Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-11-28
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

a man Lrleb 10 I'VE up W his
deals. A woman tries to live up
to her photographs.
Virginis's wealth shows an in
crease of $l85, $50. 484, from 1900
to 1904; it is now 81 ,S87, $40, $50.
Over 5000 rabbits and many
birds on sale by Carey street Rich
mond commission-houses were con-
demned few days ago by an in.
spector as being in a "soui" con-
dition and sent in the crematory.
A car loaded with 1000 fruit
trees, shipped to the Strasburg
Orchard Company, have been con-
demned at Strasburg by Inspect
or II. q. Bailey on account Of be-
ing infected with the San Jose
scale.
United States Marshal Morgan
Treat has petition ed the Attorney
General of the United States for
permission to remove the marshaPs
office from Richmond to Old Point
until after the Jamestown Expo
sitlon.
Secretary Root in an address de-
lliyered before the Trans. Missis-
sippi Commercial Congress in Kan
sas City, declared that the Monroe
Doctrine was still in force. He
urged the adoption Of the ship
subsidy bill.
The Wade Hampton statue has
been unveiled at Columbia, S, c.,
in the presence Of vast throng.
The exercises were opened with
prayer by Bishop Capers. Govern
or Hayward, ON behalf of the STATE,
accepted the statue and Gen. N.
G. Butler was the orator of the
day.
Count Boni de Castellane has
received an offer of "a, 900 week
20 give exhibitions in swordman-
ship In New York; one Of $4,000
year as maitre d'hotel of fash
ionable New York cafe, another at
SIS, 600 a year by Chicago base
ball club as "wardrobe master"
To what base usage may we come
at last
Justice Crutchfeld Of Richmond
says he is going to scour that city
clean of every scrap of humanity
that looks like a yagrant. He says
he has been ordered to enforce the
vagrant law to the limit, and 10
going to do it. Everything I'M
kempt, smelly, tired.loOking or
drunken individual that faced the
deck was given the maximum pen
atty provided by the law.
Women of Princess Anne county
have raised "fsmale public pro-
lection fund" and employed an at
torney to appear in their behalf
and seek the conviction Of John
Smith, a negro, S2 years of age.
who is to be tried for his life in
Norfolk on December 4th, for al
legged assault on Mrs. Mollie Leg
gett in September last. The pris-
oner's defense is insanity.
The Republican State committee
of New York spent $3l2,246 IS in
the last cumpaign. The New York
American Gays that 81, 1906 was
contributed tc the Republican
campaign fund from individuals
and trust companies. The largest
individual contributors were j.
Pierpoint Morgan, $4,000; Levi
P. Merton, $40, 600; Andrew Car
negie, So, 900 and Timothy Wood
ruff, $4,000.
Rev. DIR. A. K. Dickinson. one
of the most widely known ministers
IN the Southern Baptist Church,
and for many years editor of the
Religious Herald, died at his resi-
dence in Richmond last Wednes-
day. He had been in feeble health
for some years. He was 76 years
old and was a graduate of Rich
mond College and OF the Univerei-
ty of Virginia. He was a native
of Orange county.
The body Of James Wilson, of
Pennsylvania, who with 30 other
American patriots signed the Dec
laration of Independence, has been
disinterred from its long resting
place at Edenton, N. c., prepare
tory to being sent to Philadelphia,
where on Thursday it will be de-
posted in Christ Church burial
ground, slongside that of his wife,
almost in the shadow of Independ
ente Hall. The disinterment was
conducted with elaborate ceremon-
ial in the presence of number Of
distinguished citizens of Pennsyl-
vania aud North Carolina.
Bishop John j. Tigert, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, died at Tusla, 1. T., last
Wednesday, after an illness Of ten
days. Bishop Tigert's home was
In Louisville, KY. Bishop Tigert
was taken i'll while attending q
church conference at Atoka, 1. T.,
but disregarded the advice OF his
physician to rest. He won't to Tul-
sa intending to open the Center
ence on the 14th, but was COM
PEELED to take to bis bed. His ILL
ness was caused by the Judgement
of piece Of chicken bone just be-
low the tonsils. This caused an
Inflammation of the throat and re-