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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01


THE SPECIAL SERVICES AT THE M. +.
CHURCH ON MoNDAY.-In accordance
with the proclamation of President
Arthur, the people of Morgantown
assembled in the M. f. Church at 10
A. M. for religious services in honor
of the funeral Of our late President.
The house was pretty well filed,
almost an entire side being occupied
by the State Cadets in full dress with
Grape badges.
The following order of exercises
was observed, Rev. Snodgrass, pastor
of the M. Z. Church, presiding:
Music. Prayer, by Rev. Trainer
of the M. f. Church. Reading OF
the Scripture lesson, by Jas. NJ. Lee
of the University. Prayer, by Rev.
Robertson, of the Baptist Church al
Grafton. Music. Address by Geo.
c. Sturgiss, Esq. Prayer by Prof j.
S. Stewart of the University. Ad-
dress by Rev. B. Cade, of Shelton
College. Address by Hon. w. I.
Wiley. Doxology and Benediction.
The addresses were fraught with
eulogy and expression of affectionate
sorrow that only such eminent piety,
true greatness and craftsmanship as
James A. Garfeld's could deserve.
OF the speakers, two knew Presi-
dent Garfield personally and one was
connected with the Confederate army
during the late war, and yet from the
latter came, if possible, more earnest
asseverations of feeling of personal
bereavement in this great national
affliction and more earnest apprecia-
ton of the loftiness of character and
principal of our departed President
than were expressed by the others
whose symathies were ever with the
North.
The addresses were all exceedingly
interesting and the entire exercises
Impressive aSd appropriate. ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01
A Students Lament.

Dedicated to the festive occupants Of the Armorv.
Full many crime of darkest hue
The fragrant, fiendish bed-bugs do;
They crawl, they sneak, and darkly
slip
With bloody fangs our hides to rip.
At dead of night when nature sleeps
The bed bug from his Granny creeps
Then to your sides his ivory plies
And quickly grows to twice his size.
In troubled dreams you spend the
night
With COLLINS you contend in fight,
-Specked with blood from many q
bite,
Wake, daubed with gore-O horrid
sight.
Pharoah's plaques are naught COM
pared
With bugs, big-mouthed and open
Jared;
Famine, death, distress and sorrow
Could each pang from bed-bugs b,r-
row.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

The big lot of boots and shoes for
men women and children is attracting
much attention. They are marked
away down. At Lazear, Finnell d
Co.'S.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

DIR. Jos. A. MCLANE is having a
new roof put on his property on Main
street adjoining O'Kclly's.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

country has been remarkably heal
thy.
Now as to politics, as ! get the pa
pers so irregularly, and people al
was talk on other topics when here,
| can't keep posted; but from what i
can learn, Daniel will sweep the
State. My candid opinion, based on
previous experience, is that much
work remains to be done. Our par
ty, is always over confident, fails to
organize, and as natural conse-
quence polls light vote.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

If LAzEARs FIxSELE n Co cant
please y,ou. it is no nsc to look further
as you can't be pleased at all.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

LADIES, go't0 bazcar, Finneh end
Coz. and see the handsome skirts
they offer so cheap
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

HrRscHMAN, the clothier, is moving
into his new quarters opposite the
Court House.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

MoNoSGALIA cattle men are active.
L. +. Watson shipped four car loads
of cattle last week, and Joe. Keener
shipped five.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

The new tin roof put on DIR. Morris
house by /. Scott Reed, is pronounced
No. job, and is quite an improve
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

The GOSHEN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
met in the Baptist Church in this
place on Thursday, the 22d inst. A
very interesting session was held. A
number of distinguished ministers Of
that denomination were in attend
ance.
Owing to the illness Of our cores
pendent who was to prepare the min
utes for publication, we can only give
a meagre report.
On Saturday a council was called
to consider the propriety of ordaining
.. M. Miller to preach the Gospel.
After carefully examining the candi-
date as to his views of the scripture
and mis- knowledge Of the same. it
was unanimously resolved to proceed
with the ordination. The ordination
services were held in the M. f.
church on Sabbath morning. A very
excellent sermon, appropriate to the
occasion, was delivered by Rev. W..
P. Walker, of Huntington; after
which and other ceremonies, Rev. b.
Cade, Of st. Adams, w. Va, deliv-
cred very eloquent and impressive
charge to the young minister.
Mr.. Miller has been in attendance
at the University for some time and
has become well and fayorably known
to our people. We learn that he will
occupy the pulpit of the Baptist
church in this place.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-01

READ Hirschman's mammoth an
nouncemen on the first page of the
New DOMINION and his advertisement
on our second page.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22
Artesian Wells.
Orepnnian. DIST.

