The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-27
Sal +: NJ
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

William Wade, a former resident of
Back Creek, arri .ed in Salem Yesterday
from New Castle, indiana He came in
wagon, ha Wing been on the road for
three weeks. Mr.. Wade says that he will
make his future home in Salem.
NV. w. McClung, ssof the Sentinel, re-
turued yesterday froo. visit to his old
home at Franklin, w. Va.
The conquest meeting of the Y,B.P
U. VIII bs held next Sunday morning in
the Baptist Church, ut which time the
Rev j. NJ. Luck, of Hollins, will occupy
the pulpit.
John Sears, the mighty hunter of the
Blue Ridge Mountains, was in the city
one day this week with some specimens
OF apples raised on the Jno. Briokey place
on .Catawba, which are seedless and core
less. peculiar spot on the surface of
each apple suggests the hole throu oh
which the seed and core escaped. What
is still more remarkable, it is said that
the tree from which the apples we're taken
never blooms; like Topsy in Harriet
Beecher Stoves .stcry, "they just
growed.''
j. Harry Chapman. of the Roanoke
hed Suirh Springs, was in the city yes
terday on business.
Rev. Mr.. Campbell returned yesterday
mornfr from Frederick bnrg, where h.
has been attending the annual meeting of
the State synod.
Mrs. James Persinger and Mrs. Joseph
Chapman left yesterday for a visit to Mir.
and Mrs ID. c. Shanks at sBlacksburg.
p. l.. Terry, of Roanoke, was Gu our
streets yesterday.
Geo.sW. Palmer, of Saltville, is visiting
in the city, the guest of f. NJ. Wcrden on
Union street.
Democratic public speaking at various
points in Roanoke county on Saturday
night, October 30, speaking to commence
Mt 1880 p. m, Mt which time ladies are
cordially invited to he presents
Rel Hill, Corleyvlle- DR. George d.
White. K. G. Stearnes, A. Blair Antrim
Bent Mountain.--Hon. y. Allen Watts.
Henderson Lee Cave Sprlng.-R. w.
Kline, o. l.. Stearnes. Vinton.-Col. II.
II. Logan. Hon W w. Berkeley. Bon
SACKS. -Monday night, Nov lot, Hon. A.
p. Staples, NJ. G. McClung, William
Simpson. Salem, Friday right, Mt. the
same time, Hon. y. p. Staples and 9TH
ers.tt
In the case of Randall Lovelace Va
Mrs. Jacob Parrish, which was an action
of detinue :or cow sold recently by
Emma Lovelace, wife of the plaintiff. to
the defendant for ..S27, Justices Camper
and Barnitz decided in favor of the de-
PENDANT. This cause was before the JUS
tees last Saturday and owing to the alb
sence of Emma .Lovelace, whose where
aoouts was not known, the trend of testi-
mony at that trial led the Justice TO be-
lieve that the COW was mot the woman g
but belonged tossher husband, and there
fore found verdict for the plaintiff. But
since that time MIR. Parrish became aware
OF the fact that Emma was in Lynch
burg and she was brought here to testify
in the new hearing, which was com
menced Monday and concluded yesterday
Her appearances. upon the stand lent a
new aspect to the proceedings, and al
though the attorney for the plaintiff
brought all his ingenuity into play in
cross examining tie witness for an hour
and a half, she main ained herself as few
witnesses do and her evidence fully con-
WINGED the justices that She owned the
COW In question and had q perfect right
| to sell 1t. This case has created consid
cradle interest in this COMMIT nifty be-
cause Of its peculiar nature-a wife hav-
ing sold property in the absence of her
husband'-who was away in the coal fields
OF West Virginia and which said property
several months after the sale WI claim
ed by the husband as his. The decision
seems to us 70 be eminently proper and
in full accord with the sympathy OF the
public. The case was hotly contested by
the attorneys. NJ. G. McClung repre-
sented the defendant and r. c. Stearnes
looked after the interest of the plaintiff
An appeal from the justices decision is
contemp plated by the aintiff.-Sentinel.
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