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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02
Worse Than Valley Forge.
lRoading (Pe,) Eagle. I


Mrs. Rosa Griffith, wife of Captain ID
A. Griffith, Third United States In
fantry, sends to the Eagle an account o
the terrible march Of the regiment I,
their new post at Missoua. The &C
count says:
The regiment which had been sta
toned in the South for some years, wa
ordered to the Pennsylvania coal regiof
during the strike riots last summer, .ano
was then suddenly ordered West to assis,
in subduing Chief Joseph and his Me-
Perces Indians. They went TO Corinne
U. r., and from there were ordered I,
being ordered to Helena, and the balanc,
of the regiment TO the new post al
Missoula. The hardships endured by
the troops during the tramp of over six
hundred miles were terrible. The mer
of the command were i'll prepared by
reason of their long residence in New
Orleans, for the rigors of early winter
in the Rocky Mountains, and their
suferings were actually intense. During
part Of their journey they were ex.
posed to a violent snow-storm, with the
thermometer fifteen degrees below zero,
Not an officer or soldier in the regiment
was provided with overshoes or gloves.
Not few of the men were nearly bare
footed, and added to the agony of freez-
ing feet was the additional torture of
being forced to grip the cold steel of
their muskets with naked hands day
after day. When the regiment left New
Orleans there were not five dollars in
possession of officers and men. The
women aud children belonging to the
command, including the wives and
offspring of the officers. numbered
thirty-two, and transportation for these
of course had to be secured Mt individual
expense. II is said that but for the
timely aid OF friends, who, understand
ing the impecunious condition of the
rank and file, advanced little money
out of their own private means, these
dependent and destitute followers Of
the camp must have suffered abandon
in their time of greatest need. On
the march northward to Corinne several
of the women and children fell sick
under the terrible exposure, and for
weeks their lives were almost despaired
of. The transportation outfit allowed
the command was limited to three ambu-
lances. As there was not dollar OF
money in the regiment, the simplest
wants of the sick could not be gratified,
as the isolated ranchmen and hunters in
that country refused to part with any
thing when the cash was not forthcom-
ing. Finally, as the regiment was near
ing the end of their march, ragged,
footsore, pennIiness and shivering, some
of the officers sold their pay rolls for
cash. but not without the sacrifice of a
discount of twenty-five per cent. on the
dollar.
Mrs. Griffith and her little daughter
left Reading in November to Join her
husband at his new post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02
y THE ITALIAN SUCCESSION.

: A correspondent at Rome says that
since the day of Count Cavour's death
in Turin, he has never seen the popula-
ton of any city SO utterly stunned by a
sudden blow as the Romans appeared
when the Official announcement of King
Emanuels death removed every doubt
as to the fearful loss the nation had sus-
tanned. Certainly the transition from
father to son could have not occurred at
more trying moment. The Ministers
of the late sovereign have been main
tanned in their Office by the young sue
cessor, but what Ministers! A Cabinet
which was mere rehash of the admin
istration, fallen only few days ago
under an irresistible outburst of public
Indignation: forsaken by nearly all sec
lions of an immense parliamentary
majority, brought together by fair
means or foul atthe recent election, and
hampered by variety of rash engage
ments, which it had shown itself neither
able nor willing to fulfill. There must
be new session of Parliament and an
address from the Crown, but the latter
must come from new King, who
hardly knows anything about his late
fathers Ministers, and does not much
like the little he knows, and is supposed
to harbor views and principles in opposi-
ton to those attributed to them. If
eversthere was need of providence to
shape ends, rough hewn by man, it GER
tainly is felt in the position in which
Italy has been put by the death of
Victor Emanuel. coming SO unexpect-
ledly, and at the end of the beginning of
most unsatisfactory Ministerial crisis,
and an almost hopeless division of parties,
in an unfairly elected and still more un-
scrupulously corrupted Parliment. Per
sonally, Humbert comes to the throne
under favorable auspices. He has out
i lived the ill name won by some follies Of
his youth. He has been lately we'll be
haved and methodical, of a wisely saving
disposition, free from debt, in spite o.
the incessant calls upon his resources
Like his father, he has shown himself {
good soldier, and processes sound, liberia
principles.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02
Peeps at the Planets.

