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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

The honor and fortune of lady once
hung upon the result of lawsuit in
one of the New York courts. The most
important part of the evidence in her
favor was in the contents of three let
tiers. She had put them away in her
desk, but when She searched it the let
tiers were not to be found. They had
been stolen.
The lady's counsel informed her that
unless those letters could be produced
the case would go against her. The trial
came on, and ON the morning of the
third day the lady did not appear in
court. The counsel were annoyed, but
went on with the cross examination of
the plaintiff, the lady's husband.
Suddenly the woman rushed into the
courtroom, and excitedly exclaimed to
her counsel, so loud the the court and
jury heard her: II have found theml'
Examining the package she handed
to them, the counsel found three old
letters, which had been badly torn, but
were now skillfully patched together.
They were dirty and stained.
" If the court please" said the coun-
sci, az now offer in evidence three let
tiers, which, up to this moment, we could
not find"
"Let us examine them" said the
plaintiff s counsel. They looked at them
carefully, and then remarked to the
court:
" We object to the admission of these
papers. They purport to be letters
written by some person, but they are so
patched and pasted that there is no way
by which they can be identified as the
genuine letters"
eve propose, if your honor pleases,
to show that they were written by
the plaintiff, were lost, and found in
most extraordinary manner" replied the
lady's counsel.
The court examined the letters, amid
the silence of the audience and the anx-
iety of the husband. "You may iden-
tify them," at last said the Judge, "and
then offer them in evidence"
The plaintiff was again placed on the
stand.
did you ever see these letters be-
foreq'
The witnesses hand trembled while he
held the letters, and his face grew white.
1t is possible" was his hesitating re-
ply.
care they in your handwriting
1t looks like my writing"
care not the signatures yoursW
They look like my writing"
" Have you any doubt that they are
your signatures
He hesitated.
answer the question" said the court.
81 can't say that | have" he STAN
mered out.
The letters were admitted as evidence
and the woman's honor was saved.
Those letters had been thrown from a
waste-basket into a dust-barrel. A rag
picker, while searching the barrel, was
attracked by the signatures. He read a
few words. They excited his curiosity.
He searched for and found all the pieces,
and carefully put them together, for he
saw money in them.
One day he saw the same name in the
papers, and connected with the lawsuit
He sought out the lady. Providence
leading him to her rather than to her
husband. She paid him good reward,
and instantly fastened to the court
room.
The letters saved her from ruin. Few
of those who saw their exhibition in
court knew how she found them. But
to-day that rag-picker owns paying
stall in one of the city markets, the re-
suit of his finding the pieces of three old
letters in dust-barrel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09
Grains of Gold.

Blame not before you examine the
truth.
The trail is not fair where affection is
judge.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in
Gains.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road
to error.
Curiosity about triAes is mark of a
little mind.
However little we have to do, let us do
that little well.
The weakest spot in every man is where
he thinks himself the wisest.
Remember always that labor is one of
the conditions of our existence.
You should forgive many things in
others, but nothing in yourselfss~-e
Work for other peoples vanity, not
your own; this is the art of arts.
Do not eat cherries with your supe-
riors, they will blind you with the stones.
Learn not to judge too harshly of any
one, either in respect to good or evil.
Time is gold; throw not one minute
away, but place each one to account.
He is not SO good as he should be who
does not strive to be better than he is.
No woman, even the most intellectual,
believes herself to be decidedly homely.
Mankind worship success, but think
too little of the means by which it is
attained.
Occasions of trouble and adversely do
not make man frail, but they show
what he is.
Call to mind the heavier suferings of
others; so may you better bear your own
small troubles.
Most Of their faults women owe TO us,
whilst we are indebted to them for most
of our better qualities.
When we are alone we have our
thoughts to watch in our frmilies, our
temper; and in society, our tongues.
There is no man SO friendless but that
he can find friend sincere enough to
tell him disagreeable truths.
As time passes memory silently re-
cords your deeds, which conscience will
impressively read to you in after life.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

