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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
Amos Hairston Was Arrested by Officer
Rigney.

(AIQOS f1hlTSUOn w us Arrested by Officer
Rigney.
Amos Hairston, colored, was arrested
by Officer Rigney at 5 o'clock yesterday
morning as he was coming out of a res
taurant near the market, on the charge
of attempted murder. Hairston arrived
here an hour before his arrest on a Roa-
noke and Southern freight train, and was
identified by II scar on the side of his
throat. When he was first arrested he
claimed that his name was Jones but later
on admitted his identity
The history of the crime of which he is
charged is as follows:
On the last day of August in Dizzy
Nichols place in Winston, Sam Snow,
young negro man, was shot and danger
ously wounded by Hairston. Snow and
Hairston were throwing dice in Dizzy
Nichols house and fell out about some
difference in the game. 1t appairs that
Hairston cursed Snow, bringing about
an exchange of vile epithets. Hairston
left the house vowing that he would re.
turn and kill Snow. True to his word he
went back in about half an hour with
32-caliber pistol and was accompanied by
two brothers. Snow was warned of their
approach and attempted to escape, run
ming out by the back of the house, but
just as he turned the corner of the house
Amos Hairston fired twice, one ball tax
ing effect in the stomach and the second
in the left wrist. Officers were quickly
on the scene, but the would-be murderer
made his escape. His two brothers were
arrested and placed in Jail. In order to
extract the first ball the physicians were
forced to make an incision from the back
The wounded man is still alive.
An officer arrived yesterday evening
from Winston and will take his prisoner
back on the noon train to-day.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
ROANOKE AND SOUTHERN.

The annual meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Roanoke and Southern rail
road was held yesterday morning at II
o'clock in the sky parlor at Hotel Roa-
noke. After the transaction of some bus
mess regarded as being of private ma
ture the following officers were elected:
f. II. Fries, president; H. S. Trout, first
vice president; John Gill, second vice
president; J. H. Spencer, third vice-pres-
ident. The following constitute the board
of directors: j. w. Fries, c. H. Fogle,
r. j. Reynolds T. L. Vaughan, j. w.
Hanes, j. A. Gray, j. E. Gilmer, B. J..
Shepard, II. L. higgins, P. p. Watson,
j. H. Matthews, w. NJ. Semple w. X.
Andrews, L. II. Stewart and S. w. jam
ison.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
THE LETTER CARRIERS.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Sept. 8.-The
first business session of the Letter Car
riers convention was held to-day. The
president reported 6S7 votes in the CON
vention, 420 delegates actually present,
lis branches represented by proxy and
officers with 81 votes. William King, of
Washington, d. c., made an address in
relation to claims for over time. New Or
leans presented Grand Rapids with a
handsome standard in recognition of hos
FATALITIES rendered.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
A TOBACCO FAILURE.

Winston, n. c., Sept. 81. w. Ashley
& Sons, a large plug tobacco manufac-
turing firm of Mt. Airy, has assigned,
naming j. NJ. Patterson at trustee. A
mercantile firm in which they are inter
ested Mt the same place has also failed.
The assets and liabilities have not been
given out
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
Agent for r. NJ. Sutton g. G,

Several years ago I was taken with q
sever attack of fux. was sick in bed
for about ten days and could get nothing
to-relieve me antil nsed Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
which cured me and has been house
hold remedy with us ever since. J. c.
NARROW, Decaturville, Mo. For sale by
the Chas- Lyle Drug Company,
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
A PAPER SuSPENDs

WATERFOWL, n. ", Sept. S.-The Daily
Gazette, which was started by Postmas
ter Clare in this city last spring as the
Democratic organ, has discontinued pub
lication. The paper held franchise in
the United Press
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
BALDWIN IS PRESIDENT

New York, Sept. S.-William II. Bald
win, Jr., was to-day elected president of
the Long Island Railroad Company in
place of the late Austin Corbin. Mr..
Baldwin was recently second vice presi-
dent of the Southern Railway Company.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09

The anxiety of n mother when child
gets hurt is greatly relieved when she
knows she has II bottle of Ponds Elk
tract near at hand. 49,. Ss:ixEE
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON.

