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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
killing Grizzlies.

Several weeks ago, in the neighbor,
hood of Hettenshaw, IN this county, a
remarkable bear-hunt occurred. 1t APP
pears that DR.. Stanley, while on a visit
to Hettenshav, expressed an earnest de-
sire to go bear'hunting; and according
ly one morning he started, in company
with Green French, George Burgess,
and 10 Ligltfoot. Arriving at thick
ct, the dogs gave notice of their near
approach to bear, and the party decided
to station themselves at certain points
and let the dogs go in and drive the
bear out. This was done; but the doc
tor, becoming impatient, entered the
thicket himself. The heavy under
growth made his progress slow, but he
fought his way ahead until he came to
fallen tree lying in q little gulch.
Helping himself along by the limbs he
arrived at the upper end just in time
TO be confronted by huge grizzly bear.
Retreat was impossible, as it had been
with the utmost difficulty that the doc
tor had advanced so far; there was no
tree 10 convenient distance, and, as the
grizzly showed fight, there was nothing
left for him to do but shoot. Taking
deliberate aim with his Henry rife, the
doctor fred and the bear fell MORALLY
wounded. Another load was spruns
from the magazine into the rife, anC
the doctor, looking toward his prey
was surprised to see a second bear i
the same spot. This he shot also, anJ
quickly reloading, was yet more aston
ished to see q third bear in the SAINT
place where he had shot the other two.
Again the lever moved and fresh charge
went into position, and again the doctor
looked up and Dissolved fourth grizzly
coming toward him from the same open
ing in the brush. Whang, went the gun
again, and down went bear No. 4. BY
this time the doctor had got warmed
mp and excited, and he kept moving the
lever and firing into the bodies of tho
bears until the sixteen shots in the
magazine were exhausted. Meantime
ais companions, hearing the shooting,
md presuming the cause, made their
way to where the Doctor was, with th
intention of assisting him, but found
him on top of the largest bear, with the
others strewn ebout, swinging his hat
and shouting Justify. One sas an i'm
mense grizzly, SO large that the hunters
could not handle him, and the other
three were good-sized grizzlies, proba-
bly, about 2 years old. The shooting
of four bears by one man, without ever
changing his position, is something
hitherto unheard of, even in the most
highly-colored annals of the Western
wilds.-TTi1 (Col) Journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
A Burr In the Heart.

A Lady residing near Cleveland, Ohio.
died short time ago from an unknown
disease which greatly puzzled the at
tending physicians, the symptoms being
similar to those experienced in rheu-
matism Of the heart. After her long
suffering ended in death, post-mortem
examination revealed one of the most
wonderful things known to the medical
profession. A large burdook burr was
found securely imbedded in the heart,
against the posterior surface of the
aorta, Just at the point where it energies
from the body of the heart, completely
covered with cystic-hke tissue which
had firmly enveloped all the large
blood.yessels leading to and from the
heart, which organ was in high state
of inflammation, the left ventriele being
greatly enlarged. A feature which
greatly puzzles the doctors is the fact
that the large aorta about three inches
from the heart is found to be worn az
thin az tissue-paper for about the space
of an inch, only the outer covering of
the large artery remaining. This is
supposed to have been produced by the
close proximity of the burr n its pass
age toward the heart. The specimen
was forwarded to the Museum of the
Bennett Medical College, of this city,
and has been inspected by large num-
Der of leading physicians, who unite in
pronouncing 1t one of the most extra
ordinary cases. on record. Prof. Davis
and others are of the opinion that the
burr must have been breathed into the
lungs while the woman was child, as
she has been great sufferer for num-
Der of years, during which time the
burr was migrating from the bronchial
tubes through TIC tissues of its final
!odging-place.- Chicago Tribune.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
The Terrible GarrOte.

