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Re \1atato Aprenta.
BEDFORD CITY, V?.
VOL. IX.-NO. 14.
INSIDE PROPERTY
AT
BOj^lsrOKB,
The great industrial center of Virginia.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1890.
Woodland Park,
Three blocks from the established busi?
ness center of Roanoko. at the junction
of the Norfolk and Western and lloan?
oke and .Southern railroads, has been
subdivided into lol^s. and will be sold at
auction October IT. Scheduled prices
will admit of from 100 to 1100 percent,
profit to the purchasers in the immedi?
ate future. A large attendance of buy?
ers is expected from all parts of the
country. This sale will inaugurate i be
great fall activity hi the Koanoke real
estate market, and is the best oppor?
tunity over offered for both quick turns
and permanent investment. One of tho
most noted auctioneers in tho country
will officiate. Watch the newspapers
for further announcements of this ex?
traordinary sale Woodland Park has
long been hold with tho idea that, tho
city would take it and make it a park in
the center of lloanoke. Wo have pur?
chased it and will sell it for business
and residence purposes. It contains
fifty twenty-live-foot business lots on
Campbell street, an established busi?
ness street, with a thirty-foot alley,
through which side tracks will be built
to make available for wholesale and
warehouse, purposes; loo line residence
lots on a beautiful wooded elevation
overlooking lloanoke. It will all ulti?
mately come into use for business, be?
ing only two or three minutes' walk
from the corner of Jefferson street and
Salem avenue. Enormous profits in the
prices at which these lots will be olfered.
WooiW Part Lai Co.,
E. A. PARSONS, .IAS. S. SIMMONS,
Secretary. President.
T. A. FRIERSON, Auctioneer.
TIIK ROANOKE ANI> SOUTHERN.
*Work to I). IIcKim on tills ICiid of the I.un?
til h Few Wci lc.
It is only a few weeks at most before
work on the lloanoke and Southern will
be commenced .at this end of the line.
The contract with the Roanoke and
Southern Guarantee and Development
Company requires that work ho com?
menced at this end within thirty days
after the right of way in the city limits
has been turned over to the road.
The preliminary steps fordoing this
have already boon taken, as published
-by TllK TlMKS yesterday morning, and
all the necessary arrangements will be
made in a few days.
The 5ast subscription of $100,000 by
the city was made on conditions that
work be commenced in the city limits
or within one mile of the boundary
within ninety days from tho time when
the subseribtion was made. The
City Couw.il ordered the subscription on
the 2th of August, making it necessary
for work to begin by the 5th of No?
vember.
Work will probably be commenced at
the terminus, and a track connecting
with the. Norfolk and Western extended
as it may be needed.
Ask the news stands and newsboys how
the people like THE TIMES in its new
form. Three times, us many visitors read
THE TIMES as read any other paper.
That's n point lor real estate advertisers.
Another$fariufacturlng Com} any.
A charter was granted yesterday by
Judge William Cordon Robertson, of the
Hustings Court, to the Monitor Steam
Generator and Manufacturing Company,
The. capital stock of the company is
$250,000, divided into .shares of $50 each,
and the purposes of (he company Are to
manufacture and sell the generators in
all parts of thcfountrytoontrollod ivy the
.contract. The real estate to be owned
.by the company is not to exceed 100,000
:acres at any one .time. Roanoke is to be
tho place for the principal office, anfj the
flames of those se?octcd *o conduct c he
affairs of the company for Abo first year
are as follows: President, H. M. Eiigile;
-viee-presidont, George M. Rain; seeve
tary and treasurer, H. C. Musser; di?
rectors: H. M. Engle, H. C. Musser, T.
M. uliones, P. S. MiHer, J. VL Hartlote,
and-iL M. Harris.
A I''in? Country.
G. A- Turner, Esq., rette/ted last
night from a three weeks' visit to
Franklin and Henry counties. Wuero be
has been settling up several opt ions on
mineral lands along the line of the Roa?
noke and Southern road secured by him.
.Mr. Turner is enthusiastic in regard to
the mineral prospects in those counties
and says the Koanoke and Southern
railroad, besides the many commercial
advantages which it will make avail?
able, will open, up a splendid mineral
district in tha'j section.
Everybody roads THE TIMES' "Want
Column." If you have houses or rooms
to ront, pro ,)orty or anything else to sell,
put a smull Ad. in THE TIMES, it will
bring you calls.
