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lie lel. all matters carccrninp their
own department TO them, " replied ludpc
lyner, and he excepted them TO decide
all ordinary questions for themselves.
questions OF public policy he considered
iuI himself and very important matter,
Iclaling TO the service were aIw4y,
Drought 10 HIM, but as q rule h. aJo6t.
ca me recommendations OF his cabinet
ADVISERS AS an instance Of his mode of
dOing business, day or SO after 1 was
made postmaster general ! took up
ABOUT score VI important appointments
ana one or Two questions involving The
expenditure Of money to him had
NE briefs concerning these i'm my hand
said:
Have YOU read thcm2'
Certainly ! have replied
Have you considered what is best
TO do about them2
Y es; here are my recommendation
as to the disposal Of them
Wei, that Is all want TO know
replied General Grant. Il will make
the appointments and sign the papers.
but don't you want to look into the
records OF the men and sec the arru.
ments IN Tie bfiCisH said /.
"'No. do not renlied General
Grant. That's what | have non lor
II Your Judgment is not sufficiently
suong TO pass upon such things and To
investigate them In the proper way |
viii have TO look around Tor some man
VINO Is out oil job to take your place.
Az want You 10 do is to look INTO such
matters aud decide them for me. II YOU
are sure they arc right will do as YOU
say And he thercupon made the
appointments and signed the papers,"
HoRArio SING on nucHANAN's
CABINET.
President Buchanan treated his cab.
met IN about the same way that Grant
did. lie was, however, a ticker for
cabinet etiquette, and he was very
particular that no outside expenses
should ever creep into his department
budgets lie got very angry at Howell
CobD, MS secretary Of the treasury.
one day Tor charging up a junket on one
OF the steamers Of the Potomac To- the
department, and he was very particular
that Uncle Sam should pay Tor nothing
outside the government expenses
liorauo King, Buchanan's postmaster
general still lives At Washington. lie
must be now well along in his seventies
but he is as spry today as he was when
ne began life as a printer in Maine with
iiannlD7l Hamlin as his partner. lie
came to Washington more than half a
century ago q. newspaper correspond.
ent, and Amos Kendall, who was then
postmaster general, gave him an
appointment III the post office depart-
ment with a salary OF thousand dollars
IN gold. This was the lowest s..iarv in
the department, and he remained ia, Il
until he went out as postmaster general
having as such received the highest
salary that the department has TO offer
Horatio King organized the foreign
mail service Of the United States. and
he was for seven years assistant posi-.
master general He tells me that ex.
President Buchanan was very courteous
with his cabinet ministers, and he allow.
ed them TO run their own departments.
He says that the cabinet was far more
digniiied in the days OF 1889 and 1850
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cahd. date, but not enough to secure m,
election. was here at Wasliugtup AT
lhls Time and ! telcgrlpheI them 10
"lhuHw my name. ], was withdrawn
ana NE balloting went ON fuf tie other
candidates my votes being scattered
among them Aner some time, during
Which the balloiing confined without
any sigh olan election. lwagtcl,rr1phtd
10 come out 10 Ohio. ] did SO and ma.
name was again brought before The
legislature and was elected 10 The
United States Senate. In the meantime
Salmon y. Chase had been sppointcd as
confirmed his nomination"
SENATOR SHERMAN ASp PRESIDENT
HAYES
How about your acceptance of the
feasuryportlolio under President HAYES
senator Sherman" asked.
There IS no special story connected
with H., replied Mr. Sherman. II was
notified by President Have; that he
would like 10 have me for his secretary
OF the treasury some time before his
INAUGURATION, and while the question Of
MS election was still pending, nc.
copied this position largely because /
wanted To carry ont the resumption
policy that had pr posed In the Senate.
/ think myself and Mr. Evaits were the
two lirst appointments that President
Hayes decided upon. am sure that he
made no promises before his nomination
and none until after his election"
now LIHcoLN's CABINET orFicRs WIRE
SOLD.
