Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-10-25
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

bite of a pretty girl is more deadly
than that Of snake.
The University of Chicago enroll
ment for this year is 1925, gain
of nearly rs per cent.
The attendance at the Portland
Exposition was 2.551, 780,of which
number l, $50, 6l7 were paid.
The body of Sir Henry Irving
has been laid alongside the grave Of
Garrick in Westminster Abbey.
Occasionally you encounter a
minister whoevidently made mis-
take and, answered the call of some
body else to preach.
Congress will be asked by the
War Department, it is declared, to
re-establish the army canteen for
the good Of the services.
The United States Marine Hos
pital Service announces the
practical ending of the yellow fever
epidemic at New Orleans.
Mr.. Geo. w. Warren, of Clifton
Forge, former editor of the Cliff
ton Forge Review, has been elected
cashier of the Hinton Banking and
Trust Co., a new enterprise soon
to commence business in Hinton,
W. Va.
Syracuse Herald: A Kansas
farmer invested 81, 500 and in two
years made $5,000.A few years ago
that would have been an enormous
showing, but since the exposures
In New York a profit of only rs
per cent. seems almost as bad as
losing money.
President Roosevelt has decided
that his daughter, Miss Alice,
must pay duty on Ter gifts from
foreign potnntates, the duties
amounting to fully 100000.
Gold shipments from yukon
Territory for the season just clos
ed will reach about 100000.
Mr.. John NJ. Weade, formerly
Of Wsyn 5sboro, and more recently
connected W tn the accounting de-
partment of the Southern Railway
1t We shington, has been transferr-
I'd to Monroe a divisional point
Just north of Lynchburg, where
BE lie secretary in charge Of the
Railroad Young Mems Christian
Association.
1t is announced officially at the
Treasury Department that it is
he intention of the Government to
veil $3.50, 900, 900 of bonds 10 con-
'truct the Panama canal. OF this
amount $50, 100000 will be turned
INTO the Treasury to replace the
amount already expended. 1t lie
The intention to sell the bonds in
OTIS or $40, OOO, OOO.
The mystery attached to the
lnearthing of a human skeleton in
suffolk has been solved. The bones
we're those OF James Brown,
Negro who was hanged 80 years
lgo for the murder of two white
women, Mrs. Dozier and Mrs.
Zones. During his Incarceration
Brown sold his body TO local
physician for enough chewing
obacco 10 last him until the
xecution.
The State Board,of Agriculture
n session in Richmond recently
dopted a recommendation that in
rider to supply farm labor in Yir-
,inia an effort be made to have
he United States government
'rOVide immigration agencies for
he States at Ellis Island, and that
gencies be also established in
oreign countries from which the
lost desirable class of immigrants
re to be obtained.
No one supposed that President
ROOSEVELT would permit ex. Presi-
emit Cleveland to occupy the
enter of the stage for any length
( time. The Sage Of Princeton
OF into the lime light ty writing
! opposition to woman's suffrage
ut he enjoyed his position for
My a short time, for President I
oosevelt attracted the attention
[ the public by calling a con-
,rence of some of the leading
thletes to see il much of the
rutality now so common in foot
all cannot be eliminated.
Judge George j. Hundley hes
Iblished a card in which he states
lat William A. Jones was correct
his statment ct Fredericksburg
Gently that Judge L. L. Lewis,
epublican candidate for Cover
,r, had favored intermarriage of
le races in Virginia. Judge Hun
ey, whose memory is quite clear
/ the subject, says that ne himself
the question To Judge
Evils whether he favored a lew
evening the marriage of whites
ID blacks, and that Judge Lewis
replied that he opposed
9 policy of the law and favored
lowing all persons, white or
ack, to marry whom they pleas