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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28
Orfgim Of the Postage stamp.

The postage stamp was born in London
on the 10th of January, 1910, and Eng
land employed it alone for ten years.
France adopted it on the 1stof January,
1849, and Germany in 1850. According
to M. Alphonse Esquiros, it was curious
incident that gave rise to the idea Of post
age stamps. A traveller was crossing about
forty years ago, district in the north
of England. He arrived at the door of
an inn where postman had stopped to
deliver letter. A girl came out to
receive it; she turned itover and over in
her hand and asked the price OF postage.
This was large sum, and evidently the
girl was poor, for the postman demanded
a shilling. She sighed sadly, and said
the letter was from her brother, but that
she had no money; and so she returned
it to the postman. The traveller was
man who had rambled about the earth
for instruction and observation. Having
a good heart, he offered to pay the post
age on the letter, and in spite of the re-
sistance of the young girl paid the shil-
ling. This resistance made him reflect.
Scarcely had the postman turned his
back, than the innkeeper's young daugh-
ter confessed that it was trick between
her and her brother. Some signs marked
on the envelope had told her all that she
wanted to know, but the letter contained
no writing.
eve are both poor" she added, "and
SO we invented this mode of correspond
ing and preparing our letters" The
traveller continuing his road, asked him
self if system giving place to such
frauds was not vicious one.
The sun had not set before Mr.. Row
land Hill Chat was the name of the
traveler) had planned to organize the
postal service upon new basis. He said
that in England, where family ties are
strong, and where the members often
live far apart, where, too, the spirit OF
commerce knows no limits, TIE cores
pondence was only limited by the cost
of the post; and that by lowering this
barrier, great service would be rem
dered to society without hurting the
resources of the treasury. These views
were agreed to by the English Govern
ment, and on the 10th of January not
more than penny was paid for letters
which circulated over the whole extent
of the British Isles. This bold scheme
soon surpassed the hopes of the leg
islators. Ten years later, in 1850, the
number of letters increased from 1,50O,-
600 to 1888, 1852. Mr.. Rowland Hill oc-
cupied in England the post of Secretary
| to the Postmaster General.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

DID you ever notice what different
aspect everything wears in sunshine from
what it does in the shadow? And did
you ever think what an analogy there
was between the sunlight of the cIoudless
skies and the sunshine that CLEANS into
the darkened chambers Of the human
soul? How bright and beautiful are the
golden beams that break the riven clouds
to light up the world again after sue
cession of dark and stormy days. How
happy and peaceful are the blissful
words OF hope and cheer that touch the
heart and fill the soul with emotions of
peace and joy after long period Of sor-
rowl There are none living who do not,
in greater or less degree, have an in
fuence over the earthly happiness Of
others. The sense of contributing to
the pleasure of others augments our
own happiness. Unselishness, Christ an
charity and loving kindness are sun
beams Of the soul.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

A lady of thirty, a plump and jolly
brunette sees with some anxiety dark
downy line penciling itself on her SUI
perior lip. She does not care to COM
pete with the bearded woman, and con-
suits the advertisements. She finds just
what she wants-a depilatory pomade,
warranted to remove the most obnoxious
mustache woman ever had in five ap-
plications. She obtains box at a price
of ten francs, and follows the directions
on the label with care. The mustache
thrives on the depilatory, and after a
while madam yields to the inevitable,
and consoles herself by rejecting that it
might be worse. Three or four years
roll by, and she sees with alarm that
her hair is beginning to thin. A trife
of mustache can be borne, but bald
head never, and again she has recourse
to the advertisements. She finds the
article she needs-a miracle pomade--
to increase the thickness and beauty of
her hair. On visiting the shop she is
stupeied. 1t is the same shop, the same
attendant, the same bottle at the same
price, the same pomade SO far as she can
judge from appearances. Only the label
has been changed. The merchant, on
being severely examined, admits that it
is the same pomade. 1t failed SO utterly
to remove hair that he turned it into a
hair invigorator. With great Joy the
customer buys pot and applies it land
her hair goes on falling out faster than
aver
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28
VOLUME Ill.
DAVID GRkY'S ESTATE.
BY..ELlzABErB.cuM

