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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Russian Discipline.

During the review of the army recruits
in Wilma the general in command, turn
ing to one of the new soldiers, asked
him, "What is military discipline2"
ut is that q soldier has got to do just
what he's told by his superior officer,
only nothing against the czar," was the
answer.
can right, then; you take your cap,
bid your comrades good by and go and
drown yourself in that lake there. Look
sharpr'
Tears glistened in the soldiers eyes;
he gazed earnestly and prayerfully ut his
commander, turned suddenly about and
rushed off to the lake. He was on the
very brink before he was overtaken and
stopped by the sergeant sent to prevent
the involuntary suicide.-Exchange.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
uARCoURT.
MORLEY.
ROSEBERY.
ASQUITu.

ASQUITH. RUSSELL.
Tho cabinet was not created by law-it
grew up by practice There is no such Of
flee as premier or prime minister-it is
simply title bestowed on tho head of the
cabinet, and he holds one or two offices, rs
may suit him. Mr. Gladstone is lord
privy seal and first lord of the treasury.
Next to him in rank, if rank there be, for
it is all rs their convenience may require,
are Earl ROsebery, foreign secretary; Bar
on Hcrscholl, lord chancellor; Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, and Herbert II. Asquith, home
secretary. There are twenty-five members
of the present cabinet, and may be more If
Mr.. Gladstone sees fit to invite other heads
of departments to sents in the council.
The Right Hon. John Morley is rather
more prominent than his rank would in
dictate, as he is chief secretary for Ireland,
and the same may be said of Sir Charles
Russell, attorney general. On these two
will fall the principal labor of arranging
the details for the home rule for Ireland
bill, which is to be the leading measure Of
the Gladstonian administration. Much
veXation is expressed by the so called Rad
icals or Democrats that no ono of their
wing of the Liberals was invited to place
in the cabinet. The home secretary, Mr..
Herbert ii. Asquith, will have q temporary
interest for Americans because n strong
pressure will SOON be cxerted on him from
this country to- secure pardon for Mrs
Maybrick, the American woman now in an
English prison on conviction of having poi
soned her husband.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
pefeat Taken TO ueart.

1t is amusing to note to what lengths
men will allow themselves to he carried
by political excitement. Some OF the Tories
Of Great Britain have been making very
interesting exhibitions of themselves in
their chagrin eyer the results of tho late
elections. The vicar of Christ church,
Frome, was known as strong Liberal.
On the Sunday after the election when the
vicar entered the pulpit twenty well
known Tories of the congregation rose and
walked out of the church. A few nights
previously some one smashed two stained
glass windows in the same church, and all
the red flowers on the graves in the church
yard were pulled up, red being the Liberal
color
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Thar. Nj. G. A.

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the R. M. C..
A. held very interesting meeting in
their hall yesterday. 1t was decided to
hold book reception Thursday. Sep
tember 22, at 8 p. m, and all who at
tend will be entertained with coed
music and refreshments. They also took
steps to have telephone placed in their
rooms, so that the crews that 60 out
on the road can be- marked up on bulle-
tin board, thus enabling the men to
visit the rooms oftener. The ladies are
interested in the work of the associa-
ton and will do all in their power to
make the rooms pleasant.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
PRODUCE AND MERCHANDISE.

NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-lSpecial II
Cotton quiet; middling uplands, Is;
middling New Orleans, 9-16; sales, 1875;
total net receipts, all ports, 1887;
extra b. e. b., Oh; cont, 25 Al; stsck,
mand. Wheat dull, lower, weak; No.
aficat; options closed heavy; No. 9 red,
September, 1913; October, SIX; Deem
Der, Sl%. Corn easier, fairly active,
closing firm; No. 3, 55@55ss elevator,
6@68 afioat; options closed weak;
September, October, 5515; December,
56ss. Oats dull, easier; options moro
active, weaker; September, ak;
DC .ober, IS; Deem Der, 40; No. white,
September, 1885, spot No. 9, 37H@3s;
mixed Western, 37@39.
Coffee options closed weak. 1000
down; September, 13.75@13,9O; Octo-
Der, 13.55@13 rs; December, 1900
1880; SPOT Rio quiet. easier; No. z,
14H. Sugar, refined active, firm. Mo-
lasses, New Orleans dull, steady; COM
mon to fancy, 35@36. Rice active.
| firm. Petroleum quiet, steady. Cot
ton seed oil, fair demand, steady; crude.
2s@29 Rosin quiet. steady; strained,
common to good 1,22M@1.27N. Tur
pent ne quiet, firm; 29A@2o1S. Peanu Is
| quiet
Cut meats firm, fair demand; picked
bellies. 7%@S; do. shoulders, 6%@6H;
middles quiet, steady; short clear, 8 40;
other meat dull. Lard lower, dull;
Western steam, 765; city. CISCO so;
September, 6.63 bid. Freights active.
frmer; cotton. I'D; grain, I'd.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Some Zig western Farms.

