Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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out the United States, and are proving
very efficient, earning good pay.
Wealthy negroes of America, with
Booker I. Washington at the head, are
arranging to organize great national
bank and clearing house in New York.
Fashion decrees that woman shall
wear anklets again. As the anklet was
sign of bondage, what is the new wo-
man going to do about Times Dis
patch.
The British elections are landslide
for the Liberals, Socialists, Labor
Unions and Home Rulers. The Union
lists and Nationalists lost 62 out of the
76 seats in parliament that were con-
tested.
Married at thirteen, mother at
fourteen, and grandmother at twenty
nine is the remarkable record of Mrs.
James Null, of Wellston, Ohio-a re-
cord as yet unbroken in the United
States.
The board of Trustees of Richmond
College unanimously elected Governor
Montague a professor in the law school.
The Governor will begin his lectures
Immediately after retirement from the
gubernatorial Office.
The Rockingham wheat crop of 1906
is estimated at 1,SOO, 900 bushels, the
largest produced in any county in vir-
ginia. Sixty threshing outfits assisted to
house the crop, which required IL, 900
tons of fertilizer and brought in mil
lion and half dollars.
Damages in SIT, 500 were awarded
by Chicago jury to the children of a
drunken father for redress against the
saloon-keepers alleged to have made a
drunkard of him. The verdict, estab-
fishing precedent, will result in the
institution of many similar suits.
Henry Pasegory, white man, living
near Ruckersville, Green county, was
burned to death in the ruins of his
house. 1t is said he had been drinking
and had driven his family from home.
and supposition is that he set the house
afire and got in bed and was too drunk
to-get out.
An exchange draws this distinction
between leader and boss: "a leader
is not boss when ne is disinterested.
or rather, when he has no selfish inter-
ests impelling him, and when his infiu-
ence over his fellows is due alone to his
commanding intellect and his superior
judgment in matters political"
Bending over the washtub in the
penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, and
shamming an illness in which nobody
believes, Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick, now
Unidentified as Madame Devere, of the
famous family of crooks in France, will
have the spacious period of ten year.
in which to ponder upon how it al
happened.
Wm- Bruyn, a negro coachman, anc
Frances Courier, white girl, returned
to Washingtonville, n. Y, Tuesday
night from Newburgh and announced
that they had been married. The girl.
father Knocked them both down ans
the angry villagers attacked Bruyn ane
threatened to lynch him. He escaped
but later he and the girl were place.
in Jail.
Can you grasp at a glance, or ever
express after pointing and enumeration
these figures: 0.O00O00O00O00OO 0OOO0OOO6S.
They are the quotient-o OH divided by
25 quintillion which Prof. Larkin tell.
us represents the proportion of a milt
per second velocity which the mass o,
the sun could impart to falling body
at the end of the the first second of it.
fall. Now will some of our expert ma
thematicians indicate some comprehen
sible object in nature that will accu
rately correspond to the aforesaid pro
portion of a mile?-I -Index-Appeal.
Says the King George writer: ''Som,
of the Potomac fishermen are catchin,
large quantities of fine black bass, an,
are receiving good prices for them il
the Washington market. Some time
more than a hundred lunches of tn,
| fish are shipped from Smiths wharf il
a single day. Prior to the appearance
of black bass near the mouth of tn
Potomac creek a week or ten days ago
fish were so scarce that fishermen ha
barely paid expenses at any time dun
ing the season, and many of them ha
taken up their traps and nets and sus
pended operations for the winter.
I Judge Hunter H. Moss, of West vi,
, ginia, has issued an injunction to pre-
hibit a man from wooing woman
The strangest part of it is that tn
woman is the mans wife, and he ha
been trying to win her back after a
: estrangement. But his attentions hav
) become annoying to the wife and sh
applied to the Circuit Court. The il
junction was issued to prohibit Willial
Brown from wooing or making love I
Mary E. Brown and from entering tn
premises where his wife resides or tr,
ling to induce her to continue living wit
him.
When asked for new dollar of 19C
coinage deputy U. S. treasurer Marie
said he was willing to pay $1,000 fl
one himself. Within short time tn
telephone began to ring, and for til
rest of the afternoon Mr.. Marlor ws
kept busy by coin collectors and curior
+, persons who wanted to know why 19t
| dollar was so valuable. After the da
. was over he said: 'I will never iol