The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-01
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

| Fris;oe's
Ed. McCauley has returned from q
visit to friends in Henry county.
There will not be any services at the
Methodist Church to-day, tho pastor
being absent at conferences.
1t is reported that former young real
| estate agent, who was also connected
with the JEFF Davis Rifles, and his wife
| have been divorced.
Joseph D. Logan, of Union, W. Va
and Lieutenant William Gilmer, U S.
NJ, are guests at the residence OF Col.
r. Ii. Logan, on Broad street.
County Clerk Griffin yesterday re-
| ceived letter from his brother, Lieut..
Tom Griffin, on the Charleston, dated
Rio, March 30, saying that they en-
pected soon to sail for the Boring sea.
In consequence of the funeral there
will not be any service this afternoon at
the Presbyterian Church, though
preaching by the pastor msy be ex-
pected there this morning.
THE Heavenly Twins" Companion
book to Robert Elsmere. At Fristoe's.
While arranging some partnership
| business yesterday Messrs Christian and
McConkey exchanged few blows la
Mitchell and Corbett, but fortunately
no one was seriously hurt.
DIR. Taylor, who preached last Sun
day on The Risen Jesus" will dis.
course this morning At the Baptist
Church on The Assembled Savior" His
subject tonight will oe "Seeking the
Lord
In the Ciceronian Literary Society
last night the question for considers
tion was, that the next fifty years will
be noted for the worst wars the world
has ever known" whilst the Demosthen-
ians debated the question, Resolved, that
the tendency of politics to-day is to-
wards corruption.
Eleanor Jamison, the pretty little
granddaughter of Justice Camper, en-
tertained the infant class of the Pres.
byterian Sunday-school yesterday from
to p. M, at the home of her grand
father on Broad street. The event was
the celebration of the anniversary of
her sixth birthday.
Judge Henry e. Blair has issued an
order to the clerk to prepare list of
those persons in which no order has
been entered in five years, with view
OF striking them from the docket. Those
attorneys having old cases on the
docket had better look to their clients
interests at circuit court, which con
venes tomorrow.
F. A. McCulloch, contractor and fore
man in rebuilding the Radford bridge
which collapsed Friday, as told in yes
terday's TIMES. was a son of B. +.
McCulloch. who lives about three and a
half miles from Salem, and who received
telegram yesterday afternoon stating
that his son had died from the effects OF
his injuries and would be buried Monday
At Blue6eld.
For fresh fruits call on Fristoe, next
door to Hotel Lucerne.
About dusk Friday Mrs. j. R. c.
Brown, Jr., AMI several other residents
on High street observed bright meteor
which flashed leisurely across the
heavens from southeast to north west.
Mrs Brown in describing 1t said it
looked about as large as a baby's head
and emitted flashes of fire and sparks as
1T sped its course. Later on the lights
OF the aurora borealis were very bril-
| liant.
d. Terry Martin has the heartfelt
| sympathy Of all who know him in the
/ death yesterday at noon of his favorite
little daughter, Kitty, aged IL, who was
Ill for only three days, and could not be
cured by the skill Of three attending
| physicians. The services will be CON
Quoted by Rev. j. r. Bridges, and will
take place at the house this afternoon
at O'Clock, and tho burial shortly sitter.
wards in East Hill Cemetery.
In reply to letter from seventy-two
citizens of Salem and vicinity, asking
Hon John Goode to become 3 candidate
for the Democratic nomination to the
FIFTY fourth Congress from the Sixth
Congressional district, that gentlenan
has replied in a letter stating that
under existing circumstances | am not
inclined to announce myself as a candi-
date. but would not feel at liberty to
decline the nomination if it should be
voluntarily rendered me. If, therefore,
the representatives OF the party in tho
Sixth district, when they meet in con-
vcntion for deliberation, should be of
| tho opinion that | would be the most
available candidate, | would deem it
my duty as citizen TO respond to their
call and make an energetic canvass OF
| the district"
STANDARD poems, handsomely bound,
at 25 cents at Fristoe's.
! Roanoke negroes "raised cain" for
awhile yesterday morning in that part
of Salem designated Cuba" 1t hap
pened thus: Floyd Ross, OF Ernest ave-
nue., Roanoke, on Friday night told his
wife he was going to Bluefield and left.
She had her suspicious, especially as
she observed Mollie Hale, noted char
acter OF Ernest avenue, board the Sa-
lem car that evening. Next morning
Lizzie Ross came to Salem to hunt for
her husband, and, going to Mollie
Johnson's, on Water street, inquired if
her husband was there, but was told
that he was not. Having her doubts
she seized an axe, broke in the door and
discovered Mollie Hale and her husband
in the room. The husband fed whilst