The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-05-25
NEWS AND NOTES.

THE Dallas Herald makes an item Of
the fact that four thousand murderer,
are running around loose in Texas.
THE monument erected to the memory
of the Duke of Wellington, in st. Paul''
Cathedral, was recently uncovered fol
public inspection. 1t has been about
twenty years in course of construction
SWITZERLAND is suffering greatly from
business depression. The state of Europe
discourages travel, and the Swiss hotels
are in very poor way.
"SooIETY," according to Cardinal
Manning, is "a conspiracy of fools
fashion, custom, mutual fattery, eat
ing, drinking, and refined hardness oil
heart"
IT is computed that the tomb of St
Charles Borromed, in the Cathedral
Milan, contains in precious stones alone
value to the amount of million dollars
PURE wines lose their natural color
when treated with sulphate of copper
but sophisticated wines retain their color
when thus treated.
/ A MUSHROOM was picked few days
ago in the nursery of Mr.. Gregory, OF
Cirence, ter, England, weighing one
pound eight ounces, and measuring
upward of thirty-eight inches in cir,
conference.
New recruits for the Pope's Swiss
Guard have reached Rome. Halie says
that they are all from German Switzer-
land, and are selected by the cures of
their districts. who guarantee their
characters and devotion.
NINE. SCHLIEMANN, the wife of the
celebrated Trojan explorer, has been
very ill in Paris. She is now GONZALES
cent, and Dr. Schlemann hopes to re-
sumo his archaeological excavation in the
Troad or in Greece next month.
LORD BEAcoNFIELD recently wrote to
gentleman in Birmingham that the
English military preparations were
actually necessary, war or nc war, as the
tenure of India was directly involved
through the strong. foothold gained by
Russia in Turkey.
IN aquarter of Rome known as "Pes-
cheria," during the excavations made on
the 18th of April, there was discovered
the duly inscribed base upon which stood
the famous statue of Cornelia, daughter
of Scipio Africanus and mother of the
Gracchi.
A RETURN issued of cases in which
Coroner's juries have returned verdicts
of death caused by starvation or ac-
tolerated by privation in the metropoli-
tan districts of London during the year
1877, shows that the total number of
such deaths was seventy-one.
DRAMATIC composition in Hungary
is evidently at low ebb. The Hun
garian Academy recently offered prize
for the best tragedy in the national
tongue, but the thirteen works sent
in for competition were 80 poor that
the prize had to be awarded to the
"least bad"
In Berlin Court circles there is much
talk of marriage between the Duke of
Connaught and Princess Louisa Mar
garet, youngest daughter of Prince
Frederick Charles. She was born in
1860, and her eldest sister has Just been
betrothed to Prince Henry of the
Netherlands.
CHICAGO has lately had a narrow es-
cape from the disgrace of lynching.
An Italian ragpicker stole bundle Of
paper boxes from in front of store, and
shot the boy who detected him through
the heart. A large number of persons
saw the wanton murder, and tried to get
the murderer away from the police to
hang him.
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JOHN TRAvERs was seventy years old
and wanted wife. He was the wealthiest
man in Carroll County, Va, and that
fact induced woman of twenty to
marry him. She almost Immediately
repented of the sale of herself, and on
the fifth night after the wedding stabbed
her husband to death as he lay asleep.
She also attempted suicide.
TRICHINE are sometimes found in
beef, when the cattle have been fed upon
grass that was MANFRED with matter
from slaughter houses where pigs had
been killed. Rats are almost sure to
get trichine from the flesh they eat,
consequently cats become largely in
fected.
AMERICAN peanuts have been trans
planted in the South of France, where
they grow well. Oil is made from them,
which comes back to this country, and
after paying duty is used on salads as
olive oil. Meanwhile in Florida, where
the nuts grow abundantly, they are fed
to hogs. 1t looks as if there might be 9
chance for the unemployed to find
profitable work in peanut culture.
THE country parson finds that his are
hard lines these days. A rural New
York preacher received his first year,
salary at the close of the twelve months
the other day. The sum total was seven
enteen dollars-but not, in currency OF
in the dollars of the daddies," but il
a sixty days note.
THE daughters of the Duke of Buck
ingham know how to cook an excellent
dinner, but the truth will and mus
come to the surface. They couldn'