Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-11-18
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Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

The first bill introduced in this
Congress provides for the adnis.
sion of New Mexico to statehood.
DR.. J. NJ. McBryde, president of
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
at Blacksburg, has sent out letter
denying the report that typhoid
fever has broken out in the school.
Australia has bought, as the
result of last years drought, since
January, 100000 bushels Of
wheat, or its equivalent in -four,
from the Pacific coast, and ,00O,-
900 bushels from New York.
The remains of Mrs. James
Monroe and her daughter, which
have been inferred for sixty years
at Oak Hill, near Leesburg, have
been removed to Richmond, and
reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery.
A goat entered the parsonage Of
church at Excelsior, Pa, last
week during the temporary absence
of the pastor and, observing pile
of manuscript sermons andSunday
school commentaries, ate them all.
Mr.. Flood, representative from
this district, has introduced in
Congress a bill to acquire and re-
store the old Mclean house, in
which the terms of surrender were
arranged between Generals Lee
Grant.
Democratic leaders of Maryland
say that one outcome of their re-
cent success at the polls and their
control Of both branches of the
next General Assembly will be the
passage of Jim Crow bill by the
Legislature.
The sculptor Valentines design
for a memorial to jefferson Davis
was accepted by the Daughters of
the COnfederacy in session in
Charleston, S. C. 1t is to be erected
at Richmond, at a cost Of $40, 600,
of which $62, 200 already is on
hand.
William j. Bryan sailed last
week on the White Star liner
Majestic, for Europe, whore, for
the next six weeks, he will visit
England, France and Germany.
On his return, Mr.. Bryan will take
up the work Of the coming presi-
dental campaign.
The whole Pacific coast, from
British Columbia to Southern Cali
fornia, was swept by storm last
Thursday resulting in an almost
total prostration of telegraph SER
vice over that territory, and in the
mountains all but tied up the rail-
roads in regular midwinter
blockade.
Several hundred petitions, pro-
testing against Reed Smoot retain
ing his seat as junior senator from
Utah, have been filed in the Senate.
Some of the petitions charge that
Senator Smoot has practiced poly
gamy, while others rest their objec-
lions on the charge that he is a
member of an organization which
countenahces the practice Of plural
marriages.
The Salem Sentinel and the
Salem Times-Register have sold
their plants to the Salem Printing
and Publishing Company and the
new concern will merge the two
into one under the
name of the Salem Times-Register
and Sentinel, with c. d. DENT as
president and editor, Col. A. NJ.
Bowman vice-president, W. W.
business manager and
treasurer and w. A. Francis
secretary.
At the close of New jerseys
fiscal year, October 81, Governor
announced a balance of
5000, 951, 1897. This, together with
the fact that New Jersey has no
public debt, justifies her claim of
being the richest State in the Union
in proportion to population. Much
Of the money which makes New
Jersey rich is secured from the
taxes on corporations and trusts
which help to make the people in
other States poor.
A dispatch from Covington, Va,
If November 4th says that on nc
count OF the unsettled condition of
he iron market. resulting in the
closing Of several furnaces in
county, Low Moor,
Rumsey and Stack mines have been
.losed down, and many o! the
employees have gone TO other
places. All OF these mines are owned
md operated by the Low Moor
ron Company. This company
till running their furnace at Low
Moor, Allegheny county, Va.
w. r. Fuller, one OF the best
posted men in Florida on orange
,rops, states that this years crop
will be about 900, 900 boxes COM
Jared TO $50, 900 boxes last season.
This years crop was first estima-
ed at 1000, 900, but with damage
lone by storms and red spiders it
will be brought to che figures
famed. In 1880 the crop was
100, 900 boxes, and increased stead
ly until the year before the great
reeze, when it was 6, 900, 600 boxes.
That year it was reduced to 49,
100 boxes.
A system of student walters in
he boarding houses of the Uni.