprehension that the
strike may spread to other roads. To,
night the through mail trains could not
go forward, and it is believed that the
United States authorities will interfere.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
ANoruER CHURCH BUILDING,
Tho Congregation OF Christ Church Will
Erect u Permanent Piaoo OF Worship.


Tho Congregation OF Christ Church Will
The vestry of Christ Church held q
meeting yesterday afternoon .and took
preliminary steps toward the Immediate
erection of permanent place of wor-
ship on their fine LOT on Campbell ave.
nue.. A committee was appointed to i'm
mediately confer with an architect in
regard to the plans and estimates for a
suitable structure. This committee con-
sists of Messrs. Smoot, Hughes and
Stuart, and these gentlemen will also be
continued as the. building committee of
the church. They will report to the
vestry next Monday, and the work of
building the edifice will then be shortly
begun.
Owing to the timely generosity Of one
of the ladies of the congregation, the
financial problem which generally con
fronts such movements has been nearly
solved, and the vestry have bright hopes
that by the time building operations be-
gin they will have sufficient money on
hand to entirely complete the edifice.
The wonderful growth of this con-
gregation has made it imperatively
necessary for a larger place OF worship
to be immediately supplied, and it is
the purpose of the vestry to have a
large and comfortable building erected
When completed the building will have
seating room for about 800 people,
The contract will probably be let within
the next ten days, and it is hoped to
have the building ready for occupancy
within ninety days.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Receivers MADE rERmANENr.
Tho Richmond and Danviile Railroad
Again In Court.


Tho Richmond and Danvile Railroad
Again In Court.
RICHMOND, Aug. 16-lSpecial Judge
Bond, sitting in the United States cir
cult court here to day, heard argument
on the question Of making the receiver.
ship Of tho Richmond and Danville
railroad permanent. Receivers Huide-
koper and Foster were present as were
several officers OF the company, and
some twenty or more prominent law
yers representing various interests
Ed. Johnson, OF Now York, on behalf
of the two defendant companies, Rich
mond and Danville and Richmond
Terminal, made a motion to defer tho
hearing until after tho Terminal meet
ing here September Is.
Intervention petitions were filed by
Jno. Bloodgood and others advocating a
postponement. The motion was advo-
Gated by Henry Crawford and Frank
Clark, counsel for compliments, and
denied by the court, who continued to
present receiver as permanent.
The question of the Terminal receiver
ship was, by consent, continued until
August 90, and will be heard in Bait
more. The Central Trust Company, Of
New York, and Mercantile Trust Com
pany, of Baltimore, have boen made par
ties to the suit. w. N. Pleasants and
A. 5. Durham were appointed master
commissioners and directed to give no.
tice to all creditors and to the marshal
of the assets and liabilities of the Rich
mond and Danville.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
WILL SEEK LARGER QUARTERS.
The Present Rooms of the Y. NJ. q. A. Ar.
Too Small.

The Present Rooms of the Y. NJ. q. A. Are
Too Small
The regular August meeting of the
board of directors of the Y. M. C. A..
was held last night A committee of
three was appointed to perfect arrange
ments for the reception to be rendered
MIR. Wynne, the new general secretary,
who is expected next Saturday. The
reception will take place Tuesday even.
ing in the association rooms and the
programme will consist of music, speech
making and refreshments, which will
be served by the Ladies' Auxiliary.
comm ittee was also appointed to
look into the advisability of changing
the location Of the rooms. A change is
greatly needed. The present location
is very good one but the association is
very greatly cramped. The association
stands at present in special need of a
large assembly hall and better bathing
facilities, and it is hoped that some ar
engagements may be made by which these
can be supplied.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Cranes of the world,s Fair.
Frerl the Iron Trade Review.

Four of the principal makers of trav-
cling cranes have promised to erect
cranes in the machinery hall at tho Chi
cago exhibition, in the autumn OF the
present year, for the purpose of placing
the heavy exhibits in position. When
this work Is accomplished it is proposed
to remove the trolleys and substitute
platforms in such manner that passen-
gers may be carried over the building
and obtain ird's-eye view of the ex-
hibits. The length of course run by
each crane will be 1900 feet, and the
cranes will all be operated by electricity,
and travel at the rate OF 300 feet to 500
feet per minute, IL the latter speed is
required. At tho close of the exhibi-
ton the cranes will, of course, again be
used for the removal Of the exhibits
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