The company who took the con-
tract for sinking an artesian well
on the Ainsworth block, have met
with much difficulty thus far.
After sinking the well about
twelve or fifteen feet a large
boulder was struck which could
not be penetrated. This impedi-
ment caused a temporary suspen-
sion of operations. A well was
then dug a few feet distant and a
small tunnel run down toward the
bottom of the artesian well. This
was done for the purpose of re-
moving the boulder. But as soon
as the well reached the gravel bed
the water began to pour in with
such rapidity that the men were
forced to suspend operations. This
water comes from seepage from
the river, and to attempt to pump
out the well would be folly. So
the project has been abandoned Of
attempting to sink an artesian well
at that place. The company will
commence next to sink well at the
new residence of Geo. w.
Weidler, on Nineteenth and II
streets. In speaking of artesian
wells, the Telegram of last even
ing says: ''In the year 1855 Mr..
Arrigoni contracted with San
Francisco parties to sink well Of
this kind on the corner of Eighth
and Taylor strees. The apparatus,
tools, etc, arrived and the work
inaugurated. After sinking 10
the depth of one hundred and
fifty feet large boulders were
struck, which resisted all efforts to
remove them and broke every
drill, auger and tool that the COM
pany had or could get made. After
continued efforts in vain the work
was abandoned, and the parties
returned to San Francisco. A few
years after that a purse of Sl700
was subscribed, to be increased to
S2700, to any person who would
sink an artesian well and obtain
overfowing water anywhere with
in a radius of FIVE miles from the
city. Companies in San Francisco
were communicated with on the
subject, but all refused to make
the attempt"
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

Prof. Hains, of Chicago, is put
ting another faster into practice, a
man named Griscom, who is HIM
self both a chemist and physi-
ologist. 1t is expected that the
forthcoming experiment will fur
nish what the Tanner and Duel
affairs did not, namely, many valu-
able data as to the chemistry and
physiology, general and micro
scopic, of protracted starvation.
Griscom is rather under the middle
age, of tolerably compact physique,
and the widest of enthusiasts.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

Duncan Mcintyre Of the Pacific
syndicate, London, reports that the
directors of the Canadian Pacific
railway company have completed
in England arrangements for vigor-
Gus prosecution of that enterprise.
The bonds of the company will
not be negotiated until the railway
is finished.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

The friends of Attorney General
HacVeagh say that if William Z.
Chandler is confirmed as solicitor
general, the former will decline to
assign him any court business, as
he has authority to do, and will
confne Chandler 10 Office work.
1t is evident that MacVeagh has
determined to prevent Chandler
from becoming solicitor general.
MacVeagh is a kicker, but this is
not considered reliable.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

AT the depth Of 20 feet, IL feet
of sand carbonates were struck in
the New York mine, situated about
three quarters Of a mile from
Pilkus, Colorado. The ore assays
10Y ounces of silver per ton. The
strike caused great excitement.
Miners were out by night with
lanterns stalking off claims.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

One of the most interesting OBJ
jects offered to public inspection
at the Sydney international exhibit
ten was a dwelling house exclu-
sively made of paper, and furnished
throughout with articles manufac-
,tured from the same material.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

Republican senators, particular
ly those from the west, who have
all along opposed an extra session
of congress, assert that none will
be called, certainly not sooner than
October, and not then unless some
thing arises to make it necessary.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

The south has more than doubled
the amount of its cotton manufac-
turing capital in the ten years
Just closed. The north did not
quite add eighteen per cent to her
capital. The south nearly doubled
her product of cotton goods.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