ROANOK
RO?NOKE'S POSTAL RECEIPTS.
Assistant Postmaster O'Brien
Makes a Comparison.
For the Quarter Kmlliif; September 30
the UeceSpta Were ?s.aoo.ot, mi In
erease of Morn Tlmu ?0 I'er Cent. Over
the C<>rre?iM>nillii({ Quarter Last Vear
?-A Steady ami Conxtunt <iui?.
The liest indications of the growth of
a city next to the erection of houses and
the increase in the value of real estate,
are the receipts of the postotlice. Roa
noke, taking these criterions as a guide,
not to mention the imperfect returns of
the census, which still gave her an im?
mense momentum as one of the rapidly
growing cities of Virginia and the South,
still holds her own and all the best ad?
vantages of this section of the State un?
der the cold and uncertain calculation
of figures which never lie. It has been
said that figures never lie, but that men
sometimes lit? with figures. In such
cases the crime is not with the integrals,
hut the individuals. They are the si?
lent showers of facts and when they are
in ado known the figures are always
there.
Such has been the history of the world,
of cities, individuals:.and such is the
history of Roanoke, the Magic City of
the Southwest, and of all other places
which rely on the truth and tests of their
progress and advancement.
In every growing city the postoflloo is
the barometer which indicates the ebb
and How of the human tide within its
borders, and taking t his as the guage.'as
the following figures will show, it will
lie easy to see how Roanoke is growing
and bow people still continue to gather
w ithin her borders.
According to the report of the efficient
assistant, postmaster, Captain .1 . M.
O'Brien the gross receipts at the Roan?
oko postotlice from the sale of stamps
and all other sources of revenue for the
quarter ending the 30th of last Septem?
ber were $8.300.01. For the quarter
[ending June 30th, 1800, the receipts
wore S7,705. For the quarter ending
I March 31st, 1800, the receipts were
30,313.22, and for that ending December
j 31st, 1880, the ofllcecollected$5,210.01,
A comparison of the quarter ending
I September :t(), 188!?. with that of the
i same date of IS'.K), shows that the re
i celpts of the office then were only $.">.
185.43, against the $8,300.01 of the quar?
ter ending September 30 of this year,
leaving an increase of $3,114.58 for this
year.
Resides showing the wonderful in?
crease in the business of the postotlice
j and the population of the city, the
I above figures toll-plainly that more men
are needed by the postmaster to render
i his service effective, and that the office
should be located in a building owned
by the Government.
THE Y. 1*1. C. A.
Made Rich by a Fortunate Invest?
ment, It Will Build.
Secretary Johnson, of the Y. M. C. A.,
who entered upon bis duties this week,
is at work to increase the interest in the
association. Prominent business men
have subsc ribed $1,500 for the current
expenses of .the year, and a reorganiza
j tion will be effected soon, probably with
! thne-e or four hundred members.
As soon as everything can be put in
shape the reading room will be supplied
I with a large number of first-class news?
papers and periodicals.
The present location of the os social ion.
on the third lloor of Tin: Timks build?
ing, is only temporary until more suit?
able quarters can be secured.
State Secretary II. O. Williams will be
here in a few days, and a thorough ef?
fort, will be made to secure, better quar?
ters.
The association hopes to erect a build?
ing next year. It now has a lot on the
corner of Jefferson street and Kirk av?
enue which cost $3,500 three years ago,
and Cor which they have refused an offer
of $35,000.
The lot fronts 7."> feet on Jefferson
street and 170 on Kirk avenue. Plans
have already been drawn for a $50,000
bulldfng. to be four stories high, with
three store-roomsion the first fioor. The
plan is to have a building large enough
to give the Association plenty of room,
with several offices for rent to help pay
current expenses.
THE TIMES is the loading paperof the
mineral belt of tho two Virginias. If you
want to keep posted on the development
of this auction you cannot afford ito be
without it.
"THKM STJKKKS."
A Pair "f Cuttle at the Slaughter Pen
with a Questlouubjtc Ownership.
A poorly el ad countryman offered two
fat steers for sale at the market yester?
day morning. One buteher offered to
buy and the price asked was:550, but the
man readily offered to take. $35.
