Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-11-11
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Jack rabbits are breaking down
fences and entering door yards in
: the Antelope Valley, California, 60
numerous have they become in
that section.
A dispatch from Rome says
that the election of William H.
Taft to the presidency of the
United States has produced gener-
al satisfaction In that city.
The Roosevelt administration
will turn over to it's successor
heritage of increasing debt and
deficit. The addition to the pub.
lie debt for the month Of October
was IS, ,975.
There is report from Rich
mend that Messrs. Wyndnam Mere
dith, Henry W. Anderson and
other prominent antt-Bryan Demo-
Gratis propose to organize an indie.
pendent party all over Virginia.
Another unit IN the group OF
buildings of the University of Viz
ginla is the rectory, just complet-
ed at cost OF $4,000 at the south
west termination of West Range.
The plans were prepared by the
late Sanford White.
One OF the greatest engineering
feats Of its kind In the worlc IL
rnder way in Mexico, where ah
oil pipe line is being built from
Mexico City to Tampico. II will
climb mountains to an altitude OF
10 0O0 feet within 30 miles.
A dispatch from Oklahom City
seys: That no poison was found
IN either the wine or whiskey sup
posed to have been drunk by Ed
and Laura Davis, servants of DR..
Carter Helm Jones the Baptist pes
tor, will be the report City Chem
let Shinkle will make when the in
quest is to be held. The atomachs
Of the negroes have not been exam
ined.
A report made to the Society Of
Colonial Danes of Virginia shows
that the Washington graveyard at
Wakefield, ID Westmoreland coun-
ty, where the father and grand
father of George Washington are
buried, has been desecrated by
relic hunters. The society has
had strong concrete wall, with
iron gates, put around the graves,
and the grounds put in the charge
of a guard.
According TO the allotments
made by the War Department for
the maintenance of State militia,
Virginia gets 1885, 2a, having l.
S03 enlisted men; the District of
Colum bia $23,OO5 with 1908 en-
listed men; Maryland $34,017.
with l,741 enlisted men; North
Carolina 1855 with 1886 en-
listed; West Virginia $40, 265, and
$50 enlisted. The allotment for
New York is the largest of any
State, which lie S299,O41 and ID,
800 enlisted.
Henry H. Rogers, builder and
owner Of the VirSinian Railway
now being completed and which
connects the coal fields with the
sea at Norfolk, is to build another
railroad from Roanoke to Floyd
courthouse, a distance Of twenty
five miles. Rogers proposes to ex.
tend his lines into Grayson county,
Va, and Surry county, N. c.,
a connection al Mount Airy
with the Southern Railway. This
will give the Carolinas a new short
coal carrying route. Rogers has
invested upwards of thirty million
dollars in railroads In this State.
The turkey forecast for Mary
and end Virginia, although Vir-
yinia does not furnish a great
quantity, is that there are gener-
lily more turkeys in the western
art of the two States than usual.
This forecast is made by the
Sew York Produce Exchange. The
arly. Matched birds are well ma.
ured and are in fine shape for
Thanksgiving. In ether sections
f the States falling off of 10 per
ent is reported. Geese are 10 to
5 per cent more plentiful than
asst year, but owing to the dry
weather. they are thin and few
gill be fit for market.
Philadelphia Record: Govern
r johnson Of Minnesota, locke
Ike q rising sun. A Democrat
tho can carry his State three
ines in succession in the face OF
normal Republican majority OF
90, 900 is marked for man OF
estiny. Perhaps he will be the
loses that will lead the agricul
lral constituencies of the North
'est out of the wilderness of Pro-
and Trnst. breeding Re
ublicanism in which they have
cen blindly wandering fer nearly
,rty years. In any event, Gov
NOR johnson is we'll worth keep
Ig an eye on.
From present indic- lions the
respects are bright tor Luray
aving u large sugar manufactul.
lg plant. +. II. Lebaume and II.
odenbrlch, representing the ag
cultural department Of the Nor
Tx and Wester: Railway, nave
cen in Page county making eX