Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-05-29
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e"""u III ShichRO paradee.
!; Nova Scotia will pay a bouaty
j OF 8 cents for each brown. tai
: moth, which has alarmed agricul.
turists by its ravages.
g Nicaragua and the United States
, have agreed to asbitrate the ma.
5 hogany claims Of the America n
3 concessionaires.
President Roosevelt is exs ected
to urge upon the next Congress
legislation to aid the railroads and
this may win for bin their politl-
} cal support.
A womaL out In San Francisco
wants divorce because her hus.
band compels her 10 eat pumpkin
fpis three timss Rdsy ! IL IL awfullv.
hard to satisfy some people.
| The President, it IL announced.
will urge Congress to create 4
civil pension list for the benefit of
The superanuated EN- ployes in the
executive departments.
| The United States grand Jury at
Roanoke indicted IL merchants of
Roanoke and Salem for handling
o6scene postcards. The cases were
worked up by a postofiice in.
pector.
Attorney General Bonaparte's
hrm adherence to his interprsta.
ilon o! the pure food law puts an
md to tie large traffic In reetified
whisky for the genuine product of
the distillery.
Proof that the literary cen Ter of
The Universe has shifted from Boz
ton to the Middle West is supplied
~ the fact that the latest infant
prodigy, the yourgster WHO is
reading Shakespeare at the ace
# three, is resident OF Illinois
R. n. Milan, a white farmer
living near MouItrie, Ca, went to
brownsville late Monday night 90.
cave his wounds dressed, which be
asserts were inflicted on him by a
band OF waitecaps. He tcld q har.
rowing story of being given 100
Iashes because he wouldn't work.
DespairiDg In their efforts to at.
tract the unmarried men of the
city, bachelor maids OF Clark. 8
D., have petitioned the City Coup.
III to put tax on all single men
;elow the age Of forty and to ad.
minister chloroform to ell above
hat age.
Recent information, direct from
resident Page is to the effect
hat Mr.. John d. Rock efeller. and
ot H. II. Rogers, Is the real spirit
ehlnd the Virglnian Tor Tide.
ater) railway system. Now, we
now that there is enough behind
to make it go.
After sensational rise In price
'st week wheat has again drop.
ed, and the predictions of
lrther rise have not been fulfilled.
immense fortunes were made and
'st by the brokers in the deal, but
the farmers it was a matter OF
D benefit.
The deaths by plagre in India
irlng tie six weeks ending Nav
were 45l, 1892. In the Puniab
one there were 2s6,777. As
'neral thing, the natives resist
separately all sanitary measures,
ID the Ulcers charged With that
'rA carry it on at the risk of
cir lives.
Governor Swanson has accepted
e resignation of Judge B. T.
Jump as member If the State
rporat'or con mission. The res
nation is to take effect June |,
d Judge Crump will be succeed.
by Hon. Robert r. Prentis.
1ge of the Second judicial
cult.
is going to make
enuous efforts to capture even
re of the business of the great
ley tectiOn of the State than IL
v gets. To that end arrange.
nts are now on foot fer the run
g OF through night train
NJ Lexington &c Baltimore via
rper's Ferry and Washington.
resident Oxnard of the Aneri-
Beet Sugar Conpany in his
ual report shows an increase IN
Sc earnings from SI.369,sI4 TO
'73,C42, but, he elaine, that.
plte this, the net earnings re.
ned the sane owing to the in.
IFed cost of raw materials aHd
r..
onvlcted OF subOrnation OF per-
IA heinous oferse in the eyes
honest practiticners) Abrsm
nmel, prominent New York
ger, was committed to the pen.
tiary on Monday last to serve
ar, and has been assigned to
In the bakery of the prison.
re he may ruin the bread, but
MI not ruin any more reputs>
for twelve months.
cadet Of the V. P. /. az
ksburg who has been under
lcion for some time of pilfer-
rom his students, was
Monday night brought before
'orps of cadets and given
Having been found guilty.