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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
stiiI Canceliing Certificates,

NEw YORK, Oct. 1.-The clearing
house loan committee to-day cancelled
S9s0,000 certi ticates, leaving 50, 535, O0O
outstanding. Total cancelled to date
S3l,955,000. The committee has called
for $500 0G for cancellation Monday.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
Receiver Appointed For Big Compnn,

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. 1.-THE Ken
lucky and Indiana bridge property,
bonded for 81, 900. 900 and owned entirely
by Louisville parties, has passed in to
the hands of receiver. Default OF in
terest on first and second mortgage
bonds amounting to $40, coo made this
step necessary. Judge Barr, OF the
Federal court, appointed John Nc Leod
receiyer
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
Date of Sale of a RaIlroad.

ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. 14.-In the United
States court Judge Newman has issued
an order fixing the date of sale tho
Marietta and North Georgia railroad for
November 90. This road has 100 miles
in Georgia and ITO miles in Tennessee.
The price fixed is S750,000 for the
Georgia and $500, 900 for the Tennessee
divisions.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
Death OF u Conductor.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. IA. It.
Berry, conductor on the Memphis and
Charleston road, died suddenly aboard
his train near Bellmina, Ala, last night
Of hemorrhage.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
FOREB0DINGS OF COMPROMISE.
A Plan Said to be the Outcome
of a Conference

VIII Probably be Presented to the Senate
on Monday or Tuesday Next-It Pro-
vldos for Continuance of the Sher-
man Act Four Years Longer, But for
the Purchase of Only About Ono.HaIf
tho Amount of Bullion Per Month.
President Cleveland, 1t is Said, Would
Not Assume the Responsibility of Veto.
Ing 1t.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
How Engiishmsn Look Upon the al
Night Session

LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE Daily News,
commenting on the continuous session
OF the United States Senate on the sill
ver repeal bill, says: mo such sitting
ever occurred in parliament. Such
attempts OF minority TO deny the right
OF the majority 10 govern are doomed to
Ia
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PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. 1.-THE Pop
ulists had . convention at Waverly to-
day and nominated George w. Jackson,
OF Sussex county, in place of Mai. Mann
Page, who has withdrawn from tho fight.
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FINE SHOWING OF THE BANKS.

Big Increase in Deposits and In the Excess
of Requirement Figures.
New YORK, Oct. 14.-The weekly
statement of banks shows the following
changes: Reserve, increase, 5,267, 325;
loans, increase, $e,374, 200; specie, in
crease, Sc, DOG, 700; legal tenders, increase,
50, 325,700; deposits, increase ,S12, $50, 200;
circulation, increase, S16,SO0
The banks now hold S33, SOC, $50 in
exces of the requirements Of the twenty
five per cent. rule.
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Have You Cailedo

IF NOT you should at once, and see
the largest stock OF pianos and organs,
in all kinds of plain and fancy woods, of
every style and description, ever ex-
hibited in Virginia. Prices very low
and terms made to suit your conve
nience at lIobbie Music Company.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
Heard oft?

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE dol
lars buys second hand upright piano,
with stool and cover, at Hobbie Music
Company. Call at once IL you want
this bargain, or it will be sold
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-15
ECTOFrHEN y w. WITHDRAWAL
Thought that tho Southern Il. K. and
Steamship Association VIII Go to Pieces.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. IA bomb was
thrown in the Southern Railroad and
Steamship Association yesterday by the
announcement Of the withdrawal from
the association OF the Norfolk and Wes-
tern railroad, the Merchants and Min
ers' Transfer Ship Company, the Savan-
nah, Americas and Montgomery and the
Columbus Southern.
1t is thought the association will go
to pieces and general cut in freight
rates occur.
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JUST COMMENCED THE FIGHT.
So Voorhees, Declared When He
Moved to Adjourn Yesterday.

