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

Should TiIton's suit against Beech
or for damages be brought to trial,
the Courier Journal says the proceed
.ings should be conducted in the bot
tom Of the deepest celler in Brooklyn,
with every door and hatchway close
ly battened down and no telephones
or newspaper reporters should be per
mitted entrance. In this way it is
possible that the public morality will
not be undermined and the accursed
mass of putridity may be buried and
suppressed with reasonable assur-
ance that it may not be generally
redistributed throughout the upper
world.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

The great prostration in every kind
of mechanical business is driving
thousands of people into agricultural
pursuits. Emigration to the West
was never so great as at the present
time. Every city in the Union, near
ly, sending out colony. after colony to
some portion Of our great agricultu-
raj sections Kansas is reaping the
richest harvest from the source of en-
igration of any State we know Of
The tide of emigration seems to be
altogether westward. Even. citizens
of w. Va. are focking to the West at
as great rate as those of any State
in the Union, according to population.
This seems strange when we consider
the fact that we have as fine grazing
lands, and the finest timber and min
eral lands found anywhere. There
must be something wrong some place.
Either the advantages of our State are
not known (even to our own people)
or there must be something wrong
about us as a people, or our State
laws and organization is defective.
What's the matter?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
Condition of the State Treasury.

In response to request Auditor
Miller furnishes us with a statement
showing the amount to the credit of
the public funds on the 1st of Octo-
her, January and April, respectively,
which shows the amount to the cred
it of the General State Fund, or fund
out of which current charges for APP
propositions made by the Legislature
are paid, was, October 1, $3,07506;
january 4, $24,13s.63, and April /,
$3.50, 654.3Z
This isa very satisfactory exhibit,
land shows that the treasury by being
exempt from payments on account of
a legislative session, has acquired
sufficient funds TO meet the regular
demands upon it for the current year
IF, however, the extraordinary ses-
sion had been called, quite different
showing would have been made. The
charges for per diem and mileage, and
other expenses of the session, togeth-
er with the appropriations sure to
have been made, would have consum-
ed al the available funds and made
it necessary to borrow by this time
Huntington I'D.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Representative Wood on the 18th. said
that he believed his tariff bill will pass
the House by good majority, and that
there will be no such falling off in reve-
nue. under it as is shown by the figures
sent out from here by enemies of the bill.
He is in favor, if his bill is so amended
as to lead to reduction, Of suspending
payments of the sinking fund, a meas
IRE proposed by Senator Beck sometime
since This sinking fund is many mil
lio,ns of dollars larger now than the law
REQUIRES. and suspension of payments
to it would not necessarily create any
distrust abroad However, Mr.. Wood
does not believe that this will be neees>
sary.
In the report of Senator Conknng's in
terviews the most notable things are
these. He announces himself as the man
who first suggested the Electoral Com
mission. He says: "No reasonable man
can doubt that there was some kind of
bargain between Nichols and that
man Hayes, and that Stanley Matthews
end Sherman Were privy to it, He said
that "never in the history of the coun-
try had there been during four years of
an administration so much corruption
bartering, rewarding of favorites, traffic
with leaders. and bargain and sale of the
executive franchise as during the past
year.
Every man of intelligence living here
will confirm what the Senator says of
the degradation of the civil service by the
administration. On other points men,
toned the people are waiting for light,
and this the Senator promises them. The
reported utterances of the Senator seem
to show considerable i'll temper, and if
he were not man who usually weighs
his words one would be sure to say that
he had been misrepresented or that he
had given currency to mere rumors.
The Senate Committee to consider the
subject of the election of President and
Vice President have prepared "a report
the more important provisions of which
are given below. 1t is very favorably
received.
Section 4: Each State may by law
provide for the judicial determination of
any controversy concerning the appoint
ment of electors, before the time fixed for
the meeting of the electors. Every such
judicial determination by its highest
court made prior to the said time of the
meeting of the electors, shall be conclu-
sive evidence of the lawful title of the
electors whom such court shall have so
decided to have been appointed and
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
Defacing Coin.

