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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
Wrecking q Public Speech.

The most complete wrecking of pub
lie speech of which | ever heard hap
pened in political campaign. In this
case it was not hidden rocks, nor unseen
currents, nor unexpected breezes, but
torpedoes, placed on purpose to blow the
vessel off the water. The two parties
were to hold meetings in the same place
on two successive nights-the Republi-
cans the first night, the Democrats the
second. The Democratic speaker was
man of large form and fine presence,
with rich voice, and considerable claim
to oratory. He was, however, somewhat
pompous, and with very marked peculi-
arties of manner, which his fine form
and voice made even more conspicuous.
The Republican speaker was a most pit
iless wit, great mimic, and possessed
of remarkable memory. Coming the
first night, he made short speech on the
issues of the campaign, and then said,
"This is my speech. Colonel - will
be here tomorrow night, and I'll tell
you what he will say" Throwing him
self into the attitude of his voice and
manner, he gave them the speech he had
heard him make few nights before, and
which he felt sure would be repeated
there The next night the house was
crowded to its utmost. Our Democratic
friend felt very much fattered at the
large attendance. But the moment he
stepped on the platform a suppressed
smile spread itself over the audience.
At his first sentence it broadened and
deepened almost into laugh. AS he
proceeded, posture, tone, speech and
gesture all "followed copy" SO exactly
that the whole audience broke out into a
fit of uncomfortable laughter. His
friends tried to restore order, but it was
impossible to keep their own faces
straight. The audience themselves felt
ashamed of their behavior, and felt a
sympathy for the speaker, and after an
outburst they would all hush down, and
determine to listen. But every time the
speaker resumed, the response broke out
again and defied all restraint. The
speech ran short and troubled course,
and the speaker closed, by no means
happy. They at once explained to him
the source of his difficulty. When he
learned the trick his antagonist had
played on him, it is said he went for
that heather Chinee" in a phraseology
not suggested by the third command
ment.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

THE battle-feIds around Richmond are
quiet meadows now, reclaimed by ma
ture, with few signs of the days of
"blood and IRON" At Cold Harbor,
Fair Oaks, Seven Pines and Malvern Hill
one sees little to remind him of the ter
rible scenes enacted there twelve or
fifteen years ago. In the woods and on
hillsidesand river bluffs in the Peninsula,
where no attempt has been made to cul-
tivate the land, sloping earthworks are
still to be seen, but elsewhere the in
trenchments have been leveled. Below
Petersburg there are few traces even OF
such formidable Notifications as Stead
man, He'll and Damnation. The Crater
and the fields around it are owned by
Mr.. Griffiths, who was born close by, and
was in Petersburg when the mine was
fired. He has built house near the
Crater, and has his fathers farm under
excellent cultivation. The Crater itself
has been left almost untouched, and a
thick underbrush of peach trees and
sprouts has sprung up from the pits
thrown away by the soldiers during the
siege. The ravinc where the dead lay
in great heaps on that terrible morning
has been brought under the pillow year
after year, until now only slight de-
preston in the field can be pointed out.
The visitor has to pay twenty-five cents
for glimpse of the Crater and the in
terror Of shed stocked with battle
relics.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
The Kind of Religion Wanted.

We want religion that softens the
steps and tunes the voice to melody and
fills the eye with sunshine and checks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re-
buke-a religion that is polite, deferen-
tial to superiors, courteous to interiors
and considerate to friends--a religion
that goes into the family and keeps the
husband from being cross when dinner
is late, and keeps the wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes the husband mindful of the
scraper and door-mat; keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross and
amuses the children as we'll as instructs
them; cares for the servants besides pay
ing them promptly, projects the honey
moon into the harvest moon, and makes
the happy home like the Eastern fig tree,
bearing in its bosom at once tie beauty
of the tender blossoms and the glory Of
the ripened fruit. We want religion
that should interpose between the ruts
and gullies and rocks of the highway of
life and the sensitive souls that are tray
cling over them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
A Musical Mountain.

