Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-06-05
NEWS ITEMS.

Upon petition of citizens Judge
Embrey has ordered a local option
election for fredericksburg, to bt
held June 30th.
Under the new order of things il
is said present county Treasures will
have to give bond from July 1st tc
January 1st next.
Another disastrous coal strike is
threatened. Mitchell, the heroic
leader of the miners, is trying to
\ pour oil on the troubled waters.
1t is rumored that a petition is in
circulation calling local option
election for Richmond. The report
is unverifed, but it is causing more
or less uneasiness among the liquor
men.
S. +. Richardson, druggist at Math-
ews Courthouse, aud G.. r. Richard
son and Claude Davis, his clerks,
were last week placed under arrest
by the sheriff upon warrant sworn
out by DIR. Ii. II. White, of Gwynn's
Island, charging culpable and crimi-
nal neglect in refusing to fill a pre-
scription for whiskey given by said
White.
The latest estimate shows that
there are about ten and a quarter
million of Jews in the world, and
more than one-half of them live in
Russia. They are represented as IN
dustrious, thrifty people, and the
only reason for their persecution and
cowardly murder is that they do not
embrace the prevailing religion of
that country.
A lady of great beauty left the
harem of the Sultan of Morocco some
time ago and made her way to Spain.
There she was befriended by Span
ish lady, embraced the Christian re-
ligion and changed her name, posi-
bly, to prevent detection. Her where
abouts were ascertained a few DAYS
since, and now the Sultan has made
demand upon the Spanish govern
ment for her return and the request
is to be granted.
The Director of the Board of Re-
gents of the State Of New York an
nounces as follows: "It gives me
pleasure to inform you that we can
register the University College of
Medicine in full for admission to the
licensing examination of the State
of New York." This means that
the Medical education given by the
University College of Medicine at
Richmond, Va, is recognized by the
authorities as equal to that REQUIRED
of the Medical colleges of New York,
and that its graduates will have the
same standing in this respect as the
graduates of any New York college.
Marguerite Boyenval, of France.
who had been IN cataleptic state
since May 81, 1883, awakened on
Wednesday, says the New York Her
aid. For some time past she had
been suffering from pythisis. and it
is believed that the effect of this
malady on her system conduced to
her reawakening. She was, how.
ever, in a state of the greatest weak
ness, and gradually sank, dying the
next day. Marguerite Boyenval's
lethargy was caused by fright. One
day in May, 1888, while Marguerite
was ironing, a neighbor said to her /:
1.-The gendarmes are coming to arrest
youP' Marguerite had a series of
its and gradually fell into her long
slumber. In 1896 the girl was de-
scriOed as being as white as statue
and as corpselike as mummy, her
body wasted away almost to skele-
ton and her bones seemed to be Gov.
cred with parchment instead of skin.
The body was rigid, and only the
pulse beats showed that she was alive.
Life was sustained by washing the
girls body in milk every day and
pouring few drops of milk or
spirits into the sleeper's mouth
through reed. The mother allowed
any one to see her for a small fee.
Many prominent physicians visited
the patient during her twenty years
sleep.