The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-03-06
THE BUSY WORLD.
GENERAL NEWS.


American coal is shipped to Swita,
erland. M
Boston University has COS students,
ITS of them are young women.
There are thousands Of iron work
ers on strike in the Pennsylvania
mining regions.
Saratoga hotel men have already
begun to prepare for their summer
guests.
The Milwaukee County Insane
Asylum has been burned.
Two sleighs have been sent from
Poughkeepsle, N. Y, to the Emperor
of Japan.
The ice business on the Kennebec
river usually employs $500 laborers.
The negro exodus from the South
is waning. A good many are going
back.
Ohio's school population numbers
1,043,320.
If the money which is being pour
ed into Ireland Is honestly applied,
there need to be no unappeascd hun.
ger there.
A counterfeiting coin establish,
-ment has lately been discovered aud
broken up at Maustin, Wis.
Our present Congress docs not
seem favorably disposed towards
new reciprocity treaty with Can.
ada.
1t is believed by our government
officials that contrary to prevailing
rumors, Europe is in no condition for
war, and that peaceful counsels will
prevail.
A French chemist asscrtsthat if
tea be ground like coffee Immediately
before hot water is poured on 1t, it's
exhilarating qualities will be -lcub
led.
The town of Waltham,svt.. is So
years old, and has never had Church
or postotllcc within its limits.
The iron trade of the United
States never had such prosperous
year, relatively speaking, MS that Of
1879. The price Of pig iron more
than doubled during the year.
About $40, O00 has been subscribed
for the erection Of a beet sugar fac
tory at Franklin, Mass.
If the market value Of raw mate
rails continues to advance, every
American newspaper will, sooner p
later, be obliged o.raise the price OF
its subscription.
North Carolina has six newspapers
edited by negroes, Louisiana three,
Tennessee aud Texas two each, and
Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi
each one.
The wages in the Lowell mills have
been put back where they were be-
fore the last cut ttnwA III 1878, which
is nearly ten per cent increase on
an average.
About 1,5Q0 emigrauts per week
are arriving at New York just now,
but the number will be greatly in
creased as the iSpring opsns, and
preparations arc being made there
for.
Counterfeit gold coin is abundant
in California, and must gradually
find its way eastward. 1t is in the
form of $500 pieces, exact imitation;
but light in weight.
One of the most remarkable tests
of the age, says the Graphic, is be-
ing made at Boston. where two, wo-
men are jointly editing q womana
rights journal.
The Alabama..plantcrs are wild on
cotton planting. Food crops arc
neglected, and exclusive attention is
given to cotton. Same in northern
Mississippi. but very littlessattention
is given to wheat.
Over three thousand bills are now
pending in Congress, and the present
session is uot muck mere than halt
over,
The country !pays annually about
SIP, 900, 900 to ministers; SOC, DOC, 600
to lawyers; and about $120,0O0,OOO
for spirituous liquors. Col. 1ngersoll,
the Republican orator, will please
take notice Of this item. How would
it do to reverse this expense &C
count.
Last year 64t, people were divorced
at San Francisco, 104 Of the DEGREES
being grantedson the ground Of cru
city and desertion. In the same city
207 persons came to their death by
violence, eighty eight Of whom COM
mitted suicide.
The year 1879 was prosperous
one for California, She exported
$40, 600, 900 worth of wheat; there
were built on her coast 1870 vessels.
and the exports OF gold and silver
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