An execution by the garrote, al
though accredited with being mercifully
painless, is certainly awful to behold.
The place of execution in Madrid is &C.
cessible to the public, and the occasion
is Of equal interest with day at the
bull-ring. Everything connected with
this ceremony of death is viewed with
morbid horror by the Spaniards because
of ancient Oriental prejudices of pollu
ton. All actually employed in the OPP
Grafton ore accounted infamous, and
lose their caste and purity of blood.
Even the gloomy scaffol1 on which the
culprit is strangled is usually erected in
the night, and by unseen hands. It
rises from the earth like fungus work
of darkness. Execution by hanging
was graciously abolished by Ferdinand
VII. 1t is certainly more in accord
ance with the semi Oriental natures Of
the Spanish people, which leads them to
tenderly respect the bowstring. ALI
that Cervantes, from his sad experience,
pictured prison to be, it is to-day; all
that he said of the morbid love of his
countrymen for the horrible or the ludi-
SAOuo 40 CIuuily INV AO SiO"A
that assemblies Just beyond the line OF
gendarmes 60 to see how the criminal
will conduct himself. They sympathize
with him if he displays bravado or cour-
age, and they despise him on the least
symptoms of unmanliness. At the fatal
hour the culprit appears, usually clad in
a coarse, yellow baize gown-th color
in which the Spanish school of painters
robe the special object of their con-
tempt, Judas Iscariot The scaffold
having been mounted, the culprit is
placed on rude seat. His back leans
against strong, upright pest, to which
an iron collar is attached, inclosing his
neck, and SO contrived as to be drawn
home by turning powerful screw be-
hind the post. The arms and legs Of
the culprit are tightly bound. When all
is ready the executioner takes the lever
of the screw in both hands, gathers
himself up for powerful muscular ef-
fort, and, at the moment of precon-
certed signal, draws the iron collar
tight, while an attendant filings black
handkerchief over the face. A convul-
sive pressure of the hands and heav-
ing of the chest are usually the only
visible signs of suffering.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
Recent PostofIlce Rulings.
Pocket knives are unavailable.


1t is the duty of mail carrier to re-
ceive mail matter properly prepaid and
inclosed in United States stamped en-
velopes, when one mile or more from a
postoffice.
A paper printed in one county and
published in another cannot be sent to
subscribers residing in both counties.
A mark calling attention to some par
tioular paragraph in a newspaper does
not subject it to any additional post
age.
Crayon drawings are subject to letter
rates of postage, the same as any other
matter produced by pen or pencil.
The postal laws prohibit the exchange
of postage stamps of one denomination
for those OF other denominations.
Some part of publication must be
printed in the county wherein the
claimed office of publication is located,
to enable the same to be sent free to
subscribers residing in said county.
(See ruling No. 3D.
There is no law excluding postal cards
from the mails because of notices of in
debtedness being printed or written
thereon, but no indecent language,
terms or epithets will DO allowed in
such notices.
All letters having one full-rate re-
paid must be forwarded. Second and
third class matter must be fully prepaid.
When newspaper has been refused
by the party addressed it is simply the
duty of the Postmaster to notify the
publisher that such is the case, after
which, if the paper continues to arrive
in the mails, he should place it with
other waste paper, to be sold at the end
of the quarter.
The postal law forbids the renting of
boxes in postofices to two families or
firms.
A printed business card may be
mailed OF third-class rates, provided 1t
has no writing upon it other than the
address.
Regular newspapers cannot be adj
mitted to the mails ut pound rates
when handful or circular is inclosed.
A publication not entitled to be sent
in the mails at pound rates cannot be
sent as an exchange" at the pound
rates.
y OSb1IAbueTb ub ObltT bli.tu letJcI-CuI-
rier Offices are obliged to distribute
local County, newspapers, intended for
regular subscribers, from the boxes or
general delivery of their offices free of
charge; provided the same are properly
dried, folded and addressed.
A Postmaster cannot use the post
Office boxes as medium to advertise his
business without fully preparing all
postage, the same as anyone else would
be required to do.
The Postoffice Department rules that
no postoffice shall be kept in a lar
room or room directly connected there
with, nor must any mail be opened or de-
livered in any such room.
Letters passing through the mails
cannot lawfully be opened by any officers
of the law for the purpose of detecting
criminals.
The Postoffice Department is not re-
sponsible for matter lost in the mails.
1t is no part of Postmasters bust
ness to inquire of person receiving
newspapers, prepaid at pound rates,
whether they are subscribers or not, nor
is there any restriction in the number q
person may receive, except in the case
of free country Misrepresentation
POgfnI Re1,ie1D
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
serenity In Death.