Neptune, the most remote of Nthe
planets in the solar system, is about g.
| 700, 000, 900 miles from the sun.
1t is supposed that Mercury has noun
tains higher that our Himalayas, and
volcanoes in state of activity.
Out of all the myriad lights in the
heavens, the Earth is only visible to the
Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
At certain favorable times Jupiter
might see us with the aid of tele-
scope, but it would only be small
black spot slowly crossing the suns
| face.
The Earth is seven hundred and forty
six times smaller than Saturn, whose
mean distance from us is over 81 ,000, 00O
miles.
Uranus can never see us at all, as it
1,753, 900, 600 miles from the sun.
Mercury cannot be seen with the
naked eye, as it is immersed in the rays
of the sun.
The temperature in Mercury is sup
posed to be seven times hotter than our
torrid zone; therefore, if it is inhabited
it must be by people very differently
constituted from ourselves.
Fontenelle says "the heat to which
he inhabitants of Mercury are &C.
Customed is so great that the climate OF
entral Africa would freeze them
through"
It IS believed that Venus has an at
mosphere much like ours, and mountain
peaks five or six times higher than
Teneriffe, their sides bright with flowers,
and birds of brilliant plumage.
The Moon never leaves our globe
therefore it is called our satellite.
Though to us it appears larger than the
stars, it is really smaller than any OF
them, but much nearer to us.
Astronomers have calculated that
the mountains and extinct volcanoes in
the Moon are higher than any on our
earth. sas
| The Moon has no atmosphere, accord
| ing to careful and accurate observers
and it's climate must therefore be very
strange, passing suddenly from a heat
equal to our torrid zone to cold greater
than the Esquimaux feels.
If there were any one on the Moon tc
see it, the Earth would appear tt them
as a magnificent ball. The planets and
sun would move behind it in brilliant
succession.
The planet Mars much resembles the
Earth in atmospheric phenomena 'an(
polar cold. 1t is supposed to be sur
rounded by dense atmosphere.
Our globe appears to Mars as TIN
| morning and evening star
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

Boston Globe: A quaint little shoe
maker, who has hammered leather and
patched old boots for years and years,
has in his dusty shop in Cambridge a
pair of moldy old cavalry boots. These
boots, the old man says, were left by
George Washington when he first came
to Cambridge to take command of the
American army. He wanted them
heeled and soled, and promised the ven
cradle shoemaker that he would call and
get them in a day or two, but he never
came for them, and they are still hang
ing on peg in the shop. In talking of
them the old cobbler frequently swears
about the manner in which George
treated him. He says he met Washing
ton several times in Main Street after
he had repaired the boots, and told him
that they were ready and that he needed
the money, and George promised to
come and get them, but he never did.
The old man has been advised to take
the ancient boots over to the Old South
Fair.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

AS pledges of betrothal, or wedding
gifts, rings are of very ancient origin.
They were worn by Jews prior to Chris
tian times. The reason why the ring
was selected for the pledge was because
anciently the ring was a seal by which
all orders were signed, and matters of
value secured, and therefore the deliv-
cry of it was sign that the person to
whom it was given was admitted into
the highest friendship and trust; also
that the wife was admitted a sharer in
her husbands counsels, and joint
partner in his honor and estate. In
former times not only the ring, but the
keys, were delivered TO her at the mar
riage.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02


THE Grand Duke Nicholas, comman-
der-in-chief of the European army of in
vasion in Turkey, is stern, a martinez
in discipline, and reckless of the lives
of his soldiers. Some time since the
Moscow mobiles, in an address on the
state of the Empire, which, after
much difficulty, they. managed to get
into the hands Of the Emperor, asked
his recall, and openly charged him with
incapacity. On hearing of it, and that
the Gar had taken it into considera-
ton, the Grand Duke, warded off the
blow by declaring that he would blow
his bsains out; if he was removed from
the army. This, and the victory at
Plevna, put an end to it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

