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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
Oratorjcal Success,

s The purpose of asgreatspeech istoperr
suade men. 1t may be brilliant and
eloquent, 80 much so that men will say
of it, "that is oratoy,p and go about
their business. When men act Ms il they
had not heard word Of speech, 1t is a
failure, even if tits thought worthy of a
place among specimens of eloquenee.p
A great speech said OConnell,
speaking of addresses to jury, "is a
very fine thing; but, after all, the
verdict is the the thing
Professor Mathews, from whose book
on "Oratory and Orators we quote
O'Connell's remark, insists that no one
would discover the perfect orator, If such
there could be, while he was speaking.
He tells two anecdotes to illustrate his
assertion. seaiaa ga ssa.8s .a4s
When Chief Justice Parsons, of Massa-
chusetts, was practising at the bar, a
farmer, who had often heard him speak,
was asked what sort of a pleader he was.
ooh, he is good lawyer and an excel
lent counsellor, but poor pleader," was
the reply. c5 81 hf.ss
But does he not win most Of his
cases?" '@kA
Yes, but that's because he knows the
law, and can argue well; but he's no
orator"
A hard-headed bank president once
congratulated himself, in the presence of
Mr., Mathews, on resisting, as foreman Of
n Jury, the oratorical Establishments Of
Mr.. Choate. le
Knowing his Skill" said the hard
headed man, in making white appear
black, and black white, / made up my
mind at the outset that he should not
fool me. He tried all his arts, but it
was Of no use; Just decided according
to the law and evidence" m
"Of course" answered Mr.. Mathews,
"you gave your verdict against Mr..
Choate's clientT
"Why, no; we gave a verdict for his
client; but then we couldn't help it, he
had the law and the evidence on his
side" efaft9
1t never occurred to the bank presi-
dent or to the farmer that Choate and
Parsons were after verdicts, not admira-
ton. And they got them, because they
sunk the orator into the advocate.
"Thou madst people say, How well
he speaksp said Demosthenes to Cicero,
in Fenelon's " Dialogues Of the Dead"
"but ] made them say, Let us march
against Philip" '' r
That was true, but it required many
passionate appeals from this prince of
orators, before the Athenians uttered that
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
What BOYS Should Be.

Home Artt
First: BE true-be genuine. No edu-
cation is worth anything that does not
include this. A man had better not
know how to read : he had better never
learn letter of the alphabet, and be
true and genuine in intention and in
action rather than being learned in all
sciences and in all languages, to be at
the same time false in heart and coun-
terfeit in life.
Second: Be pure in thought, Ian
guage-pure in mind and body. An i'm
pure man, young or old, poisoning the
society where he moves with smutty
stories and impure examples, is moral
ulcer, plague spot, leper who ought to
be treated as were the lepers of old.
Third; BE unselfish. To care for the
feelings and comforts of others To be
polite. To be just in all dealings with
others. To be generous, noble and manly
Fourth: Be self-reliant and self-help
full even from early childhood. To be
industrious always, and self-supportine
at the earliest proper age. Teach then
that all honest work is honorable, and
that an idle, useless life of dependence
on others is disgraceful.
When a boy has learned these foul
things, when he has made these ideas {
part of his being however young HI
may be, however poor, or however rich
he has learned some of the most impor
tant things he ought to know when HI
becomes man.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
NUMBER 81.
Seven Cures for Neuralgia.