Large farms are not uncommon in the
west. In fact, in some sections they are
the rule rather than the exception. SEN
ator Casey, OF North Dakota, has s, 900 acres
under cultivation. The Dalrymple farm
in Dakota contains $4,000 acres 1t is a
genuine farm, under perfect cultivation.
and yields II heavy income. In the Red
River valley lies the great Grandin farm.
Here are found $1,000 acres under cultiva-
ton, and in the last ten years it has yield
ed q profit of SiS0,O00. Senator Casey
boasts that he can plant $50 acres of wheat
per day with his drilling machines, and
the Dalrymples have q machine which
thrashes from 1900 to 1000 bushels of
wheat dny
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
May Speak in Roanoke.

T. w. Miller received a telegram yes
to-day from Hon. E. A. Stevenson
asking him to arrange date with Basil
Gordon, chairman of the State executive
Democratic committee, for him to ad-
dress the citizens of Roanoke. Mr..
Miller telegrapbed at once to Mr..
Gordon, but has received no reply as
yet. The likelihood Is that Mr. Steven
son will come to Roanoke direct from
Winston. n c., at which place he de.
liyers all address tho 22nd instant.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
FLAT TOP COAL OPERATORS.
They Meet Mt HotoI Graham and Transact
Important Business.

Important Business.
Special Correspondence OF THE TINES.
GRAHAM, Sept. 14.-This day has been
busy one at the hotel; the corridors
have been thronged since early morning
with brainy men, mon who WELD tho
destinies of this region; men to whose
energy, foresight and Judgment tho
States OF Virginia and West Virginia
owe much of their present greatness
and prosperity. refer to the coal oper-
ators, the presidents and general man
ayers of the collieries located ia this
section.
These gentlemen have met here to.
day under call of the Flat Top Coal
and Coke association TO consider GER
tain matters relative to their produc-
ton and sale of coke, and have been in
conference with Mr.. II. D. Lafferty, of
the Hull Coal and Coke Company. The
meeting was harmonious throughout,
and it Is to be presumed, satisfactory to
all concerned.
Proprietor Sloan exerted every energy
and facility to make the day success
from an entertainment standp point and
succeeded admirably, judging from the
many kind words spoken by the Ruests
and my own ability to discuss an elabor
ate menu.
Beside the coal operators 1 see sew
eral gentlemen from Philadelphia and
Roanoke mingling their brains and en-
ergy with the "diggers of dusky dia-
monds" Clarence M. Clark and Fl. D.
Lafferty being among the visitors from
Philadelphia and Roanoke W. C.
Easley, OF Bluefleld Is also among the
visitors, representing the Hull Coal and
Coke COMPANY
Then come the big guns of the coal
fields, with Stuart M. Buck, of the
Norfolk Company, as their chairman;
j. j. Tierney, the genial president OF
The Grocer Land Company and the Pow
hatan Coal and Coke Company; w. 81.
McQlatl, general manager Turkey Gap
Company; Justus Collins, general man
ager of the Louisville Company. and
president of the Greenbrier Company
and his neighbor, Philip Goodwill, oil
the Goodwill Company; e. S. Hutchin.
inson, of the Lick Branch Company
w. d. Ord, of the Empire; Hugh John
son, OF the Algoma; VIII Thomas
general manager of the Algoma Com
pany; w. Spencer, general manager OF
the Bottom Creek Company; e. B. Will
oOh, hol0ioi iuohdkOI Oplnhu
Il. e. Houston, general manger Houston
Company; Jenkins Jones, of Caswell
Creek Company; j P. Bowen, of the
Booth. Bowen Company; Captain Pad
dock. OF Rolfe Company; w. G. Brooke,
of the Gillian Company; c. e. f. Burn
ley, OF the Southwest Virginia Com
pany, and the pioneer of the region,
John Cooper. the broad-guaged, enter
prising, level-headed man, who always
has good word for the stranger and
never turns down proposition on
trivial grounds, welcoming each and
every promising factor in the develop
ment OF the coal fields.
have had the pleasure of personally
meeting the greater number of these
gentlemen named above, and l can,
without sycophancy, attribute to them
degree of intelligence and gentility
refreshing to encounter and altogeths u
welcome to the seeker of information
and subscribers. e. A. z:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
when DEATH IL welcome.