Perfect serenity in regard to death is
not to be attained by any effort of the
will, or by any process of reasoning; it
is rather the result of happy COM
bination of bodily and mental condi-
lions. The chief of these conditions,
the assured hope of future beyond the
grave, in comparison of which the
brightest earthly visions fade like a
candle before the. dawn, is not given to
all; and in these days, especially, it is
for many overshadowed, if not alto
SutI " blotted out by doubts and ques-
ionllgs which can no longer be hidden
from the multitude. Even to those
who most earnestly cling to the hope Of
Immortality it would seem that our
troublous inheritance of sympathy
must cast many distressing side-ight
upon prospects in which of old the
faithful were able 10 take undisturbed
delight. However this may be, the
mere prospect of prolonged existence
beyond the grave, apart from other
. reasons for joyful confidence, must be
taken rather as charging the scope of
! our hopes and our fears than as neces-
sarily altering the balance between
: them. Habitual hopefulness may color
the prospect beyond the grave with the
same glowing tints which it throws over
: this world, SO that in some cases the
4 sasne cause which makes life delightful
makes death not unwelcome. Such a
state Of mind, though rare, is not un-
known. But perhaps perfect balance
OF feeling is more readily to be found at
. lower level of expectation Corn
hill Magazine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
The Useful Snow of Norway.

1t is always with slight feeling OF
anxiety that we read about heavy snow
storms in this country, for we know that
they mean, or may mean, the stopping
of traffic ct this point or that. So much
the more curious it is, when opening a
Norwegian paper, to meet with passages
like this:
Fortunately, we have had much snow
in this part of the country, and there is
good hope that it viii now remain solid
on the ground for the season." But, in
Norway, the snow is itself means Of
traffic, and that an important one. When
the snow fails, the lumber trade, for in
stance, one of the most important
branches of the industry of the coun-
try, is seriously embarrassed. The
trees are felled during the fall and win
ter, and those huge, giant trunks which
it would be next to impossible to trans
port in the summer time over the steer.
rugged ground, where horses cannot be
employed, are in winter time drawn
easily along on the smooth, solid sur
face of the frozen snow. Tied together
in immense bundles, they are thrown
down in the dry river-bed, and, when
spring comes and the snow melts, the
bundles are carried down By the stream
to the very gates of the lumber yard.
Thus the snow, which to us is an i'm
pediment, is to the Norwegians an aid,
and it is even something much more,
for it is, indeed, one of the great ma
ional poets of the country. 1t makes
the house SO warm and SO cozy it makes
the landscape SO soft and SO mild, and
it makes people SO merry and full Of
new plans and new ideas, for it brings
them together. Neighbors, who in sum-
mer time cannot visit each other be-
cause the journey along the bad roads
which creep, in zigzag through the
glens, along the clefts, over the peaks
takes two orthree days, can now reach
each other in few hours, setting out
on their snow-shoes or in the light
sledges drawn by reindeer, i'll q straight
line across the glens, the Aclefts, the
peaks, everything being buried unde,
eha snow or bridged over by it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
Asphyxiated.

A horrible affair lately occurred at
Lincoln, Neb., resulting in the death of
two boys. The family Of Rachel Broad
we'll, consisting of herself and three
boys, aged II, 10, and II, slept in one
room in residence. Before retiring
they built large fire in a soft-coal
stove, and shut the stove tightly. Gas,
escaping in the night, filled the room
with poison. Henry and James, the
eldest two sons, had their lungs SO
charged with gas that they died, in
spite OF the exertions of the physicians.
The youngest slept near a crack in the
side of the house, through which pure
air entered, and saved his life.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
A New Sect OF MOrmOns.