The nail makers are hopeful un-
der the prospect of a brisk and
permanent business, which COM
mences unusually early this sea-
son, and are.advancing their prices.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

The OregOnian yesterday gives
the public levee decision of the
Supreme court. The city of Port
land is sustained by the affirmation
of the opinion that public grounds
cannot be appropriated by a rail
way corporation without consent
of the local authorities.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

Ogden Mormon leaders are try
ing to establish a church organ
there by compelling the saints to
sign contract agreeing TO give a
certain portion of their income
toward its support. The scheme
don't go down as smoothly as cas-
tor oil
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

Extensive floods are again re-
ported in the Missouri river. Iowa,
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ne
braska and Dakota also suffer more
or less from floods.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

The loss to the principal western
railroad companies by the recent
snow blockades will exceed the
net earnings for January and
February.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

-Four Baltimore delegations visit
ed the president on Wednesday
in regard to the city postmaster
ship. The president said that he
would appoint man acceptable to
the great business interests of the
city, not to suit any faction. Un-
less such a man was proposed with
greater unanimity than was now
apparent he might 60 outside the
city, OR even appoint a democrat.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22

Ireland received over 100000
bushels of Indian corn from the
United States last year, or more
than any other country in Europe.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22
Editor.

A paper mill which is nearing
completion at Clarksville, Missouri,
will be the only establishment of
the kind in that state.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22
BORN.

In Portland, April 18th, 1881, to the
wife of John X. Writ twins-a son and a
daughter.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22
County Treasurers Notice.

WNHERE Is MONEY IN THE COUNTY
u Treasury to pay all County orders pre-
Sented prior 10 April 10Th. 1880 All such
orders will cease 10 draw interest from and
after this date. CHAS. HEILBORN
County Treasurer Of ClatsOp County,
Astoria, April II, 1881. d&w
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22
DIED.

In St Mary's hospital, Astoria, April
21St, 1881. Mrs. Julia ID. Crockett, in the
5Sth year of her age. ROckland, Maine
papers please copy.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-22
NEW TO-DAY.

EOUND.-Above sand Island about 100
branded j. G. NJ & Ce. Owner can have the
same by applying 10 the Office Of the Occi-
dent Packing Co. apd paying all charges.
April p. 1881.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17
4 Xariegated Dog.

An English paper says: There is
dog at Brighton-a remarkable dog-a
large maltese. Sometimes that dog has
a purple body, with yellow head and
green tail; sometimes he is scarlet and
puce. He is kind of rainbow dog. The
fact is he belongs to q dyer in the town,
and being naturally white he takes any
other color easily, and now he gets dip
in one vat, and now in another, and he
forms a sort of canine advertisement. II
is fun to see this dog, who is quite un-
conscious of his distinguished condition,
come up to other dogs wagging his yell
low head and green tail, and the way
that those dogs, after regarding him ont
of the corner OF their eyes for minute,
tuck their tails between their legs and
"scoot" is a caution. Sometime since q
friend of ours, who had been occasionally
victim of the sold complaint" wa,
going down to Brighton for the race in
| great health and spirits. When driving
from the station he sgddenly came OF
this dog. "Hallo, hey? What's that
Hey! hey! what! purple dog with
green tall Oh, lor'! got 'em again?" anC
he turned round and went back to Lon
don, firmly persuaded that he Wa
again victim of ID. Il.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17
New pOtatops.


Among the new potatoes offered by
seedsmen are five varieties named and
described as follows.
Queen of the Vallev.--A very large,
long, hattened variety, deep pink at the
seed end, shading to nearly white at the
base. The immense yield of this vaii
ETY., Of nearly all large sized tubers,
must secure large demand for it.
Extra Early Peachblow.-VeIy early,
round, with white pink eyes, similar in
appearance, but smoother and not as
deep-eyed as the peachblow, which ii
resembles in all its good qualities, with
the additional advantage of extreme
earliness.
White Elephant.--Late, long, cylin.
drical, with depressed eyes, skin white
and smooth. Flesh fine-grained, white
and OF good quality. Aproductive A and
valuable winter variety.
Adirondack-Late, round, dark copper
red. In general character similar tc
the old Peachblow, but harder and
more prolific. Said to suffer less from
drought than other varieties.
White Star.-A cross between Excel
sior and Peachblow. Medium late, cyl
indlical, of good uniform size, white, O
excellent quality, keeps we'll and Yields
prOfusely
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17
B0Gki,niding.

