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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01


Messrs. Editors;-We think, from
Websterian standpoint, the word
Capital has reference to the chief city
of State, and not the city where the
legislature holds its sessions. We all
know that Charleston is the Capital
of West Virginia, but is not the most
important city In the State. The cap
ital of state may be the capital city
sometimes, but is not in our case.
You will find the word spelled Capt.
toll by the best of authors. What is
the opinion of the learned editors Of
the NEW DOMINION? BY your dccis-
ion we will abide, for from the fount-
ain of knowledge we derive our wis
dom. RUsTIc REvELLER,
In regard to "Rustic Reveller" find
ing the word spelled Capitol, he will
find that in all cases when reference
is made to the building In which the
business of the state is transacted.
Capital is the spelling of the word
when reference is made to the city in
which the Capitol is located.-ED.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will hold festival and fair
on the evenings of the 25th, Goth and
9th of September, or during our
County Fair. A pleasant entertain
ment is prepared for all who will at
tend.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

J. j. Fitch d Co have kalcimined
their store-room and improved it in
other respects, until it is one of the
incest looking business rooms in town.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

'Give me liberty or give me breath"
WAS the expression of Morgantown
girl the other evening. Guess what
was the matter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

Several ministers from here are at
tending the Shinnston camp meeting.
Among others are Revs. Dolliver and
WATSON.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

The Court House looks nearly as
shabby as ever. Let the authorities
take steps to have it thoroughly re-
paired
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

An extensive assortment of choice
Tobacco and Cigars, at Charley KEEL
Tvs Walnut street.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

VIM. Damn, Esq, has gone to Pal
atine to reside in the future. He is a
good citizen and skilled mechanic
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

Waynesburg is publishing daily
evening paper. We suppose it is the
effect of the Narrow Gauge
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

The Franklin House has h0isted
new sign at the corner of Walnut
stree and Long alley.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

On Wednesday, the 9Th, the Fall
Term opens at the University. A
large number Of students will be pres
emit.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

A fine horse, belonging to Ollie
Ollie, died somewhat suddenly last
Thursday night.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

An eclipse of the moon occurred on
last Thursday evening.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

The Morgantown High School will
not open until October.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

Mrs. VIM. Virgins has been quite
sick for several weeks.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

LOCAL NEWS.
Seven in Jail.

A. F. Lazier has nicely painted the
fence in front of his residence.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01

The Brass Band gave free enter
tainment ON Monday evening.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
Hermit.Crabs.

Hermit-crabs are the most invariably
entertaining creatures to be found on
the sea-shore The fierceness with
which they quarrel with each other for
the possession of snail shell, and the
cruelty with which they treat an unfor-
tunate brother who has not found shell
in which to ensconse his soft hinder
parts, have often been commented upon.
A correspondent of Forest and Stream, re-
lates anincidentwhich gives anew notion
of the formidable capacities of this crab.
At the Aquarium in this city Lafayette
fish was noticed one day as behaving
strangely. A hermit-crab, scarcely a
tenth the size of the fish, had seized it
by the gills. After gasping and strug-
Cling awhile the fish at last died. On
examination it was found that the crab
killed the fish by pinching its gill-eovers
SO as to close them. AS the fish could
not open its gills, it was suffocated. Oh
course the circumstance that the crat
made the seizure just as to shut the gill
covers, may have been an accident; but
if another occurrence of the kind should
be witnessed, it must be admitted tha
the hermit-crab has developed splendid
ingenuity in its method of attack.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
DAFFTDOWNDILLYS HAT.

