The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES.

AMERICAN shoes are now being largely
sold in Germany, Switzerland and
France.
THE worlds clip of clean wool for
1876 was S52,0O0,000 pounds worth
$3.50, 100000.
THE total loss by the great strike, and
the riots that came with it, is put, by es-
Inmates, at $65, 100000.
NoTwITHsTANDING the frequent as
sertion that the public lands have been
taken up, another estimate states that
there are 1906, pa acres still in the
market.
The population OF Paris in December,
1876, according to the journal official,
was 1888, 800, so that it is safe to say that
the French metropolis now contains over
two millions souls.
AN unusual mortality in Boston
family was led to an analysis of the we'll
water which they used, and it was found
to be diluted sewage, though it was
colorless, odorless and tasteless.
THE Arabs and Berbers of Africa seize
on all wrecked seamen, matreat them,
and sell them for slaves. They are them
used in merciless manner by men and
women till death or ransom relieves
them.
WE thought it was about time to ex-
plode the battle of Bennington. The
Boston Transcript says: 1t appears that
as regards the battle of Bennington, the
real battle ground was not at Benning-
ton, but in Hoosick, n Y.
The London 71mes's ;lcutta cores
pendent telegraphs that the prospects
for autumn crops may be regarded as
hopeless in Southern India, most critical
in Western, Central, and North India,
and fairly good in Eastern India.
The Church of England possesses in
England sixteen thousand religious
edifces, among them thirty cathedraIs,
ten thousand glebe houses, and thirty
one Episcopal palaces one million acres
of valuable land, and revenues amount
ing to $50, 100000.
A LAND case involving the title of the
State of Kansas to over 236, 900 acres of
land, being the aggregate of the grant to
the State under the act of 1861, admit
ting Kansas into the Union, has been de-
| cided by the Interior Department in
favor of the State of Kansas.
A TRAMP was chased by thirty or
forty men at Garrett, Ind, and hung up
by the neck to make him confess to
| stealing a watch. When almost
strangled, a practical joker confessed
that he had taken the watch to have a
little fun, and handed it over to the
owner.
THE Republic of Switzerland has no
patent law. The workingmen of that
country, suffering from the depression
of trade, demand the adoption of a
patent law to encourage the inventive
genius of the people. In the Republic
of the United States the workingmen de-
mand the repeal of the patent laws.
JUDGE WEST, of Ohio, Republican
nominee for Governor, is not as re-
ported, almost blind, but the limit of his
vision is peculiar in this that if he were
standing in front of three trees, four
feet apart, the trunk of the center tree
would fill his eye, while the other two
would be utterly out of the range of his
sight.
A LABoRER near Elkhart, Ind, plowed
up large number of Indian spear-heads
or hatchets of flint. There were in all
seventy-two, of various sizes, some as
large as three or four inches across the
narrowest way. These were not tumbled
together in a pile, but were set up in a
circle, one tapping the other, and all
standing upon a point.
THAT singular floating island has
emerged from the bottom of the Der
wentwater three times in less than thirty
years. 1t contains about an acre, and is
quite stationary, and is entirely uncon-
nected with the bottom and the shore.
The soil is three yards thick. There has
also been discovered similar floating
island at Lake Gerdan, in Prussia, and
Lake Kolk, in Osnabruck.
MOTHER, l saved the house, but |
shall die" said 3 six-year-old girl to
Mrs. Theodore Markham as she entered
her home at High Market, Lewis County.
The child, while attempting to light
lamp to warm some milk for baby,
set fire to her clothing. Her first thought
was to run out of doors, fearing that the
house would be burned and the baby
hurt, but noticing that shreds of her
clothing had fallen upon the floor, she
carefully extinguished the flames. Then
she ran to trough in the yard,
and plunged into the water. Returning
to the house, she waited patiently for
her mother to return. She died an hour
after the accident.