Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-08
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Brief Items of Interest for the
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more bales Of cotton thar the North.
Tberc was deficit OF ST. IL 728
in the ordinary receipts AID dis
bursements OF the Treasury De.
partment for the month OF August
as compared with a deficit o. S13,-
1913, 949 for July.
Following petition by the citi-
zens, the town council OF Orange
has passed an ordinance forbidding
the erection OF any but brick, stone
or metallic buildings within the
burnt district" of that town.
1t was discovered last week that
a watch presented to Jefferson
Davis by admirers in Washington
when be returned from the Mexican
war was stolen from Davis Memoir
ial Hall, New Orleans, year ago.
On September "a the prohibition
lists of the country will celebrate in
Chicago the fortieth anniversary OF
the founding of their party. The
speakers will include five surviving
presidential candidates of the cold
water party.
Stephen H. Weeks. famous as the
first surgeon to make and use drain
age tubes from the arteries OF ami
mails, is dead at Portland, Me. He
was "a years old. DR.. Weeks was
regarded as one OF the most noted
surgeons of America.
Steps have been taken at Strls-
burg, Shenandoah county, by a
number of wealthy men Of that Sec
ton to buy the Fishers Hill battle
field grounds from G. H. Estep. the
present owner, and convert the
grounds into large military park.
Before sending to some distant
city for anything you may need
about the house, barn or farm, call
on your home merchants and see if
be has not in stock the very thing
you need. and as cheap-all things
considered-as you can get it any,
where.
A novelty in church hymnals is
reported from Chicago. An enter
prising advertising concern has
started supplying poor churches
with hymn books free Of charge. the
company getting it's return from
many pages OF advertisements
sprinkled through the books.
Says an exchanges: Few people
realize how cheap postal rates are.
1t developed in breach OF promise
suit recently that the defendant
sent ten million kisses all in one
letter and the government delivered
the entire cargo to the dy-all for
one measley little two cent postage
stamp.
To commemorate the Hudson. Full
Ton celebration at New York next
month. Postmaster General Hitch
cock b IS ordered the bureau Of en-
craving and printing to issue 3d.
000. 900 new 2-cent stamps, TO be
ready for sale by September 20.
They, will be the usual color but OBJ
long in shape.
Royal E. Cabell, for the past
three years postmaster at Rich
mond, has become commissioner OF
internal revenue, succeeding John
]. Capers, resigned. He is sue
ceeded as postmaster by Assistant
Postmaster Edgar Allen. Jr., who
has assumed the duties OF the Office
until a postmaster is appointed.
New York Press: The voice and
manners of most OF the modern
youths today are hateful and selfish.
They fear to say Yes sir" and
mo SIR" in a pleasant voice for
fear they be taken for menials. New
er was youth more cruelty cheated;
politeness leads to preferment; with
it all things are possible.
Complaints have been registered
at Washington from the Richmond
postofice authorities about unaw-
full and dangerous transmissions
through the mails Of typhoid germs,
tubercular sputum, diptheria
swabs. bacilli, deceased tissues and
other matter and substances dan
ger0uS 70 health ana lie.
Almost before the ink could dry
on newspapers which announced
the terrible food in Mexico and the
loss OF two thousand human lives,
dispatches we're received from Java
announcing disasters in the shape
of cloudbursts and foods in that
island by which six hundred ma
tives persisted. During the past
few years horror his followed hor-
ror in nearly all countries OF the
world.
A recent dispatch from Ottawa re-
ports the arrival in Canada during
the mouth OF Jnne Of 9.2OS Ameri-