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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
other Candidates for Council.

In addition to the candida for City
Council that were mentioned in THE
TINES Of yesterday S. X. Dickerson is
An independents candidate for aldermanic
honors in the Fourth ward ard j. S
Craybill is asking to be elected council
man from the Fifth ward. For some
time it has been circulated that other
candidates from the Third ward other
than the Republican nominees, Boehm
and Hawkins, and the Independents,
Ramsay and Houston, but none Of the
other gentlemen spoken of will be
balloted for except f. A. Wintermayer
who is announced as an independent
candidate.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
WASH GOODS

There is no such stock of Wash Goods
in Southwest Virginia as you will find
with US. Prices the lowest possible al
ways.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
Chnrged with steallng a watch.

jennie Hickman, who resides on
Peach and Honey hill, was arrested
about IL o'clock last night by Sergeant
Griflin on warrant sworn out by Tom
Short in which she is is charged with
stealing gold watch value at $40. The
alleged theft occurred November IS.
The woman claims that Short made her
a present of the watch. She was placed
in jail and will have hearing in the
police court this morning.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
LOCAL BREylTIEs.

Capt Joseph Sarles, Of Montgomery
county, Virginia, is visiting his son,
Capt. L. FL. Sarles, on Ninth avenue s.w.
P. W. Reynolds, of Reynolds Brothers
& Co., left yesterday to take trip
along the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
In the interest of his firm.
Intelligence reached this city yester.
day that Miss Annie Beale, daughter Of
Capt. William r. Beale, of Buchanan,
was dangerously i'll.
Capt. WV. Berkeley went to Bedford
yesterday.
Robert Lovelace, prominent Frank
lin county farmer, WAS in the city yes.
terday.
Miss Helen Blair, OF Salem, is visiting
at the home of j. Allen Watts.
Judge Henry E. Blair, of Salem,
passed through the city on the noon
train yesterday on his way to Fincastle
to hold the spring term of circuit court.
w. A. Glasgow and S. e. Jones are
attending circuit court at Fincsstle.
b. L. Hoge is attending Giles county
court at Pearisburg.
j. j. Catogni Is in the North purchas-
ing an outfit for new cafe he is about
to open.
Prof. ]. D. Eggleston. of Asheville,
N. c., Is visiting j. P. Holiday in this
city.
D. 1. Bachman has returned from a
visit to Richmond.
John P. Lee, of Rocky Mount, was in
the city yesterday.
business trip.
Ben Webb. Of Franklin county, was in
the city yesterday whiting friends.
Col. Mosby H. Payne, of Buchanan,
was in town few hours yesterday.
Col. Frank Korte. G.. q. Vines and
Joe Frank went to Fincastle yesterday.
f. j. Stone, OF Stoneville, N. C, is
prospecting in Roanoke and will prob.
ably locate here.
DR.. W. w. S. Butler and E l.. Nc.
C.intock are in Botetourt county fish
ing for trout.
J. l.. Stafford has removed from Blue.
field to this city.
Miss Eff1e Smith, of Franklin county,
passed through the city yesterday en-
route for Denver, Col, to visit her
brother.
Mr.. w. G. Watkins has just returned
from Grayson county, where he has
spent several days.
Mrs. Lavinia Childs, of Natural
Bridge, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. E.
Watson, OF Natural Bridge.
j. E. Touris. of Christiansburg, has
located with his wife on Eleventh ave.
nue. 8. W., where they will reside during
the summer.
Superintendent R. H. Soule. OF the
Roanoke Machine Works, returned yes
terday from Philadelphia.
j. p. Andre Motif. of Norfolk, a
prominent banker, was in the city yes
Ierday.
L. E. Houston, Of Elkhorn, w. Va
president Of the Houston Coal and Coke
Company is in the city.
Miss Mamie Smith, Of Knoxville,
Tenn. is visiting the Misses Clarie at
their home, on Campbell street.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
Baseball Game TODAY.

