Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-01-03
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest 70 the
Busy Reader

1t is said Benz. p. Owen will be
Governor Swanson's private eec
rotary.
It's stated that Mayor Mcclellan
may make Gen. Joe Wheeler a sup
erintendent of police in New
York.
Judge George L. Christian at
tacks the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, declaring the trustees
aud faculty treated his son I'M
justly,
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
and the Younger members Of the
Presidents family, spent some days
at their country home in Abe
marie county, Virginia, last week.
Hon. John yGcede. virginia's
"grand old a/--aas nag just sent to
the publihers volume of his rem
iniscences, Retrospective View"
he is pleased 10 call it.
The Oregon State Commission
has taken what Is said to be I'M
precedented action in demand
ing for the State a pro rata share
of the surplus funds of the lewis
and Clarke Exposition.
Irving f. Baxter, dismissed on
Christmas day as United States
District Attorney for Nebraska by
President Roosevelt, received on
the same day from a friend a set
Of the PRESIDENTS books as a Christ
mas present.
Six armed men tried to hold up
Chicago trolley car ia true west
ern style last week but were foiled
by the conductor, who pulled
down the trolley role and left the
car in darkness, while someone
called the police, who arrested five
of the alleged brigands.
IL is esid tina: members Of the
Pennsylvania Legislature have
given up their daily reading of
Of the Bible since tire decree of
the railroads abolishing free trans.
portatIon. The frequent iterstion
of the phrase "and it came to
pass" got upon their nerves.
Ithaca, n. Y, society was start
led recently to learn that Miss
Margaret B. Fisher, L leader in its
circles and the richest spinster in
Ithaca, owning 100000 worth of
local real estate, has welded her
Tedheaded coschmsn, Patrick T.
Kelley, Der jurior by II years.
A check for $40, 900 ives among
the Christmas presents received by
Joseph E. Funkhouser, a retired
farmer of Winchester. TIE check
represented the principal ard H.
tersst of debt many yesrs' cd,
and which Mr.. Funkhoueel had
given up all hopes of recovering.
Governor Montague, in recog-
milton of the season of peace on
earth and good will 70 men,
Dec. 2Srd exercised the pardoning
power vested in him, and released
six prisoners fl ON the Stste peni.
tentlary, that they might enjoy
their freedom az the Christmas
season.
Engrossed in his Christmas
dinner, A. w. HolLrook of Palmer,
Macs. forgot to feed one Of his
heavy draught horses. The ninal
lnfastened the halter with its teeth,
and, ascending two flights of steep
stairs to the third floor, ? tie bushel
Of grain. Six hours of cOaxing and
,ursing, with neighbors' assistance,
returned tue animal to its stall.
Mrs. Mary Ann Rhodes of HUI
ION, Ohlc, enjoys the uLique dis
.inction of having been married
three times without having been
widowed or divorced, and without
violation of the statutes prohibit
ng bigamy. Her husband, Valen-
line Rhodes, died few months
ago, and the story has leaked out
hiring the settlement OF his affairs.
Ten States of the South pay out
annually in pensions to the soldiers
If the "Lost Cause" an aggregate
If So, 2S7, 900 as follows: Texas,
100000; Tennessee, 1916, 900,
louisiana, $3.50, 600; Arkansas,
1903, 900; Georgia, $500, 900; Flor
da, 1888, 900; South Carolina,
1860, 900; Virginia, $500, 600;
Mississippi, $3.50, 900; North Caro-
ina, 1915, 900. TaSrs a.. >no re-
cords of payments by Kentucky
II Alabama.
The POstoffice Department has
ssued an ord s(r r .. larriers in
he future noG". ssaks letters out
# boxes unless they have postage
lamps upon them. Heretofore
,ersons not having stamps have
'ut money for postage with the
etter into the box ard the carriers
ave put the stamp on the letter,
ut henceforth, patrons must boy
POSTAGE stamps. which may be had
rom the carrier, and put them
Ipon the letter. themselves.
j. K. Matsumoto, member of the
aparese Parliament and chair
IAN of the Parlisment's Committee
n Foreign Relations, was in Nor
ok last week, to investtgi tie the