A new sect of Mormons has sprung
up in Southern Indiana, and two Evan
gelists of the Latter-Day Saints are
preaching with success. The peculiar
tenets of this wing of Mormonism are
anti polygamy, healing by laying on
hands, immersion, second coming OF
Christ in the near future, intervention
of God in the temporal and spiritual
affairs of believers, and miracles, OF
special Providence, in the interests 81
the saints. The sect numbers about
sixty members in Floyd, Washington
and Clark counties, made up from the
most respectable farmers.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
UIu COupIeS.

The Pennsylvania couple who we're
married a few days ago ct the ages of sc
and 81 are considerably outdone by two
representatives of the Jewish race in
Russian Poland. The bride was q
widow precisely 100 years old; the
groom was youth of SO. Indeed, the
bride has a daughter, with whom she
has lately lived, whose age is as great
within four years as her step-father's,
while great great-great~granddaughter
is a girl of 49, Notwithstanding her adj
vanced age, the bride is said to be strong
In her faculties. She goes out of the
house alone, hears and sees perfectly
we'll and retains all her mental powers
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

TIE fact most worthy to be noted in
the life of Elihu Burritt is that before
he was anything else he was a good
blacksmith He was not ashamed of his
trade, and he did not slur it in order to
gain time for his studies. He was as
earnest at his anvil as he was at his
books. His work was honest; it satisfied
those whom he served and it satisfied
himself Probably he disliked his harsh
calling and was very glad to have done
with it, but his longing for something
higher never led him into forgetting the
necessity of doing we'll the work set be-
fore him. His eyes we're not SO set upon
the stars but that they guided his feet
as they trod firmly the earth. Sohis life,
from the beginning, was patient, faith
full and true; and the lesson that it
teaches is that by every patience, faith
fulness and truth the battle that every
man has to fight with the world Is most
surely won Philadelphia Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
Too Heavy for Him.

This comes from Waterford, Loudon
county, Va:
A colored meeting was lately held in
this place, at which the attendance was
large and the converts numerous. The
stove-pipe happening to fall, the minis
ter asked one of the bredderin to put it
in position again. Brother johnson es-
sayed to do it, but, being rather slow,
the old minister said, "Pick it up, brud-
der, pick it up; de Lord won't let it
burn YOU"
Brother johnson, with faith in the
assurance, seized the hot pipe, and, of
course, had his hands blistered. He
dropped it with the inappropriate re-
mark, "De dibbtl he aConti"
1t was just little heavy for him.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

A SUSCEPTIBLE young gentleman,
who was engaged to beautiful lass in
Montreal, offered to give her all the
money he had saved, amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars, and it was depos-
tied in bank in her name. Not long
afterward he fell in love with another
girl and was anxious to have the money
refunded. The first sweetheart was will
ing to cancel the engagement, but re-
garded the bank account as q matter of
business, and refused to refund tho
money, 49, .,t# +ris
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

VENICE, with its GLORIOUS climate"
had from the middle Of October until
near the middle of December almost
constant drenching rains, and then
there was a week of snow and frost,
during which time travellers, not finding
fires, were compelled to go to bed to
keep warm!
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

BOYS" said the man holding an
inverted match in one hand, and dark
cigar in the other, never acquire the
pernicious habit Of smoking. l am \
slave to it now, yet hate it. I never
see a cigar that do not want to burn
it up" And then, with extreme salts
faction, he burned up the one he had in
his hand.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

LAW, physic and divinity are well
supplied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors num-
Der SO, and feminine dentists, 420, while
sixty-eight women are preachers and five
practice as lawyers. Some ladies adopt
two or three callings at once. A Mrs
Gibbs, living in st. Louis, notifies on
her door-platc that she is an " elocution-
list, poetess, washer, and ironer."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR wore dia.
monds worth S250,000 at a ball in New
York, few evenings ago. They were
the family diamonds and consisted of
necklace, earrings, comb, four bracelets
and tiara, and were remarkable for their
purity and beauty.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

