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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
Auburn Prison Alre.

AUBURN, N. Y, March 2s.-The STATE
prison caught fire this morning and IL
was extinguished only after a hard
light The shops destroyed were the
pearl button shop, brass bedstead shop.
brass foundry and foundry No Q, ali
belonging to tho State, and Stickley 4
simond's furniture shop. The fire was
presumably tho work OF con yict fire
bugs Warden Durston estimates the
loss to the State on the buildings and
stock at $4,000 No insurance. Strick-
ley Il Simonds place their loss at $50
900; injured for $4,000.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
Coxe,s Breaker burning.

HAzELToN, Pa, March 29.-Coxes
iron breaker, at Oneida, is on fire and
there seems to be no way OF fighting
the liames. The structure was erected
at cost OF quarter of million dol
lars and is the only one OF it's kind in
the country.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
a Moonlight Child.

WYrHEvILIE, March ga white
child about is hours old was discovered
last night by colored man about a
quarter Of mile southeast OF Wythe-
Vile. When found the baby was lying
in basket comfortably covered with a
shawl and provided with nursing
be4le. No clue has as yet been dis
covered as to the identity OF It's mother.
The baby was turaed over to the police
to day.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
THE TIMES TElAUTOGRApHS.
Free Sketches From Reliable
Reporters.

A Tale of Two Dogs-Tapping the Non
keys Till-Modcrn Invention-FIag
Raising at the Catholic Orphan
Asylum-At the Houston Institute
Patching the Pavemcnts-Paint Spat-
tercrs-Tragedy of II Horse.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
CAFE.
li5 JEFFERSON STREET.

On Tuesday next (the 2sth) we will
begin sacrifice sale of carpet remnants,
odd pieces of furniture and sets of china
OF which few pieces have been broken.
Cali early and secure the best bargains
you ever bought. The e. II. Stewart
Furniture Co.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
CLEVELAND GETTING WEARY
With Shaking Hands and Shak-
ing Politicians.

he Leaves Lot in tho Cabinet Room and
Goes Down Stairs to Shake Hands with
tho Plain Peoplo-The Senate Dab
bling With the Career of Senator
Roach-Other Senators May Need In
vestigating.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30

The Price of Good nIacadam.

The big roller on Jefferson street is
rapidly bringing the new top dressing
to level and the macadam will soon be
as good as new. The city fathers are
notified, however, that eternal watch
fulness is the price of good macadam.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
Rescue the Pcrlshing.

doing good work. 1t has now a record
OF over sixty men restored to absolute
sobriety, the taste for liquor entirely
destroyed. 1t has made better record
than even the Keeley institutes, and
for the two or three patients who have
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
A Gang of Green Painters.

A gang OF green painters armed with
buckets Of dirty green paint yesterday
daubed the telephone poles along Jefer.
son street dirty green color. A halo
OF green spatters surrounds tho foot of
each polo and numerous pedestrians got
the benfit of tho oarelessness OF these
employees of the Telephone Company.
The writer saw several people with
paint on their clothing.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
THE WEATHER.

Forecast for Virginia: Warmer weather
Thursday; winds shifting to southwest
ferlv
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30