Jones tNev) Made an Able Speech, which
Was Attentively Listened to-Dubois
Again Refused to Answer When ais
Name Was Called-The Largest at
tendance of Senators Present Since
Congress Convouod-Small Number OF
Representatives in the House.
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ALWAYS tn o Best,

ONLY absolute standard pianos and
organs sold by Hobbie Music Company,
and at prices and on terms which defy
competition. Call and examine their
StOck
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rect any misapprehension that NAV
prevail in Soma m inde

reot any misapprehension that may
prevail in some minds.
III there is anybody who thinks that
the friends and advocates OF this bill
have surrendered, or have it in con.
temptation, desire to answer, in the
language Of the immortal hero OF the
salt seas, that we have only begun the
light, and that move that the Senate
now adjourn.
The motion was agreed to, and the
Senate at sos adjourned until Monday
at II a. IN.
IN THE HOUSE.
At no time during the day were there
more than 100 members present in the
House and the discussion of the bill for
the suspension for six months of the
provisions of the Geary Chinese exclu.
sion bill was rather dreary and unin-
teresting. It was participated in by
Mcguire, OF California; Outhwaite, of
Ohio; Everett, of Massachusetts,; Her
man, Of Oregon; Sibley, Of Pennsyl-
vania; Malone, OF Pennsylvania; Will
liams, OF Mississippi, and Helborn, of
California.
Without disposing OF the bill tho
House at o'clock adjourned.
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TUE WEATHER..

Forecast for Virginia; Fair, cooler
west Winds.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
BALTIMORE MARKETS,

FLOUR.-Rcociptsf for the day were 1851 lar.
rels, including 3,512 barrels for through ship
mcnts, and city mills 1,577 barrels. Ship
ments coastwisc $50. Sales: l2S western fam
lily, $685. 40 western family, $3.50; $50 western
extra, S2.35; lao winter patent, $3.50; 100 rye
-four, S2.S5; 900 Michigan family, 1926; I25
western family, $685.; 500 spring patent.
WHEAT.-Rcceipts for the day were $3.50
bushels, viz: 1926 southern and 22,274 western;
shipments from elevators, ASS bushels: stock in
elevators 570,20j bushels. We quote: No 2
sold at 15l9c; steamer nominal at nc. Sample
lots sold at 74c and &c.
CORN.-Receipts for tho day were 81 ,812
bushels, viz: s,400 southern and % ,212 western;
shipments from elevators, 1880 bushels, and
stock in elevators, 152,427. We quote: yellow
sold at sic; white nominal at SIC.
OATS.-Reccipts for the day, 1900 bushels;
Withdrawn, 4,50S bushels; stock in elevators
81 800 bushels Ungraded southern and Penn
sylvania, :Ra41c; No. white, 4la4oc; No. 2
mixed, SSa:9c; western white, 3Sa4lc; western
mixed, 31a:S9c. Sales, 1.O00.white, track 41c.
RYE.-Receipts, 1900 bushels withdrawn,
l,6'r'; stock in elevators, 4l,7sl bushels; No. 2
bpot nominally at G2c. Sales, GOO bushels sic.
HAY.-Choice, Sl650; good to prime,
Sl5.50al6.W; mixed, fair to good, Sl5.O0aI5.5O;
common to inferior, Sl2.00al3.O0. Glover,
choice, $1,000
BUTTER.-Fancy creamery, 34a35c; good to
choice creamery, 3laS3c; imitation creamery,
sSa3Oc per pound; fancy ladlc packed 26asSc;
good to prime 25a27 per pound; fair to
good, 22a2ic; creamery prints, one-half pound,
Sa:sic; iobhing about lc higher.
EGGS.-Southcrn Maryland and Virginia,
loss Off, dozen, lllsc: western Maryland and
pennsylvania, li>9al5c; southern, II,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
All Roads Lead to Chicago.

ATLANTA, Ga, April 26-Nalter How
ard and +. NJ Durant, two we'll known
young newspaper men of this city, have
left here on bicycles to race to Chicago.
The distance is about 500 miles, and in
making it they will cross five states How
ard will start at , o'clock and Durant
two hours later. Neither is familiar with
the route, and neither has ever done any
long distance riding. Each is ignorant of
the route chosen by the other, but each is
to keep his paper posted as to his where
abonts and the incidents of the trip. Mr..
Howard represents the journal and Mr..
Durant the Constitution. In order to en-
courage the riders friends have raised n
handsome purse. In this state much in
terest as attached to the novel contest.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
Dnstnrdly Attempt to wreck n rra,n

