Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-05-03
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader
Residents of Front Royal and
Riverton have organized a board
of trade.
Confederate Memorial day was
observed in many parts of the
Sonth last Wednesday.
Negotiations between the United
States and China for a treaty re-
stricting the immigration of
Chinese to this country have been
abandoned.
A memorial window presented
by the Maryland Daughters OF the
Confederacy will be unveiled in
the Maryland ROOM, Memorial
Hall, at Richmond, May 9th.
Postmaster General Cortelyou
has notified the postmaster at
Louisville that postal employees
must avoid political activity or
give up their places.
The oldest happy family in
Lock Haven, Pa, consists Of an
old mother cat, with several
kittens and like number Of
motherless rabbits, which she has
adopted.
The tomb found in Kirkbean
Church, Dumfries, Scotland, be-
lieved by some to mark the resting
place of John Paul Jones, was, it
is said, erected by the latter over
the grave of his father.
Col. G. A. Bruce of Boston, has
returned to the Confederate Mu-
scum in Richmond, by Rev. DR..
j. P. Smith, bust Of Stonewall
Jackson taken from the Davis
mansion by Federal soldier forty
years ago.
Secretary Of War Taft states
that the policy of this government
in respect to the Panama railway
will be no discrimination against
any CT the steamship companies
transporting business across the
isthmus.
For the fret time In the history
of Savannah cotton the receipts
for single season reached the
1900, cool bale mark last Wednes-
day. The occasion was commemo-
rated by luncheon given at he
exchange on Saturday.
Rports from a nun Der of counties
contiguous to Lyrchburg indicate
that the fruit crop has not been
materially injured by the recent
frosts, and the prospect appears
to be excellent for large crop
of all kinds of fruits.
A troop Of United States cavalry
got lost in the jungles Of Min
danado, one of the Philippine
group, and subsisted nineteen days
on monkey flesh. Without actually
committing cannibalism this is
tie nearest possible approach to
it.
1t is said the four largest life
insurance companies have joined
in an agreement of an increase of
8 to . per cent. in the premium
rates fer policies which do not
confer upon their holders a right
to participate in the dividends of
the company.
At the meeting in Richmond OF
the Confederate Memorial Literary
Society, a letter was read from
Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes,
daughter of Jefferson Davis,
denying the story told by one of
her fathers guards, that Mr..
Davis had u glass eye.
One Hundred crows whipped n
big eagle in fight day or two
ago at the farm Of Darlington
Beebe, of Westtown, Pa, AID
drove it several miles from the
place. The crows attacked tie
king of birds in a body, and at
one time had it so exhausted that
it alighted in field and fell over
on the ground, though it finally
escaped.
While a negro charged with
"the usual ofense" has been
acquitted in Mississippi, in spite
of the testimony Of mar of his
own race, who purported TO be
an eye witness; a negro in Ohio
was only saved from a mob OF
Iynchers by deputy sheriff, who
rushed him off in an automobile.
In commenting upon these two
cases he Philadelphia Record says.
"Lawlessnes 10 not sectional, and
the &C Tor line is at least as conspic-
uous in the North as in the
South"
An old relic of the days before
railroads were built was destroy
ed during the Gre that broke out
ut New Market late ednesday
night. II was 25.passenger
Concord stage, owned by Mr..
Charlen l.. Burke, and was a rare
specimen of the old stage coach.
The vehicle was used by the
Burkes between Winchester and
Staunton mary years ago. and 1t
is said that scores of prominent
statesmen have been transported
in the old conveyance now reduced
ID ashes.
A Continual Strain