Speaking Of President Lincoln's
cabinet, tins statement Of Senator Shcr.
man as to Offices being promised before
hand could not be made as to IT, Lin.
coin started into his campaign handi.
capped with cabinet promises His
nomination was largely secured through
such promises, aud had a chat the
other day with Peter S. Grosscup Of
Chicago, who has just beer appointed
United States district Judge by pres!j5rt
Harrison, which gave me the true in
wardness of this part Of our history.
Mr. Grosscup was the law partner Of
Leonard SWEET, President Lincoln's
long time friend and political adviser.
Leonard SWEET and David Davis were
the real workers Il the Illinois delegation
at the nominating convention, and the
circumstances OF the nomination were
told by SWEET to Mr.. Grosscup. Said
he;
when the convention met the chances
of Lincoln's nomination were by no
means certain, and SWEET and Davis
were the only true workers in the
delegation. They promised everything
in order to get votes, aud they agreed
that Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsyl.
yania should have places in the cabinet
II these states would vote for Lincoln In
the convention. AS soon as the
was made they went to
President Lincoln and told him Of the
contracts they had made for him and the
names Of the men whom the states
would probably want to appoint
President Lincoln said AS to Indiana,
Caleb Smith Is good man aud would
be glad to have him in my cabinet.
iont object to James Speed OF Kentucky,
lui don't know about Simon Cameron.
Either justly or unjustly he has BEEN
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charged with having been accessory tc
certain Jobs. | am making this tamplipr
ns honest old Abe. aud | want Co avoid
even the appearance of evil 10 was 4
long time before Davis aud SWEET could
accomplish their ends. but Cameron. al
their entrcaty. got the secrttaryship o
war Smith of Indiana was made
secretary Of the interior and later on
in the administration, james Speed oil
Kentucky was made attorney General.
Cameron was afterward appointed
minister TO Russia, and he leil the cabine,
on that account"
EN POSTMASTER GENERAL rySgg rAlEg
or GRANTS CABINET
Judge Tyner OF Indiana now attorney
general oi the post office department,
was in the cabinet OF Presidcu, Grant MS
postmaster general. lie wos first
assistant postmaster general during the
iirst part Of Grants adminsttsuuu and
he has given me some Interesting data
about General Grants cabinet methods.
! called upon him yesterday IN his Office
at the Post OHico Department During
M conversation he said.
General Grants cabinet was. YOU
know, % surprise to every one. 10 was
generally thought that he would appoint
politicians and when he selected a. T..
Stewart, the great merchant Of New
York, TO be secretary Of the treasury.
and Adolph L. Boric as his secretary
OF the navy, every one WI, surprised.
The appointments created q good deal
Of comment, and Stewart was unable to
serve because Of law which prevented
al men who were iutefcs ed on the m.
pouaiiuu OF mprchand e from being
secretaries OF the treasury About al
week after the Inauguration went up to
call ON President Grant az the White
House and renewed the acquaintance |
had made with him during the war. |
had met him when he was In command
al Cairo, when / was an agent al the
post Office department, sent to confer
with him about the mails. said 10 him
during the talk. 4 see that In the
making OF your cibinet you have decid.
ed TO break away from the old ful. of
appointing all politicians and are taking
men from otiiS- ranks in life
Yes, II does sem so, said
President Grant.
Well, went on, you ght be
able 10 do this II you were managing an
army but am sure that you will Ii. d
before you have gone through your
administration that the politicians will
be the best men TO aid you in the
management Of your administration.
and that you will ultimately rely upon
them
"'rhat may be- replied thePfesident.
i will, however. first try the other
course, but will be honest about H. and
II find that | am not doing the right
thing will make the change as soon as
| can do so.
"He did find himself wrong in this
respect" continued Judge Tyner, "and
when | met him at Paris during his trip
around the world referred TO my
conversation and TO his change to
politicians, and he told me that he
found ii necessity"
now GRANT TREATED his CABINET.