A temperance orator recently made
this statement: al bought supper for
man tonight who was worth $50 900
eight years ago. His wife was judges
daughter. She is in pauper asylum
for the insane to-day. Every dollar Of
the $4,000 went for rum" Where
upon the New York World goes to work
and coolly calculates that, inasmuch as
there are 1922 days in eight years, and
allowing ten cents glass for rum, the
man must have got away with one hun
bred and seventy-one drinks each day
for eight years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

LONDON Times: Martha White died
at Market Marlborough, Leicestershire,
under very peculiar circumstances. She
had been ill five years and is popularity
supposed to have taken no food for four
years. She was at first attended by Mr..
Francis, surgeon, and latterly by DR..
Grant, his successor, and has been kept
alive by the injection of morphia into
her system. The case has excited con-
siderable interest among the medical
profession. 1t is stated that post
norton examination fully satisfied the
doctors who made it that no food had
passed the stomach for long time.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

THE value of the grain and flour i'm
ported into France in the first nine
months Of this year, was SIG, 100000, as
compared with S34 100000 in the cor
responding period of 1876. On the
other hand, the value of the grain and
flour exported from France, in the first
nine months Of this year, was $40, 400, 900,
as compared with $40, 200, 900 in the cor
responding period of 1876. The value
of the live stock exported during the
same period this year was 5000, 900, as
compared with Sc, 100000 in 1876; of
eggs, in nine months of 1877, Sc, $40, 900,
as against 81, 100000 in the correspond
ing period Of 1876.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

A MEAN man, who felt obliged to
make a present to a lady, saw statuette
in crockery store broken into dozen
pieces, and asked the price. The sales
man said it was worthless, but that he
could have it for the cost of packing it
in box. He sent it to the lady, with
his card, congratulating himself that she
would imagine it had become ruined
while on its way home. The effect was
not what was expected, for the trades
man had carefully wrapped each piece
in a separate paper.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

Much alarm has been created. at Mos
COW by the appearance Of the Siberian
plague. One day a laundress at the
university, who was suspectedA0f having
died from it, was subjected to q post
norton examination, with the result that
the suspicion of the authorities were
!. confirmed. Since then several other
persons, have. succumbed to the same
malady, which is more disastrous than
either smallpox or cholera, and the
police are now taking energetic measures
to prevent the disease from spreading.
1t is believed that the seeds Of the dis
ease were brought from Mdis either by
Turkish prisoners or Russian invalids.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

ONE often sees at a reception, in Lon
don, lady dressed in some common
wooden stuff, almost untrimmed and any
thing but stylish-not because she is un-
able to have better clothing Chat would
be pardonable indeed), but because she
does not know what is proper for the
occasion. At the same reception, an
other lady will wear an ugly little cap,
and both maiden and matron appear
with their hair changed" stiff and
straight over their foreheads.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02
EDITORIAL OHIO.

PENNSYLVANIA says she doesn't want
any more railroad riots. Seven hundred
thousand dollars is what the military
cost her in that remarkable civil war.
The other expenses have not yet been
computed, and the Quaker Common
wealth is in no hurry for the figures.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

THE war carried on by DIR. Crosby
against the liquor saloons of New York
has been SO successful that strong
effort will be made to enact new excise
laws at the present session of the Legis-
lature. Bills have already been intro
duced. 1t is DIR. Crosby's purpose to
resist changes which will render the late
decision of the Court of Appeals nuga-
tory. Additional excitement has been
created by the flight of one of the Ex-
else Commissioners. He was the treasurer
of the Board, and carried off $40, 900 of
excise money. The Police Commits
sioners were also arraigned before the
Mayor, who finally decided not to re-
move them. Throughout the State the
temperance revival makes great pro-
gress. The line of the Hudson River is
now followed by the Murphy" men
in Troy ten thousand or more have
signed the pledge. Many of the towns
in the State have elected Excise Com
missioners who grant no licenses what
ever
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