enough to keep out of the presence of
temptation. The institute now refuses
two classes, barkeepers and professional
gamblers, not from any prejudice, but
because these two classes are peculiarly
exposed to temptation. The other
day poor fellow was picked up in the
suburbs barefoot poorly clad, half
starved, half crazed for want of his &C.
customed stimulants and threatened
with pneumonia from exposure. A
good Samaritan fed him, gave him
shoes and stockings and placed him In
the Houston Institute. The sufferer is
naturally bright and capable of earning
$50 week at his trade. The prospects
arc bright that he will be radically
cured, and if his disposition is right he
will stay cured.
Modern Inventions.
Col. Thomas Lewis sent q telegram to
Paris Monday night at 10 o'clock and
got an answer Tuesday m corning at 1920,
thereby closing big financial transac.
ton involving good many thousand
dollars. Eight thousand miles of space
in twelve hours is quick work. Gray's
telautograph enables man to stand in
New York and sign check in Chicago.
The long distance telephone is an old
story. Soon will come the photoscope
or the telephote, and you can talk face
to face with your friends 500 miles
away. While we are in it, why not have
an odorphote' photoscope telephone com.
bination company. Then a Roanoke
wife can call up her hubby in New
York, ask his health, see how he looks
and test his breath for cocktails all at
the same timo.
Patching the Pavemsnts.
Contractor Gillespie is repairing the
vitrified brick pavement on Jefferson
street. This brick seems much inferior
to that used on Campbell street and
Salem avenue, and shows signs of heavy
wear. Last fall Mr.. Gillespie said he
would lay 1t over If it was necessary,
and he will. The later pavements laid
have pitched joints and are going to
wear much bette-.
New Sidewalks.
Fortune aud Dolan are relaying the
sidewalk around the Sorrell building
with Chilhowie glazed brick, specially
made by Adams Bros. e Paynes for
sidewalks. They arc tho same brick
that Or. Kirk put around the Kirk
building on tho opposite corner and
make an excellent sidewalk The
sidewalks around the Commercial bank
Dulldlng and along in front of e Fl.
Stewards and the postofiice arc also
being lined up. All this is at the ex.
pense of private property owners and
speaks we'll for their public spirit.
Their good example should be fol-
lowed.
Horse and Horse.
Larry Davis thought he had a good
one on Gabe Penn when he got out the
following card and circulated it among
the boys:
Fon CITY TREASURER,
GABRIEL HOGE PENN
YOUR SUPPORT Is SOLICITED
But Larry didn't think it SO FUNNY
when Gabe papered the town last night
with this:
=
FOR CITY scAvANGER,
AWRENCE 5. DAVIS.
YOUR SUPPORT SOLICITED
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
PLANNING THE COTTON MILL.
a Committee Appointed to OBJ
tain Propositions

From Various Land Companies for n Loca.
ton and Stock subscription-The
prospectus Issued on Which Stock Sub
scriptions Will be Solicitsd-A Spleen
did Opening and Liberal Plan.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30

wv N. HANFF,
w Tuner and Repairer, 139 Salem
avenue. Rrefers to Hollins Institute. 29tf
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
Tragedy of a Horsc.

A small boy astride venerable horse
rooe up Tenth avenue carly yesterday
morning. just off Jefferson street the
horse fell down and died. That is
all. MIKE
Lights by Saturday.
The Electric Light and Power Com
pany are pushing their work rapidly
and expect to have tho first fifty lights
shining Saturday night. A number of
lamps were put in yesterday.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
nR. II. A. SIMS.

Has opened offices in rooms 10 and IL
MOomaw building
All parties indebted will please call and
settle at once.
Entrance Ito -a Jefferson street. Tel.
ePhOnes 24G and 2I7 3S1m
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30

But Larry didn't think it SO funny
when Gabe papered the town last night
with this:
@'''''' ''''''
FOR CITY scAvANGER,
LAWRENCE 5. DAVIS
YOUR SUPPORT Is SOLICITED
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
Your suffrage respect
fully solicited.

ID. II. BARBOUR. ID. III. MATsoN,
POANOKE SANITARY PLUMBING
AZ COMPANY.
Practical plumbers and Ras-6tters,
Oealers In all kinds of plumbers' and gas
ntters' fupplics. Estimates made on the
improved and sanitary styles of plumbing
All work guaranteed. j. L NIELHORT
superintendent, No. 10 South Jefferson
treet, Roanoke Va. 1261y
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30

WASHINGTON, March 29-The Senate
galleries were crowded this morning,
the spectators being attracted probably
by the expectations OF tho discussion on
the pending resolution for tho election
OF officers and for the admission of the
Senators under appointment by the
governors, or for tho investigation OF
charges against Senator Roach, OF North
Dakota.
Mr.. Hoar called up as a question OF
privilege the resolution reported by
him from tho committee on privileges
and elections, declaring Mantle is en- ii.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
NOTES OF STRANGE THINGS