MARY Blake, in scrisner for February

| Mary Blake IN scribner for Fehruary.l
As we all know, there are some womer
who are natural cooks. The "natura
depravity of inanimate objects" seems
charmed away when they get hold Of
bowl and spoon. Their ovens Away,
bake on both top and bottom. Soup,
never scorch, nor biscuits sour They
always carry their recipes in their heads
With what exasperating indefiniteness
do they answer you when you ask them
how they make any particular thing
mullins, for instance.
"Dear me, / never have much of a
rule about such things"
But can't you give me little idea
John has so often spoke of your mullins
since we took tea with you, and / really
should like to learn how TO make them,
"Well, | stir up pretty stiff batter
depends something on how many folks
have TO tea." Hst
DO you use MILK"
Eyes, if have it; If not, I take
water"
"Any eggs2''
"Well, If eggs are cheap. break in a
couple; If they are dear, don't always"
"You use some butterT
Oh, yesl piece about as big as an
egg."
She pauses, as if that were all. You
timidly suggest
"Cream tartar or soda"
A look of surprise creeps over her face,
as if she would say, "What does the
woman mean by asking 30 many ques-
tions?" But she says
all /
use cream tartar; If the milk's sweet, |
put in couple of spoonfuls of cream
tartar and one of soda"
You wish you dared ask whether it's
table or tea-spoonfuls she means, but if
you are novice, think it must be table,
spoonfuls, the mullins are so very light.
She evidently now considers the thing
complete.
You haven't said anything about the
fourY" you inquire--with inward trem-
bling; but you really do wish to please
John.
The look of surprise changes to wide
eyed amazement. ia
Flour? Why, suppose any goose
would know about that. A good bowl
full, of course. / always use my own
judgment about the four
You retire from the field discounted,
but, not being easily discouraged, try to
follow these directions" The result
is something very different from Mrs.
Handy's delicate mullins. John breaks
one open very suspiciously, and, after a
minutes inspection, pushes back his
plate-with that expression of huge
patience which men assume when they
want to say something severe but don't
and says:
Haven't you any bread, Mary?
Don't let the children touch these.
They are as tough as leather. Why
don't you ask Mrs. Handy how she
makes her mullins? They're something
like"
You nerve yourself and pleasantly ask
if he wouldn't like slice of dry toast.
(Such q comfort as dry toast is under
such circumstances In week or two,
after series of experiments, you finally
evolve from your elmer consciousness"
and -four and eggs, some very creditable
muffins,--but you don't call your ex-
perience Judgment.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09
Strengthening the Buffalo in Texas.


The town of Griffin is supported by
buffalo hunters, and is their general
rendezvous in this section. The number
of hunters on the ranges this season is
estimated. at one thousand five hundred.
We saw at Griffin a plat of ground of
about four acres covered with buffalo
hides spread out to dry, besides large
quantity piled up for shipment. These
hides are worth in this place from one
to one dollar and sixty cents each. The
generally accepted idea of the exciting
chase in buffalo hunting is not the plan
pursued by the men who make /. a
regular business. They use the needle
gun with telescope, buy the powder by
the key, their lead in bulk and the shells,
and make their own cartridges. The
guns in a party of hunters are used by
only one or two men, who say they
usually kill drove of thirty or forty
butfaloes on one or two acres OF ground.
As soon as one is killed the whole herd,
smelling the blood, collect around the
dead body, shutting and paving up the
ground and rttering singular noise
The hunter continues to shoot them down
as long as he can remain concealed, or
until the last animal "bites the dust. I"
The buffalo pays no attention to the re-
port of the gun, and fees only at sight
or scent of his enemy. The others of
the party then occupy themselves in
"peeling." Some of these have become
so skillful they offer to bet they can skin
a five or six year old bull in five
minutes. The meat is also saved and
sent to market, and commands good
price.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

