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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
Thirty Reasons for the PrOhibi-
tiOn of the Traffic of In
tOxicating Liquors.

l. They deprive men of their rea-
son for the time being.
2. They destroy men Of the great
est intellectual strength.
3. They foster and encourage ev-
cry species of immortality.
A. They bar the progress of civil
ization and religion.
5. They destroy the peace and hap
piness of tens of thousands of fam
lilies.
6. They reduce many virtuous
wives and children to beggary.
7. They cause many thousands of
murders.
8. They prevent all reformation of
character.
8. They render abortive the strong
est resolutions.
10. The millions Of property ex-
pended in them are lost.
IL. They cause the majority of the
cases of insanity.
H. They destroy both the body
and the soul.
13. They burden sober people with
millions, for the support of paupers.
IA. They cause immense expendit-
ures to prevent crime.
Is They cause sober people i'm
mense sums in charity.
Is. They burden the country with
enormous taxes.
IL rIr yO
want the temptation removed.
Is. Drunkards want the opportun-
ity removed.
10. Sober people want the nuisance
removed.
90 Tax payers want the burden
removed.
81. The prohibition would save
thousands now falling.
%. The sale exposes our families
to destruction.
90. The sale upholds the vicious
and the idle, at the expense of the
industrious and the yirtuous.
"a The sale subjects the sober to
oppression.
%. 1t takes the sober mans earn
ings to support the drunkard.
&c 1t subjects numberless wives
to untold sufferings.
27. 1t is contrary to the Bible.
2S 1t is contrary to common sense.
80. 1t is not moral.
80. We have right to rid our
selves of the burden.-Nationdl
TepDerance Societu Tract
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
OHIO GOES FOR THURMAN.

The Ohio Democratic State Con-
vention was held last Thursday
When Frank Hurd mentioned the
name of Senator Thurman he was
greeted with round after round of
cheers. The convention was the most
harmonious ever held in the State
and it's results are highly satisfacto-
ry.
The following resolutions were
adopted
"Resolceed, That the Democratic
party of Ohio recognize the long SER
vice and great ability and steadfast
advocacy of constitutional liberty
which marked the career Of Allen q.
Thurman, and, confiding in his recti-
tude and fitness for chief executive
of the republic, cordially instruct the
delegates at-large this day appointed,
and request the district delegates chos-
en- by the several districts of the State,
to present to the National Democratic
Convention the name of this tried
statesman as our candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States and to use
all honorable means to secure his
nomination.
RESOLVED, That in order that Ohio
may have the full influence and pow
er in the National Democratic Con
vention to which her position in the
Union entities her We hereby instruct
the Ohio delegates to that cenven-
tion to cast the vote of the State as a
unit.
"Resolced, That we reeommed the
Democratic National Convention to
adopt the two-t thirds rule in nomina-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
SECOND DISTRICT.
Conv ention to Appoint Delegates
to Cincinnati.

To the Democratic and ConSerUa-
ttoe Toters Of the Second Con-
gressioaal District Of Vest Pr
giRia:
BY authority of the Executive
Committee of the Democratic and
Conservative party of the Second
Congressional District of West Vir-
ginia, / do hereby call Convention
of said party to meet in the town of
GRAFTON, in Taylor county, on
THURSDAY, 3rd day of JUNE,
1880, for the purpose of appointing
delegates the National Democratic
Convention, which meets in Cincin-
natl.
The various counties in said Dis
trict are requested to send represent
atives to said Convention.
The members of the Executive
Committee are requested to be at
said Convention, when the time
and place for holding Convention
to nominate a candidate for Con
gress for this District will be fixed
upon.
The Democratic newspapers of this
District are requested to publish
this notice.
JOSEPH SPRIGG,
Chairman Dem. E1. Com. for the
Second Congressional District.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

The Greenback crop in this coun-
ty this Fall will be miserable fail
ure. There were some honest men in
that party, who united with it from
pure motives and for honest purposes,
who will not permit themselves to be
sold into the Republican party by a
few unprincipled, selfish politicians.
-Inder.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

