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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-09

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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-09
NOTICE OF MEETINGS.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Il stockholders OF the East Roanoke
Loan, Trust and Investment Company
will be held in the store of nj. A. John
son, in the city OF Roanoke, Va, ON
Wednesday, the e2d day OF November,
1898, at 1880 p. N. L. A. THURMAN.
Secretary. 10 25 I'd
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PoARDERS WANTED--RoOM AND
~ table boarders at "a Eighth avenue
g.. w. MRS. HUGH L. GALLAHER.
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NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT

have lost stock certificate No. rs,
dated March 90, 1890, Of the Crystal
Spring Land Company. Parties are
hereby notified not to accept same.
L. Fl. SIMMONS. e13eaw em
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OLD papers for sale at TIE TINES of
fee at 10 cents per hundred.
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Il East Roanoke Loan, Trust and
Development Company will be held at
the store of NJ a. Johnson, in the oitv
OF Roanoke, Va, on Wednesday, the
ED day of November, 1893, at 1880 %.
m. a. THURMAN,
1929 I'd Secra,arr
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LID papers for the next week at 10
cents per hundred,
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PENNSYLVANIA ZINC AND IRON
Il company-A general meeting OF
the stockholders of the Pennsvl-
vania Zinc and Iron Compan
will be held at the company q
office Terry building) in the city OF
Roanoke, Va, on Wednesday, the cad
day OF November, 1893, at II o'clock o.
IN. By order OF the president and
board of directors. Fl. M. ENGLE,
lo VI I'd Secretary.
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LOST AND FOUND.

0Nm OR MISLAID, SOME TIME
FH\I ago, rubber pad with tubes
uUN 1 attached, rolled up in Manila
paper. Return to rooms
and 5 Masonic Temple for reward.
IL If.
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NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT

l have lost stock certificate No. IFS.
dated April /, 1890, of the Crystal
Spring Land Company. Parties are
hereby notified not to accept same.
JOHN R. GREENE. o13eaw em
The morning call., 1893-10-25

WHAT'S IN A NAME &?

Senator White is reported as saying th at
he regards the McCreafy bill as amended
as much more effective than the old law
Admitting that this view of the bill is cor
rect, can Mr. White account for the
change in the attitude of the administra-
tion in the matter OF registration? The
Geary act was violently opposed; the
more effective McCreary act is readily
accepted. The photograph clause is a
part of the new law, yet it was this feature
which was most violently assailed by the
opponents of the Geary act. Secretary
Carlisle had hardly got comfortably
sea ted in the official chair of the Treasury
Department when he made a ruling that
the photograph might be dispensed with
Is it possible that the Geary act was OBJ
jected to by the President because it had
been passed by Republican Congress
and signed by Republican President?
The McCreary act. should it ever be
signed, will bear the name of Grover
Cleveland,
The morning call., 1893-10-25
WHAT ARE WE COMING TO?

a couple of men are in Jail on a charge
of bribing jurors; number of other men
are badly wanted to answer a charge of
forging bail bonds. The two cases have
no relation to each other, but both show a
lax administration of law. The Sheriff
will be very fortunate If the investigation
which is to be made into the jury fixing
cases exonerates his deputies from com-
plicity, and the committing magistrates
who accepted the forged bonds will have
q chance to let the public know if they are
IN the habit Of accepting bonds without
taking precautions to ascertain if the
alleged bondsmeH reside where they are
represented as residing. The case Of
Grillo is aggravated by the fact that he
was an old hand at the business. When a
man has once defaulted on a bail bond a
little care should be exercised in the ex-
animation of bonds offered in another caSe
These examples of loose practice raise
the question whether officials recognize
such thing as an offense against the pub
lie. From the facility with which offenders
escape one would think that there was a
kind Of rogues' league, some members of
which were lawbreakers and others hold
ing places which enabled them to stand
between lawbreskers and the law. 1t is
probable. however, that these apparent
conniyanees on the part of committing
magistrates with offenders are the result of
loose practices. They follow the beaten
routine and take the chances as to what
may happen.
The morning call., 1893-10-25
SEE !! !!

