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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23
The Value Of a Vote.

A man who has vote holds great
power for good or for evil.
There have been times when a vote
could do more than a musket for the
country. Every man ought to feel he
is responsible to God and to future gen.
erations for the manner in which he uses
this power.
What do you think of the young
American who, when asked, the other
day, which candidate he meant to vote
for, replied, 81 haven't paid my poll
tax, and SO / can't voteF"
"But why don't you pay your poll-tax
at once, and then vote? p asked the per-
son who had questioned him.
"Oh, because / had rather have pair
of new kid gloves with the two dollars"
was the shallow reply. And the man of
small soul added, "If you will pay my
poll-tax for me, I'll vote"
81 would do it with all my heart, y
said the other, if you were poor man,
and also pay for your loss of time in 60
ing to the polls; but if you are willing
to selling your honor as a man and an
American citizen for pair Of kid gloves,
you can do it! advise you, however,
when you get the gloves on, to cover your
face with them for very shamep
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23
Whose Turn Next!
New York Ora phic.

There is something really alarming in
the case of Miss Susan Dickie, who has
been confined in Bloomingdale Asylum
for the Insane for seven years. That
she was perfectly sane all the while, a
Jury has decided after a very careful
examination of all the facts. This
would seem to show that no one is safe
from the clutches of an insane asylum,
and that any one who possesses money is
really in danger of being confined there.
Miss Dickie seems to have been some
what whimsical. but she is declared on
the best medical authority to take care
of the $2OO,0 which would fall to her
brothers and sisters in the event of her
removal to a grave or insane asylum.
She was committed in 1871 on the GER
tificate of DIR. William II. Ward, her
sisters medical adviser, and was finally
released only by the accident that she
was brought before court by the parties
financially interested, to be declared
mentally incompetent to make will.
The revelation of such sad mistake
if we may not be certain that it was a
premeditated outrage-suggests the ne
cessity of building legal walls, moats
ana uTdWDTluRcs dIOuuu lHodhC I'D AuH'o
to keep sane people out. AS the law is
at present, the doctors can conspirc to-
gether and secure the incarceration of
almost any sane person for an indefinite
time; and the whole power of the in
stitution will generally be exerted to
keep a victim from being released, as a
revelation of sanity would always reflect
seriously on its management. Our in
sane laws ought to be so modified as to
provide for the occasional medical ex-
animation of every inmate of an asylum
of any kind, in order to test the ques-
ton Of the necessity of detention. The
exposure of the great wrong which Miss
Dickie has suffered raises reasonable
presumption that many others have sui
fered similarly, and that sane and
healthy men and women are even now
thus imprisoned for the purpose Of graf
flying the revenge or cupidity. OF rel
atives. 1t is high time that such an in
vestigation was entered on in the in
terest of human rights and impartia
| Justice.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23
wears thereafter he was elected Stat

years thereafter he was elected State
Senator, and in lS47 he rose to the pre-
siding judgeship of the Third judicial
District. In 1851 he was sent to the
United States Senate, where he served
three terms, rising in 1867 to the acting
Vice-Presidency. In the earlier part of
his national career he was the leader of
the anti-slavery wingof the Wing party,
and became equally powerful in the Re
publican organization. He advocated
the homestead bill, the repeal of the
fugitive slave law, and the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia
He bitterly opposed the Nebraska bill
of 1854, the Lecomption Constitution
for Kansas in 1855. and the proposed
purchase of Cuba. Naturally enough
his attitude on the question of recon
structing the Southern States was ex-
ceedingly radical After his retirement
from the Senate he served on the COM
mission sent by President Grant to re-
port on the practicability of the annex
alton of San Domingo, and afterward as
one of the Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railway, of which cor
pOration he became attorney. He par
ticipated prominently in the Convention
which nominated r. B. Hayes for the
Presidency, at which. time it is believed,
he so disordered his system as to cause
his heightened illness and death.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

pont thrust forth an arm. A bullet
whizzed by, near enough to take the
bark off the tree behind which he was
sheltered. A moment later Dupont's
hat veatured beyond the friendly barri-
cade. Fournier's second bullet pierced
its crown, but the head which had plan
ned the ruse remained uninjured. Du-
pont now stepped boldly and triumph
antly from his concea;ment while his
antagonist, throwing down his now use
less pistol advanced coolly and I'M
dauntedly before him, prepared to meet
the fate which he had dealt out to SO
many others. Dupont aimed deliber-
ately at the heart, stopped and said :;
" | have your life in my hand give it
to you on condition that if you ever
seek quarrel with me again | shall
have the benefit of two balls before you
fire."
The terms were accepted and the four
teen years of duel were ended,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

