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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
vINTON

The funeral of Henry Hammer took
place from the residence Of his father,
Il, +. Hammer, yesterday afternoon at
halt past four o'clock. Rev DR.. Camp.
bell, D. D., officiated. At the conclu-
sion of tho services here the remains
were inferred in the City Cemetery at
Roanoke.
Miss Nettie Goggin, of Bedford, who
is visiting the family OF l.. B. GRAY,
was taken suddenly i'll yesterday, and
for some time was very sick. She grew
much better later in the DAY.
Misses Mary and Alice Brood, of Bed
ford City, and Mrs. George McH. Gish
are visiting Mrs. DR.. Sale, on Second
street.
John c. Hill, editor of the Iron Belt,
OF Roanoke, will leave on Monday night
for Portsmouth to attend the annual
N eeting of the State Press Association.
He will go from that post to Boston by
steamship and return in a few weeks.
BENZ. Semones, formerly resident OF
Vinton but now engaged in farming
near Salem, was in town Yesterday
shaking hands with old friends.
The Odd Fellows will give festival
shortly for the benefit of their lodge.
W. o. Kiser is convalescing slowly
from his recent shaking up.
M. + Semones left yesterday evening
for visit OF week or more to Pittsyl-
vania county, his former home.
Harvey James, prominent farmer of
Bed ford county, and the owner of real
estate here, was on our streets yestel-
day.
William Eubank, attorney-at.law of
Bedford City, is visiting friends here
w. A. Pedigo left yes terday for Frank
lin county.
Jno. r. Richardson was in town yes
terday
r. l.. Cook will leave in few days for
Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Mrs. ]. r. Harris is quite sick.
Patrick Simmons, of Cham blissburp,
was here looking after his business in
terests yesterday.
Ellis Wrightis delivering his new crop
of wheat to Mason IL Cook.
At the Methodist Church this morn
ing at eleven o'clock, Rev. Z. II. Bu-
chanan will preach, after which the
communion will be administered There
will be no preaching at night. The
usual services will take place in the
other churches.
John Fuqua, who has been sick sew
eral weeks with malarial fever, was on
the streets yesterday.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
NEWS OF The CHURCHES.

Christ Church-Services will be held
at II a. m. and 8 p. IN. in the r. II. M.
G. a. Hall, over Hobbies music store.
Row. 2. R. Nugent, Of Salem, will OIL.
ciate at both services. Sunday.school
ut $3.50 q. m. A cordial welcome will be
extended to all.
Preaching at Trinity Tabernacle Sun
day at IL a. M. and s p. M. by the pas.
tor, Rev. S. G. Ferguson. Fine singing.
Strangers welcomed. Sunday-school at
9:30 a. IN,
ST. Paul's Reconnaissance (Rey.
Lewis Reiter, pastor) at liza. m. in
Smiths music hall, corner Salem ave.
nue and Roanoke street.
Calvary Baptist Church Campbell
street above PArk-Rev. r. R. AGREE,
ID. d., pastor. Preaching at liza. m.
anu p IN. by pastor; Sunday-school
at $3.50 M. To all the above services
we extend cordial invitation.
ST. James NJ. e Church, South, pas.
tor, &. Il. ID. Collins-Sunday school at
half past niLe o'clock q. m; preaching
at IL o'clock. AT night preaching at s
p. IN. Strangers are cordially invited
to attend.
Greene notwithstanding by the
pastor at ] q. m.; Sunday school $50 q.
m. Rev. c. Ii. buchanan will fill tho
PAAPAo, " ASHueoO VI Iu0 pastor, at S.l0
p. IN. His subject will be 1.-The Glory
of Christianity" Mrs. E. E. Wiley will
participate in the evening service in the
interest of the Woman's Parsonage and
Home Mission Society. All are cordi.
ally invited to attend the service. The
congregation will attend the mass
meeting at Trinity Church at p. N. to
be conducted by Mrs. Wiley.
Rev. o. L. Hippo will preach in the
First Baptist Church to day at a. IN.
and p. IN. The morning service will
DO of especial interest to each member
of the church and congregation. A full
attendance of tho membership is earn
estly requested. II is desirable that
each member know the plans of church
work for the next fiscal year, beginning
August l.
The meeting of the r. R. Nj. c. A.
this afternoon at o'clock will be con-
Quoted by r. A. B"rks. Subject: IRE
pentance," Acts, 17:22-32. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
A VILLAGE DANCE.
A Times Correspondent Describes One at
Graham.


