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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-11-30

ksTSIt is not usual tDSgo cunning with
fishing lines, nor yet to go fishing with
shot and gunpowder, but the aneodote
chat follows illustrates how one of these
combinations may be successfully at
tempted, Mt any rate A man OF genius
can always improvise on the spot some
means Of accomplishing his purpose,
and however out of the common way it
may be, he is entitled to the credit OF its
suggestion and its adoption. Some
things can be done just as we'll rs 9TH
ers cam" said Sam Patch, aud why not
shooting fish in trees.
A well-known object to Cincinnatians,
residing on Main-street, near Fourth,
was the slim figure of Platt Evans, clad
in hunters garb, returning from bis
favorite sport, and loaded with the
fnny spoils, for Piatt Evans was a
stauncb disciple of Isaac Walton, and
passed many an hour seated under the
shade of some spreading tree in quiet
covert, awaiting the expected bite.
One day Platt and friend were
fishing in the Little Miami River, near
Milford. They had spent the morning
in batting their hooks, and now and
then extricating them from the mouths
of the too voracious fishes. Their bait
growing less, Platt dispatched his friend
further down stream to procure some
more bait.
Platt sat under tree, his line cast in
the water. Against tree near by stood
his loaded gum; all was quiet, save
when a fish darted to and fro in his
liquid home, or leaped with swapping
sound at a dancing fly or daddy-long-
legs sprawling on the winding current.
Presently Platt had bite.
The cork disappeared, and there was
such Juggling at the line that Platt
thought he must have caught turtle.
He tried to pull in his line, but discov-
cred that it was fast. Jst gs9t,ly
Then he ierked it with all his might,
and at once the line flew high into the
air, catching, unfortunately, in the up
permost branches of the tree, and lol a
fine, large catfish hung dangling at the
end of the limb. With astonished eyes
Platt gazed at the suspended fish, and
then at the smooth, branches trunk
of the sycamore.
"Drat my luckl l can't climb that
tree. How shall | get the fish DOWN.
he exclaimed. He threw stones at it in
vain.
Then bright thought struck him.
"I will get it now" he chuckled. b.
This said, he took up his loaded gun
and deliberately fired at the fish. An
ancient owl that had been sound aslee.'
in the tree, slowly digesting the last
chicken he had eaten, fell at his feet,
the fish, however, still remaining up.
His friend now returned, and inquired
what he was about. ..-,.
"What in the world is up in that tree
to shoot at, tell me p
ga fish," replied Plat, again raising
his gun. Don't you see it there2
can't climb up there to get it, 50 am
going to shoot it down." and he indus
triously banged away until, after many
failures, he shot the line in twain and
the fish dropped at once. Many laugh
there was whenever Platt related after
ward how he shot catfish that was uE
/ q tree
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A NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.

Quite recently the United States
Board of Trade held Convention in
Masonic Temple, New York City. There
were delegates from the principal States
of the Union. Representatives of the
hardware and jewelry trade of New York
were also present. The object of the
U, S. Board of Trade is to form CEN
ter of all action in relation to trade,
commerce, railroads, shipping mining
and agriculture of the Nation. They
appointed special committe on postal
laws to draft bill for presentation to
Congress, relating to the transmission of
all classes Of mail matter. The Con-
vention considered the subject of Ma
tional finance and currency, National
banks, coinage, tariffs on imports, Gus
toms regulations, foreign markets for
American manufactures, Government
supervision of railroads, Government or
Postal savings banks, the relation of
commerce to National politics, National
regulation of life, fire and marine insur-
ance, civil service reform, mail contracts
by land and water, cheap ocean postage,
revision of the land grants to the Pacific
railroads, labor statistics, arbitrations,
technical education, American shipping,
canal and river navigation, internal
revenue, International Bankrupt Law,
uni6cation or assimilation of State COM
mercial laws, and all questions of a
similar character.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-11-30

