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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-18
FINANCE AND coMmeRcr,
Now York stock n1arkat.

NEW YORK. Sept. 17.-There were
some interesting developments in stock
to-day and there was in addition q ma,
terial increase in the volume of bust
ness, but the activity was at the ex-
pense OF values. Four stocks. American
Sugar, Whiskey. Chicago Gas and Read.
ing, figured for l65 900 shares in total
OF s57,o7l shares for the entire list.
Sugar made the greatest loss, dropping
from 1O2 to 81 and dividend Of 3 per
cent The board room reason for the
break was that insiders, fearing adverse
legislation by Congress at the coming
session, had supplied all bids on the
recent advance and were prepared for
anything that might happen in the
future.
day ell the old unfavorable re-
ports about a receivership were made to
disservice, and this in theHexcited con-
dition OF the market for stock accel.
Grated the decline. Reading was
another bear fsvorite and fell under
pressure from 20H to 1S5k. This stock
was depressed by the announcement
that the Earle. Olcott plan REQUIRES a
heavy assessment on all the junior Sc.
curities. Among the standard stocks a
steady tone prevailed at the opening
and subsequently the Changers and
Louisville and Nashville scored frac.
tional gains. Before II o'clock, how
ever, sharp raid was made on North
west which forced the price down to
~ to 102%. This unsettled the whole
list and when Sugar and Whiskey broke,
the market gradually declined.
The loss however, was not so import
ant, and, except in Northwest, which
lost point or SO for the day, the decline
was merely fractional. On the other
hand, Northern Pacific preferred and
st. Paul made slight gains. Chicago
Gas at one time displayed reat strength,
rising to 72, bus later, in sympathy with
the Sensational changes in other indus-
trinls, receded to 70. The mark ct closed
steady for the railways and heavy for
the industrials. Net changes in the
railway list show losses of 1@1L per
cent, Northwest leading. In the in
dustrials, however, the loss Is 4@1%
per cent, except for Sugar, which is S
per cent lower, and Whiskey, which
lost az points. Total sales were 357, GIL
shares. Railway and miscellaneous
bonds were weak.
Money on call easy at per cent, last
loan at one and closing offered st per
cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4@4%
per cent. Sterling exchange firm,
with actual business in bankers bills at
4s5N@4s5% for sixty days and 4s64@
4S639 for demand; posted rates, 1850
48776. Commercial bills, 4s4%@4s54.
Bar silver, 637s. Government bonds
steady. State bonds dull. Railroad
bonds weak. Silver at the board, 81 bid.
Norfolk and Western 25.
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81 ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw,
Terry Building, Roanoke, Va. 10 30 1y
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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pursuit. Immediately afterward I met
Mary Mccartney. She had very white
face and tears in her deep violet eyes as
she besought me to tell her if the acct
dent had been dangerous. I made tho
best OF things, but she, think, OWNED
the sad truth and made her mother take
her home. There was heavy cloud
over every body for the rest Of the day.
and though we got through all tho races
on the card there was little spirit in
anything, and we were glad when we
wero able to break up. There was little
chaff or fun Oh the drive home.
We had a miserable time of alter
nate hopes and fears about our comrade,
but i'll three & 5 all was over. Finch
was inconsolab,c, though fortunately
neither he icr any ono else at tho time
kncw tAat he had been the cause of Soy
mon"'S death. 1t was always supposed
that Mcu~ctrap mad kicked his master
III his struggles orecover himself when
ne Tell. l have never told the real story
ill tonight. ald you will not let it 20
further. Sir Thomas Finch is great
swell no", bat l don't think he would
learn without deep pain that however
lnnocently, ho was the cause of the
death vacancy 10y which he got the
troop that gave him the first start in
his successful career
What hccamc of Mary Mccartney:
On, she IS Lady Finch, and, pom my
soul, thinll she is still as beautiful and
charming us ever.-,Pall Mall Maya
zine.
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ForIOver FIFTY Yeara

MRS. WInsLows SoorHINs SYRUP hiss Dcen uset
or children teething. 1t soothes the child SOFTEN
the best remedy for Diarrhms. Twcnty.i,a cts
bottle. SO wa druggists th ugbcJn.! -
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-18
summer vaoation:rours.

THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company now has on sale at ell its
offices east of the Ohio river full line
OF tourist excursion tickets to all the
lake. mountain and seashore resorts in
the Eastern and Northern States and in
Canada. These tickets are valid for 70.
turn journey until October 81. Before
deciding upon your summer outing It
would be we'll to consult the Baltimore
and Ohio book of Routes and Rates for
Summer Tours" All Baltimore and
Ohio ticket agents at principal points
have them, and they will be sent post
paid, upon receipt OF ten cents, by Chas
o. Scull, general passenger agent, Bal,
timore and Ohio railroad, Baltimore.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13
no doesn't do it.

no doesn't do it.
The city tax is seventy-five cents
with thirty cents additional fol
schools, and the county and State
amount to 81, which gives Mt. Ster.
ling the lead of her sister towns Oh
taxes, but it will be less after this
year, so they told me.
The Fire Department consists OF
two fine steam engines with volun-
teer companies and a chief (J. L. Con
roy The men are paid when on
duty.
Speaking of Fire Departments re-
minds me of water works, and Mt.
Sterling just at present is LAYING for
somebody with club on the water
works question. The works were TO
have been in operation by the 25th of
October, but that date passed without
them. AS the field now stands the
wafer is TO come from Hinkston river.
quite near town, where there is
seven-acre reservoir with twenty
five acre reservoir in reserve, as it
were a stand-pipe, to be l25 feet high
has its foundation on the hill near
town, and the city will take seventy
five plugs at $50 each for the first fifty
and $40 for all additional.
AT present the city's water supply
comes from cisterns, more than from
wells. l mean by that, the people
have got onto the fact chat well water
IS not the kind of water to drink, and
hey have made cisterns for them
selves, and every town in the State |
ought to go and do likewise before
Uphold fever becomes a permanent
'esident in its midst, so to speak.
The Montgomery County Court
House has the blue ribbon on good
ooks. 1t stands high to itself, and as
was finished only in 1890, it has all
he modern conveniences, including
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

! IN. is Presented what 1 should say
was the finest scenic display i'm
Central Kentucky. A beautiful,
rolling country dotted with groves
and green fields stretches away for ten
miles or more, and rising on the sky
inc like hedge of misty, hay blue
that shuts it in are the foothills of the
great mountains, which lie beyond
ma extend eastward for two hundred
niles,
In the cemetery are many fine mon
nments, the finest being that to Judge
Richard Reid, costing $4,000. On the
grave Of Benjamin Robertson is the
marble figure Of his favorite dog.
Fury"
One of The distinguished citizens.
who showed me overt the grounds, told
ne The name of the cemetery was
"McP' lah," and was of Irish descent,
md when | tod him thought it was
biblical and meant "doubling," he
looked serious and remarked: "OfI
course, OF course; amt Dubling the
capital of Ireland ?" and then hadn't
any more to say, but L hope he will
look the matter up in Genesis P.S.-I
Genesis is book in the Bible.
There is no Y M. G. A. in town.
though there used to be and ought TO
he now. Why it made an assignment
[ was not Informed.
There is All Associated Charities.
which does a great deal of good in a
luiet way. Its President is VIM.
Mitchell, one time President of the
ate Farmers Bank, and now a poor
nan. Mr.. Mitchel's charities were
lnostentatious but extensive, and he
rave to the deserving as much as
$4,000.
There is in Mt. Sterling what is not
n most towns Of this section, to-wit:
ity building, in which the City Court
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