Over his forge bent David Grey,
And thought Of the rich man 'cross the Tsy.
Hammer and anvil for me " he said,
And weary toll for the children's bread.
For him soft carpets and pictured walls,
A life of ease in his spaoiosl5 halls"
The ciang Of bells on his dreaming broke;
flicker Of fame, whirl of smoke.
OK in travis, forge grown white-hot,i
oat and hat were alike forgot,
As up the highway, the blacksmith ran,
In face and mien like crazy man.
School house fire p Mems hearts stood still
Aud the women prayed as women will.
While Dove the tumult the vailing cry
frightened children rose shrill and high.
Night in its shadows hid sun and earth;
The rich man sat by his costly hearth.
Lord Of wide acres and untold gold,
But wifeless childiess, forlorp and old,
He thought OF the family 'cress the way;
+" / would" he sighed, al were David Grey"
The blacksmith knelt at his children's bed
To look once more at each smiling head.
" My darling all safe Oh God )" he cried,
"My sin in thy bouDdless mercy hide!
Only to-day have learned how great,
Hath been thy bounty, aud my estate"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

DIR. WIN. AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG
died in New York, April 8, aged eighty
seven years. He was known for his
benevolence and prominent clergy
man of the Episcopal Church. st.
Luke's HOSPITAL was founded through
his efforts, and he lived in the building,
acting rector of the chapel attached
thereto and devoting his time to the
patients. He also planned the large
charity Of st. John on Long island, which
includes home for cripple band destitute
children, another for old people Of both
sexes, and other departments. DR..
Mrhlenberg was the author of raany
well known hymns, among them, II
Would Nos Live Always" "Shout the
Glad Tidings, Exultingly Sing" and
"Like Noah's Weary Dove" He pub
lished q volume Of MChurch Poetry"
and another of "Ihe Music Of tho
! Church" and the Peoples PAltes.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28
GENERAL xSTELLIGENCR.

THIRTY participants in recent mas
querade ball at West Troy are sick with
smallpox, supposed to have been dissem-
mated by hired costumes.
ONE hundred and thirty-eight thou
sand two hundred and twenty-five people
left Great Britain last year and 92,647
entered. So the actual decrease in pop
ulstion was 46,5 75.
ENGLAND draws enormously ON the
Continent for her supplies of vegetables
and fruit. A correspondent of the
Phare de Loire, writing from Pont Liable,
mentions that last year there had been
sent to England from that district
14,700,0 600 kilogrammes of potatoes, an
increase of 100000 kilogrammes over
1875.
The Massachusetts, census last year
shows that the total value of farm pro-
ducts was some "a, 500, 600; hay yielded
500, 900, the orchards 1926, 900, garden
sauce S2l4.000, eggs and poultry
$416,000, and milk 100000. The value
of the States natural and manufactured
products last year was over five hum
bred dollars for every man, woman and
child.
AN expedition to explore the buried
cities of Central Asia is being talked of
in Bombay and elsewhere in India.
Great treasures are known to exist under
the shifting sands of some of the deserts,
and if tradition is to be trusted the
tomb of Ghengis Khan, with its tabu-
lous wealth, still stands near Lake Ia
basun Nor. Reports are constantly
brought in by Mongols of gold and silver
treasures which the shifting sands dis
close, but which they have super
stitious dread of touching.
INDIANAPOLIS Herald: DIR. Zurn, of
Leipsic, recently delivered lecture in
that city, on the dog, representing him
as useless, expensive and dangerous
the only animal that goes mad by spon-
taneous effort He is perfect emporium
for parasites, and has letters patent on
very disagreeable louise called the PEN
tastomum, which is fatal to man If he
gets it down his throat. -Four kinds of
tape-vorm riot in the interior of his
body, and his ears are never entirely
free from FOREIGN inhabitants
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
METHOD is the hinge of business.