1t will cost you just $4,000, or you
will go to tie penitentiary for two
years, if you punch hole in silver
dollar and plsce itIaround your baby's
neck to cut It's teeth on. Such being
the case, the average baby will be
supplied with a nail, or the bottom
of a saucepan, or its paternal parents
cheek, or some other metallic sub
stance over which the United States
government has no immediate super
vision. So many people have an I'M
righteous habit Of boring holes in or
otherwise making more hideous than
it was at first, the female figure on
the pieces of silver coin, that the
Committee on coinage have agreed to
report favoraply a bill providing that
if any one fraudulently diminishes,
mutiates, defaces or lightens the gold
or silver coin which are by law made
current, they shall be Imprisoned not
more than two years and Iined not
more than $4,000. Any person Tho
shall place thereon any word, sign,
device, character or picture and shat,
attempt to circulate it after so doing,
shall be imprisoned for not more than
one year and fined not more than ST.
600, and coin SO defaced shall no long
er be legal tender.
This last clause seems to be intended
to cover the cases Of young ladies who
have necklaces made of small coins,
with the anonograms Of their gentle
men friends placed thereon, We al
ways did think it was bad taste for a
man to pull out twenty dollar gold
piece and begin whiting on 1t with
a pen knife, while ordinary folks had
to content themselves with a pine
Wheeljng Register.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
HOPES OF PEACE.

There have been so many changes in
the political aspect cf Europe during
the last few weeks that it seems utterly
impossible to predicate with anything
approaching to certainty what day
may bring forth. In more than one
instance the clouds haye been so dark
land threatening that the immediate
eutburst of war seemed almost inevita-
BILE. A change has now happily come
over the scene, and all present appear
ances warrant the hope that calamity
of war may yet be averted. Yet even
this expectation must not be too confi>
IDENTIFY and sanguinely INDUCED; for in
the tangled web of diplomacy some
new difficulty may be started; and with
the infiamed passions OF the people
some hostile act may be rashly CONS
mitted.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

S. S. Cox has introduced bill in
to the House providing "that any per-
son who shall disdgire the national
flag, either by printing thereon or at
taching to the same any advertise
mcnt for public display, shall be gull
ty of misdemeanor, and on convic-
ton thereof in the United States Dis
trict Court shall be fined not exceed
ing fifty dollars or imprisoned not ex-
ceeding thirty days, at the discretion
of the Court" Mr. Cox thinks that
the American Flag was not intended
to be used to advertise patent med
icines, SOAPS DC.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

Another most undesirable and I'M
expected contribution has been made
to the literature OF what is now com
monty known as the "Beecher Scan
DIAL" Mrs Tilton has written letter
confessing the crime she had previ-
ously denied. 1t is evident that no
reliance can be placed upon her word
She has vacillated throughout, con-
Tossing and retracing, according to
the influence bearing upon her, until
this last declaration, forced from her
professedly by the intensity of her
anguish, loses all its value. If the
document be authentic, the most
charitable construction that can be
placed upon it is, that her mind is
completely shattered, and that she is
now under the guidance and control
of disappointed and revengeful man,
who is resolved to make one further
effort to blast the reputation, and ruin
the position of Beecher. There are
those in every community who will
roll the nastiness under their tongues
as sweet morsel, and continue to
talk about it until Providence has re-
moved the actors in this exhibition
from the stage where they have &C
CURED so unenyiable notoriety. The
public could endure this everlasting
stirring if there was any hope that
punishment would be meted out to
the guilty. But there is no hope of
this, fors the adulterers of Plymouth
congregation are determined to not
let H. w. b. suffer the just penalty of
his sins. Men Of Beecher's stamp
even without the knowledge of his
wickedness, are not calculated to do
the morals of the world much good.
A certain class of loose thinkers has
flocked to Plymouth church for TWEEN
ty years to receive justification for
their license of thought and action.
They would shove society along upon
sentimental theories of the brother
hood of man and the relations of the
sexes. Their loon ideas they would
put upon an equality with the reveal
ed religion that has withstood the
lapse of ages. Beecher no doubt found
ed the theory of his free-love doctrine
upon his private experience and for
years was tring to prepare the pub
lie mind for the reception of the scan
dial that has gained a world wide no
tority. This history has its moral.
The old and well worn path may not
be the most attractive, but it is the
path of safety. On the other hand
is dishonor, and in the end death.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

Three thieves, one white man and
two negroes, while robbing the resi-
denceof Mantford Stockley, on last
Saturday night, at Steubenville, Ohio,
struck and probably fatally injured
John Elliott, a laborer in the Pan
Handle railroad yards. The house
was not occupied by the family, but
the furniture was still stored therein
Elliott saw the light in the house and
went over to ascertain the cause. He
was struck as he was entering the
door. The perpetrators have been
apprehended.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