Among the hints for relieving neu-
ralgia we find the following in the news
papers;
|. Crate and mix horse-raddish in vim
egar, the same as for table purposes, and
apply to the temples when the face or
head is affected, or to the wrist when the
pain is in the arm or shoulder.
O. A lady who has been troubled with
neuralgia in the head, uses bag of hot
oats at night as pillow. She says:
Heat the oats in d kettle over the fire,
or in pan in your oven. Il have never
been troubled with neuralgia in any
place but my head, so cannot say how
beneficial il would be for neuralgia in
other parts of the body, Another cure
is drinking hot lemonade"
8. Apply equal parts of camphor,
chloroform, aconite and alcohol for neu-
ralgia. 1t win relieve, and won't take
the skin of either. -
4 One of the simplest remedies for
neuralgia is essence of peppermint.
Battle the part affected, keeping the hand
over it. 1t will burn and draw, but not
blister. vils4
. 5. Let Canada thistles be gathered for
the purpose, when in blossom, and dried
as other herbs Turn boiling water on
quantity. OF the thistles, let them steep
five or ten minutes, turn out and sweeten
to taste Before drinking it fix for
sweat in a warm room, then drink of the
tea while it is hot in large quantities.
Follow taking the tea fora few days, and
you will effect cure; don't drink it hot
after the sweat, but either warm or cold.
6. Sal ammonia, half drachm, dis
solved in water, one ounce. Dose, one
tablespoonful internally every three
minutes . ss
T. Extract of gelsemin (yellow jessa-
mine), five to ten drops in about table
spoonful of water; three doses taken at
intervals of an hour apart, not oftener,
have relieved very severe attacks.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

FROM the Burlington Gazette we learn
that spring wheat is said TO be rapidly
growing into disfavor as an Iowa pro.
duction. Winter wheat is much pore
profitable when it hits, and when it
fails because of an unfavorable season
the ground can be planted in corn in
the spring. Besides, it is regarded as
quite as certain to make an average
crop as is spring wheat, and much like
lier to make large crop. Then it is
worth more after it has been harvested.
This year fall wheat, we are told, will
average twenty-five bushels to the acre
in the State. Over forty bushels in some
cases are reported.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
Farmers, Pay Your Debts.


Let us ALLURE all our farmer readers
to whom this advice applies, and who
can now so easily heed it, to resolve that
nothing shall stand in their way OF rid
ding themselves of debt Some will
argue that there is no hurry; that next
year will answer just as well; that tho
mortgage notes are not crowding, and
the grocer, the dry goods merchant and
the doctor can be put of, while lot OF
new things are bought for the place, etc.
But such reasoners will rue the day when
they decide to crafty desires for expend.
itures which might be avoided, instead of
using their money to secure immunity
from debt The experience of the past
teaches that fortune in farming is little
more constant than in many other live
lihood channels, and it is the part Of wis
dom never to assume that to-day's SUM-
shine is guarantee of fair weather to-
morrow
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

IT would be interesting to know what
won'texplode. Flour is now looked on as
about as dangerous material as nitro
glycerine. Numerous other unexpected
Explosions have taken place among,
things hitherto regarded as completely
non-explosive. The latest explosion of
this nature was caused by quantity of
starch going ON bust" as the vulgar
would say. In a New York candy
factory there was terrific explosion Of
starch, by which two men were nearly
killed and one slightly injured.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
A Spotted Negro.

o
An esteemed friend of Webb City
sends us the following "Of the seven
teen wonders of the world the United
States furnish fivc--the Mammoth Cave,
the Niagara Falls, the Natural Bridge,
the Hot Springs, and last, but not least,
the Ethiopian who is changing color
The two last belong to Arkansas, and are
prominently the most wonderful The
former are common in small way, their
magnitude making them remarkable.
But the latter stands unapproached in
the history Of the world. The public
have seen or heard Of Hot Springs, but
this radical positive and permanent
change of color from very black to
very white man is freak of nature I'M
paralleled in the history of man. This
Individual, Frank Jones (ex-officio col
ored), having lived quiet life OF thirty
years (but now fifty-fve years Of age)
Ave miles south of Ozark, Franklin
County, Arkansas the public know
nothing of this phenomenon. He was
born black, OF black parents, and re-
manned so until he was about grown,
when white spot, resembling that of q
lamb, appeared on his breast, and from
that the spots spread in each direction.
He is now spotted man, being about
half black and half white, and becoming
more white all the time, The spots are
very decided, white being very white,
and black very black, except those that
are undergoing the change from black
to white, which are of agrayish yellow.
He is in perfect health every day. re-
gard him as absolutely the greatest won
der of the age"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
A Curious Incident.

