The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-05-05
GENERAL INELLIG ENCk.

portion to population than any other
State in the Union.
The Boulder Ne,os anuoun ces that ex
Senator Logan is about to take up his
residence in @
THE Grand Jury of the county in
Maryland wherein the Bennett May
duel is said to have been fought has been
charged to investigate the affair.
BY a resolution of the City Council OF
Mobile, all cotton factories erected
within the corporate limits will be re-
lieved from taxation for ten years.
AMONG the papers of thief arrested
in New York were found written the
following truths: "Vice is only laziness,
and law-breaking an attempt to dodge
the law of labor" "The chief cause OF
crime is the desire TO obtain living by
some easier means than honest toll"
GREAT BRITAIN has now 1892 news
papers, of which 1871 are in England,
Sc in Wales, 164 in Scotland, 14l in Ire
land, and 20 in the Isles. The magazines
now in course of publication, including
the quarterly reviews, number sos, of
which 275 are of a religious character.
In recent hail storm at Dexter
Texas, the stones were larger than hen
eggs, and did much damage to windows
growing crops, gardens, fruit trees and
chickens. A mule standing in the street
was knocked down and man was
knocked off his horse by large hail
stone that struck him on the head.
A NEW style of gun, resembling in
shape walking cane, is being intro
duced in San Francisco, and being gem
orally adopted as aweapon obedience. 1t
will propel bullet one hundred PAGES,
and only trihing report is given. 1t is
manufactured in the city, and no con-
cealment is attempted by the makers.
WADE HAMPTON has been married
twice, and il widower. He had three
children-twc sons and daughter. His
Oldest son, Preston Hampton, was killed
at Gettysburg, and the second, Wade,
Jr., lives in Washington County, Mis-
sissippi. His daughter, Margaret, is the
wife of Colonel John Haskell, South
Carolina.
INVENTORS and discoveries, that
noble vanguard in mankind's progressive
march, could never survive half their
trials without this God-given inspiration.
Enthusiasm puts a girdle round the
earth, tunnels the deepest. rivers, scales
the loftiest mountains, discovers new
planets, moves audiences and melts
juries.
The common earth worm Lumbricus)
is found in soils where the ground is
moist enough to sustain its life. 1t has
no teeth, but subsists by swallowing par
ticles of earth, from which it extracts the
digestible material. 1t does not, and
cannot, injure vegetation, and the best
way to treat the harmless worm is to let
it alone.
ATUNNEL through the Pyrenees will
place France and Spain in railroad COM
munication by the LIST of January, 1878.
The work has been several years in
progress, and will save twelve hours of
tedious diligence riding between Per-
pignan and Barcelona. Next year
travellers will be able to travel by rail
from Paris to Malaga, almost without
changing trains.
All Moon, San Francisco Cinnamon,
being on trial for murder, was told by
his lawyer that he could arrange readily
for witnesses, and he did. Three of his
countrymen swore that, at the time of
the murder he was at work in a wash
house; two swore that he was asleep at
home, and others would have sworn that
be was at other places had not the law
yer interposed.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS recently
sent his compliments to Dick Thorn D
son, asking him if he remembered the
present of a gold-headed black walnut
cane which he made Mr.. Stephens some
thirty odd years ago. Mf. Thompson
said he had not forgotten it, adding
"Both of us have changed good deal
since then, and l suppose Aleck, as he is
row, could sit down in the shadow of that
cane and keep cool the hottest day in
summer"
A TRADEs-UNIoN has been formed at
| Now YORK on a rafhar sinouIor hasia n
is known as "The Working Shop TaiIors'
Association and Union" and one of the
leading clauses Of its constitution pledges
the society to avoid all strikes, the
founders of the organization believing
that arbitration is sufficient to secure
all needed reforms.
BOAT racing in England, like boat
racing in this country, no longer excitet
the public interest, or attracts the
crowds it used to some years ago. The
contest between Oxford and Cambridge
caused no enthusiasm outside of sporting
men of London.
THE actress, Miss Kate Claxton, ha,
had most marvellous experience, and
one that, while far from pleasant, will
prove one of the most valuable adver
tisements that a woman II her pro
fsssion could have. Barely missing death
at the Brooklyn fire, and again al
Newark, she now escapes from the
Southern Hotel with the same narrow
margin between life and death.