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Long aud 1hUft ttafs quoted II ING cA4 On March.
and 11e sssr May. C.i,o1rlsnas quiet " 7AtaTIkct
l9Hx cut haias ~ boxed; sweet pIcklrd hanla
hac1n guotcI ~ shoulders tc for short rtts
DC for efu!t cltats l4f1lsic for hSns. III csnvAscl
Ant packed.
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f4ilt1 tvF msxs; kll 754il.l0 for extra mEssI and
10 l0te1 Hl for hAull- Es1a NA tneae OF $50 bJIa
lAtns II &1U.tD.
:.TALLow-WA quoted a. 55fx7s{c for city, and 70
7Ho fur country lots, tho tnslde tor no. J.
, 1877-03-24
WHEAT At ODESSA.
Tho Odessa correspondent Of Julian Kunc, Of
thia city, wEitcs a. follows under ate OF Fcb "a;

lhH eIJ' WITCH ~ 1oIIo"ss Hhuef aate OF Febs u.
0qs grain MARKET IA ~ yet rery du. There has hren
hardly any sails tcclcd fur tho last three weeka. Tho
we.' .a' H. heea souE'.t lnt. oSaa xs n s'eh
hAtnf e with shipping. hut sail and seacrs.
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~ bHt n to rsstweE.' q e.! .'o1t n.s ba
W. sp1iaF .hrtt, ras sratn ttaao ha, oeYer been
hn.c' ii ~ Xarisa' ,!oa sPt. s svei sYuths!a
FOR several weeks hAck TIN roads voiLi carry
nnth!nK hht ,oairI and aray snnrIIes tr!res range
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, 1877-03-24
unn AALIA.

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os sha day sef0re salcs drSEKng - o. 3A3. ~ for
laG ti4 1ba fetched d. i3H R0l nany Wete ieft Ii
thu pens lnkold. and tho naEkst closed weak.
, 1877-03-24

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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
Slightly Familiar with Wales.

Those who remember how Major Tom
Ochiltree was appointed United States
Marshal for the State of Texas persuad-
ing President Grant that he, Major Tom,
was seriously injured in the defense of
the Presidents good name against a
crowd of Texan ruffians-will not be
preiudiced against the truth Of this other
story anent him as told by New Mex
leo newspaper: "On one occasion he was
in England, guest of nobleman who
had come i'll contact with him during a
visit to this country, and who had fallen
an easy victim to Toms unsurpassed
impudence and powers of fascination.
The Englishman had taken Tom to Lon
don and was exhibiting him to his friends
as a genuine American lion. Tom was
plentifully supplied with funds by his
noble friend, and was cutting grand
figure. One day Tom and his friend met
the Prince of Wales at club. The no
bleman asked permission of the Prince
to introduce his American friend. Leave
having been obtained, Ton was form
ally introduced to the heir apparent. He
grasped the royal hand and shook il
heartily, and then burst out Wales, old
fellow, Pm devilish glad to know you
let's take drink!P The horror of the
nobleman was changed to amazemenl
when the Prince gave Toms hand q
hearty shake and replied, Don't care il
do. Cheek carried the day. !"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
A SUICIDES HOTEL.

The Suicides Hotel in Paris has been
torn down. 1t was situated in the Latin
Quarter and was a great place of resort
for students, but of late years it gath
cred around itself rather superstitious
reputation, which gave it the cheerful
name it bore. Ten years ago young
student blew out his brains in the room
which he was occupying, and just one
year afterward another student COM
mitted suicide in the same room after
losing his money in a gambling house.
The proprietor of the hotel was alarmed
at the fate of these unhappy students
and the room was transformed into a
lumber-closet. A few months afterward
a waiter, who had been accused of theft,
crept into this lumber-room and hanged
himself. A strong minded. druggist took
possession of the premises and carried
on his business there, but being over
taken by serious trouble, he retired to
the fatal chamber and poisoned himself
with his own drugs. At last notice was
given that the place was about to be
pulled down to make room for the
Boulevard Saint German. An indem-
nifty of $4,000 was demanded, but re-
fused, and the jury having decided that
$l7,500 was ample compensation, the
owner grew respondent and declared he
was ruined man. A month ago he
asked permission to visit the old prem
Uses before they were pulled down. His
request was granted and nothing more
was heard of him until the workmen
found him hanging by the neck in the
fatal room.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
Afternoon Men.