A gentleman of Virginia City, Ne
vada, who has been taking a look among
the old abandoned mines of the Truckee
district, made a critical examination of
the musical mountain, of which q good
deal was heard some years ago when the
mines were first discovered. Some of
the early miners pitched their tents at
the foot of the mountain, and were not
little surprised and puzzled at hearing,
during the quiet hours, the tinkling
sounds that seemed to pervade the whole
atmosphere, coming from they could not
tell where. The sounds were not unlike
those of small music box. At times
they supposed that the sounds wereu
caused by the wind playing among the
twigs on the side of the mountain. but
they found that tn solution would not
answer, as the same bushes were found
everywhere, while the musical sounds
were heard nowhere else than on the side
of the mountain, at the foot of which
they were camped. They spent much
time in scouting about and listening of
nights and quiet hours during the day,
and at last tracked the sounds to a great
bed of small pieces of rock that covered
the slope of the mountain. These bits
of rock were found to be quite senorous,
and the miners concluded that the
sounds they emitted were caused by the
action of the wind among them. The
gentleman who recently visited the
mountain says he went to it expecting
to find good deal of humbug, but
found it much more of a curiosity than
he had anticipated; the mingled tink-
lings much resembled the sounds of an
@olian harp, and frequently attaining a
startling degree of loudness and dis
tinctness. The sounds seemed to rise
and fall, approach and recede, as though
caused and governed by the wind. On
close examination it was found that
the small flakes of rock covering the
face of the mountain contain a large
per cent. of iron. This iron is supposed
to be magnetic, and there appears to be
constant motion among the chips of it,
which appear to cover the ground to the
depth of several feet in many places.
The whole drift of broken rock seems to
be moving down the slope of the noun
tain with the slow, creeping motion of a
glacier, and the slipping over each other
of the fragments composing the mass is
thought to cause the tinkling sounds,
which ave so numerous as to mingle and
rise into a single strong musical murmur.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
Fossil EOOt.Prints.

1t is not generally known, saws a cor
respondent of the Rochester On. W
Democrat, that the glen ut Bellona, Yates
County, contains remarkable curiosity.
In the bed of the stream, Just above the
village of Bellona, is rock about fifty
feet square, uncovered in low water. 1t
is entirely covered with fossil foot
prints, deep in the rock, of men and
birds and extinct animals. They are as
clearly defined as the footprints of the
children who had played on the damp
bank the morning | visited the glen
Some of these human footprints are
very small and delicate; others arc
overwhelmingly large, yet retain their
symmetry. The distinctness of these
tracks, and their relative position pre-
cludes any doubt of their character,
even TO an unscientifc observer. !
placed my feet in some of these tracks,
and of course felt the usual awe Incl
dent to travelling in the footsteps of this
lost tribe, and all that sort of thing, but
the emotion uppermost in my mind was
one of indignation. | remembered the
thrilling description by Indian his
torians and romancers of the fine art of
following the trail of the savage. In
common with most American youth, |
had admired the detective skill of
Leather Stocking and those other ex-
perts. You know how those fellows
used TO crouch down and follow the trail
by examining every leaf, Well, you
can imagine my feelings of resentment
at the deception practiced by these his
torians rs | followed that deep trail over
the rocks in the Bellona glen. Here are
footprints in the rocks deep enough and
distinct enough To have existed since
the flood, and to still exist for decades
and centuries, and large enough to en-
yelope Bullymore ham If that is the
kind of trail the untutored savage left
who can blame him for taking to the
water to hide it? 1t almost shames the
track of the mastodon not ten feet away.
| was particularly interested in one set
of footprints, especially large and
distinct. | obtained some plaster,
sterotyped that foot and it rests ON my
table as ! write, yeritable monument
of departed greatness. | shall send you
a cast of that foot.
! found tracks of some animal in this
rock which measures nearly thirty
inches in length mean distinctive
tracks, several times repeated, with such
exactness of outline as to identify the
species TO which the animal belonged.
These rocks are favorite resort of
biologists from all parts of the country
The layer of limestone upon the surface
of which these footprints appear is
about two feet in thickness. Some of
the finest specimens have been destroyed
by removal of portions of the rocks for
building purposes-a fate which awaits
the remainder. | shall cndeavor to
procure casts of several of those re-
manning.
1t is stated by reliable witnesses that
many years ago, while workmen were
blasting these rocks TO obtain building
stone, a perfect petrifaction of a human
head and face of an unknown type was
found. The workmcn and many others
crowded around to examine it, and one
of them, impatient at the work being
stopped, struck it with his hammer and
DESTROYED it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

