Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-07-23
Condensed News.

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MOsby's men in Leesburg on July
Goth. Colonel Mosby will be present.
Colonel Lie" White, who lives
there, will make the speech Of
welcome.
Speaker Ryan, of the Virginia
House Of Delegates, says he does
not think the session Of the
General Assembly which began
July 10, will last more than two
or three weeks. He does not think
it is at all necessary to pass new
election law for the fall elections.
Hon. George $. Boutwell,, after
"A long life spent in the service Of
the Republican party, has read
himself out Of the party by declar-
ing, no matter whom the RepubIi.
cans nominate or what platform
he may stand upon, he will not
vote for him 50 long as he is IN
imperialist,
Hundred Of persons who hold
small offices to which there is no
pay attached are resigning rather
than surrender free railroad passes,
as required under the new law.
Members Of State and local boards
and nOtaries holding passes prefer
to give up these places rather than
not ride dead-head,
John s. Wise, Jr., Republican,,
and son Of the former Virgini
Congressman, has been given fat
/ job by Mayor Low, of New York:
He was appointed Change Of Grade
Damage Commissioner for the
Twenty-third and Tw nty-fourth
wards in Manhattan. The salary
/ is $3, 600 with no specified term Of
office and the duties are said to be
very light.
The remarkable spectacle of -
prayer-meeting being held while an
election was in progress was
witnessed in AppomattOX county,
where IA locaI-option contest
was going on. The women
prayed while the men voted, and
the temperance people seem tn
have carried the day In the South
Side district, comprising one-third
of the county, the dry majority,
with one precinct to hear firm, IN
a2S. One man came 100 miles t.
vote and another travelled 10 miles
by buggy and 90 by train
Macy Ann Jones, who was one
the only surviving widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary War,
is dead Mt her home near Jones
boro, Tenn, aged 81 years. she
r was the widow Of Darling Jones.
who was born ia 1850, and served
as IA private in the Revolutionary
War. Mrs Jones was Miss
Huff IA native Of Floyd county,
Va, but went to East Tennessee
when child Three of her sons
served in the Federal army during
the Civil War, and one of her
grandsons was a soldier in the
Spanish-American War.
The Bedford Pulp a.d Paper
Company is preparing to enlarge
its plant, and will spend several
hundred thousand dollars. The
company proposes to erect at once
at CoIeman's Falls, fifteen miles
above Lynchburg, mill for grind
ing pulp. To do this ii new dam,
to cost between 500. 000and 5000. =
600 will be thrown across the
river to take the lace of the one
torn down several years ago under
an act Of the Legislature. Every
bit of the water in the river will
be utilized for the development OF
power, and the grinding capacity
of the mill will be enormous.
On Thursday evening of last
week at Stanton, a felony ease
was tried under the new Consti-
, tuition. The prisoner pleaded guilty
and the Court fixed his punish
ment at TWO years in the State
penitentiary without the interyen-
ton of jury. This is the first
case 20 be tried in Virginia under
the provisions Of the new Constitu'
; ton, which permits courts in cases
| in which there is II Plea of guilty
to try the case and determine the
punishment, and is probably the
first felony case which has even
been tried IN Virginia without 4
l Jury. Johnston is one of III
two pickpoakets who robbed Hon
r William II. Goodwin of Nelson
, county, during the carnival in
t Stanton last month.
Details of the frightful death OF
I Sheridan Porterfeld, veal thy
sawmil operator in Giles county,
: have been received. Mr.. Porter
, field was at his sawmill when /
rock became imbedded in tn,
wheels of the lumber carriage
Porterfeld, after locating the
trouble, attempted to remove the
obstruction, when in some way hi