Miss Dafydowndily has come on q visit,
In her green polonaise and yellow silk hat.
She's as slim a. the trinmeSt lady of fashion,
Neither pannier ror pouf, and the trimming
all flat.
But the yellow silk hat, that's the crown of
her costume,
When you once have seen that, you won't
think of her dress;
Ind where in the world she ever has bought
1t.
rllwarrant you never-no, never can guess.
For rve heard that she made it herself out of
sunshine,
With pipings and trimmings of yellowest
gold,
And Ireally believe it, as watching wonder,
While the wonderful quillings and f1uitings
unfold.
She must have been wearing it all the long
winter,
In her dark little chamber close hidden
away,
Ind had it all ready through snow storms
and freezing,
To start on her journey the first sunny day.
And now that the robins. are piping their nest
| songs,
And violets dotting the meadows with blue,
Mss Daitydowndilly has come to my garden
10 make short stay. Is she visiting you?
-Chitdren'S Friend,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
A Long Search Rewarded.

In June, 1870, George Marlow, a
wealthy citizen of Ontario, La Grange
County, Ind, was shot and killed, and
robbed of $1,000. One Stephen jerks
was arrested for the murder, convicted,
and sent to the Penitentiary. After
serving year, his counsel made appI-
cation for a new trial upon technical
ity in the former proceedings, which
was granted, and, while awaiting trial
in jail at Ontario, jerks made bis es-
cape in 1872 The widow of NARROW
employed John A. Dice, detective, to
track the fugitive, and for the past five
years he has been engaged on the case,
visiting nearly every city in the Union.
A few days since the Postmaster at On
tario received letter dated East Sagi-
nav, Mich, Aug. 3, making inquiry as to
the whereabouts OF one of Jenks's sons,
and he at once informed Dice, who went
to East Saginaw, and found the muir
derer at Blumfield Junction, where,
under the name of Proctor, he had
lived four years, running cooper shop.
He was lodged in Jail, and will be taken
to Indiana.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
How er-Pigeons are Trained.

A German paper gives some details of
the extraordinary development of the
breeding and training of carrier-pigeons
in Germany since the late war. During
the siege of Paris, pigeons afforded the
only means of communication between
the outside world and the inhabitants of
the beleagured city. M order that SIM
liar messengers might be available in
the hour of need, pigeon-houses were
established after the conclusion of the
war in most of the larger garrison towns
of North and South Germany, and now
pigeon-fiying is rapidly becoming a IA
vorite pastime and sport throughout the
country. The increased attention thus
given to the subject has resulted in the
observation of many peculiarities in the
birds. Carrier-pigeons of good breed,
although they may be started in compa-
ny and bound for the same place, fly
quite Independently of one another.
Each one selects its own course, some
taking q higher, others lower fight,
and speeds on its way without taking
any heed of its neighbors.. The birds
seem to know that they are racing, and
each one exerts itself to the utmost to
arrive first at the goal. In the neigh
borhood of every pigeon-house there are
always certain places, trees, ETC., which
are usually favorite resorts of the birds,
but when coming in in race the we'll
bred pigeon never stops for moment
at any of these haunts, but flies straight
to his own particular house, frequently
arriving there in so exhausted a state as
to be unable even to eat the food it is
most fond of. Birds which are sitting,
or which have lately Matched young, are
generally taken in preference to others
for racing; but instances have been
known in which carrier-pigeons of good
breed which have been taken to fresh
home, and which have hatched young
there, have deserted their brood and
flown away to their original home at the
first opportunity they had Of escaping.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
The Man With an Item.
" Want an itempn

