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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

Pork quiet. steady; new mess, Is 500
1900. Cotton-seed oil quiet. firm;
crude, 36@37; yellow, 42@424. Petro-
!eum quiet, steady. Rosin weak;
strained common to good, 1.O3@I.12%.
Turpentine active. lower, 27%@2S;
sales, 900 bales. Rice steady; fair de-
mand; domestic fair to extra, 2%@5%;
Japan. 43G@4H.
Molasses, foreign nominal. New oils.
open kettle, good to choice steady,
quiet, 3o@3s. Peanuts quiet; fancy
hand picked, 5h@6. Coffee options
steady, closed steady, 5@15 up; July,
16.o5@lG 10; September. 16O5@1G.l5;
December, 15.70@15.75; January, Is. 60:
March, l5.4o; spot Rio easier, quiet; No.
7, TN.
Sugar raw, quiet, steady; fair REIN
ing, ,3%; centrifugals, 90 test. 49s; re-
nned quiet, firm; off A. 415-16@5M;
7-1G@5A. FrGights to Liverpool
easier, quiet; cotton, Is; grain, Sd.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
a NOTABLE INSTITUTIONS.
Announcement of the Virginia College
for Young Ladies.


for Young Ladies.
Attention is called to the ADVERTISE
ment in another column of the Virginia
College for young ladies'. Roanoke PEG.
pie have always been praised for their
fealty to Roanoke enterprises and Roa
noke institutions and in this case there
Will be no exception to the rule. The
city is to be congratulated that SO Justly
celebrated an educator as DR.. w. A.
Harris should deem it wise to inaug-
urate an additional institution in Roam
oke, which will at once rank with any in
the South. Its location, on an eminence
commanding splendid view of the
city in the midst of inspiring scenery,
Is such as to attract the eye and please
the lover OF the grand and beautiful.
The buildings, furniture and appli-
ances throughout are new, and the best
which can be obtained. An initial ex-
penditure OF $40, 600 has been made to
bring the school to its opening. People
at distance can obtain all particulars
by addressing the president.
This article is, however, especially
written for the eye of Roanoke readers
The courses are elective, and pupil
may attend to take up single branch
if desired. For instance, parent
desires daughter to take up French
special course in French IS
offered, to the exclusion of all
other studies. The same is true OF the
other modern languages, of music, the
arts and sciences. Arrangements have
also heen perfected, where by applica-
ton 10 DR.. Harris, special reduced rates
can be obtained for day pupils over the
street car lines, which will run almost
to the door of the college.
Too much stress cannot be laid on the
fact that on equal footing with and of
equal Importance to the educational
advantages is the atmosphere of refine
ment and elevated home life and influ-
ences which will surround all pupils of
the Virginia College for Young Ladies.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Samuel ii. G,sh Dead.

Samuel Ii. Gish died at his residence,
the old Gish homestead near the south i.
western limits of the city, yesterday
evening at 7 o'clock, of consum ption,
after lingering illness. Mr.. Gish was
wealthy and influential citizen and
has been prominent in the affairs OF the
city for years. He was a consistent
member OF st Marks Lutheran Church,
an upright citizen, good neighbor, a
kind friend and an affectionate husband
and enjoyed the we'll merited honor
and esteem Of all who knew him. He
leaves wife, but no children. The
arrangements for the funeral have not
yet been made.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

OTTAWA, July l2.-lt is reported here
that the Ottawa and Parry Sound railway.
connecting Lake Huron with this city
the Canada Atlantic railway, connecting
Ottawa with the St. Lawrence river and
the st. Lawrence and Adirondack railway.
connecting the St Lawrence with the New
York Central. will be amalgamated into a
single system as soon rs the construction
of the Parry Sound road is completed.
This will be All important system. extend
ing close upon 500 miles. and giving the
shortest RAILROAD route from Lake Huron
to the Atlantic ocean,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
She Married un Indian.

