Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-10-14
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

The President Las decided tina,
1t 10 not "perniclous activity" fol-
an officeholder to return homo tc
vote.
The Middletown Mirror, a weekly
publication of Middletown, Freder-
lex county, has been launched.
The paper is being printed at the
Office OF the Slrssburg News, and
b. M. Bushong is owner and edi.
tor.
The panic of 1873 came when q
Republican high protective tariff
law was in full force and effect
and the administration solidly Re-
publican. Same thing in 1858.
Same thing in 1907. And no
amount OF Republican sCphistry
can remove the facts.
"Any law that might be enact.
ed which will prevent a man from
buying drink is unconstitution.
al" This was the statement made
by Police Justice Garland in his
address before the twentieth an
nual convention of the American
BOttlers' Protective Association
Of the United States at its opening
session at tie Germania Maenner-
Choir Hall, Baltimore.
Cadet Savage of the Stanton
Military Academy, is lying at a
hospital in Stanton with serious
injury which he received il a sing.
ular manner. While be was asleep
IN his room at the academy a fell
low-cadet in an adjoining room
thrust steel ramrod through the
wall and it ran into bis eye by &C.
cldent. Young Savage is from
New York and his father was cum.
moned at once. He may lose his
ye.
After having Drawn for years a
pension to which he was not en-
Titled, an unnamed veteran of the
civil War has just returned to
The United States Government ST..
~ to be added to the ever grow
ng conscience fund.-" Commits.
Toner of Pensions Warner related
his remarkable case of stricken
conscience to President Roosevelt.
ut refused to divulae the name,
lot even disclosing it to the Unit.
ID States Treasurer, in whose
lands the money was placed.
After entering a plea of guilty,
thomas F. Sager, a Frederick
ounty distiller, has been fined ST..
w and sentenced to serve thirty.
wo months at work on the public
Dads of Virginia by Judge Thorn
8 W. Harrison in the Circuit
'ourt at Winchester. Sager was
addicted by the grand jury on 10
cunts, for selling liqIor illegally,
nd he was given two months in
Ill on each count. When sen.
'nce was pronounced, he took
lew OF tobacco and laughed out
nd in court.
The following is list of those
no are to be put to death by elec-
lclty at the State penitentiary
lrlng the months of October and
ovember, being the first batch of
animals In Virginia to be execu-
d by the new method: Harry
NTH, negro, Portsmouth, for =.
iminai assault. on Tuesday of
is week; Winston Green, negro,
lesterfield county, for attemE ted
sAult, on October 80; John Fin
y, negro, Franklin county, for
tempted assault, on October 80;
lomas Joseph MaDns, negro,
ttsylvania county, for murder,
November g.
Night riders have made Their APP
arance in eastern North Caro-
a. Monday night, in Nash coun.
they posted notice on q cotton
], notifying the owner that il
ginned another bale until the
ce advanced the barn would be
iuced to ashes. Tuesday night,
Martin county, over a radius of
niles, notices were tackled Oh
ferent barns to the same effect.
every instance the notices were
ned might Riders" with the
vitable bloody hand after the
nature.
iold has been discovered in the
ton near Breno, in the bed of
reek which traverses the famous
te mining quarries at Arvonia,
Buckingham county, Va. The
cious metal ID not In nuggets.
ere ls nardly q chance that any
! will be aole TO accumulate
.uEe from gold mining there.
ticles of dust worth eight and
dollars have washed out. The
'tion of the creek ls below the
Gus Seven Island plantation,
ames River, on the farm of
lip Nicholas,s wealthy farmer,
inherited his lads from his
,stors, who in turn secured
r property rights as q grant
D the King of England.
Oncealed in lot of cid rage,
Oh he bought along with the
OF the contents Of the Junk
of his father, the late John
ter of Frederick. Nd, Lewis
ter found 81, 800 in gold. He
bought the contents OF the
for $l78 and was cleaning it
en- fhat ha ,ntnbt yaoat. tha