The Singer Manufacturing
Company's Four Great Exhi-
bits at the Worlds Fair. The
magnificent white and gold
pavilion in Machinery Hall
contains 1914 machines, no two
alike, showing all kinds of
manufactures, from the widest
inch-thick rubber belt to sew
ing in the thumb Of a dainty
silk glove.
In the Leather Building are
two other large exhibits, illus
trating over sixty-eight pro-
cesses in shoe and leather
work. The Family Sewing
Machine Exhibit in the East
Gallery, Manufactures Build
ing, contains over 1000 square
feet of floor space. The first
floor is devoted to Family Sew
ing Machines. L he second
floor is exclusively art work
suite of three rooms-a mod
ern reception hall, Henry
VIII dining room and a XIX
century bed chamber, are lit
orally crowded with tapestry
pictures, curtains, point laces,
etc, ETC., all made with the
Singer Sewing Machine, with
out attachments.
THE SINGER MAN'F'G. CO.,
OFFICES EVERYWHERE.
San Francisco Office,
22 POST STREET.
~ Iy weFrHWy
The morning call., 1893-10-25
THEIR ONLY HOPE.

A London correspondent OF the New
York Sun writes as follows:
The Welsh tnplaters are much concerned at
the prospect of their permanent exclusion from
the United States market. owing 10 the ad-
mitted probability that the Americans will them
selves b. making as much tin plate as they re-
quire before the present tariff eau possibly be
abolished or modified.
The Welsh tinplate manufacturers
should read Democratic newspapers for
encouragement. The prospect which seems
so alarming to them is easily disposed of
in this country by the assertion that no tin
plate can be manufactured in the United
States. The men who have money in the
business both in Wales and this country
seem TO think that there may be. The
Welsh are looking to South Africa for
market, while Americans are making rapid
progress toward meeting all the home de-
mand for tinplate from American mills.
The only hope the Welsh have is the re-
peal of the Mckinley tariff.
The morning call., 1893-10-25
THE LIMIT OF ASTRONOMY.

In circles not devoted TO high science
the question is often asked, What is the
limit Of telescope observation? How
large will the telescope of the future be,
and will it enable US to see objects of the
size of house or a man on the surface of
the moon? A partial answer to these
queries is supplied by the well-known in-
strument-maker Alvan G. Clark in an
article published in the periodical entitled
Astronomy"
1t is just forty-seven years since the OBJ
servatory at Harvard University and the
observatory at Pulto wa, in Russia. were
simultaneously supplied with 15-inch tele-
scopes. They were considered monsters.
and it was doubted whether as good work
could be done with them as with instru-
ments of smaller size. Fourteen years
elapsed before a maker yentured upon a
still larger telescope. IN 1860 an l81s-inch
instrument was constructed, and with this
powerful telescope the companion of
Sirius, which was known 10 exist long
before it was seen, was discovered. 1t
then appeared to be demonstrated that
the larger the telescope the better work il
would do in the way of discovery. A large
glass was made for private individual at
Gateshead, in England, the United States
Naval Observatory at Washington ordered
26-incb, the Government of Russia had a
So Inch made, and finally a 36-inch instru-
ment was ordered for the Lick Obssrva-
tory. The University of Chicago has now
raised the limit and is having a 40.inch
lens ground.
Thirty or forty years ago it was almost
impossible TO procure good disks of glass
beyond certain size. That difficulty has
now been surmounted. Disks of almost
any size can be procured provided the party
who wants them has money enough and
can wait until large surface has been
polished. 1t is quite possible that 40-inch
instrument will appear to astronomers in
the second decade of the twentieth century
as small as the 15-iEch instrument at Har-
ward appears TO observers at the present
day.
Like most astronomers Mr.. Clark is clear
The morning call., 1893-10-25