How did Grant treat his cabinet
Judge 1ynerpi@s n.ssd. ~
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sp,ciai Correspondence ofne Descrci Nach
WASHINGTON, February 10, 1885,
Within two weeks President Cleveland
will have a new cabinet, but who will
compose il no one really knows. There
are only one or two appointments which
are certain, and the cabinet OF 1898 will
probably be as much Of a surprise as
was that OF 1855. You can never bet on
a cabinet until the names go into the
Senate, and many Of the states that are
made before the President gets to
Washington are broken after his arrival.
General Grant reorganized his list again
and again before he sent in the list Of
names which were confirmed. James a.
Garfield made some changes after he
left Mentor, and there were number Of
statesmen who had the right to expect
to be In President Lincoln's cabinet who
found themselves left out. President
Harrison did not decide as to three OF
the members Of his cabinet until he was
on his way to his Inauguration, and
President Cleveland's last official family
was disappointment to three-four,hs OF
his party at the time its members were
selected.
JOHN SHERMAN TALKS OF LIHcoLS's
CABINET.
The stories Of how our cabinets have
been made have never been published
The correspondence concerning them
was private and personal, and such
matter seldom creeps into the news
papers. During the past week have
called upon a number Of ex.cabinet
officers and others who had to do with
eabne, appointments and have cha,ted
with them as to how some Of the
Presidents have chosen their official
families. first called on Senator Iohn |
Sherman, who was, you know, secretary |
Of the treasury under President HAYES |
and who came very near being In the
tfN cabinet Of President Lincoln. This
elbinet was not made up finally until the
President arrived In Washington, and
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Presidents Cabinets. 4Qy~-
Famous Cabinet Ministers Relate U0writfo0 History.

y John Ligeoia Cabinet and TETS Hoe Mar ne Ra
Being Secretary The Defay iS6iHe Deaef The CaJigd 81
President H1yes and TETS Of Ills FIa Election lie United States senate
Lireos ODee Mere Sold and How Simon Cameron Be-
of li50T
Ac Cd5ire Of Iee0 Tets KoD 7tded MS cabinet
IE0eys-A Hdydo higg, BaehaRasJ FadShcr
1igat general HaHatrdtey 7tiS Hov ne Ha ChoseaOho
Aiine, efqg 0Dgea Families Of AaD Dozen Eesiaeas
Ei,JfG 10 The Fabhe
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Tho Grain anu Commission Rier.
chants have removed to 3i3 West.
Second South street, whore we will be-
found IN more commodious quafters
hnd better facilities TO supply our
customers. Telephone No. SIS.
STEELE A ~
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Leave your orders Tor all kinds help
NJ SALT LAKE EMPLOYMENT Co.
gV3 w, Second South. Telephone 5ss'
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Buy home made wooden socks atl5
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Main street.
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28
Tore the Check Tn.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-(SpeciaI -
George M. Nosbit, the bookkeeper who
was arrested for forging an $4,000
check on the Royal Insurance Company,
has made a complete confession and
also told the name of his accomplish
who offered the check in Albany. Tho
check was regularly certified to by tho
Merchants National Bank. James
Sturgis is the name Of the young man
who presented tho check at Albany.
He returned TO the city yesterday after
noon and is now under arrest. Sturgis
was student at the Packard Istitute.
He says he tore the check up.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28
QUEER TOWNBUILDERs.
Western Settlers Arc DISCRIMINATING tho
Industrious Prairie Dog.
Especial Corrcspondcncc.1


Especial Correspondence
ABILENE, Kan, Jan. In the course
of their fall blowing the farmers of a west
that, if animals have historians, will 20
down on the records as ga frightful and
death dealing obliteration of Il peaceful
community" A prairie dog village, one
of the largest in the state, if not in tho
west, was wiped out.
The settlement covered three sections.
nearly 1000 acres of land, and made
not alone that territory but adjoining
farms for milo on every side unpro-
ductive, by reason of the large amount
of food needed to supply the towns in
habitants. The farmers Joined forces
and began with their sharp plows turn
ing under the laboriously constructed
doorways and covering the avenues and
boulevards. The terror stricken inhab-
ltants were shut i'll their subterranean
homes, whittier they had fled after chat
tering angrily from tho mounds of earth
in front of their residences at the intru-
ders. The ground was narrowed and is
being sowed to wheat. Guards will go
over it daily, and every prairie dog at
tempting to reconstruct the village will
be ruthlessly ended.