The bookbindcrs' craft was at its Ze-
NTH Just before the invention OF print
ing it has waned since, because nobody
would care nowadays to give such prices
as were cheerfully paid for books in the
days W hen it took twenty-five months OF
n patient scribcs work to produce one
copy Of the Bible. The bindings Of
such costly books were works OF art .
Milan first, We are told, acquired repu-
tation for its bindings of Spanish leather
arabesqued and gilt, which superseded
the old-fashioned bindings OF wood,
metal, or ivory but until the close Of
tie fifteenth century the bindings OF
presentation volumes and of the church
books used on the high altars of cathe-
drals were mostly of solid gold orsilyer.
Bruges has produced some beautiful
works of this description, likewise bind
ings III cloth Of gold wrought with silk
of many colors. At iypres, the
great cloth mart of North Europe We're
first made plain bindings of cloth, en-
broidercd more on less but these We're
used only for small volumes of iests and
ballads, and for the holn-books out of
which the children in noble families
learned their letters. Venice had a
name for its bindings in ivory and woods
from the East; Florence, like Ghent in
Flanders, abounded in brass artiiicers,
and produced brazen bindings gilt or
silvered, each one the work of a master
craftsman, for none ventured to make
book-covers who were not skilled with
tools but the most gorgeous bindings
OF all that were made before the inven-
tion of printing came from Rome. Here
the guild of Italian goldsmiths had its
chief hall and there was always a snre
sale for rich bindings of wrought gold,
seeing that the kings and potentates who
came to visit the Papal See invariably
gave and received presents of splendid
hooks
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17
Destruction Of Cunudn Thistles.

A contemporary notices two modes of
destroying this weed, says the Country
Farmer, one Of which is to be table
spoonful of salt on each stalk OF stub,
causing the plant to wilt, become dry
and disappear by October This is
recommended as better than the other
mode, which is to cut off each plant with
a knife just below the surface of the
ground, as one does asparagus. These
modes may answer for very small patches
i'll gardens, but any one may easily
contrast its economy in labor on large
scale on n farm, with the rapid work of
turning the plants under with plow
We have destroyed many acres in this
way, so that not plant ever reappeared.
4 strong of horses will turn overa sod
eight inches deep, and much lower than
the knife III the hand will go; and if the
work is thoroughly done and no stalks
left, the plants will stay under the
inverted soil for three or four weeks,
unless III very porous on light soil, which
must be plowed oftencr. The only
failures which we have known with this
treatment was where the plowing was 80
imperfectly done, or SO long intermitted,
that stagglers found their way to the
light and furnished feeding to the
roots below.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17
CURIOUS FACTS.