WASHINGTON, April 26.-An attempt was
made to wreck train No. /, which starts
from the Baltimore and Ohio depot for
Cincinnati and the west, at Il point between
Stott's and I.amond's station OH the Metro
politan branch. Three large railroad ties
were placed across the track in such n man
ner that when the train came in contact
with them the cars were liable to be de-
rallied. The train is one of the fastest
which runs over this road, not making any
stops between Washington and Washing
ton junction. Just before coming to the
obstruction on the track the engineer spied
it and Immediately reversed the lever. The
locomotive crashed into the ties, but was
moving at such a slow rate of speed that
no very great damage was done
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
NEWS ITEMS IN LITTLE SPACE,

a bill having reference to the Lizzie
Borden case has been reported by the i'd
dietary committee of the Massachusetts
legislature, that every imprisoned and in
aicted person shall, if he requires it, be
tried mt the next term of court held after
he has been imprisoned six months, or be
bailed on his own recognizance. 1t aims
to secure to her speedy trial.
a large number of colored Democrats.
representing several states of the union,
met in Washington to form an association
TO aid the cause of Democracy. A perma-
nent organization was effected. The meet
ing was adjourned subject to the call of
The chairman, and another meeting will
lie held the latter part of the week.
The Mcconnell and MaGuire company,
pf Moscow, the largest mercantile house
IN Idaho, has been closed by the sheriff.
Attachments amounting to 800. coo have
been issued. The liabilities will be largely
increated. The assets are about $4,000.
Orville II. Tobey the Oldest meat packer
in Chicago, died at his residence in that
city. He opened the first packing estab-
lishment in Chicago in 1S49, and was the
first American to cure English meats
for export.
pected to witness the presentation dav
exercises of the National Deaf Mute col
lege at Kendall Green.
The case of DIR. Buchanan has been
given to the jury, who we reported as
unable to agree. The jury rr,iied for fur
ther elaboration.
The sixth game of the international
chess match, played ut Kokomo, Ind, was
won by the European, Showalter.
Among contributions of souvenirs to be
cast into the new Liberty bell will he
1900 pennies given by Washington people.
The friends of the late Colonel Charles
j. Murphy of Washington, insist that he
was murdered and are investigating the
circumstances of his DEATH
There will be extensive work done on
the Potomac river front Mt Washington
this season.
Frank Smith, sailor, was rescued from
the rigging of the wrecked schooner Dan
| forth in Lake Michigan after many hours
exposure.
ID. It. Hodges, the largest financial op-
| orator in Sioux City, Ia, and one of the
largest in the west, made an assignment
| for the benefit of his creditors.
Confessions of judgment were entered in
the circuit court i'll Chicago to the amount
of nearly 500, 600 against Giles Bros, lew
elers.
The national Y NJ. c. A. meets at In
dianapolis May II. Over 900 delegates
are expected.
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After MANY Years.

MOBILE, April 26-In 1883 George A.
Pcarce, then secretary of Planters and
Merchants insurance company of this city,
decamped, and an examination of his ac-
counts developed the fact that he was de-
faulter to the amount of S1O2, 900. Indict-
ments for grand larceny and tmbezzle-
ment were returned by the grand jury
The sheriff Of Mobile county recently dis
covered that Pearce was in business at Alb
cline, Tex, and was respected in business,
social and religious circles. He procured a
requisition from the governor of Alabama
and went to Abeline- Pearce made de.
termined legal effort to avoid extradition.
The Mobile sheriff is on his way home with
the prisoner
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
A Small Zuau War.

CHICAGO April 26.-Eally in the morn
ing lieutenant Creighton received n tele-
gram saying that 200 savages had captured
an inbound train aud had imprisoned the
trainanen. A wagon load of blue coats
met the train mt Sixty-first street. They
found Conductor Brown and his brake
men imprisoned in the baggage car, while
200 Zulns had possession of the train.
The sayages claimed that one of their num-
Der had lost some property and they were
holding the conductor responsible Lieu
tenant Creighton quoted the men and
rescued the imprisoned railroad employees
The Zulus were then transferred to the
fair grounds.
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interesting Christening of a stear.er.