There is proverb which says, "What
can be done any time is never done,
and it applies especially to n class who
have become slaves to the habit of pro-
crastination-th habitual postponing of
everything that they are not compelled
by necessity to do Immediately. Now,
delays are not only damaging to present
prospects, but destructive of ultimate
success. A dilatory man is not to be de-
pended upon, the slightest pretext is
sufficient for him to disappoint you; if
an employee, the sooner he is discharged
the greater the advantage to the en-
ployer.
There are those who may properly be
called afternoon men; they are always
busy getting ready to go to work. In
the morning they walk around, carefully
inspect their duties, and say, Plenty to
do to day; / must go TO work this after
noonr' About three o'clock they sur
vey what they haven't done, and ex-
claim: "One thing or other has proven
ted me from makingany Roadway to-day.
I'll quit and begin bright and early to
morrow morning. One day with them
is simply the rejection of another; there
is nothing accomplished in a whole life,
and their westering sun overtakes them
and finds no preparation for the wants
and infirmities of age. There is moth
ing to look back upon but squandered
time.
One hours exercise in the morning
loosens the muscles of the limbs, sets the
blood dancing in the veins, and fits a
tal for no
days activity, while one hours sloth
after breakfast produces torpor from
which it is almost impossible to rally.
Young men should be careful not to
acquire the habit of procrastination-
an evil which distinguished poet has
correctly called T" the thief of time. !"
There is no detective who can arrest the
time which has fled and restore the lost
minutes. He who INDUCES in Gust a
few minutes longer" in bed will be late to
breakfast and late to business and will
soon find himself so habituated TO laziness
that he will be late everywhere at the
station, at church, at an appointment, on
important as well as trivial occasions.
What is to be done should be done at
once, without a moments delay. Many
a man has lost his life by being one min
ute late. If you have half days
work to do, do it in the morning, for
some unforeseen event may transpire,
and you be compelled to omit the per-
Torrance of that particular duty, and
then, If everdone, it may rob you of time
which should have been devoted to other
business. "Take time by the forelock. +"
Afternoon men are unreliable men.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
RAIL WAY BUILDING IN 1877.

The Rdit'cay Age, of Chicago, pub
fishes a statement of the extent of rail
way building in the United States during
the last six months, which shows that,
up to July /, 1858 miles of track had
been laid, as against ESQ miles in the
anne period in 1876, 400 in 1875, and
$50 in 1874. In every year noted the
track-laying of the first six months was
from one-third to one-fifth only of that
of the year. This points TO mileage
of 5000 miles or more of new track in
1877. The Rait,cay Age says: "A very
notable feature is the amount of narrow
gauge track, all three feet, except one
(the Philadelphia and Atlantic City,
three feet and one-half). OF the 705s
miles built, 2S9, or over forty per cent,
are of this class-a pretty good evidence
that the narrow-gauge theory has in
herent merit, and is destined to form a
very important portion of our railway
system, in spite of the opposition of
some who can see no good in any gauge
but the standard. We believe in BOTH
in their appropriate spheres. The cost
of railway building was never SO low as
now, and yet it costs a great deal of
money to build railways of any kind in
any times. The economy of narrow
gauge roadshas generally been overrated,
and the extremely low figures antici-
pated by some have seldom been adj
hered to. On the other hand, the enor-
nous rate of $4,000 to 100000 per
mile, at which our principal lines were
formerly built, has been greatly reduced
for the best roads of late years. 1t will,
perhaps, be fair to estimate the average
cost of the roads in the above list of both
gauges, including equipment, at $l2, 900
per mile.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
Notable Outbreaks Of the Past.
iRschester IN. " Express,


