Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-03-30
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r The Legislature of Mississippi
has adopted uniform textbook
! bill.
The japanese are making tre-
mendous preparations in Korea for
the conduct of the war with great
energy when Spring opens.
There will probably be bill in
troduced in Congress providing for
the purchase of jamestown Island.
The sum asked for the Island is
$500, 900.
1t is said that pressure will be
brought to bear to induce District
Attorney L. L. Lewis of Richmond,
to run as the Republican nominee
for Governor.
Philadelphia Ledger: If the
home missionaries don't flock to
| Utah after the advertisement the
MOrmons have had, they will neg
lect a prime opportunity.
The bitter fight over the tax
question in West Virginia has been
settled by the determination of
Governor White to call an extra
session Of the Legislature.
The President has made public
his preliminary instruction to the
Panama Canal Commission, and
General George w. Davis has been
chosen to be Governor of the
American zone on the isthmus.
The Rev. James f. Cook, pastor
of the Hoge-Memorial church of
Richmond, has accepted the call
to become pastor of the Presbyter-
ian church at Clifton Forge to sue
coed the Rev. DR.. Emmett W.
McCorkle.
According to the Washington
correspondent of the Louisville
Times (Den.) only four of the POI
members of Congress (Senate and
House inclusive) are willing to
say publicly that they favor w. r.
Hearst for President.
A movement is on foot to estab-
lish college in Richmond for the
higher education Of women. Co.
education is now being tried at
Richmond College, but the results
have probably not SO far been all
that could be wished.
Sir Edwin Arnold, the well
known author and journalist, died
! in London last Thursday, aged II
years. His publications included
1.-THE Light of ASIA" "The Light
of the World" and many other
works in verse and prose.
Charles S. Lasky, a teamster,
died at his home near Boston few
days ago from the effects of gland
ers, a terrible and rare disease in
man. Lasky was employed at a
stable where there have been two
cases of glaHders among the horses
in the last few weeks.
Robert L. Taylor, three timer
Governor of Tennessee, has been
sued for divorce in Knoxville by
his second wife, to whom he was
married in Tuscaloosa, Ala, in
September, 1901, after brief
courtship. His wife alleges that
her husband failed to provide sup
port for her.
The 800 quarry workers employ
ed by Winston, Locher & Co., at
West Clemsford, Mass, have struck
because of the demand of the en-
ployers that hereafter they work
ten hours a day instead of nine.
The firm offered to pay the sche-
dule rate for the extra hour, but
the quarrymen insisted upon the
nine hour day.
There was grewsome article
discovered in pile of mail at the
postoffice in Richmond one morning
last week-a human ear. The
member had evidently been sever
ed from the head of Il negro man
some time ago. The postofiice
authorities, after investigation,
came to the conclusion that it was
a lest of medical students, who
dropped the ear into the box with
the outgoing mail.
The City Council of Roanoke
has unanimously passed an ordI'
nance granting the Underwater
Railroad right of way through the
Gish farm. President l.. +. john
son said that the Norfolk & West
ern Railway will not do anything
whatever to block the Tidewater
Company out of the city, and it
was given out officially from the
Underwater people that the road
would pass through Roanoke.
A committee from the Chicago
Principals Association after care
full observation has reached the
conclusion that the study OF gram
mar, arithmetic and geography
should be second to the study OF
industrial arts for boys between
| 10 and ~. They observe that the
average newsboy is capable CT more
original effort than the average
schoolboy, and that the country
boy has better mind than the
city boy of the same age.
Good Spirits
Good spirits don't all come from
Kentucky. Their main source is the