A CURIOUS will is that of Lingeman,
German Socialist, which was filed in
st Louis. His estate is worth over $4,000
and is bequeathed to the workingmen of
Europe and America who belong to the
Social Democratic Societies, as follows:
To Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain,
one-sixth i; to Germany, three-sixths; to
Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Poland and Russia, one-sixth
TO the United States, one-sixth The
will contains list of prominent Social
lists in various portions of the world, and
closes with the declaration that the
true friend OF mankind is in earnes
with the parole, 'One for all, and all for
one;' that his only religion is to do good,
that all mankind is his family and the
whole earth his fatherland. Farewell,
we men of labor; andy women, ere long
to be endowed with equal rights-may
you all live happily, and sometimes
think of your brother" The Socialist
legatees the world over will be surprised
to learn that one or two direct heirs at
law have already turned up to contest
the will on the ground that the old gen
tleman's head was rather soft.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-11-30

IT is curious fact, in connection with
Indian civilization, that the aboriginal
readily takes to all the vices of the
whites, but is very wary of their vir-
tues. As a rule, isolated Indian tribes,
who have had no contact either with
whites or with Indians who have been
corrupted by such contact, are absolutely
honest and strictly temperate. IN
guarded property is safe in their villages,
and they are free from those mean and
despicable vices which makes the aver
age frontier Indian disgusting and an
noying pest. 1t requires many genera
tions to complete the work of civilizing
tribe. Their aptitude in vice and
their aversion to the better habits and
customs of civilized society render their
mental and moral elevation a tedious,
toilsome process. Still, the Indian is
capable of ascending to the highest
plane in culture and morals, as is shown
by some representatives of the Choc-
taws, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles
and Greeks who have visited the Ma
tional Capital; and while this result is
possible, no reasonable effort for his ele-
walton should be spared. 49,
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Biiah's Honr.

tDetroif trfe Press
The poor widow with nine small chill
dren and months rent due was around
TO see Bijah. She began: a.s
Mister JOY have you a hearth
He offered to make an affidavit that
he had. CT. -L Us hFt
"Then if you have, Mister JOY" she
continued, wipins her eyes on her apron
"were you ever left widow with nine
small children CRYING around you for
bread, and no bread in the house ?n Il
Bijah reflected moment and then
concluded that he had never been placed
in such a position. us H
"Then YOU don't know how awful
it is, Mister Joy. don't care for my
self, but it almost kills me to hear them
nine children crying together in chorus
for food. | came around to see you and
ask you what I'd better do Et4t q
Why, I'd go to work and get a
square meal for them," was his honest
reply ply .a5.o a,o,, ~, :, .,.,.,,,.,,. >,
she almost screamed. /" told you | had
nothing in the house TO eat-not even an
old oyster can p -
He looked at her red nose, made a
mental calculation as to how much
liquor she had swallowed during the last
ten years, and then calmly said
Poor woman, return home and bring
me your nine dear children, and |
will have oyster soup ready for them,
and then take the whole lot to shoe
store"
ell couldn't do il, sir" she STAN
mered; "they is all in bed with hard
colds" 80 tr5
"Then ! will go home with you, poor
widow, and the little dears shall be fed
and clothed.
Oh-oh--but you couldn't, sir-you
couldn't, cause my house doesn't look
fit Tor the likes of you. Hand me one
dollar, sir, and Pll hurry home to
'em and fill every blessed darling with
soup"
al will goalongand carry the oysters"
he said, as he got up.
"Oh no, sir-it's too much trouble for
you. just hand me out fifty cents
and the angels will bless you forever
more.o
"I'll have to go along and get Il thirty
dollar bill changed-come."
She made a rush for the door, knock
ing the India rubber cat clean under
the table, and standing under the
window she shook her fist at him and
yelled e4t
"Pll go home and teach them nine
dear children TO call we an old, bald
headed Ward Delegate, and don't ye
forget the fact"
-" Heart-broken mother. distressed
widow, return--hold on--eome back !"
he cried. But she never returned.
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WILLIAM FL. SEWARD was once, it is
related, saved from drowning in the
Owasco River by Mrs. Salmon Grover, a
sturdy Auburn woman She was wash
ing at the riverside, and saw Mr.. Seward
drive his horse into the water to drink.
The horse went too far, the swift current
upset the carriage and Mr., Seward was
helplessly floating away, when Mrs.
2 Grover sprang to an old board fence,
.wrenched off a plank, and with it res
cued the young man. He thanked her,
and gave her set of silver spoons.
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A BOdy-Snatcher's Story.