The prairie dog cannot stand civil
cation, and but Il few of his villages are
left on the plains. Land is too valuable,
and tho settlements of tho little mar
mots are ruthlessly destroyed to make
room for the new immigration The
prairie dog is no more like dog than he
is like Texas steer. He is chubby,
fat paunched ground squirrel, jolly as
the day is long in summer, and retreat
ing into his hole and pulling the hole in
after him in winter. The phrase is no
exaggeration, for he "holes up" as the
settlers say, his dwelling bringing dirt
from the bottom of his burrow and stop
ping the mouth.
In the early days the prairie dog towns
were great curiosity to the traveller.
Emigrants over the famous Santa Fe
trail-the original path of Coronado and
his little band of Spaniards-wrote of
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28
ROANOKE. VA, JANUARY %. 1893.
JAMES g. BLAINE.

Blaine is dead. The most picturesque,
most magnetic figure which the Repub-
1ican party developed In the thirty f We
years OF its life has passed away, and
with it's passing goes the mighty intel
1ect which moro than any other STAYED
off the defeat and destruction to which
all and every party OF class and section
alism is surely doomed.
His eye was prophetic. But like
Moses on the mountain the promised
land of the Presidency was not for him.
No man has ever lived down abuse like
Blaine. No man in public life has com
manded 30 wide q field OF intense en-
thusiasm. In political debates he was
unconquerable. Every conflict which
he entered became memorable from his
participation. He had enemies So
has every man Of positive characteris-
tics. Yet he was leader OF men, Not
like those so frequently advanced be-
cause OF their neg ative virtues to mask
the designs OF those who pull the wires
OF preferment, but leader who deter
mined policies and sounded the key-
note OF campaigns.
With all respect to our many friends
of Republican convictions. wo regard
the inability of the Republican party to
elect Blaine to the Presidency as sure
sign of its polite al degeneracy, and of
the approach of a thorough reorganiza-
tion on broader and more democratic
lines, or else OF collapse.
The Wing party could elect neither
Clay nor Webster and it went out The
Democratic party passed over it's strong
mon and picked up a nullity like Pierce
and a colorless man like Buchanan.
Neither was broad enough to stay the
secession movement and Republicanism
remained in the ascendant for quarter
OF century.
Blaine is dead and the country has
lost statesman.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28
OUR BUILDING EDIrIoS.

TIE TIMES BUILDING EDITION is
making rapid progress toward tho day
of publication. 1t will be splendid
exposition of the still moro splendid
growth of Roanoke in 1892. We believe
that it will forecast strong revival of
business in all branches early this sea
son. There are plenty OF signs to justify
the prediction.
No city of any considerable spirit re-
manned III q condition of depression
three full years. Roanoke's stagnation
has been confined to speculative real
estate operations, and the monetary
stringency due to the necessarily enor.
nous use of money to pay real estate
notes, which would have otherwise re.
NAMED in the regular channels of trade.
Still it Will DO found that the real estate
transfers of 1892 have been largely in
excess of the demands for building lots
for that year, showing that the demands
OF the future have been anticipated to
large extent.
The plans for operations for 1893 are
still largely formative. So much de.
ponds upon the developments connected
with tho Norfolk and Western railroad
that it is too early to come down to do
tails as to the particular effect upon the
growth of Roanoke. In general way
it is safe to say that the growth of Roa-
noke in 1893 will not be less than in
1892 and probably considerably in excess.
AS to the increase of tho Roanoke
Machine Works forecast in THE TINES
recently, we would ask the doubters the
following question: If the shops were
none to large to furnish equipment
when the road extended only from
Norfolk to Bristol, with the Poca-
hontas branch as it's only considerable
offshoot, with less than 600 miles of
main track, how much larger should
they be to supply additional equipment
for the Shenandoah Valley division,
239 miles, the Lynchburg and Durham
division, 116 miles; tho Winston Salem,
lei miles; the North Carolina division,
As miles; the Clinch Valley division,
103 miles; the Ohio Extension aud Scioto
Valley divisions, al miles, total in
crease in mileage of over 500 miles, and
with coal tonnage which has doubled
in five years?