NINE-TENTHs Of the thousand million
dollars which France borrowed of En-
glish bankers in order to pay Germany
are now held in the shape of national
bonds by Frenchmen at homo. AS
fast as the foreigners would sell, the
bonds were bought mp on the Paris
market, and thus, though France still
owes that vast sum, she over it IN bulk
. only to her own people.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

The will Of Caleb Gushing, opened
in Newburyport, Mass, directs that his
property be divided into two equal
parts, one for the children of John N.
Gushing, and the other for the children
of the late William Cushing. The will
was made in Madrid in 1876.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

A MAN saw ghost while walking
along lonely highway at midnight.
The ghost stood exactly in the middle
of the road, and the wayfarer, deciding
to investigate, poked at it with his UNI
brella. The next instant he was knocked
twenty feet into a mnd-hole. Moral :
Never poke at a large white mule when
its back is turned.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12
! CLERGYMAN speaking at

A CLERGYMAN speaking at funeral
bewailed the loss of many great men,
such for instance, as the deceased in the
coffin before him, and said that none
like them were left to us. A strong
voiced old Methodist sister startled
both speaker and audience by exclaim.
ing, Bless God, that's iel"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

A MERCHANT in Allegheny City, Pa,
named Russell, is preaching the doc
trine that the world will come to an end
in 1914, the forty years of trouble" to
precede that event having commenced
in 1874. Russell has made $50 converts,
some of whom are extravagant in their
religious behavior, and great deal OF
excitement has been caused in that re-
pion
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

"MY DEAR" said wife to her hus-
band, when we get these old books
home again that we lent to your uncle,
what will be the best style in which to
have them bound?" Homeward
bound is the most suitable thing for
borrowed books, my love-" was his
reply.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

LIFE seems bowling wilderness to
a man who stands In bedroom with
Niagara of water dripping from his face
and hands and no towel in sight
Hackersack Republican.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

AN Irish gentleman having purchased
an alarm clock, an acquaintance asked
him what he intended to do with it.
"Och," answered he, "sure I've nothing
to do but pull the string and wake my
self"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

"SEE here" said an eccentric old man
to az Office boy who had brought doc
tors bill to him. See here; tell your
master that I'll pay him for the items
of medicine charged in this bill, but, as
for the visits, why-IM return them! >
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

A NOTICE in o Western newspaper OF
q steamboat explosion ends as follows
"The Captain swan ashore. So did tho
chambermaid; she was insured for $l5,-
600 and loaded with iron"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston i'd
vertiser notes the interesting fact that
Indian corn, grown in Nebraska, Iowa
and Illinois, is transported 1000 and
5000 miles, by land and sea, in vast
quantities, and sold in the English mar
ket for about cent pound, and part
of the proceeds is returned to us in
Irish and Scotch oatmeal, which our
grocers are selling at 8 to 10 cents q
pound.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

BRIGHAM YouNa's grave is guarded
against resurrectionists by two men day
and night. The wives of the Prophet
rarely visit the tomb, and many have
remarried.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

A PROMINENT shipbuilder Of Maine
is authority for the statement that at
least twenty thousand mechanics have
left that State since the close OF the
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

II AM inclined to believe" said fop
to a lady who had refused to sing, you
are fishing for compliments" "Oh, no.,
replied she, IT never fish iii SO shallow
q stream"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

MISS ALICE BLAINE. the eldest daugh..
ter of the Senator, retains no trace OF
the wound in the face which she acci-
dentally gave herself last year. She y
still at school.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

An old lady recently directed the at
tentioa of her husband to pair OF
twins, remarking, as she did SO, sHow
much these children do look alike, es-
pecially the one this way."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

The Cherokee Council seized and
ordered the sale of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroads property in the
Indian Territory, but the company dis
mantled and removed its buildings, and
took up its track as lar as the Arkansas
line, and all that remained to sell were
few rotten ties and seven two inch
boards.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-04-12

The late State Treasurer Mackey, 0
Pennsylvania, left 100000, and was
supposed to be bachelor, but woman
appears upon the scene and claims to
be his widow, and wants share of the
money.