The butcher suspected from the ap?
pearance and manner of the man thath?
was trying t? sell stolen property, and
asked that he produce proof <f?f his own?
ership. The man left and soon came
back with one of the most disreputable
negroes on Railroad avenue. The ne?
gro's testimony was not deemed suffi?
cient, and a tramn aas brought next,
but the butcher still declined to pur?
chase, and the steers are still at the
slaughter pen, the pretended owner hav
ing disappeared.
There is no need to buy a Baltimore,
Philadelphia or Now York paper to find
tho news. By subscribing for THE TIMES
you can huvo it served to you every
morning ut your breakfast table twelve
hours In ndvr.nce of tho Northern papers.
E, VIRGINIA, SATURE
1'ETKKSmJUCJ.
Uni si hi; the ruy of tho Police?A Colpnlsa
tiou Scheme--LnnBHton Coining.
Pbtei<8BURQi Va., Oct. 3.?[Special]?
At a meeting of the common council
last night the pay of the police was in?
creased. The pay of tho chief was
made ?1,000 per annum, instead of ?800;
lieutenants, ??00, instead of ?700; ser?
geants, ?700, instead of ?000; privates,
?2 per day of actual service, instead of
?1.50. In consideratien of this increase
the polico are to uniform themselves.
An ordinance was passed giving to
George Beadle, the proprietor of the
Petersburg street railway, tho privilege
of constructing and operating a street
railway on dilferent streets of the city,
tho said lino to bo operated by electric?
ity as a motive power. Tho ordinance,
under the rules, lies over until the next
meeting of the council.
The following resolution was also
offered, which will be acted upon at tho
next meeting :
Resolved, That a special committee
of the members of the council be ap?
pointed for the purpose of inducing
I capital, labor and industrial enterprises
j to come to the city of Petersburg, which
I committee shall have authority to ex
I pend, before the first day of July, 1801,
I a sum of money not exceeding ?1,000, to
be drawn from the general city fund, in
carrying out such plans as may seem to
said committee best for the furtherance
of the object contemplated by this reso?
lution.
Mr. .1. T. Donahue, iirst junior lieu?
tenant of tho R. 10. Leo battery; lias ten?
dered bis resignation.
Rev. Mr. Ilurlbutt, of Ohio, addressed
the Chamber of Commerce and other
citizens at the Tobacco Exchange last
night on his plans for establishing a
colony of Western settlers in Prince
George county, a short distance from
Petersburg. It is proposed to purchase
between 8,000 and 0,000 acres of land in
' said county and lay the same out into a
town and small farms.
.lohn M. L?ngsten is expected here to
night from Washington, lie will ccr
; tainly be a candidate for Congress from
this, the Fourth district of Virginia, at
the next Congressional election..
Cock a dr.
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TELEGRAPHIC FLASHES.
After an investigation by Deputy Col?
lector Ingham, Rev. Dr. Minkenberg
and Rev. Dr. Loenthurth, two Catholic
j clergymen who arrived at Philadelphia
Wednesday on board the steamer Hel?
genland and were not allowed to land,
under the provisions of the contract
labor law, have been released and pro?
ceeded for St. Paul.
Congressman Frank Lawler has been
nominated for sheriff by tho Democrats
of Chleago,
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotton Ex?
change was holet Wednesday.
A dispatch from London says that the
Scotch iron trade is at a complete stand?
still, as tho manufacturers have given
notice to their men that they will he
locked out on October 4 unless pending
differences aro meanwhile arranged.
The fires in a number of furnucos are
already out. Should the lockout be de?
clared 100,000 men will be thrown out
of employment.
Six thousand Irishmen assembled in
; Indianapolis Thursday night to express
their sentiments in regard to the Tip
I perary troubles.
The Republicans of Idaho claim the
election of Shoup for (iovernor aud
Sweet for Congress by 1.800 majority
and tho entire State ticket by the same
majority. They claim that the Legis?
lature stands k.' Republicans to 10 Demo?
crats, with two members in doubt.
Ex-Uovernor Philip Francis Thomas,
of -Maryland, who was Secretary of the
Treasury under President Buchanan,
and who had held almost every ollice in
the gift of the people of Maryland, died
Wednesday night, aged 80 years.
I Acting Indian Commissioner Reit has
instructed Indian agents to refuse appli?
cations for Indians to join "Wild West"
shows.
Tho directors of the London (las Light
and Coke Company yesterday omphatic
j ally declined to accede to the demand
made by tho National Gas Workers'
Union that only union monbe employed
in the works.
At a meeting of the National Civil
Service Reform League yesterday, Gco.
