Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-09-11
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- @N'ND"iho i'iltOa0N put
cent passenenger rate end reduced
+ freight rates into effect ON Mon
day.
A flock Of seven stOrks caught
the Red Star liner Kroonland OF
J the trip just completed across the
Atlantic. One birth in the. cabin
and elk in the steerage.
Jacob Bone, of Stafford county,
on Friday gathered enough straw
berries Of the tecond crop from
bis garden to supply the table for
his own family and to send some
to a neighbor.
In anticipation Of a riot Monday
night when IL was said another at
tack would be made on the Greek
restaurants in Roanoke, the entire
police force was on duty. A heavy
thunderstorm interfered with the
plans and there was no trouble.
John Aultie, IS years old, Of
McVeytOn, Pa, no was a mem
. Der of the Third Pennsylvania
Heavy Artillery, and one of the
gunrts of Jefferson Davis, the Con-
iederate President, while confined
at Fortress Monroe, is dead.
Hsrafter medical preparations,
such as headac he powders, which
Certain acetphenitidin, must have
on their published formulas notice
that the preparation contains no
"acetanlid," from which the for.
mer dug is derived. The latter 10
well known.
Prince Wiihelm's cruiser Fylgla
was virtually sacked at New York
Sunday by hundreds of souvenir
hunters, who carried away chou
sands OF dollars worth of the ships
belongings. Many OF the articles
'appropriated" were not missed
until the VESSELS 10000 Sunday
visitors had been retured to tie
shore.
The Democratic primaries ia
Mississippi have resulted in the
nomination Of +. +. Noel fol- Gov.
ernOr, and this means that the
State will join the pkaIanx Of
PROHIBITION which seems t. be
sweeping over the South. Noel's
principal plank Was prohibitory
aw for the entire South, so that
favorable to such law
g assured.
1t is not generally known that
here are SIX members of the old
Confederate Congress who survive
and are in good health. They are:
John GOOde, of Virginia; Judge
John V. Wright, of Columbia,
renn.; Judge Roger A. Pryor,of New
York; Col. Arthur S. Colyar, of
Nashville; John d. C. Atkins, of
Denn., and George f. Jones, OF
Florence, Ala.
AS result of the ballot, on the
th Of June last, thirteen saloons
nd three other dispensers of
quOrs went out of the business Of
elling spirits in Charlottesville
eptember lst. Several have trans
erred their operations to Orange,
iordonsville, and other nearby
owns, with a view of supplying
le Charlottesville trade by tele.
hone orders, without violating
lie local-optiOn law.
The greatest cantilever bridge In
lie world, in course of construct.
n acoss the St. Lawrence river
ear Quebec, collapsed last week.
he part that fell carried a hun.
ed men with it, of whom eighty
ere either drowned or crushed
death. The central span of
70 bridge is 1890 feet long
I'd 100 feet above the river.
ork on the bridge has been in
ogress for seven years.
The jamestown Exposition Com
ny has forwarded to the United
ates Treasury check for $780,
0 as all installment upon the
yment of the milliou.dollar loan.
rector General Barr declared that
is the belief that before the fair
CNer there will have been paid
ok very considerable portion
the government loan though
oil OF il. lie said ttst the at
dance is on the increase, and
II the average n, nber Of paid
missions was exceeding 10000
pay.
ieOrge Mays, coiored, of apo.
ttox cCrnty, sold the apples off
OF his early harvest apple trees,
rty ibushel;, fer $22 80. George
.s on Blackwster, famous fruit
ton, ana is er industrious. col
d farmer and fruit grower. He
about fifty early harvest trees
Ich are beerlng THIS year.
Irge says thst Ills orchard il
d for 900 bushels oi winter
lies this season. lie PAID $500
HE farm IA few years apo, aud
entity he was Offered 81. 900
il.
that the Lord had
manded her To share The tate
Dan OF Arc, Mrs. Joseph La
de, OF st. Lazarre, email
nch'Canadlun village near
dIeuli, Canada, turned her.
to depth Sunday on funeral
, of hel own making. While