The Greenbackers and Republic
ans of the State propose to fuse"
throw overheard every pesky Demo
crat, and divide the spoils of office.
Well, we shall see what we shall see
Appeal.
You will see Fusion emigration
after the election, to the happy hunt
ing grounds of West Virginia Rad
ical office seekers-"Salt River"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

If coalition between the RAIDS and
Greenbackers be "unlawful cohabit-
ation," then the Fusion baby must
be bastard, begottten on the bod
les of tpo stumpets; or else it will
be mouse brought forth by the
mountain in labor.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Countu of MOnOnQalid, SIS

DIAL II VT w r1o1 Niis0iNAAD
County of Monongalia, S.:
At Rules held in the Clerks office of
the Circuit Court of said county, on the
first Monday in May, 1880, and OH the
Chancery side of said Court.
John Chalfant, plaintiff,
VS..
Isaac f. Arnett, Silas s.
Kendall, William A, Ken r, chonoorv
dall,S H. Chalfant, Rob-
ert Chalfant. jeremiah
Chalfant and William
Chalfant, defendants.
The object of this suit is to enforce a
judgment lien on the real estate lately
conveyed by the defendant Silas s. Ken
dali and others to the defendant Isaac
+. Arnett, and for general relief. And
it appearing from al affidavit filed in
this cause that the said Sias =. Kendall
is not resident of this State, it IS order
ed that he do appear here at Rules to be
held in the Clerks Office of said Court on
the LIST Monday in June next and dowhat
is necessary to protect his interest in
this suit. A Copy Teste:
A. RAYMOND.
AHNETT & HAGERTY,
Counsel for plaintiff.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
WHO SHALL HAvE.THE SIM
MON?

If there is any truth in the saying
that "the longest pole will knock the
persimmon," then we are quite sure
that our red headed friend, Ledrew,
will reach it this fall over all com
petitors.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

The Radicals are trying to make
another fusion. 1t is now with the
Labor Reform party of this State.
What pity it is that Kearney, Kali
lock and the Sandlot party of San
Francisco are not here. What good
Radical fusionists they would make /!
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

The Radical papers and stumpers,
who are just now bowling so much
about emigration to West Virginia,
have never told rs yet by what means
they will induce emigrants to
settle amongst us. We suppose that
if once more in power they will give
every emigrant farm, q pair of
mules, and all the implements neces-
sary to carry on farming, and throw
in for good measure yoke of
oxen, half dozen mich cows,
herd of sheep, &c. Or maybe they
will compel all the owners of good
and improved farms to give up their
homes to new corners and take them
selves, with their families, to the
mountains. Or they may borrow a
few hundred million of dollars, build
railroads all over the State, and pre-
sent every actual settler with sections
OF land all along the railroads, build
furnaces and rolling mills and give
them to parties as premium for
bringing crowds of people to our
State 1t is impossible for us to see
any other plan to induce emigration
to this State. EmigranJs, as a rule,
are not willing or able to pay from
twenty to fifty dollars for good land,
when they can buy the same quality
of land in the Western States for
$1.25 per acre. To suppose that they
should prefer our cheap mountain
land to the rich prairies of the West
long as our land is held for high
prices, we cannot compete with our
Western States, where land is cheap.
If the mere idea that Radical su-
premacy would induce emigrants to
settle amongst US, we cannot see how
it is that the Radical New England
States are left out in the cold by the
emigrants who flock to our shores.
The Radical demagogues, who now
howl so much about emigrants and
emigration, who some years back
wished that wall of fire would sep
Iate US from Europe to relieve US
from the terrible tide of foreign bar
barians, who would destroy our free
institutions, and infiict untold miser-
les and horrors upon our heads, are
the very persons, it is said, who
were in the front ranks of the Know
Nothing party. Then they howled
about the lop-eared and sauerkraut
Dutch, the superstitious, drunken
and brutal Irish, &c. The leaders of
that party here in Mergantown, &C
cording to the testimony of some of
our older citizens, prosecuted every
person who had a good word for the
poor foreigner, how they traduced
and blackguarded, on every occasion,
any person who did not believe in
and endorse their dark and secret
/ conclaves. With them, foreign
born citizen had no rights which a
native ought to respect. They would
deprive them Of the right Of suffrage
and holding office, and the same per-
sons now would make us believe that
the Democrats of the State, the
friends and'protectors Of foreigners,
were the cause Of no emigrants set
TIL.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

