Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-12-23
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items Of Interest Tor the
sBusy Reader


charges of crimital libel.
Separate statehood for Arizona
and New Mexico is provided for in
two bills introduced by Senator
Foraker.
There were 1,094 vessel disasters
IN the UnIted States in the last
fisca. year, resulting in q property
loss of 81, 1913 790 and the lose Of
% lives.
1t is reported on good authority
ttat petitions are now being circu-
lated in Norfolk ard Portsmouth
for the required number of names
of voters for the ordering of local
option elections in Norfolk and
Portsmouth.
Hundreds of fish, largely suck
ers and chuts. are being caught by
hand in the Monongahela river
in the vicinity of MOrgantown, w.
Va The fish ccme into low water,
aud are believed to be driven there
by the poisonous aclds coming out
of pecker's creek.
Pat Cove, the former outlaw,
/ has assumed the evangelistic role,
because Of the quality of his audi
ence, his first appearance in us
new part ~as lacking in the Billy
SIR day characteristics, with which
it YVES exrected he would deck his
piatfCrm utterances.
The Smith0nIan institution has
made public its agreement With
he President in regard 10 bis Al
rican hunting trip. Tn, President
in trief proposed to pay the ex'
penses Of himself and con, they TO
do all the hunting aid the Smith
.cnian &c supply the Iuxermiclst
md naturalist, and TO r,ceive and
preserve the specimens collected.
All Virginia Will he "dry" on
Christmas day. The Byrd law
provides that saloons shall not he
opened fer business on that day
and that the Sunday laws shall lie
observed. 1t will be- the first TINS IN
Virginia history that saJosss VIII
rot do Il land Office business 80
Christmas day, WREN it is.' 80
week day.
Few or no belly berries can DO
found in Virginia this winter for
ChistmAs decorations, and this ls
taken as a sign OF very mild WIN
ter. The Old-time weather Proph'
ets declare thst when the holly
berry crop Is large, a severe winter
will follow, and when it is small
the weather will be mild. Tbs
year 6 holly berry is hard TO find.
The controlling interest OF the
Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry
Company located at Lyrchburg,
has passed to local syndicate and
in future the immense pipe plant
will be ran ged by Lynchburg
interests. N. j. DrummOnd shd
A. J. Mcclure OF New York. who
: owned the controlling interest IN
/ the plant, retain ouly minority
: interest.
The pure food and drug boarG
has decided that labels including
The phrase "Guaranteed under the
, food al d drug act"are misleading,
] and all new LABELS after January
e | must show the guarantee is ey
\ the manufacturer. Most Ct the
? "pure food" labels are II delGsion
: aud n snare as are most Of the pure
! food laws. The deliberations nov,
: it is said, are as bad as they ev~r
2 were.
Tbs total vote cast for president
of the United States at the last
election was 1852 239. The TO
= tells show the following vo'es cast ;
Tutt, Republican, 637 676; Brypn.
Democrat, 6, 693. 1872; Debs, social
lat, Az, SOL; Chutin, Prohibition
4 it, 24I, 252; Hisge' L: dependent,
y SO, 1856; Watson, Populist, 1881 /;
= G!ibans, occiehst Labor, l0.f2l.
Total for all candidates, lI,e12'
239.
Notice of c. ntest of the recent
prohibition eIscio has been fled
in Lyr chbuIg, the contestents CIV
l., ing notice that the election would
be attacked because il was con-
Quoted under the Ward act, under
which the Fredericksbu z election
. il now pending in the Sulft ne
~ Court Of tie State, and beca Sc
u 200 voters " ho cane INFO the city
:, last Jaruary by annexation we're
"a OF residents Of the city Tor Il
;. months. as required by the consti'
tuition.
Yenlson was selling, not Ions
ago, In Vermont for cents cheap
id or than eCod teef, for the slnugh
8, ter of der was unprecedented
st tnis year. The usual bag for In'
r State is abort seven hundred nnc
" fifty, but careful estimates mai
lg cate that upward of two thorsf ne
o deer have been killed. As tn
re meat cannot be taken from tb'
Ste tie except by hunter from GU
a of tie State who has paid a liceHs'
n fee Of els, most of it remained t.
afford cheap living while it lasted
s. In answer to several irquirios ]
it is stated that Confederate veteran
ne who are pensioners of the Stare ar
ed exempt from the payment o! eapi
.o.;ox tav rha whole matter /