The telephone is being rapidly intro
duced into the various military estab-
lishments, not only in the capital and its
neighborhoods, but also elsewhere in
Germany At Dresden one of the new
instruments has been arranged between
the. COMMANDMENTS Office and the arsenal
and barracks of the Rifles, about eight
hundred yards distant. An already ex-
listing telegraph wire is utilized, from
which wires are further led to tele-
phones in four rooms in the barracks.
The apparatus is reported to act per-
fectly, conversation being carried on
without the slightest difficulty. In
Austria, also, experiments, the result of
which are stated to have been exceed
ingly satisfactory, have been made in
Vienna with the telephone, and an i'm
portant addition has been made to the
instrument by an Austrian railway
official in the form of bell to call at
tention to messages about to be sent. AT
the same time it is generally admitted
by military men abroad that much has
yet to be done before the telephone can
be considered available for practical use
in the field.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09
EDITORIAL OLIO.

MUCH alarm has been created at Mos
COW by the appearance of the Siberian
plague. One day a laundress at the
university, who was suspected of having
died from it, was subjected TO a post
norton examination, with the result
that the suspicious of the authorities
were confirmed. Since then several other
persons have succumbed to the same
malady, which is more disastrous than
smallpox or cholera, and the police are
now taking energetic measures to pre-
vent the disease from spreading. 1t is
believed that the seeds of the plague
were brought from Tifiis either by Turk
ish prisoners or Russian inyalids.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09
A Modern EnOch Arden.

In the summer of 1860, says the Phila-
delphia Times, James Dorsey and Char
lotte Custer, a young couple then still in
their teens, were married privately i'll
Camden. When it became known to
the parents of the fedgling bride and
groom an effort was made to separate
them, but to no purpose, and, as time
passed on, a boy was born. Shortly after
that event Dorsey went to sea. he did
not return for year, and meanwhile a
girl was added to the family. Another
year passed, and one day a man, whom
Mrs. Dorsey had known as her husbands
brother, stopped at her house and told
her that Dorsey died in New York
shortly before. The brother said that
he had attended the funeral. Mrs. Dor
sey believed the story and went into
mourning. She was known for several
years as Widow Dorsey" but ship
carpenter of North Camden fell in love
with. courted and married her. Duncan
was the name of husband No. 2, and
Duncan fell to drinking hard last sum
mer. He advised his step-children to
get the one wife and the other hus-
band, when they were about fifteen, and
they took him at his word. Widow Dor
sey then became grandmother. The
other day the husband of her girlhood
put in an appearance. He was well
dressed and had money. He said that
most of the years of absence had been
spent upon the sea that his brother had
informed him that his wife and children
were dead and that not until month
ago did he learn the true story. Mrs. Dun
can, alias Dorsey, returned to her first
love without hesitation. The house
hold effects were divided, by agreement,
between Duncan and herself, and it was
agreed that their marriage should be an
nulled. The reunited family are now
living on North Third street, Camden.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

GEORGE II. PENDLEToN, the newly
elected Ohio Senator, was born in Gin
cinnati, July-25, 1926. His entrance
into political life was as member of
the State Senate in 1876. He has
served as a member of the House in
four Congresses, the Thirty-Fifth,
Thirty-sixth, Thirty and Thirty
eighth. His best point as member of
Congress was his advocacy of a law adj
hitting Cabinet officers to the House.
In 1854 he was the candidate for the
Vice Presidency on the ticket with Gen
eral Mcclellan. He then was put into
training for the Presidency, and was the
foremost candidate of his party in the
earliest ballotings in the National Demo-
cratic Convention of 1868.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09
Zachary 1aylOr's Grave.