NEARLY a dozen churches in New
York have been converted into thea
ters.
An Italian railroad laborer's board
bill, amounting to thirty dollars, was
paid in Maine town recently entirely
in cents
Mr.. JORDAN, of Salem, Mass, may
thank silver dollar, which diverted
the course of bullet, that he isn't
on the other side of his own name.
The annual report of the Boston fire
department attributes the cause of a
number of fires in that city last year
to smoking in bed," and it has sub
division in which the origin of the fire
is set down to Careless smoking in
bed"
A PREACHER at Lafayette, Ind, is re-
ported to have about broken up his
church the other day by saying in
sermon that "God made the earth in
six days and then rested; then he made
man and rested again; then he made
woman and since that time neither
God nor man has had a rest"
SOMEBODY has given something to
Pennsylvania and has succeeded in
arousing curiosity. At least he has
filed in the state treasury a notice that
a certain unspecified sum has been de-
posted by him with the Girard Trust
company of Philadelphia to the credit
of the state, with the stipulation thst
the latter shall not be opened until the
wear 5000.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
MISSING LINKS.

THE Greek cooks could serve up a
pig basted on one side and roasted on
another.
IN the East Indies there are spiders
so large that small birds are their ia
vorite prey.
THE distance from the farthest point
of polar discovery to the pole itself is
400 miles.
FRANCE has more persons over sixty
years of age than any other country.
Ireland comes next.
On lower Broadway in New York in
corner plats land is worth from $4,000
to SO, 900 per front foot.
A GENTLEMAN must kiss every lady
he is introduced to in Paraguay. 1t is
the custom of the country.
CAKES OF tea in India, pieces of silk
in China, salt in Abyssinia and Goldfish
in Iceland have all been used as money.
In the past fiscal year the number of
Chinese who entered Canada was 2,25S.
The poll tax collected amounted to
S113,4
In Roumania duty of Is. a bottle
has to be paid on foreign wine There
is tax on female servants, on door
plates and on doctors.
NEARLY $500 bottles of beer were
broken and their contents poured into
a ravine by a crowd of prohibitionists
atOsborne, Kan, the other day.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
NAVAL NOTES OF INTEREST.

THE agitation over wire-wound guns
for naval use has never, it is said,
found much favor in British and Amer
lean ordnance circles because of the
ightness of the wire-wound guns.
CANEr, the French ordnance maker,
has obtained with an eighty-caliber
quick-fring Canet gun of ten-centi-
meter caliber muzzle velocity of s, ,S6d
foot seconds. The ten-centimeter gun
is trifie under four inches caliber.
LAWRENCE V. BENEr, artillery engi-
neer of the Hotchkiss Ordnance COM
pany, holds that extreme length in a
gun is more profitable with black and
brown powder than with smokeless.
which, owing to the absence of liquid
products of combustion, loses its heat
rapidly.
The friends of Capt F. ]. Higginson,
United States navy, the officer who
was recently relieved from the com,
mand of the United States cruiser At
lanta, declare that the telegram which
Secretary OF the Navy Herbert sent to
Admiral Gherardi directing Higginson
to sail at once was never shown to
Capt. Higginson.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
DOlNGS OF THE DAY.

A MOVEMENT is on foot among politi-
clans in western Kansas to have the
capital removed from Topeka to their
section.
A PROPOSITION has been made to al
low the worlds fair buildings to stand
and crumble into ruins in order that
the white City" may be a veritable
ancient Athens modernized.
ONE feature of the financial strin-
gency is that coins and bills are being
bought and sold at premium just
like commodities. In New York gold
and bills of small denomination were
sold as high as two per cent. premium.
SOME people will do anything for
money. Recently two physicians ad-
vartised in New York for a man who
would submit to surgical operation,
which might possibly be fatal, in con-
sideration of five thousand dollars.
They received one hundred and forty
two replies, the greater number of
which were bona f1de.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
is astounding. will see you in the
woodshed after breakfast"