"There was great pathos," says mis-
sionary in Honolulu, lin story heard
from friend who had just returned
from visit to Molol1ai. He suddenly
heard the joyous strains of a band strike
up in the leper settlement. What is it
for? he asked. The answer was, Two
lepers have just died in the hospital. 'ns-
New York Tribune.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Worth Knowing.

MANY thousand people found friend
inAunt Fanny's Health Restorer.
If you have never used this great spo-
cifc for the prevailing malady of the
age, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Rheu-
matism, Costiveness, Nervous Exhaus.
ton, Nervous Prostitution. Sleeple ssneas
and all diseases arising from derange-
ment of the stomach, liver and kidneys.
we would be pleased to give you pack
age of this great nerve tonic free of
charge. Christian s. Barbeo.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16

Union was formed IN August, 1871, mt Chi.
cago, Immediately after the great railroad
strikes of that year.
1t was regularly Incorporated under the
laws of Illinois, and it's full and legal title
is "The Switchmen's Mutual Aid Associa-
ton of the United States OF America" 1t
was reorganized In 1885, with James L..
Monaghan, of Chicago, az its head Grand
Master Sweeney has but recently become
prominent in the organization. but from
recent developments he appears to have
been very active Organizer"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
FINANCE AND COMMERCE,

NEW YORK. Sept. 15.-ISpecial l-Ex-
change quiet and steady at 4S7@4sSH.
Commercial bills, 4S56@4s71a. Money
easy at 3N@4, closing offered at f..
Sub Treasury balances gold, spa, 7O6, 600.
currency, SIT, 200, 900. Government bonds
dull and steady-4's, Id. State bonds
neglected.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Tho Railroad Switchmon's Union.
The suddenncss of the strike in thu rail-


road yards at Buff
falo and the ire
mendous conse-
quences gave the
general public its
first init m a t e
knowledge Of the
S w / t C h m c n s
union and it's ac-
tive grand master,
Frank Sweeney.
He "a too new q
man in the ranks
of labor leaders to
have much biog-
raphy, but the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16

Cash quotations: Flour steady, un-
changed; No. 2 spring wheat, 72%;
lard, 7.27L@7.30; short ribs, 7.6O
@7.65; dry sailed shoulders, 6.9O@7
short clear, sos; whiskey. Ill.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Fall SHIPMENT.

The fall supply of pianos and organs
of the Hobbie Music Company have com
menced to arrive. The new styles are
beautiful.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
ROANOKE & SALEM DUMMY LINE.

On and after April 30, 1892, trains will
run according to the following schodule:
EAST. WEST.
Nv. ohiem lar. ROANOKE Nv. Roanoke. Ar. Salem
o'lo am. 6:45 am. 7:l5 am. 7:45 8. m.
o'ou a.In. $3.50 a.. N. S:45 am. 9:15 a. m.
e.ao Am. lo:0O a. m.l0:15 a. M. 10:45 q. m :.
Luz pm 1880 P.m.l1:45 pm. 1915 p. m.
is:ou pm. I:oO pm. LIS pm. LAS p m.
snu pm. Z:3O p NJ 2:46 pm. 3:15 p. M.
s'ou pm. f:oo pm. 4:15 p N. 44:5 p. ID.
o'ia pm. o:4o pm. 6:15 PIN. GAS p. m.
tbs pm. 7:45 pm. 9:45 pm. 1o:15 o. m.
N B.-TDnater nights last trainleayes
Roanoke !0:45; arrives Salem 11:15p
m. sundays, the first run is omitted
Trains leaving Roanoke at s:45 o. m.
and Ais p. N. on Salem dummy line will
have baggage car attached for carrying
drummers' trunks, general baggage and
merchandise, beginning May rs.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
BUSINESS COLLEGES

NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE
IN Roanoke, Va.The regular session
of this popular institution, which has
been partially suspended during the
heated season resumed yesterday. Sep
tember 1st, with full corps of instruc
tors. Remember that over * per cent
of the two hundred Students who
entered the school and comp. ted their
course are today filling positions sue
cessfully and most of thcm in this
Magic City OF progress and enterprise
Young man. come here and prepare Tor
business. Send for on. now i,ins,-at.a
college journal containing full iniorlpa
tion Address IA aboge tti,,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Horses Shipped to Tnzewell.