WILMINGTON. Del, April 26-The new
sidcwheel steamer pocahontas, built by
the Harlan 81 Hollingsworth company for
the Virginia Navigation company, has been
launched. The Pocahontas is steel and
iron hull ship Of 2o5 feet length over all,
81 feet beam at guards and IL feet depth of
hold. She will be supplied with the most
improved machinery and is required to de-
velop speed of 20 miles an hour on her
trial trip. Miss Lila G. Hubbard, of Vir-
ginia who is lineal descendant of Poca-
hontas, christened the vessel.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
THE LATEST APPOINTMENTS.
Among the Ministers and Consuls Arc Sow
ernl of Southern Origin.

among tho ministers ana COnSulS Arc Sew
eral of Southern Origin.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The president
has made the following appointments:
Il. +. Mckinney, of New Hampshire, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary of the United States of Colon
ba
Thomas l.. Thompson, of California, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary of the United States to Brazil.
George William Caruth, of Arkansas, to
be minister resident and consul general of
the United States to Portugal.
John NJ. Wiley, of New York, to be con-
ful of the United States ut Bordeaux.
Harvey Meyers, of Kentucky, to be a
commissioner from Kentucky on the
Worlds Columbian commission.
j. c. Sanders, of Georgia, to he an alter
nate commissioner from Georgia on the
Worlds Columbian commission.
Owen Il. Rouse, of Arizona Territory, to
be associate justice of tho supreme court
of the territory of Arizona.
To be attorneys of the United States:
William E. Shut, of Illinois, for the
southern district of Illinois; John w.
Judd, of Utah, for the territory of Utah.
To be marshals of the United States:
Richard c. Ware, of Texas, for the western
district of Texas; George NJ. Humphrey,
of Nevada, for the district of Nevada
Oliver p. johnson, of the District of Co
lumba, to be a justice of the peace in the
county of Washington, in the District of
Columbia, and assigned to the city of
Georgetown.
Thomas l.. Thompson was born at
Charleston, w. Va, in 1888, and went to
California in 1855, and has been an editor
and publisher over thirty years. In 1869
Mr.. Thompson was elected secretary of
state and was n member of the fiftieth
congress, being the third in line of his
family to serve in that capacity-his grand
father in the seventh, eighth and ninth and
his father in the thirtieth. He was dele
gate to the Chicago convention and mem
Der of the famous Whitney committee.
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PAID FOR DOING NOTHING.
Great Ingenuity Displayed by Clerks in
tho Departments mt Washington.

Great Ingenuity Displayed by Clerks in
tho Departments mt Washington.
A great many young men secure
places in tho departments merely for
the purpose of supporting themselves
while they are studying in the great
schools of law and medicine here, saws
the Washington Star. Matters nre SO
arranged ut these institutions that a
clerk who stops work at four d. IN. can
get dinner and be on hand for the even
ing lectures, which begin at six. The
house has voted to reduce the annual
vacation of the clerks from thirty to fif-
teen days, in addition to which they
are allowed thirty. days sick leave in
each year. Whenever there is :. legal
holiday there is usually hulf-holiday
on the'day previous. The clerk takes the
working part of that half day off, This
gives him two days clear. But, on the
day before the half-holiday, he goes to
the chief of his bureau and asks permis-
sion to leave ut two thirty p. m, SO rs
to catch Il train. Thus the single DAVIS
holiday is expanded into two days and Il
half. The ingenuity with which such
affairs arc managed is said to be won
dcrful. However, it should he explained
that two-thirds of the employees rarely
take day of the sick leave allowed
them. Ii IL clerk is absent on account
of illness over sixty days in any year he
or she must pay substitute The civil
service commission provides all the sub
stitutes that are wanted. 1t is provided
that the clerks shall give to the substi-
tute certain proportion of the pay
usually amounting to about five per
panf Dtyf l,,c Ia - IL.
might retain his place in the service of
the government for years, though him
self blind, paralyzed and confined to
his bed. In all cases of sickness physi-
clans certificate is required. Not long
ago the treasury department made n
rule to the effect that such certificate
must always state the nature of the
complaint But the local medical society
resolved in formal council that such a
thing was out of the question. and SO
the regulation fell to the ground.
One gets vivid notion of the magni-
tude of the departments from the vast
quantities of ice which arc required to
Quench the thirst of the twenty-thrcc
thousand clerks. The treasury con-
; sumes ton and n half of ice daily, talk
ing an average the year around. An
equal quantity is used in the war; state
and navy buildings. But the depart
ment of the interior is the great de-
vourer of ice. Including the pension
office it gobbles up from five to six tons
every twcnty-four hours. The Iuanti-
ties utilized are variable. Each depart
lacnt makes its own contract for ice,
bids being advertised for annually. No
definite amount to be provided is agreed
on. The contractor gets so much for
! supplying all the frozen water required
| whatever it may be. All the depart.
ments, together with their branches
consume twenty-four thousand pounds
every day, Any secretary can by ii sim.
| pie order increase the working hours OF
the clerks in his depart nent to any OK.
| tent which lie thinks desirable.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
The Guy Fawkcs Ceremonial.