John G. Arnold, San Francisco actor,
got very drunk at San Jose, three years
ago On the following morning dead
body, bearing such strong resemblance to
Arnold that it was at once identified by
many persons as his, was found in
suburban almond orchard. A slightly
crippled leg, traces of paralysis, and a
cast in the right eye were marks that,
beside general likeness, led jury to
decide that the remains were those of
Arnold. A bullet hole in the head
showed the cause of death. Now, Ar
mold returns to San Francisco, and says
that, on the occasion of the San Jose
spree he met the man afterward found
dead, that they were attracted at once
by their close resemblance to each other,
and that while spending the night with
q number of young men his double was
accidentally shot. Fearing implication
in the matter, he had retreated to South
ern California.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

The Brick Pomerey wing of the
Greenback partv met in State Conven-
ton at Marshalltown, Iowa. Advices
from there state that there were about
thirty-three delegates in attendance.
The indications did not point to an in
dependent ticket, but rather that there
will be an effort to harmonic the two
factions, the Pemeroyites being careful
to see that the old original, unadulter-
ated. no nonsense greenback doctrine
shall prevail in 1880. In fact, the con-
vention seems to have assembled to out
line policy for the Presidential year
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
Precious Metals as Curatives.

Among the claims against the estate Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Vassels of New Bedford,
Mass, was that of Nathaniel Hammond
for twenty-four visits, with medical
advice" at 81 each, and nine gold
pills" at 81 for the lot The fact that
Mr.. Hammond is not physician led the
administrator to refuse payment, which
brought on a lawsuit. Mr.. Hammond
testified that he doctored Mrs. Vasse)s at
her urgent request, and prescribed pills
made Of solid gold, nine of which act
ually cost 81 to make. He thought they
would strengthen the patient. If iron
was good tonic, why should not more
precious metal be better? Mr.. Ham
mond's account-book was put in evidence.
1t was an almanac, inscribed "Doctrin
Mrs. Vassels, and the visits were marked
at the corresponding dates.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

IT is proposed to hold reunion at
Lexington, KY, of representatives of
the Clay family, the time suggested be-
ing from October 14th to the 18th. 1t is
said that all American born bearing the
same name are descended from one
family. Most of them reside in Ken
lucky and Alabama; but the family is
represented in New York State, New
England, Texas and the Carolinas. and
in Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio, and perhaps other States in the
North and Northwest.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
MILLER PEACHES,

And Acknowledges the Rape of Louisiana
TiIden Carried the Stste by 5000 or
10000.
Justice Samuel z. Miller, who voted with the
Republicans every time in the Eight-to-Seven
Commission, made Q strange admission, for
him, to New York Sun reporter, in an inter-
view which that journal prints. Speaking Of
Mr.. Tilden snd the events of 1876 and 1877, he
remarked: .
aOn the other hand, it may be said Of him
that ne honestly thought himself elected, and
entitled to the votes Of two Southern States
which the tribunal decided against him. He
was elected in Louisiana il, he got 5000
or 10000 more actual votes there than
Hayes. In the event Of his success next year,
/ think he will make good President He IL .
man Of great ability, unwearied peril.
nacity, and extraordinary courage. He cannot
be bulldozed by politicians or ONCE seekers
He has made an excellent Governor Of New
York, and has shown administrative aud exec
utive powers of high order. He is old snd
rich, and has no temptation TO abuse the powers
Of his Office while be has every inducement to
give tho country good Observation-Disclosures
which VII inure TO his fame. and obliterate, IN
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

6 The poor We have always with you"
is just as true to-day as it was when
those words were spoken more than
eighteen centuries ago.. And must con-
tinue to be SO long as man is born of
woman Unfortunately, there is q
large number in this and every other
community with reflective faculties so
mystisfed or muddled they cannot be
made to understand the cause and con-
sequence OF it. The result is continuous
agitation, which was at the commence
ment of time and will not likely to ter
inmate until the end.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