that the telescope of the future will be
refractor. Good work has been done in the
past by rejecting telescopes. but not as
good as refractOrS have to their credit,
and the great fault Of refiectors-their SEN
sitiveness to temperature and to air cur
rents-is likely to be aggravated by an in
crease in size. But the completion of
refractory disks of large diameter will call
for artistic ability of the highest order.
The rough work of giving the disks their
first polish can be done by machinery, but
thus far it has not been found possible to
construct a machine that will do the fine
grinding and smoothing. These are done
by hand. and the workman who does them
must possess ability almost amounting to
genius. The surface of the glass must be
tested till all the light from a point at an
Infinite distance is refracted to the focus
0f the objective so accurately that the im-
age there formed will bear the highest
magnifying power without distortion. If
the glass has the slightest inequality in its
density the refraction will be faulty, and
star which should be round will be rect
angular or elliptical or out of shape in
some other way.
Mr.. Clark sums up the present state of
the science in the sentence that the as
tronomy of the future demands more
power; and he explains that there is no
physical obstacle in the way of acquiring
that increased power. Calico made his
discoveries with a spy-glass with two
inch aperture. The thirty-six inch re-
tractor at Mount Hamilton. on a clear day,
enables the beholder to recognize passen-
gers on the Oakland boat. How far might
the human vision be extended with fifty
or sixty inch telescope? The mind is
overwhelmed by contemplation of the
new world which such an instrument
might reveal. Not only would the mar
velous craters IN the moon be laid bare to
view and their lessons in cosm0g0ny
learned, so that the story of creation
would be taught in schools, but the curl
tion of astronomers has run riot in trying
to explain. would probably prove to be
simple phenomena, easily Teconcilable
with physical laws. Jupiter. the magnif-
cent orb which school children know by
sight. but of the constitution and nature
of which the most accomplished savants
know nothing. would be brought so near
to US that we might form shrewd guess
whether it is inhabited or not, while a
careful observer might perform for the
asteroids the service which Ignatius Dom
nelly tried to render to the lost contnen t
of Atlantis. On such topic, if the fancy is
let loose, no limit can be set to its
roaming.
The morning call., 1893-10-25
THE WAY OF THE DICTATOR IS
HARD.

The New York Press has given reason
for the failure to act on the silver repeal
bill which is true in substance if not in de-
tail. The Press says:
The real difficulty in passing the repeal bill
or, indeed, any bill on the subject, arises from
the fact that President Cleveland has not TO
exceed ten loyal supporters among the Demo-
cratic Senators. In fact, his party is not with
him.
This condition of things has been dimly
visible for some time. A portion of the
Senators counted for repeal would little
rather have the bill defeated unless pro-
vision is made for the continued coinage
of silver. Others who favor repeal out
right are impatient at the dictation of the
President. They do not like to have
orders come from the White House as to
what the Senate shall do. They consider
Cleveland's greatness as an incident OF
politics. The money power aided the
mugwumps to nominate Cleveland at Chi
cagO. Democrats who did not see any
especial fitness for high Office in Cleve-
land reasoned that the combination behind
him might elect him. Even such oppo-
nents as David B. Hill and Charles A.
Dana subordinated personal feelings to
desire for Democratic success. But these
men have become exasperated at the die
tatorial airs Mr.. Cleveland has put on
since he was inangurated. Whether there
are just ten loyal supporters of Mr.. Cleve-
land is not material. The number is more
likely to be less than more. The NAL
contents will work only for measures
which the Democratic caucus may declare
the principles of the party. If Cleveland
had succeeded in forcing repeal without
referring the measure to a caucus he would
have appeared great enough TO do without
the party. But his failure shows his weak
ness. The generous support accorded him
by Eastern Republican Senators has not
compensated for the opposition he encoun-
tered in his own party.
The latest rumor from Washington is to
the effect that the silver Senators will
allow the repeal bill to pass. If they
adopt this course it will be with the ex-
psctation of getting some silver legislation
through Congress whether it receives the
signature of the President or not. The
veto of bill drawn in accord with the
Chicago platform would form the begin
ming of an unpleasant chapter in Mr..
Cleveland's official career.
The morning call., 1893-10-25
LOTS OF CASH.

