Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-09-26
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Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

mouth VT Is the only living Wld0W
of any Revolutionary soldier. She is
90 years old.
Born without a bone in his body
and absolutely helpless, Antonio
Congro, of Brooklyn, lived fer 81
years, and died on Friday.
Major General Frederick d.
Grant declares that 90 per cent of
assertions in the army are due to
bad liquor and the absence of the
army canteen.
The name of DR.. Edwin a. AL
derman, president of the University
of Virginia, is prominently mem
toned fer president of the Normal
College of New York.
Texas DeU ocrats will consider
the question Of opposing the re
election of Senator Bailey as re.
suit of his alleged relations with
the Standard Oil interests.
Chancellor Day OF Syracuse
University. has ruled that students
who can afford to buy tobacco and
theater tickets cannot receive the
benefits of free scholarships.
Miss Mary Johnston, the Virgin
ia authOress. who had been in criti.
cal health for mcny months announ-
ces her entire recovery and that
she will spend the winter in Rich
mond.
Charles Conley, the negro who
attacked two white women in Della
ware recently, wss sentenced to
serve so years in prison and to re-
ceive 80 lashes at the whipping
post.
Though neither could give the
others name, an Italian and a
negroes applied at the clerks office
in Washington for license TO get
married the other day. They were
refused.
The first japanese newspaper
was published in 1868, only forty
three years ago, and it contains
some news translated from some
Of the Dutch papers. Today Japan
has 1900 daily newspapers and
periodicals.
Col. Thomas Elicit, for many
years adjutant of the Grand Comp
Of Confederate Veterans, and one
Of the most popular men in Rich
mond, is dead at his home in that
city from infrnities incident to
old age. He was about 80 years old.
The Lynchburg Board of Trade
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making a handsome exhibit at
Jamestown Exposition. The
board also declared in favor OF
Lynchburg extending its corporate
limits and it also adopted resolu-
lions for the expenditure Of con-
siderable sum of money advertising
Lynchburg in newspapers of the
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the musical display at the
Jamestown Exposition will be the
installation of the most complete
jipe organ that has ever heen built
n the United States. The instru-
nent, which weighs ten tons, is of
mammoth proportions aud will &C.
,upy a space 10 feet in depth and
i'll the entire space from wall to
wall across the back Of the stage
n the auditorium. The great pipes
will extend from the floor to the
ceiling, a distance of thirty feet.
The bridging of the Upper
James at two points between the
ich counties OF Albemarle and
Buckingham with substantial ircn
ridges is expected to increase
'alues greatly in that section. The
county of Buckingham and the
own of Scottsyille, with a SUBJ
cription from the Chesapeake and
ohio Railway, have contracted
With the Virginia Bridge Company
or a bridge at that point, and a
Of citizens has just been
rganized at Howardsyille to build
toll bridge there.
Baltimore has just celebrated ite
ecovery from the great fire which
destroyed its business section OF
he city two years and seven
months ago. Baltimore's streets
ave been so widened and straight
ned that eight acres have been
dded to the public street area.
n addition, it has established a
lew modern dock system having
1000 feet of water frontage.
The city has gained much beauty,
IS buildings have been restricted
o 175 feet high, and builders
ave endeavored to harmonic all
tructures in the same block.
eyes, l walked 210 miles in ten
avs, and that is not a bad record,
or man of seventy" Laughed
Bishop Leighton Coleman, of the
Episcopal Diocese of Delaware.
lie had just returned from trip on
cot through Neutrality-suspicious.
nd in Maryland. Bishop Coleman
Eft Wilmington, Del, ten days
go for HE long tramp. Only his
immediate friends knew where he
Ias, and as he travelled inccg. he
ad amusing apprehension sever
| occasions being taken for a
ramp. For several years the
ishop has been spending his va
alton in this maner. He intends