There will be a game of baseball this
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock between the
team Of the Allegheny Institute and the
Nine Stars, the latter squad being a
brilliant galaxy of sluggers who are just
beginning to shoot in Northeast Roa-
noke. The game will be played on the
school boys grounds and no admission
will be charged.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24

The young men of Trinity Methodist
Church have perfected an organization
in order that more and better work
might be done. L. Blair, Jr, was
elected president and c. w. Hogsett,
secretary and treasurer. committee
on permanent organization will report
at the next meeting Monday night.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24

Ierday.
L. e. Houston, Of Elkhorn, w. Va,
president of the Houston Coal and Coke
Company, is in the city.
Miss Mamie Smith, Of Knoxville,
Tenn. is visiting the Misses Clarie al
their home, on Campbell street.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
Isarnitz-Coopsr.

Cards are out announcing the mar.
riage on June i. at Salem, of Miss May
Barnitz. daughter of Judge w. M
Barnitz, OF Salem, to Thos. ii. Cooper
OF Coopers, w. Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24

Superintendent R. H. Soule. OF the
Roanoke Machine Works, returned yes
terday from Philadelphia.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
Newly Opened

95 pcs. Satines in newest effects at
12Ic.
go pcs. Gloria Satines st 1sc.
Novel Challies, light and dark, ct 90
and ESQ.
25 pos. Printed Crepon at 121Gc.
- pcs. better grade at zoe.
so pcs. new and nobby Dress Ginghams
in choicest designs at 12Nc.
Is pcs. New Figured Cashmeres at
a216c.
2 cases Irish Lawns at 121c.
25 pcs. "Yeddo Crepes" in plain colors,
all shades, at 15c., worth zoe.
Is pcs. new imported printed Dunities,
the most desirable fabric in the market,
at $50.
IS pos. New Printed Dotted Swisses,
all tho rage, Scotch manufacture, at
Csc. worth 45c.
White Goods in every phase of wear,
grade and style in complete assortment
Embroideries, Laces, Feather Stitch
Braida, etc complete.
New Hosiery, Underwear and Kid
Gloves.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24

We will give you piece of the earth
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
HGirOniluS & BrQgb

P. S.-We are agent for the
Standard Paper Patterns. They
are the best pattern in the mar.
ket, everybody likes them
Try them. June fashion sheet
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1911,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24
New Things in Every Department

A visit TO our store will repay you In
the many attrsc ions to be seen. Why
trouble yourself with ordering when sc
complete stock may be had to selec
from right here at home.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24

A. L. JAMESON q Co., coal dealers, headquarters
for Atlantic dynamite and JndsOn powder.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-24

We will give you piecs of the earth
cheap.
Lot in the southwest between Jeffer
son street and Franklin road, $3.50; very
cheap.
Good s-room house with bath ST., 800,
$"5 cash, balance SIS per month.
Seven good lots on Campbell street
and Chapman avenue, 5Ox15O feet each
$3.50 each.
Corner lot on Commerce street near
Maj. M. w. Bryant's. 75xl70 feet. So, 400;
cheap.
Eightroom house on corner lot in the
southwest, both gas, hot and cold water,
stable, 81, 600.
Corner lot on Park street, $3.50; $50
cash balance easy terms: cheap
Splendid Groom house. all possible
conveniences. Lot $50 feet front, price
$500; $500 cash, balance $50 per month.
Special bargains in beautiful corner
lot on Commerce street.
Good Groom house on Campbell street,
large stable. Lot 50X182 feet We are
offering this property at very low
figure.
Good residence lot in the West End,
50x150 feet, $3.50
New 9 room house in the West End,
both gas, hot and cold water. $3.50;
$500 cash. balance $40 per month.
Good corner lot on Franklin avenue,
$1,000; Is cash, balance one and two
years.
FOR RENT.
Slx-room house with bath on Church
street, S95 per month.
Ten-room house on Campbell avenue,
$40 per month.
Nine-room house on Maple avenue, all
coDve niences, SIS.
Eight room house on Campbell avenue
$50 per month.
]. F. VINGFIELD,
go Commerce St.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30
THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.

