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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
A Story of n Lost Watch.

In September, 1872. an Indian doctor
named Ninham was killed in st. Thomas,
Ontario, by Henry Fitzsimmons, who
was subsequently captured in the West
ern States, brought to st. Thomas, tried,
convicted, and sentenced TO seven years
penal servitude.
His capture was made through the
clever schcming of fellow workman
named Warren Rowley, or "Black River
Bill" TO whom the murderer confessed
Prior to the trial, which took place in
the fall of 1874. Rowley came to Lon
don, and stayed at Griggs' American
Hotel. During his visit here, valua-
bic watch, belonging to Charles Ingram,
hostlcr at the hotel, was stolen, and
Warren was suspected of being the thief
He was searched, but the stolen property
could not be found. Quite recently,
however, Rowlcy told Michigan man
named Church, who assisted in bringing
Fitzsimmons to justice, that while at
Griggs' Hotel, he had stolen the watch,
and informed him that it would be
found hid away in water-closet in
the building. Church correspondent with
a friend of his named Mcleod, of Inger-
soil, telling him that Rowley had con-
fcssed, and Mcleod came to the city,
and sure enough, found the watch, as
described by Rowley, snugly hid away,
evidently none the worse from its long
cessation from active operations.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
A Literary Princess.

Princess Isabelle, daughter of the
Duke de Montpensier, and wife of the
Comte dc Paris, is woman of very
great literary taste. She is an expert
and devoted bibliophile, and the discov-
cry of rare edition is as great a delight
to her as it would be to the most ardent
Dryasdust. She has splendid library
at Chateau d'Eu. The two things in
which she takes most pleasure are books
and horses. She is especially fond of her
four little ponies, which she drives her.
self. Her husband, assisted by M.
Violet Leduc, has restored Chateau
d'Eu into something more beautiful than
of old. 1t is decorated with perfect
taste and is filed with exquisite works
of art. AS for comfort, it has conven-
fences which most foreign places lack
it has the American luxuries of water,
gas and warm air sent by steam engine
all over it. The Count shows himself
wise and generous, moreover, in pro-
viding schools and other good things for
the peasantry surrounding his home. He
takes life phlosophically. "Don't rep
resent my house as palace" he said
lately to a writer in the Figaro. " Don't
speak of me as either poorer or richer
than / am there are two sentiments
/ do not wish to arouse-envy and
pity"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
Mountain Climbing.

The greatest altitude which has been
reached by mountain climbers, was at
tanned in Cashmere, by Mr.. johnson,
who some years ago mounted to spot
22,300 feet above the sea. Aeronauts
have assembled 10000 feet and returned
with safety. 1t is supposed by noun
taineers that $4,000 or $4,000 feet is the
utmost height that will ever be trod by
human steps. That life can be sup
ported at this altitude has been proved
by the adventures who have dared the
dangers of the upper air in a balloon.
During the last summer Mons. Weiner
assembled Mt. Illimani, one of the loftiest
peaks of the Bolivian Andes. The height
of this mountain has been variously esti-
mated, Mr.. Pentland giving it an alti-
tude of "a, 200 feet; Mr.. Minchin setting
itat 81 1924 feet, and Mr.. Weiner himself
making it to be only 20,112 feet. Few
ascents to the height of $1,000 feet have
been recorded. Hunters on the Hima-
layas often chase their game to the height
of 10000 feet; and natives living near
Mt. Demarend, near Teheran, frequently
climb to the summit, about 10000 feet,
to gather sulphur from the crater.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
Surrendered to an Owl.

The following war incident during the
Peninsula campaign is told by cores
pendent of the Weldon On. CO. Neaos
One dark, drizzly night when everything
seemed portentous of some evil, both
armies doubled their picket lines, and
after dark picked men were sent out be-
tween the picket lines to watch more
closely the movements of the enemy and
to prevent surprise. The most impress
sive orders were given to all the pickets,
and especially to those occupying the
outposts. At Deep Bottom one North
Carolina regiment was on duty, and one
of its picked men was sent to the front
to occupy an important outpost in for
est of pines. The extreme darkness of
the night and the dense shadow of the
thick pines rendered his optics of little
use to him ON this occasion, hence
his auditory faculties were on double
duty.
1t is said that when a man is deprived
of one faculty others become more acute,
and this case was not an exception to the
rule. The only thing that operated
against the free exercise of the organ Of
hearing was the humping of the heart,
which he more than once mistook for the
approach of many heavy shod footsteps.
He was in close quarters with the enemy,
could hear the Corporal whispering his
orders to the men on the line confronting
him; whether or not they were advanc-
ingupon him he could not tell he rather
thought they were and was making up
his mind to this conclusion, when, from a
few feet below his head, burst out ter
rible scream. The brave mans nerve gave
way, he let fall his gun and clasped his
hands over his head for protection, said
something he don't recollect what-had
surrendered and was about to beg for
quarter, thought dozen Yankees were
about him, but second scream disclosed
to him his mistake-he had surrendered
to screech owl.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
Unexpected Missiles.