BISMARCK is said to be intangled in
pecuniary embarrassments. He bought
Varzin and the adjoining estates after
the war of 1866, and it was generally as
serted that the purchase money far ex-
ceeded the real worth of the land. In
order to obtain an interest correspond
ing to the large funds invested, he di-
vided the estate into various small parts,
which he let out to farmers, and further
more plunged into speculative enter
prises. He was instrumental in starting
a joint-stock company for the erection
of a large paper mill, to which he ex-
clusively furnished wood and other
necessary materials. This company
failed about year ago, inflicting seri-
GUS loss on Bismarck, who, besides hold
ing the greater part of the shares, was
one of the largest creditors, owing to the
non-payment of his claims for some time
previously. AS his Louenburg estates,
presented to him in acknowledgement
of his great services after the late war
against France, despite their immense
value, only yield comparatively small
interest, his pecuniary embarrassments
are now quite enough to account for his
increasing irritability. - 40
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23
Mistaken for Another.

Editorial Cor. of the Burlington Hewkeye.I
Not many weeks ago / went down
from Buda to Elmwood, ILL.,, and while
waiting at the latter place for the Peoria
train ! went to the Neosho or Keota
House, l never could remember the
name, right by the depot, to take sup
per. There was another passenger,
several other passengers, in fact, went
purpose, but | noticed that this one par
ticular passenger was an object of great
veneration to the clerk of the hotel,
He helped this passenger off with his
overcoat; he took his hat from him and
hung it up; he bowed him into the din
ner-room with grand flourish that i'm.
pressed all the rest of us with sense of
our own utter worthlessness and the il
lustrious strangers magnificence. Well,
after supper | sat down in the hotel
office and burned up soul-destroying
cigar while | waited for the train, but
this illustrious stranger went immedi-
ately over to the depot. And the clerk
of the Keota took down his overcoat
and helped him on with it, and opened
the door for him and bowed him out,
reverently and graciously. Then he
shut the door, and as he took his place
behind the counter, he said to the
loungers in the office:
"That was Bob Burdette."
"SoT asked the loupgers. The
Ha'okeye man."
Yes" replied the clerk, that was
the Hapkeye man.
And ] sat there for ten minutes and
heard myself abused, praised and slam
dered. And when | got up to go |
jumped for my overcoat six times before
| could get it down from the hook to
which had thrown it, because / am not
a very tall man, and got my arms be-
hind me and wrestled with it all around
that Office before could get it on, be-
cause the overcoat is much larger and
heavier than / am, and / opened the
door for myself and went over to the
depot "unwept, unhonored and I'M
sung" as Craney used to say.
Well, that was all right. That wasn't
what made me mad. But what manner
of man do you suppose it was that guile
less clerk pointed out for me?
A great tall fellow, with high cheek
bones, blue eyes, big red mutton chop
whiskers, voice like bass drum
man so big that my ulster wouldn't
more than make him vest pattern, and,
oh browning injury, by heaven, he wore
q shawl
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

AT the opera in Paris, the other even.
ing, colored lady, very elegantly
dressed, sat in one of the boxes, sur
rounded by other dark-visaged persons.
1t was the Princess Celia, daughter of
Soulouque, once Emperor of Hayti, and
her family. The Princess lives most of
the time in England. Soulouque could
write his signature only, and could read
nothing but print. He declared himself
Emperor in 1S49, and created among the
negro population four hundred mobiles,
of whom four were Princes, ffty-nine
Dukes and twelve Marquises. The
others were Counts, Barons and Knights.
He also created two orders for.me one
military, that of Saint Faustin; the
other civil, the Legion of Honor: also
two for women, those of Saint Madelaine
and Saint Anne.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