is astounding. 1 will see you in the
woodshed after breakfast"
made no reply, but ate with consid-
erable composure, while the commits
Grating glances of the deacon's big
boys sought my face. Sad experience
told them what was coming.
The meal over, the deacon indulged
In long addendum of thanks for what
we had received, mingled with pious
denunciations of the depraved conduct
of one of the family. He rose from the
table and, with a motion to me,
marched out into the woodshed. I fol-
lowed promptly.
He reached down a great hickory
limb from the shelf and, bending and
trying it in his hand, he addressed me
with a sternness that was seasoned
with a savage kind of glee as he antici,
pated the diversion he was about to
provide for himself.
"Dorr Jewett, take off your coat. !
have too long neglected my duty. The
devil is clamoring for your immortal
soul will chastise the adversary out
Of you. Take off your coat"
snatcbed up heavy oak stool that
stood by and put myself on the defen-
sive.
''If you lay hand on me I'll knock
your brains out!'' cried.
He fell back aghast. suppose the
idea of resistance to his authority nev-
er entered his head.
"What do you mean, you young imp"
he stammered.
81 mean what say. I've done moth
ing to be punished for; if 1 had, your
authority over me was at an end some
weeks ago You old canting hypocrite,
l defy you to touch mel"
My blood was up, and l said more
than l had at first intended to. He
saw that l would surely break his
head If he should advance on me, and
he did not attempt it. But never was
man in greater ragel His leathery
face almost turned green.
"Out of my house, you young repro
bate-you spawn of BelialP he
squeaked, in a voice shaking with
fury.
81 will go with pleasure. VIII you
send my trunk over to the tavern?"
Eyes Clear out!'
81 want those books you took away
from me-"
"Take all your traps and leaver
1 turned on my heel and went into
the dining-room. Bidding the family
good-by, put on my cap and went
over to the tavern. l had not cent
in my pocket.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

rr is said that the wife of New
York millionaire has for the last three
years been travelling all over Europe
trying to match n pearl
THE queen of Greece is the president
of sisterhood devoted to the reforma-
ton of criminals. The queen herself
personally visits the prisoners.
QUEEN VICTORIA il superstitious
about precious stones She invariably
wears chrysophrase in one form or
another and thinks it brings her good
luck
Mrs. MARY Il. LATIRoP, of Michigan,
is to preach the annual sermon at The
meeting of the Worlds and National
Woman's Christian Temperance union
at Chicago in October next.
Miss LILLIAN MoRRITT, an English
phenomenon, has the power of retain
ing in memory hundreds of complex
figures and of multiplying, deducting
and adding at the same time any of the
cross figures
MRs FRANCES HopGsoN BURNETT,
author of Little Lord Fauntleroy,"
has established herself in a picturesque
home called the Glade, where she is at
work on a play which she hopes to
complete before Christmas.
Mrs. GRAFTON Ross, of England, has
invented a tool for killing obnoxious
weeds in gardens. 1t is in the form of
hollow piercer, through which poison
is conveyed to the very heart of the
root of the stubborn weed. causing it
to shrivel up in very short time.
Miss LAURA NJ. ULDEN, of Virginia
City, has been admitted to practice be-
fore the courts of Nevada by the su-
preme court. She passed very cred
liable examination and ~vas highly
complimented by the judge, who has
never admitted woman before to the
Nevada bar
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
PRODUCTS OF THE FIELD.

In many parts of England rents have
quadrupled in i20 years.
EUROPE has 5,345,ooO acres in beets,
producing 40, 100000 tons.
IN 1883 the hay crop of the United
States was Al ,454, ass tons.
In 1892 20.919,o00 hogs were killed
and packed in this country.
EGYPT has $3.50, eco date palms, pro
ducing 800, 900 tons of fruit.
ELLISON estimates the worlds cotton
crop at !, 1880, 900, coo pounds.
FRANCE has Q, ,455, ,O00, 900 farm owners,
who hire IL, 794, 900 laborers-
The agricultural capital of Australia
is estimated at e373. 600. 600.
OF $500, 900 acres in Switzerland l..
500, 900 are under cultivation.
ONLY about 1000, 900 persons are en-.
gagged in agriculture in Brazil.
PoTAToEs were introduced into Mas
sachusetts from England in 1929.
In ordinary years the cost of irriga
tion in Egypt is one dollar an acre.
RUSSIA has the greatest amount oi
live stock of any country in Europe.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
PERSONAL MENTION.