Passengers on the deck of large
pleasure steamboat, running through the
narrows of New York Harbor, several
years ago, were amazed and greatly
alarmed by seeing large cannon ball
pass over the boat. The ball was from a
cannon in Fort Hamilton, which the
gunners had supposed was aimed at a
target nowhere near the boat. The resi-
dents of the quiet village of Minton, in
England, have also had an experience of
bombardment in time of peace. At
midday, a sixteen-pound shell fell in
the middle of the main street, and
plowed up the turf long distance.
Another shell fell into garden near by,
and third entering the roof of barn,
utterly demolished the building. The
frightened villagers fed from their
homes to the open country. twas soon
ascertained that the Royal Horse
Artillery were practising gunnery upon
lofty eminence some two miles dis
tant, and that the gunners had put
their targets in line with the village.
A mounted messenger informed the
officer in command of the village catas-
trophe, and the firing ceased.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
Pain the Penalty Of Superiority.
lseientiIie American.

The ideal perfect life that mer
imagine is always one in which pair
forms no part; yet curiously, in all the
life we know, rain is ever the penalty
paid for superiority. The higher the
organism in the scale of being, the
greater it capacity for pain; this is the
universal rule. Mutilation, such as an
insect bears without apparent incon.
venicnce, will kill reptile. A fish or a
reptile disregard injuries that would be
quickly fatal to mammals through ner-
vous shock A savage laughs Mt wounds
that would rack the nervous system Of
civilized man with acutest agony. Thus
in every instance capacity for pain is
the measure of development. Evolu-
ton being attended by an ever-increas-
ing complexity and delicacy of nervous
organization, it is inevitable that in
creasing liability to nervous derange-
ment must mark every upward move
ment in the scale of being. Will the
price of elevation ever rise so high as to
put an end to progress in that direction
There would certainly seem to be a
possibility of such result, when we
consider the fate of those most admirable
persons who are, we say, too finely
strung for this rude world. The acute
ness and delicacy of their sensibiltics
make them at once the highest moral
and intellectual types of humanity,
and physically the most unfortunate.
And they rarely or never leave behind
them vigorous family.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

IT is related that when Andrew Jack
son was military commander in Florida
he had tried at drumhead court martial,
sentenced and hanged, two Englishmen
who had tried to incite instruction
among the Indians. President Monroe
feared that Great Britain would be in
dignant, and summoned Jackson to
Washington to be reprimanded. Secre-
tary Adams defended Jackson and made
a long argument, in which he quoted in
ternational law as expounded by
Grotius, Vattel and Puffendorf. jackson
listened in sullen silence, but that even
ing, when asked at dinner party
whether he was not comforted by Mr..
Adams's citation of authorities, he ex-
claimed: "What do / care about these
old musty chaps? Blast Grotius, blast
Vattel and blast the Puffen-chap. This
is a fight between Jim Monroe and me,
and Propose to fight it out"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

A RECENT letter from the Custer bat
tle-ground on the Little Big Horn River
states that the graves of those who fell
in the battle are now in good condition.
When Colonel Brackets force examined
the field in September they found twelve
human skulls and some bones above
ground. These had been dug up by In
dams or wolves. They were collected
and reinterred. Bones were scattered
over the field in every direction. But
they are not human bones. The soldiers
remains seem to have been inferred with
care, and the writer of the letter, who
went over the entire battle-ground,
says cit is unseemly for people to say
that the bones of these men lie bleach
ing in the sun and without decent
BURIAL" because such was not the case,
and is not now.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

ALTHOUGH the late NJ. Theirs was not
himself man of science he was anxious
to possess some knowledge of the several
science as an aid in the writing of a
work on philosophy on which he was en-
gagged during number of years. His
teachers were chosen from among his
academicians; M. Leverrier being his
instructor in astronomy and M. Charles
Saint Claire Deville in chemistry He
began to write his work under Napo-
Icons rule, desisted when he resumed
his political career, and worked it up
again when he resigned his president
ship. 1t is not yet known whether it
will be published in its present imper-
feet form. At the time of his death he
was revising what he had written in
order to bring it up to the level of new
scientific discoveries.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24