Under our popular system of govern,
ment there ought to be no such thing rs
a riot to enforce popular claim of any
kind but the people of free country
are not unlike those who live under a
despotlsm there is always an element
ready to break out into furious demon
stations to right what is regarded as a
| grievance. A list of some of the most
notable riots since the Revolution will
be found to include the following:
In July, 1912, ut Baltimore, news
paper opposed to the war with England
was demolished.
September "a, 1881, four persons were
killed by the militia in riot at frovi-
dence.
August Is, 1885, several men killed
and wounded in riot at Baltimore,
about the Bank of Maryland.
July 1912, 1884, riot occurred in
New York City, about the supposed
aims and objects of the Aboltionists,
who were accused of promoting amalga-
nation.
August II, 1884, Catholic Seminary
or nunnery was burned at Charlestown,
Massachusetts.
August II, 1884, forty houses were
destroyed in an abolition riot in Phila-
delphia.
February 13, 1887, riot was caused
by the " hard times and high prices o
flour, and flour warehouses were sacked
and the -four destroyed in New York.
May II, 1888, Pennsylvania Hall and
other buildings were destroyed by an
abolition" riot.
December s, 1888, the Pennsylvania
Legislature was broken up by mob, and
after several days of riot the militia
were called out tosuppress the rioters.
May 6-S, 1914, in riot between
native Americans and lrishmen, thirty
houses and three churches were burned,
fourteen persons killed, and forty woun-
ded. The military were called out to
suppress the mob. This riot was renewed
July Z, 1914, when five thousand troops
were called out, and forty to fifty per-
sons killed before the mob was quelled
in Philadelphia.
The anti-rent riots in Albany Rens-
selaer, Delaware and Columbia Counties,
this State, from 1874 to lS47, were put
down by the State militia, after much
disturbance and destruction of property.
The Aston place riot, between the
friends of Forrest and Macready, took
place May 10, lS49, when several persons,
among them many innocent spectators,
were killed.
The great anti-draft riot in New York,
July 1876, 1868, was the latest out
break of the mob spirit upon any great
scale previous to the present deplorable
railroad riots, which have shocked and
saddened the country, and caused great
loss of life and property.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
Clcrgymen's Fish Stories.

The editorial correspondent of the
Richmond (Va.) Christian Adcocate con-
tans these stories The Pamunky re-
minded me of fish story. SO / told 1t
to Brother Peterson. it ran this way
A shark came up that river. A citizen
saw it, took sturgeon harpoon, went
out in canoe, sent the steel barb into
the shark. The shark darted. The cord
to the harpoon hung in the bow of the
boat, and that end of the canoe started
under the water. The man jumped to
the stern, and leaned back over the
rudder to keep the front from dipping.
The shark was doing his best, making
(say, roughly,) fifty miles an hour. The
fisherman could not go forward to I'M
hitch the cord, for the boat would go
right under, like mole in plowed
field, but quicker So the man had to
"rare" back, like he was driving a
fast horse in sulky before his sweet
hearts house. His neighbors hailed him
from the banks, but he hadn't time to
talk. They went home and told their
wives, and wondered. The boatmen on
the river shouted at him as he skeeted
by. He was going too fast to answer.
The shark turned out of the Pamunky
into the York. Capsized in a river three
miles wide, and mad shark close by,
was an ugly thought. The man wished
that he had been from home the day the
shark came by his house, and was re-
gretful generally. The shark made a
wide circle in the York, and returned uI
the Pamunky, and, nearly opposite the
starting point, suddenly stopped, rose tc
the top-dead. The man was glad. Now
this is not small story. 1t is of the
Centennial Krupp Gun calibre.
watched Brother Peterson. He didn't
seem to give way under it as | liked. He
took fresh bit of tobacco, and said, 81
know a bigger one" "Tell it."
will. In Charleston harbor fish
swallowed the anchor of a schooner, pu
out, and dragged the vessel UNDER
o." said |, that's apocryphal. Mine
was a true story. DIR. Leroy M. Lei
vouches for it, Brother Peterson
chewed briskly asecond or so, and said
81 heard Bishop Wightman say that h,
knew mine was true" A schoonel
against canoe, bishop against a pre-
siding elder, the odds were too great
worse than eight to seven" it was nj
use :" to attempt Gibraltar with a pocket
pistol" AS at Appomattox, yieldin,
to superior numbers and overwhelmin,
resources" / quit.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
The Fragile ChicagOienne.
fChicago Tribune.