Wm. Curtis was elected president for
the en-suing year. The treasurer's re?
port showed a balance of $2,000.
A terrific gale prevailed in the North
Sea Thursday and five vessels foundered
during the storm.
The White Star Steamer Germanic from
Liverpool with Count of Paris, Duke oi
Orleans and Prince of Join vi Ho on board,
signalled off the Highlands at 10:10
o'clock this morniDg.
Ernest Humphreys, a negro who shot
and killed Dicy Miller, another negro,
at Princeton, Ky.. Wednesday, was taken
from jail at that place Thursday and
hanged.
Col onel J. R. French,editor of the Hois*?
Sun, of Roiso City, Idaho, died Thurs?
day evening. He win prominently con?
nected with anti-slavery agitation and
1 edited the Herald of Freedom,one of the
I first anti-slavery papers in New England,
j He served nine years as Sergeant at
I Arms of the I'nited States Senate.
j The New Orleans September crop state
j ment Issued yesterday by Secretary
I Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange shows the largest movement
is cotton for the first month of the sea?
son since the war, it not in the history
of the trade. The amountbrought into
sigiit for the month was 851,024, against
f|08,08fl in September, 1880,and 433,078
in September IS?i8. The early crop of
1387-8* brought into sight in September
j that year, wa 882.4,QOf) bales, the nearest,
to this season's movement on record.
Tho statement shows receipts at ports
for month 722,770 bales Against 571.551
last year.
>AY MORNING, OCTOI
IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE.
A Light Attendance at Yester?
day's Session in New York.
The Delegates Prefer Sight-Seeing to Hear?
ing a Paper on Aluminum Steel?They
Virtit Telephone Exchange*, Telegraph
Office* ami Peep Into the Suhway Sys?
tem?A Trip to Edison's Establishment.
Nkw York, Oct. 3.?[Special]?There
were very few peoplo in Chickcring
Hall at half past 10 o'clock this morn?
ing, when Sir James Kitson called to
order tho third day's session of the con?
vention of tho British Iron and Steel Ins?
titute. There was no business to transact
beyond tho reading of the last paper on
tho list, "Aluminum Steel," by It. A.
Hadfteld, of Sheffield, England, and as
the printed copies of this had been dis?
tributed yesterday the members of the
institute who attended tho banquet last
night and others who witnessed the
theatrical performances, did not feel
like sitting the morning session through.
Nevertheless, a number of the Eng?
lishmen made an early tour of the olec
tricial works of the city. They started
from Park Avenue Hotel at S o'clock,
under the guidance of S. S. Wheeler, tho
expert of the hoard of electrical control,
and visited the offices of tho telephone j
exchange in Cortlandt street, where the 1
mysteries of the switch-board were
explained to them.
Thence they w< nt to the Western
1'nion building, of which they made a
tour, to the branch works of tho Brush
Electric Light Company In Elizabeth I
street, and to the Edison works in 30th
street. They also examined several of
the manholes on the sub-way system
workings.
j After the reading of Mr. Hadfield's
I paper in C hickcring Hall .Mr. J. E.
i stead, of Middlesboro, England, com?
mented upon it at some length, and the
meeting adjourned.
A large number of the delegates went to
the Edison laboratory at Llowoyn Park,
where luncheon was served by Mr. Edl
son. a Others visited the Tilly Poster'
ore mines and electrical separating
works, Stoyen's Institute of Technalogy
at Hoboken and the Spiral Weld Tube
Works in East Orange. N. J. The dele?
gates will leave to-morrow morning for
Philadelphia.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 3.?[Special]
?An elaborate programme has been ar?
ranged by the local committee for tho
entertainment of the English and Gor?
man iron and steel men on the occasion
of their visit to Birmingham. Excur?
sions will be made to fifteen of the most
important points in this district. Local
committeenien will attend who spoak
German as well as English. A souvenir
pamphlet "In both languages has been
gotten up for the guests.
Ask the news stands and newsboys how
the people like THE TIMES In its new
form. Three times as many visitors read
THE TIMES as read any other paper.
That's a point for real estate advertisers.
Defining the Lottery Act.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.?[Special]?As?
sistant-Attorney (ieneral Tyner, under
direction of Postmaster-General Wana
nvaker, has prepared a circular letter to
postmasters containing instructions for
their guidance in carrying out the anti
lottery law. The instructions stated
that tho law applies to any letter, ordi?
nary or registered, if it concerns any
lottery, gift concert, or scheme de?
scribed in the act. and to lottery tickets.