Times Correspondent Describes One at
Graham.
After supper last night was casting
about for means Of being entertained
for the remainder of the evening and,
sauntering up to the hotel clerk, / asked
him if there was anything going on
down town, he replying that there was
a dance in progress and suggested That
my friend, Mr.. Ruthroth, and take q
stroll down among the natives. This
we did, much to our pleasure, end /
cannot refrain from telling you about it..
The lads and lassies " ere there in full
feather and many and varied were the
evolutions of the dance. There is moth
ing In the social line quite so enjoyable
as the informal village dance. There
is no lack of refinment, but rather the
greatest opportunity for its display; not
the cramped and tortuous etiquette Of
the 'swell ball." but simple grace and
joyous freedom from restraint.
On they go. these sons and daugh tiers
OF freemen; these offspring Of the noun
taineer; these coming citizens of great
future, and as they glide along in
Kaleidoscope radiance, al look away
back into the past. to those good old
days when was thoughtless, joyous
youth, and would ride twenty miles
any night to attend u country dance.
But as we grow older, we dance to diff
ferent music, the tune becomes more
weird and at times less musical, but we
must dance on and then at last comes
Old Time calling Partners, to your
places" and so the dance goes on.
AS sat looking on TO night l thought
of Whittier's lines:
1 hear the tread OF pioneers,
or nations yet to he,
The long low wash of waves where soon
Shall roll human sea.
e. A. P.
Hotel Graham, Graham. Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
A STRANGE GIFT.
Mr.. and Mrs. Obenchain Presented with a
Baby Girl

MIR. and Mrs. Obenchain Presented with a
BABY Girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. D. Obenchain, resid-
ing on Ninth avenue, became the in
voluntary guardians Of an infant Friday
night in very peculiar manner.
About twelve o'clock on this night
the front door of the house was heard to
slam and when Mr.. Obenchain went to
investigate he found that some one had
placed cradle, containing a baby girl
about one year old, in the hall. The
cradle was new ard the baby's clothes
were also OF recent make.
There was a note in the cradle which
stated that the girls name was Annie
and that new owners could name her
anything else they pleased just so they
called her Annie.
1t is supposed that the people who
left the child entered the house tn rough
a window and slammed the door, on
going out. to awaken the inmates. Mr..
Obenchain has reported tho matter to
the police and the child will probably
be scnt to an orphan asylum.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
THIRD PARTY STRENGTH.