Geo. f. Dyer shipped six horses with
good records to Tazewell Court House
yesterday which he has entered in the
races at the coming fair, which begins
the Goth of this month The horses
shipped are Gen. w. S. Hancock, Col.
Thorn, Gray Dick, Stella Purdy and
Omins, the two-year.old colt. Mr.. Dyer
followed on the 1880 train last night and
will remain until the fair is over.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
THE GLADSTONE CABINET.
sevoral Of Its, sIembers Arc Well Know
w.. 80 TO Americans. - IS. ~.

Gladstone is again at the head Of the
British government, and American readers
are once more invited to the difficult task
of learning how they do 1t over there and
what it is all about. It has been said that
any Intelligent American can readily un-
derstand any part Of the British govern
ment except the cabinet and the Estab-
lished church. The former only requires
Of him long and thorough study, but to
really understand the latter one must bs
born and reared in the kingdom.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
No Negro Domination-Force Bill supple
ment.

THE Baltimore News will publish with
its issue of Sunday. September 18th, a
six page supplement on the Force bill
which the Republican party tried to en-.
act into law, and to the passage of
which the party is now committed by
Its platform.
In addition to the important speeches
delivered in Congress against the bill,
posing its iniquities, there will be ar.
ticles by Senator'S Daniel and Faulkner,
specially prepared for this supplement-.
The Sunday News will be splendid
campaign document for the Virginias
and the South. Campaign clubs, desir-
ing extra copies, (price 81 hundred)
may procure them by addressing by
wire or mail, THE EVENING News Pun
LISTING Co., Baltimore. Md.
FrnHsr cabinets. 81. sidclinger's soi Jefserroa
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-16
Chicago Markets.

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-TSpeciall- Lead
ing futures ranged as follows:
The National tribune., 1892-03-31

erected with every modern convenience. Here
tOfore the boys industrial wants have been
better provided for than the girls, but the latter
have found in Mrs. Young an earnest and sym
pathetic champion, an accomplished woman of
executive ability, quick sympathy. and gener-
ous heart. Mrs. Young, as Chief Matron, has
made each girl an object of personal solicitude
with beneficial results.
Sewing and cooking schools have been added,
giving new zest to the girls department Sew
eral futile efforts had formerly been made to
introduce a cooking school. The difficulty was
at last solved by the employment of skilled
teacher
The girls are taught to cut their own pat
terms by the Taylor system, and full set of in
struments, valued at s., is given each graduate
The physical and social development of the
children are not neglected. A gymnasium has
been established.
Much Of the land is yet undereloped, and If
scientific farming with lectures in Winter and
practical application in Summer, were intro
duced, the vacation might be utilized to the
advantage Of both the boys and the institution,
since the products could be consumed by the
latter.
The Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
is powerful missionary that must be seen to
be appreciated. The estimable Superintendent
and his wife enter heartily into the spirit of
the work, for which they are peculiarly adapted,
and together with the corps OF efficient officers
and trustees the Home bids fair to sustain its
reputation among the States and reflect credit
on Ohio whose charities it crowns.
The National tribune., 1892-03-31
MAY Be "Jack the Ripper,v

Deeming. the murderer. who was recently
arrested in Melbourne Australia, has caused a
sensation by confessing that he killed his
wife and four children at Rain Hill, near
Liverpool, and stating that he murdered and
disfgured the last two women whose bodies
were found in the Whitechapel District, Lon
don. There has been strong suspicion preva-
lent since his arrest that he was none other
than Jack tho Ripper" and this suspicion is
borne out by his appearance, which
TALES with the description given of the White
chapel tend and his alleged confession. 1t is
thought that when he finds all hope of escape
cut off he will confess other acts, although he
does not now admit the remaining Whitechapel
butcheries The police of London doubt his
statement as to the last two murders and be-
sides these are not believed to have been COM
mitted by Jack the Ripper" as the usual mode
of execution was not carried out in either case.
The National tribune., 1892-03-31
In the Death Chair

The eighth execution by means ofthe electric
chair took place at Sing Sing March %, the
criminal concerned being jeremiah Cato, the
murderer of Louis Frankeoso. The chair in
which McElvain had sat had been taken from
its place and new chair had been built on the
same pattern. The only change made was the
addition of rubber bags filed with salt water,
from which the electrodes were TO be kept
welted constantly. The current was applied
four times at the forehead and calf of the leg.
After the first three applications Cato showed
signs OF life moving his hands and opening b is
toes. After the fourth shock the doctors de-
clared the man dead. There was no burning,
but steam arose, and there was scalding of the
parts where the electrodes were applied. Cato
was executed for the murder Of his paramour's
husband, also an Italian ragpicker. He had
been the lover of the wife ever since they all
lived in Italy, whence Cato had followed his
mistress and her husband.
The National tribune., 1892-03-31
or for tho Land of Promise.

