Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-30
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The Car Of Russia has sent his
autographed photograph to VIM.
j. Bryan.
1t has been announced that John
d. Rockefeller has given $3.50. g..
600 this year to the University Of
Chicago.
An official of the Treasury De-
partment in Washington oroered
to be removed from the walls some
calendars on which Ge1. Lees
birthday was marked as a holiday.
A man in Cleveland, Ohio. lssf
week killed his wife and thee
children and himself because of
the near approach of Christmas
and the lack of money to buy
presents.
Rev. j. Powell Garland, presid.
ing elder of the Portsmouth dis.
trict of the NJ. +. Church, South,
asked the church officials to
cut his al'ry do vi 800 a year
He regards $1,000 as too much
money for presiding elder to re.
ceive, and the board complied with
his wishes.
Charles A. Smith and Mary
Ann Smith Of Gloucester county,
Va, went to Baltimore last week
and were married. After the
ceremony the bride said she had
never worn a pair of shoes until
Tuesday. Then she had donned
them for the first time to 90 on her
bridal tour.
From humble position Of spin
ner in a cotton mill to the posses
ion of $50, 900, within month has
been the experience Of David H.
Entwistle Of Albion, X. |. Ent-
wistle's sister-in-law, who recently
died in England, left the entire
fortune of her husband, wLo died
ID years ago, to David.
Turkeys are not scarce in Mis-
'ouri these days, according to a
St Louis firm who shipped $4,000
to New York on special train for
The Christmas trade. This was
he first turkey special" ever run
)ut Of st. Louis. The train con-
sisted of nineteen cars. The 3d.
100 turkeys weighed 100000
pounds and represented from 500
700 to 100000.
Barnard Shipp of Louisville, a
literary recluse, has bequeathed his
wonderful library, valued at $780,
100, to the University of Virginia.
The collection of these books be-
IAN in the infancy of American
literature, and has been carried on
, the present time. Authorities
n library matters claim that Mr..
'hipp must have a full collection
f early American literary efforts.
Judge Henry C. Mcdowell of the
jnited States District Court at
Iarrisonburg, announced from the
ench recently that a second
on the charge of retail
lg liquor without license means
erm in the penitentiary for the Of
ender. The announcement was
lade in plain and positive Ian
uage and the Judge added that
he rule would be an invariable
ne in his court.
The Philadelphia record says:
1 the sreat Democratic victory in
oston is one of the signs of the
ERECTION in which the wind is
owing. The mephitic breezes
lat sweep upward from Panama
ppear to have completely para
zed the efforts of the Republi-
ms of Massachusetts. The buc-
lneer policy OF Roosevelt's adj
inistration will find few sup
'rters in the Bay State.
Secretary of the Interior Hitch
eek reports that the cost of pen
ons to date is over S3,0O0,000,-
10 and that there were in the
lst year nearly a million bene-
,ia-ies. New pensionsers were
lded to the number of 40,046 and
40l were restored. The loss by
'ath during the same period was
!, 907, and 6,4S1 from other
uses. This makes a net loss Of
arly 5000 names fer the year.
he pension roll at the close Of the
ar contained 7S2,722 soldiers,
Z, lS9 widows, or dependents, and
4 army nurses.
The Baltimore and Richmond
tristan Advocate, published in
chmCnd,and the Southern Metho-
It Recorder, prin ed in Black
me, have consolidated, the ar
ngement to go into effect Jan.
/. Under the new organization
mes Cannon, Jr., will be the
esident of the company and
.naging editor os the paper, and
Sidney Peters will be the secre-
y and treasurer of the company
1 business manager. Rev. DR..
j. Lafferty of the Virginia Con-
ence, and Rev. DR.. s. X. Cox Of
, Baltimore Conference, will con-
lie with the paper as editorial
tiers.
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