At Helena Montana a gold brick
was recently made from the product
of the Penobscot Mine,which is yalu-
od at $4,000. 1t was made from the
product of $50 tons Of ore and it cost
$4,000 to make it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

shall govern il the counting Of the cleo
toral votes, as provided in the Conssitu~
ton and as hereafter regulated.
Sec. 5: In all cases of a disputed APP
pointment of electors not SO judiciaIly
passed upon as hereinbefore authorized,
the certificate or Judgment Of the board
or tribunal empowered by the legisla-
ture of any State to canvass the returns
of votes for electors and certify or de,
clare the result, shall be conclusive evi,
dence that the persons so certified or de-
clared to have been appointed were law
fully appointed such electors, and shall
govern in the count of the electoral votes
as provided in the Constitution and as
hereinafter regulated.
If but one set of returns come from q
State the adverse vote of both Houses of
Congress acting separately shall be re-
quired to throw out such returns If
there are two or more sets of returns,
that set received from the board or tribu-
nal mentioned in Sec. 4, above given,
shall be accepted; but if returns are re-
ceived from more than one board or tri-
bunal in State, the Houses shall sepa>
rateIy consider the matter and only
those returns shall be counted which
both Houses agree upon.
The Committee is said to be ananf>
nous and has given great attention to
the subject. The members of the Com
mittee are Edmunds, Conkling, Howe,
Mcmillan, Teller, Davis, of Ills, Bay
ard, Thurman and Morgan. Rex.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
A number of West Nirginians 0

A number of West Virginians Of
wealth will visit the Paris Exposition
this summer. Every year there APP
pears to be an increase in the number
of Americans who cross the Atlantic
and the attractions at Paris This sum
mer will doubtless furnish q new i'm
pulse especially among the younger
members Of American society.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

The example set by the national.
banks of Chicago, Cincinnati and
New York, In redeeming all their
notes in gold, viii shortly be followed
by all the national banks throughout
the country, This course will cause
the total extinction Of the premium on
gold, and, as WAS remarked by an able
New York financier, will initiate the
currency by throwing $3.50, 100000 or
$2O0,000,000in specie into circulation
just the kind of initiation the country
needs. Let Congress pass an act
making the greenback receivable for
custom duties, and there will be no
longer the slightest difference between
the value Il gold dollar and 3 green
back dollar.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

No man should complain Of hard
times and heavy taxes SO long as he
continues to vote the Republican
ticket. He might as well growl about
having the headache while in drunk
en- debauch.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

Congress has voted $4,000 for the
erection of a monument over the grave
of Thomas Jefferson. The tomb of
this Democratic patriot has been for
a long time neglected, the unhallowed
fingers of decay having worked sad
havoc above it. We are glad to
knowIthat it is at last to receive at
ltention.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

The House has passed a bill reduc-
ing the fees Of pension agents about
IS per ent,and that none but Grip
pied soldiers be. appointed Ito that
position.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

Americans will go to Europe this
summer and spend $20,000,000 but
will be back in the Fall time enough
to start the howl of .'hard times =
Whee7iRg Int.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

Ex-congressman Vance of Ohio
who recently disappeared from his
home has turned up in California, en-
tircly bereft of his reason. He will
be brought home for treatment.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

The New York Medical College for
women sends out this year twenty
six graduates. At the commence
ment exercises the lady graduates
were dressed in dark silk, and wore
roses in their hair.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

nNFNf1 is not easily earned in these
M ( times, but it can be made in
w three months by any one of
either sex. in any part of the country
who Is willing to work steadily at the
employment that we furnish. $66 per
week in your own town. You need not
be away from home over night. You can
give your whole time to the work, or
only your spare moments We have
agents who are making over 500 per day.
All who engage at once can make mon-
ey fast At the present time money can
not be made so easily and rapidly at
any other business 1t costs nothing to
try the business. Terms and So Outfit
free. Address as once, H. HALLETT &
Co., Portland, Maine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
MING IL RG A N,
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS.

The West Virginia Presbytery will
meet at Buckhannon on the Both of
May.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
WANTED h7.;nd i a BILE b e

everywhere to secure purchasers to Viii
lage Lots with farms adjoining, in two
new Colonies in Virginia. Only the Lots
are sold lat $40 each;] the Farms are
decided gratuitO,tsly to working men,
mechanics inoipient manufacturers, and
others, who buy the lots or settle. Ap>
ply, at once, to Il. BAUDER, Principal of
Ridley Hail." Fenton, Genesee county,
Mich. ap 2O4m
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
WEST VIRGINIAsUNIvERSITY.
1877. MOrgantOwn. 1873.

This Institution of Learning, under
the Presidency of Rev. r. Thompson, A.
NJ, is entering upon new era of pros
perity. During the Spring Term, just
closed, the attendance of students was
increased over So per cent. 1t has a
large and scholarly Faculty beautiful,
healthful and moral location; ample
Scientific and Philosophical apparatus;
Library constantly growing; a curricu-
lum of the most thorough character; a
standard of scholarship surpassed by no
American institution of learning.
THE Expenses ARE LESS than at
any other place known to afford equal
advantages. The Fall Term begins
Sept. 5th; the Winter Term January End;
and Spring Term March 9th. For full
information, catalogues, &C., address the
President. GEO. G.. STURGISS,
June 10, 1877. Secretary of Regent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF A
AVAILABLE HOUSE AND LOT
IN DURBANNAH.