distillery with capacity of 200 bar-
re's DAY, enough to keep the policeI
ousy Tor two hundred years, if it kerr
going all the time.
Gas and electricity are the illumi-
nants, but the city uses no gas on the
streets. The people use it at SO 40
Thousand and 20 per cent. discount ~
paid promptly. The city has So 600
a year Tor its arc and incandescens
lights, both ofw which are required to'
ngnt up the burg the way they warn
it lighted. &c
lhere is one hotel, and from brief
inspection | should say it was above
the average. In any event. it is SO
iar superior to what the town had
once before when L visited if. that n
may safely say it is first-class )
There are three banks, one national '
with combined capital of S350OO0
ana they are doing a lot better Than
some banks have done in the same
The residences are good and sub
without being elegant and
eiaoorate. The best of them run
along in cost from $4,000 to $4,000,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

in Mt. Sterling, and careful Genius
Montgomery county bar. Think of q
town of 5000 people with forty law
lerS Can any other town in the
State make such showing? Still
stranger, they all make living at il.
and seem be pretty well satisfied.
The cause of this is that they practice
over most Of the mountain counties to
The east, and have plenty to do. The
oldest attorney is Judge B. j. Peters,
Justice, and on the bench for
sixteen years, who at eighty-nine goes
to his Office every day. lie is the old
est practicing attorney In the State,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

replace one burned during the war i'm
one of the fights that occurred in the
town. l presume it is hardly neces-
sarv tor me To state that there il a
clock in the tower. The material i'm
the building is pressed brick aud stone.
The jail and jailer's residence are
just across the street fIom the Court
House. The re>iterce part cost SS.-
600 and the jail cost $l2 600. 1t is of
Roman freestone, and has a wall
around it that Joshua couldn't blow
down willt forty blasts on his ram,
horn.
MI. Sterling is rich in lawyer
fhoueh the law,els may not he rjcl
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

The business streets, Main and
Maysvile, are sixty and fifty feet
feet wide, and when the visitor walks
up from the station to Main street
he is greeted with city smell that not
one small town in a thousand has. 1t
is an indescribable sort of an order.
but it smells of commerce and trade
and any one who has ever been in the
narrow streets of great commercial
city will recognize it at once. Be that
what it is, Mt. Sterling has a big
wholesale trade with the mountains.
and has had for years. There are
four Wholesale groceries, one grocer
les and whisky and two which do
considerable jobbing in dry goods and
drugs. One of these houses has, am !
informed, sold as much as 100000
worth in one year.. | may add here
that more of the wealthy men have =
made their money merchandising
than In any other Bluegrass town.
The town crows over its trade, too.
ana promises itself great things for
the future. 4
The manufacturing interests are
represented by an ice plant, two plan
ing mills, hogshead factory, two
hour mills, a wooden mill, two ma
'hine shops, two carriage factories, a
steam laundry, and the Newmarket
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

fire proof vaults and handsome
courtroom. The remarkable part of
is that it only cost $26,000-that is,
1t only cost the county that much.
What it cost the contractor has never
been stated. Builders say such
structure could not be erected for less
than 100000. This Court House was
built to replace one, too small for the
business, which was built in 1866 to
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

is held; also cells TOR transient guests
of the police, a fire engine room and
the rooms of the city library. Right
here let me say this library is the kind
all towns ought to have. 1t contains
several thousand volumes, is well pa
tronized, and tho city appropriates
5000 a year for the purchase of new
books. What other town can say as
much for itself? Mrs. Cassie Redmon
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13
salary of $50 each.