Checks, drafts, bills, money, postal
notes, or money-orders for tho purchase
of lottery tickets, or any share or chance
in a lottery or gift enterprise, and to
drawings at any lottery or similar
scheme, and forbids carrying them in
mails or delivery of them from post
offices.
Racing Yesterday.
WKSI' CHK8TEH UAltK.
first race, three-fourths of a mile?
Walk over for Volunteer Second. Sec?
ond race, seven-eighths of a mile?Ob?
jection won, BePo d'Or second, .loa
Courtney third; time, 1:30. Third race,
a mile and one-eighth?Salvini won.
Castaway second; only two started:
time, 1:50>?. Fourth race. McGrath
iana handicap, five-eighths of a mib ?
Blithe won, IlllviUo second. Forerunner
third: time, 1:02. Fifth race, mile heats,
Matterhorn handicap?Eurus won,
Benedictine second, Los Angeles third:
time. 1:40. Sixthnace, five and a half
furlongs, selling?Kirkovcr won. Wood?
cutter second, Early Blossom third;
time. 1:??7%. Seventh race, maidens, a
half mile - Annie won. No Sass second,
Ella T. third; time, .48.
Schriller'* i;i -t it m om.
CoLUMnus, Intl.. Oct. 3.?[Special]?
Last night William II. Shriber, recently
arrested in Detroit. Mich., for robbing
the First National Bank, in this city, of
8300,000 in cash and securities in No?
vember, 1888, and brought to this city
and lodged in jail, sent for the bank of?
ficials and turned over to them all his
ill-gotten gains. Ho will go before the
judge asd enter a plea of guilty and ask
for mercy. All the money not wasted
by young Schriber was invested in real
estate in Michigan, near Detroit, and is
said to be wWth about 815,000.
Hase Hull Yesterday.
League?Chicago, 10; New York, 0;
Cleveland, 4: Philadelphia, '<: Pitts
burg. 4; Boston, 0. Brotherhood?Chi?
cago. 2; New York. 2; Cincinnati, s:
Boston, Pittsburg, 4: Brooklyn, 10;
Cleveland, 5; Philadelphia, 0. Associa?
tion? Louisville. :>; Columbus. ;:.
Compuro THE TIMES' news columns
with tho^e of any other paper published
in ii radius of 200 miles. If you want the
news you cannot afford to be without it.
The Limerick corporation at a meet?
ing yesterday adopted resolutions cen?
suring the government for the recent
Tlpporary arrests.
?ER 4, J890. PR
.mormon CONVERTS.
Pretty Girls Willing to be one of Eight
Wives.
Sew York, Oct. 3.?[Special]?Tbc
authorities at the bargt? office thismorn
ing used an immense amount of moral
suasion on thirty-two young Mor
mons who arrived on the steamer Wyo?
ming to induce them to forego their in?
tention of becoming proselytes to tho
Mormon faith.
The girls wero separated from the
other passengers as they landed and
placed in a room by themselves. Three
female missionaries from the Emigrant
Girls' Home went among them and tried
to convince them of tho folly of their
course. It was a very hard undertaking.
One of the girls, Rarer Sylvestersen
by name, who acted as spokeswoman for
the party, frankly acknowledged that
they wero all willing to be one of seven
or eight wives, and were fully aware of
tho principles of Mormonism.
The girls are all young and some of
them remarkably pretty. The attempt
of the missionaries to influence them
proved an utter failure, and as all the
barge office authorities can do is to use
persuasion, the entire party will pro?
ceed on their journey to-morrow by the
Old Dominion Line via Newport News,
Virginia.
The party comprises all told252 souls,
of whom thirty-two are children. Among
the lot is a married English woman who
left her husband in England to take up
the Mormon faith. She said she was
milled ami compelled to go. She re?
fused to tell her name.
THE TIMES is the lending paper of tho
mineral belt of tho two Virginias. If you
want to keep posted on the development
of this section you cannot attord to bo
without it.
GUATEMALAN MATTERS.
A Strong Footing off Discontent Against
President Barilla*.
City ok Mexico, Oct. :t.?[Special]?
Dr. Uenegoccha, son-in-law of the late
General llarrundia, leaves for Washing?
ton Monday with good letters to present
in the llarrundia case, lie says tho
greatest discontent reigns in tluatemala
among the masses against President
Barrillas, and predicts war within four
months.