MRS MELUsINA FAY PIERCE, in an
address before committee of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, suggested a novel
solution of the woman suffrage ques-
ton. She considers women the pro-
tected class, for so their Maker has or
dained," and she is opposed to placing
women on political equality with man
but she thinks it a hardship that the
seven or eight millions of women in this
country should be arbitrarily governed
by men without ever being consulted.
AS remedy for this hardship, she urges
that the women of every town be re-
quested to elect advisory councils and
school and charitable boards in con-
nection with the local authorities, and
she adds that, while to confer manhood
suffrage or law-making power upon wo-
men would be revolutionary, C to confer
the advisory power recommended would
be natural-would be simply to enlarge
the conception and scope of the actual
and immemorial relations of women with
the governing half of the world" Her
ideas appear to have the merit of origin
atty.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

THE Dutch seem to. have advanced
much further toward the solution of the
tramp problem than the Americans,
having hit upon contrivance for the
cure of laziness which, if generally
adopted, would be likely soon to ex-
terminate the genus tramp, either by
actual destruction or reformation. If a
pauper who is able refuses to work they
put him into deep cistern and let in a
sluice of water 1t comes in just SO fast
that by briskly plying pump, with
which the cistern is furnished, he keeps
himself from drowning.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

The English have lately been testing
the effect of projectiles upon steel plates,
and the following is the result: Low
steel is better adapted to resist the blows
of heavy ordnance than hard steel, which
stars and cracks on impact, and the Con-
structive Department, so far as can be
at present seen, will have to determine
between iron armor, which, though it
does not assure, allows the projectiles
to penetrate, and steel armor, which,
while it breaks up the shot, is also itself
broken up by repeated discharges.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

JAKE HosIER and Joe Brown shot a
lynx near its rocky lair in the noun
tains, Wurthboro, Sullivan County,
N. Y, recently. The hounds had run
it into the rocks and tried to dislodge it,
but were badly beaten. The hunters
then decided that one of them should
enter and shoot the beast. Taking an
army revolver in his right hand and a
torch in his left, one Of them entered
the rocks, and seeing the lynx's eyes
flashing fire, fred his revolver at it, the
bullet entering the brain and killing it
instantly. 1t was as large as an ordinary
hound. The Canada lynx is larger than
wildcat, and its tail is shorter than a
catamount's. Several have been killed
in the valley.--Monticello Watchman.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23
HON. B. f. WADE.

Benjamin Franklin Wade was born at
Springfield, Mass, in October, 1900.
His father was a soldier Of the Revolu-
tionary army, and inpoor circumstances.
Benjamin received very limited educa-
ton, and in his youth was employed on
the Erie canal. Removing to Jefferson,
Ohio, in 1921, he taught scchool for a
period, and then studied law. He was
admitted to the the bar in 1928, and
seven years later was made prosecuting
attorney for Ashtabula County. Two
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The number of British subjects in
Constantinople is under 1000, and of
these more than half are not English
men, 1rishmen, or Scotchmen, but
Greeks, Leyantines, Italians and Turk
ism subjects, who have clothed them
selves with British nationality.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

MRS. SoMERvILLE, learned as she was,
did not disdain feminine occupations.
She was once observed to be in a fit of
deep abstraction, and was asked by a
gentleman who greatly admired her
talents what was the subject which en-
gagged her; to which, greatly to his dis
appointment, she replied--speaking, a.
she always did, with a broad Scotch
accent-"I was just thinking about
new bonnet"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

The new Pope intends, it's intimated,
to devote himself especially to the
spiritual welfare of the Church. The
political complaints Of pilgrims who
journey from affair to see his Holiness
are quietly ignored, and he has ex-
pressed desire that addresses on such
topics be withheld.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

WE find the following item in an Hill
nois paper: "Mr. --, who has been
in retirement for few weeks after mar
rying and burying three sisters, came
up smiling to the altar again yesterday,
having begun on new family"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

FREE canals will result in an untolled
amount of business.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-11
CUTTING