LITTLE Mary had ride in an eleva-
tor, and when she reached home the fol-
lowing interesting conversation took
place: Little Mary, (hreathless with
excitement, EOh, mamma! / had ride
in a crocodile. Mother-In what, my
child? Little Margin a crocodile.
Mother--Why, what do you mean, my
dear? What kind of crocodile was it
Little Mary-Oh, it was little house
with string tied to it; and it had seats
inside and was elegant; and we went.
into it, and the man shut the door, and
then we went up and down. Mother
(smiling, WASN'T it an alligator,
my dear? Little Mary, (thoughtfully,l
: Oh, yes. The man did call it an alli-
gator, and then thought it was croco-
die. A short maternal disquisitioa
upon phonology.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

IT was little hard on the boy, for he
meant well, and had a sincere admira-
ton for the girl. They were sitting at
the table with a company of others, and
as he passed her the sugar he murmnred
in an undertone, Here it is, Sweet,
Just like you" The compliment was a
little awkward, to be sure, buthe meant
it, and it seemed more than cruel when,
in moment later, she had occasion to
pass the butter to him, she drawled,
here it is, soft, just like you"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

GOVERNOR FEB. VANCE tells of a
New Orleans man who died and left the
seventh article in his will as follows :
Whereas, 1t seems that my son John
seems inclined to play poker, which is a
dangerous game to tinker with, unless
you know what you are doing; there
fore l leave my son John $4,000 that
he may 60 to Halifax, North Carolina,
and learn how to play the game" 1t
was in the same county in which a cir
Gus man wagered large sum that the
Numidian lion in his possession was the
king of beasts, but Halifax man tax
ing up the bet, introduced a Roanoke
turtle into the cage, and in short time
the turtle seized the lion by the nose
and caused him to give up the ghost.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
+" A dollar and a half, sir"

THE body of man named Trout was
recently recovered from the water near
Olympia. Mr.. Loring Pickering, the
famous tombstone poet, has written the
following epitaph on the deceased. Mr..
Pickering's severest critics will confess
that it is written in his happiest manner
Here lies the remains of the late Mr. Trout.
Who fell in the water and couldn't get out,
The fact that Trou. was unable to SWIM
Surprising to others, was fatal to him.
As he sank TO the bottom he dubbed wish
To dwell with the angels, a flying fish.
-4roo 1n,,f
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

A MAN and wife at New Britain, Con-
necticut, made an agreement some time
ago, by which he was to stay at home and
care for the children while she went
away TO work at a mill. Things worked
satisfactorily for some time, the man
getting goods on credit for the family
use and his wife settling the bills
monthly. Recently, however, the
monthly payment failed. The man was
sued by the storekeeper, and Judge Beach
has Just decided that he is not liable for
the debt.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

ITwould seem that not only is the eli.
mate of Iceland growing SO cold that
grain cannot ripen there, but that OF
Scandinavia and Western Europe is be-
coming more severe. This is due, it is
supposed, to the steady descent of the
ice of the far North upon the shores of
Iceland. 1t has. been ascertained that
the temperature of Greenland was once
much more mild than at present. Plants
have been discovered in fossil state
there which cannot now present a sign of
of life. In the Atlantic, also, ice has
been found much further south than
formerly. Is another ice age slowly max
ing its approach?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

WITHIN ten years, no less than II,
100000 acres of forest have been cut
down or burned over in the United
States. Much of the timber is used for
fuel, twenty-five cities being on record
as consuming from 5000 to 10000 acres
each. Fences use up much timber, and
railway sleepers require the product of
$50, 600 acres per annum. The amount
of pine and lumber timber yet standing
in the feresss of the timber States, is
estimated at 225, 00o,000,000 feet. The
sum of sl44, 100000 is invested in the
timber industry, employing 10000 men.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

AMATEUR sportsman returns in tri-
umph from a days shooting, with a
splendid rabbit, and says to his wife:
"There, you said couldn't shoot. You
didn't expect to see me bring this
homeq' "Yes, / did; the servant next
door saw you buying it around the cor
ner."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

The greatest man is he who chooses
the right with invincible resolution !;
who resists the sorest temptations from
within and without; who bears the
heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is
calm in storms, and most fearless under
menace and frowns; and whose reliance
on truth, on virtue, and in God, is most
unfaltering.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

point in one York minute, Mr.. Irving. /
fine you five dollars"
THAT'S huff education for me-" said
the man, rs his hand went down for the
cash, and after getting out doors he &C.
cured ten dollars worth of revenge by
throwing mud on Buah's clean door
STEP
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