The peculiar position and strength of
the Third party in the fall election is a
far greater puzzle TO the leaders of the
old parties than either side will give
credit or acknowledge. The Democrats
are positive that the Third party will
be formidably strong in the Republican
States west OF the Mississippi. The
Republicans manifest an equal positive
ness that the Third party will play hob
with the Democracy south of Mason and
Dixon.
1t will be necessary to count the bal
lots to tell which side is right in these
diverse predictions. In 1878 the Green
back Labor party cast upwards of $780,
600 votes in the whole country. A pro-
missing organization which only lacked
votes and sound platform OF winning
a victory. The net strength of the
Farmers Alliance vote in 1S9O.9l
throughout the country did not fall
short OF 100000. In it's Third party
form it may equal these figures in Nov
ember.
The Alliance is peculiar body It's
political methods are unique and its
own. That under Ger tain circumstances
they are extremely effective methods
cannot be denied. The heavy crops of
last year should have strong tendency
to lessen third party influence, but the
equivocal attitude of both the old par
ties toward the free coinage of silver
will to large extent Offset that and
set the Third party embers into a flame
In the South the Third party move
ment might be formidable, had not the
Republicans foolishly inserted the force
bill plank in their platform There is
practically no danger of single South
ern electoral vote going to the Third
party candidates; but there is one ele-
ment of danger which needs careful
watching. Let Virginia be taken as an
example.
The Republican party may be looked
for 10 poll q full vote in the State
Suppose the Alliance polls vote OF 100
in each county in the State. That will
be IL, 600 votes. Can the Democrats con-
troll a majority OF over 10000 for Cleve-
land in Virginia? Not on the basis of
1858.
1t behooyes the Democracy OF Vir-
GINA to mend their fences at an early
day.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
ROANOKE, VA. JULY 10, 1892.

THE TIMES can be found regularly on
oale at the following places:
Roanoke-George Gravatt. Jr., M. L..
gmith-s, hotels Roanoke. Ponce de Leon,
Nls's News Stand, "a Salem avenue
Bristol, Tenn.-W. A. Ward, Front
Street.
Blueheld--Bluefield Inn.
Lynchburg-Norvell- Arlington Hotel.
Observation-Disclosures Inn.
Pulaski-Maplei Shade Inn, Brown 81
Brown.
Radford-Radford Inn, w. @. Butler.
Salem-W. s Taylor's Book Store.
aehington--Willard's, The Metropoli-
Gan.
Wytheville-E. n. Bailey.
Norfolk and Westernstreins.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10

Rowelre American Newspaper Direc-
sorry for 1891 puts the circulation of THE
ROANOKE TIMES above that of any
other paper in Southwest Virginia, and at
more than that of all the other papers OF
Roanoke combined.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
The weekly Bank statement.

NEW York, July 0.-[Special The
weekly bank statement shows the fol-
lowing changes: Reserve, decrease,
S2,500,575; loans, decrease, zero, 700:
specie, decrease, S06l 900; legal ten
ders, decrease, s2,5l7.6Oo; deposits, de-.
crease, S3.s77, 700; circulation. increase,
$4,000. Banks now hold S15,576, DOG
in excess OF requirements of 25 per cent
rule.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
An Ex-poiiceman Shot AT.

EX.Policeman Schultz claims that he
was shot at yesterday by three men on
Eighth avenue. Since tho recent safe
robberies Mr.. Schultz has been search
ing for the bnrglars and it was while
working up supposed clue that tho
shots were fired. Although on the
tra,k OF criminals Mr.. Schultz did not
have pistol and therefore could not re-.
turn tho fro.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10

SEAL PRESSE PLAIN 81. SELF.
~ mixing rubber stamps from rs cents
ur to SIS. Hand stamps, from % cents
up. Self-suppl, ing pads, 95 to so cents.
Stamp supplies of every description as
low in price as aay manufacturer in tue
ur tied States. Call On or address j. T.
HALL, lO3 Third avenue.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
RICHMOND G. A. *. MEN

Purchase Lot and Prepare to Erect a
Handsome Ii all.
RICHMOND, July 0.-Edgars Allen, of
Washington, former vice commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
yesterday bought the old city hall lot
here for the Phil Kearney Post. OF this
place. The property was recently pur-
chased for other parties by Postmaster
Otis Russell, by whom it was sold for
$3.50. The Phil Kearney Post expe ct
to erect a handsome hall on the lot
Their present home is big building
adjoining their newly acquired property.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
Minister strnye to Retire.

ST. Petersburg, July ct is stated
that Mr.. de Strive, the Russian minister
to the United States, will retire very
soon and that he will be succeeded nv
Prince Cantakuzenos,: at present coun.
cilor Of the Russian cmbas- y at Vienna.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10

JULY 10, 1892.

