Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-11-25
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selected for next years reunion
Of the United Confederate Veter-
ans.
The Standard Oil Company has
declared dividend OF II per
cent, making total for the year
of Al per cent.
A fossilized egg, rare curios-
ity, has been found on the Pacific
coast. Even the fine pitting
on the shell has been preserved.
Miss Helen Gould will 60 TO
Norfolk on December 9 to visit the
Naval Young Mems Christian
Association she inaugurated there
year ago.
In his annual report First Assis-
tant Postmaster General Wynne
states that the money-order system
lost $40, ASP in the last fiscal year,
chiefly through burglaries and
thefts.
The general missionary COM
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at its session held last
week at Omaha, appropriated over
81, 800, 900 for the foreign and home
work.
Newport News will lose about
81 800 annually in taxation as a
result of decrease in the assess
ment of Chesapeake and Ohio
property by the Corporation Com
mission.
Maj. Charles o. Saville has
resigned as major Of the Seventeen
Regiment because he finds his
duties as a clerk of the Chancery
Court of Richmond too exacting to
pemit him to give the necessary
attention to military affairs.
The work of counting the silver
dollars at tie United States Mint
in Philadelphia, which was begun
last May, has juso been completed.
The count shows that there are
10, 900, 900 Of the dollars in coin
in the vaults, not a single dollar
being missing.
A well known Virginia gentle
man has written to Secretary W.
Ben Palmer, of the Veteran
Cavalry Association, tina: he
wishes to give $1,000 towards
honoring the memory Of General
j. Z. B. Stuart, who gave his life
in the defense Of Richmond dur
ing an hour of peculiar peril.
Last Thursday when the water
was turned off at the Church
Street fountain in Lynchburg for
the winter number Of small carp.
sun perch and minnows were found
in the basin surrounding it. AS
they were not placed there by
hand they must have come through
the pipes from the river, as spawn.
DR.. Andrew L. Nelden of New
York, last Wednesday in Phila-
delphia, performed the operation
of grating an ear upon the head
of Western millionaire, whose
name the surgeon says he is under
bond not to reveal. DR.. Nelden
advertised for a man willing to sell
an ear for S 900. OF 300 appli-
cants he selected young Ger
man.
Professor Spencer Bassett, Oc-
cupying the chair of English at
Trinity College, Durham, n. c.,
has rendered his resignation, this
step being due to the fierce criti-
cisms Of the press on his article in
the Atlantic Quarterly on the negro
question, in which he stated that
Booker Washington is the greatest
man except General Lee, born in
the South in a hundred years.
One night last week burglars
effected an entrance to Mason's
mill, in Roanoke county, and using
an ordinary truck, carried the
safe from the office to the outside
of the building, where large axe
was used in smashing in the door.
Five hundred dollars was in the
safe, and the robbers made off with
the booty. An employe of the mill
was sleeping in room near the
office, but did not hear the
noise.
The original of the famous "Let
us have peace" letter of General
u. s. Grant has been found in a
box Of waste paper in the room of
Senator J' seph r. Hawley at
Hartford, Conn. The letter in
General Grants hand writing and
dated May 30, 1868, is addressed
to General Hawley, president
National Republic n Conven-
ton, and accepts the nominal
ton to the presidency made May
2lst.
Rev. DR.. A. NJ. Fraser Of Staun-
ton, the moderator Of the Presby-
terrain Synod of Virginia, has
announced the following to con-
stitute the membership of the
Committee on Evangelistic and
Home Mission Work: Rev. w. r.
Laird, ID. d., of Danville, and
Ruling Elders George f. Caskie,
Of the First Church, Lynchburg;
J. S. Craig, of Goshen, and George
Perkins, of Charlottesville. DR..
Laird will convene the full com
mittee, and serve as It's chairman
until it completes its organiza-
ton.