MEIhOH 10 ouC uiuSo Va ou"i"N'
JOY is like the ague; one good day
between two bad ones.
PRAYERS and provender never hind
cred any mans journey.
BLUE glass is said to be sure pre-
ventive of hydrophobia. Itisgiven in a
semi.pulverized form several days in adj
vance Of any indication of the disease.
CLEVELAND Leader; Chamberlain,
the Washington gambler, can pay his
creditors only one cent on the dollar.
They should accept it with resignation,
and softly whistle the Ninety and Nine.
THERE are moments when the two
worlds, the earthly and the spiritual,
sweep by near to each other, and when
earthly day and heavenly night touch
each other in twilight.
"PIETY," remarked an Arkansas
preacher to his congregation the other
day, "does not consist in noise. The
Lord can see you give to the needy just
as easily as he can hear you pray the roof
off,"
WE learn from the Christian Register
that Rev. Mr.. Tippler has published
volume of sermons marked by great
temperance of language" Probably,
then he is a reformed tippler, says the
Me,, Aoe
ONr of the arguments used against
the massage of the women suffrage bill in
Massachusetts was that the ballot would
do women no good, because none OF
them would admit that they were old
enouph to vote until they were too old
to take any interest in politics.
LIFE has burden for every ones shoulder
None may escape from ,'s trouble ana care ,,as
miss na az ~ a. clo.a as the garments we wear.
,,,,,v,..a
'0r, o"h' uO oar hearts Of it's treasure Of soug
Lovers grow cold aud our friendships are slightest
Yet somehow or other We worry along
Rev. WILLIAM GUTHRIE BARNES 2,
Brooklyn, New YORK. mas JUST ie.uinou
from camping out IN fiorloa' no ,o's
his gun in the bed OF the Witniacoocnes
River, and had not time TO PICK ~ up a.
two alligators were smiling AZ MN as NO
crawled up the bank
The countryman VINO steps on car
platforms wnile inc 'raln ~ 'u I'M. ~
full speed mas tuineo up asAln W. y,s
at Slaugntersviiie' ienneese0' 80
found ne was aiive anu 'a,."S.0' ~
wrist ana leg Dloker' nle MP 1850
out OF place, ana Inc Oack oi MS noAu
badly bruised.
A VIRGINIA. nun'el says 'nAs nc '1w
about seven hundred 1nousano uucAs
settle on pond. lney were wooseu
closely together. ne nreo pom oallsl'
Oi nls gun ln1o Uno" hwy
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

PHILADELPHIA Press: Paul Murphy,
the famous chess player, is in New
Orleans Asylum. About year ago he
began to lose his mental control, and
some of his friends believed that his NAL
ady originated in the strain upon his
mind in playing many and difficult
games of chess. He was educated for
the law, and his family and friends
greatly objected to his taking up chess.
playing as business. Just before the
rebellion he became suddenly and
thoroughly disguised with chess-so
much prejudiced against it that he has
since never played. He has subsequently
led an idle, morose life.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

The new interest law of Connecticut
fixes the rates for future contracts st six
per cent, three hundred and sixty days
being counted as year. Should Dor
rover agree in writing to pay taxes and
insurance, the sums actually so paid
may be legally collected, in addition to
the six per cent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28
NUMBER 2.
W0Rk AND WAIT.
By JOAQUIN MILLER.

orty days and forty nights,
about the broken waters
Noah and his sons and daughters;
Forty days they beat and blow
Forty days Of faith, and loi
The olive leaf, the lifted heights,
The rest at last, the calm delights.
Forty years OF sun and sand,
Serpents, beasts and wilderness,
Desolation aud distress,
War and Jasmine, wall arr: woe
Forty wears Of faith, and ioi
The mighty Moses lifts hand
Ard shows at last the Promised Land.
Forty years to fast and pray
The patient Christ outworn dehed
The angry tempter at his side.
Forty days and forty years
OF patient sacrifice and tears--
Ioi what are all Of these to-day
That time has nothing more to say ?
Lift your horns, exult and blow,
Believe and labor. Tree and vine
Must flourish ere the fruit and wine
Reward your planting. R.und and round
The rocky walls with faith profound,
The trumpets blew, blew loud, and 10
The tumbled walls OF Jericho.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

IT ia not generally known that water
in pistol, at short range, is a more
destructive agent than any bullet OF
lead.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

The Missouri Legislature has enacted
bill Offering bounty of five cents for
every rat that is killed.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

A WARMING to married men-A
broom-handle factory in Wisconsin turns
out five thousand broom 4andles day.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04
The Fighting About Kars.

