Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-10-22
Condensed News.

Registration closed In Allegheny
county with 8S2 whites and 30
blacks on the list.
NJ. NJ. Sutherland of Wythe-
vile, has purchased $50 acres of
the well known Judge Shelley
farm, below Wytheville, paying
$40 per acre.
1t is announced at the navy de-
partment that Henry A. Wise, Jr.,
of Warrenton, Va, has qualified
for appointment as assistant pay
master in the navy, and will be
shortly assigned to duty.
Reuben Moore Terrill, brother of
ex-COuncilman w. r. Terrill, died
in Roanoke Oct. 18th. aged As
years. Death was due to tuber-
culOsis of the throat. He leaves a
widow and two grown daughters.
The school board of Newport
News has seyed notice on mer-
chants that they must not sell
cigarettes to boys under sixteen
years of age. Heretofore, the anti
cigarette law has been honored
only in the breach in that city.
For every seven marriages in
Indiana in the year ending June
30, 1902, there was one divorce.
To be more nearly exact, the num-
Der of divorces was l3 per cent. of
the number Of marriages. There
were 26,914 marriage licenses
issued in Indiana in that year and
1862 divorces granted.
Pierpont Morgan, according to
Il statement made by a leading
Republican, has declined to give a
dollar this year to the campaign
fund of the Republican State Com
mittee. The omission has caused
much comment, because it is said
to be the first time in many years
that Mr.. Morgan has failed to send
a generous check to help pay the
election expenses.
The formal sale and transfer of
Beauyoir, the home of Jefferson
Davis, by Mrs. Davis to the Sons
Of Confederate Veterans, was con-
summated at the opening session
of the reunion of the Mississippi
Division Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams. The home will be used as a
home for INDECENT Confederate
veterans. Mrs. Davis received
$40, 600 for the home.
Miss Amanda Simmons, a maiden
lady aged about 45 years, who had
been living with her brother-in-law,
Mr.. Webb Arnet, about one mile
of Hillsboro, Loudoun
county, committed suicide by
hanging herself Oct. 10th. She
was highly respected. She had
been suffering from poor health
for number of years, and this
made her at times very respondent.
Registration in Winchester and
Frederick county has been COM
Dleted. In Winchester 86l voters
of whom only 30 were
out of colored vote of
800. Just 90 per cent. of the
I'D registration was recorded under
he new registration. In the
county the total registration is
}, 1873, or so per cent. Only so
negroes registered in the county.
Williamsburg of Richmond Va,
IS years old, died Oct. 18th after
aking carbolic acid through mis-
axe. Young had been subject to
ainting spells, and feeling an at
ack coming on he reached for
,ottle Of gin, but got carbolic acid
instead. He realized his mistake
IS soon as the fatal dose passed
lis lips and ran to the nearest
Nothing could be done
or him, however, and he died in
n hour and half.
Mrs. L. S. Hodgson, the divorced
life of DR.. Wilmer HOdgsen, a
ormer member of the. Roanoke
'ity- Council, has instituted Il
amage suit for $4,000 against
i'm. She alleges that he assaulted
err. He brings counter charge
nat she assaulted him with whip.
IF. Hodgson stated. in court at
oanoke that he had been married
vice, but if God would forgive
i'm he'd never marry again.
The Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
lite opened October lst with over
DO cadets and since that time
lough more have arrived to make
lie number amount to near the 500
ark, an increase of nearly 20 per
mt. over the humber at any one
me last year. The Total number
matriculates last session was
lly 473, while the largest number
resent at one time was about $50.
he increase for this year is un-
,ralled in the history of any
hoOl.
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