A married man on Hoyne Avenue was
observed the other day to have several
complicated scratches in the vicinity of
his nose, and an acquaintance of the
family said pleasantly to that married
mans wife, / suppose you have been
having little difficulty with Theodosius,
Ell? Discipline must be maintained,
mustn't it?' The wife of Theodosius
looked at him with the cold glare of a
basilisk, and replied in icy tones, Sir, l
never should, even if my husband and |
should happen to disagree upon details
of domestic policy, forget what owe to
myself as woman, wife and lady"
Here the crushed friend made an idiotic
attempt at an explanation. No." said
the wife, if you see a few scratches
upon Theodosius's nose, do not rashly at
tribute them to me. l would not SO far
demean myself. But if you should see
big lump on the ridge-pole of his head,
or wedge out of his ear, or long bit
of sticking-plaster down his occiput,
then, Gully, you can bet your boots that
have been there, and that's Wilhelmina
Perkins, her mark You hear meY"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
RAILROAD CONSULTATION.

The Enquirer intimates that a move
ment is on foot among the railroad men
of Cincinnati for the calling of a meet
ing in that city of prominent railroad
officials of the country for the purpose
of concerted action and general agree
ment upon the matter of rates and
general management. Letters have been
sent out to various officials throughout
the country urging such action.
The object of the proposed consulta-
ton is principally an advance in the
rates of freight. Probably no better oc-
casion was ever offered for concerted
action of this kind than at the present
moment. The late strike, growing as it
did out of a reduction in wages to which
the management was forced, was the
Legitimate and logical result of con-
tinued system of carrying freights at less
than cost, which had been in active OPP
Grafton for months, and which to the
disgrace of the railroad management, be
it said, is being again openly entered
upon as soon as the strike is ended
More than half the roads in the country
have been bankrupted by this process
and unless some action in the direction
indicated by this call for meeting is
taken, the remainder must follow. The
business public is generally aware OF
this fact, and recognizing it in its ter
rible reality, are willing that an advance
shall take place. More than this, they
are even anxious for it and will cheer
fully acquiesce, and, more than that
will themselves put their shoulder
to the wheel to help in the united move
ment. The railroad managers of tn,
country are, and have been, engaged il
a Kilkenny-cat warfare, and now th,
business public proposes to take lh'
combatants by the tails, and if the figh
isn't stopped something will be apt t,
give way.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
Incidents Of the Pittsburg Plundering,

The Pittsburg Gazette says that nearly
everybody who witnessed the destruc-
ton of the Sunday afternoon riots
there, during the strike, can relate
some interesting incident of the whole
sale plundering done on that occasion.
A man who had stolen several hundred
pounds of white lead had, with the aid
of wheelbarrow, succeeded by hard
labor in getting his heavy load up Wash
ington and Wylie Streets to Fulton,
where he was unfortunately met by a
policeman. Sweating and staggering
beneath the tremendous physical strain,
he cursed and swore when the officer
made him wheel his plumber to the Cen
trail Station, where he was locked up.
A little girl, about twelve years of age,
toiled up the hill above Twenty-eighth
Street with three webs of muslin.
They were more than she could manage
with ease, and for every ten steps she
took forward she would fall back about
six. But never once did she lose her
grip On the muslin, to which she hung
with unabating tenacity. Her persist
ence was eventually rewarded, for she
| finally reached the top of the hill, and
then soon had her muslin safe at home.
Two Irish women were groaning beneath
the task of propelling along Liberty
Street two barrels of what they sup
posed to be -four. They stopped to rest
when one OF them said to her companion
"W.n, Mary Ann, what's the kind Of
-four We think ye haveg' Faith, and
/ Dunno" said Mary Ann, "but l be
lieve it's White River" One can imag
inc how they tore their hair when they
found, upon getting their plumber home
that it was nothing more than whit.
lime, worth about one dollar and hal
per barrel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

GEN. LIE DUC, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, isorganizing society called
the Relief Union, at Washington, to
ovide an efficient agency for concen-
trating and distributing cid to the poor
of the District, the leading principles of
the society being to afford relief to the
needy by furnishing work of some kind
at bread-wages and to offer aid in selling
any and all products of industry to the
best advantage to the workmen.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
Successful Cremation.