Mrs. ANGELA PoDEsTA ONETrA died
in Cincinnati, the other day. the age
of one hundred and nine years. She
was born in 1869 at the village Of
Vignolo, Italy, and preserved good
health, activity, and eyesight tills three
days before her death. This is the first
record of centenarians for 1878. 81 G E
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02
TExNysoN, the English poet, is ver

TENNYsoN, the English poet, is very
sensitive. During. his walks near his
country home in England, if he meets
any one, he puts handkerchief over
his face, and SO wells himself from the
gaze of curiosity, The old bard ought
to be put in amber, and buried. Such
sensitiveness is unaccountable in man
who lives, moves, and has his being by
public Applause. ~ -
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

Apropos of Queen Victorias recent
visit TO Lord Beaconsfeld, a London
letter writer says that only thrice in her
reign has Her Majesty so honored a
Prime Minister, the previous visits being
paid to Lord Melbourne in 1841 and to
Robert Peel in 1913. Her last visit to a
subject was paid to the Duke of Nor
folk in 1916. In the Earl of Beacons-
fields case, the visit was doubtless in
,tended as much for its political effect
upon the continent of Europe as to show
Her Majesty's personal regard for her
iilustrious subject. The young Queen
respectand affection for Lord Melbourne,
her first Minister, were notable. If the
world is not in error, she honored him
by drawing his portrait, fact which in
spired Winthrop Mackworth Praed with
charming little copy of verses, end
ing
" The Artist who this picture traced
A better Subject never knew
Which is about as neat a pun as royalty
has ever provoked.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

In the State prison at Charlestown,
Mass, is man named Dunaunin, who
has had an eventful career. When the
war broke out he was serving sentence
of thirty years, but was pardoned out
on condition that he would enlist in the
army. His bravery quickly won the
good will of his officers, who knew moth
ing Of mis- antecedents, and after the bat
tie of Fredericksburg he acted as spy,
gaining important info rmation. He
was afterward captured land sentenced
to Libby prison and. paroltd. He broke
the parole, re-enlisted, deserted, COM
mitted burglary, and is back in his
old quarters, with twelve years more to
carve-As f-sr... $50 s.tslf.ts el 80 fr
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

NEW YORK has paid off her entire
bounty debt, amounting to al, 270,-
337.47, over ten millions of which we're
paid the past year.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

Miss MACPHERSON GRANT, of Edin-
ourgh, was an inveterate foe to niatri-
mony, and she thought her bosom friend,
Miss Temple, was also, until Miss
Temple went off and got married.. Ac-
cordinglJ e revoked a will made in
1873, bequeathihg, property, worth over
a million dollars, fp Miss Temple, and
when she /1iled nffS76 it was found she
had LETT nothing to her faithful friend,
who Immediately contested the will on
the plea of mental unsoundness of the
testatrix, and, the other day, accepted
$4,000 as compromise.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

AMERICAN rifles are now in the hands
of half the armies in the world. The
only great powers not directly employ
ing American arms are France, Germany,
and England.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

NORWAY had 1865 head of sheep
in 1875. The proportion per thousand
Of the population being therefore, 1856,
while it is 1,34S in Spain, ,022 in Den
mark, and 500 in England. Among
countries where the proportion II less
than in Norway, Greece has SIS; the
United States, S03; France, 694; Ports1-
gal, 676; Russia, 647; Germany, 6Q9:
Austro-Hungary, $50; Sweden, 361, and
Belgium liz.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

THR United States sends a respectable
representation of scientific and profes-
sional men to the Paris Exposition-ex-
perts in chemistry, scientific agriculture,
botany, and other branches of learning
An improvement over the old-time
merely political appointee. A contem-
porary well says, in regarding this as
not SO much scientific as a merchants
and mechanics exposition, that there
might be a few practical business men
appointed, who will regard the show
from a profit and loss basis to the United
States. What can we make out of the
thing, is the question, to attract atten-
ton to our wares, and draw custom from
the old world?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

