The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
NE VS. AND NOTES.

A DAVENPORT, Iowa, marksman fired
at pigeon and killed a horse.
The machinery of the Paris EXPOSE
ton is to be driven by an American en-
CINE.
THE liabilities of bankrupts in the
United States during the past five
years foot 81 ,0S7 ,00o, 900, which is about
half as much as the present National
debt.
INsURANCEpeople say that Richmond,
Virginia, has never been visited by an
epidemic. The rate of mortality among
its white population is l5.49 per thou"
sand
The New England Methodist Confer
ence passed resolutions declaring that
hereafter no person who used tobacco in
any form should be admitted to the min
istry.
THE new Door-keeper of the House is
Kentuckian by birth. He wassap-
pointed to West Point from Virginia,
and married Miss Mason, of Freder-
icksburg, Va.
DURING the past year the Expert
mental Department of Agriculture, at
Washington, distributed over twenty
thousand tea plants, grown in the green
house of the department.
New YORK is competing with Penn
sylvania as an l-producing State. The
production of the wells in the north
eastern extremity has already reached
an aggregate of forty thousand barrels a
month.
IT costs the people of England no less
than $60,000000 year to maintain
an efficient navy" The estimates for
the current year are S55, 265, 455. An
ironclad costs some $4,000 year to
keep in repair.
In 1877 there were 2,909,677 electors
in Great Britain and Ireland, or more
than one in twelve of the population.
There are about nine million qualified
voters in this country, or one in five OF
the population.
In Nelson County, Virginia, q hawk
was recently seen to seize large moe
casin snake, and soar TO considerable
height with the serpent writhing in its
claws, when suddenly the bird clasped
its wings and fell heavily to the ground.
The moccasin had bitten it in the neck,
but the talons of the hawk were so
buried in the vitals of the serpent that
it also died.
AN Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lady of color
recently revenged herself on procras-
tinating shoemaker with whom she had
left pair of shoes for repair, in novel
manner. After repeatedly calling for
her brogans and being put of, she lit
down on the unfortunate son of st.
Crispin and smothered him with kisses,
to the great amusement of his shop
mates. The next call brought the shoes.
The american Register cautions Amer
leans visiting Paris, this summer, to
provide themselves with warm shawls
and fannels, as there are often damp,
chill days and cooler nights; to avoid
ground floors and seek sunlit apart
ments, and to employ American physi-
clans in preference to French, as the lat
ter do not understand American consti-
buttons, and triAe with serious COM
plants.
The adoption of the Moffet bell
punch is urged in Denver City, because
it will collect tax from the floaters."
So it would in any large city. The float
ing population forms no insignificant
part of the constituency of a great city,
and its contributions to the treasury,
collected under the Moffet registry sys-
TEN, would aggregate very handsome
sum in the course of year Cincinnati
Commercial
In the Mormon Conference, which has
just closed in Salt Lake City, Utah,
twenty-five Elders we're appointed to
preach in missions in the United States
and Europe. Receipts of the Church
from tithes, for 1877, is $445,000. Re-
ports were read showing how the money
had been expended, in building tenn
pies, immigrating Mormons from Eu-
rope, etc. The Church affairs remain as
before, with John Taylor as President.
WHAT we need in this country, says
the Philadelphia Times, is kind of
weather that won't ruin the peach crop
"a kind that, with all our infinite va
riety, we do not now seem to have.
Very soon after Christmas the peach
crop begins to be ruined. and it con-
tinues to be ruined with monotonous
persistence until the last peach has been
landed in the market. 1t is useless to
talk about repeating the resumption act
while the peach crop is being ruined
every few minutes.
THE Raleigh IN. O. Mers has the
following strange story: We are in
formed by eye-witnesses of the occur
renee that the other day, in the after
noon, about two O. clock, great quantity
of pieces of pine bark fell in and around
a yard in this city. The fragments of
bark appeared to have been violently
torn from the trees. Many of them
were the size of ones hand. The pieces
of falling bark might be seen at great
height in the air-as much as two hun
dred or three hundred feet. The puz-
zled viewers of this curious shower
could give no explanation of the cause
of the occurrence.