Washington, Sept. 8.-The President
has pardoned James G. Henderson, SEN
fenced in Florida to six months imprison-
ment and fine for selling liquor without
q license
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
DETECTED.

81 was so disappointed was out the
other day when you called, Miss Perci-
val.'
so was ], felt sure I'd find you, he
cause as turned the corner I saw YOU 90
in. 1.-The Queen.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
SCHOLARSHIP FOR~sATE

a scholarship issued by the National
Business College, of Roanoke. Apply to
or address The Times.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09

From all accounts Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is Gcdsend to the
afflicted. There is no advertisement
about this We feel just like saying it.
The Democrat, Carrollton. Ky. For
sale by the Chas. Lyle Drug Company.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09

"The Fair''is now open at No 0 Salem
avenue with full line of stationary,
glassware, etc. George Gravatt,s Mana,
ger.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09

NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE.
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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09

Norfolk, Va, Sept. S.-Portsmouth
took a closely contested and exciting
game from the locals this afternoon by
timely hitting and clean base running.
Portsmouth, runs, 10 hits, 1 error;
Norfolk, runs. s hits, error. Batter
les: Brandt and Rollins; Gilroy and
Fields ITmDire AIcCloskpy
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-18
He Soon Caught tho Links.

"Well, they brung forth the docu
nents and by and by they learnt me
how to play"--and old man Lon had
to stop and laugh at his own thoughts
"but so far as know they never have
opened another card school and went
out lool1in for scholars.
And me and the judge and Tom
and Red Ben, we played poker that
night, we did. had started ian to play
green, you understand, and had to let
them fix the rules and regulations to
suit themselves. They made it four
bit limit, with flushes barred, to start
with and run it along at that lick for
three or four rounds in orderment to
learn me all the links and kinks of the
game. They all played monstrous
rocky game at first, and two or three
times they jest naturally throwed their
cards away and made me win the pot.
'In the run of two hours we had cut
some six or seven pots. Sometimes L
win and sometimes / lose. BY and by
the judge lowed we would better raise
the limit TO five dollars, with dollar
ante, so as to keep the gang from goin
to sleep, and the raise was made. Then
the game briefed up considerable all
along the line, but we run it two hours
longer before anybody got hurt to speak
of. In one round we piled up the pot
to $500, when judge and Squire Tom
got nervous and dropped out, leavin
me and Red Ben to fight on TO the finish.
We built the pile up clost to 5000 and
Red Ben raked it in with three jacks
and a pair Of queens, which had been
bettin like fool on two pair, kings up.
AT that pint the other members of
the gang lowed maybe they had learnt
me enough, and Red Ben was more than
willin to take out and quit.
"But | told EN- | would try EN- one
more round and take one more lesson
in the great art Of handling the docu-
ments II it sent me TO the poorhouse
and brung on another war. OF course
they stayed with me, and on the third
deal after that caught a couple of aces,
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YOUTH NO BARRIER.