BY virtue decree of sale rendered by
the Circuit Court of Monongalia county,
at its March term, 1873, in the chancery
cause OF Thomas IL. Barnes ct al. vs..
Mary +. Dorsey ct al, l will offer for
sale, at public auction, to the highest
bidder in front Of the courthouse of said
county, on
SATURDAY, MAY Is, 1878,
the TWO-STORY FRAME DWELL
ING HOUSE, and buildings, and lot on
which the same are situate, in the wills
lage of Durbannah, being the same cons
veyed to the late Lucy A. Dorsey, dee d,
by Thomas p Ray and wife by deed
dated January 80, 1875, and now occu-
pied by the defendant, Mary E Dorsey
Terms of sale:-So much cash in hand
as will pay the plaintiffs costs of this
suit and Of said sale, and for the residue
a credit of one and two years, with in
terest from date Of sale, will be given, the
purchaser will be required to execute
bonds with good security, and vendors
lien will be retained for the deferred
payments.
GEO. G. STURGISS, Com'r.
MoRGANToWN, w. Va.
April Is, 1878.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27

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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-20

IT would be good plan to have it under
stood who is Governor Of Minnesota. The
Pioneer Press announces that Henry NJ,
Knox has been appointed public examiner,
while at the Governors Office it is announc-
ed that no such appointment has yet been
made, and up to the time the Governor left
his Office yesterday, no commission had been
issued. 1t looks very much like an attempt
of a newspaper to bulldoze the Governor
and usurp his functions. Mr.. Knox is can.
didate for the position, and quite likely will
be selected, but his appointment could have
been announced two weeks ago as well as
yesterday, if it was to be made, without
authority. The Governor owes it to his
self-respect to demonstrate whether he or an
arrogant, dictatorial newspaper is discharg
ing the duties of the Office. AS it stands at
present the public will accept the appoint
ment of MI. Knox, if it is ever made, as
virtual announcement by Gov. Pillsbury that
he has abdicated his position and no longer
assumes to be anything more than the mere
clerical agent of newspaper,or whoever fol
the time assumes to dictate what acts be
shall endorse.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-20
COUNTERMININa,

The story that Mrs. Tilton had sent to
Beecher message of apology for having
published her recent letter of confession,
without having first given him formal
notice of her intended action, is probably q
canard, but if true, that is, if either s'Boan-
erges'' Beecher, the Colonel, or Sherman,
"the tearful'' has given to the press any such
tale, it will be safe to assume thai the whole
thing is only make-weight, invented for
the purpose of neutralizing the effects of the
confession. The story that a nameless mes
senger delivered verbal message of the sort
reported, in the absence of Beecher, to his
hopeful son, has pretty much all the ingre-
dents in it, that may be found in, and
usually constitutes, what may be called a
powerfully weak" lie! If "the Colonel" in
cited by the devil or the ''tearful'' Sherman,
is disposed to go into that sort of business
to any great extent, for the purpose of "giv-
ing the old man a chance" he will soon find
that, as soldierly fabricator, he is ga bigger
man than old Grant" when he played
his little piece of "pious fraud'' on Presi-
dent johnson, in the secretary ad interim
business.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-20
4 PlIR OF HEROES.

Ben. Butler and the redoubtable "Private''
Dalzell have been holding and interchangins
high correspondence, and renewing the as
surances of their most distinguished consid-
erations, and all this about and because But
Ter Haunted the bloody shirt in the debate on
the election of a doorkeeper of the House.
Dalzell slimed spoony Ben. all over with
oleaginous and fnlsome praise for his Won
derful achievement in the way of reviving
discord in the House and throughout the
country. On the other hand, it IS really
laughable to see with what meek resignation
the patriotic Butler accepts the offered
crown of glory that Dalzell profers him, and
in what tone of conscious merit he acknowl-
edges the business and propriety of Dalzells
adulation, and, with lofty condescension
and proud humility, speaks of his
wonderful coup d'etat as "my en-
beavers to feel the flames of
true loyalty." Feeding the hames'' is
good: and should be remembered to Buffers
credit. So it seems, he was only just "fire-
ing up'' when he took the venerable General
Shields to "feed the fames' of his machine,
as tiremen on Egyptian railroads take the
mummies of tn cir ancient kings to "feed the
tlames' of their locomotives.