structure veneered with granite blocks
8 inches in thickness. And yet it cost
$3.50, 600.
The result is that all the east side is
out Of line. The granite blocks have SO
far separated that the brick interior can
be seen to be cracked and split The
pointing between the granite blocks on
that side has come out, and water, filter
ing in and freezing in winter, is helping
on the destruction. Experts declare
that the monument viii not fall down,
but that the granite will come off here
and there and leave the structure a pic
turesque ruin. The stone balustrade
leading TO the platform is also falling to
pieces, and the stone steps are separated
by an inch in places. And to see this
fastening ruin the patriotic pilgrim pays
25 cents.
So much i'll feeling has been excited
that some skeptical people in Springfield
now give it as their opinion that there
never was any attempt to steal the body
Of the great liberator; that the whole af-
fair detailed by the aged custodian, his
own remarkable vigilance included, was
phantasm Of his brain, and that two
men were railroaded to the penitentiary
for year simply on their bad character
and to get up a sensation. This, how
ever, is going quite too far, and their
talk is only mentioned here as a symp-
tom Of the prevalent discomfort. Some
men will say anything when angry.
G.r-a,sa1 If11. l,s-s. 1,,.a.,.-l.A "a
the legislature recently, and the general
proposition Of the DISCONTINUED is that
the state shall expend S2j, 900 in repair
ing the monument and So 500 year to
have it cared for; that the fence be re-
moved, and that the monument be like
that Of Washington and other heroes,
free to all pilgrims. There are experts,
however, who declare that the whole
monument viii have to be taken down
and reconstructed ON better plan and
with proper foundation. II never has
been what its projectors intended OF
hoped for, and strictly speaking it is not
yet completed.
Several pieces of statuary are yet to go
in place and are in fact not yet pur-
chased. The famed sarcophagus is emp
ty, and the remains Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lin
coin lie in the ground under it, with, it is
said, six feet of cement and brick above
them. In the crypt are inches for the
members Of the family, one for Robert
Lincoln, still living, and one for his
mother, who, as aforesaid, lies below.
But niche No. 2 holds the remains of Tad
Lincoln and niche No. those of Willie
and the infant that died before Mr.. Lin
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30

fact he said 10 MISS NELLIE NJ. PETER.
have performed them for a long time be-
fore she received the appointment, for it
is a well known fact that the clerk of
any Of the minor senate committees is
virtually but the secretary of the chair
man Of the committee, and Miss PETER
has assisted her father in that capacity
ever since the beginning of the last ses-
sion Of congress. Previous to that she
was stenographer and bookkeeper in
the business Office of the Kansas Farmer,
with which paper her father has been
connected for many years.
Miss PETER is extremely businesslike
in her treatment of her fathers CORE
spondence, opening and reading all his
letters and making brief notes of their
contents on the outer fold. with the
writer's name and address and the date.
Her briehng is said to be 80 well and ad-
curately done that the senator never has
to read any Of his letters except from
choice. In addition to taking care Of
her fathers correspondence with his con-
stituents and others she writes from die
tation letters to the heads of departments
and bureaus of the government, looks
after requests for seeds, directs and
franks public documents and keeps a
record Of books sent and Classics and
files letters requiring to be preserved for
future reference.
Miss PETER is native Of Fredonia,
Wilson county, Kan, and was educated
in the public schools of that state. She
graduated from the Topeka high school
and subsequently tooka course in bust
ness college. She is of very sympa-
thetic disposition and thoroughly enjoys
her life at the national capital.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30

