The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-01
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Six hundred and fifty deaths occurred
from cholera in Mecca in "a hodrs.
The president has appointed John L.
Knock postmaster at Snow Hill, Worces.
ter county, Maryland.
1t is said that the Hamkle & Gather
Agricultural Implement Manufacturing
company will establish plant at Laurel.
Md
DIR. j. b. Gregg Custis OF Washington was
elected member of the board of regents
OF the Southern homeopathic Medical col
lege.
The president has appointed George w
savage of New Jersey consul at Dundee
Scotland, and Louis S. Delaplaine, jr., at
Demarara, Guiana.
Acting Director Preston states that the
government will not lose anything by the
recent fire in the New Orleans mint. The
lire was purely accidental
Maurice j. Powers, recently appointed
shipping commissioner at New York, has
declined 10 accept the position, assigning
engrossment in business affairs as the
| reason.
The Columbia Iron Works of Baltimore
builders OF the cruiser Detroit, will send
that vessel to the Norfolk navy yard by
the 18th of July to be turned over to the
! government.
a telegram from Portland, Or, an
nounces the arrival there of the Haytien
Republic with 500 Chinese aboard. The
vessel was seized by the United States
treasury agents.
Frank Ives, the champion billiard PLAYER
{ OF the world, is located in Paris for nm
other long stay. He writes that he is get,
ting $40 day, and is giving lessons to an
Indian prince there for SO an hour several
times Il week.
Mrs. Peary, wife of Lieutenant Peary.
is very fond Of the EsQuimaux women,
whom she describes MS cheerful little crea-
lures who would not be behind their more
civilized sisters in the matter of personal
adQrnment If they had the materials to
work with
Major o. S. Sanford, assistant doorkeep-
er OF the United States senate, died ut
Garfield hospital, Washington During
the war he served in the Connecticut vol
nnteers in the same regiment as Senator
Hawley, and between the two mon there
was warm feeling Of regard.
DR.. William o. S. LOTUS of Washington,
secretary of the Colored Catholic Congress
OF the United States, which meets in Chi
cago Sept. next, has received letter
from Archbishop Feehan of Chicago cor
NHS "ppioHhhE, vi Vic CONVENTION. EOCl
delegate is urged to come prepared to give
data relative to the condition of the colored
people.
Ex-Governor James Lawson Kemper is
reported to he seriously ill at his home in
Orange county, Va. He has been despaired
of before however, for he was left for dead
on the Gettysburg battlefield 80 years ago,
but has done a deal of good work since
then, though often suffering much from
his wounds He has just passed his 10th
birthday.
The conservative University of Virginia
could not permit n woman to attend it's
lectures, but it did suffer Miss Caro-
line Preston Davis to stand it's examine
lions in mathematics at the close of the
year, andns she passed the whole course sue
cessfully, the faculty bestowed on her the
certificate of excellence and made her prac-
tically the first female graduate of the uni
versity. DR.. Thornton gave to the gradu-
ating class the privilege of conveying to
her the honorary diploma and the boys did
it with yell.