1t allows, however, no margin for ribbons,
laces, gloves, handkerchiefs, perfumery,
nor any of those small items of personal
expense, such as stationery, which social
life involves nor does it mention furs nor
gifts of any description for birthdays or
holidays.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

DURING the late combats before
Plevna the Russians leftscattered about
the field a large quantity of bank-notes,
which Turkish money-changers buy from
the Mussulman soldiers at the rate of
seven cents a rouble, the rouble being
rthsseventy-five cents. Russian mus
kets gathered on the field sell for ten or
twelve cents each, and revolvers for
about the same price.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24

WHAT letters of the alphabet are most
like Roman Emperor? The C's are.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-11-24
EDITORIAL OHIO.

The State of Texas has just purchased
], 400pacres of land, with valuable build
iDgs and improvements, near Hampstead,
for the State University for Colored
Youths. The price paid was $4,000.
The intention is to combine the State
University with the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, the same in effect to
be a branch Of the college at Bryan.
, 1877-09-22
TIE STATE.

vers dong YESTERDAY s % ,u.t t WHIT thev sers en-.
gagged It tho day betoro,-~chccking over tho
lists Of notes Ia the possession OF the StAto
Savings Institution, They concludod the work
stout o'eloek. apd thu Judva 0aYs Mr, 1fowon1
ais fese'ot los "nat he naa 'ou"a IN tals l'nc'
According to this receipt there arc notes to the
amount Of 374S,44i.ooa or th!s amount $5l8,.
mn l.n,t wnrtb tl,e MINER Il il written m. +,
REPRESENTS Tue sun oI the M two @ no.e. *h'cl, the
GENEROUS Spencer made the bank present Of
n' ns .. h. snS e estt m TO pss a' prs a pss
thcrn M /, so,nc % rud % NJ ~ soc,,r,tx t1 a,tsc,,a:,
.ae'' .a,s .va'o >1 ~ s'"5 A1'aeneu ,n!
Valuc. Tue ascarity attached to
these notes IL decidedly Of tho latter character.
H. cons,ala, in nthcr ror5s NJ anna q nm MD
80. ~ ..nn1. ~ ~ 49,. Thass .han
ena'es VI ssosA ~ ol'ene@s osu'o' t"e9u snof
getting him back and !nstttutiug proceedings
eu,ezzlcnent, ia 50 email that nobody appears
to give 1t a moments thought. The notes ought
perl.aps tp 10 fr4lned and hung up as cusiosE
lea1 provo valuab!u atd to tho kindl!ng OF one Or
two brisk coal ases. but there are mora notes,
Of perhaps = trldc more valuable nature, al
though their author anl nakar " no less man
than
srpNsr Mrxas,
the late PFostlalt aud Uuard Of Directors OF
tue bursted Beehive. Thefo are seven Ut
then-four for 5000 each, two for
*l1000 each, aud oue for $3,50O; 80, 500 In ALL
II VIA n4cert2Incd dsy beforu yesterday that
The ts' aat mott: tsSa w.. no tas. si b..
posed shst they Wero secured for the tnost part
by Cairo City bonds, It now turns out that ali
the security which Judge Otis has beon allo to
, 1877-09-22
LOCAL POLITICS.

4tII DEAhANN4k1~1t
The County Democratic Central Committee
and prominent members Of tho party assembled
In the ladies' ordinary Ut tho Sherman House,
last evening, In m informal way, for the purpose
Of consulting as to tic cuusze to be pursued In
the matter Of placing straight party ticket Ia
the field.
Among those present Wero tho following:
Judge Forester. Vfre-Prcsfdcnt Of the Central
Committee; Miles Kchoe, Secretary; Arno Vose,
]. 3. Calhoun John Forsyth, John lsea, Cltarlcs
Kern, j. St.tnsners, William Law, Aid. Sweeney,
+: y: H.. Warnrr, . 4. C. story, =; =: Goodell,
ans b. T. KsSnes Girl css:slmsn' M oul18; F.ttsk Tx
Ratfcrty, ami u. MeGraly.
IN thy absctfe Of Perry II. Smith, President
of tho Committee, Judge Forester presided.
l{cnlATks were fundc by Mcssts. Kehoc, tai
foun, foss, Kern. Hoffman. R.a, aud others,
and tho prevailing sentiment was In favor Of
hodft1t! convention Rftcr due preliminary or
ganlzattnn, and when political developments In
dieatel TIC hest course to take. It being deemed
best to await tho result Of ottIcr party tnove-
pa'Et,. Accordingly d committee of five on or.
Eahizatton, with John d. Calhoun ns Chairman.
WAS appointed, anil also committee Of 4 sim
liar number Oil headquarters. with A. G. Story
as Chairman.
The meeting then adjourned, with the under
sta'NlfnE that the Central Committee will meet
nlone Tuesday evening at tho same p1ncc, and
hcar the reports oF tho Committees abore-
mentioned and take such action regarding tic
The 1eltlcratnns OF last night were carried
on with closed tours. but q Tribune ctmm!a-
stnncr was enabled tt obtain all the points
above noted.
, 1877-09-22