Fine Dwelling on Terry Hill, 10
rooms, bath room, stable, lot 5Ox15O,
beautiful location, S3, 600
One of the best lots in tho Lewis Ad-
dition, 5Oxl30 feet. $500; bargain.
New dwelling in the West End, 0
rooms, all Improvements, $3.50; 5000,
balance easy payments.
Belmont lots near the slope, $500
each: only few left.
Do you want to build? We have a
beautiful corner lot on Patterson ave-
nue. that we will sell without any cash
payment. Call and see us.
Lot on Center street, 40xl30 feet,
$500; S25 cashs balance SIS per month.
Good Groom dwelling near the West
End round house, $4,000; on easy pay
ments. Call and see US.
One of che best corner lots on the
upper Boulevard, 5Oxl50 feet, $500;
rare bargain
Dwelling, 0 rooms, in one block of
Salem avenue and Commerce street,
So, 500.
All of the best property in the south
part of the city.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
Kranich & BACH Plano

ALWAYS popular. The musicians
favorite. Hobbie Music Co., sole deal
ers. Factory prices; easy payments.
ls7 Salem avenue.
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THE ROANOKE TIMES PUBLISHING CO.,
Roanoke, Virginia.
Entered at the Postofice at Roanoke as second
glass matter.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.

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DR.. |. PEARCE COATES.

Specialties: Catarrh and all Diseases Of
Ear, Nose, Throat and Chest.
Office hoars: 0:30 to 12 a. M; to 4 .
M, and 5 to Up IN.
Office: frey Building, opposite post
Office, Roanoke, Va. 51Otf
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-31
Cats in Egypt.

The first people known to have domesti-
Gated cats were the ancient Egyptians, or
whose monuments representations of these
animals are found as early as 1000 B. c. 1t
is on a tomb erected about 1900 B. c. that
puss first appears Enthusiastically as a do
mesticated creature, being shown seated
beneath chair In ancient Egypt the cat
was an object of religious worship, and
was even an inmate of the temples. There
was actually cat goddess, named Blu
bastis, who was always depicted as having
a cats head. Behind the temple dedicated
to her at Benz Hassan great pits have been
found containing multitudes of cat mum
mics.
The cat was also regarded as an emblem
of the sun-its eyes being supposed to vary
in color with the progress of that luminary
through the heavens. Likewise its eyes
were believed to undergo II change each
lunar month-for which reason the beast
was also sacred to the moon. Interview in
Washington Star.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-31
Casualties of Our Coast.

Some idea of the enormous number Of
casualties tovessels may be obtained when
we reflect that along our coast in the past
fourteen years there have been 16, 12S casu-
alties to vessels On our Atlantic and Gulf
coasts during the year ending June 30,
1889, there were G62 disasters to vessels.
OF these 25S cOllided, pa stranded, A
foundered and 81 were burned. 1t is curl
Gus and interesting to note the various
causes assigned for these 662 casualties
One hundred and siXty-eight were due tC
gales and hurricanes, 36 to fire, 81 sprang
aleak, the same number met disaster Joy
reason of fog, 25 through errors of masters
officers or crew, 10 by reason of Gains, cur
rents or tides, IA by reason of darkness, Il
struck rock, wreck or bridge.
AS to rig the G62 unfortunate vessels are
classified as follows: Schooners, 1884, steam.
ers, 116; steamships, 43; sloops, 2S; ferry,
boats, II; barges, p; banks, 10; briggs, 49,
and steam yachts, 0. Classified according
to cargoes 230 were in ballast, SO carried
coal, IS lumber, 43 general merchandise, 81
fish, % stone or brick, and the same mis-
cellaneous; 1903 met disaster in November
"a in April, 66 in October, 81 each in De
cember and January, and So in March. -
Providence Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-31
Delicate but Dangerous.