W O1IlNu
instead of tearing the card, which
is usually taken from a box full
kept on the counter for the con-
venience of guests.
After going through the form of
giving the receipt, Mr.. Warner put
the package in the safe, and
thought no more about it until two
or three days ago, when there was
general inquiry for the deposit, q
man presenting the receipt and ask
ing that the property be delivered
A thorough search of the safe failed
to reveal the presence Of any such
deposit. In the multitude of SINH
lar transactions nobody could re-
member whether it had been pre-
viously delivered, and Mr.. Warner
could not be certain whether the
man applying was the one who had
deposited.
The applicant stated frankly that
his name was not MCCARTHY, but
podson. He had used the name of
Mccarthy in making the deposit
because he had had business
troubles and did not want his part.
ners to know he had the money.
The hotel people employed Stiles
National Detective Agency to look
into the matter, and Dodson's REQ.
ord was hunted up. He has been a
member Of the firm of Dodson,
Jayne Il Co., of Brandon, Miss,
which is row in bankruptcy. Seve-
ral weeks ago he came to st. Louis
and stopped at Banum's, where he
had two important packages in the
safe, one containing money and The
ether valuable papers,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-11
MEMPHIS. TENN: MONDAY EVENING. MARCH IL, 1875

Minnie's father then employed a
family named Skeleton to take care
or her, paying three dollars week
for her board. In April, her father
and Rowe disappeared, and she has
not heard from them since. After
Minnie got well enough, she went
to work for Mrs. Rowen, in Will
hams, and alterward went to the
house Of Mrs. Gilbert in Wenona.
Minnie says she never would have
divulged this horrible story if Mrs.
Gilbert had not accidently discov-
cred her secret. Her mother, whom
she had acquainted with the story,
wrote her a letter asking further
particulars. Minnie accidently
left this letter lying on the table,
and Mrs. Gilbert found and read it
and questioned her about it. From
this an inkling of the tale got cir.
culated among the neighbors, and
Minnie thought her best course was
to make clean breast of it.
Minnie was seventeen years old
last September, is rather under than
over the medium height, of full
figure and exceedingly plain coun-
'tenance. A physician examined
Minnie's person yesterday, aud
found marks Of wounds such as she
described.
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Poe RecIting "The Raven"
for Maroh.1

roe Recit1nR THE Raven"
Scribner for March,
Once, in discussing "The Ra-
ven," Poe observed that be had
never heard it correctly delivered
by even the best readers-that is,
not as he desired that it should be
read. That evening, a number of
visitors being present, he was re-
quested to recite the poem, and
complied. His impressive delivery
held the company spell bound, but
in the midst Of it, l, happening to
glance toward the open window
above the level roof OF the green
house, beheld a group of sable
faces, the whites of whose eyes
shone in strong relief against the
surrounding darkness. These were
a number of our family servants,
who, having heard much talk about
I" "Mr. Poe, the poet" and having
but an imperfect idea of what a
poet was, had requested permission
of my brother to witness the recital.
AS the speaker became more impas-
stoned and excited, conspicuous
grew the circle of white eyes, until
when at length he turned suddenly
toward the window, and, extending
his arm, cried, with awful vehe-
mence:
" Get thee back into the tempest, and the
nights Plutonian shorel
there was a sudden disappearance
of the sable yisages, a scuttling oil
feet, and the gallery audience was
gone. Ludicrous as was the Incl
dent, the final touch was given when
at that moment Miss Poe, who was
an extraordinary character in her
way, sleepily entered the room, and
with a dulland drowsy deliberation
seated herself upon her mothers
knee. lie had subsidized from his
excitement into gloomy despair,
and now, fixing his eyes upon his
sister, he concluded:
And the raven, never fitting, still is
sitting, still is sitting,
On the palid bust of Pallis, Just above
my chamber door;
And its eyes have all the seeming of a
demon that is dreaming"
The effect was irresistible; and as
the final "nevermore" was solemn
ly uttered, the half-suppressed tit
ter Of two very young persons in a
corner was responded to by a gem
eral laugh. Poe remarked quietly
that on his next delivery of a pub
lie lecture he would "take Rose
along, to act the part of the raven,
in which she seemed born to
excel"