Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-04-12
Condensed NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

IL decl1neu 70 accept marriage re
), on the ground tnat such acceptanc
was in violation of the law.
Nevada lie to be a wideope
;, State. The Legislature just sd
q journed repealed every RESTRICTIVE
b gambling and liquor law on tn
books.
g James H. Hayes. the negr,
8 lawyer Of Richmond whs has beer
striving to break the Virgins
! Constitution, will probably b.
! sent to Guadeloupe as consul.
st. Petersburg regards tn,
departure Of President Roosevelt
on vacation as evidence that IN.
efforts to draw Russia and Japar
/. into peace negotiations have fail
= ed.
Charles r. Fishburne, the
Roanoke banker, who killed DR..
Frederick LefGw, has been taken
, to the penitentiary at Richmond
to begin serving his term of five
years.
The seasons wheat yield for
New South Wales totals 10, 483, :
$50 bushels, an average of 9.3
bushels an acre. About 5000, 900
, bushels are available for export,
of which 4.252, eSS bushels already
have been shipped.
A news dispatch from Australia
states that a horse out there has
lived to be 45 years old. The an
imal for the most part OF his life
has done hard work. frequently
covering a hundred miles a day
when mastering cattle.
AS result of an April-fool
joke, Charles w. Brown, a we'll
known printer OF Winchester, is
unable to walk. Some miscreant
poured concentrated lye into his
gum boots. Browns feet were
badly scalded before be could get
tie boots off.
Daniel Knc wles, aged seventy
five years, who was one of the
gun captains on the Confederate
ram Merrimac or Virginia during
her memorable naval battle in
Hampon Roads with the Ericsson
Monitor during the Civil War, is
dead 1t his home in Norfolk.
In Montgomery county, on the
road from Shawsville to Allegheny
ard Crockett Springs, snow is
reported in many places not less
than six feet deep while above it
wild flowers are il bloom. Snow
and sleet rolled down the noun
tains during the winter and be.
came packed at the base. The
warm weather has not yet affected
it.
The congregation of Christ
Episcopal Church, Winchester. has
issued a call to Rev. Edward
Temple of Waco, Texas. to fill
the pulpit made vacant by the
resignation of Rev. Nelson p.
Dame, in June, 1904. 1t is likely
that Mr.. Temple will accept the
call. He is Virginian and has been
rector OF several churches in this
State.
The corporation of Glasgow,
Scotland, has enthusiastically
agreed to grant the request made
by the city Of Chicago thet the
manager of the tramway system
may visit Chicago to advise the
authorities in regard to the best
method to be pursued in the efforts
to organize the street car systems
under the proposed mutual owner
ship plan.
A solid peanut train from Nor
folk, loaded with $50, 900 pounds,
Of peanuts, about 10000 bushels,
passed over the c. L o. Railroad
last week. The shipment was
made by the Columbia Peanut
Company of Norfolk, the nuts CON-
ing from its three plants at Suffolk,
Smithtield and Petersburg, and all
of them grown in this State or
In South Carolina just across the
line.
State Chemist William H. Taylor
has caused no end OF comment by
= lecture before the students OF
the Medical College OF Virginia
in Richmond where he is an in
,tructor, in which he said that the
,oul, from a scientific standpoint,
g a generation OF the brain and
lies with that organ. His allega-
ion has shocked the orthodox,
,ut he declines to argue the matter
With his critics.
During the six months ending
March more than 1000 i'm
migrants arrived at ports in the
United States. This is = gain Of
e per cent. over the corresponding
,eriod in the preceding year. The
.rriyals from Russia have been
PARTICULARLY larger, $4,000 coming
yer in the period mentioned,
which is an increase OF ~ per
emit. over tho record for the six
months Of the year previous.