1t might not be supposed that danger
turks in the delicate operation of handling
flowers, yet painful, troublesome wounds
are frequently received by the workmen,
and Lady Macbeth's 'innocent flower" APP
pears to conceal more aggravations than
the serpent. Nearly every one who has
long and active employment in the retail
flower stores can show numerous scars,
and it is common in busy Broadway shops
and other large places in the trade to see a
proprietor or several of his assistants with
bandaged fingers. The thorns of roses
cause the greatest mischief.
Florists ascribe their most serious hurts
to poison absorbed in dollhouse productions
which have undergone strong vermin
killing process. A number of the dealers
infer that after many applications the
juicy parts of the plants become impreg-
mated with poison, for, although in the
course of arranging flowers for sale the
stems get well washed, the slightest thorn
punctures or scratches will cause tedious,
uncomfortable sores.-New York Tribune
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-31
BAKING POWDER.
Recent Authorities About It.

The Scientific American, the SAM
tary Era, the indianapolis Board of
Health, the Wisconsin Food Comis-
sioner and many other recent investi-
gators have stigmatized the use of
alum or ammonia in baking powder
as injurious, and have published from
time to time lists, calling the atten-
tion of the public to brands containing
these drugs.
1t would seem as if some makers
ought to have the honesty or good
sense to make pure powder, foresee-
ing that although a smaller percent
age of profit is made, it must event.
ually result in increased sales, and
consequently greater gain, and yet,
after looking over the records, we are
forced to the conclusion that CDR.
Prices Cream" is pretty much the
only brand that can be relied upon
unless one wants to be drugged daily.
Some of the powders which are the
most widely pulled and heralded
with government chemists" (?) and
other more or less spurious testimo-
mails are found to be the very ones
which contain either one or the other
of these impurities.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-31
The COMPOSITION of Tears.

No subject has yielded more poetry than
that of tears. Adiectives the most various
have been used to express the qualities OF
tears They have been called "hot,"
s.cold." "languid," "briny," gushing,
"round," "glittering," dull, " SILENT
"wear.ed," "wanton," and | know not
what else. They are waves OF emotion,
and as a general expression they are salu
to spring always from the heart-an eX-
preston singularly truthful, for no one
ever wept from the head; that is, no one
ever reasoned himself or herself into tears
except through an appeal back to emotion
The poets have dealt with what may be
considered, from their point OF view, cheni-
istry of tears. They have written ABOUT
salt tears" crystal tears" poisonous
tears" "honeyed tears" and the like. Ihey
are to some extent correct in their poetlc
guesses. Tears are saline, for they carry a
trace of the chloride of sodium or common
salt which exists in the blood; they may
be poisonous, for in persons under the IN
fluence of a soluble poison, like salt OF
antimony, they may convey an infinitesl'
NAL part of such poisonous material; they
may be honeyed, for in diabetes the tears
do sometimes become saccharine, like the
other fluid secretions.
But this sort of thing is exceptional. IL
a general way tears are made up OF purt
water holding a trace of saline matter ant
nothing more; the glands which secret(
them are the purest wells of pure water IL
the body.-Dr w. B. Richardson in AS
I'D
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-31
Labor Unions of the United States.


The handbook by the Federation of Labor
shows the strength of the seventy-four ma
tional trade unions of the United States to
be 675,117. The Carpenters Brotherhood
leads with $4,000 members; Amalgamated
Iron and Steel Workers, 10000; Iron Mold
ers Union of North America, Al 900; Inter,
national Bricklayers and Stonemasons'
union, $4,000; Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers;30 900; International Typograph-
ical union, $4,000; Cigar Makers Interna-
tional union, $4,000; Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen, 90, 900; United Mine Work
ers, 100000 Granite Cutters National union,
10000; Journeymen Bakers National union
1880; Journeymen Tailors' union, l7,0O0
and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and Brotherhood of Painters and Decora-
tors, each with l6, 000.-Paper Mill,