Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-03-31
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

The Democrats who bolted and
went off with Fitzgerald ARE out in
a statement explaining their course.
In order to be in perfect health
one must be temperate in eating.
Regularity Is one of the golden
rules of well ordered life.
Des Moines' first year OF COM
mission government ended with q
$4,000 surplus, in comparison to
u $3.50, 900 deficit the year before.
Work has been started on the
construction of the epileptic colo
ny in Amherst county, across the
James river from Lynchburg.
A new National bank has been
organized at Buchanan, Va, with
L. o. Dillon of Indian Rockl ss
president, and s. L. Heck Of Arch
Mills, yice.president.
Large liquor intere.ts through.
out the United States have dsoid-
ed to take statewide prohibition
and laws closing distilleries before
the United States Supreme Court.
The National Association of
Liquor Dealers will test, in the
United States Supreme Court, the
provision of the Byrd law, of Vir-
ginia, which requires a license Of
$500 for statesmen selling liquors
by sample.
Ground has been broken for the
new pOst.oftics building in Win
chester, which is to be situated
directly opposite the handsome new
John Handley Memorial Library,
which is now being completed at
cost Of S250,000. 1t is expected
that the pOstofiice building, costing
100000, will be completed by next
tall.
At Pcwhstan Courthouse the
jury in the Skipworh murder and
arson case returned verdict find
ing ice and Isham Taylor guilty
of murder in the first degree and
John Brown guilty of murder in
the second degree. Brown goes
10 the penitentiary for 10 years,
The other TWO will be electrocuted
April Both.
In order to raise additional reve-
nue. for the needs of the town, the
Winchester city council has passed
the tax ordinance Tor the coming
year with many of the schedules
largely increased. and some Of
them doubled. Winchester voted
out the saloons in May, 1908, de-
privIng the town of nearly $4,000
yearly revenue.
President Taft is causing the
professional Southern Republican
politicians and those who work
with them in Washington great
concern by intimations that he
will select the office holders in the
Southern states entirely upon their
qualifications and standing in their
communities, and regardless of
their sbility as political manipu-
lators or their subserviency to
Northern politicians who have used
them.
The Anti.Saloon League OF Vir-
ginia has announced Its pro-
qramme for making dry" the
"wet" spots in the State. Local
option elections will be called in
Petersburg, Rocky Mount and the
Magisterial district of Blue Ridge
within the next 80 days. Lists
are being prepared for calling such
elections In Hsrrisonburg, Staun-
ton and Norfolk as early a. prscti-
cable. A similar election will be
held in Richmond and Manchester
within a year, according to the
programme.
A dishonest man holding the po-
elton of Police Commissioner in
New York City easily might be-
come a millionaire in few months,
so great are the opportuuitie. for
Illicit gains, according TO u state.
ment by Commissioner Bingham.
During Mr.. Bingham's first year
in the office, he said, a single bribe
of $6O0,000 year was offered him
if he would protect certain crimi-
nal interests. "Ccmpliance with
the conditions of tHe Offer" he
added, "would have been entirely
of negative mstter-all they
wanted was TO be let alone"
The descendants of Lord Dun
more, who was colonial governor
of Virginia at the time the Rev.
olutlon storm began to brew, has
offered the State certain manu-.
scripts bearing upon the colonial
history of the State, the price NOT
being named. The documents tell
of Lady Virginia Murray's efforts
to get pension from Virginia.
Lady Virginia was daughter Of
Lord Dunmore, and was born in
I774, and the colonial assembly
passed resolutions felicltating hei
father upon her birth, notwith-
standing the strained relations be-
tween the old country and her
colony.
The Richu ond Evening News
Leader wants another candidate
to enter the Democratic gubsrns-
torial rama uho will sfoua uton