Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-02-24
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items OF Interest Tor the
Busy Rsdder

When Rev. DR.. Corky of Lon
dohderry, Ireland, arises or Sun
day to expourd the gospel he does
so with the proud consciousness
that on the same day in eight other
Presbyterian pulpits his eight sons
are performing a similar Christian
service.
Robert H. Terrell, colored, who
has been a justice of one OF the
magistrate courts Of Washington
for the last seven years, has been
appointed a judge of the Munich
pal Court Of the District Of Col.
umbia, which has just been ere.
ated by an act of Congress.
State Senator Ettelson contem.
plates introducing a bill in the Ill.
inois Legislature which will desig.
rate benedict from a bachelor.
He says women are known by their
titles Mrs. or Miss, but that a man
by plain "Mister" is not. He
thinks susceptible women are Of
ten imposed upon.
Roanoke il to have an another
new lndustry-a mattress factory.
In connection with it will be
wholesale branch house of the pro.
motors Of the new factory, the
LyIchburg Lounge Manufacture
Ing Company OF Lynchburg. About
ii dozen persons will be employed
at the start and 10 ore as the bust
ness develops.
The State Board of Education is
issuing formal notice to all the
county and city division superin
tendents Of schools to enforce
strictly the regulations of tie
State regarding the vaccination Of
pupils attending the public sch cois,
aid cautioning the school boarCs
aud su0elln,en dents agaInsts any
infractiOn thereof.
An important circular, bearing
upon the widely discussed prize
essay on Gen. Lee recently awarded
20 Miss Christine Bog sor CT MIME.
sofa, has been distributed through.
out the South by Mrs. j. Enders
Robinson, historian of the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy ,urg-
ing the Daus hters TO abolish the
annual prize for historical papers.
The House of Representatives
has adopted as an amendment to
the penal code provision that no
employees of common carriers
she'll deliver any Intoxicating
liquor TO any other than the per-
son to whom it has been consigned,
and that upon all shipments OF
liquor there shall be placed Ii bells
declaring accurately the contents
Of the packages.
George Nelms Wise, recent Re.
publican candidate for COngrefs in
the first district, has issued state
nent in which he declares tntt il
s not necessary for the Navy De-
partment 10 buy the Jam. stown
Exposition site in order to procure
I naval base on Hampton Roads,
md that Craney Island, NOW owned
oy the government, ca be utilized
for that purpose.
Before the joint session OF the
Nebraska Legislature, William j.
Bryan last week delivered an sd-
iress in which he condeI ned the
Carnegie pension fuDd for [iofes-
;ors, declaring 1t "the most iEsid-
Gus LoisOn ever injected into the
body polite" He disc aimed any
mention OF posing os a dictator
md asserted that he was speaking
rerely as II private citizen.
The Evening Journal of Rich.
nond publishes report Of Audi
or Marye, showing that the GRIM
nal expenses in VIrgiria have in
creased despite the spread of p:o-
libition. The journal says: "rhe
auditors report Tor the fiscal year
.nding September 30. 1908,
shows that the total criminal tx.
,enses for 1908 were 1892, 557. 90,
's against $27S. 70S.6S in 1907.
The counties in 1908 required a
otaI of 1896, 54S.6S,in 1907 II total
# $l62,373.l5. In 1908 the Grim
nal expenses Of cities cost Virgin
a 1896, 009.3l;in 1907, SIG, 335.5a.
Based on figures obtained
through the State bureau of vital
talistics, it is conservatively es-
mated that the annual loss TO
pennsylvania from two unneces-
airy diseases-tub erculosis and ty.
,hoid fever-is $42, 200, OCO, or So
place for every person within the
,orders OF the State. This enorm-
us sum, which is based on the
'alue OF lives and time taken by
hese two diseases, does not in
llde the n opey spent Tor medical
are, drugs, nursing, feeding and
unerals. of which latter they fur
ished last year 1880, Oh en- sv.
rage of forty.six for each week
.ay.
The j. E. B. Stuart Chapter,
United Daughters Of the Confsd-
racy Of Staunton, has adopted the
GLOWING resolution: Resolved
hat we recognize the honesty OF
urpose exhibited by Miss Boy
on, but deplore the error aud
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