Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-11-20
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Brief Items of Iaterest Tor the
Busy Reader

The average ten perature o.
the entire globe is 80 degrees Fab.
rerheit.
Senator Tillman says Cannon
and Bryan will lead the opposing
presidential tickets next year.
The Philadelphia Mint is work,
ing overtime turning out gold
coin.
Acknowledgement Bonaparte has
appointed James A. Cobb, a negro,
as special Assistant United
States Attorney IN Washington.
Extraordinary heavy deposits in
New York savings banks is taken
to mean that the public is satisfied
as to their solidity.
A membership in the New York
Stock Exchange bias been bought
for $50, 900, the lowest price at
which a seat has sold since 1893.
About 800 barrels of apples
have been shipped from Clover
dale depot, BOtetOurt county, this
fall, besides thousands Of cases OF
canned goods.
A reliable New York newspaper
cites tie fact that the present Re-
publican administration has spent
over Sl4, COO, 600 Of the peoples
time and money in iunkets.
A tax o. tie depositors of banks
to be devoted to the establishment
Of fund for the protection OF de-
.ositors is,the plan suggested by
Representative Campbell of Kan
sas.
st. johns Protestant Episcopal
Church, Richmond, has entered
vigorous protest against the elm.
ination Of Tn Gcd We Trust"
from gold CONS turned out at The
United STAGES mint.
Governor Vardaman is to be-
cone al editor soon. One great
advantage about deciding TO be.
come en- editor is that you do not
have to leave the matter 70 pol.
itical primary.
The Federation of Labor in
Norfolk decided to make cam.
paign for universal eight-hour
day and to raise "war" fund Of
81 800, 900 with which to fight the
Naticna! Association of Manufact-
ures.
TIE Circuit Court of Shenan.
doah county has declared the
local option election of August -,
ct Woodstock, to have been legal.
~ conducted. The "drys" cur
RED the town by one majority and
The "wets" contested the result,
a 'leglng fraud.
The Women's Christian Ten
,erance Union is willing that
football shall be played. Por-
mission was expressed IN its
rational convention at Nashville,
Tenn, when Il resolution recon-
nending that the game be sbol-
shed was voted down.
A dispatch from Winnipeg,
Aapatoba, says: TO construct a
ailwey which will penetrate a
country as yet absolutely udevel.
ped and unknown, reaching from
Dawson City to Edmonton, an APP
,roximate distance of |, 800 miles,
s the latest project which will
ome TO the fore in the history of
allway development in the Canad-
an Northwest.
The arrows of Cupid and Death
re still sadly mixed, according to
dispatch from Lowell, Mass.
henry C. Wilcer, aged ninety. five
ears, was united in marriage
londay night to Esther Crawford,
inety years old, in that city. Two
minister's We'd in proclalming the
Ouple man and wife. They have
nown each other only two weeks.
[ il said to have been aoase of love
t first sight.
Col. john S. Mosby has oontrac-
I'd with Mogett, You x Co. for
be publication of his monograph,
Stuart's Calvary in the Gettys-
urg Campaign" 1t will be pub
shed in January. 1t is well
LCwn that Col. Mosby takes
iirerent view Of tie Gettysburg
lgagemert ffcm ether writer; on
iat account war critics will lcOk
for the hook which will
ire y be Interesting and lnstruc-
We.
Pine Beach, adjoining the
lmestOwn Exposition grounds,
hich had a half million dollar fire
June, wns visited by another
tlaze early Saturday
orning, when the Midway Ar
lde, the Cosmopohteh Hotel and
heater and Aerial Athletic Club
,use, located on NiLety-ninth
rect and Maryland avenue, were
'nsGmed. No lives were lost.
.o1gh many persons asleep in the
)per portions of the building had
'rrCw escapes.
Rev. j. William Jones, d. d.,
Richmond, chaplain and his.
Iian of the Confedertcy, reply
q to the challenge of Col. James
uart of the Illinois Grand Army
the Republic, to any person or
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