The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-02
GENERAL IETELLIGESCR.

The New York Legislature has settled
the weight of eggson sale, by enactment.
One dozen must weigh pound.
In 1901 Great Britain had 10000, 900
people, Ireland 5000, 900. Now the
former has $4,000, 600, the latter 3, $780,
600.
RussIA's public debt is about 81, $780,
100000 and is able to contract loans.
Turkey, with debt of only $3.50, 000,-
600, has no credit.
THE cost of the production of cotton
in the South is greatest in Mississippi
and Louisiana, while it is least in Texas,
South Carolina and Georgia.
The English navy consists of sixty
eight iron-clsds, three hundred steamers,
and hundred and seventy sailing ships,
available for actual service in war.
A BILL has passed the Illinois Legisla-
ture authorizing railroad conductors to
stop trains and put off everybody play
ing cards for money or using obscene
language.
THE girls of Cashmere can make shawls
worth thirty thousand dollars a piece,
that will show three hundred distinct
colors which We cannot make nor dis
tinguish.
fiUsh fires have been raging north and
west of the Ottawa Mountains. Around
Bennington, VT, they were one sheet of
flames, while the forest fires lighted up
North Conway and Upper Bartlett, N. II.
The rays of the sun, shining through
an atdinasy microscope, set fire to a
newspaper lying upon a table in house
in Maine, few days ago. An early dis
covery prevented the destruction of the
building.
NEBRASKA farmers are attempting the
domestication of the buffalo. Half and
quarter breeds are very hardy, and in the
yield of milk from cows raised of mixed
stock give even more than the average OF
rich milk.
THE anti Russian demonstration in
Hyde Park, London, on Sunday, num-
bered about three thousand. The speak
ers included no one Of note. The crowd
finally overturned the platform and dis
persed in disorder.
THE name of LoganAport was given to
the survey of that town in 1928 by Col.
j. B. Duret, who won the right to name
the place at a shooting match. He
named it in honor of the services OF
Captain Logan, the Shawnee chief.
A FIvE.YEAR-o OLD son of Reuben Hall,
farmer at York Station, Cleveland, San
dusky and Cincinnati Railroad, while
asleep on the railroad track at San
dusky, was run over by the accommoda-
ton train, having his head cut off.
In 1859 Russia borrowed f5, 1853 900
in 1862, Els 1000, 600; in 1864, $685.
600 in 1866, f5, 900, 1874 in 1867, e22,-
9OS 900; in 1870, Ell, 1862, $50; in 1871,
Ell ,962, $50; in 1872, Ga, $3.50 900, and
in 1873, $1,000 900, making grara
tatol of e108, SD, 1874.
GERMANY furnishes annually 120, 900
fox skins, 10000 pine martens, 10000
stone martens, $50, 900 pole cats, 5000
offers, 5000 badgers, and 10000 hare
skins. In rabbit skins she sendso out only
100000, to frances 5000 600. The list
closes with 100000 domestic cat skins.
AN immensely tall silk hat supported
by twelve-inch collar, insulted lady
on the street in Memphis. A moment
later and the police were carrying that
hat and collar away OF shutter in a
fearfully mutilated condition, and pick
ing up the fragments of heavy parasol
scattered around.
In the Turkish navy are in all about
$4,000 sailors, equally divided between
branches of the service. In time of
peace not more than 5000 to 5000 sail
ors are actively engaged. There are
twenty-three iron clad ships, carrying
from two to seventeen guns; four iron
cased batteries, of two guns each seven
teen screw steamers, carrying an aggre-
gate of six hundred and for6y guns; and
about eighty other steamers; making
total of one hundred and fifteen steam
ers and one thousand six hundred guns.
The proprietor of the st. Charles
Hotel, in New Orleans, said to- cor
respondent the other day: Before the
war our bills for wine alone would often
foot up $1,000 day. Now if we sell
twenty dollars worth of wine day at
our table we think we are doing very
well. The young bloods always kept
their own exclusive bottles of brandy on
ice in the bar-rooms, French brandy gen
orally, at ten dollars per bottle. The
planters always settled their bills
monthly; they never disputed a bill.
They never paid the money, but would
give an order on their factors. Neither
the planters, their wives, their sons nor
their daughters carried money about with
them. What they wanted they ordered,
and tie bills were sent to their factors
The factors imported dresses and jewelry
for the ladies direct from Europe. There
were several Barrow brothers, who
owned between them nine sugar planta-
tions, witk thousands of slaves. They,
with their families, would often occupy
as much as a third of the house, with
private parlors ETC., and their ordinary
hotel bill would be $4,000 CT $1,000 a