Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-12-16
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items Of Interest for the
Eusy Reader

= resolved to fire on the fret Iutct
wsrship that commits an unfrIen d,
: y act.
By a vote of $50 to 2Cl The
French Chambel OF Deruti last
week defeated the proposal Ia
abolish capital punishm ent.
, A diamond, raid to be worth
$3.50, was found in the crow CT q
SQUAD when the bird was prepared
for breakfast at the home OF DR..
George K. Wiley of Bristol. Va.
One hundred thousand bushels
OF Virginia oysters are now lying
az Virginia decks without q mar
ket. Not since the Civil War has
such a condition existed.
The Stanton Military Academy
hes issued call for sill bonds still
outstanding against the property.
amounting to $4,000, which will
he psid off at the Augusta Nation
al Bark Wednesday, January 6
leaving the property entirely I'M
incumbered.
The apportionment of funds
for State primary and grsmn ar
schools has been augnenttd by the
addition of $4OO, 600 from the liter
airy fund. This sum is tc be used
entirely for tie payment Of salar-
es Il teachers in the schools and
Tor 70 other purpose.
Michael McKenna OF York Har-
LOr, Me-, has three sCns-Thomas,
torn on February 26. 1904; John,
torn On February 26, 1905, AID
Arthur. born ca February rs, 1907.
lie birthday present problem is a
Scou deal simpIified in the Nc
Kenna household.
1be State OF Virginia will pay
Irterest on the public debt January
|, checks now berg made out for
.bls T urpose by tie clerical force
in the auditors Office The an oUnt
20 he dist ursed 10 s42U, 600, nOst
Of which gOes to the citizens of
the State.
Fire insurance con- psnies doing
business in Virginia will fight the
legality of the act CT tie Virginia
legislature In posing upon them q
tax of l per cent of the premiums
collected in the State for the bene-
fl of the Firemen's Relief Associa-
ton.
The Baptist Times, which has
been published in Roanoke for the
pest two years by the Rev. w. 5.
Royal, has closed its career as an
individual publication, and will
be consolidated with the Religious
Heroic, u Baptist publication oil
Richmond.
S. W. Fletcher, director Of he
Virginia Agricultural Experiment
Station, at Blacksburg, formerly
horticultur.st Ior Washington
State in an address at Crozet, the
home of the famous Albemarle
pirpin, declares the Virginia
grown apples are unsurpassed in
the United States.
The advance sheets of census
bulletin No. 96. covering the sta
tistics of marriage and divorce
for the twenty years between 1887
and 1905, inclusive, shows nearly
twelve nilllon marriages and one
million divorces for the period in
vestigated. This is cad state Of
affairs which seems to be going
from bad to worse.
"Tbe cowhide ought to be used
Cd you and your Kind. 1t is the
only remedy fer a brute that will
bsat a woman. A Jail sentence
and fine are too good for you"
This was the climax of a severe
rebuke by Justice Simmons iLAict-
ed upon Fred NJ. Gaines, ayCung
bite man VITO Was in the Police
Court in Norfolk ca charge of
beating his wife.
Norfolk, " hich had u reputation
in days gone by as the most wide
pei city in Virginia IN Sunday,
may now be clotsd hight" on tie
Sabbath. Following up his cru
ssde on violations of the Sunday
liquor law. Chief Kizer las he'd
a conference with the Tidewster
Ministerial Association. and il 10
said that he will inaugursts apotb.
er crusade for a strict observance
of the Sabbath in the business die.
trict.
The Sargosss Sea, the vast ex-
psnse OF seaweed in the heart of
tie boundless Atlantis, by some phe.
Bomena of nature, has completely
disappeared. So reports Capt.
james Walters of the British
steamer Horribly Castle. He says
the sea, once marked by sesweed
and drift, IS now a broad expanse
Of clear water. A report of this
strange occurrence has been for
yarded to the photographic Office
Washington.
The historic"Cbar cellor House."
which stands in the center of the
battlefield of Charlottesville. ana
which 10 enc Of the nest interest
ing relies on that scene OF Civil
War carnage, has been abandoned.
The structure has badly fallen in
decay. Despite tie damage done
the building BY shot and shell, it
has withetood times decaying