In his message to the Legislature of
Kentucky, Governor McCreary says:
The grave that contains the moldering
remains of Zachary Taylor, who was at
one time President of the Uuited States,
is situated in Jefferson County, in sight
of the tall spires of the metropolis of
Kentucky, and is unmarked by monu-
ment. 1t is true that this man, who
spent his whole life in the service of his
country, who proved his patriotism on
nearly one hundred battlefelds, and who
had the Office of President bestowed up
on him for his valor, integrity and
fidelity, needs no monument to perpetu-
ate the blazonry of his deeds or the pu-
rity and simplicity of his character. He
has monument already in the hearts
of his countrymen that will endure for
ever. Yet believe that a nation is ele-
waited and given dignity and importance
at home and abroad by its great and
good men who reveal its existence and
give it prominence, and monument
should be erected to his memory that
will ever stand with its mute eloquence
to attest to the world the honor, the
reverence and the esteem accorded to his
valor and his virtues by his countrymen.
He was brought to Kentucky by his pa
rents when only nine months old, and
ever afterward claimed his home in our
Commonwealth yet his distinguished
civic and military service made him be-
long to the whole country. ] therefore
recommend that his remains be removed
by Kentucky to the state military lot in
the cemetery at Frankfort, and that a
resolution be adopted by the General
Assembly calling upon the Congress Of
the United states to erect monument
over his grave"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

The hangman's record for the past
year shows that eighty three murderers
were hanged in the United States. OF
this number forty-seven were white,
thirty -four colored, one Indian, and one
Chinaman; four were hanged for indie
cent assaults, one for burglary, eight for
wife murder, one for filicide, and one for
fratricide. Not a single woman was
hanged, the only one sentenced to death,
Mrs. Louisa Lawser, of Virginia, having
her sentence committed to imprison-
ment for life.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

CLEAN hands in matters Of money
among the young certainly ought to be
the indispensable condition of gentle
manliness. No man who borrows and
does not pay, and does not care whether
he pays or not, is gentleman, no matter
how witty, or gay, or fine he may be. To
speak in good plain English, the man
who dresses himself atanother's expense,
not knowing how to pay, not caring
whether he pays, is genteel scoundrell
And yet such things are done by good
natured folk, " kind-hearted people, by
persons who never probe them morally
to ascertain what their tendency is, and
what they lead to.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

The favorite ornam, nts FIR tonrets
and velvet hats, is he Italian nurse pin
with a tremendous head. These pins are
made Of gilt and silver, or even plain
nickel, a metal much used fer snaps,
bouquet-holders, buckles and brooches.
It's now grand genre to wear one's chate-
laine attached to the skirt with 9 mono
gram brooch that keepsit in place. A
pre- tty crusader fashion this. We all
know that The first alms-pouch Known
came from the holy laud, b airing the
name Of itsowner. his tolors, and his
battles.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

A FEW days ago a party of hunters
were attracted to secluded hollow in
the woods near Charlotte, N. c., by the
bowling Of dogs. Going to the spot
they found the dead bodies of woman
and child, who were identified as the
wife and daughter of a citizen of Union
County. They mysteriously disappeared
last March, and the husband is now in
Jail on suspicion of having put them out
of the way.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

SUcH as hear disobliging discourse,
and repeat it again to the persons con
cerned, are much mistaken it they think
to oblige them by such indiscreet con
fdences.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

WORCESTER Press: Moody is sick
from overwork. Newspaper men seem
to be about the only persons who can
stand the strain of unceasing combat
with The devil.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

1T isn't always the man with the most
nose that knows the most.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

In recent issue of the Scientific
American we find some very interesting
information in reference to the notes of
the Bank of England. 1t states that
they are made from pure white linen
cuttings; never from rags. that have
been worn. They have been manufac-
tured for nearly two hundred years by
the same family, the Portals, Protestant
refugees. So carefully is the paper pre-
pared that even the number of dips into
the pulp made by each workman is
registered ON a dial by machinery, and
the sheets are carefully counted and
booked to each person through whose
hands they pass. The stock of paid
notes of seven years is about 94,000,000
in number, and they fill $4,000 boxes,
which if placed side by side would reach
three miles. The notes, placed in pile,
would be eight miles high, or, if joined
end to end, would form ribbon 5000
miles long. Their original value was
over $15, 100000, and their weight over
liz pounds.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