aires palace will be decided innovation
and will afford architects and builders
some new and valuable hints for future
reference. The house, according to the
unique plans Of Colonel Nonesuch, is
to be erected in the foothills back of
Temescal, across the bay from San
Francisco. It will cost about 81 ,500,-
900 and be built of iron, steel, copper,
bronze, brass, aluminium, nickel, plati-
mum and silver, stone, cement and glass.
There will not be a bit of wood used
in its construction, and the only stone
used will be sculptured frieze on the ex-
terror and various marbles and onyxes
for stairs, balustrades, bathrooms and
the like. The foundations will be of
concrete, the walls of steel, the roof of
steel, glass and copper, and the floors of
cement laid with brass and other metals.
The building viii be 230 feet long and
have two towers, the main one 115 feet
in height. In the smaller tower over
the main entrance will be chime of IA
bells, fitted with electric ringing devices
and a keyboard as delicate as a pianos.
AAN lAOho1 - ~ bN i4ANlANlGl ny q blOtu
moat or artificial lake, which will be
crossed opposite the main entrance by a
drawbridge in the ancient style. The
moat will be put to practical as well as
ornamental use, for its waters will be
used to furnish power for the electric
plant which will light the house and
furnish heat for the cooking as well as
for warming the rooms.
The grand stairway will be of white
marble and onyx and will lead to a cor
ridor running the entire length of the
building, from which will open eight
suites of rooms, each suit containing a
sleeping chamber, a bathroom, a dressing
room and a study. The corridor will
lead to a gallery on the second floor of
the main tower, which will be devoted
to an art gallery, the ground floor form
ing a circular ballroom 1870 feet in diam
eter. The flooring of the ballroom is to
be of hammered aluminium. which is said
to furnish the best possible surface for
dancing. The furniture throughout the
house will be of the most artistic de-
scription, and the entire place will be a
museum of costly curiOs.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30
A NEGLECTED TOMB.
THE LINCOLN MONUMENT AT SPRING.
FIELD FALLING INTO DECAY.

1t Was Badly Duilt and Is Becoming a Pie
turesque Ruin-The Prevailing Discon-
tent May Induce the State to Take Charge
of the Monument,
To say that the great state Of Illinois
has made "cheap John" show Of Abra-
ham Lincoln's tomb, and a rather poor
show at that, and that the management
is discouraging, would be perhaps an ex-
aggeration. It is certain, however-for
many witnesses declare it, and the Hi
nois legislature recently admitted it
that the monument Is in a wretched con-
dition and that a high board fence has
been put around it to hide it from view,
while visitors are compelled to pay %
cents each for view and a lecture by
the custodian.
The trustees say it is absolutely neces-
sary to charge an admission fee, as it
costs at least s., 500 per year to keep the
grounds in order and afford a bare living
for the aged John Carroll Power, the
custodian. Recent examination has
shown that the east side of the monu-
ment has no foundation to speak of, and
the west side barely enough to hold it in
place for the present. While the monu-
ment when finished seemed to be Of
granite, it is really nothing but brick
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30

General F. NJ Clarke of Fort Worth,
Tex, thinks he can shoot people across
to Europe through pneumatic tube
under the ocean at the rate Of 600 miles
an hour. He says he has discovered that
rubber can be made SO as to retain its
elasticity in the air and become harder
when immersed in sea water. He pro-
poses to sink tubes Of this rubber and
when they get good and hard TO use
them for all sorts of transportation. He
has the usual hazy notions about the pos
sibility and prevention q accident
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30

different branch
es Of the civil
service, is enti-
tied to the dis
tinction Of being
the first female
clerk to a con-
gressional COM
mittee ever APP
pointed. Miss
Nellie should be
admirably equip
ped for the du-
ties Of her posi-
ton, and may in
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30
PETER MAKES A PRECEDENT.

His Daughter Is the First Female Clerk of
Senate Committee.
Miss Nellie M. PETER, daughter of SEN
ator PETER Of Kansas, who was appoint
ed by her father to the clerkship of the
committee for the examination of the
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30
A PALACE OF STEEL.
Unique Architectural Plans For a Califor-
MIA Millionaire's Home.

California has acquired another multi
millionaire. Like most of the others, he
will put up big house costing a pile of
money and intended to surpass anything
of the kind in the state, and his heirs will
one day find themselves with white ele-
plant ON their hands which they cannot
afford to keep and cannot dispose Of for
anything like its intrinsic value. How
ever, if his plans are carried out as he
has conceived them, the present million
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30

coin was elected president. An addition
al and very painful interest is added by
the fact that the only son of Minister Rob
ert Lincoln died three years ago, and so
the time must come in all probability
when the great liberator, like Washing
ton. jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
jackson, will have no descendant bear
ing his name.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-02-24
TEE BARK ALICE WRECKED.
The Sea Smashed Her LifebOat
and Drowned Four Seamen.
Her Grew Saved BY the Breaches
Buoy Appliances.