Miss Cynthia d. Rockwell, a teacher
at Good Will mission, i'll South Dakota.
has followed Miss Goodale's example
and married one of the Indians in her
school. His name is Richard King. Miss
Rockwell is of a prominent Washington
family, who strongly opposed the mar
riage. Mr.. King is we'll educated, a
licensed preacher and was Miss Rock
wells assistant. The couple will con-
time their work III the Indian schools
Detroit Free Press.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

The expense of an evenings entertain
ment is doubled by the cost of pair of
gloves. The handling of a programme
covers the gloves with printers ink,
which resists the ordinary processes of
cleaning. The experienced theater goer
folds his programme into the smallest
possible compass. It's advertisements are
not inspiring, and its jokes have long
since resounded down the corridors Of
time. Vanity Fair.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

WARSAW, \. y, July 13.-While Mrs.
Heenan Howard and her mother. Mrs.
Fitzgerald, were returning in carriage
from a funeral the horse ran away and
Mrs. Fitzgerald was thrown to tbs ground.
Mrs. Howard came in contact with u pro-
?ecting iron rod, which entered her skull
Just above the eye. She remained sus-
pended until assistance came. She will
die. Mrs. Fitzgerald sustained internal
injuries, but will probably recover.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
A Relief of the War ofIs12.

Mrs. Hannah Stevenson of Brookfield,
Mass, received her friends and neigh
bors' congratulations June on reaching
her one hundredth birthday. Since her
eighteenth year she has been addicted to
the use of tobacco. smoking it regularly
and also using it i'll the form of snuff.
Mrs. Stevenson is one of the few remain
ing pensioners of the war of 1912, her
husband having done duty in Boston as
a minute man during that conflict.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Death OF Artist Curtis.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. July l3- Calvin
Curtis, the noted artist, died in his native
place, Stratford, aged Il years The i'm
mediate cause of death was inflammation
of the bowels, although he had been an in
valid for over thirty years. He leaves one
son and two daughters
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Italy's Corrupt Statesmen.

ROME, July IS. - Out of the 400 mem
bers constituting the senate l2O are
charged with completely, either direct or
Indirect, in the bank scandals. About 100
OF the members OF the chamber of IDENTITIES
are similarly implicated 1t is proposed
that the senate, sitting us II high court of
Justice, demand that the accused senators
reSipu
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

CHARLESTON, S. c., July 13.-NIr. Isaac
Mitchell and his entire family, consisting
Of five persons, We're poisoned on Tuesday.
Mitchell and his daughter Ada both died
yesterday, and the others are critically i'll.
The physicians who made the post mortem
agree that the victims died from arsenical
DOiSOn
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
A Florida Ivnchinr

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 13.-An Ocala
special says that negro named Robert
l.arkin was lynched shortly after noon
yesterday by the citizens of Citra and
vicinity, for ravishing Miss Fannie Alex
ander last Monday noon. She is Il refined
young lady, Is years of age, of the highest
social connection and standing. The
lynchinS is generally justified by white
and blacks alike
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

NEW YORK, July 13.-Rumors are cur
rent that President Harris, of the Read
ing, is taking to task the presidents of
other great anthracite coal companies It
is said that he intends to call them to ac-
count for rot restricting production, and a
Philadelphia dispatch declares that if Mr.
Harris demands are not complied with
the Reading will make cut in coal prices
81. Dppa
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Church Fsstival Next weak.

The Ladies' Aid Society of Grace
Methodist Church will hold festival,
beginning Thursday, july 60 and con-
tinuing three nights. The Bee Hive
bakery building on Commonwealth
avenue has been secured, and every-
thing possible will be done to make the
festival one Of the best'ever held by the
church.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Juvenile BaaebalI.

great game of juvenile baseball was
played yesterday afternoon between the
Northwest Sluggers and the Stars and
Stripes, which resulted in victory for
the Sluggers in score Of 80 to /. The
batteries were Ward and Roodio for the
Sluggers and Shulkcum and Glass for
the Stars and Stripes.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
Now York Stock Market.

