Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-11-29
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Ahe husslan peasants are re-
ported to be pilIaging the domain
OF the clergy, Strengthening cattle
and eating the flesh raw.
A hitch is reported in the plsn
to merge the Medical College Of
Virginia with the medical school
} OF the State University.
The presnce of & fever Epidemic
at William and Mary College has
caused a panic among the students.
There has been considerable talk OF
disbanding the school until after
the Christmas holidays.
Mr.. L. v. Leach, clerk Of the
Circuit Court for Warren county,
is develoring at Dickey's Hill a
copper mine, the ore from which
expert mineralogists pronounce
one of the richest ores in Virginia.
! DR., W.T.Oppenheimer, president
of the Richmond Board of Health,
in his annual report, recommends
the immediate establishment Of
public baths in the city. He says
that such baths have proven sue
cessiul in other towns.
While Germany has $500, 900
women who earn their own living,
Italy, with only ore-half the pop
ulation, has 100000. In Germ
any the number of servant girls
who have a savings bank account
is nearly three times as large az
hat of shop girls who have them.
Mr.. William Lumpkin Of near
huntsville, Essex county, has a
remarkable hog, to be slaughtered
in short time, which is only II
months old, but meaures s feet 8
inches in length and is as large
around the girth as a medium
sized hCrse, and weighs 300 pounds.
In the future if a civil service
employee Of the government
misconducts himself in the view
of the President Or of any head of
an executive department he is
liable to dismissal on the spot.
with no further explanation, ac-
cOrding to an executive order just
issued.
A small comet, which appeared
near the pole star last week and
has since been moving southwark
rapidly, has given the astronomers
fresh object to watch, but tteir
reports Of it's movements from dsy
to day create no popular excite
ment. 1t is too faint to be seen
without telescope, and it is said
te have no tail.
At the opening session of the
North Georgia Conference at New
man, Ca, last Wednesday, a move
ment was started looking to the ss-
adjustment somewhere within the
bounds of the Southern Methodist
Church OF a great female educa-
tiOnal institution, similartO Van
derbiIt University, the Me thodist
school for boys at Nashville, Tenn.
Mr.. j. NJ. Beutell, an eccentric
German, who owns valuable piece
of fruit land near Winchester, Va,
and is reputed 70 be wealthy, has
recorded dee d conveying after his
death his estate to the Lutheran Or
phsn Home of the United Synod,
Lutheran Church, and to be de-
voted to the home and foreign
mission work OF the synod.
japan is building five immense
battleships, having a total dis
placement of more than $4,000
tons. Two, which have just been
contracted for in England, will
weigh l9, 900 tons each the heaviest
and largest fighting ships yet
planned. Japan is also having
built two great armored cruisers,
each of $500 tons displacement.
The first class battleship Vir-
ginia had Standardization trial
over the Reckland course last We'd
nesday, during which she not only
satisfactorily demonstrated that
she would make the contract speed
Of nineteen knots, but developed
speed that makes her the fastest
battleship in the navy. The Vir-
GINA was built in the Newport
News, Virginia, shipbuIlding yard,
and like all the other ships, naval
and merchant, constructed at that
yard. reflects credit upon Virginia
and her designers and artisans.
A letter has been received at
the office CT Governor Monta-
que from the Governor of Penney.
Vania, informing him that the work
1t Valley Forge has progressed to
luch an extent that the camps of
The troops from the thirteen
original States, who participated
n the Revolutionary War, have
been clearly established and that
he States can now proceed, if
hey so desire, to mark the loca-
ions in such way as they may
ieem fit and proper. The matter
will be referred to the General AS
embly by the Governor when he
ubmits has annual message.
A Continual Strain