Happy country, where youth, far
from being a fault, is almost privi-
lege; where they do not wait until
your voice is less clear and your words
less ardent, until you have left along
your weary route all the illusions OF
youth, until your back is bent, to have
confidence in you, to trust heavy re-
sponsibilities to you!
No matter how high one is placed, he
receives young people everywhere with
favor; he permits them to speak, be-
fore he Judges them; he does not throw
in their face that stupid judgment
which, in many countries, passes for
a sentence without appeal, and sets
them aside as inexperienced young
sters. The Americans have many good
reasons for making so much of youth,
for one needs all its freshness, all its
flexibility, all is vigor, TO go ahead in
country in which the race after for
tune has taken on headturning rapid
ity.
If Il young man of 23 has character.
good habits and intelligence, there is
nothing to prevent his being intrust-
ed with the greatest affairs and heav-
lest responsibilities. That it is a wise
policy is well eXemplified.
And it is simply admirable. A ma
ton where a man of 80 can give proof
of ability, without being paralyzed by
prejudice on account of his youth, has
already taken the lead over nations
where age, and the experience that is
required at the expense of energy, are
diplomas of capability.
Grant, Sherman and 20 other generals
at the outbreak of the war of secession
were young men.
In Cambridge. Mass, in Mount Au-
burn cemetery, one can see the monu-
ment of a Harvard student who was a
colonel at 25 years of age.
This appreciation of youth is one of
the secrets of the great development OF
a country; the young Louis XVI, with
his youthful followers, had the most
brilliant court in the world, and the
| young generals of Napoleon /. conduct
ed the old soldiers to the most brilliant
victories. And we remember France in
1870, when she thought that only cid
| generals were wisc.-From "a Partisan
/ IN America"
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Gallopine with the Gang.

"Hit was way back there late in the
sixties when | let crowd of them town
fellers learn me how to play cards, and
henceforwards after that | never could
work myself into the game any to speak
of without moyin way off somewheres
amongst rank strangers" says old man
Lon, as he went down after his tobacco
and put fresh bundle in the rack.
I'm them days it would pay to raise
cotton, and along in the fall of the year
put eleven bags on the wagons one day
and went up to the city. | was then
farmin on the Murder creek plantation,
which you understand, boys, the lands
down there use to jest naturally turn to
cotton onct year. The war was then
over and the niggers was free, but as
yetthey hadn't forgot how to work, and,
dadburn EN-, hadn't forgot how to ride
a good horse and tote rawhide and do
some farmin in my saddle.
"At any rates, | had made stavin fine
crop that year and come out ahead OF
the hounds with no fences to climb.
When / driv into town that day with
eleven bags on three wagons and Il mig
ger with every team L felt like the
country mought maybe still be safe,
and when l sold out and felt some
where in the neighborhood of a thou
sand dollars in gold rattle down into
my tanks it didn't make a continental
bit of difference to me if meat was
four bits a pound and all the creeks
runnin up stream. In the main time
it had leaked out amongst the boys
that Lon Hunter was in town and
plum lousy with money and along in
the shank of the evenin | struck up
with Judge Tomlinson, Squire Tom
Brandon and ked Ben Wallace-all high
fliers and dead games at that. By this
time l had sent the wagons on home.
and nothin would do the judge and
Tom and Red Ben but that | must let
the check rein down and unbuckle the
flank girth and remain over and go
the gaits with EN- for one night any
how.
Naturally of course it wouldn't be
right for me to say | didn't have more
than a passin acquaintance with the
gang l had now put out to gallop with.
And they knowed me to some extent
rs the all-overest best farmer in the
country. But that WAS all. So con-
sequentially when they brung it up
that they had fixed itup to have a pleas
ant time with the documents that
night, and wanted me TO fill out the
game, l was nothin but plain Lon
Hunter from Cyclone Streak, and as
awkward as blind dog in meat
house with regards to the ways of this
wicked world. But nothin else would
do, so after Tullin on the bits consider
able finally at last | told EN- 1 would go
in providin they would learn me how
to play
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-18