THE buildings of the coming Paris Ex-
hibition in 1878 are the largest yet con-
ceived for the purposes. The nave of
the main building is nearly two thou
sand two hundred feet long; the vista,
which includes the two vestibules, is
more than two thousand three hundred
and sixty feet; and each of the transepts
and vestibules, more than one thousand
one hundred feet. The eight industrial
courts are all parallel, and are divided
into two series of four each; one series
being devoted to the productions of
France, and the other to the rest of the
exhibiting nations. In the center OF the
garden, between the two series, are two
ranges of fine art galleries. On the OBJ
posite side of the river is the Trocadero
Palace, which is to be devoted to the
history of man from the savage state
down to the most modern appliances of
science and art. 1t will afterward be
used as municipal museum.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A SCOTTISH traveller, who stopped for
few hours in city in the interior of
India, caught a glimpse of white
woman in a native dress She was in a
palki, borne on the shoulders of slaves
which indicated that her rank was high.
On the following day she sent a message
to him that he was the first European
she had seen since her childhood; that
she remembered being dragged away
from her family, while their house was
burning, when she was five years old;
that her name was Lucy; that she had
grown up among the natives, had forgot
ten the English language, and was the
wife of an Indian Prince, and that she
desired to inquire of the traveller about
her parentage. The messenger implored
him to see the woman, who was weeping
at home; but before he could do so she
was removed from the neighborhood,
presumably as consequence of her
communication with the stranger. The
inference is that Lucy is survivor of
the mutiny massacres of 1857.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A NEW kind of explosive has been dis
covered which will cause considerable
CONSERVATION in large cities. Not long
since man walking along Teachers
Street, Liverpool, after lightning cigar
dropped the blazing match through the
grating of a sewer. Straightway there
was an earthquake, with much noise !;
the pavement opened, flames issued
forth, and a stone weighing three hun
bred pounds rose in the air. The sewer
gas continued to burn for long time
after the explosion. If sewers are in
reality receptaeles of underground serial
dynamite, city real estate has rather
insecure foundation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

EUREKA (Nevada) Sentinel: While
blasting rock from one of the quarries on
the hillside west of town, the attention
of one of the workmen was attracted by
the curious formation of one of the pieces
that had been split off. An examination
proved that imbedded in the rock was a
wasp's nest, the texture and cells of
which, although turned to stone, were
plainly visible. On breaking open some
Of the cells the larva and two perfectly
formed wasps were found within in the
same petrifed condition as the rest.
Thexe was no visible crack or outlet by
which the insects could have penetrated
the rock, and the piece in,,which this curi-
GUS formation was found was taken from
depth offorty feet from the surface.
The rock is granite sandstone sedimen-
tary origin. The specimen was carefully
cut out and forwarded to the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A SNOWMAN travelling with piano.
rama of scenes from the Bible met a
Yankee, and on learning that he could
play piano, engaged him to play APP
propriate selections after each picture at
his show that night. The curtain rose,
revealing "The Return of the Prodigal
Son." upon which the player struck up,
when Johnny Comes Marching Home p
The effect produced was wonderful.
Consider yourself engaged to travel
with me-" said the Snowman. "You
draw better than the picture"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
QUE PRODUCING IND UsTR y