Want an itemp'' *tI' a.
"What is itp" we inquired. .,..,
GIVE got the dumdest item you ever
hern tell on. I struck an ile-wen on
my lease Monday, an she flowed a
stream 100 feet high straight up for half
an hour. Then she kinder died down.
One of my drillers was standing over the
hole when she suddenly squirted again,
an blast my eyes if it didn't take that
driller right up with it. The stream was
a powerful one, you see, an he went up
100 feet. You've seen those little balls
as dance about on top of those little
squirting fountains such as they have in
the cities? Yes; waal, that's the way
this thing acted, and there's that air
driller right up on top of that 100-fut
column of crude lie, and he's dancing
about like chaff in fanning-mill.
What do you think of that 'unp'
"Hew long has he been up there?"
"About four days and four nights. ~
He must be very hungry by this
time. Doesn't he come down to get
something to eatP''
"Why, we uns just put plate of
hash in this stream of lie and it takes it
up to him, you see. And its mighty
handy, as he finds his vituals already
creased, and he doesn't need any but
ter.'
"But he must have frozen to death by
this time" fEt r# a p
"Why, man, we've sent him up on
the same stream bed and bedding, q
small stove an wood, an we're going
to build him small house, and then he
can live there as comfortable as .
Princen 4
His face was as innocent of deceit as
a piece of tanned leather, and when he
asked to have his name put down as a
deadhead subscriber for information he
had given we didn't have the heart to
hurt his feelings.-O1 City (Pa,1 Der
rick
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
THE NEW SOPRANO.

lea "Try that chair by the fire, Steve,
Pc y and comfort your soles on the mantel
p MI while | unearth a pair of slippers for
o Im. I've small mound of them in the
fremI closet, built up of the individual gifts
neJ grateful pupils. ~
fnu "a cruel waste! You should be a
FllelI eentpede, Hal, instead of that forlorn
fnul uped, bachelor. By the way, speak
|aael ag Of single-blessedness, how it must
narrow you, my boy, to witness diurn-
ally the bliss of the bride and bride
lovs Eaom who sit opposite you here at ta-
ell Ole! Favor them with Lambs sCom-
paint against Married People, will
an !Oa! and send me the bill.''
iho'' Bride and bridegroom? Well, that
sneh; Have cigar, deluded youth,
E'ie g.. while | enlighten you concerning this
N lsillfuous couple. Did you mark the
!. Il Eatieman particularly? You can't take
Py IT,. - an IN at glance; there's too much OF
pgs1 11n' Goodwin his name is-Timothy
ps"lgodwln; Good Timothy' his friends
|so 1O nun; and the title applies.
de sat next me at table when l first
aa, M.n ane to Mrs. Tewksbury's, five years
s nas ~ and from the outset he showed a
s~ Iaerly interest in mean interest
y III ,atn this quaking STRIPPING of an or
- -s,rsrl aalst appreciated, l can assure you.
a nsn ISa slag one of the pillars of St. Luke's-
nsT W. aae cAurch play at, you remember
|ula sd an esteemed musical critic withal,
~. !. s0 nearly approval of me as perform
a aas an immense advantage to me.
who loud hardly suppose such quiet,
s apefturbable earthhng as he looks to
would rhapsodize over music, would
him, @ hwas a surprise to me to find
ha q m IN aeeply it moved him. He soon
If b som sa.o the habit of dropping into my
III :um alter tea when he heard me at the
nd Il and many time I've caught
[;II All great, strong fellow mopping his
- hnt ~ s,s Mrreptitiously over affecting pas
sa a. came to know him intimately
and IA ~ ~ ieel What a staunch, ,tender-heart
Esrer ssss a'nnestc sort of individual he was,
[, .hsts n ~ ~ 10 wonder he had never married
hsaa aay asked him in Joking way
"a N a. rien man like himself could recon
~ sst', a with his conscience to remain
|sIsr Il AL sSSeiof IN America, where there wa
the ob D. preponderance of unmarried la
I,,slix H. " oe supported? He made a WIZ
Isrk I sss. ~ and said he had assumed the main
|sbea, sssas sasse Of two spinster step-cousins
az p sa VI ~ you think ii isn't, Hal, I'll tel
|, = can Ian n,at al I'll do he added, laughing
Isalls sms ss marry yourself, and III supper
sr;ssd. @ y, s,n vie Won't that be fair?'
u ,spl lN .sst sasafdly fair for the LADY, remark
" ~a0ins that l should pity the luck
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20
A YANKEE WOOING.