- great many negro families, composed of
men. women and children to tho number of $50
persons, left Memphis, Tenn. on Saturday,
March 26. bound for the Territory of Okla
homa. They will go overland, and the party
is provided with q motley collection of wagons,
carts and carriages, which are drawn by all
manner of animals. They propose to average
20 miles day while on the journey, which
will take them at least six weeks to make
The women and children will ride, while the
others will walk. One of the party remarked
that some of them did not have a dime in their
pockets, but that they might just as well be
broke in Oklahoma as in Tennessee. 1t is said
this is only the advance guard of large exodus
of negroes from Tennessee as at least 200 will
start in less than week by rail for Oklahoma,
while many more will follow shortly. The
negroes are being organized by an emigration
society. and all are to be settled On Govern
ment lands which are to be opened next month
The National tribune., 1892-03-31
The "GOOd GRAY Poetv Dies,

Walt Whitman, the "good gray poet" died
at his home, in Camden, n. j., ON the Goth iu-
slant.
Mr.. Whitman was born on May 81, 1919, at
West Hills, L. 1. While yet a boy his parents
removed to Brooklyn, in order to give him the
benefits of public school education. He
eyinced a great liking for study, and at the
age of Is commenced teaching school in Queens
and Suffolk Counties during the Winter de-
voting the Summer months to study and to
learning the printers trade.
His first attempts at poetry appeared in the
New York Mirror. In 1889 he published a
paper of his own, called tho Long Islander.
This soon passed into other hands, and is still
issued. From Huntington, where his paper
was published, Whitman came to New York,
where he wrote regularly for the aurora and
the Tattler.
Returning to Brooklyn, for two years he
edited the Eagle. He became interested in
politics at this time, contributing articles to the
Democratic ReUiew. and stumping it for Van
Buren, and Polk. Following the more radical
wing of his party at the time of the Free Soil
troubles in 1S49 he lost his editorship and
practically abandoned politics.
Going South, he was engaged as composition
and writer on the New Orleans Crescent. Civ
ing up this work, he made tour of the United
States and Canada, to see life under varied con-
ditions.
In 1855, while working with his father at
house building, he published his Leaves of
Grass" being his own composition. In 1856,
another edition was issued
During the war he went on the battlefields of
Virginia as a volunteer nurse in the military
hospitals. Soon after the war he received an
appointment as clerk in the Interior Depart
ment at Washington, being deposed therefrom
in 1866 because stupid superior did not APP
prove of his poetry. Shortly after, he became
q clerk in the Attorney Generals Office, hold
ing this position for eight years.
A severe paralytic stroke in 1873 necessi-
tated his resignation from this office and a re-
moval to the home of his brother in Camden,
where he lived until his death.
The National tribune., 1892-03-31
A Delightful Valley.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Mr. Jay Gould
and family, accompanied by Vice.P President
S. II. ii. Clark, of the Union Pacific Railway
Fice-President John A. Grant. OF the Texas
Pacific Railway, and Others recently spent two
days here, leaving on the 18th for the South.
Mr. GOuld's health has improved rapidly in the
last few days Before leaving Mr. Gould gave
out the following statement for the press:
After passing through the Pecos Valley, from
the crossing Of the Texas and Pacific Railway
TO Eddy, | am impressed with the wonderful
richness Of the soil, with the peculiar adapta-
ton of this valley for irrigation, and with its
ample supply Of water. This will soon become
one Of the richest valleys in the United States.
am part icularly interested in the effect of the
dry, pure air on bronchial troubles. Speaking
from personal experience, there is no better re-
gon than this for persons thus afflicted; the
effect is immediate and Improvement rapid"
NiccPresidcnts Clark and Grant were equally
enthusiastic in their praise Of the valley and
CT tie chmate.-G. .. SHIELDS, Eddy, n. ~