The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-07
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

Capt. w. W. Berkeley, of Roanoke, was
III Salem yesterday.
Miss Alice Barksdale, of Vinton, was
on visit to the city yesterday
Mrs. r. S. Miller, of Bedford, is visit.
ing Mrs. Harvey, OH High street
All that the Republicans of Salem now
have to do is TO collect up their bets and
look happy
Mr. Wright, of the Roanoke Telephone
exchange, was in the city yesterday on
business.
Hon. j. l.. Hannah was in Salem yes
terday circulating among his friends and
acquaintances.
Mrs. DIR. Gale, of Roanoke, is on II visit
to her sister, Mrs. NJ. G. McClung, on
Virginia avenue.
DR.. Hatcher, pastor of the Grace Street
Church of Richmond, Va, is on il visit
to DR.. j. b. Taylor, on Broad street.
1t is said that james Pagan who. was
arrested in Covington, Ky, for throwing
eggs Mt j. G.. Carlisle, was native Of
Fincastle.
Frank Dnrst and his law partner, w.
f. Borgess., Of Bluelield, w. Va, were in
the city yesterday on business. They
were the guests of ID T. Martin
The last of the locust trees has now
been cut down in the court house yitrd.
The November sun shines in splcndor on
the green sward and the courthouse looks
like relic of the past.
The banks are now Offering to pay out
gold for-what! If every man who has
deposits in the bank should now demand
gold it would noe he Il month before gold
would be ut IL premium.
L.,
leans Will have n pretty row over the
Offices. The Democratic Office holders had
better pack their grips preparatory to IL
trip up Salt river after the 18th OF March
Stocks, bonds and American securities
have risen in price since McKinley's cleo
ton, but corn, wheat and breadstufls re-
manned unchanged for the present The
prices of stuff raised by farmers and the
products of toll will from this time on 90
steadily downward Men will get cheaper
and money dearer until the money of the
people is increased. 1t remains to be seen
whether the Republicans will or not
grasp the situation.
The q. o. p. elephant hears upon its
back the successful candidates for the
Presidency and the Vice Presidency of
the United States. Mr.. Hanna manipu-
lates the elephant The New York
L
other great metropolitan newspapers are
all in the band wagon and are trying to
blow their brains out. The New York
journal, the Richmond Dispatch, the
Lynchburg News and other free silver
papers are saving wood.
The last act in the political drama of
1876 is over. The curtain has been runr
down and the actor, Major Mckinley, is
in.front of the stage making his obeisence
to the encore of the multitudes. 1t re-
| mains to he seen whether the spindles
will spin, the wheels of factories revolve
and the smoke of the industries curl to
the skies rs has been promised by the
sage of Canton. If the theory of money
is correct as cNpounded by such men as
O. y. Towns, Henry NJ. Teller, Francis
NJ Cockrell and VIM. j. Bryan, then
nothing but IA famine in Ameica or
Europe can possibly raise the price of
| American products, for the simple reason
that there is no money to buy the neces-
| sites without which Vanderbilt, with all
his millions, could not buy breakfast.
Without change in the monetary sys-
TEN Of the Government revolution will
come before the close of the 10Th century