Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-11-23
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A paper box factory has been
E started in Fredericksburg.
The Rappahannock river steam
ers, under the new management,
have discarded the Ear-rooms.
The last instalmeht on the gov
eminent loan to the st. Louis Ex.
position has been paid.
: Republican negroes at Fairmont,
W. Va, threaten to drive out all
negroes who voted for Democrats.
The London Queen decides that
bride becomes wife vt the ex-
piratiOn of six weeks after the
wedding.
President Roosevelt. has issued
en- order extending the civil service
rules to cover places in the isthmisn
canal service
AS trade now stands. there is
not enough gold out of the earth,
if it were all coined, to transact
the business of day.
BY the arrest of 15-year-old
| girl in New York the police be
lieve they have unearthed series
OF department store robbsries.
The Vatican, it is learned, in
tends to sound Washington. and,
if agreeable, papal delegate will
be sent to the proposed international
peace conference.
A number of ships of the Rus
sian naval programme for next year
will be laid down abroad and sew
eral OF them will probably be con-
structed in the United States.
A conference of Democrats Is to
be held shortly in New York, 1t is
reported, to boom Folk and Doug
las as the ticket 1908 and to
oppose the leadership OF Bryan.
Booker Washington advises the
negrose of Birmingham, Ala, not
to become "unduly pompous, SELF
assertive and generally offensive"
because of the result OF the election.
s.. C. Trethewy, for the past two
years city editor of the Roanoke
Times, has been appointed assistant
secretary of the commonwealth. He
has gone to Richmond to assume
his new duties.
BY the vote o. 1853 to SO the YER
mont House of Representatives, af-
ter spirited debate, refused to
pass to third reading, and SO de.
feated, the bill to abolish capital
punishment in the State.
In BrutOn district, York county.
about forty negro families are
greatly excited over report that
the United States Government will
furnish transportation to the Phil.
ippines and give to each family
forty acres and "A mule. The ne.
groes have received a circular on
the Philippines.
Charles William Dabney, LID,
formerly president of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee, was inaugu-
rated president OF the University
of Cincinnati last Wednesday, with
impo sing ceremonies. Representa-
tives of all tn; leading institutions
of learnin4 in the country were
present and took Part.
Spencer L. Hancock, WELL
known merchant Of Manchester,
Va, recently celebrated his eighty
first birthday and the fiftielh an
ni'ersary of his marriage. More
than sixty years ago his health
was bad, and e prepared list CT
his pail bearers. Al Of these are
dead, a:d he has Prepared a fresh
list.
General James MacGill of Pa.
laski, Va, and Miss Lucy Lee Hill,
youngest daughter of the Confeder-
ate Lieutenant General A. p. Hill,
were married at st. Paul's church,
Petersburg, last Wednesday, Right
Rev. A. NJ. Randolph and Rev. DIR.
-
c. 0. B..nting officiating. 1t was
a military wedding, with Con-
federate decorations, and several
Confederate camps Of Virginia
attended in body. The A. p Hill
Camp of Confederate Veterans Of
Petersburg presented the bride a
purse Of $3.50 in gold, and Wilcox
Grand Army Post, Of Springfield,
Mass, sent twenty-six one collar
gold pieces.
A Washington dispatch to the
New York Evening Post says: One
If the first nominations which will
90 into the Senate at the opening
II the session will he that of DR..
Crum (colored), for Collector of
Customs at Charleston, IS. c. The
President is evidently in Lopes
hat the Senate will vote its APP
,roval, but he is as determined as
'ver that it shall either confirm or
eject the nomination, as the con-
titution cOntemplates.
Considerable exciteme. was
aused In Panama by what was at
irst thought to be an attempted
tack on John Barrett the United
'tates Minister to Panama.
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