salary of $50 each.
The private school flourishes in it
pristine glory; besides the smaller
schools, there are the Kentucky Train,
ing School for Boys, with Major Fow.
Ter as principal; the Harris Institute
and Emerson Institute for Girls, and
Goodwin's High School for Boys.
Education simply grows on the trees
in Mt. Sterling.
The sects are well represented in
church buildings. but there isn't a
really handsome church in the town.
Several of them have mostly gone to
steeple. The Presbyterians IN and S. )
nave two churches, one, the First, a
quaint old structure, will have reached
its hundredth year in 1895; the Chris
lians, BaptistR, MethodistF, Episcopa-
lians and Catholics have one each.
The Catholic is the best building of
that denomination l have yet seen
The MethOdists have the best looking
church, the Christians the most ex-
pensive ($l6,00O), and the Christians
are the most numerous and the rich
est, Notwithstanding we have it that a
rich man cannot enter the Kingdom of
heaven. PASTORAL salaries range from
$1,000 to 81, 800 per annum, and the
Christians, Methodists and Episcopa-
lians own their own parsonages, bat
Episcopalians rent theirs, as they are
not able to maintain a pastor regu-
Iarly.
The colored people have three
churches, Baptist, Methodist and
Christian, the latter two of brick, and
he Methodist church, when has re-
Gently had $4,000 spent on it in i'm
orovements, is the most attractive
ooking church building of them all.
Financially speaking, all the Mt. Ster-
ing churches are out of debt.
The city government is conducted
~ Mayor adam Baum, at a sala.
y of$lOo year, and eight Council
men at 500 a year each.
And here a word for the Mayor.
lie was born in Germany, an unusual
hing for man who holds office in
he is Democrat, an I'M
sual thing for German; he is rich,
Which is not usual for his thrifty pco-
lie; and he began his career as a
lerchant in Mt. Sterling with pack
n his back. 1t is men like Mayor
'aum we need in Kentucky, and his
areer is an example to every young
GLOW now growing up in the State.
The Chief of Police is G. T. Wilson,
18th 5000 a year and fees, and he has
'ur men OF $50 month each, with
n extra dollar for every arrest made,
nd there are several made during the
purse of a year, for Mt Sterling is
Ike the little girl we read of in the
Dem:
When she is good, she is very good, indeed
1T when she is bad, she Is hOrrid.y ii
or course, Mt. Sterling never is C
lorrid," but that's the way the poem il
)es. II
The Police Judge is Ben r. Turner v
$500 year and fees, and the City b
ttorney is II. Clay Mckee at 5000. ST
he reader will observe that Bro II
cKee parts his name in the middle b
hair is parted that way also, but b
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and possibly in the entire country.
The health Of the town is reported
good, although there are fifteen white
and two colored doctors, a largershow-
ing than any other town / have in
vestigated.
Out on the hill, to the east, is the
cemetery, owned by the Odd Fellows,
and called Machpelah, From its high
est point, locking toward the rising
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13
Lis the librarian.


Among the lodges are the Masons.
Odd Fellows. X. of p. and the Y. M.
H., a Catholic organization The Odd
Fellows own their own building, and
the Masons built themselves temple
costing $4,000, but somehow they
over-fnanciered themselves and could
not retain possession OF it.
The business houses are on Main
and Maysville streets, and they are
| the best business houses | have seen
outside Of the large cities. Not con-
tent with brick, these merchants have
built handsome stone-front houses
that are worthy of place anywhere.
The Tyler & Apperson iour-siory
stone front leads the list 1t cost $780,
600, has steam heat and electric lights
and will have an elevator when the
water works are completed Then
there are The buildings of Drake e.
Bigststf, Odd Fellows, Baum. T. p.
Martin, the building occupied by SUI
ton & Smith, andthe Masonic Temple.
The stone is a light gray from Rowan
county, and cost about what brick.
does. AT least when thew were add
ing an ell TO the hotel the brick gave
out and they finished ii in massive
stone that looks like fortress, but it
only shows from the back.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13

