The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25

have good sleighing during the holt
days. -.
WHAT has. become Of the Monon-
gala County Wool Growers Associ-
ation9 ~.
>, To DAT "wednesday is the day
on which Prof. yennor predicted a
s-foot snow.
WE learn that the Court ofAppeals
has Affirmed the judgment of Price
and McVicker against Harner.
A CoNsIDERABLE quantity of the
personal property Ct late VIM. UT
WAS sold on the street last Saturday.
We would he glad to hear from our
Cheat Neck and Arnettsville cores
pondents again. Wake up, gentle
men. - 60.
MAKE your friend in the West a
nee Christmas present hy sending him
copy Of the New DOMINION for the
=year 1881.
Opn Legislators, Messrs. Cox, Nc
Grew and Watson, are making ar
fragments for their stay in Wheel
ing this winter.
THE Parkersburg Sentinel, one of
our best exchanges, has lately been
enlarged and improved. Success to
you, Bro Horner.
TAKE the venom from the Morgan
town Post, and it will be like wasp
without its sting.-New State Ga
astts.
Mr.. Ed. SHrsLKR has placed an ell
egant new show case on the counter
of his'store room. He has splen-
did stock Of goods, and is doing n
thriving business.
MRS SUSAN JACOBS, aged Sc years,
the mother of ex.Gov. Jacobs, died
at her residence in Romney last
week Deceased had been for many
years a mem Der of the NJ. F. Church,
with which her husband was con
rected.-K1, $685..
% The students and some of the
Professors will leave this evening for
tfeir homes to spend the holidays.
We wish them all a pleasant time, and
hope they may all return refreshed
after their vacation.
~ LARGE audiences we're present Mt
the M. f. Church, last Sunday, morn
ing and evening. The subject of the
pastors sermon in the morning was
'.Resding," and in the evening it was
Dancing" We hear both discours-
es spoken of very highly.
WEsEE from the programme of the
Washington County, Pa, Teachers
Institute, to he held during the Holt.
sdaSs, that A. i. Wade is one of the
three Instructors His subjects are
"Graduating System in Ungraded
Schools" and Methods of Instruc-
tion.s"s .48s
Z: VIZ arc Indebted to the Committee
on Invitations for ticket to the ball
TO .sbe. given by the Davis Light
Guards in Fairmont this evening.
Sorry we can't attend to give proper
tone. to the entertainments; but the
Fairmont editors will be present in
force a. substitute.
N. E. CHURCH SERVICES NEXT SUN
pAr.--The pastor, Rev. w. C. Snod-
grass, will occupy the pulpit, preach
ing a Christmas sermon in the morn
ing, and in the evening discoursing
ON "Cheerful Christ and Cheerful
Christianity"
Appropriate services will be held
during the Week of Prayer-January
20. l.f, M
GEORGE WIDOWS AND FRANK
PRICE did some needed work in the
graveyards last week. The briars have
grown unmolested until parts of the
burying grouds resemble thickets and
are little short of disgrace to those
who have friends buried there A
little fund should be raised and put on
interest, the increase to be applied an
nually to keeping those places in a
more slightly condition. VI no will be
the first to subscribe to such fund?
The JANUARY NUMBER OF Serb
HER's will contain an account Of the
aims and methods of the new Horo-
logical and Thermometrical Bureau
recently established by the Winches-
ter Observatory Of Yale College, from
careful inspection on the spot. This
is the first bureau of the kind establish
ed in this country and cannot fail to
raise the standard of excellence in
both clocks, watches and thermometers
The curious machinery used to correct
watches. to the tenth part of a second,
together with some singular facts in
the behavior Of thermometers, make
the article If more than usual interest