Secondly, which is better, to buy cars
from Pullman on twenty years time at
per cent. or to sell 100 year bonds
bearing per cent. and build equipm emit
at Roanoke. There are some things
which do not need fish plate certificate
fastened with railroad tie and sealed
with car-coupler to DO evident.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28
GETTING READY TO START.

The signs are accommodating that an
other of Roanoke's phenomenal periods
of activity is at hand. Real estate men
state that since the first of the year there
have been more outside inquiries con-
corning real estate investments in Roa.
noke than for the proceeding four
months. They state that from past ex-
perience it is safe to say that these in
quiries will be followed in the immeji-
ate future by investments.
There was never a more suspicious
time than the present for making such
investments here. There are enough
holders OF desirable property who need
to sell portion to strengthen their
hold on the rest and to enable them to
improve, who will sell at conservative
figures to outside investors for ready
money. Several Of these sales are now
IN process of contamination, and will
be completed within week.
Everyone knows the activity of money
in Roanoke. A thousand dollars in cir
culation pays ten thousand dollars of in
debtedness. In no city in America are
the banks SO ready to sustain business
movement. There has been no bust
ness operation OF magnitude in the his
tory of the city in which the banks have
not played prominent part to back up
the enterprise. This new money which
will soon be let loose in the city, will at
once spread into every channel OF activ-
ity, and before people are aware that
the change has come, the whee lis of bust
ness will spin as merrily as of old
No city of any considerable spirit and
enterprise ever lay stagnant for three
full years. Roanoke has been quiet for
two years. She is about to start no.
Do you know how many houses were
built in Roanoke in 1892 tho year that
every one calls the quietest year we
ever saw? About 8 Do TIE TINES has
notes and figures OF nearly 500 houses
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28
WILL BE TAKEN TO WASHINGTON.
The "Old Surrender House" at Appomat
tox to be Removed to the Capital.

The "Old Surrender House" at Appomat-
tox to be Removed to the Capital.
William S. Feet, OF Campbell count y,
was in the city yesterday, and told a
TINES reporter that he had just COM
pleted the measurements Of the "Old
Surrender House" at Appomattox Court
House. The old house will be removed
to Washington and be placed in ths
Smithsonian grounds as a museum to
hold the archives of the late war.
Every brick will be laid in its origi-
nal place; the boards will be in e2 act
position; the old doors hung on their
old rusty hinges and the surroundings
made just as they were at AppomattoxI
A we'll will be dug and the old house
and windlass that now stand over the
historic pit will occupy the same place
on the new one.
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TIE TIMES can De ,ouna regularly OF

THE TIMES can De found regularly on
sale at the following places:
Roanoke-George 9ravatt. Jr.. M. L..
Smiths, Hotels Roanoke. Ponce de Leon,
Hlk's News Stand, 81 Salem avenue F.
u. Carr, Terry Building.
Bristol, Tenn.-W. a. Ward. Front
street,
Blueheld-Blueheld Inn.
Observation-Disclosures Hotel.
Pocahontas-Pocahont Inn.
Pulaski-Maple Shade Inn, Brown 81
Brown.
Radford--Radford Inn, w. Q. Butler.
Balem-W. 9 Taylor's Book Store.
ashington--Willard's. The Metropoli-
hRn
WytheViiie h. II. Bailey.
Norfolk and Western trains.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-28

THE Evening News, of Washington,
D. c., which is only about six weeks
old, has proven phenomenal success.
1t now has bona fde circulation of
over 10000 copies daily and is growing
at rapid rate. But this is hardly sur
prising when the character of the paper
is taken. into consideration. 1t is one
Of the brightest, cleanest afternoon pa
pers in the country and fills long-fel
want in the Capital City.