Ii is estimated that the rayagcs of
wolves i'll France cause ON annual damage
of 100000 francs, or about 80, O,OO0,-
600.
The French make wine from pen
pods, and it is mingled often with grape
wine, especially in champagne, which
rarely reaches this country pure.
In the LIMA temples at Cashmere,
India, the prayer-wheels are still in use,
and by operating which the poor
devotees fancy that they sufficiently
propitiate their god.
Every she'll fired by an army during
siege operations costs, with the powder
with which the mortar is charged, the
sum of SS-enough to support poor
family for a fortnight.
Chambers Journal describes factory
where the hammeIing of fifty copper
smiths was scarcely audible in the room
below, their benches having under each
leg q rubber cushion
Professor Bouchardat attributes to the
vine powerful sanitary properties. He
asserts that wherever it is cultivated to
any considerable extent there is very
sensible diminution of intermittents.
/ The virtue is attributed to the action of
the vine on the eftluvia which cause
! fevers.
Modern warfare, i'll spite of all its
terrible paraphernalia, does not de-
stroy nearly so many lives as did the
sword. bow and spear of the ancients
whose loss in battle compared with that
of armies that fight nowadays is COM
puted to have been thirty three per
cent. against only eight TO eleven per
cent.
/ Early in February two German
/ women, Frau Schmidt and Frau
Feustel, living at Zeitz, in Plr,ssian
! Saxony, and in addition living in the
same house aud en the same hoor were
each, on the same day, delivered of
| three children, and they were all boys.
Probably such singular coincidence
never before occurred.
Few persons are aware that tho fore
foot of the horse is the counterpart of
the hand, and the hind foot that Of the
toe of the human foot, the heel compar-
ing with the hook of the hind leg of the
horse. To get proper idea of this try
to walk on the tips of your toes; yorl
will then see how closely allied are the
cXtremities of the horse and OF man.
One Of the Oldest churches on the
American continent is the TumacacC
church, near Tubae, Arizona. It was
built hy the Franciscnns in l654, and
has consequently reached the age of 321
years. Fifty-six years ago Indians mur-
dered seven priests within its walls, and
twenty-five years ago several priests
came from Rome and dug from sepul
chre on the right side of the altar $50,
900 in coin and jewels.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17
Railroad Ties,

The importance OF these two items as
branches of the lumber trade is not
generally understood. We have in the
United States about $4,000 miles of
railway. Each mile requires the use of
about 1900 ties; so that the enormous
number of 140, 100000 ties are in con-
slant use. One tenth of this number
of 240,000,000 are annually consumed
in the United States for repairs alone,
aside from those necessary to the con-
struction of new lines. The amount OF
railway construction for the present
year, which will aggregate 1000 miles,
with the annual number OF ties required
for repairs, will give consumption in
the United States for 1881 OF the vast
total of 100000. OF this immense
number, Chicago will alone furnish ono
ninth, or :, 10000 ties.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-17

the soldier had come into our house
bleeding and weary. What had become
of him ? What had been the end of that
romance of love so strangely begun?
One day my father had to go to
Mezieres on business. He took me with
him. At Mezieres he wished to enter the
first BARRIERS shop that he saw to get
shaved On the doorstep little child
was sitting with its legs apart and smil-
ing at the sun.
"Will you allow me to pass ?" asked
my father, laughing.
"No, won't" replied the child with
a little lisp.
At that moment the door opened and
a man in his shirt sleeves sappeared-the
father-and took the child up in his
arms, saying:
Pierre Pierre 10 you want to drive
away the customers r.
/ recognized the voice and so did my
father. We looked at the barber The
barber looked at us 1t was Jean Che
yaucheuX.
He laid the child down at once and held
ont his hand. His face was all red and
beaming with pleasure.
"Wlat, is it you? All ! and to think
that / have never written to YOU All!
you don't know. II is [ who married
her; [ arrived first
/ And rushing into the back shop: MAR
guerite Morguerite!" he cried. "Come,
! come "
He was wild with Joy. A young
woman appeared, blonde, pretty, blue
eyed, with pensive and gentle air, a
little sad
"Yous do not know?' said Chevau-
1 cheux to her. 1T was this gentleman
who took care of me so well at Rethel
the night before [ arrived Mt your
fathers house: :, have often
# i this is the gentleman"
Marguerite fixed her large, calm eyes
/ upon us, saluted us and thanked us
! softly; then, as her husband continued
to evoke the past, she looked at him
/ tenderly, with look that supplicated
and was not without reproach. But
Jean saw nothing.
"Ah, it is to you that owe all my
/ happiness, monsieur Ny child, my
little boy, look at him, my little Pierre !!
! II was my wife who wished that he
/ should have that name Isn't he fine
boy, and strongly built? And my shop
is going on frst-rate. My wife, i adore
her And all this owe to You :" 81 =
And the other?' asked |, impru-
IDENTIFY.
"The other" said Chevaucheux.
He curled his lower lip, did not see
/ that Marguerite turned her head away,
and answered:
" Pierre PuviouX? Poor fellow. He
arrived second, e : = and that very
evcning-it made me cry, can tell you
that very evening :; = he threw
himself into the river"