cleveland Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.
Bedford, a village in this county, is
greatly excited over an attempt
at grave-robbing there, which has
Just been discovered. A few days
ago Eugene Joiner, the body-snatcher,
who turned States evidence here short
time since, said that last August he and
his companion, F. G.. Minor, went to
Bedford to steal the body of a young
married lady named Mrs. Samuel Bar
row, who had resided in Louisville, KY,
but had died at her old home in the vii
lege, of consumption. They were
strangers in the place, and to get in
formation as to the cemetery and grave,
one of them entered store, pretending
to be sick and anxious to get the serv-
ices of a doctor, and inquiring where
one could be found. He was directed
TO the house of DR.. Streator, who died
ten days or so ago. Making known to
the doctor his real want, he was told TO
return in a couple of hours, when he
could give him all the needed informa-
ton, as his daughter had attended the
burial, but he had not, In a couple of
hours he would get all the necessary
points from her When the two hours
were passed the grave-robber returned,
and was given the exact location of the
cemetery and the selected grave, which
was next to that of the late lamented
Thomas Patterson, father of Superin-
tendent Patterson, of the Cleveland
Work-house, and grandfather of the
deceased lady. He had died about a
wear ago. Arriving at the scene of their
labors, Joiner and Minor went to work
to get the body, and in very few min
utes had broken. the glass of a. casket.
There came forth such smell that they
were in doubt as to the grave being the
one wanted but to ascertain whether
the body would do for a subject, one of
them reached down, and getting hold of
one of the ears, gave a pull, when it
came off. They were now thoroughly
satisfied that they did not want that
corpse, and being very sick from the
stencil, filled the grave and went away
to get something to relieve themselves
On returning, they found they had
opened the grave of Mr.. Patterson,
leaving that of Mrs. Barrow undis-
turbed. 1t was now too late to do more
that night, and the party left, and
never returned to disturb the remains of
the lady, although it was intended to do
so in few nights. ~
To test the truthfulness of this story.
the grave of Mr.. Patterson was opened,
the coffin found broken, and one of the
ears gone. The lady's remains were
found undisturbed.
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Broken Heart.