Ex-EAPREss EUGENE, of France,
is godmother to 1854 children who
were born March 16, 1856, the day OF
the birth of her son, the prince i'm
periaL
Rev. SAMUEL P. JONES, grandfather
of Sam P. Jones, the Georgia evange'
list, is still living and has just cele'
brated his ssth birthday in Carriers
vile.
MISS EVA LOWERING SnoREY, the new
president Of the Woman's aid society
of Maine, is only 81 years old. She is
also the business editor of the Bridge
ton News, published by her father.
EMPRESS ELIZABETH, of Austria
lately added q codicil to her will
choosing Corfu as her last resting
place. The codicil says: 81 wish to
be inferred in Corfu, near the sea
shore, SO that the sound of the break
ing waves may ever be heard at my
tomb" "
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
NOTES OF THE TIME.
EseIIsHMEy are experimenting with
machines

EseLIsHMKy are experimenting with
Gow-milking machines.
A NEGRO at Madison, Wis, owns N
bullfrog with three eyes, one in the
center Of the head.
THERE are associations in Great Brit
ain which insure against elopement,
matrimony and twins.
A ROBBERS cave containing human
bones has been discovered by boys in
Winston county, Miss
An English mechanical genius has
devised a method of indicating and
stopping a leak by the use of com
pressed air.
SAN FRANCISCO thieves were near
enough to steal the corner stone from
beneath a church for the sake of the
coin deposited therein.
THE chamber of commerce of Rouen
have erected clock tower which
gives the time on three sides and the
height of the tide on the fourth.
IT is reported that in taking down
the walls Of an old cellar in Albany,
Mo-, recently q brick which bore the
impress of baby's foot was found.
TEE Chilkat nation in Alaska is di.
vided into sections, each named after
some living thing. There are the Ra-
vens, Wolves, Eagles, Snails, Bears, etc
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
DAIRY WISDOM.

GROUND oats is an excellent feed for
calves.
THE best of cottage cheese can be
made from buttermilk.
KEEP only those that will pay a
profit all the year around
Now IS the time to fatten the animals
that you wish to turn off.
KEEP the stables darkened to keep
out the flies, but be sure the ventila-
ton is good.
IT is a great pleasure to make butter
from beautiful thoroughbred herd OF
butter cows, and what is better it pays.
1T cannot be repeated too often that
the same amount of feed will make
twice the growth in warm weather II
will in cold.
THE keeping and feeding of scrut
cattle is a waist of feed and care in a
way, and it will not keep the boys and
girls on the farm.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03

rerous animals in the woods than the
unfortunate man who has to feed and
clotl-c parcel of lazy niggers. You
needn't hurry: keep him a few years
vet; send him to schools; and by and by
send him down to me, via Cincinnati,
Cairo and Vicksburg. III take care OF
him, and give him such start in the
world as he'd never get up this way.
l won't forget what I'm saying, Amos,
neither. What do you say"
"Your kindness quite overpowers
me, Pierce. III think seriously of it,
and talk it over with the boy and his
mother"
"All right, my old friend; the thing
Is as good as done. Now my time Is
about up. Don't get crazy over politics,
Amos, and don't take Dorr to your
abolition meetings. Let me have a
pen and ink and I'll put down my ad-
dress for you"
He took from his pocket narrow
blank book, wrote rapidly upon leaf
of it, tore out the leaf. thrust it into
my fathers hand, and had said his fare
well and was out of the house with a
celerity that was really bewildering.
My father looked at the paper. II
shook in his hand; he turned pale. He
could not speak, but held the paper
toward us. My mother took and read
it, while 1 looked over her shoulder.
The leaf was from blank check book.
On the STUD he had written his address,;
the body was check on a Boston
bank, payable to the order of Amos
Jewett for one thousand dollars!
II can't take it-I really must not"
said my father. ''Dorr, go and tell him
So"
ran out of the house. Mr.. BostocA
was already one hundred yards off lay
ing the lash on the horse. L Ishouted to
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS.


A WESTERN geologist says that Kan
sas can raise wheat for another thou
sand years before exhausting the nee
essary properties of the soil.
THE crops in Bulgaria are reported
to be in very bad condition. Too much
rain has been the trouble, and in some
parts of the country the seed has
rotted.
AGRICULTURE has been about the sole
industry of Paraguay ever since the
establishments of the Jesuit missions in
1857. All the field work is done by
women.
On French farms from thirteen to if
teen acres is the smallest territory on
which a man can live without some
other work. Those who have less exc
out their income with job work. So
soon as laborer saves some money he
buys land at about two hundred dol
lars per acre