Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-04-06
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OOVtrHOT MoHtHpue mar tlHsSU
to pardon former Alderman John
M. King of Richmond, convicted
of bribery.
The leading negro church work
ers of Richmond have begun a
movement looking to breaking up
the practice of crap-shooting
among the members of the race in
that city.
Salem has offered tine Tidewater
railway people 104 acres of land and
$4,000 in cash if the railway
yards and shops are located at that
town. The LOCATION is desirable
one, and Salem is hopeful of secur-
ing the enterprise.
Governor Warfeld of Maryland,
has sent message to the State
Senate expressing his disaprroval
Of the suffrage amendment to the
Constitution, known as the Poe
amendment, which in a measure
disfranchised the negroes.
Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson, chirman
of the Democratic State Committee,
was in Roanoke last week. He
says that Roanoke can get the
State Convention if it puts up any
kind of fight for it, and he would
be glad to see it II eet there.
John Quincy Adams, a former
hunter and guide, died Sunday
night in the mountains near Win
chester, aged 80 years. He was
crack shot, and until his death is
said to have killed more game than
any other five men in that section.
Last week ii negro W: gon driv-
ers of the Richmond Baggage
Transfer Company notified the
company that they woulo not work
with white man who had been
employed as a driver. The COM
, pany discharged the whole negro
force and substituted white drivers.
After starving itself for almost
two weeks because it's mate had
been taken away, lion in the
, geological headquarters in St.
, Louis died recently. A live sheep
was placed in the cage and bleated
in terror, but the lion merely paced
back and forth and the sheep was
unframed.
There is demand all over the
country for the addition of the
parcels-post to our mail facilities,
even if the matter Of distance hes
to be taken into consideration in
/, the charges. 1t would cost more
to carry basket of peaches from
Delaware to Washington than from
San Francisco to New York.
The Adjutant Genera has issued
a report giving Virgi"ia's mill
tary strength, as follows: Infantry,
1873 officers and ,S5l enlist Il men,
aggregate, l, 1854; artillery, - Off
= GERS and 1876 enlisted men, aggre-
Y gate, 206 cavalry, 4 officers and
y 35 enlisted men, aggregate, 80.
-, Total, all arms, l57 officers and
K 2,072 enlisted men; aggregate,
? 2,229.
r Basic City failed to elect mag
e istrate at the regular election, and
e Judge S. H. Letcher of the Circuit
j Court, has appointed Capt. Thomas
s S. Doyle as magistrate of that
q town. Captain Doyle was for a
K number of years the very popular
:. principal Of the Deaf, Dumb and
I Blind Institution of Staunton, and
I under Cleveland's administration
r was appointed consul to Beirut,
Syria.
April 18th and l4th have been
! selected as the dates, and the Uni
z verslty Of Virginia as the place
y for holding the qualifying exami-
J nation of candidates for the Cecil
{ Rhodes scholarship assigned Vir-
} ginia. The scholarship pays 81 800
e year for three years. $500 of the
u amount to be devoted to summer
e travel in Europe. The student
Il elected will commence residence at
' Oxford next October.
= The Supreme Court of North
= Carolina has handed down decis-
q ion in which the validity of con-
o tracts made on Sunday in that
v State is passed upon and sus-
. tanned. The court holds that the
North Carolina statute prohibits
, any wo, k or business in ones or
!. binary calling. Hence, If deed
i or other contract made on Sunday
!, is not in pursuance of ones ordi-
nary calling. then such contract ID
valid.
Burton Norville Harrison, law
yer of New York, and husband II
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the autho.-
!, ess, died in New York last week.
- During the war Mr.. Harrison was
y private secretary to Jefferson Day.
y is, the President of the Southern
y Confederacy, remaining with him
20 in the relation almost of son as
~ we'll as of a secretary, to the end
- of the war. He shared in the cap.
- ture of Mr.. Davis, rather than for
:. sake his fortunes at their fall. He
, was IS years of age.
- "Do 1t Today"
The time-worn injunction, Never
y put of til tomorrow what YOU can