The golden haze OF Autumn days
Was in the twilight glOaming,
Amid the cloudlet's airy ways
The crescent moon was roaming.
The clock was on the stroke of eight,
!. stem was at the garden gate,
And father fastened to the door
To welcome III Josiah Moore.
For he had health and he had wealth,
And maidens sought his wooing;
So mother smiled at me by stealth,
And bade me quit the sewing;
lRut. love they say, to gold is blind,
And scorns what others seek to find;
60 in my heart | vowed and said,
Josiah Moore I'll never wed.
Nv father sat and tried to chat
0f themes to give him pleasure;
Josiah talked of this and that,
In words of courteous measure
How best to prunc the apple trees,
The time to hive the hOney-bees,
boorish Ounce / thought he was,
And ignorant of Cupid's laws.
On custom bent, my mother went
To get supper ready,
And to the closet was sent,
To take with care and steady
From out their ancient high estates,
The measured china cups and plates;
The sugar bowl came tumbling down;
Josiah laughed to see me fr0wn.
scarce can tell how it befell,
But he the china carried;
And whispering, said | love you well,
Now when shall we be married?
Imeant to tell him, never, sir,
But DER my eyes there came a blur,
And ere I'd time to find my voice
Ny parents both had blessed his choice.
Elizabeth B. Potter, i1s Cincinnati Commercial
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20

A CHILD in Pepperell, Mass, who
had sore on the lip, caused by diph-
liberia, was kissed by two little girls re-
Gently, one of whom died of the disease
in few hours, while the other did not
survive q hasty passage TO her home in
New York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-09-20

THE Indian Question How best to
prevent their whipping us.-Rochester
Democrat
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-20

A FATAt. sERENARE..-Qn Thursday
week Jos. B. Mann, of Loudoun cDun-
ty, Va, was married in Frederick City,
Md, and returned that evening with his
bride to his mothers residence, near
LovettsviIle. On Friday evening a club
of young men ~ the neighborhood,
composing what is called the Rattle
Bank" proceeded to serenade the cou-
pie by the use Of tin horns. bells, and
suck other instruments IS are best calcu-
lated to make night hideous. Mr.. John
Brisiau, one Of the number, was elected
captain Of the crowd. 4 brother of the
groom being made aware OF the oRntem-
plated serenade protested against it,
telling them that his brother had asked
him to advise them not to come, as trou-
BILE might grow out Of it if they did
They paid no attention to the wsrning,
but going to Mann's house and scarcely
made one aircYit of the premises before
he fired upon them several times. One
OF the shots took effect in BrislaH's neck,
inflicting wound from which he died
on Saturday morning. Mann fled, but
returned on Sunday and surrendered
himself. He has been committed to the
jail of Loudoun county for the action of
the grana jury. Brislau leaves wife
and three chiidrea.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-20

Rev. J. J. LAEFERTY.-0n Wednes.
day last, in the Va. Annual Conference
Of the NJ. Z. Church South, In Lynch
burg, Rev. 7. J. Lafferty made a charac'
teristic speech which concluded as fol-
iowsl
II have epdeaVoFed TO do nay very
best in that 4dpocote Office. want no
dignity, NO honors; let your gifts be to
others. 4fy94 will alloy me to herald
your lahors and yeqr triqmphs, and to
wash the saints feet, it is enough. l
know I cannot come to old age; The
pains that so often hail me make me
sometimes wish that I was quietly
sleeping with my comrades les in lar n $; !;
Happy they that died under the walls of
sacred Troy I feel that the King of
Terrors, for me, capndt lie far iptthe fu-
ture. l have but one desire and one
hope-that when die it may be said to
me, Nor for filthy lucre, but of ready
mind he did what he could.'"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-20
SPECTATON AND GENERAL ADVERTISER
Justice to the South.