are adopted very great amount Of
additional legislation will be required
and made indispensable to put the
new system in motion. We will be
compelled to undo what we have, and
make new laws to suit the new state
of things. That will require, among
other things, new codification of
the laws of the State, which is always
very expensive, and attended by
great delay and inconvenience.
Why then should these so-called
amendments be not adopted at the
polls2
Because to adopt them will be to
worse and not better our condition.
1t will be jumping out of the frying
pan into the fire.
Why should the adoption or rejec-
tion of these amendments not be
made or treated as political or parti-
san questions?
Because they should each be ad-
judged and voted upon on their real
merits or dement's alone, and not
covered up or colored by partisan
prejudice or madness.
Why are so many of the "one
horse" politicians of the Fusion par
ty Of this State striving 80 hard to
make these amendments party ques-
tons?
Because they hope by deception
and clap trap to deceive some unsus-
pecting Democrats to vote with them
who would not otherwise do SO; but
let these shallow schemers remember
what they will ere long learn (if they
can learn anything that while these
same supposed to be gullable Demo
Gratis may not have as much brass,
they have more sagacity than these
trimmers.
Why are so many of the better
class of the Republican party reti-
cent on this subject?
Because they prefer thinking to
frothing, ard place the public good
above party intrigue or success.
Y. and l.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

What dramatic scene it is to see
the very hard money Hon. George c.
Sturgiss kissing and hugging that
dirty faced, unwashed, unkcmpt, and
by him SO much despised and ira
duced "Rag Baby"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

The canvass of Col. Peterson, of
the Weston Republican for the House
of Delegates, is progressing favora-
bly,. We sincerely hope he may be
elected. Richie Gazette.
And then the Legislature of We t
Virginia will have q new edition OF
Don Quixote, the Knight of the Sor-
rowful Figure. And you, Bro. Nor
ris, will be his Sancho Panza, and
you may have Dawson for your long
cared quadruped to ride on.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
TENDER FOOTED.

Why are some gentlemen so ten
der footed that they get ''on their
ear" without perceivable cause? Did
the shoe fit or have they corns on
their toes2 Let these gentlemen APP
ply to us, and we will cure these sore
places homepathically, ''simtlid sim
ilibus, curantur." We have large
amount of the same salve left.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

Radical tricksters and bummers,
rotgut, Book Beer and Blaine gas,
are now affecting the good citizens of
Wheeling.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15

The Richie Gazette has quit poll
tics, and devotes considerable space
to"Bacon." That is right, Brother
Morris. You are sensible. To eat
''Bacon" is more pleasant than to
eat "Crow," provided us poor Edit
ors have the spondulix with which
to buy it.
The Democrats have better sense
than to beat their own brains out
New DOMINION.
No doubt the above is true but the
people will be just fools enough to
do it for them this Fall.-Moundsville
Commercial
That is more they can do with
your party, because it never had
any. Only the "Instinct'' to steal
and plumber.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
GEN. W. s. HANCOCK.
The Standard Bearer Of the Democratic
Party-A Gallant Soldier ard a
Respeeter Of the Rights Of
TIE People.
A Man With q eleaa Record and An
Untarnished Reputation-A Brief
Biographical Sketch.
W ASH ,gton Gazette.