NAfl0AIlON NuIfsS.
u,cA0o.-Echr White Oak passed up tho slver
yesterday mofuing minus her, !ib....The stmr
Urrt Harris took cut an excursion party Of visitors
yesterday. and they enjoyed Tho trlp....Cnpt.
MorcJ. of tao schr D. q. powcta, passed a guam.
tity Of tho stmr rceslsss' wrcckags 1t Point
aux nccaIes lately. uo a1'o saw
Manitous. There wcro twenty vessels On tho
them saaso III in closs osde .capi. Jtnnngs III
s1led twenty. years tA the eehf 3fontMoTrncy,
and hs. neser net s wi,s , hu .e,ioas nshsp TLs
made the trip between LudlnHson and Chie#Ro In
1i.yfoss haurs ana 1as g5o;sog' ts'r IN !hsss
aays sne e. o Il. e. Srs II
hero from ltacne for .hc as.t limo u so!ne years.
looking after his mArinc interests. The Star
light hss been found tO bo leaking In
tss as II b.1s s IT, if'ss IT,
river willis goina up 10 A,ers' t!sy dock ta laws .
leak stopped, got ou; AHi i waa found thtt the
butts wsrp open 1t 1lqht water mark sa4 thera was
NJ nceesaity tor ty docking lsr tho c4lking being
VI grnsl.,i'on1s. AT oaaen.harg Friday last this
ris :assx uass' Ia ns
fi'a isom ''' tha .so' as..rs. @ % foIysr e. u JT Il.
sf4s'. safSd .ns.n ,9r sss s,e ss% na@ .a
esia s!0: s.te. e1s.i"a ,isrser. fs.ms.ly nc HaoS"
~ Frpnchman's liay, Laks oatssto. has beca pro-
vided with nsw plsE. : new ltgnshense; md new
tler..or. q! built " Joseph Mecis'.a, l' A. on
TAo uoyctnmsnt engineers have aoo4t cum
plcted their operations at itenosha llasbos.
bixtcau thousAnd cuotc yarda Of soil hav0
hc bar at shc ents1nce 10 the hafbos. Tha svcrsRt
AGpth 9f wafer u now fifteen fcft.
, 1877-09-22

nobody need 20 over to Henry 0seencbaum'a
bank, the German 5asiuEa, and expect to SEQ
omInous lines OF people. With pass-books III
hand, pressing forward aud jostltng otle
another to get tho drst place at
tho pay.ug-telcr's window. There Is
no run, nor any Of its attendant features. While
a reporter was there yesterday morning just
three persons canlc in and interviewed the
me.hodical teller. The bunk IL paying out IN
cases Of necessity, but requires Of all it, cur
toners who arc aetaattd BY the merely ,panicky
iorccnssnt @ u tho notlco-rals Il no new thing,
no recent contrivAnce, to avoid any Sudden DE-
plction Of The hanks iuuda. It tlas been tho
custom OF We bank since 1870 to insist On tho
e.: sss lit IL i. 'sarssssaa nas ~
OF course ralses no excitement, aud
business goes on as usual. Mr.. utccnchaum
was not only not ct ell scared yesterasy but was
In tho most iubllant mood. :'We arc here"
hero to DO business. We hare neves advertised
for dcpnsitors, but they have CONC 70 us-aai We
want: We arg now carrying Homc = 0o0 aCCM4nts,
and they don't trouble US IN tho least. When
,nonry. We giye him all be wants.. OF thoothers
we regulru the tnirty.days' notice, ss VIC havu
done for years hatk. A. tho end Of tho thirty
days We shall pay them tlieLr money"
hAavs you been Obliged 10 dispose Of any Of
ulect your leaftsfh
II in scllIug mortgages. might say, ali tho
time. anu 1t premium. The iaet y, I'm max.
III DanE t es.sially, It DO say it, aud lie pfsssnt
excitement gives u no fears. We can meet all
our ,obllgatIona, and intend to 60 ahead aud do
And tic bustlfne little banker walked Oh 10
probably proposed to do what he told tho re-
po1teF he was dolng,-Make money.