Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-24
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest fer the
Busy Reader

Brief Items of Interest fer the
Busy Reader
a severe shortage n the peanut
market is reported in Norfolk.
Every vote Hearst received in
TIE New York mayoralty fight cost
him $l.25.
The public need not fattsr It,
self that the fact of ice forming in
April is going to bring down the
price in June.
The general board reports that
there are 1898 patients In The
Virginia State hospitals and no
insane are now confded la jails In
Virginia.
Hiram S. Austin killed a blue
crane near FiLcastle last week
that measured six feet from tip TO
tip of wings. He will send 1t to
taxidePmist to be mounted.
Plans are being perfected for q
union of the Congregational, Meth.
odist Protestant and United
Brethren churches The new body
will be known as the United
churches.
England is exT eriencing god
deal Of sensation in seeing DR..
Jameson, whose raid precipitated
the Boer war, and General Boths,
OF the Transvaal, associated in the
conference of Colonial Premiers.
Great are the changes wrought by
time.
Snow in the Blue Ridge in Page
county was twenty-eight inches
deep last week. At"Dark Hollow"
near the line between Page and
Madison counties, where large
copper Tine is in operation, the
saow reached a depth OF thirty
three inches.
The monument to be erected al
Salem church, in Spottsylvania
county, by the survivors OF the
Twenty-third New Jersey Regi-
nent to the members Of that regi-
ment who were killed on the Spott-
sylvsnia battlehelds, has arrived
ut Fredericksburg. The unaveil.
irg will take place May 3.
Mr.. w. j. Bryan addressed the
publicity organization in New
York last Thursday night in favor
of strong meas ure TO compel the
disclosure of campaign coBtribu-
tions before elections. Should
such disclosure be made, which 10
not at all probable, the scandals
brought upon corporations and
Republicans would be
astounding.
James p. Banks of Petersburg,
CT Virginia Division
Sens Of Confederate Vetersns, has
Miss Lucy Atkinson
McIlwain, daughter of Hon, Will
liam B. McIiwain of Petersburg,
State sponsor for the Sons Of Con-
federate Veterans at the reunion
to be held at Richmond ia August,
and Miss Grace Ratcliff Of Smith
field, maid of honor.
The General State Hospital
Board OF Virginia in Session at the
Central State Hospital In Peters,
burg last week unanimously re-
elected the following superintend-
:nts OF the four state hospitals:
Eastern Hospital, at Williams
burg. DR.. o. C. Brunk; Western
Hospital at Staunton, DR.. j. S.
Dejarnette: Central, DR.. W. f.
Drewry Sol tn Western at Marion,
DR.. a. S. Priddy.
Japan joins in tbt general msve-
10 Mt for the abolition of war by
"a battleship which will
garry four l2-inch, twelve l0-ineh
and twelve 4.7-inch gu3s. This
for peace has been an
swtred by the la-rching ty Great
Britain of another battleship OF
the Intincifle type, and such
can only be overcome
BY sOme other piece Of steel logic
concluding with twelve l2-iRch
md four l0-inch guns.
Paary's methods Of discovering
The pole are better ADAPTED to CON-
rercisl uses than Wellman's. It
g announced that Peary will be
.ccor panied on his start for the
north with u steane- carrying fifty
'xcursionists. Wellman : oes in q
and cant be accompanied
y an excursion party. The
'hile delphia Record says it was
skenly supposed that the tus'
ness OF promoting summer trips
o the pole would await its dis
'overy.
In an imposing column the
ourteen battleships wfich have
,een at target practice and under
,oing feet motions in Guantanamo
Bay and vicinity, most OF them
ince earl in the year, have
team ed i3to the Chesapeake on to
hampton Roads. The big, new
.ouissEa led, ard the others fol-
owed in The following order:
dame. Missouri, Virginia, Rhode
sland New Jersey. Georgia. Ala