Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-10-12
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1t is said the United States will
not intervene in Congo State
affairs at the present time.
The Navy Department is plan
ming an elaborate scheme of CON-
munications by wireless telegraphy.
A negro has been nominated for
Congress in Georgia for the first
time since the era of Reconstruct
ion
Brigadier-General Barry recon-
mends the enlistment of negroes
for Southern coast artillery com
panies.
Pre- sident Roosevelt has desig-
mated First Assistant Postmaster
General Wynne to act as Postmas-
ter-General.
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
has registered at Annapolis, Md.
1t is said he will vote the Demo-
cratic ticket.
1t is said the Government will
have to send provisions to the
Alaskan Indians to prevent starva-
ton this winter.
Mr.. John w. Brown of Frederic
county, is alleged to be holding
the baby of Mr.. Rufus Martin IN
til debt of $40 is paid.
William Waldorf Aster paid
$475, 900 and John Jacob Astor
$3.50, 900 taxes on their real estate
holdings in New York city.
A heavy cut in wages and in
crease in the hours of work has
been made in the plants Of the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation.
Count Oluma, leader of the
Progressive party in Japan, in all
address at Toxic, warned the peo-
pie to prepare for a long war, and
predicted the cost of q two-year
war would be 81, 900, 900, 900.
Hon. Rufus A. Ayres of Big
Stone Gap, Wise county, who was
Acknowledgement when Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee was Governor of Vir-
ginia, has announced that he will
not be candidate for Governor.
Mr.. John Burton, whose farm
is on the Rappahannock river,
above Fredericksburg, raised from
one acre of ground 1898 worth of
pickles this year. A number Of
Stafford farmers made 5000 an
acre from their land with this
crop.
Major Louis L. Seaman, surgeon
in the United States army, who
has been studying japanese meth
DDS of surgery in the war, says
Japan is ahead of all other nations
in the organization of the sanitary
0ranch OF her army
Although crippled by buckshot
from the shotgun of Christopher
Shirley, and in face of violent
threats from the former, Elias n.
Hardy fled to Hagerstown from
Winchester with Shirley's pretty
l6-year-old daughter, and they
were married last week.
In the convention of the Daugh-
tcrs of the Confederacy at st.
Louis, last week there was dis
cussion over the use o. the term
"Civil War;" and Mrs. n. V.
Randolph of Richmond, suggested
that more felicitous term would
be "War of the States"
Judge Samuel W. Williams of
Wythe county, has announced him
self candidate for the office Of
Attorney General of Virginia, now
held by Major William A. Ander.
son, who aspires to succeed him
self. Until recently it was thought
he would have no opposition.
At a mass-meeting OF the ladies
held in Richmond last week, pre-
liminary steps were taken towards
the formation Of an organization
to grapple with the servant girl
probIe The purpose of the move
ment is to arrange for the training
of white girls in domestic science,
so that these may take the places
of the inefficient colored help
Mrs. Emma f. Palmer. last of
the "ossiied" sisters, died last
Thursday in New York. aged 80.
Owing to a disease of II rheumatic
nature, which has bafiled the skill
of many prominent physicians all
through the country, Mrs. Palmer
had lain motionless upon her back,
totally blind and with every mus
Gle rigid, for the last twenty-seven
years
Thirty-six children Of the late
Frederick Grieder held reunion
a few days ago, at Waterbury,
Conn.,, went together to his grave
in Terryville, and placed floral
wreaths upon it. Mr.. Grieder had
three wives, all of whom died be-
fore he did. One bore him triplets
and another twins. All OF the
other thirty-one children were
born singly. The oldest is son,
forty years old, and the youngest,
n daughter, aged five.
Healthy Mothers
Mothers should always keep In good
bodily health. They owe it 20 their