ASH rgton Gazette.
General Hancock bears a fam Y
name which long before his b til had
been made celebrated in revolutionary
annals. TO this family belonged John
Hancock of Massachusetts,, the signer
Of the Declaration OF Independence.
In the great struggle for human liber-
ty and the deIiverance of man from
old thraldnm Of kings more than one
ancestor of our subject, maternal as
we'll as paternal, took part. ThatWIn-
field s. Hancock should be lover of
his country is matter Of iIheritlnce.
That he is man who, although a
soldier by profession, holds the law
aud the Constitution above the sword ,
is an honorable and patriotic feature of
his character which is his own. His
name shines therefore With no reflected
lustre from the past.
Gen. Hancock was born in Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania. His
father, who was a native of the same
county, participated in the war of
1912, and afterwards became Il law yer
of prominence. The date Of Gen.
Hancock's birth was February 18th,
1924. His early education was re-
ceived at an academy in NorristoM IL ,
where he spent the first years of BIS
youth. He possessed, as a school boy,
those traits which sometimes foretell
future eminence. Studious and though
full, he laid the foundation of a great
career.
Entering West Point at sixteen, he
graduated with credit to himself OH
the 30th of June 1874. The close of
the Mexican war,-in which he had
distinguished himself at Contrears,
Cherubusco, Moline del Rey and at
the capture of the City of Mexico
found him a second lieutenant of in
fantry. From 1913 to 1861 he served
in various capacities in the military
service. In 1851, when the war be-
tween the United States and the Con
federate States broke out, he was sta
toned at Los Angeles, Cal. He offered
ais lervices first to his native State
of Pennsylvania, and then to the Fed
eral government. The latter accepted
them. General Scot ordered him to
Washington, and President Lincoln
commissioned him as brigadier-general
Of volunteers, September 23rd.
General Hancock's command was
composed of four regiments-from
Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont
and Wisconsin respectfully. With
these troops he repaired with the Army
of the Potomac to the Peninsula to-
wards the end of March, 1862, when
General Mcclellan began his inefect-
ual campaign against Richmond from
that direction. His brigade took part
in number of slirmishes and partial
engagements that preceded the battle
of Williamsburg on the 18th of May.
1t distinguished itself on that day,
General Hancock assuming personal
command leading a charge. This
sharing the danger of his men was one
of the features Of his military career /;
he never was unwilling to lead on Oc-
castor when his presence was needed
to encourage his troops, and both as
brigu.4 tr-genera, and majoT-geEeral he
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
The Cotton Crop of 1SSO-S1.

:. ant: Constitution.
From the best information we can
gather, we estimate the growing crop
at G, lib, 900 bales. One basis of our
calculation is an increase of acreage
over last season that amounts to 8 per
cent. The increase in the States of
North and South Carolina, Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, taken together, is about 3
per cent; in Tennessee and Texas
about 10, and in Arkansas about u
per cent. For five years past the
American cotton crop, with the ex-
ception of that of 1877, has been con-
siderably above an average. A yield
of from 166 to 1913 pounds to the acre
for the entire crop of the Southern
States is considered fair average. As
we have stated, the estimated acreage
in cotton in 1880 is s per cent. above
the crop of 1879. This will warrant
the conclusion that 6,113,0OO bales
will be made.
The prospect of the present growing
crop is exceedingly Acknowledgement so
that was that of the crop of 1879 at
this season of the year. AS matter
of course, cotton, from the time the
seed goes into the ground, until it is
more than one-half gathered, is sub
ject to many climate Influences. The
two great requisites to make cotton are,
an early coming up and a good stand.
After these are secured, there must be
a good growth of stalk and an
abundant fruitage of squares and bolls,
and late, open fall. All these are
required to make large yield. Up
to this time we have, in addition to an
immense acreage in cotton, good
stands with favorable prospects from
all the cotton growing sections.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01

Can the State Debt be settled
satisfactorily to all p. rites? We
believed il can ! e. it is a mis-
taken idea TO hold that those who
voted down the SOL proposition
are repudiators. No. Nine-tenths
of such voters are as firmly re-
solved to shield the STATE t'rt m
the stigma Of reputation rs are
those who were loudest in support
ing that proposition. That propo-
sitiOn had. NOT been proposed by
the creditors as a basis Of settle
ment and the people believed no
practical good would result there
from and hence defeated it.
The National Democracy have
wisely proclaimed that State and
National credit should be main
iained. This being the au; horized
utterance of the party ON this great
question, we conceive it to be
the duty of every Democrat to Ia
Dor to uphold this doctrine and
enforce it in all its bearings.
As applied to our State Debt
we are obligated to preserve pub
tic credit. Rid this question OF
the heavy load of demeg gu RI
which encumberes it. and have
The creditor and debtor come to
yether in, a spirit of Cancellation,
resolved to Settle it satisfactorily
and finally and it can be accom-
pished.
Admitting that the vote reject
ing the 504 proposition as mean
ing that the people oppose pay
ing that rate. or any higher, let
the Legislature propose a compro
mise representing some agleeC
rate of settlement and the pay
ment of this amount to lie equal
! ly borne by the State and tLs
railroads involved.
Unless some such plan b.
adopted this debt will remain from
year to year as a leaden weigh
upon the body polite, increasing
i'll heaviness and a positive bur
den upon the spirit of the pee
pie.
This question has created a con
dition of affairs which appeals t,
every citizen, however humble, t,
make an effort to meet and ad
Just.
Surely the flame Of patriotism
is not burning so feebly in tn
bosom of TennesseaIs that the,
are unwilling to step forward an
| deliver the State from an agoniz
ing trouble.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
HANCOCK AND ENGLISH.

