Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-12-06
NEWS ITEMS.

All grades of refined sugar were re-
duced scents hundred pounds Monday.
Eward Payson Weston, the aged
pedestrian, is both prune-eater
and prohibitionist.
President Roosevelt is favorable 10
keeping jamestown Exposition open
another year, but he will let Congress
decide it.
Won en- of the ''40O' and other sets
up North are riding horseback astride
now and vieing with the men in hunt
ing and hurdle racing.
The money famine is about over. II
is now thought there will be a glut.
owing to the immense sums turned
loose to avert panic.
Governor Swanson is going the rounds
of the State institutions unawares to
personally examine conditions and treat
of them in his coming message to the
Legislature, which convenes January
Sth.
Thanksgiving Day the v. P. 1. de-
feated University of N. c., N. C. Ag-
ricultural College defeated University
of Virginia, the Navy defeated the
Army and Richmond college de-
feated William and Mary in football.
Richmond College in return was beaten
Saturday by Randolph-Macon.
mot guilty" was the verdict rem
dered Tuesday by the jury in the
case of Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley, charged
with the murder of former u. S. Sena-
tor Arthur M. Brown, of Utah, at a
hotel In Washington on December 8th
last. Amid the applause of crowd
that filed the courtroom. Mrs. Bradley,
with tear-dimmed eyes, was discharged
from custody.
Walking is the great panacea for all
Ills, according to the aged pedestrian,
Edward Payson Weston, who made
his second tramp from Portland, Maine,
to Chicago. ''To cure the blues, walk"
ne says; seat prunes every day, smoke
good cigars or pipe, and burn cigar
cites in stove; eat what you want, as
often as you want; let liquor alone; walk
to and from work; go to bed early and
take cold sponge bath every morning
and salt water bath once a week. =
Len Bennett, a twenty-year convict.
was pardoned Thanksgiving morning
Tor his good behavior during the time
he has served. That morning he went
to Governor Glenn's office, and with
tears streaming down his cheeks, knelt
before the Governor to express his
thanks for the kindness done him.
There are extenuating circumstances
connected with the crime of murder
for which Bennett was sent up that
fully warrant the executive pardon
granted him.
A movement started in Colorado.
where there is colonization society for
the purpose of sending the negroes back
to Africa, has been espoused by o. M.
Stuart, a well-known colored educator
OF Richmond. The movement is de-
signed to ship to Africa all the negroes
IN the United States, in order that thew
may establish their own government:
with an American protectorate. The
worthless class of negroes are eager for
the movement, while those who have
accumulated property are opposed to
going to new country, where they
will have to build themselves up all
over again.
Although Professor Bordas has sue
ceeded in manufacturing precious stones
diamonds, rubies and saphires--out
Of quartz by the use of radium, there is
little chance Of the process becoming
commercially valuable because Of the
price of radium and the
amount Of that mineral.
Radium, the most precious substance
Known to science, exists to the quantity |
II but one gramme, or Is TIC grains.
Sir William Ramsay has 20 milligrammes
Sir William Crookes 20, Professor OAR
'onval 20, Thomas A. Edison 20, Nine.
;urie Is, Professor Bordas 10 and Mr..
3ecquerel 10. About 60 centigrammes
# radium is in the possession of the
'arious scientific institutions and socie-
les, another 20 centigramraes is held
" merchants and manufacturers, leav-
ng only 10 centigrammes in the hands
4 unknown persons. The whole of the
worlds radium was extracted by a COM
Heated system of washings and chem
,al action from pitchblende of Joachim
tadt, and the single gramme ofradium
the product of thousand tones of
Minerals