Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-10-04
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At Tazewell, Judge L. L. Lewis
Republican nominee for Governor,
in a speech declared that the
strength of the Democrats is fraud
at the box.
According to the most intimate
political and personal friends Re-
preventative Flood says he will
not be a candidate for the guber.
material nomination in 1908.
The University of Virginia has
received from Italy three marble
Ousts. They are copies Of Her
mis-, Apollo and Psyche, and are
intended for the library in the
rotunda.
The work Of rebuilding the JEFF
ferson Hotel in Richmond, which
has been partially in ruins since
the fire of four years ago, was
begun last week. The contractor
promised to complete the job in a
year.
A special from Blacksburg
states that five of the old students
of the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, all of whom are alleged to
have engaged in hazing, have been
refused entrance by the institute
faculty.
A dispatch from Washington
says: The Commissioner of
Internal Revenue has signed an
order removing the Office of the
collector for the Northern district
Of Virginia from Alexandria to
Abingdon, the home of the new
collector.
An agreem ent between Secretary
Shaw and Virginia Republicans lie
rumored whereby the Secretary
aids In the present guberr atorial
campaign in this State in return
for support when his Presidential
bee is Matched.
Government agents have been
at work in Richmond for some
time past investigating tobacco
conditions. 1t is said their pres
ence is due to the absorption by
the trust of so many firms there
in the past three years.
The family of the late Gen.
William H. Payne, a distinguish
ed lawyer and Confederate soldier
of Wsrrenton, has presented to
Fauquier county life sized
portrait of him in oils. The picture
will be hung in the courthouse ct
Warrenton.
1t ls said that there is likeli-
hood of the resignation from the
Corporation Commission in the
near future Of the Hon. Henry G.
Stuart OF Russell county. Mr..
Stuart. who is man Of means, has
varied interests in his native
county, which required his atten-
ton.
Draw. S. Neighbors, one of the
NEST prominent ministers In the
Holster Conference, Methodist
Church, South, for the past four
Years pastor of State-Street church
ut Bristol, has been transferred TO
the Baltimore Conference, and
after Nov. l, will be pastor of
Green Memorial church, Roanoke,
Va, to succeed Dr.C.M. Hawkins,
transferred to st. Louis, No.
A desperate encounter between
several deacons of the Old Schoo
Baptist church at wildwood,
Clarke county, resulted in a largely
attended meeting becoming up
roarous. Many narrowly escaped
serious injury in panic that fol-
lowed. Charles Porter vent after
Charles King with razor, anG the
latter was badly slashed. He was
taken home in rreearious con-
dition. The trouble occurred over
a woman.
Richmond Times-D ispatc
Democrats who voted in the
primary cannot hOnorably
vote the Republican ticket in
November, nor for any of the
candidates. Nor can
they in duty stay away from tho
polls on election day, unless IN.
avoidedly prevented from going.
The ballot which they cast in the
primary was in itself pledge 70
cast another ballot in the regular
election; not merely to refrain from
voting for the Republican candl-
dates, but to vote for all the Demo-
cratic candidates.
DR.. William Patterson Hereford,
who died recently at his home
GEAR wellington, Va, aged 80
years, was a native Of Middleburg,
Loudoun county, and the last
of the Seminole War. Or.
Hereford was one of the two men
Who carried the dispatches an
the capture of the
indian chief, Osceols, from Fort
King to Tampa Bay.a very perilous
rip. lie practiced medicine in
Washington in 1912, and later in
Vest Virginia until the death in
SSS of his wife, who was Miss
lucy Simpson. One son survives.
A Continual Strain
Many men and women are con.