FIFTEEN years ago Capt. Kottwitz
was an honored officer in the Russian
Imperial Guard, with an income of 500
900 year from his private fortune.
Lately he threw himself under alocomo-
tive in Kansas City and was, killed. In
the time between his highest prosperity
and his suicide he was, successfully, a
political exile in Siberia, an officer in
tie Union army during our war, an I'M
Fortunate speculator il western land,
and a pe4niless seeker after work that
he collldhot get. '@@s ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

THE Colorado mines produced 81 ,879,
432 worth of gold and silver ore in 1877.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

KNIGHTS oath in the days of
chivalry was composed Of twenty-six
articles, one of which was to the effect
that he must render a faithful account
of his adventures, whether honorable or.
not. These relations were incribed in
the books of the heralds, and must have
been curious reading. St. Palaye says,
in his aMemoirs of Chivalry" paris,
1852, that "never was there greater
corruption of manners than in the times
of chivalry-never was the empire of
debauchery more universal. st. Louis
discovered sink of iniquity close to his
own tent in the most holy of the cru
sades.p This may console those dis.
posed to lament with Burke that the
age Of chiyalry passed away with Marie
AntoinesSe, whose court was itself
grossly immoral. Overstrained atten-
ton to women is rarely seen in men Of 9
moral type, 1890 s.s' 49,.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

in England with gun cotton in an eight
inch experimental gun. The crusher
holes were closed with metal plugs, and
the bore was filed with water, into
which charge of two pounds of gun
cotton enveloped in a waterproof bag
was lowered to the bottom of the bore.
1t was there fred by defamation when so
violent was the shock that one of the
plugs was blown out. As the expenses
of closing the crusher holes so securely
that the plugs could not be blown out
would have been very great, it was not
considered desirable to repeat the ex-
pertinent. n
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-02

THEpossibility ofempIoying gun cotton
insteadof gunpowder for the charges Of
heavy guns has become more remote
than ever since the scientific researches
of modern artillerists have effected such
great improvements in the service ex-
plosives. A recent experiment was made
National Republican., 1878-05-21

CHARLES f. FrRLOSG, ESQ, a Northern
man e., Kcyarpct-bag9er-is also n
Democratic member OF the Mississippi State
Senate He is now in trouble. charges hav-
ing been alleged against him to the effect
that he is delaultcr TO the State in that he
did not duly account for moneys that came
into his hands while acting as sheriff of his
county. Thc>e charges have not been
proven, it is true, but they are being used
to secure his removal from the honorable
Office of Brgadier-GcucrIl of Mississippi
Militia, and to dcpose him as Commissioners
of the LEE Monumental Association We
have no objection to all this. because FUR-
LONG is II Democrat and his fellow DciaO-
Gratis have right to do as they please with
him as II partisan, even TO disgrace him by
accepting these charges rs true before they
are proven. But here comes the Holly
Springs R'p0ricr and demands his disgrace
on other than partisan grounds, showing
that the x-Contrdcrntcs propose to make Il
close-communiOn concern out Of their udor-
alton for Americas Creates, Soldier" In
other words, they do not propose that cit-
zens of the Northern part OF this reunited
Land of ours shall he allowed to show any
appreciation of the merits OF ROBERT Z,
LEE, even il his fame does, as they boast
fully assert, belong to our common country.
The R,porter says:
If General FURLONG's reputation was as
spOtlcss aS the mondays sun, It would, even
then, seem strange that so many distinguished
ex-COntedcratcs u, we have in the State should
be passed over aud the appointment given to
him, an cN-FcdcHl officer. But serious charges
are against General FURLOSG and he has
failed to explain them away. Yet we see con-
ICrrcd upon him the distinguished honor OF
being appointed Il commissioner of the LEE
Monumental Association. This is enough to
arouse the Indignation Of every cX.Conirdurltc
in the state. Somehow We believe iu the
eternal fitness Of things" and we cannot help
thinking that General FURLONG in this in.
stance is cOnspicuUusly out of place.