A man is said to be red" or white"
with rage. In using these expressions
we are physiologically speaking of the
nervous conditions of the minute circu-
lation of the mans blood. "Red" rage
means partial paralysis of minute blood
vessels : and "white" rage means tenn
porary suspension of the action of the
circulation itself. But such disturb
ances can not be produced without the oc-
currence of permanent organic evils of
the vital organs, especially of the heart
or brain. One striking example is given
by DR.. Richardson, in the case of mem
Der of his own profession. This gentleman
told me that an original irritability of
temper was permitted by want of due
control, to pass into disposition of al
most persistent or chronic anger, so that
every trife in his way was cause of I'M
warrantable irritation. Sometimes his
anger was SO vehement that all about
him were alarmed for him even more
than for themselves; and when the at
tack was over there were hours of sorrow
and regret in private which were not as
exhausting as the previous rage. In the
midst of one of these outbreaks of short
severe madness, he suddenly felt, to use
his own expression, as if his heart were
lost. He reeled under the impression,
was nauseated and faint; then recover
ing, he put his hand to his wrist and
discovered an intermittant action of his
heart as the cause of his faintness He
never completely rallied from that
shock, and to the day Of his death, ten
years later, he was never free from in
termitteaey. 81 am broken-hearted,"
he would say, physically broken
hearted" And SO he was; but the bro
ken heart tempered marvelously his pas
sion and saved him many years Of really
useful life. He died ultimately from an
scute febrile disorder.
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The expression ga l." popularity used
to designate The. 6rst quality of articles,
is copied from the symbols of the British
and foreign shipping-lists of the Lloyds.
AlSAbis used to designate the character
or condition of the hull of vessel, and
the figure "1' to denote the efficient
state of her anchors, cables and stores.
If those are insufficient in quantity or
quality, the figure 90" is used to indi-
cate the same. When it is said of a
Ship" she is A r." it means that she is
all right as to hull, rigging, and equip
ments, 2 5 N9Lan.Ar
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CALIFORNIA, like many other parts of
the country, is suffering from an excess
of railways. The San Francisco Alta
says that 50 many railroads have been
built in. California, and they have adj
vanced SO far beyond the demands of
business or the probability of any large
profit, that the future construction must
be slow. Out of two thousand miles, at
least one. thousand do not pay six per
cent, on the cost. Long stretches have
been built with the expectation that
i, they would be improbable, one motive
being to increase the trade Of other roads
already built. -
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Al WRITER on natural history says
cells occasionally, quit the water, and
when the meadows are wet with dew,
travel during the night over the moist
surface in search Of frogs and other
food, or to change their. situation. We
not only believe this, but we are posi-
tive that on certain days all the fish in
the river over two inches in length wig
gle out and travel ten miles across fields
and climb high trees or conceal them
selves in caves. Anyhow, they are al
WAYS away from home when we go
afishing.-Novisto,cn Herald.
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For some years the Russian army has
Z been experimenting with passenger
pigeons, and has met with much success.
Something like two thousand five hun
dred trained birds are now at the dis
posal of the military stat. The principal
depot, is at Warsaw, and there are
stations at all the fortresses. Each
station consists of aseveral dovecots fitted
up separately, the number Of them cor
responding to the directions whence the
pigeons will be flown. Each station is
in charge of an experienced pigeon
breeder, and some stations are imposing
buildings.
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ALTHOUGH one occasionally hears of a
4 horse which will drink cider or whisky,
tobacco chewing horse is a rare ami
Smal = yet Springfield, Massachusetts,
boasts of two of the latter class. A
Z physician, who is lover of the weed,
lnhas trained two horses to chew. When
ever he takes his guild in the presence of
his horse, the animal afectionately rubs
his head against the shoulder of his
master, as if to say, "Give me some,"
and upon receiving his portion he i'm
mediately begins to chew it with ap.
parent relish as he cheerfully trots off,
The doctor taught a horse which he
q formerly owned the came habit.
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A High Start in Life.

Births and deaths sometimes occur in
strange situations, The Paris RappeJ
relates story which in a less serious pa
per would pass for an invention. In the
captive balloon a young lady was taken
i'll. A doctor Tarbes, who happened to
be in the car, saw her safely delivered
of boy before the balloon reached the
ground, when a cab took the mother and
child to hotel. The husband, son of
one Of the leading Manchester manufac-
turcrs, presented the doctor with five
hundred francs, for his services; and
the Roppel csmmends balloon ascents to
doctors in want of patients, while it re-
marks that child who has started so
high in the world promises to attain
eminence.
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The will of Alexander McGill, of
Allegheny City, Pa, has just been filed.
1t is dated January l, 1878, and leaves
his property, worth $4,000, to certain
relatives for life, and to three aunts in
ireland, or the survivors of them, when
the American heirs die. If there are
nc. heirs surviving in the old country,
the money is to go to the President of the
United States, to be applied to further
ing the interests of the National Dem
ocratic party. If the President is not
Democrat, the money is TO remain on
deposit till Democratic chief magis-
trate has been insugurated. --=--
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The dried peach crop in Georgia is
immense, which will be good news to
boarders in second class hash blast fur
naces. When the peach crop is good,
the prunes, which are staple articles of
sauce at such places, have a rest There
is nothing that makes young man
boarder think of his mothers table, and
sigh for it, like having sauce plate of
tepid sweetened water, with two prunes
in it, set by his plate, and as he takes
his spoon and RECEIVERS the bodies of the
deceased flies, who have gone to the sea
in ships, he hopes that the time is not
far distant when the landlady will in
vest in a pound of dried peaches, and
soak them SO that they will resemble a
piece of wrinkled old maid scar, sweet
ened with maple sap. Peaches and
prunes have driven many young man
to Pecks's Sun. = e's
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In the Church of Ashby de la Zouche,
Leicestershire, England, are finger
stocks. Two upright posts about three
feet in height, and of proportionate
thickness, support a horizontal beam of
an equal length, which is divided into
two parts. The upper is held by hinge
at one end, while the other end is
fastened down by a lock under the lower
part, in which are different sized holes
for containing the fingers of the dis
orderly from very small to extremely
large; while being placed therein the
upper part is let down and fastened
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THE French execution around the

