Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-07-17
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An estimate fased on returns
from the new Richmond census
shows the capital Las q r. pulation
of 10000.
Henry Watterson is of the cpin-
ion that Governor Hughes of New
York, will be the national stand.
ard bearer of TIE Republicans
next year.
The Albums Express Company
has rent instructions to it's SCENTS
IN this State to refuse to ship q.
0. d. packages OF intoxicating
liquors.
Working women 10 the fruit
fields Of California will hencefor-
ward work only eight hcure day
instead of working from sunrise to
sunset, as they have hitherto done.
One Of the most valuable relics
Of the great hunter, Daniel Boone,
is his powder horn. which is now
in the possession of Charles G.
Shanks,a resident Of CIaysviIle, Ind.
Wisconsin sent nearly 100000
men to the Civil War out Of q pop
ulation of about 100000, almost
one-seventh of the entire people of
the State. OF these over $4,000
died, or about one-eight.
Government experts figure out
that the United States lie fast ex.
hausting its supply of hard coal
and that the smOkeless city can
only come through, gas, coke and
electricity.
Experiments with steel ties have
been abandoned on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. The steel mills
have been advised of the fact, and
all steel ties have been ordered re-
placed by wooden ties.
There lie a scarcity of laborers in
Sweden, but plenty of college
students. Three hundred young
men-frop the University of Upsala
have accepted employment in the
fields for this years harvest season.
In Tasmania no person under ~
years OF age is allowed to smoke in
a public place. Nearly everybody
smokes in Japan. The girls begin
when they are 10 years of age, and
the boys year earlier.
While standing on the street in
Salem few days ago Col. C. W.
Burwell, who is "a years of age,
was struck by a large dog run.
ming at full speed, which threw
him down and as a result he sus-
tanned some painful bruises.
Wed, divorced and REMARKED in
the space of seven years is the ex-
perience of Rev. John Whitworth
and wife, a Methodist minister, re-
siding la Roanoke The rsconoiI
iation wac brought about during
litigation In Court fer the posses
sion OF the two children.
Mr.. George w. Koiner, Commits
sioner of Agriculture and Immi-
grafton, returned to Richmond
Saturday, after an Absence of two
months in Europe, where he went
in the interest of immigration to
Virginia. Mr.. Koiner is greatly
pleased at the success of his stay
abroad, and declares that be ex.
poets steady flow of farm hands
and domestics to Virginia during
the fall and winter.
Mayor Schmitz Of San Francis.
co, is now a felon, sentenced to
serve five years 10 the peniten-
tiary for extorting money from
French restaurants. Tie brazen
efrontery of the man in the clos
ing act OF his political history, to-
gether vi b his defiant attitude at
the time of his disgrace, shows the
blunder the people of San Francis
co were guilty of in electing such
man executive OF the city.
The largest order for Albemarle
piFpins ever plat ed in Riohmond,
was received recently by C. +.
S; dnor, the Richmond fruit ex.
cert. The order comes from whole.
sale fruit merchants H. England.
1T calls for 10000 barrels OF A.
No. /. pippins, which, at So SO t.
o. b. in London. would represent
$l36, 600. Sydnor IL also Ia re-
ceipt of 5000 barrel order of
riypins from firm in Copenhag
en-. This viii be the frat ship
meat his house has so far made TO
Denmark.
The death rate among the negro
{ opule ton in nine cities in Vir-
ginia during the month of May
last far exceeded thf OF the Whites
in the same places, according
10 the State Health Bulletin. The
nine cities contain a population OF
1917, 0l5 Whites and l24,940 ne.
groes, the deaths among the former
being only 254, as against Sl5
among the latter. In other words,
the negro population in the cities
mentioned is only about five-eights
OF that OF the whites. while the
Deaths among the negroes are
nearly one-fourth larger than that
of the whites.
The recent purchase by Penn.
sylvania steel company of large
iron property In Virginia makes