A most exciting shipwreck occurred a.
$50 o'c.ocz a few nights ago north Of Life
Saving Station 81 which is thirty miles
south Of Barnegat Inlet, of the New Jersey
coast. The weather was very thick, and the
patrolmen couli sea but a short distance
seward. The second watch left thu station
house at O'Clock. and were walking back
ward and forward over their beat at about
II o'clOcE. wnel they made Out the outlines
of a vesset flying head on toward thu bar.
The ratrolmen ran TO the station ami
called h eeper Sprague, who called out his
crew and ran out the life saving appa-
ratus. The vessel, wdich when first seea
was less than a quarter OF mile Oh the
bar, had in the mean tine strucG AMI
was fast, with the high seas wash
ing over her. Her nasts and rigging were
being carried away fas The seas wara
running so high that there was no hope Of
getting a boat out to her. Keeper
Sprague ordered out the Lyle gun
and charged it. 1t was aimed we'll.
The guy line was shot aero So the bow OF the
vessel, and it was found AMI seiz 81 by the
vessels crew. and they hauled the heavy
cable to watch thu other en1 was attached
on board. The sand anchor was buried by
the life savers and Or neca as buoy was sent
out. The vessels crew wece naule1 ashore
one by one. 1t was C'slock in the morning
when the last man got ashore.
The vessel proved to be the Norwegian
bark Alice, Captain jacob Jacobson. bound
from Dunkirk, France, for New York il
ballast. The Captain reported that soon
after they struck and before the guy
line shot over the boat an eff
fort was made TO launch one of the ships
boats. The cable parted and the boat
was lost. Another boat Was lowered and
sailors began to get into her W len a heavy
sea struck her and SMASHED her to atoms,
and the four seamen who had succeeded in
getting into the boat were swept away.
There were seventeen all told who were
brought ashore by the life savers with the
breeches buoy.
Peter Eland was the only seaman who was
in the first boat which met disaster before
she was fairly launched. Thu boat did not
capsize, and Eiand managed to row and
drift north, and landed near Cellar Greek
life saving station, twenty miles distant
from the wreck.
Before leaving his boat Captain jacobson
had the foremost cut away to N AXE tls yes.
sci lie easier. Soon after sh9 strucz tho
mainmast fell. That afternoon thu vessel
was bilged and will be total loss Tae sea
is washing high and strong over the bar6's
hull tearing away all her uoper works
The Alice lett Dunkirz Dece mber 81 fo-
New York. She is double-deckcr and has
a registered tonnage of 81. She was built
in Maine and halls from AyendaL Norway.
Her crew were all Norwegians.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-02-24
FARM DRAINAGE.

Where water after rains stands for a
long time in the burrows and slight de-
pressions in the ground, and on lands
where the shoes of the farmer, except
in periods of drought, are habitually
clogged with sticky mud, and the hoofs
Of animals as they sink into the yielding
soil make cavities that maintain their
shape for days, oftentimes holding water,
the necessity for drainage of some kind
is too clearly indicated to admit of any
doubt. For changing such unfavoraole
conditions, wherever the lay of the land
will permit, open surface drainage is
often resorted to at first.
While such drains are useful in some
cases in the matter Of permanent i'm
provement of the soil they amount to
but little and are liable to be the cause
of Impeachment in the soil itself by
carrying of fertilizing matter into the
gullies and streams. Where the surplus
rain that falls upon the ground can be
led off from the surface in the same
clear state in which it descended from
the clouds, the soil receives no injury
from its escape, but it is only under
occasional peculiar conditions that this
will occur.
This is so we'll understood by most
cultivators that other methods have
come into use. One, formerly more
common that at present, was to throw
the wet land into high and wide ridges
in the fall and leave it in that condition
until spring. When cultivation is about
to begin these ridges are further widened
and fattened out, affording = series of
rather wide spaces, much retter fitted
for cultivation, but w!th very undesirable
bitches between them, often holding
stagnant water throughout the entire
season. While such practice will not
draw fertility away from the soil, it con-
signs considerable portion of it to nom
usage and is otherwise Objectionable in
many respects.
The only real and practical method of
improving wet farm lands by which their
condition is permanently changed for
the better is by the use Of underground
drains for which tile ia the most common