The National Democratic Con-
vention have done nobly to pre-
senting to the country the names
of Hancock and English.
The private and public record
of Gen. Hancock cannot be "a
sailed by the Republican party.
AS Federal General he foughi
the South with great gallantry
and no stain rests upon his sword.
His services TO the country while
commander of Louisiana and Tex
as, during the dark days of recon
structiOn are models of state
manship. They embody princi-
pies thoroughly Democratic and
in accord with the best teachings
of the best men i'll the best days
of the Republic. His name is an
assurance of victory.
Mr.. English, of Indiana, is we'll
worthy of the second place on
the ticket. He has served his
State faithfully and ably in Con
gress, and for the past few years
has, although retired from public
life and engaged in large com
mercial pursuits, taken great in
terest in political affairs. He is {
true Democrat. of lofty personal
character, and of great intellect.
The nomination of Mr.. English
makes the gallant State of Indi-
ana Becure for the Democratic
ticket.
The Convention in presenting
these names of men whose per-
sonal character is unblemished
andwhose labors have been d rect
ed so earnestly and unselfishly to
the welfare Of their country, have
done their whole duty and have
done it we'll. The contrast be.
tween the manner of nomination
and the character of the nominees
of the Cincinnati and the Chica.
go Convention is SO striking that
the country must be impressed
with the honest intention of the
Democratic party to offer an Ad-
minstration whose purity shall re.
store the Government to what il
was in the better days of the Re,
public, and it cannot fail to be i'm.
pressed with the fact that the men
and methods presented by the
Republican party are a disgrace
to free and honest government.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
THE PLATFORM.

The National Democratic pla
form comes up to the highest
wishes of the people. 1t de-
mands gold and silver as cur
rency, with a constitutional pa
per currency convertible into
gold and silver. 1t demands a
strict maintenance of the public
credit, both State and National.
1t demands tariff for revenue
simply and not for protection.
1t demands free shipping and
abrogatiOn of the laws which
now trammel commerce upon
the seas. 1t demands home rule
for the States, and an honest bal.
lot, untrammelled by military
supervision. 1t demands that
the Chinese shall stand on the
same footing here that our PEG,
pie stand upon in China. 1t de
mands economy in government
and respect for the ballot.
This enunciation of the princi-
pies of the Democratic party
must meet the favor of the peo-
pie. Their is no hesitation or
equivocation. 1t is just such a
platform as the people demand.
Standing upon these principles,
Hancock and English meet the
wishes Of the people, and will be
elected in November.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
State Democratic Convention,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. June II, 1885,
A convention of the Democratic party
of Tennessee is called to meet in the
city of Nashville, on Tuesday, Aug.
10, 1880, at II NJ. in the hall of the
house of Representatives, for the pur-
pose of enunciating Il platform Of priv
ciples, for its guidance in the ensuing
campaign, and the nomination of a
candidate for Governor, and such other
business as the convention, when
ssmbled, may deem proper. By dire
ton ST the committee.
JNO. w. CEuDREss, JR.,
CHAIRMAN, etc.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
Pay of Census Enumerators

Secretary Schurz decides that the
pay of census enumerators shall be at
the rate of 40 cents per hour, instead
of S4 per day or two cents per name,
as provided in the census bill. He
holds, further, that the census law has
not been properly construed, and that
he is empowered to adjust the salaries
of enumeratOrs in the interest of econ
Banner.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01

The New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser, endorsing the ticket says
that''it will require hard work,
eternal vigilance to carry New
York for Garfield and Arthur.