The Department of State is in receipt
of further communications from our
Consul at Leeds, concerning the general
import and export trade of the United
Kingdom, and how to enlarge the trade
of the United States herewith. During
the first eight months of the present
year the total imports of breadstuffs
into the United Kingdom we're: Wheat,
$102, $50 900; grain and -four, $93, $780,
000 meat, dead and alive, SOC, 000, 900;
butter. cheese, and eggs, about $50, 000,-
600; miscellaneous, $40, 1000 00 making
the total of farm products the enormous
sum of 1905, 750,0O The harvest re-
ports render it certain that imports for
the remaining four months will be even
greater in proportion than the above.
OF wheat imports, the United States
supplied about60, coo, 600 bushels Russia
"a 00O, 900 and India Is, 000, 600, jumping
from tenth in 1875 to third in 1877. 1t
is expected India will become dangerous
competitor of the United States in the
grain trade, as no pains will be spared to
develop her resources in that line.
Imports of fresh meat from the United
States, as soon as prejudices against it
are dissipated, will almost become
illimitable. In eight months the i'm
ports of cotton were $4,000, 900, of
which 800, 900, 900 were from the United
States. The Consul speaks hopefully of
the future of the American wine, fruit,
watch, and shoe trade.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A "TRUANr SCHOOL," the idea of
which is said to be borrowed from the
Strof Schulz system, of Hamburg, is
about to be instituted at Hackney.
London. Truants are to be brought be-
fore magistrate, as at present; but,
instead of being sent to an industrial
school, they are to go to the Truant
School. There the silent system " is
to be rigidly enforced. The children
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

If we take baby of, say six months
old, and of the weight Of about thirty
pounds, and drop it from a height of
four feet to the floor, it will break into
from two to eight pieces. OF course,
the pieces remain attached to each other
by clothing and pins, but that its frame
work is broken very superficial inspec-
ton will show. 1t is this extreme LA
bility to break which renders careful
men SO reluctant to hold babies.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A MAINE man went out the other
morning and cut down his apple-trees,
and the Lewiston Journal asserts that
when his friends expostulated, he said
that he had INDUCED in SO much pro-
family at seeing his apples stolen from
time to time, that he found every Sun
day morning that he was unfit to go to
church. If Eve could not withstand a
simple apple, perhaps even a Maine man
ought not to be expected to withstand
the loss of whole orchardfull.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A PRACTICAL economist has figured it
out that it costs the people of this coun-
try too mucn to die, or rather too much
to get buried after they are dead. To
say nothing of speculation in cemetery
lots, the cost of flowers and funeral "trip
perry is enormous, not to say startling
The population of the United States be-
ing forty millions, the accepted average
of death rates will give about one
million two hundred and fifty thousand
deaths annually. Estimating the aver
age cost of funeral at one hundred dol
lars, the mortality tax foots up one hun
dred and twenty-five million dollars,
or over three dollars a head for every
man, woman and child. Yet death di-
vides the profits with life, for what is
doubtless extravance gives employment
to the survivors and extends the re-
sources of livelihood.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

THE Quebec judges have been called
upon to decide what is meant by
Indians" in the law which prohibits
the sale of Intoxicating drinks to such
persons. A dealer has been prosecuted
for selling to the Indians of Lorette, and
defends on the ground that the peopleso
described are not Indians at all owing to
the constantintermarriages between those
of Indian descent and the French Can
adams. The Supreme Court of this State
once decided that negro was justly SO
called when one-sixteenth of his blood
was African in its character; but the
precedent will not help the Quebec
courts great deal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

THEY say the moon is a "dry" one.
Why doesn't it take something.-1 Turn
er's Falls Reporter. We should think
two ''horns" might quench its thirst
Yankee Blade. Perhaps it has just
passed its ''last quarter" and objects to
trimming its face" -Norristoae Herald.
Why, you poor luna-tics, it's full nearly
as often as any of you.-OI City Der
rick
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

