Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-08-26
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Druggista who sell cocaine in
Virginia are being heavily fined.
Sir Thomas Upton will build a
Shamrock Nv, to once more try 60
at the Americas cup.
Judge t. r. b. Wright last week
held a special term of Middlesex Cir
cult Court for Judge G. II. Garrett.
Currioman Baptist Church, in
Westmoreland county, will be dedi-
Gated on the second Sunday in Sep
TENDER by Rev. A. b. Dunaway.
Russia's infant prince was christ
ened at Peterhof Wednesday amid
pomp and rejoicing. He was named
Alexis and salute of 3O1 guns was
fired.
Rev. J. W. Ryland, who has been
pastor of his present charge in
Middlesex county for thirty-five
years, is at Virginia Hospital, Rich
mond, for treatment.
Carrie Nation, the temperance
advocate, while passing through
Indiana, mailed a check for $1,150
to the Home for Wives of Drunkards,
at Topeka, Kan, as a personal gift.
Rev. NJ. S. Colonna, one of the
Oldest ministers in the Virginia
Methodist Conference, died at Gil
merton, Norfolk county, last week,
aged Il years. He leaves widow
and five children. One of them is
Rev. NJ. S. Colonna, jr.
The lightning bug is brilliant, but
he hasn't any mind; he ambles
through existence with his head
light on behind. Likewise the fool
ish merchant, whom no one can
advise; he declares, "nothing doin',"
when asked to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
When Miss Alice Roosevelt went
to the st. Louis Exposition a few
weeks ago part of her baggage was
missing and she borrowed from a
friend half long coat of white linen,
which she wore on the streets In st,
Louis. Now those garments are all
the rage with the women. If some
celebrated woman were to use her
dog blanket in the rain, lots of wo.
men would follow snit.- WilminQto1
Star.
The historic Virginia State Capitol
being remodeled, presents forlorr
and dismantled appearance. 1t has
just been unroofed and internally dis.
rupted by the Con tractor who will
when the work of tearing to peices
shall have been completed, proceed
to make new roof blossom upon
the grim and battered walls and put
in an entire new set of steel and con.
crete intervals in place of the com.
bustible stills, ceiling and walls.
If a freak bill introduced in the
Georgia legislature becomes q law al
fathers will be relieved of poll tax
in Georgia; all fathers of SIX or more
children will be given the title OF
colonel by the State; all fathers OF
ten or more children will be made
members of the governors staff; all
mothers will be entitled to vote; all
mothers of SIX children shall be
titled ga grande DAME" The bill
provides further that bachelors shall
not be entitled to vote ia Georgia.
John Sharp Williams, the Dem
ocratic leader in the House OF
Representatives, used to occupy d
room in the Metropolitan Hotel
adjoining that of Judge Tate, of
Georgia. One evening Williams
was dressing himself to attend a
fashionable dinner. He had lively
wrestle with his collar and another
with his tie, but he finally go. them
adjusted whereupon he went boiling
into Judge Tste's room and said,
"How do look?" "Really, john u
replied the Judge, 81 think you won i'd
look much better if you would put
your trousers on"
Scientists abroad, particularly in
France and Germany, are greatly ex-
ercised over the discovery they
claim to have made that the sun
is lOosing its neat with extraordinary
rapidity. Indeed, they believe that
the temperature of the sun, instead
of diminishing with infinite slowness,
as In the past, has, within the last
several years, taken decided drop.
Only by such deduction are they
enabled; they assert, to account for
the low temperature which prevailed
last summer, the rigor of the winter
recently passed, and the backward
ness and unseemly GOODNESS of the
present season. Their conclusion is
strengthened, they insist, by actual
observations of the sun, the diameter
of which has decreased in an unusual
degree.
WHEAT WILL GO HIGHER.