Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-01-02
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

I spent a portion Of the holidays al
, their country home in Albemarle.
The water power OF the james
river at Little Tunnel will be de.
velopsd to light Re anoke and other
towns.
The Confederate Reunion next
, year will cost Richmond 81, 900.
! Money to defray expenses will bs
raised by subscription.
The Russian wheat croy this
year Is less by 100, 900. 900 bushels
than the crop of 1905 and the
peasantry is threatened with a
famine.
Mr.. Wm. Henry White, OF Nor.
folk, has assured charge of his
new duties as president of the Rich
rond, Fredericksburg and Potom-
&C Railroad.
The summit Of Mount vesuyius
10 covered With snow, producing a
picturesque effect. Snow has also
filled cracks in the volcano result.
ing from the recent eruption.
A man who is very liberal with
his advice is generally economical
with his money, and, while expend.
ing lavish friendship in words. be.
trays no sign of benevolent deeds.
"Adam may have been, az a
Philadelphia minister claims. q
colored man, but We are inclined
to believe be was not as black az Re
is painted" says contem porary.
j. Pi.rpont Morgan, DR.. Lyman
Abbott and other prominent citi.
zens OF New York, have addressed
a letter to Secretary Root, calling
attention to conditions in the Con.
go Free State.
A mass-mesting Of citizens of
San Francisco, Monday evening,
denounced the position of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Met.
calf on the California school ques-
tion, declaring that states rights
Is now the paramount issue.
Former Governor Stephens and
ex'sup-eme Judge Williams, with
other Democratic leaders, are pre-
pairing to submit to the coming
Missouri General Assem- bly, a draft
OF new election law deeigued to
eliminate the illiierate voter.
1t is proposed to purchase tho
cottage at Neither Stowey, Eng.
and, in which Coleridge wrote
THE Ancient Mariner" "Christa-
osl' and Others of bis finest poems
and to keep it as far as possible in
he state in which it was during
ne poets residence.
According to a dispatch from
Paris, mutual cooperation OF
france and Great Britain in face
II an aggressive move against either
lation is regarded as assured. At
'aris the Franco British alliance
regarded as a check upon the
mbitious designs of Germany.
Germany sent to the United
'tates this year for the Christmas
rade 1896 tons of toys breaking
IL previous records, according to
n estimate made at the Depart.
lent OF Commerce and Labor. For
number of years Germany led In
xportation Of toys to America.
HArrisonburg Times: 1t seems
TRANCE that Rockingham county,
hich We believe to be one of the
ost orderly counties in the State
Virginia, should have had such
carnival of crime as has Visited
during the past year. Murders
em to be the rule instead of the
Railroad officials in Raleigh, N.
;. say it may not be well known,
1t it is, nevertheless, d fact that
~ mech Of the belated opera
or of both Seaboard and South.
n trains during the holidays, has
en- due to the handling OF vast
Imbers of jugs Of "Christn as
lisky," shipped into North Car.
ma "dry towns"
Mrs. Dora Lancaster, the women
10 was arrested in Roanoke,
arged with bigsmy. will be taken
Tazewell for trial. Mre. Ian.
ster before her first marriage was
ss Dora Hughes Of Pocahontas.
9 was married fret in 1900 to
N by the name of Powers in
nth Carolina, and in 1902, to
ncastsr, at Pocahontas.
Occurrence in a regular cycle of
D years Is the strange popularity
a bacterial disease of tomatoes
Il has caused much loss in the
glish county of Kent. 1t first
'esred in 1883, when it ruined
crop, as it did also In 1892, 49,
and 1902, but other years
10 been free from it. All efforts
'xterminate the pest have been
ulcers of the geological survey
ort that there is an abundance
'oal in this country for many
turtles to come. In fact they
re that the ccal supply will
5000 years, Notwithstanding
the rate of consumption 10 in
'sing by leaps end bounds. The
ndsnce of The supply, however,
not had lowering effect upon
nrica of coal