Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Condensed News.

mona, rea1nrms MS declaration OIL
u some time ago that he is a candi-
date for the Democratic uomina.
5 ton to the governorship.
, Governor Montague has issued
. a proclamation to the people of
! Virginia fixing April End, as
-, Arbor day, invoking them to use a
portion of this day in planting trees
and shrubs.
Owing to the illness Of Judge
H. G.. Mcdowell, who was suffer-
ing with grip, the spring term Of
the United States court, whic h
was to have begun in Lynchburg
on the 10th, was abandoned.
A congressional gentleman from
Kansas has introduced a bill to
erect a statue of John Brown in
front of the pOstOflice in Richmond.
He appears to have overlooked the
necessity of an item in the military
appropriate IN bill to keep sucn a
statue on its feet.
Lynchburg is inquiring into the
practicability Of drawing its water
supply from Pedlar Creek, in
Amherst county. Analysis of that
water shows that it is very pure
and free from organic contamina-
ton and harmful germs; also that
it is an almost perfect boiler
water.
Judge James B. Sener, president
of the Gene Alumni Association
Of the University Of Virginia, has
received letter from Presidents
Secretary, Loeb, announcing Mr..
Roosevelt's acceptance of an
invitation to attend the celebration
at the University on alumni day,
June 10th next.
The twenty-second child was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. George
Woolsey at Creston, Iowa, March
18th. The children are all living
and the eldest is 90 years old.
There are only two pairs of twins
in the entire lot. Mrs. WOolsey is
~ years old, of medium physique,
and in perfect health.
EX-President Grover Cleveland
has completed arrangements for
an extended trip through the
western States. His first stop
will be made at st. Louis on April
30, when he will attend the dedi-
cation of the st. Louis fair
grounds. The full details of the
trip have not yet been completed.
James W. Thomas of Berry
vile, Va, died suddenly on the
18th. He is reported to have left
considerable property in currency.
This he is said to have found
during the Civil War, it being the
contents of the strong box of the
paymaster of Sheridan's army,
which was attacked and routed on
the outskirts of Berryville.
The people of Missouri ought to
be happy, and we suppose they
are. Theirs is one of the few
States in the Union, or anywhere
else, that has no public debt and is
prosperous. The last outstanding
Missouri bonds, amounting to
S4S7, 900, were paid On February
2Sth. and on March 18th these
were burned with ceremonies and
speeches.
On his return to Lincoln, Neb.,
from the East, Mr.. Bryan presented
himself for service as a juror. He
was one the panel called to try
the case of Mrs. Mary +. Sharpe
against the New York Life In
surance Company on contested
policy. Afterwards Mr.. Bryan
said; 81 am now sharing in the
general prosperity, | am getting
- day and mileage.
The arrangement of the in
debtedness of Virginia Institute at
Bristol, Va, so as to save that
valued at 1915, 200, to
the Baptists of Virginia, is finally
The deed to the
passed to the Baptists
Friday March 18th. 1t is subject
to $25, 900 in bonds, held by eX-
Postmaster General James A.
Gary, but which are not due until
1907.
Hurricane Branch's bloodhound
Tiger, which was being treated by
a veterinary surgeon in Richmond,
is dead. The hide will be II ounted.
Tiger, perhaps, was the most
noted bloodhound in the country.
lie had been engaged in many
cases in three States.
)ne of Tigers most remarkable
achievements was at Elizabeth
City, n. C.-the following of Miss
Ella Cropsey's trail to the river
10 hours after she was dead.
The commissary at Stokesville,
he western terminus Of the
Chesapeake Western Railway, near
Iarrisonburg, was destroyed by
ire on the 18th. The loss was
bout 50, 900. Thele was 81, 300
insurance on the stock. The fire
5 supposed to be of incendiary
rigin. There was about $50 in
liver and some tin tobacco tags in
he money drawer. After the fire
he tags were easily found, but
o trace of the silver was dis
overed.
News reached Roanoke from
'lOuJ anppfu of Tho Iaath H.,