G.. MoNoD sums up his estimate of
Theirs in this expressive sentence: "a
wonderful ensemble of mediocre qualities
in perfect equilibrium, and brought into
play by an indefatigable energy, gave
him superiority which might in GER
tain moments pass for genius"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
EDITORIAL 0LH

In the valley of the Kander, i'll Swift
erland, is an establishment where inyalids
resort to inhale the breath of cows.
There is large salon or parlor fitted up
with row Of stalls for COWS on either
side, and in the center are placed sofas
and chairs on which the patients sit;
and, the external air being excluded,
they are forced to take into their lungs
the same which has passed through
those of the cows, and which, in con-
sequence, is supposed to have acquired
hygienic and curative quality.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A rIRM Of andertakers in San Fran
cisco caters to the desire of its poor
patrons by hiring to them very costly
coffin. After the funeral is over the
body is secretly transferred to a cheap
coffin.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

A MINNEAPOLIS miller asserts that
-four made from the new crop of wheat
will make forty pounds more bread to
the barrel than the -four from last
years wheat.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

ATHLETIC sports for ladies consist in
jumping at conclusions, walking around
subject, running through novel, and
skipping all the news in the papers but
deaths and marriages.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

WHEN man returns home at night
and kisses his wife with more than ordi-
nary tenderness, she may be pretty GER
tain that he has been in mischief. -
joaquin Miller.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

DR.. CALDWELL, of Iowa, says that in
1862 he was present at the examination
of body which had been buried two
years before. The coffin had sprung open
at the joints, and the hair protruded
through the openings On opening the
coffin the hair of the head was found to
measure eighteen inches and the whiskers
eight inches The man had been shaved
before being buried. In 1874 a similar
circumstance occurred in Mercer County,
Pennsylvania. In digging a grave the
workmen came across the skeleton of a
man that had been buried ten years. The
hair was as firm as during life, and had
grown to a length of ten or twelve
inches, Ht
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

The humanity of the Nez Perces in
their last battles seems to have been
something remarkable for Indians. One
said to wounded soldier, who lay help
less, expecting every minute to be
scalped: 8" Me no kill you. You can't
kill us. Me no want to kill man who
can't shoot. Plenty man can shoot. No
use you try shoot at me-" Another
chief approached wounded soldier at
midnight and said in broken English,
" Poor boy, you're too young to go to
war l no kill you" Then he put a
blanket under his head and left him.
General Miles in return ordered all the
wounded Indians to be well cared fer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

THE threshing of English wheat is in
progress, and the yield is found to be
below the lowest estimates. This way,
gentlemen, for supplies.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

ALTHOUGH Hiram Powers is dead,
says recent letter from Florence, the
business of the studio still continues
under the direction of his son, Mr..
Longworth Powers, in connection with
the widow of the senior Powers. The
seulptors are Messrs. Preston and
Longworth Powers, the two sons, both
of whom inherit a talent for the art
Mr. Preston Powers is at present en-
gagged on portrait busts and Mr.. Long
worth Powers's work is about the same.
The latter has just completed in clay the
bust of the late Oliver Charlick, of New
York. Among the works for sale are
Hiram Powers's three busts of Faith,
Hope and Charity all exquisite
pieces. They have also just finished
another copy of his " Loulie's Hand" a
gem he priced highly. The original
plaster of the celebrated "Greek Slave"
still occupies place in the studio, as
well as the fine figure of "The Last of
Her Tribe" in marble.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01

are not to be allowed to utter a single
word, either by day or by night, save to
their teachers, or when saying their
lessons. They are to be kept for the
space of one week in the silent school,
and are then to be free to return home
and attend the ordinary schools of the
benehcent board. If they again play
truant they may be committed to the
place of mute torment for fortnight or
for three weeks, or even for month.