When we consider the Importance of
the subject the Indifference of Congress
to the'question of unrestricted foreign
Immigration is indeed incom prehensible.
Under existing laws foreign countries
can, and as n matter Of fact do, convert
the United States into dumping
ground for the worthless, pernicious
and criminal elements that bring with
them deeply embedded in the fibre OF
their very natures deep seated and
indomitable opposition to law and order.
Profoundly ignorant of every essen
tial requisite of good citizenship, they
are, upon declaring their Intention of
becoming citizens, at once armed with
the ballot and become strong factor
In the elections of the country. Many
of them never naturslize, indeed have
never intended to do 80. and instead of
afiliating with the new political con-
ditions by which they are surrounded,
erect in opposition thereto their COM
munistic doctrines and become the
avowed champions of anarchy.
To their minds law is a nullity, and
the chief article in their creed is to re-
move obstacles, not by resorting to pre-
scribed legal methods. but through the
agency of dynamite and the dagger.
When we come to review the institution
OF the Malta, which grew to such alarm
ing proportions on American soil, tho
doctrines of the Chicago anarchists, and
the further fact that in almost every
instance the recent labor troubles were
instituted and maintaiu ned by mon who
were unable to speak the English Ian
guage, q few of the manifold evils and
dangers Of unrestricted foreign immi-
grafton may be seen.
The danger is not confined alone to
the physical power of these foreigners.
Each one of these malcontents is
within himself missionary of evil and
too often his wild theories find LODGE
ment within the disconnected mind of
the native laborer, thereby greatly null
tiplying his evil influence.
Congress has, in it's wisdom, seen fit
to exclude the Chinese, and when the
fact is considered that this scum of de.
graduation from continental Europe is
far more dangerous in every way to the
institutions Of the country. there re.
mains no reason why restrictions should
not. in justice to the people of the
United States, be placed npon the pres.
emit wbolesale and indiscriminate for.
eign i'm migration.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
pIe.Deyil to Paw,

From tho Fredericksburg Free Lance.
The very devil is to pay with the old
political parties all over the country.
1t would take an old time prophet to
predict with any degree of certainty
whether Pennsylvania will go Eepublt
can or Texas Democratic.
The negroes OF the South who have
been the butt of much abuse since the
war because of their fidelity to the Re-
publican party, are getting to be as
doubtful as the slouch-hat crackers of
Georgia which way they will vote in the
coming contest.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Oatmeal and Oranges.

F.om the St Louis Globe. Democrat.
No sort of food is better for the COM
pleXion than oatmeal and oranges. The
finest compilations in the world are
those of the Italian and Spanish la
dies, who live largely on coarse
grained food and fruit like the orange
or banana. 1t is said that the fact is
becoming appreciated, and some ladies,
to acquire and preserve a good complex
ion, are living almost entirely on or
anges. Half a dozen for breakfast,
with cup of coffee; dozen for lunch
with a glass OF milk and saucer of
oatmeal, and dozen more for supper,
with crust of bread and sip of tea,
may not be high living in the proper
sense of the wo Id, but such a course OF
diet will bring complexion of peach
and Ivory which will drive almost any
belle out of her head with envy.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
The Circuit Court.

In the circuit court yesterday Eppa
Hunton. Jr., was qualified as an attor
ney and permitted to practice in this
city. A large portion Of the day was
occupied by the lawyers in arguing the
demurrers in the declarations in tn g
case Of Miller & Fairfax VS.. the Nor
folk and Western Railroad Company.
This suit was brought by Miller & Fair
fax, who are @ell-knowD contractors
against the railroad company for $50
600, for work which they claim they
did.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
She Planned to Blow Up the Family

HUDSON, Mich, Aug. 16.-Jennie Ia
Dor, of this place, who was arrested be-
cause her youngest brother discovered
twenty dynamite cartridges concealed
about tho house, has made a startling
confession. She said she was. going to
blow up the house together with her
brother and sister to get thejwhole of her
fathers $4,000 estate. She SAYS that
she was instigated by her lover, Will
lam Meirs, who recently compelled her
to go with him and rob George Good
wins residence and with tho money
they got DO ght dynamite cartridges.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
THE TIMES can be found regularly or

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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
A scoundreiIy old Grandsire,

AUGUSTA. Me-, August 1G.-William
Gibson, of Brewer, over seventy years
old, was arrested here Saturday night.
charged with assault on his grandchild,
twelve years old. Gibson attempted
suicide in the police station. The crime
was committed in Brewer and Gibson
was taken to that city for trial.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
One Thing Accomplished.

Fgcm the JonrnAl OF Finance.
The Farmers Alliance seems to be
accomplishing one thing very effectively
down South, and that is the dividing up
of the negro vote. 1t looks as if Sou tn
ern politicians are now about as anxious
to have negro votes cast and couoted as
once they were anxious to do the bull
doEtng act. The politician, he do change
mighty easily.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

PERSONS seeking profitable invest.
ments in desirable building lots would
do we'll to read the advertisement of &.
Powell Hill in another column.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Killed by "A Grain of Wheat.

