The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-11
NEWS AND NOTES.

| THE school census of San Francisco
| places the number of children under
/ seventeen years of age at eighty thou
sand two hundred and forty-nine.
THERE are now in the oil regions of
Western Pennsylvania eleven pipe lines
for the transport of petroleum, with an
aggregate capacity for continuous deliv-
cry of thirty thousand barrels daily.
THERE is a publishing house at Stet-
tin, Germany, which has existed for
three hundred years. 1t is that of the
Hessenlands, which was established in
1917, and a history of which has just
appeared.
journal Of Jurisprudence: We have
net the slightest hesitation in affirming,
ON good ground, that one-third of the
divorce cases which now go ON to final
decree of divorce are carried ON by col
fusion between the parties.
The streets of London would form an
avenue of six thousand miles In the
cleansing fourteen thousand men find
employment, and six thousand horses
and two thousand four hundred carts.
The work goes on day and night.
SINCE 1866 Hindostan has ceased to
be a dangerous competitor of the South
in furnishing cotton to the world. The
decline in the importation of East In
dia cotton into Great Britain during
1896 was los, 5000, 900 pounds
A LODE of copper, lead, gold and sill
yer, twenty feet in width, and extend
ing for miles, has recently been discov-
cred in Milan, New Hampshire. The
lode crosses the Grand Trunk Railroad
one hundred miles west of Portland.
FRANCE has fifty thousand farms
averaging six hundred acres, five hun
dred averaging sixty acres, and over
| five million under six acres. In this ex-
tended subdivision of land under cul-
ture, consists her agricultural pros
perity..
A SERPENT thirty feet long, with
a huge body, carrying its head AS high
as that of horse" is spending the
summer in Bradley County, Tennessee.
1t was seen there during the war. The
East Tennessee papers have faith in the
accounts of it.
THE population of Nebraska has in
creased in ten years from eight thou
sand to nearly three hundred thousand,
and at the rate at which emigration is
now flowing in it would not be Mt all sur
prsing were the population to exceed
half Il million at the end of three years
more.
THE "Molly Maguires" are taking
revenge on all who helped to bring the
murderers, who were recently hung in
Pennsylvania, to Justice Five have
been murdered since the executions, and
several people received the coflin-warn-
ing, including the Sheriff of Schuylkill
County.
The Pacific Ocean covers S0,000000
of square miles, the Atlantic 25,000,000,
the Indian Ocean IA, 600, 900, the South
ern Ocean to thirty degrees is 1000, GOO,
the Northern Ocean 100000, the Med
iterranean 100000, the Black Sea 170,-
600, the Baltic 10000, and the North
Sea 1000
In 1866 the great fire in London de-
stroyed thirteen thousand two hundred
houses, and all the public buildings, in
Guiding eighty-six parish churches.
Since that there has been no plague.
The great fires of Chicago, Boston and
the late one at st. John, N. b., look
small in comparison.
In 1857 the sea retired from the
shores of Peru, and returned in noun
famous waves, which destroyed every
thing on the coast; and among other
places, Callao. In 1746 the same
phenomenon took place, and of four
thousand two hundred inhabitants of
Callao less than two hundred were saved
New HAMPSHIRE has forty-two thou
sand eight hundred and eighty men La
BILE to military duty. The militia num-
bers one thousand three hundred and
ninety-fve men, in two regiments and
three detached companies, and within
the year they have consolidated into one
brigade. The Quartermaster-General
wants the State to put up in Concord a
fireproof building for permanent store
house and arsenal.
LATE news from Santo Domingo
says: The revolutionary Generals Ortes
and Almonte entered Porto Plata, first
demanding immediate surrender. The
Governor of the place retreated to the
fort with his troops. He then rallied,
attacking the revolutionists. Street
fights followed, in which General AL
monte was badly wounded and his fol-
lowers suffered severely and fled. Ortes
escaped. President Baez has brought
forward claim of sixty thousand dol
lars for the expenses incurred by him
in the revolution which brought him
to power. He states that he borrowed
thirty thousand dollars, payable with
thirty thousand dollars premium, if he
triumphed, with interest at one per