Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-05-15
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NoT ata10A
i The prospect Of a fine apple
= crop in Virginia lie promising.
:: The coal yield Of Great Britain
is now about 236, 900, 900 tons a
= year.
Attorney General Bonsparte de-
: MES that he has any Intention of
resigning from the Cabinet
Monroe county, West Virginia,
contemplate. The issuance of 500.
900 be nds for the building Of mac
adamized roads.
Judge William Hodges Manp.
OF Nottoway county. lie making q
lively contest for the Virginis
Gubernstorial nomination.
jamestown Exposition directors
completed satisfactory arrange
nents for borrowing 100000 for
the Exposition.
Treasury. statistics show that
the per capita circulation of NOR
ey In the country 10 sS4.16. Peo-
pie down this way will be salts
fed with the tbirty-four dollars.
There has been a spill, in the
Rockingham Mutual Telephone
Company and the northern half of
the county will have a new con.
Germ called Plains District Tele-
phone d Telegraph Company.
The French government has
flnally rejected the new form of
meat certificate used under the
American pure food law, and
again requires the microscopic ex-
animation OF all American meats.
The women who met in the
Peace Conference recently deter
mined they would cease to bear
sons il they are raised to fight.
But suppose the daughters take
up the fight?
A gang of six negroes and four
Italians, employed on the Tide.
water railroad, got into a fight
Monday, near Roanoke, which
ended in of the latter having his
skull fractured. and all the parties
being more or less injured.
China lie now shipping consid.
':abIe goods to tie province Of
Ihlbet via the sea route, through
CALCUTTA, states the Indian Trade
Journal. The old overland route
Fla BataIg to LasSa is in dis
urbed condition.
Mr.. Eddison has invented. ~
mbled on a building material
Which will enable Tost people 10
I've In their own homes. Six hun.
red dollars will pay for q comfor.
able house OF eight rooms With
IL conveDiences, and then cleo
ricity will light and warm il.
More than SO, 900 pensions have
zen passed upon by the pension
ureau under the McCumber ser.
ice pension act So far there
ave been 100000 applications
led and the bureau 10 grinding
lem out at the rate of 1900 a
ay.
Writes Bishop Gambler Of the
apanese: "They are a thieving,
bling, selfish, mercerary and
nscienceless Get, and the truth is
It in them" The Bishop mi Chs
well stand ready for a wicked
'surdity" wire from Washing
n.
A few weeks ago abOr. 100 feet
the wall OF the quadrangular
rden rext to the Vatican Mu.
IN, Rome. fell, and Sunday the
pc was informed that the whole
The surrounding wall threatened
fall, which would mean deslruc-
n of the best type OF a lenais-
ice garden existing.
1t lie announced that civil and
minal suits will be brought
inst the persons responsible
the gross OVercharges in the
lstrueliO: of the new Penusyl.
liza Capitol, The scar dalous
ises which have been uncovered
tainly call not oEly for repsra-
d, but Tor exemplary punish
NJ.
forestry experts IN the Depart
1T of Agriculture have figured
that since 1880 the amount OF
Der used IN the United Ste ties
~ timber cut in this country
been sufficient to make a door
inch thick over Vermont, Mas
husetts, Connecticut, Rhode
nd and Delaware, al area Of
ut 20, 900 square miles.
overnOr Swanson has an.
need that he will not appoint q
&c in the Second Circuit Court
iueceed Judge r. r. Prentis,
~ the Governor appointed 20
State Corporation Commission,
he will name a lawyer to aea
ldge until January l, or antiG
Legislature may meks = selse-
for the bench.
dispatch from London says
nany's aP, refusal to discuss
proposal for the limitation of
'@en.s has deprived The
10 conference OF its chief im-
NEE. 1t will now, of course.
impossible t. accomplish aug
ticsl use in this direction,