Hull Fighter Mascarino has been ex?
pelled from Guatemala for shouting,
"Vive Ezeta," as has also a tierinan
named Ileschmann, for making love to
liarrundia's daughter. Senor Sobral, ex
secretary of state, is still a prisoner in
his own house, which is carefully
guarded.
Eleve n prominent men have been called
recently to cabinent positions by Presi?
dent Barrillas, but all have refused.
Everybody readB THE TIMES' "Want
Column." If you have houses or rooms
to rent, property or anything else to soil,
put a small Ad. in THE TIMES, it will
bring you calls.
KILLED BY THE CARS.
A Negro Called "Night Hawk"
Has His Head Cut Off.
A negro who was known by the nick?
name of "Night Hawk" was killed by a
freight train on the Norfolk and Wes?
tern yard, just below the Commerce
street crossing, last night about twelve
o'clock.
He was found with his head severed
from the body and mashed almost to a
jelly, his head lying in the middloof the
track and several feet from the body,
which was lying on the side of the track,
lie was discovered by Officer W. A. Vest.
It is not known how tho accident oc?
curred; but it is supposed he tried to
cross the tracks in advance of the loco?
motive and became bewildered and con?
fused at its sudden approach.
He was at 11 uddleston's bar on Rail?
road avenue trying to sell a bucket of
butter a few minutes before tho acci?
dent. The blicket of butter was by him
when found. The body was turned over
to Undertaker Woolwlne.
tii10 COMTE DE PARIS
Arrives In New York and Will Visit His
old Campaigning Ground.
New York, Oct..'!.? [Special |?-A num?
ber of prominent New Vorkors, includ?
ing several of tho Comto do Paris'
former comrades in arms, went down
the harbor this morning to meet the
Germanic, which bore him to America.
Their meeting was very cordial. The
j Comto speaks excellent English.
The party consists of the Comto do
Paris, the Duo d'Orleans, Due d'l'ses.
Marquis do Lasteyril, Comto d'Hanson
ville, Col, Do Parseval, Captain Mor
han and Dr. Recamier, The party will
be at the Windsor Hotel three days and
will go from here to Craigen's Point,
West Point, then visit Philadelphia,
Gettysburg, Baltimoro and from there
to Richmond by boat.
Urban Population?.
Washington, Oct. 3.?[Special]?The
census bureau to-day announced the
j following populations of cities: Clovo
I land. 261,540; increase 101,400; Chnrlos
j ton, S. C, 54,502; increase 14,008; Find
lay, O., 18,074; increase 14,041; Fort
Smith, Ark., 11,201; Incrcaso 8,102; El
Paso City. Texas. 10,s;ti?: Increase 10,100;
Charlotte, N. C, 11,555; increase l.ttli:
Winston. N. ('., T.'.'ss; increase 5,134.
A Treaty With Zuullmr.
? ilERI.IN, Oct. ? ? [Special]? A treaty
I has boon signed by Germany and Zani
bar relative to the coasting trade along
the east coast of Africa. The Gorman
government pays the Sultan of Zanibar
four million marks for the concession,
Comparo THE TIMES' news columns
with those of any other paper published
. In a radius of 'JOO miles. If you want tho
' news you cannot ultord to be without it.
Bedford City Real Entarte la
Mfc. paying Investors. Wrlto to
N. BALE & CO.
ICE THREE CENTS.
A SON OF_OLD VIRGINIA.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor Appointed
to the Bench.
Governor Hill Makes Him Judge of the
Court of Common I'leas--The Interest?
ing Career of i? Itemnrkable man.
?Editor, Lawyer, Orator, Lecturer,.
Politician ami Man of Letters.
Nkw York, Oct. 3.?[Special.]?Gen.
Roger A. Pryor has just been appointed
judge of the court of common ploas by
Governor Hill to fill tho vacancy caused
by the resignation of Chief Judge Rich?
ard A. Larremore. General Pryor is a
Tammany Democrat who has had an
eventful career.
The now chief judge of the common
pleas court is 02 years of age. Ho was
liorn in Dinwiddio county, Va., in 1328.
He was the son of the late Rev. Theo
derick Pryor, 1). 1).. and boasts descent
from colonial ancestors on both sides of
the bouse. Ho was graduated froui
llampdon-Sidney College in 181(>. and
from the University of Virginia two
years later. He was then admitted to
the bar. but did not practice at once.