NEW YORK, July 13.-The stock
market was extremely cratic TODAY.
Inc huctuations were wide and fire.
quent, but taken altogether a much
calmrr feeling prevailed than yester-
day. The bears kept up their raid
incessantly, although it was evident
that they wore attempting TO cover
their shorts in certain stocks while
hamnering other parts of the list This
fact was most clearly brought out late
In the afternoon when Burlington and
Quincy and Rock Island were both
sharply attacked, and one bear house
alone purchased over Is, 900 of ST. Paul.
The depression on the two first.named
naturally brought out more or less St.
Paul and other stocks. The loves.
figures touched showed declines as COM
pared with tho final quotations of yes
terday OF 2T in Burlington and Quincy,
"a IN Rock Island, "a in Manhattan
and 4 in Lake Shore. After repeated
Intellectual attempts to force down the
prices still further, the market finally
mad substantial rally. Among notable
gains were ~ in Lackawanna and in
LAKE Shore, Manhattan and Louisville
Il specialtie5 Oregon dropped and
Colorado Fuel and Iron 10 to 90, the
latter on decision Of the directors to
pay dividend on preferred stock in
scrip instead OF cash So far as the gen.
eral market was concerned the feeling
was decidedly more confident and there
WAS more buying for investment &C.
counts than for some time. Transac.
tons aggregated 257, 900 shares, in
GLIDING $4,000 unlisted stocks. The
market closed frmer in tone. Sub
treasury balances Coin, 500. O94, 900:
currency, Sl3, $4,000.
Money on call active, .:ranging from 3
to s, closing offered at g. Prime
mercantile paper, GOO. Sterling OK.
change weak. Posted rates. 4Sa%m
4S4M. Commercial bills. 479X@4soM.
Government bonds steady. State bonds
dull. Railroad bonds irregular. Sales
OF silver at stock exchange today were
! $500 ounces at 721s.
4 Clnsinn hidu-
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

WASHINGTON, July l3-Commander
buckingham, commanding the Dolphin,
has been ordered to proceed from New
York to Washington. Secretary Herbert
will board her tomorrow and start on his
tour of inspection of navy yards on the
Atlantic cOaSt
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
a Once Eumnus Aotre.s nenh

NEW YORK, July 13.-Octavia Allen,
aged SO years, ut one time famous actress.
died at Fort Lee from heart trouble She
was Mt different times leading lady for
Booth, Barrett and licene, and was known
as the best actress i'll such parts on the
stage
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

ATTENTION is called TO the advertise
ment In this issue OF the Virginia Col
iege for young ladies, which will open
September - with tlattering prospects.
Parties desiring to send day pupils
from the city can procure special rates
on the street cars by making applica-
ton to the principal, DR.. WIN. a
Harris
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

ROCHESTER,, y. Y, July l3.-The silver
jubilee of the Right Rev. Bernard Joseph
McQuaid, bishop of Rochester, was cele-
brated yesterday at the cathedral.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Murder OuickIv ay,ngcI

COLUMBUS, Miss, July 1.-THE negro
Henry Fleming, who stabbed to death Mr..
Mincher on Monday night, was taken from
the officers and hanged. The MOB after
wards rddled the body with bullets from
Winchesters
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
Lawn Party Next Week.

The members OF the Augsburg League
and the Ladies Aid Society of st.
Marks Lutheran Church will hold a
lawn festival fer the benefit Of the club
on the Lawn of the parsonage on Church
street Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, July 25, &c and o..
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
The Cholern In Ecvut.

ALEXANDRIA, July 10. -Eishty-five cases
OF cholera are reported in the hospital
here. Forty deaths have occurred from
the disease
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14

"A LII OF OUR FISH WILL NOW
~ be sold from the new fish shed east
sloe market square. ODELL BROS.
5 "a tt
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
FOR SALE.

k'OR SALE.-1, ?, AND 10 Il. p.
Il otto gas engines and l, 3 and b.
p. electric motors; all "a first. class order
anu anu guaranteed. VIM. holdings
MOhiH, engineer and cmachinist, 2lo
6 90 It's
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-14
BOARDING.

DARTlES DESIRING BOARD CAN
a. be accommodated at 500 Campbell,
corner Park. & 16,m
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-23
BEAUTIFUL MISS CLARKE
ro 1EPRKsEyr VIRGINIA 1T bIH-
xISoHxM IN sEPfEMBEh.
"Divinsiy Tall and Most Divlnely Fair"
She VIII Participate In Tableaur
Illustrative Of DsJs Gone BY.