ONCE in while a gentleman drops
into our office and tells us to stop his
paper, saying as an excuse, al have
more reading matter now than / can
manage; take several city papers, and
besides, times are hard" In our opin-
ion the gentleman who utters this SEN
timent possesses very little discretion,
and could hardly be recommended as a
representative citizen. Nothing seems
to us more plain than that the institu-
ton that rebounds to the benefit of a
community should be the first to re-
ceive the patronage of the resident of
that community. We approve of person
subscribing for city paper when he
can afford it, but first of all, support your
local paper. 1t is the journal that
builds up your country and supports
your home institutions The city paper
does not do this; it is foreign to you as
the city wherein it is published. 1t may
contain more reading matter but your
neighborhood is not represented in its
columns. But to all sensible men the
fact is patent and requires no argument
that you should "help the man that
helps you"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
The Advantages Of a Tail.

The monkeys seem to amuse the PEG
pie most. like monkey myself Do
you know / believe it positive loss to
human beings that they haven't got tails
like monkeys? Why, a monkey can hold
any thing with his tail, just like you can
with your hand. It's really q third
hand. Now s'posin' you had such a tail?
If you had to hang on to the platform of
q crowded horse-car with your hands,
you could hold your umbrella with your
tail. If you were walking up and down
the room at night with the BABY, you
could carry him in your arms and give
him a spoonful of paregotic with your
tail. If you wanted to take your family
out for an airing, you could grab child
with each hand and pull the baby coach
with your tail. / tell you, sir, its a
dead loss to you that you are not built
like the monkey.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
Collapse of the sherman Boom.

Washington Telegram TO Chicago Tmes.l
The general opinion among Republicans at
Washington is that the Sherman boom 10 nearly,
if not quite, at an end. There is no leading
Republican who has 90 many bitter personal
enemies as he, even among his own party asso-
ciates. Then the culriination of his connec-
ton with the disreputso ole Louisiana crowd has
not yet come. The Returning Board scoundrels
will hang about his neck o. heavy as mill stones
before the next nominating convention. II
is now understood why Casanave dared
to talk as plainly as he did, and yet be certain
that further drafts made by him will have to be
honored The next day after the expose Of
Casanave, Sherman said that the money raised
had been subscribed by prominent Republicans,
but neither he nor his counsel, Shellabarger
and Wilson, can name single Republican who
has paid or would pay a single cent to save the
scoundrels from perdition Besides this, Sher-
man says that money must be raised in some
way to meet the rest Of the judgment. This
shows that Casanaye in his talk has by no means
exhausted his resources.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

The estate left by Mrs. Sarah A..
Dorsey to Mr.. Jefferson Davis is said by
Southern authority not to exceed in
value $4,000. The New Orleans Demo-
crat says: Besides Beauvoir,' Missis-
sippi City, valued at $500, Mrs. Dor
sey owned three places, in Tensas Par
ish, one assessed at $li $40. tbree-6fths
of another valued at $4,000, and an
other which is lying idle, and is subject
to overflow, at 81, 500. Two of these
places are rented to Mr.. Isaacs, of this
city, for $2,250, which constituted the
whole of Mrs. Dorsey's income. Her
debts, at the time of her death,
amounted to over $1,000. Last spring
she made bona fde sale of the Beauyoir
place to Mr.. Davis for $4,000, for which
he gave his note running for one, two
and three years. These notes are now
in the hands of Mr.. J. U. Payne, one OF
our oldest and most respectable mer
chants, who for a long time was the
manager of Mrs. Dorsey's business af
fairs. The much-talked-of lands owned
by Mrs. Dorsey in Arkansas and Texal
have not for long time past beer
deemed worth paying taxes on
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

EDISON still has many friends in New
York. One of them writes to the Sun
that " the, mysteries of the electric light
will shortly astonish skeptical eyes," and
then everybody but the holders of gas
stocks "will give the credit that is due
to the greatest inventor of the age-the
much-laughed-at and much-abused, but
little understood man of genius, Thomas
A. Edison"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