An Eastern contemporary which seems
to imagine that the purchase of silver is
the one menace impending over the
country admits that money is piling up in
the banks, but plaintively asks, "Of what
use is money when business lags ?"
Accumulation, it is said, is a proof of
stagnation. In June it was the purchase
of silver which made money scarce. In
October. the purchase of silver still going
on, there is a plethora of money but a
dearth of business. The purchase of
silver seems, therefore. to be responsible
for opposite conditions. When money is
scarce the purchase of silver makes 1t
scarce; when money is plentiful the fact
is still due to the purchase OF silver. In
point of fact the purchase of silver is re-
sponsible Tor neither condition. What
ever there has been of business depression
arises very largely from the apprehension
of tariff revision.
The morning call., 1893-10-25
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. Cleveland is ain amateur dog IAN
cier, but il she kept all the dogs that are
sent TO her as presents life in the White
HOuse-nOne too pleasant at best-would
be uncomfortable.
Miss Micklem is stroking the ladies'
eight which has lately appeared upon the
Thames. Her crew have evidently been
most carefully trained and coached, for
both time and body-swing are irreproacb-
able.
The new Lord Mayor of Londcn, G. r.
Tyler, is a typical Loncon Alderman in
appearance, being short, stout, red-faced.
thick -necked and with a corporation that
tells of oceans of turtle soup and innumer-
able civic banQuets.
Professor Henry Drummond, the Glas-
gov teacher, says the universities in the
United States are something the country
has reason to be proud of, and their chairs
Oh philosophy are, as rule, worthy the
admiration of Europe.
Mime. Carn0t, the fascin atiDg and pOpu-
lar wife of the President OF the French
republic, seems to have discovered the
secret of perennial youth. Although she
Is already a grandmother. there are times
when she looks girl of 20.
The Duke of York has become a tenant
farmer upon the estate of his father, the
Prince Of Wales, and according TO Presi-
dent Shaw of the Cheshire Agricultural
Society. the first thing the Duke did after
taking possession was to ask for a reduc-
tion Of rent.
The grave of Phillips Brooks in Mount
Auburn cemetery is In an oid-fa hioned
lot surrounded by plain iron fence. The
only ornament there Is the bed of myrtle
by which the mound is thickly overgrown.
and the flowers which friends supply
abundautly and keep fresh.
The morning call., 1893-10-25

to insure an even drawing by lot when a
jury is being impaneled. 1t is quite GER
tain that mechanical ballot receiver.
register and counter will be introduced at
elections in the United States. Numbers
of inventions quite reliable have been
brought out, and there is one especially at
Chicago which apparently could not be
made to 90 wrong. II that sort of security
is within reach there should be no diff
Guilty in devising a form Of juror-lot ma
chine which would prove bar to such
manipulations as those described. The
danger would be then to guard against
hacking a whole venire. 1t is a possible
but not probable danger
The morning call., 1893-10-25
In The SUPERIOR COURT

OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRAN.
~ CISCO State OF California. department No. -.
FRANCIS K. CRAIG (piaintif) VS.. JOHN s.
CRAIG (defendant). Action brought in the Su.
perior Court. City and County of San Francisco,
State OF California. and the complaint filed in said
City and County of San francisco, in the offce of
the clerk of said Superior Court
The people of the State OF california send rrset-
ing to JOHN :. CRAIG, defendant
You are hereby required TO appear in an action
brought against you by the above AIMED plaintiff
in the Superior Court. City and County OF San
Francisco, State OF california, and to answer the
complaint hled therein within ten days (exclusIye
OF the day OF service) after the service on Won ~
this summons, If served within this county: ar ir
served elsewhere, within thirty DAYS - -
The said action Is brought to obtain decree of
divorce against you on the ground of wilIfui de-
sertion, and for general relief as VIII more fuiiv
appear In the complaint on file herein referenns
TO which is hereby made
And you are hereby notified that IL Won fail to
appear ana answer the said complaint as abov
required, the said plaintiff will apply 10 the conrt
1or the relief demanded i'll the com piaint
GVrn under my hand and seal OF the said Sill
perior Vourt, at the City and County of San Fran.
CISCO state OF California this twenty-sixtb day of
september, In the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-three
rsFAI1 M. G. HALEY, Clerk.
By w. j. HEN EY Deputv Clerk
ELWoOD BRUNER, % aad 29 CrocKer Build
ins. san francisco. attorney for plaintiff oc4 wet
The morning call., 1893-10-25
A Tobacco Firm Sued.

Liebes Bros. IL Co. have been sued by
the London and Lancashire Fire Insur-
ance Company on it's own behalf and as
the assignee of several other companies.
The plaintiff asks judgment against the
firm for S12,50O, which sum is alleged to
have been obtained by the defendants by
fraud, and the arrest of Jacob and Louis
Liebes is asked for until the money is paid.
The defendants place of business on
Davis street was destroyed by fire In No
vember. 1890. and they furnished the insur-
ance companies with written proof OF
loss, after which the losses were adjusted
and the insurance moneys paid. The de-
PENDANTS are alleged to have stated that
their loss amounted to $65,000, and that
they carried insurance on their stock for
S59.5O0. The plaintiffs allege that they
have discovered that the sworn statement
of loss was false and that the firms mer-
chandlse account had been destroyed by
omissions of sale entries and by false en-
tries Of stock received.
The morning call., 1893-10-25