LOCK HAVEN, Pa, Aug. 16-Adam
Gingery. a resident of Pine Creek town
ship, this county, died yesterday. The
post norton examinatio TO. day showed
that death was caused by a grain of
wheat which had lodged in the vermi-
formis appendix to his intestinss.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

WITH capital stock of $50. 600 and an
experience of twelve years in the piano
and organ business, enable the Hobb @
Music Company to offer inducements 10
purchasers which they cannot get from
small dealers. They handle the stand
ard instruments OF the world.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Might Have Been worse.

The many friends of II. o. Williams
in this city will be pleased to learn
that his loss by the robbery at Asbury
Park was not so serious as at first re-
ported. Instead of amounting to $500
the loss was Sl5O. This Is bad enough,
but it might have been worse.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Notice..

All persons who desire to contribute
provisions for the pastor of st. Marks
Lutheran Church will please send same
to the parsonage not later than Wednes-
day, August II. Committee.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

BoucIcAULT's melodramatic success,
After Dark" which Is the attraction
at the Opera House Thursday 10,
isrom antic and picturesque; it has a
plot sufficiently interesting to com mand
the absorbed attention Of the intelligent
audiences, without being so com plicated
as TO tax the mind unduly.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

Rewelrs American Newspaper Direc-
tory for 1891 puts the circulation OF THE
ROANOKE TIMES above that of any
ether paper in Southwest Virginia, and at
moro than that OF I'll the othor papers OF
Roanoke combined.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Hotel Rruns,yick

IN another column will be seen the
advertisement of Hotel Brunswick, a
free lunch given each day from IL a. m.
to 6 n M
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

OLD papers, 10 cents per hundred, fol
yale at this Office.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
AUGUST 5,1892

Dwelling on Campbell avenue, five
rooms, lot 50x150 feet, SO, 900; $500 cash,
balance monthly payments.
Beautiful corner lot in the West End,
1O0x150 feet, best location, $4,000.
Dwelling. rooms, in good location,
very convenient for Roanoke Machine
Shop men, SS,7Oo; 5000 cash, balance s25
per month.
Belmont lots, 4ox13O feet. $500; one
third cash, balance one and two years.
Dwelling in southwest part of the
town, all Improvements, 1900; $500
cash, balance $25 por month.
We have a special bargain in 5Ox150
foot lot in the southern part of the city.
New dwelling in the West End, 6.
rooms, bath room, hot and cold water,
prico s2,7oo; small cash payment and
easy monthly payments.
Beautiful residence lot in West End.
5Ox150 feet, S525.
Special bargains in lots for railroad
men.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

CEAL PRESSES, PLAIN SO. SELF
~ mixing rubber stamps from rs cent?
ur to IS. Hand stamps, from 25 cents
up. Self-supplying pads, 25 to so cents.
Stamp supplies of every description. al
low in price as any manufacturer in the
United States. Gall on or address j. II.
HALL. 103 Third avenue.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.

ROANOKE, VA, AUGUST II, 1892.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

Tias.s aaoiaets' 81. sldelinser.s. SOL Jolrorson
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17

THR ROANOKE TIMES PUBLfSHING CO.,
Roanoke. Virginia.
Hntcred at tho Postolace at Roanoke az second
a ASS matter.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
THE TIMES.
TELEPHONE HUMBER 1a4.

TEE TIMES is delivered in Roa1oko, Salon and
Nin,or every morning by carriers for 80 ceESs per
Ronr.i.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
THE WEEKLY TIMES

Vus WEEKLY TIMEs, contsining the news o.
sns week in more condensed form, G1o year
Hs.0O In advance.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
Hoods SarsaparilEa

HOODS PILLS arc hand made. and arc per.
feet in composition. proportion and appearance.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-13