Tuesdays issue of the Washington
National Union contains an article on
the "Bond of Union" which treats OF
the Southern people in spirit of justice
seldom encountered in a Republican
journal. While regarding slavery as
great wrong, and accrediting the desire
to perpetuate that institution with too
great weight in determining the South
ern States to take up arms, it says of us:
"TEey staked all, and lost all, on the
wager of battle, and came out OF the
fearful contest poor, subdued, but not
broken in spirit. With all their faults
they are great people--great in war
and great in peace. In literature. the
arts and sciences, in industry and thrift,
the South has always been behind the
North; but in producing men with tai
ent for commanding armies and for rul-
ing in affairs of State, a candid world,
looking on from a disinterested stand
point, would give the palm to the South.
This great race of men is now becoming
reconciled to the results of the war
They almost universally regard the abo-
lition of slavery as Providential, and
only the rash and ignorant among them
have the faintest wish for the restora-
ton of the institution. No sane man
anticipates such thing as among posi-
BILE events, and the remark is now COM
mon in the South that slavery was the
great impeachment to Southern develop
ment, which prevented the growth of
commerce and manufactures"
When we consider that this is written
from Northern standpoint, Ii argues
that the era of better understanding
between the sections is indeed at hand.
However, the Union does not stop here.
In closing thesam article it lays down
the following proposition which, had
it been recognized ten years ago. would
have solved the whole problem of recon-
ciliation:
"North and South are bound up
in common destiny. They can
only live together as equals before
the law. The South cannot be ruled by
the North, nor the North by the South.
I'm local matters each must take care of
its own affairs, and in the common in
terests of the Republic each must exer :,
else its appropriate share of influence
The national government has no more
right to interfere with the danastic af-
fairs of the South than with those of the
North. "-Richnao1d Enquirer.
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A MONUMENT TO GENERAL LEE

A MONUMENT TO GENERAL LEE
The directors of the Lee Monumental
Association of New Orleans have adopt
ed the design of Mr.. John Ray, of that
city, for the monument to be erected to
the memory of the late Gen. Robert e.
Lee. The monument, which is to cost
$4,000, is to be erected on Trivoli Cir
Gle, one of the most beautiful locations
in the city of New Orleans, and which
hencefOrth is to be known as Lee
Park, in accordance with city ordi-
nance appropriating the circle for the
purpose. The design adopted consists
of as follows: A mound of earth 1873
feet in diameter at the base, and II feet
high in the centre, sloping in all direc-
tons to the ordinary ground level, the
centre portion Y feet square, to be level
at the elevation of - feet. The slope
on each side Of this centre square will
have a base So feet and a rise of IL feet.
In the centre of this mound the monu-
ment proper will De placed upon piles,
capped with timber, spiked and bolted
to the piles; then, to preserve the wood
from decay, covered with concrete, upon
which the brick and granite foundation
will be built to receive the marble col
nmn that is to receive the statue of Rob-
ert +. Lee.
A Doric column, with a winding tair-
case through its centre, made of white
marble, ten feet in diameter at its base
and sixty feet in height, will be placed
on granite base of four steps of three
feet each, and statue of Lee fifteen
feet in height, resting ON block or die
feet s inches in height, surmounting
the whole, making the entire height
from the ground level to the top of the
statue 100 feet inches.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-20

TlRUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE
IL PERSONAL PROPERTY.-By virtue of a
deed of trust from r. G. Byers, dated July 23rd,
1877 duly recorded in Clerks of Augusta COun-
ty Court D. B. 90 p. 159, and being required SO to
do by the benefciaries therein, I will proceed to
sell on
Thursday, December 1871, 1877,
at the late residence of said Byers, near Par
nassus, by public auction, lot Of personal
head Of Cattle. head of hogs, II interest in
hay crop, 3-5 interest in Wheat, Rye and Dat
crop, one new Buggy. &C., &C.
TERMs-The deed prescribes cash, but the sure
ties may consent to a limited credit on well en-
dorsed paper or otherwise, to be made known
at SALE M. F. WHITE,
nov20-4t Trustee.