The United Confederate Veterans As
ISOLATION Of Virginia is to be congratu-
lated upon its selection Of Miss Lizzie
southall Clarke, Of Newport News. to
represent the Old Dominion in the tab
leaux OF the Confederate States 10 be
given in Birmingham, Ala, In September.
on the occasion Of the meeting there
Of the Grand Camp Of the State. Miss
Clarke. whose portras accompanies this
sketch. was born in Henderson. N. c..
just twenty-one years ago, her father
being native Of that State, and resid-
ing there UP to 1891. when the family
removed TO Newport News.
On the maternal side she is Nirginian,
her mothers father being Norman South
all, a member Of the weii-knOwn Nir-
ginia family OF that name, and ward
Of ex-presdent John Tyler, under whose
guardianship ne spent his boyhood and
early manhood al Sherwood Forest, the
old Tyler homestead, in Charles City
county. Louisa Hardeman, who did the
social honors at the gubernatorial man
sion during the incumbency OF that dis
unguished Revolutionary patriot. John
Tyler. and who afterwards married
George Hairston, Of Henry county, Va,
was Miss Clarke's great-aunt. She Is al
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-23

upon public interest barring his royal
lineage.
Take the descendants Of the Bona
partes. FOR instance None 81 them has
SO FAR amounted 10 anything. nor is 30
probable that any az them will dislin-
gulsh Bemsclf. Prince Victor Napo-
icon. az thiriy-one ard Prince Louis
Napoleon. at twenty-niHe. are about as
useless young men rs one could imagine.
They are Of very slender Intellectual
capacity. have 40 serious occupation
whatever. and are simply living on their
names. with the ai9 of a pension sub
scribed by the remaining adharents Of
the Bonaparte family. The Empress
Tugonie has wearied Of supporting them.
and has practically emit of their supplies,
leaving them as charges on the Bona
partists.
The AGED. n not venerable. Princess Ma
thlda B0naDarte. "a daughter or queen
Hortense and niece of Napoleon, des-
plte her sixty years IS quite active IN her
own peculiar society. and has made her
SELF much talked about by her rather
indiscreot conduct Like the Princes
Victor and Louis she is living In hopes
a. the impossible the restoration Of the
EOnaparfe family.
The Orleanist Princes are not much
.
and the once possible successor TO the
French throne the Comte de Paris. did
cast on his inertia and come over TO this
country 10 aid I'm the struggle for the
maintoralce of the Union. The Due
dAumale u.s. perhaps. the hest Of the lot;
but the Due d'orlcaBs has repeatedly
DRAGGED the family name in the mire, one
OF his escapados being his notorious pur-
suit 81 an opera singer in Vienna. The
crieauisfs are pretty well fixed hnan-
cisly; in fact are wealthy. They are
exceedlngly ayaricious. however. and
have repeatedly evicted tenants from the
miserable tenement houses owned by
them cast them out into the streets 10
I've or die, as the case might be.
Paris Is the Mecca of the deposed mon
srchs and worthless princes. the most
notable member OF it's royal colony. per
Naps. being ex-Queen Isabella Of Spain.
Her character is too well known to re-
QNre any lengthy review here. Suffice II
20 say, she Is probably the most dissolute
woman OF royal blood In EurOpe-at least
las borne that unenviable reputation for
many years. Though well advanced In
years he siill clings 10 her old assOcia-
tiols-she certainly ala 20 up 10 three
years ago-and her unsavOry character
las made her a marked woman even In
the French capital. To every respect sh'
r. as unlike her daughter. the Infanta Eu'
ialie. as she could well be.
Another promising specimen OF royalty
who graces Paris with his presence Is
ex-King Francis IT, ~ Naples, who was
expelled by Ganbaldl Mentally. and IN
every other way BE- ~ man OF little
importance bat for the fact that he once
actually sat on throne. lie
cuts quite a figure in certain Partisan
1T. nevertheless, and al the formal re-
ceptlons OF President Carnot he is very
much In evidence. then appearing as a
King, probably on the theory. 'once a
king. always king"
Don Carlos. the representative OF the
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-23