He became editor of the Washington
Union, and. with .lohn W. Forney, sup?
ported the Pierce administration. While
connected with that paper he wrote a
review of the Russian and Crimean war
which provoked widespread controversy
and made him we 11-1 mown through tho
country. Ho noxt became editor of the
Richmond Enquirer.
In 1S.VJ he was a delegtao to Cue Na?
tion convention at Haltimoro which
nominated Pierce for the Presidency.
In 1855 President Piorco sonfc hira as a
special envoy to Greece to adjust the
controversy between tho two countries
regarding tho American missionary,
Jonah King.
Previous to that, as editor of the En?
quirer, ho hail led the light against
Know-Nothingism, and in 1850 he had
successfully opposed William L, Yancy,
who had made a motion in Convention
to revive tho slave trade. In 1857 he
was made visiting lecturer to the Uni?
versity of Virginia.
i He was elected to Congress in I8."iS to
represent the Fourth district of Virgin?
ia. In 18(U) be was re-elected, but was
prevented from taking his seat by tho
secession of Virginia from tho Union.
Immediately following he was elected a
member of the Confederate Congress un?
der Provisional Government, and. upon
the expiration of his term, however, ho
resigned to enter tho Confederate army.
Governor Hotelier, of Virginia, appoint?
ed him r colonel to begin with; but ho
won additional henors by personal brav?
ery at the battle of Williamsburg, and
was made a General in consequence. In
1804 ho was taken prisoner by tho Union
forces, and confined in Port Lafayette.
At tho close of the war, in 13ti5,
General Pryor moved to Now York,
where he has since lived and practiced
law. When he tlrst came here ho con?
nected himself with tho Daily News as
editor. The paper was then a morning
sheet, and the chief Democratic organ.
While editor he read law. and was soon
admitted to the bar. Since then he has
devoted himself to law practice, and has,
written numerous articles for tho
American Review and the Forum. He
has contributed much upon law subjects
to the Encyclopaedia Kritannica.
Ho has also been in domund as a
lecturer before the literary societies of
various colleges. He was a delegate to
the national Democratic convention
which nominated Tilden in 187G, and to
tho convention which renoiuinated
Cleveland in 1888.
TUE TU*I* i. k \ N V TRIALS.
A Police Spy follow* the Suspects Into -
Church.
Dtmi.lK, Oct. :i.?[Specialj?The hear?
ing in the case of the government against,
Dillon and O'Urion and other National?
ists, who were arrested on a charge of
conspiracy, was continued in tho magis?
trates court at Tipperary to-day. No
evidence of moment was adduced. In
tho course of the proceedings, tho ques?
tion arose as to tho time the trials would
occupy, and Ronan, prosecutor for the
crown, declared that he was entirely ig?
norant of the time it would take to pre?
sent the case for the government, or
for I ho accused to make their defence.
Healey, of counsel for dofonce, said ho
was in mortal fear lest the trials would
last for six months. Henley's remarks
excited the laughter of those present at
the bearing.
Much excitement was occasioned in
the courtroom by the evidence of one of
the witnesses, a policeman, who testi?
fied that be followed several of the de?
fendants into the vestry of the Catholiu
church and tried to overhear what was
said there by them. Tho policeman
was cross-examined by Mr. Harrington,
who called him a ''shadow." Tho
magistrate called upon Harrington to
withdraw tho expression. Harrington
refused to do so, and was ordored to
leave the case.
An uproar ensued. Messrs. O'Rrien
and Dillon commenting freely upon tho
manner in which tho ease was con?
ducted. Finally a half hour's adjourn?
ment was ordered. Mr. Harrington's
clients decided to defend themselves,
when the proceedings were resumed.
Dillon had just begun to address the
bench when a cheer was raised for Har?
rington. This so exasperated the magis?
trate that he ordered the court cleared,
and proceedings were adjourned abrupt?
ly amid the greatest confusion. A
large body of police was massed outside
the court.
Lcroy Turnhull Returns.
Leroy Turnbull, who escaped from
the ohain gang here and was recently
captured in Lynchhurg, was brought
back to his old place yesterday by Of?
ficer Hrowning.
The Weather To-day",
For Virginia, South Carolina and
(leorgia : Fair weather, variable winds,
slightly warmer.