the time required must have been miscal-
culated and hence the disaster. Artlller-
lists are well aware of these troubles IN
handling shells, and they doubtless well
come a recent invention which successfully
explodes by percussion and range ana Is
not dependent upon slow combustion.
According to Senator White, the Nicara-
qua canal is likely to engage attention IN
Congress this winter. The silver question
will then be out of the way. and Nicaragua
is one Of the pressing matters that cannot
be allowed to wait for haphazard settle
ment. Ii the fact of the companys affairs
gong into the hands of a receiver haStens
decision, no harm will have been done.
The canal is geographical and political
necessity. and this country must not only
see that it is constructed, but retain con-
troll OF it against all comers. The real
enemies of the canal are the transconti-
mental railroads, which are constantly con-
sistently selfish.
Any tax upon the wine produced in the
United States would be positive injury
to the wine-drinker and the vineyard pro-
prietors. Congress should, If so minded.
put heavier duty on foreign wine, and
oevlse some effective means or defeating
the frauds practiced extensively OF selling
California high-class wine as foreign. But
1t would be cruel infliction upon de-
pressed California industry to load it with
tax.
Some Of the transcontinental roads en-
JOY extraordinary privileges in obtaining
materials from the public domain. They
were not only granted the right of way
and great tracts of public land, but, as if
this was not enough. they got the privilege
OF cutting timber or quarrying stone for
railroad purposes from sections not In
their possession. Little wonder, therefore,
that the forests belonging to Uncle Sam
have been pretty well backed and hewn
down at the sweet will of the companies,
while the sections transferred are still an
asset mostly in virgin state. The Denver
and Rio Grands has just been confirmed
in rights of this character by decision of
the Supreme Court.
Just as the fair is about to close at Chi
cag0 very large number of domestics in
private houses and boarding-houses and
attendants in stores find employment get
ting scarce. A large proportion of these
workers packed into Chicago for the sum-
mer, attracted by the prospect of high
wages at time of pressure. They have
profited by the migration and can afford
TO distribute themselves over the country
again.
The morning call., 1893-10-25

Presidents spring up in these South
American republics like mushrooms in
night. De Mello has found leisure during
his bombardment of Rio to select one from
among the officers of his feet, and he has
probably a definite understanding with
him as to his policy. The doubt which
must be present in the minds of critics is
whether De lde!lo is planning a royalist
restoration or is only feathering his own
nest as Dictator, the latter being COM
mon form of selfshness and the former
trife altruistic. 1t is said that one of the
Countess deus sons has sailed from
Europe for Brazil, and the suspicion of
royalist intrigues is not, therefore, ground
less. South America is at present without
the stain aud stupidity of royalty in any
country. There was some cOngratulation
when Dom Pedro as monarch got leave to
quit Brazil, but the triumph of the repub-
lie is short lived IL grandson is to mount
the shelyed throne.
Coils L. Huntington is said to have re-
solved henceforth to winter in California
and summer in the East. 1t is the regula.
tion method Of living to old age, we'll un-
derstood in Europe by visitors to the Ri
viera. AS California is great deal more
salubrious and enjoy BILE than the shores
of the Mediterranean, Its virtues should
augment in reputation by such movements.
There is room for all who stand in dread
OF chilly winter, aud with the exception of
Florida, which has sundry drawbacks to
its climate, California is almost the only
State which would present to Eastern
visitors the aspects of spring when the rest
of the continent is snowbound.
The accident on Twenty-frst street illus
trates the danger of badly constructed or
insuffciently measured time fuses. The
fuse kept burning away toward the charge
of dynamite at probably its usual rata hut
The morning call., 1893-10-25
About a Trade Mark.

So long as the Alaska Improvement
Company labeled its canned salmon by
some other name the Aleutian Islands
Fishing and Mining Company had no
complaint to make, but when it started
in last February to adopt the brand
"Kadiak" by simply substituting an "a''
for the 20" of the first syllable, the Al
askan Packers Association determined to
bring an action for infringement of trade
mark. Accordingly complaint has been
filed with Clerk Costigan of the United
States Circuit Court