DIR. G. F. Winslow, Massachusetts
man, died at Salt Lake City on the 9TH
of July, leaving directions that his body
should be cremated. Owing to the OPP
position of friends, this direction was
not carried out until the 3lst ult On
that day the corpse, which weighed one
hundred and twenty pounds, was put in
furnace at 6 80 p. m. According to
count Of the process. to the Chicago
Times, =" the furnace was constructed
with double fues, so that the flames
came directly in contact with an en-
velope above the body, large current
of air being admitted. The first APP
pearance, as seen through the mica
apertures, was that of roasting, but in
twenty minutes nearly all the flesh was
consumed, and the bones had begun TO
crumbie. Half an hour later very lit
tie could be seen of the form of the
body. At Z AS o'clock DIR. Hamilton
opened the door of the furnace, and
only one or two pieces of bones could
be seen, and they crumblcd under the
weight of the ashes. At 1855 the pro-
cess was pronounced complete and sue
cessful by Drs. Hamilton and Smart.
The fires were drawn, and the ashes left
to cool short time before being re-
moved"
We were shown, says the Cincinnati
Gazette, by gentleman to whom it had
been sent in letter, about teaspoon
| full of the ashes of one of the thigh
bones of the deceased. 1t was pure
white powder, looking very much like
cream of tartar. The cremation had
been thoroughly accomplished as far as
/ the osseous system was concerned. a
small jar would have been amply suffi.
cient to contain the entire remains, il
the whole are to be judged from one OF
| its parts.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

RETURNS from all the customs dis
tricts of all the exports and imports dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877,
show the total exports Specie values) to
be 1902, 474, 5S1; total imports, $54l,
307 $40; excess of exports over imports,
$751;, 167, 032. In the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1876, the excess of exports over
imports was butH9, 643, 4S1. In the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1877, the exports
of coin and bullion amounted to $780,
1853, 1887 and imports to $40,774,414
while in the preceding year the exports
were $50, 5O6,3O2 and the imports only
$15, $685.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

A PooRHoUsE in Canada has been de-
stroyed by fire and seventeen persons
burned to death. The disaster is very
like that which occurred on long Is
land year or two ago, in which the
majority of those who lost their lives
were aged and decrepit persons.
Wherever one of these buildings is de-
stroyed the loss of life is generally very
great. Many of these buildings are of
fimsy character, and when attacked
by fame are destroyed in a short time.
The law should see to it that all such
public institutions are made safe with
out delay. Most communities have
laws touching the subject, but they are
generally dead letter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

A MARRIAGE was arranged between
two young people living some distance
apart, near Bengal, India, but who had
never seen one another. The bridegroom
duly arrived at the BRIDES village, and
the ceremonies had actually begun, when
a report reached the bride and her
mother that the intended husband was
an incurable cripple. They both de-
clared that they would commit suicide
rather than complete the ceremony, and
as it was fact that the would-be-brid
groom was cripple, he was dismissed
But according to the prevailing supersti-
ton, eternal disgrace would have at
tended the bride if she had not been
married on that day when matters had
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

MAX ADELER: "Have the railroads
struckY' asked an excited man, burst
ing into the sanctum like Russian tor
pedo. "They have" we replied gently
and firmly, lots of it; you'll find the
railroads truck over at the baggage
ROOM" And then we smiled our sad,
sweet smile, and the celestial calm of
an angel benediction filed to overflow
ing the depths of our soul with tender
peace, like a pound Of corn-starch over
whelming the narrow restraints Of a
quart cup.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

BRISTOL, r. l., dates back nearly two
centuries, and long before the Revplu-
tionary War her streets were laid out
by royal engineer, who did his work
SO well that no modern macadamizer
has been able to improve on it. 1t is
asserted that this is the only ancient
town in America, with the solitary ex-
ception of Philadelphia, where the
streets are all made son the square,"
and where, for the whole distance of
each one, they run as straight as an
arrow.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25

JEWELS have meanings of their own
Diamond, innocence; ruby, forgetful-
ness of and exemption from vexations
caused by friendship and love; emerald
success in love; sapphire, repentance
amethyst, sincerity; garnet, constancy
topaz, fidelity; turquoise, prosperity
opal, hope; bloodstone, courage; agate
health and long life; cornelian, con
tented mind; sardonyx, conjugal felic-
ity; chrysolite, antidote against mad
ness. Malachite is not precious stone
but its color (green) signifies hope.