garden will help to make it attnactive;
and my wife wants all the old-fasroned
herbs, like sage and mint and balm
ard thyme and ealamus and camomile.
She has horse nadish enough for ahotel.
Gardening IS the first work of whieh
we have any history, and it is the most
pleasant and healthy of all occupn-
tiens. If man Is good gardener he
will be good farmer. As you travel
overland through the country yon can
tell a good farmer by looking at his
garden, just as you can tell good
wife and daughter by looking at the
flowers and vines in the front yard.
They are a sign of good taste and re-
finement and good housekeeping and
contentment. They save doctor bills, for
half the diseases come from diseased
minds - mental misery = borrowing
trouble and nursing it. The cultivation
of flowers is good tonic for indiges-
ton. / have noticed that the people
who are most diligent in such occupa-
tons are the least concerned about
politics and silver and gold and tho
and the home absorb them, and are II
bigger thing than the spells of Office.
The average politician wants some
thing for nothing. AS Cobe says: "He
is just sidewipng around hunting the
photography of an Office" and when he
gets it the first lesson he learns is how
to log-roll, He will vote for anybody's
bill if they will vote for his. You
tickle me and l will tickle you, is the
motto, and they call it a compromise
of conflicting interests. Congress has
at last voted every member private
secretary with 81 200 salary. Merciful
heavensl When will this thing stop?
Now let them apply for a receiver and
sell out the concern.
But l am off the subject, and will get
in q bad frame of mind and have fit
of Indigestion; and so | will quit and
go to my garden, where ! am always
calm and sercne.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta
Constitution.
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Then 1 throwed off and called for three
cards, and blamed if l didn't pull the
other pair of aces. By thunder, think
of that, boys! The plain old farmer
from Cyclone Streak helt four aces in
game of poker, with hushes barred. 1t
took my level blamdest to do it, but |
belt myself down cool and steady and
went at en- slow and indifferent as l
could. After the secont round Squire
Tom and Red Ben dropped out and me
and the judge we went at it. There
was over 500 in the pot and the judge
wanted to bust the limit. l was plum
willin, and we then lit in and run it at
a $50-clip till there was elost up to 5000
in the pot. AS to me | was ready to
stake my whole entire pile on the hand
| belt, and | lnowed blamed we'll if the
judge run me to the wall | could raise
the necessary funds to carry on the
fight. Mac Stevenson was runnin of a
bank in town at that time. Now Mac
was another one of them natural-born
durn fools from Cyclone Streak, and |
knowed tremendous well that in a game
of poker, with flushes barred, four aces
was good for every blamed thing in the
bank.
But I told 'em would try 'em one
down three tens and a pair of queens.
which, of course, the ralfins of the pot
then went down into the pockets of my
old jeans breeches. BY this time | had
learnt enough for one night and told
the boys it maybe mought be best for
them to turn out school So they turned
cut and quit, and if they have ever
opened school any more they didn't
come over into Cyclone Streak looking
for fresh scholars"
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SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS.
One Man from Cyclone Streak That
"Helt Winnin Hand"
-Four Aces In Game of Poker, with
Flushes Barred-A "Scandlous Bad
Fight"-Grass CROWN at the
Rates of 10 to /.

"Time has been and I have seen the
day when any man that beat me handlin
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-18
The sheriff Earned His Fee.

Years ago the courts of western New
York found it matter of great diff
Guilty to collect juries for the trial of
cases. One case was adjourned from
day to day, on account of the mysterious
disappearance every morning of some
OF the ~ men who had been drawn and
sworn on the jury; there were never
more than eight of these unwilling VIC
tins to be found at one and the same
time. One morning, however, when tho
judges patience had entirely departed,
the sheriff came bursting into the court
room, his face flushed with the excite
ment of victory. ITS all right now,
your honorl" he cried, joyfplly; " you
can try the case to-day, for Wen have
the Jury by u o'clock, sure. Itain't but
ten o'clock now, and I've got II of EN-
locked up in my barn, and we're running
the 18th man with dogs, your tonori"---
San Francisco Argonaut.
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QUEER CONDOLENCES.
Striking Occurrences, Many of Which
Have Become Historic.

