Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-11-07
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

man race.
1t is said the faculty of the V.
P. 1. is strongly opposed to j.
Thompson Brown for the presi.
dency.
The treasurer of the United
States. he's submitted his annual
report showing a surplus of $685.
600. 600 for the past year.
The first real snow of the season
fell in Winchester and vicinity
last week, and the mercury went
down rapidly, causing apprehension
among fruit men and hucksters.
The United States is now send
ing each year to India by direct
shipment about $4,000 worth Of
pumps and pumping machinery,
most of which is imported through
RoT bay.
A movement has been started ia
Seattl, to erect a monument to w.
H. Seward, Secretary Of State un-
der Lincoln, who negotiated the
treaty that gave Alaska to the
United States.
Postmaster General CortelYou 10
now considering the feasibility Of
introducing system of printing
on the postage Stamps the names
of the cities where the stamps are
sold in largest quantities.
In New York every minute two
immigrants arrive-more than L.
100000 in year. Every six min
utes a child is born. Every sew
en- minutes there is a funeral.
Every hour new building is erect
ed.
In response to rumors- circu-
lated, it is alleged, as a joke
that the whites of Brookhaven,
Miss, were forming a Ku-Klux
Clan to drive out the negroes, the
latter have organized a Whitecsp
band.
Governor Vardaman, of Miss
issippi, who is working hard to be
elected United States Senator and
expects to defeat John Sharp Will
liams, says that if lie succeeds he
shall make the defeat of the
fifteenth amendment his mission.
Halifax county will have an ex-
hlblt at the jamestown Exposition
having appropriated 81, 500 for
this purpose at a meeting of the
Board Of Supervisors, held at
Houston last week. The vote
stood six to one in favor of the
exhibit.
The preliminary work on the
macadamized road to be built from
Williamsburg to historic old James
town Island has begun. Engineers
are surveying three different
routes. The appropriation Of &c.
600 by the county and city has
made the building of the road
almost certainty.
Chancellor w. w. Smith, of
Randolph. Macon system of schools
in Virginia, was in Culpeper last
week, and accepted the site for the
location of another school there,
in the Randolph Ma;on series of
schools. The site of the proposed
school is forty acres of land, a
quarter of a mile south of Gull
pepper, and was donated by K. C..
Brooke and S. Russell Smith.
In a violent fit of coughing
shortly before his death at Port
land, Ore, hospital, H. L. Mills,
an Oregon pioneer of 1875. and
reic tive OF General Ro5eefftt . .. Lee.
raised s c4 -f{{ ESiA lungs a buckshot
that he had carried in his body
since the Civil War, wher, as a
mem be- of the Fifteenth New York
Engineer Corps, he fought against
the army commanded by his moth
er's brother.
Every officer and enlisted man
ir United States army is to be
tagged. For purposes OF identii-
cation it haze been ordered by Act
ing Secretary Of Wsr Robert Shaw
Oliver thst aluminium disks, in
scribed with the mans name, reg
iment and company, be issued TO
esch soldier in the Quartermaster's
Departn ent. These disks will be
suspended around the neck and
worn under The mans clothing.
C. Fenton Day Of Isle Of Wight
county, one Of the big peanut grow
ers of the peanut belt while in
Norfolk a few days age, stated
that mere than half the entire pea
nut crcp is s,ill in the ground,
ruined by wet weather. No more
of the nuts will be taken out Of the
ground, he said, and many of those
that have been taken out are in a
greatly damaged condition. The
loss to the farmers will amount to
hundreds OF thousands of dollars.
John w. Richards, the Floyd
county schoolteacher, convicted of
the murder of his rival, Maurice
Francis, was sentenced to be
hanged January 8. Richards re-
ceived the verdict coolly, and
laughed when Judge Mofett SEN
fenced him. 1t was announced
that an effort will be Fde TO Sc
cure new trial. This was the third
trial of the case. The first two
iuries were made up Of Floyd coun-
ty citizens, and failed to agree. The