Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-06-23
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for tho
Busy Reader

W. j. Bryan gays he will not BE-
a candidate for tie u. 5. SsnsH
from Nebraska.
Eugene Davenport, dean Of The
University of Illinois, declares the
day Of cheap bread las ended, 40
the population lie overtaking the
food supply.
The annual meeting of tho
State Bar Association will be held
August 1912 at Hot Springs, at
which time James N, Beck, form.
er assistant attorney.general Of
the United States, will be- the
chief speaker.
The city Of Winchester's right
to tax insurance companies doing
business there II per cent on ell
premiums, in addition to $50 an.
nual city tax and $500 State tax,
was affirmed by Judge I. ". Har.
rison 10 the circuit court in thas
city.
Miss Elizabeth Dundreary OF
Wise county, one Of the girl visitors
to the Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute finals, was seized by a man in
a dark hallway of the hotel in
Blaeksburg in which she has
apartments Monday night and
shorn of her hair.
The skins of highly eolorsd
snakes are now to bs used in sup
porting the hosiery of the beauty
of Virginia. When or where the
fad originated is unknown, bet
jewelers. are busy manufacturing
garters and the woods and desert
ed fields are being hunted for de-
sirable reptiles. The demand ex.
ceeds the supply.
The old saying that the safest
place to hide money is in a Billie
70 brought to mind by recent oc.
currence in Fairfield, N. j. Sarah
March died in that place thirty
i've years ago and among her be.
quests was ponderous copy Of
.he Scriptures, bound in leather,
ana with a brass clasp, which she
left TO her nephew. Steve March.
The latter never opened the book
until few days ago, waen he
found $4,897.30 between the
| leaves.
Notwithstanding recent publ.
cations to the effect that the treas
ury Of the State of Virginia 10
about to be depleted, thus leaving
the financial officers 10 a quandary
as to how TO meet the current ex-
penses OF the government until
tie next Legislature assem- bles, the
Richmond Times Dispatch learns
from prominent State official,
who is in close touch with the cit.
uation, that there need be no fear
along this line, as in his judgment
he States finances were never 10
better shape.
The New York Press in figuring
out the resources of the South
says that with the present area
OF cultivation in the South, the
United States 10 good for 10000.
100 to 100000 or $4,000, 900
bales of cotton Of 500 pounds each.
If the world should ell 20 to wear.
ing clothes aud want the 85,000,-
700 to 10000, 900 bales which the
government statisticians estimate
would be needed, the South would
nave to supply the demand. The
Southern states have an available
area for crops Of 80, 100000 bales.
Texas alone could supply 10000.
700 but it would take years to get
the results.
One Of the largest fees in the
history of the Washington bar
granted to an attorney, $50, 45S,
was last week awarded BY the Pro-
cate Court to Major Holmes Con.
rad, former solicitor general of the
United States, for services in con-
uection with securing judgment
rom the Supreme Court of the
United States allowing the claim
of the heirs of the late Joseph
Parish $l81.35S for ice furnished
to the Union army during the
Civil War. Because Of this and
other attorneys fees and debts
he two heirs received but 49,.
84S of the judgment.
Harry St.George Tucker attack
ed again at Amherst Judge Mann
when be reiterated the charge that
his opponent, although protesting
70 be a temperance fighter for
thirty.fve years, is receiving the
support Of the leaders OF the
whisky element in the Virginia
cities in the race for governor.
Some one in the audience asked
Mr.. Tucker to tell how Judge
Mann had been elected judge. He
replied amid applause that he had
been given the office by the Read
juster Legislature,t the party which
by a coalition with the negroes
tried to overthrow the rule of the
white mans party in Virginia.
Miss Gertrude Paxton, one Of
the young ladies who were struck
by a N. & W. freight train near
Vesuvius, some months ago, and
hurt, has instituted suit against
that company for $4,000 dan:
ages. Miss Paxton claims this