Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-08-23
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:, married to some other fellow.
! The State Department at Wash
9 ingtOn is advised that Shanghai
, is the only point in China a
which the boycott on American
goods is serious.
Statistics compiled by the
Census Bureau indicate that there
, has been decrease in the birth
: rate in this country, more marked
Q in the North and West than in the
South.
, One of the wealthiest farmers in
Marion county, Ohio, John Jones.
is dead, aged 80 years. He saved
> the first dollar he had earned and
kept it as pocket piece until his
death.
The Richmond Board of Alder
man has authorized the mayor and
city treasurer to make a deed to
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee of the lot in
! Hollywood in which Gen. Lees
, body lies.
The Loudoun campmeeting, con-
, Quoted under the auspices of the
Baltimore Southern Methodist
conference, began at Benton's
woods, near Middleburg, Loudoun
county, on Friday.
After nine years spent in travel.
ing 10000 miles over three
continents, Antonio Carraciola,
and Italian of New York, has dir
covered the assassin of his father
in the penitentiary on Blackwell's
Island.
The Virginia State Board of
Health, responding to an appeal
from Norfolk, has decided to
establish at once complete
marine and land quarantine
against all passenger and freight
traffic from Louisiana norcertifsd
to be healthy.
In the will of. Robert d. Nc
Gonnigle of Pittsburg, Pa, one
of the principal provisions directs
that the executor set aside a sum
of money out of $50, coo estate to
maintain and care for Ginger,
Mr.. McGonnigle's favorite hunting
horse, as long as he shall live.
He directs that the horse shall
never be ridden or driven except
for necessary exercise.
1t is said that fifteen per cent.
of the Protestant churches Of
Nebraska are without pastors, and
it is impossible to secure ministers
to fill the vacant pulpits. Accord
ing to reports received Of the Con-
gregational, Methodist and Luth-
eran churches in Lincoln, Neb.,
scarcely week passes bat some
minister breaks away from the
calling to engage in another line
of work.
A dime nOVel-reading youth of
Trenton, II. j., with ten-year.Old
boys, made a deliberate attempt to
wreck one of the fast cars of the
johnson trolley line running to
Princeton last week by placing
two large tree trunks on the track
at Ingham Avenue. The car,
which was running slow on account
of a curve near by, had reduced
Its speed so that the shock only
jolted the passengers and did no
damage.
The yellow fever situation is
worse in New Orleans now than az
any previous time since the disease
broke out. Not only is the number
of new cases reported by the
Marine Hospital Service growing
daily, but, large number Of cases
have been held back for further
investigation. before any official
report is made on them. The
cases are scattered from one end
of the city to the other. and the
situation may be said to be critical.
United States Geological Survey
levelmen, under Topographer R. A.
Farmer, who nave been running
a line of levels to the summit of
Mount Whitney, have completed
their work and reported the true
height of the mountain to be A.
500 feet. While THE shows Mount
to be the highest measur-
ed mountain in the Uuited States,
It makes the true height twenty
'eet less than the figures that have
generally been accepted here
.Ofore.
Booker T. Washington's APP
,earancs at dinner in the great
lining room of United States
Hotel, Saratoga, created q mild
among the diners recent
y. Washington was the guest Of
John Wanamaker, former Post.
ter-General, and acted as
'scort for Mrs. Barclay Warburton,
dr. Wanamaker's daughter. As
hey walked down the long line
very eye was directed upon the
,roup. Comparatively few of
hose present recognized any Of
hem, and there was a general
'uzz Of comment and a craning OF
ecks