Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-01-09
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e The Chiness make it a point OF
: honor to pay their debts on New
Years Day. This is an oriental ex-
ample worthy of emulation by the
) occidentals.
An astonishing change of feel
ing toward President Roosevelt on
the part Of E1glisbmsn is making
itself evident in signs which are
not TO be mistaken.
The abolition of the whipping
post In Delaware, which is to be
proposed in a measure in the lsgis-
lsture at an early date. is not like
ly to be brought about.
Richmond Times. Dispatch: II
9S Japs can produce a life-sized
race problem, what would our
Northern friends consider the nat
ural product of 5000, 600 negroes.
1t is believed that the late Pres.
ident A. j. Cassatt, of the Penn.
sylvanis Railroad, left an estate
larger than Russell Sage, nearly
every one in his family placing It
at almost 800, 0o0,00
Mayor George B. Mcclellan
Of New York, has came out
openly in bis fight with Charles
f. Murphy and declared he would
not recognize the leader of Tam
many Hall or have any relations
with him.
As token OF his esteem and
with a hope for many happy re-
turns Of the day, John D. Rookie
Teller presented to the University
Of Chicago 100000 as a New
Years gift. This brings the total
donations of Mr.. Rockefeller to the
university he founded up to $751;
416, 921.91.
The Japanese government has
sent it's chief railway engineer
from the Island of Fornosa to
spend six months in the United
States and six months In Europe
studying the latest methodsin rail-
way construction. His name is
II. Inagaki. He has just arrived
in San Francisco, where he will re.
main a month. He is q young man
In the early thirties.
Everyone who knows the emp.
tiness Of the pews in nearly all the
Protestant churches III New York,
knows that, 80 far az Protestants
are concerned, New Workers have
ceased to be a church-going people,"
This strong statement was read by
Rev. DR.. Madison C. Peters Sat-
lrday night, in his farewell ser.
mon as pastor of Epiphany Bap-
list Church, New York.
Some of the postal improvement
advocated in Cortelyou's annual
eport are the parcels post, postal
aving bank, postal telegraph and
telephone, abolition of railway
peed subsidies, additional subs:d-
es to South American and Aus.
rallan steamers, low-rate postal
Otes and the creation of a new Of.
zee, that Of deputy postmaster
with permanent tenure,
rho would act as sort of business
manager for the entire service, be-
ide certain reform in salaries 40.
cunts.
Throughout Virginia the cele-
ration OF the one hundredth ami
ersary Of the birth of Robert Z.
zee will be observed with fitting
,rvices. CJl. William H. Stew
rt, OF Portsmouth, grand COM
snder Of the Virginia Grand
amp, Confederate Veterans, has
sued orders regarding the services
January is, which are to be
lid in the churches throughout
Ie State. at noon. General Lees
vorite hymn, "For All the 81 ints
ho From Their Lshors Rest"
i'll be sung.
Bishop A. w. Wilson, OF the
,llege of Bishops of the Metho.
st Episcopal Church, South, an
unces that the recent deaths OF
shops Tigert and Smith; the ILL
So Of Bishop Galloway and the
llcate health Of Bishops Key and
mean will put tire work Of hold
9 the annual conferences of the
ethodist Episcopal Church, South
Bishops Morrison, Hoss, Chand-
!, Atkifs. Ward and himself.
lie may necessitate a change in
3 dates Of some OF the annual
,ferences so that bishops now in
tive, vigorous life may be able
preside Ovsr these bodies.
to statistics recently
It out from New Orleans, there
re in 1905 seventy-two lyncbings.
70 of them were white men, one
egro woman, and sixty. nine Of
m were regro men. All of the
chings included in the stats
. occurred in the Southern
ties. OF the sixty-nine negroes
ched, fourteen were charged
b criminal assault and nineteen
h attempted criminal assault.
sre were thirty-one lynchings
iegross accused of murder. The
were / Tiled for stealing . calf.
sling q silver dollar, carrying
led pistol, making improper
posals to white women, and mis-
snation. Mississippi leads the