The French expedition around the
world is getting along as well as could
be expected, and it is thought that an
American students trip will certainly
take place next spring. President
Clark, of the State Agricultural College,
at Amherst, Mass, will take charge of
it. 1t is timed to start May /, and will
be gone eighteen months. Two hundred
and fifteen students have chartered a
vessel at a cost of 50, 500 each, and a
high old scientific time is expected.
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A PARTISAN milliner an

A PARTISAN milliner announces a
|" huntress' costume in velvet and
satin. Boots reaching nearly to the
knee, with small tassels; genuine trow-
sers of satin, such as would delight DIR.
Mary Walker, and real coat of satin,
with fancy cuffs, close fitting at the
waist; where there are four buttons,
worn over a black velvet waistcoat,
which it shows at the breast and below
the waist, these, with a small and gentle
manly tie at the throat and high hat,
almost of the sugar-loaf form, with a
band of velvet and flowers, make up the
costume
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she was arrested.

fHE government of Victoria, Aus
tralia, .eontemplates making nine hun
dred miles of new railroad, although the
revenue of the colony last year showed
decline. Inasmuch as there are thou
sands in The colony craving work, rail-
road extension is probably political
measure of the present time; but these
Australian colonies are, with one or
two exceptions, accumulating enormous
debts
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"WHrLE his beauty" said Knox
vile judge, when he had occasion to
refer to one of the counsel practicing be-
fore him, "has been somewhat en-
HANGED recently by his falling, face
foremost, from second-story window
to a cobble-stone pavement beneath, it
is nevertheless the opinion Of the'court
that he remains the ablest lawyer and
the ugliest man ia the state"
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TORPEDO telegraph posts, which, "by
an arrangement Of supplementary cur
rents" are caused to communicate
severe shock to any one lAeddling with
them, are in use in Australia. The I'M
expected punishment, attributed TO
supernatural power, which fell upon Ger,
tain natives in the vicinity OF Mcdonald
Peak, when they attempted to cut the
wire, had the effect of lettering other
tribes from in any way damaging the
Australian transcontinental line. the
total length of which is about two thou
sand and one hundred miles.
------ 4 H. cat
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A BosToN woman induced her rather
weakminded husband to will all his
property 10 her and then locked him up
in woodhouse to die, while she re-
ceived the courtship of the man whom
she intended to marry when she became
a.widoy, In her ahsenge, the husband
friends made search, and found him
emaclated, drugged, and nearly dead
she was arrested. ---
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The Next Congress.

The following is a list of the members
elect of the Forty.sixth Congress, the names
OF Republicans being printed in Roman,
Democrats in adlic, and Greenbackers in
SMALL CAPITALS: .It
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VOLUME VI.
II II = : 2 =
. TOPICS OF THE DA Y

THE miners and farmers of California
have begunsa controversy of great con-
sequence. The mining operations in
several counties have ruined great areas
of farming lands by choking the rivers
with debris, which causes them to over
flow and cover the alluvial valleys with
mud. Test lawsuits, have been insti-
tuted. Il AL - -
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ELEVATE your aims; cultivate your
tastes; associate with men of high en-
dowments.
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ELIHV BVRHTT, has. given, to the
library O & B,Irrit tSehool in New Britain,

Connecticut, all the books in various
languages that he has collected in twenty
years, at home and ! abroad, including
manuscripts ready for the press of
Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hindostau
and Hebrew handbooks, containing the
same Lessons and forms of instruction as
his "Sanskrit Handbook for the Fire
side" Mr.. Burritt has added also a
copy of every work published by him in
England and America.