Striking Occurrences, Many of Which
Have Become Historic.
The late well-llnown arehaeologist,
Albert Way, crossing Pall-Mall cam
noned against an old gentleman. After
mutual apologies cards We're exchanged.
On each card was printed "Mr. Albert
Way" The older gentleman, dying.
left his fortune to the other Albert
Way.
The planet Neptune, which had for
countless ages revolved In the heavens
unseen by anyone on earth, was discov-
cred simultaneously and Independently
in 1916 by Profs. Adams and NJ. Lever
rier, the two most brilliant astronomers
of the day
Some few years ago a shepherd boy
placed q sleeper on the railway line be-
tween Brighton and Palmer, with the
result that a train was thrown off the
rails. One year later to a day-almost
Ito minute-that same youth was
struck by lightning and instantane-
ouSly killed within u couple of miles of
the spot at which the accident occurred.
Sir Walter Besant tells of the follow
ing curious coincidence which hap
pened to himself. 81 was consulting, The
says, ian artist with regard to the face
and features of a character which he WAS
illustrating for me and ! briefly de-
scribed to him the kind of face had in
mind. He was meanwhile rapidly
slketching a face on piece Of paper he
had before him. viii that dor he
asked, showing me the exact portrait
OF the man I had been thinking Of
The four King Georges Of England all
died on the SAME day of the week.
A lady lost q ring on "the Under
ground" She returned and reported
hor loss. At that moment n train
entered the station. W hen her ring WAS
found on the step of her carriage, hav-
ing completed the circle in that posi-.
ton.
At place of worship in Rotherhitle.
some little time ago, the minister was
telling how Wellington said ut n crisis
of one of his great battles: IF dark
ness would only come it would save
him." Hardly had he uttered these
words when the gas went out in the
chapel.
In 1s90,a few weeks before the census
taker began his enumeration Of the peo-
pie of Elm Grove, Va, the town au-
thorities counted their own population,
preparatory to fling articles of incor-
poration. The following was the re-
markoble result: Number of males
over 81 years of age, AS; number of
males under q years of age, las; num-
Der of females over 16 years of age, las;
number of females under 16 years of
age, 14S.
Seine Zuius were on exhibition III
Aberdeen and gentleman who had
been in South Africa himself went and
began TO talk with the men in their own
language. One of the natives was ex-
ceptionally shy, which rather attracted
the gentleman's attention. lie looked
at him more closely and recognized him
as a man who had worked for him in
Natal and had run away T.th pair OF
trousers which did not belong TO him.
N. y. Mail and Express.
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Judge-What entenuating circum-
stances can you give?
COMMUNICATIONS, your honor, |
made the money 10 pay for my lodgings,
Very good: II viii pay for your board
and lodging for lie next five years. 81
1it.Nits.
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From what the doctors say reckon
that Laz Green will come ground on his
feet time enough to vote for free sill
yer at sixteen to one in the next gen
eral election. The sympathy of the
whole entire settlement goes out to old
man Buck Weatherford in the day OF
his great grief and fret. But in the
main time the grass is GROWN at the
rate of about sixteen 10 one, whilst the
cotton is bloomin and the corn silkin
and tasselin and carryiu on powerful,
So much for Cyclone Streak.
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-18

make out like Lon Hunter knows any
thing for certain outside of mules and
niggers and corn and cotton" the old
man went on presently, "butPll be eter-
nally gormed up if haven't seen the
day when l could tell as well as any liv-
in man when Jack pots got ripe enough
to pull"
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of the documents
had to stay out
tolerable late and
git up tremen-
dius soon, said
oil d m a II L o n
Hunter, of c y
clone Streak, to
a gang ofus boys
over at the Cross
Roads one Satur-
day evenin'. Gas
the game now
stands, | don't
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He-When did you love me mostf
She-The day you had your pay
iaised.-Towu Topics,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-15
A New Fishhook.

Among the latest inventions is fish
hook made with fly back or spring
The hook is in two parts, like the jaws
of steel trap, one raising back almost
to perpendicular, the other hanging in
the usual fashion. When the fish gives
little pull at the bait, the hook which
rests against the line comes down like
flash, striking the fish on the nose and
burying itself in the creatures head
The mechanism of this hook is extreme
~ simple, and it is claimed that even
very slight nlbble will spring the hook
and capture the game. This is good
hook for amateurs. but genuine sports
men consider it very much on the prin-
clple OF betting on a sure thing, and
value it accordingly. - New York
Ledger