"a particularly annoy the blue biooded
Don Carlos. who treated the whole mat
ter az one of the pardonble peceadiilos
Of n gentleman Of leisure.
Tho Grand Dukes OF Russia and othcr
members OF the imperial family, WIN
me exception Of the Grand Dukes Alexis
ana vladimir. amount 70 very niue. Inc
Czarowiiz. Nicholas. has "p TO date given
no evidences II his capacity for properly
Administering the great power which VIII
one dav be his and but for the accident
~ his birth would be a nobody. Scandals
In which the names OF his imperial reia-
tlvos we're mixed up. have been or ire
o,tcnt occurrence az the Court OF 81
petersburg. and az no court In Europe
is there wilder dissipation. Several OF the
Grand Dukes gamble heavily. and openly
associate with proaigatc women, ana III
these worthy occupations they are amy
sunportcd by the fast set at court Inc
Grand Duke Constantine became 50
So..riy involved financially in consequence
of lis mania FOR gambling that he stole
the dlamond-studded frame surrounding
The portrait Of his mothers guardian
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-23

saint and paWned II. lie was punished
by being transferred from his home resi-
ment 10 a regiment stationed IN siberia
Here he added 10 his reputation by mar
rving the daughter Of the village post
master. The marriage was annuiied bat
Constantine fifty years ola tnouBh ne -
las not altogether recovered from me
effect Of these escapades.
The imperial family Of Austria Is not
much better off than that OF fussl"'
intellectually or morally. There are
scores Of archdukes and archduchesses,
blt with the single exception or the
Archduj5e Albrecht none of them amounts
a. ANYTHING. Albrecht. who is now nearly
ninety years old. achieved undoubted
fame as commander I'm chief in the war
of 1866 and particularly on the battle
Geld Of Custozza. Aside from him, none
~ The imperial family has accomplished
onVtbina worth talking about Inter
marriage and dissipation have Slapped
tbe vitality OF the family, and IL ls
scarcely probable that any Of It's members
viii accomplish anything for either their
country or themselves. one instance OF
the archducaI temperament VIII serve az
AN Illustration OF the unmanly lnsuh.lS
of some of them. The Atchduke Ollo,
who married daughter Of the hlne OF
Saxonv, was at dinner az the ono
,,oes one nicbt about three months after
his marriage. lie imbibed freely even Ior
an archduke. and when tired Of the al
tendant reyeiry proposed that all hands
abor1d accompany him 10 his wifes bed
chamber and there observe how beautllul
vyas the woman ne had married Ills
reckless companions assented ana the
Marty rcpairrd TO the palace fully intent
an carving out the Archdukes infamous
suggestion Nothing but the ihteiloal-
lion Of his chamberlain, who sWofe tha'
ne would sacrifice his life on the I'M -5-
/ hold of the chamber prevented the en-
| trance OF tho roysterers.
Tho t.,cuta1 weakness OF the ruiihg
! family of Bavaria is a matter or lnterha'
uonai knowledge King Ludwig drown
ell himself. his brother ana successor
| King otto is supposed to be unbalanced
| the Em2ress Of Austria, Ot'o's cousin
! is scarcely better OFF, and OF all me
family. only Leopold. the Regent Is
altogether free from the family ialnt
The princes, Of SaXony are far from
belnp great men-in fact, are very little
me, ,n comparison with their predeces-
sors. The Duke Of SaXe-Mciuinger is
the exception to the rule. he having i'm
| terested himself in theatrical matters
and carved out name for himself as
one OF the greatest theatrical directors
and advisers in Europe. Henry Irving
is a pupil of his. ana frequently spends
a part Of the summer with him as his
] guest. Duke Ernest Of Saxe-Coburg Is
/ principally famous as the hrothcr-in-laW
| Of Queen Victoria ana the uncle Of tho
Prince Of Wales The Duke Of SAKE
Coburg is practically an unknown guam
tity outside of his own limited domain.
The Prince OF Coburg, the reignnf
| Prince of Bulgaria, is a man Of perhaps