SJdnulllS WIFI cNpcCJdnJ lcct'
Where the Knobs and Bluegrass moet,
Fair Mt Sterling, fixed between,
Hopes one day to reign as Queen.
The fact of the business is that The
Mt. Sterling people, looking to the
west over the Bluegrass. and to The
east over the Knobs, have an idea thai
their town is already boss of the whole
shebang, and few lines of poetry
similar to the above, will only make
them smile and point the finger OF
scorn at the poet. They talk that way
anyhow, and they have hustling
spirit which may yet surmOunt the
insurnountable.
Mt, Sterling, Or as Historian COL
Inns calls it, Mountaineering, is the
county seat of Montgomery county,
and Montgomery county is one of the
halfway counties, that is TO say.
when you are there you are halfway
To the Bluegrass and halfway to the
Knobs.
Montgomery, the twenty second in
the order of counties, was formed out
of Clark in 1896, and since that time
portions of it have been grated onto
eighteen other counties, so that what
is left of it is ''little, but oh my" 1t
was named in honor of Gen. Richard
Montgomery, who was killed at the
battle of Quebec in ITS.
Mt. Sterling became town in 1892,
and was named, according to Mr.. Col
Inns, from Mr. Stirling, who owned
the land Oh which it was built, but
according to good local authority, il |
was called Mount, because it was near
Little Mountain, the site of "Estill's
Defeat" and Sterling, because an old |
Scotsman, who was present at the
time of its birth, wanted to do honor
70 his native town of Stirling, and no.
body knew that that Stirling spelled
its name with an /, The reader may
take his choice.
The town, 1 beg pardon, the city,
contains population of 5000, though
several authorities intimated to me
that it was 5000, and one man whom
asked answered in nonchalant and
insouciant manner, like a Chicago
man: "Oh, reckon about 10000 or
10000" Right here you may set it
down that there is nothing small
about Mt. Sterling,
OF its population, nobody could say
how much was colored, for the gentle
gerrymander has got most of that ele-
ment outside of the city limits so as
not 10 cluster up the polling places at
election times. This is a wise pre-
caution in communities where the vote
Is close.
The public school is housed in a
new building costing $751; +,
700 and commandingly situated. The
is Mrs. Mamie Hibler, at a :
salary of $50 a month, with eight as !
,istants at $50 and $40 a month, and
'06 scholars enrolled. In addition to "
his school is another to accommodate g
he 1900 white residents of the out
kirts. Its principal is Miss Bur- a
Oughs, with three assistants. A
The colored schools have 731 pupils I
nroled. j. S. Estill is the principal, \
Nth eight assistants, at an average b
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-11-13
He Says, "TwKt the Bluegrass and the Knobs It Is
Snugly SitHated-It Puts On Big City Airs and
Has Good Grounds For Doing &c.
ITS HEALTH, WEALTH, SOCIETY AND GEN
ERAL CONDITIONS OF THE AL TYPE
.-. "A BACHELORS HAVEN
A TALE WE'LL TOLD

Standing with eXpectant feet,
Where the Knobs and Bluegrass moet,
Fair Mt. Sterling, fixed between,
Hopes one day TO reign as Queen.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-03-08
CHANGED VIEWS.

1t is an interesting study to con.
template the changes Of MIND
which many people undergo in the
course of their lives, respecting not
few things. And the subjects Of
changed views are, in many instan
ces, people of strong minds and
quite even temperament. When
some of this class have reached the
age of fifty, or even forty, and then
look back over their lives, they are
apt to be AIMED at the views which
they once held, in respect to certain
morals and religious questions. In
their early days they held TO some
views which they then fully believed
were thoroughly sound and salutarv.
They had not the slightest doubt OF
this. The object OF belief might not
have beeu of any fundamental i'm
portance. Perhaps they were not
first principles. Still, they were
cherished truths, or at least they
were supposed to be truths, and, as
such, they were fondly and strongly
cherished. But as the mind expand
ed and experience accumulated, first
beliefs loosened Their hold and new
views of truth and personal duty
and privilege TOOK their place.
Some of us, in middle life, now
wonder that we ever found it possi-
BILE to hold the views which we once
did. What We once believed in
With all of our soul and contended
for with all Of our might, we do not
now believe in at all and contend
against them. What does this
show!
1t shows, for one thing, that we
are changeabla beings--that We are
far from being infallible. 1t also
shows that it is never safe for US to
assert dogmatically that we are alb
solutely right in all Of our views on
any subject.
Moreover, the lesson is that we
ought to exercise a good deal Of
charity towards those who now diff,
fer from Us, for it is possible that
we may yet believe as they 90.