II am an old man." he said slowly, land
I've lived long time longer than most
men who have lived as long as i have, for
there's mighty little in this world that !
/ oughtn't TO know that / don't know, but
there is one thing / don't know, and I've
been trying TO learn it for fifty years, more
or less"
Whats thatY' interrupted Gamaliel,
who il but beginner.
well, my son, it's this | don't know,
and / don't believe ] ever shall, why IL i
that when a man gets home at o'clock in
the morning and he finds he hasn't his
night key in'his pocket he can ring the bell,
and thump the door, and throw pebbles up
against the windows, and disturb the
whole neighborhood, and keeps ON doing II
for three-quarters Of an hour or more be
fore he wakes anybody In the house, but II
1 he gets there at the same time, and has bis
night key IN his pocket, and slips 1t intC
| the lock as still as a mouse, and turns II
without a creak, and shuts the door NJ
softly as the dew falls, and creeps NJ
stairs in his sock feet as stealthily as a
cat, and gets into his room as noiselessly
a. the stars go to their rest, he not only
wakes up his wife, but next morning ev
erybody In the house Is asking him wbat
| he means Dy coming IN AT that hour OF th'
night, and II be must come In, then WIN
doesn't he make less racket and not dis
turb the whole country"
The old man in an excess Of emotion
gasped once or twice and began 10 mop hi
brow.
That's what don't know, young man,
be went on, land I'D like to live until yor
have lived as long a. / have TO see IL yet
| n t.1ff
sver will"
IN try" briefly remarked Gamaliel
and those who know Gamaliel have
sublime confidence that he has made
noble beginning. -Memphis Appeal-Ava
| lanche
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-13
HOTEL CHAMBERLAIN.

The new structure referred TO above
h TO rise ON the site Of the Hotel Royal,
that i'll fated house whose destruction
by fire and attendant loss Of life shocked
New York and all the country AZ well.
IL Is TO be known an the Chamberlain
and will be seventeen stories tall and
contain 31s guest rooms.
The ground has frontage Of 100 feet
on Fortieth street and 90 feet on Sixth
avenue.
The structure will take up all the
property except four foot strip on the
Fortieth street side. The exterior has
been designed TO be at once handsome
and characteristic. The first four floors
will be Of Indiana limestone, neatly or
namented; the portion above that will
be Of buff brick with terra Gotta trim
mings.
The projectors intend that 1t shall b
thoroughly freproof.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-13

and bemoaned the fact that house they
regarded almost "a home would shelter
them no more.
They were almost AZ indignant against
Landlord Sammis for disposing Of the
property as were the people Of Islip,
who feared possible contact with the
cholera. But Mr. Cammis is seventy
three years Of age and thinks he knows
his own business better than any one
else. He doesn't care 10 keep hotel any
| longer, and he thought the price offered
him-$2l0, 000-a fair one. So he re-
tired and smiled when the guests
clicked" before leaving, and the clam
diggers burned him in efiigy and called
/ him cholera's friend. As he remarked,
81 have done the square thing all my
/ life and am too old now TO continue
business or TO mind little foolish
abuse"
David S. S. Sammis was born in Hunt
ington, Suffolk county, N. Y, and
worked ON his fathers farm until eight
cen years Of age. Then he went 10 New
York city with tho intention Of learning
the drug trade. As this did not agree
with his health, he took 10 stage coach.
ing for seven years and then opened
grocery at Forsyth and Delaney streets.
Later he established the East Broadway
House, at East Broadway and Pike
streets. After being in New York about
b sixteen years he started small chowdei
house on Fire island. That was in 1855.
, He had an idea that small place neal
- 4 d.
York would prove 10 be favorite re-
sort. Chowder clubs were all the rage
in those days and that sort Of pleasure
, seekers loved 10 get way off" where
: they could have good frOlic all by
themselves. OF course Fire island was
! Just the place for such fellows. There
, used TO be very lively parties come down
/. from the city, and they would eat their
fill Of chowder and drink their fill Of
, champagne. As many AZ 100 would dine
, there on a Sunday
The first prominent man 10 visit there
. was the late James Gordon Bennett,
r who went down in sailboat from New
b York, accompanied by his wife and hif
D wife's sister. He stayed four or five
days. He was not at all convivial, and
spent much Of his time reading books.
o He liked the place 50 well that he wrote
|. a letter about il 10 The Herald, the first
!, newspaper correspondence that was even
;, sent from that place. The letter caused
:. a great rush Of visitors, and the hoteI
filled up at once.
Now the quaint old hotel is turned
a into place Of confinement for people
!. from Europe who are suspected Of car
= rying contagiOn with them.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-13
TALES OF TWO INNS.
oNE'S CAREER HAS CLOSED; THE
OTHERS IS TO BEGIN.

The Famous Old Resort at Fire Island
which Has Been Converted Into u
Place Of Detention for TraveIers-New
YorITs Mammoth Hotel.
Two hotels are just now being talked
ebout-one for its sensational prom
nence and the other for its sensational
promise. The first has closed its career
Is a resort for wealth and beauty, the
other has yet to test its claims to popu-
arity. The former is the famous Fire
island tavern, which for over genera
ton has been the summer resort OF rich
and conservative people who love their
"ease with dignity" When the place
was sold to the state of New York and
practically turned into a quarantine sta
ton some Of the old timers nearly wept,