THE steam hammer recently COM
pleted at Creusot is the largest and most
powerful instrument of the kind in the
world. The hammer in the workshops
of Herr Krupp, at Essen, weighs fifty
tons, and descends through maximum
space of three metres; but the hammer
of the Creusot engine, weighing between
seventy.fve and eighty tons, has course
Of FIVE metres. Special apparatus has
also been provided for the transport and
keeping in position of blocks of steel
weighing from one hundred to one hum
dred and twenty tons, which can be
forged by the new hammer, and four
steam cranes are arranged round this
latter, three of them capable of lifting
and revolving with a weight of one hun
dred tons, and one able to carry one
hundred and fifty tons. Each crane,
also, is provided with special machinery
for causing this weight lifted by it to
rotate about its own axis.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

AT the annual Conference of the
Church of England Temperance Society.
Mr.. HI. A. Colville (LiverpooD read a
paper on Liverpool Cocoa Houses and
Manchester Coffee Taverns." He said
he hoped that before the close of the
year the number of cocoa houses in
Liverpool would be increased to thirty
Upwards of 94O, 900 was taken per an
mum, and dividend of ten per cent. was
declared to the shareholders. A very
large per cent. for England.-Ed.] In
Manchester the first house opened was
that in Scudehill, and was taking over
9100 per week, and the four other houses
were taking at the rate of 913,00O a year.
He was told that some pubhcans had
openly explained that their takings had
been considerably reduced since the
establishment of these cocoa houses and
coffee taverns. These houses should be
started and conducted upon strictly
commercial principles.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09

A PERSON recently met lady who is
distins ushed as having Teen four times
a widow, and has now again emit red the
bonds of matnmoDy. Said the fr eId !:
Il think / once bad the leasure q
dining with you in New York r
z When 7" asked the fair stranger. In
1856" lie req lied "Yes," 8 said
refectiv. ly, ut may lave been 50,
but had for. often it. You &c Y she
ID ed, "it vas two or three husbands
ago."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-13
THE PLAN TOR FITTING OUT RUS
SIAN PRINATEERS.
They Are All to Sail Under the German
COIOTs.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE RUSSIAN
CAPT. SMMITlCHSKIN.

New YORK, May II. Capt. Semitickskn OF
tie Russian navy, is alleged so have told Herald
reporter at PhIlsdel phis, that l. American vessels
were already chartered TOR 40 uncertain time, but
at fixed rates.
Being asked if he did not anticipate trouble in
getting away from our ports with the ships, the
Captain said We do not anticipate any trouble,
because we may put them under the German flag
All the privsteers will probably sail under Ger
man colors; this will protect them without doubt.
You know that the German merchants steamers
were under the Russian flag, during the Franco
Prussian war. Capt. Hunt WAS criticised for talk
ing too much to the newspapers. 1t was admitted
that he shared in the secrets of the Russian Off
GERS, but he had been ndscreet
Capt. SemitiChskln serted that Eng lish infiu-
ence is very strong in Washington, and in the
event of war with Russia the state department
would enforce the neutrality laws m CHI more
strictly against Russia than against Eng land. The
reason is that England is constantly using money
in W ash ingtoD and Russia is not. England has
the ear of the United States government.
When the correspondent asked his informant if
he was sure that English money was being used
at the capital, he replied positively that he knew
Il. The Captain however SAID that he thought
war was not berry likely, because he knew that the
Czar does not wish to 90 to WAL OF course. il
We are slapped in the face, why then will de-
fend ourselves; but if it can be avoided with dig
nifty, Russia will not go to war. That Is the dis
position of the Car Alexander. When the Car
owitch reaches the throne il will probably be diff
fereut.