The anticipated struggle at Kars has
already begun. The town lies directly
In the track of the main body ofthe Rus
sian army in Asia, which has Erzeroum
for its objective point. Its capture is
the first essential to the accomplishment
Of the Russian purpose. Even lift were
possible to make detour around it, the
Russians are too sagacious to leave such
strongly fortified position in their rear,
between them and their base ofsupplies.
The town lies ninety-fve miles to the
northeast of Erzeroum, and is situated
on table land six or seven thousand
feet above the sea level. II has strong
citadel, and is defended also by ram
parts surrounded by ditch. On the
hills at the north there are strong forth
fed works. The town has twice been
taken by the Russians-in 1928 and in
1854. In the latter year it stood two
months siege. The Russians made a
desperate attempt TO carry it by assault
but were driven back with great havoc,
leaving eight thousand dead behind
them. Its capitulation finally was oc-
casioned by famine-the revictualing of
the town being made impossible by the
completeness ofthe Russian investment.
Bearing i'll mind the natural strength of
the position, the thoroughness with
which 1t is fortified, and the obstinate
resistance which the Turks were able to
make in 1854, ii will be seen that the
Russians have no easy task before them.
Probably the first signal success or fail
ure of the war will be registered at
Kars; and the fighting which has al
ready taken place there will be only the
prelude to a struggle possibly as long
and bloody as that of 1854. The aggre-
gate of the Turkish forces on the front
Ter between Batoum, Kars and Erze-
roum is estimated at $4,000.
The dispatches received indicate that
the Russians are extending their civil
administration to keep pace with the
progress of their arms, and that the in.
habitants are welcoming them as
friends. The most discouraging circum-
stance for Turkey is that the populations
through which Russia has TO move, both
in Europe and Asia, while paying NOM
inal allegiance 10 the Porte, are in actu-
al sympathy with the Russians, and look
upon them, not as invaders, but as de-
liverers.-[ Boston journal.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04

a. There is no doubt that large
share Of the Republican party have re-
garded with distrust the southern poll
~ Of the president. Their belief was,
that the Republican candidates for gov
ernor In South Carolina and Louisiana
having been elected by majority, they
ought to be sustained by the federal
government. But the fact being that
the constitution authorizes no interior
enoc by the federal government In the
Affairs Of q state, except In cases of "do-
nestle violence" and there having been
no domestic violence" Ia these states,
In the constitutional meaning of the
terms, sineo tho election, Il Aao been
the duty of the president to. withdraw
the troops. II the Democrats of Yer
mont could by any means short of actu-
al violence set up de Jacfo government
70 the state, the state alone must deal
it'll 1t and submit TO 1t. No appeal to
the federal government TO sustain the
right can, under the constitution, avail,
unless domestic violence" exists which
the authorities of the state cannot quell.
The president has manifested wisdom
and good sense In seeking first for as
snranoe that the withdrawal of the
troops would not be followed by vio-
ienoe. and the result thus fay has been
fortunate.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04

~ In rccounting the "notable' tenn
perance work done by some temperance
women in Vermont, the Rutland Globe
SAYS:
At Vcrgennes they prosecuted one
poor fellow three times and then con-
vericd him. The Middlcbury women
had lhc druggists locked up and would
not release them till they signed bond
TO stop liquor selling, which they prin-
ted III the local papers. They also Sc
cured column in every paper in the
county. and appointed an editress to fill
the space with temperance matter, and
have moreover induced the county COM
missioner 10 make woman the liquor
agent, which has resulted in decreasing
the sales fully two-thirds.'
This statement might be referred to
in the chastc and classical language of
dime novel advertisements, and called
"fiction founded upon facts" 1t is
true the ladies of Middlebury and Yer
gennes have done and are doing noble
work in the temperance cause, but they
will not care to have the credit ofputting
the druggists, or anybody else, under
lock and key TO compel their reform.
1t is not quite true either, that they
have secured column in every paper
in the county, or that they have secured
the appointment of woman to be liq-
uor agent, though it is thought by many
that such all experiment would be
worth trying.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04
Terrible Fire in Montreal.
MONTREAL, April 90.

