Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-11-30
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Thanksgiving turkeys brought
40 cents pound in New York.
The burning of Buildings atthe
Worlds Fair at st. Louis has CON-
menced. This is II common occur
renee at the closeof fairs.
The national trustees of the Nc
Kinley monument to be erected at
Canton, Ohio, have collected $780,
600, but say they need $50, 900
more.
So great has been the demand
for space at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition at Portland, Ore, that
more room will have to be pro-
vided.
A great cotton convention is to
be held in New Orleans December
~ to Is, inclusive, for the purpose
Of considering means TO fight the
boil weevil.
A movement is on foot to place
two bronze tablets in the rotunda
of the University Of Virginia to
commemorate the students who
fought in the Confederate army.
The Phebus Town Council has
adopted an ordinance prohibiting
minors from being on the street
after 9 O'Clock, from October TO
April, and from April to October.
The curfew will ring at 10 O'Clock.
Col. John S. Mosby, in "A letter
to a Boston inquirer, denies some
of the stories told about him con-
corning his cruel conduct toward
prisoners of war, and he cites let.
tiers of friendship from men who
had been his prisoners.
The Anti-Saloon League of vir-
ginia is circulating petitions in
Richmond, the object of which is
to close all saloons at ll:3O P. N.
daily. At present they may keep
open at all times, except Sundays
and on the days CT election.
Japan is on the verge of bank
ruptcy. according to the ccnclu-
sion Of custom house officials in
San Francisco. The officials draw
this conclusion from the fact OF an
enormsus importation Of japanese
merchandise at ruinous.y low
prices.
Mr.. Samuel Pence this year
raised on his place, near New
Market, an ear OF corn which con.
tanned 80 rows and on these so rows
there were 1900 grains. Mr.
Pence says that the ear was grown
on four-acre lot which will yield
275 bushels of good corn.
Luella Lantz, a Barbour county,
w. Va, girl eighteen years old,
has eloped with Thomas Heatherly.
seventy-6ve years old. They drove
from their home to Grafton, forty
miles away, and were married. The
girls father followed on horse
back, but arrived too late.
Engineers have begun the first
work on the site of the jamestown
Exposition. which will be held in
1907 to commemorate the ter
centenary of the first permanent
AnglO-Saxon settlement or the
Western Hemisphere, made al;
jamestown Island in 1907.
Securing three marriage licvnses
within the past six months and
each tin g changing his mind Just
before the ceremony, Louis Peter
Mckinney was married Monday
night to Mrs. Anna Jane Boxwell,
II charming widow, at the South
ern Methodist parsonage, Winches-
ter. Rev. Charles ID. Bulla per-.
formed the ceremony.
Something to think about: The
life Of an eyelush is firm 100 to-
$50 days. They grow very slowly,
but finger nails grow quite rapidly
in comparison. If person could
live without cutting Or breaking
his finger nails for life time they
would attain the length of 10 in
ches. 1t takes about l2l days for
a new nail to form on the little
finger and 1873 on the thumb.
| C. r. Fishburne will be tried at
the January term Ct the Roanoke
Court for killing DR.. C. +. Lefew.
Judge Woods, Of that court, has
decided to ask the Governor TO
designate some other Judge to sit,
because of his relations with Le-
few's family. The Judge also de-
clined to rule on the complaint that
| FisEburne was being shown many
favors during bis imprisonment.
| Miners have broken into a cav
ern containing two dozen num-
mics, near Silver City, N. NJ.
Buried with the mummies were
stone weapons and instruments,
showing that they belonged to Il
prehistoric race. The persons
were apparently about five feet
tall in life. Their heads were
small and their arms long. The
cave is one hundred feet below the
surface Of the earth.