The Peruvians are beginning to feel
the effects of their war policy. Over
whelmed with foreign debt aggregat-
ing 5000, 900, 900 the government finds
it very difficult, in fact almost impossi-
BILE, to get money to keep the sinews of
war in play. American double eagles
sell for sixty-ive Peruvian dollars, and
all kinds of provisions are fabulously
high.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

q measure the scandals which have sttsched to
his namer
Concerning Secretary Shermsn's canvass and
the extraordinary efforts he Is said to be max
ing to capture the Republican nomination, the
Judge said: .s I-rl a4f f..f
1T does not follow because man Is Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, and makes use OF the
great power and patronage Of his office, that he
is necessarily going 10 succeed in the race for
the nomination. Two former Secretaries
James Guthrie and Salmon p. Chase-did what
Mr.. Sherman ts now charged with doing, and
yet they signally failed when tho time came
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

The Rev. Newman Hall, D. D., of
London, the great congregational
preacher who won 30 much admiration
in this country some years ago as pull
pit orator, has inst obtained divorce
from his wife upon the charge of criui-
nal, intimacy with hoster, She made
equally dreadful charges against him,
Int failed to prove them. The affair is
exciting worldwide interest.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

The Indians Of Nevada make what
they eonside, delicious bread from
dried grasshoppers mashed with pine
nuts or cracked whest, ana made into
kind of -four.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

The Queen prorogued the British
Parliament, and took that occasion to
draw a splendid but rather optimist
picture of British affairs at home and
abroad. Buttbis is the customary tone
rot such documents. Speaking of the
Zulu war, the Queens speech delicately
alluded to the French Prince Imperial,
though not wounding in any way the
sentiments of the Republican Govern
ment of France.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

NJ. ID. CONWAY thinks Dean Stanley
has one serious weakpess-he is a born
courtier. And he has consented to put
the monument to the Prince Imperial
into Westminster Abbey against his
convictions. The current of In
perialistic humbng has sucked the good
man in. r- .--5=
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

PARIS green kills not only potato
bugs, but cattle who feed in a field
where it has been thrown, and farmers
who breathe the atmosphere which it
taints while throwing it on the ground
The remedy is far worse than the evil
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

No doubt there's are some honest
cashiers; but the number of defaulters
and embezzlers that turn up among
them is calculated to weaken faith in
their honesty as q class. r. -
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

,,., The dry goods trade Of Canada has
been having hard time of it during the
past five or six years, in both wholesale
and retail lines. The Toronto Globe is
credited with saying: "That in no
sother line of trade have disasters fallen
. 30 thickly but that now the outlook is
a little brighter and greater caution is
manifested in both buying and selling"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

of a grave nature unless an early under
standing is reached. 1t is felt that
under the treaty, as construed by the
English Government, the privileges en-
tailed on the United States are not pro-
portionate TO the price paid for them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

FARMERS ard others who allow them
selves to be ictimized by note-manipu-
slatipg sharpers will be pleased to know
othat the Supreme Court of Iowa has de-
cided that it is the purchasers duty to
learn whether notes are genuine or
forged. The ruling of the Courts here
tofore has been to protect innocent
BUYERS.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

THEs solcalled Mother shipton's
Prophecy was written by an English
student named Charles Hindley, less
than thirty years ago. He afterward
confessed the fraud. - IL 90
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

FOREIGN governments declare that
they cannot be expected to prevent the
emigration to the United States of con.
verts. to- the Mormon faith. No, they
cannot. But Secretary Evart's circular,
warning such emigrants that polygamy
is punishable in the United States with
imprisonment, will abate the evil.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

IT is reported that an English com
pany of capitalists will attempt to build
a Florida ship canal in opposition to the
French company, and over a slightly diff
ferent route. Mr.. Reid, member of the
British Parliament, will, it is stated,
soon come to this country in behalf of
the English company.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

IN regard to the demand of the gov
eInment upon England for $1O8, 900
damages for Fortune Bay outrages, it is
The wish of the United States Govern.
nisnt that the matter should be settled.
as j, seems sure to result in difficulties
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06

THESE are glorious days for noun
tain-climbing, when the air is keen and
braeing, and the atmosphere seems to
glow with fresh life and spirit.