The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-05
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath.
cred Around Salem.

| Sorghum molasses so cents a gallon
at +. Whitescarver's.
The town council holds its regular
monthly meeting for April tonight at
o'clock.
Morgan Smith was in town yesterday
for coffin for an S-year-old son Of
Thomas Pollard, who died yesterday
near the county poor house farm.
Maj Chandler left last night for
West Virginia, where he will spend q
few days, and will then go to Washing
! ton, where, on Saturday next he will
dine with Sir Julian Paunceforte, the
British ambassador.
Officer johnson on Friday night ar
rested several negroes on Water street
for creating disturbance and using
bad language. On Wednesday they
were brought before the mayor who
fined John Price $3.50, Jim Saunders
S2.50, Lizzie Snyder $3.50 and Lena
Hardy ss.5O
"Shors Stories" New York publ
cation, has recently printed q short
story entitled "Elsie," descriptive of
Southern college life, by Mrs. Georgi-
anna Peel, Of Baltimore, daughter of
Major Chandler, OF Salem Mrs. Peel
is now at work on novel dealing with
been purchased by a large publishing
house.
Another car load Of plaster was re-
ceived to-day by F. Whatsoever.
AT the monthly meeting of the e1ecu.
tive committee of the Lutheran Orphan.
age held in Mayor Trout's Office in the
Terry building, Tuesday afternoon, it
WAS decided TO take two more children
county, thus making eleven in all. The
report Of Professor Painter, the secre-
lsGy, showed a numb of donations
I, ade 20 the home during February and
March and that everything is progress
.rg satisfactorily there.
telegram received yesterday after
noon from the Methodist conference at
fredericksburg gives the information
that DR.. 2. 81. Whisner will take charge
OF Buena Vista station, and will be sue
ceeded as presiding elder of this district
by Rev. B. F. Ball, OF Leesburg, whilst
Rev. j. S. Hutchinson has been ap-
pointed as presiding elder of the Balti-
more district, and his place here will be
filed by Rev. h. H. Cannaday, from
Arlington Church, Baltimore district
Among the many gifts to the Baptist
Orphanage are countless quilts Of all
makes, sizes and materials, but the one
that is now on the road bids fair to lay
all others in the shade. 1t is patch
work quilt and upon every piece is the
name of some Baptist minister and the
tex: OF the first sermon he preached
worked in silk. Each minister whose
name appears has had to pay ten cents,
and from this source alone the maker Of
the guilt has already sent to the Orphan
age over Sis.
MAPLE syrup, fresh from Craig county,
at F. Whitescarvers
The attention OF Judge and jury was
directed yesterday in the Roanoke
county circuit court to the s,enograph-
er's report of statements of witnesses q
the previous case, which were read by
consent. MIR. Ssrouse was on the stand
a short time for the purpose Of correct
ing some mistakes noticed in above re-
port The instructions to tho jury will
be argued this morning. One of the
interesting points to be raised was as to
the admissability in action at law of
testimony tending to show the insol-
vency of said company Judge Blair
decided that such evidence was not ad-
missible. Exceptions were taken to this
decisions