MONTREAL, April ~.
About five o'clock this morning fire
broke out in the Montreal Novelty
works building, st. Urban street. Ow-
ing tn the immense amount OF infiam-
mable material stored in the building,
all efforts to save the building were
fruitless. 1t was five stories high and
the walls were badly built. About six
O'Clock the walls fell outward with a
terrible crash, breaking through the root
of coffin store and completely demol-
ishing number of sheds and out-hous-
es. Eight flremen under Chief Patton
were playing upon the roof and sheds
and the coffin store when the wall fell.
They saw the wall begin to totter and
made rush for the she'd, and barely
got inside when they were completely
buried under several feet Of hot bricks.
After the walls fell the means of the
firemen rent the air. A band of citi-
Gems went 10 work to dig the sufferers
out. Four were found beneath board
fence, alive, but suffering terribly. Nine
were taken out dead, three of them rec
ognized as iiremen. The bodies We're
terribly disiigured. The following is a
list Of the killed and wounded: Killed
Michael Barry, fireman, head smashed
William Perry, fireman, badly nangled
Richard Schedules, legs broken, skull
crushed; Thomas Higgins, fireman,
struck on the temple by brick; AL
derac Blanchamp, jeweler, st. Lawrence
Main St., crushed and limbs broken
Geo. Lynch, assistant foreman of tho
water works, struck by falling chin.
ney and thrown with debris through the
adjoining wall, body mangled; Antoine
Sanders, stone cutter, back broken
Pierre Hanal, laborer, head smashed
feet cut off; Joseph Parker, while aid.
ing to remove collins from the under
takers adjoining, crushed. The follow.
ing are wounded: Chief Patton, caught
in a shower of red hot bricks, burned
bruised and cut in fiightful manner
John Livingstone, foreman of the Skin.
ner ladder, body mangled, cannot re.
cover; Guardian John Nolan of No. |,
burned about head and neck; Charles
Reddy, fireman, skull fractured; VIM
Ferguson, boss hose maker, supposed
fatally injured; Israel Bishop, fireman,
badly burned; Edward Stollery, fire
man, leg and arm broken and burned
Charles Bines, badly injured and
burned; Benjamin Harrison, back bro
ken; Albert Hoffman, fireman, back
hurt and burned. Total number seri-
ously injured, ten. Many others are
slightly hurt. Suspicious are enter.
tanned that the fire was the work of in.
cendiaries. The building was owned
by j. Bulmer, valued at $25, 900; occu.
pied by the Novelty company and Spen.
GERS shoe furnishing factory; loss to the
firms about $4,000.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04

B The report OF The special Masters
in Chancery who have for nearly two
years been investigating the accounts.
transactions and management of the
Vermont Central Railroad and its leased
lines by its legal receivers, Messrs. j..
Gregory Smith, Joseph Clark, W. c.
Smith, Benjamin p. Cheney and Law
renee Barnes, has been published.
Without going into particulars rs TO
their statements of the case, the general
result is the full vindication of these
gentlemen from all the charges of mis-
management, fraud and corruption,
which have been made and assiduously
repeated by newspapers within the state
and out of it, whose managers were ei-
Their interested in rival enterprises, OF
who thought TO make capital by the
sensations such charges would create.
The gentlemen who composed this in
vestigating committee are men of abil-
ity and at present above suspicion OF
any lack of integrity or collision with
fraud and wrong-doing. Ofcourse their
regulations hereafter cannot be guaran.
teed. They, too, like the Judiciary Of
the state, are liable to attack by the I'M
scrupulous demagogues- who desire to
ruin the Central Vermont railroad com.
pany at all hazards. The merits of the
controversies between this company
and its rivals and enemies may be and
probably will be decided by competent
courts Of justice, but the proper place
for the trial is not in the forum of the
newspaper. The great majority ofnews
paper readers are not fitted by educa
ton or pursuits TO judge intelligently
of the merits of such complicated con
troversy, even if properly and clearly
stated. Besides, it is doubtful if ever
the editor, whose wisdom is VIGOROUSLY
immaculate, is competent to unravel al
the intricacies of the subject, without
having much if any legal knowledge
and giving no time 10 its consideration
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-04

fact that the loss of strength is the great
est in the very headquarters of this
movement when at its hight. Thus,
taking the two years mentioned, the
$4,000 members in Illinois fell OFF to
$4,000 members; the 10000 in Indiana
to $4,000; the 10000 in Kansas to 24,-
600: the 10000 in Missouri to $4,000.
/. In view of these changes it is of little
matter that Ohio about holds its own.
and New York and Pennsylvania show
n slight increase, for in the latter states
the movement has had no such power,
socially, commercially or politically, as
in the great agricultural states of the
Northwest. In New England there have
been slight gains except in Massachu-
sets and Connecticut, although there
were never in the latter state but 480
members at one time. Maine has the
highest number, viz: 11,743; Vermont
coming next with 10,90S members,
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire each
having a little short of4000. The South
ern States show a general falling off.