About ten o'clock the picturesque old
pageant of the search for Guy Fawkes
was carried out. A party Of beefeatcrs
in their quaint uniforms and still quaint
erhats, marched up the floor of the house
with lanterns and descended soleinnly
by staircase behind the speakers
chair into the bowels of the earth, there
to search for the shade of Guy Fawllcs
or for his successor, if any. 1t was a
striking scene, full of color and old
world associations. A few members
asked to be permitted to descend and
take part in the search, but their rs.
sistance was politely but firmly de.
clined by the courteous police officer
who acted as sort of stage manager
OF this dramatic little ceremony.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
Names of Mountains.

Mountains and mountain ranges in
the United States, and, indeed, the
world over, have usually been named
not by the mountaineers themselves,
but by the jewellers in the plains who
saw the mountains as more or less dis
tant prospect. 1t sometimes happens
that mountain Or mountain range
bears two names, says the New York
Sun, because of different aspects present
to jewellers upon each side. The sew
cral Blue and Blue Ridge mountains
were named manifestly by those to
whom the ranges presented themselves
against more or less distant horizon
One of the Green mountains in Vermont
is called Bald Face by jewellers in the
Adirondack region about Paul Smiths,
name justified by the aspect OF the
mountain from that part of the wilder
ness. Our own Adirondack Sugar Leaf
could never have been named by a
dweller upon its own top. The Orange
mountains took their name, however,
not from their sunset aspect as seen
from the lowlands, but are only another
evidence of the affection with which
Dutchmen cling to the name Orange, an
affection that has led them to fix that
name on the map in whatever part o.
the world they may have tarried.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27

ROCKFORD, Ills, April 26. Charles Me
man, living on farm near Laona, put all
his horses and cattle and valuables into
the barn and then set it on fire Every
thing was destroyed, including 80 head of
cattle six horses, wagons and buggies. He
then went to the house, locked the doors
and killed himself with n shotgun.
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WASHINGTON, April 26--While Dixon,
the featherweight champion, WAS fighting
an unknown at the Lyceum theater, Pete
Nally, local celebrity, weighing about
100 pounds, who was in a box, said: "\Vhy
don't you knock him out:" Dixon's man
ager invited him to suit his words to the
act, and to the great delight of the audi
ence Nally lasted Just one round
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
zinc Labor Question in Enrone.

PARIS, April 26-Comte De Nun, the
leader of the Christian socialist movement
i'll France, made an important speech yes
terrlay in Toulouse ut the Roman Catholic
congress. He declared socialism to be the
great question of the day, and that the
church ought to declare itself on the side
of labor and not capital. This he advanced
as the meaning of the Pope's advocacy of
social action by the church
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
RECEIVER Asked For

CHICAGO, April 2G.-James d. Hurd filed
bill in the United States circuit court
asking for an accountant and receiver for
the Lehigh Valley Coal and Iron company
Similar bills have been filled in ST. Paul,
Milwaukee, Duluth, West Superior and
Madison, Wis.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
Hebrews NAV Re Freem.sons

BERLIN, April 20 The Prussan SUI
preme court has given rebuff to anti-sem-
itism i'll Germany by pronouncing against
the supposed privilege of Freemason
lodges to exclude Hebrews from member
ship, declaring the exclusion to be contrary
to the Hrussian constitution. The ques-
ton arose out of the protest of three lodges
against the foundation of a fourth, which
proposes to admit Hebrews.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
A Corporation Yonnd IJn

GRAND RAPIDS, April 26.-In the United
States court today eastern creditors and
bondholders were given three judgments
aggregating $40, 600 against the Hydraulic
company of this city, and Thomas j.
O'Brien was appointed receiver to wind up
the affairs of the embarrassed corporation
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
An Emhezzler Wanted.

Boston, April Ga warrant is out for
the arrest of Henry B. Palmer, teller of
of the Fall River National bank, for max.
ing false entries in the books o. the bank
bud embezzlipg 80, GOO
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-27
Strike Declared OF.

OMAHA, April :6 AL the strikers on
the line of the Union Pacific have resumed
work, the strike having been declared of.
both the men and officials decline to make
public S,e terms of the compromise.