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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01
Is RELIGION DEAD, AND
WHAT KILLED TT?

The Rev. Talmage is reported as
saying publicly to his congregation
the other day, after his return home
from an extended tour through the
States, shat religion was dead"
Such a confession coming from one
Of the first, if not the very first pull
pit luminary of the age, is not only
ominous, but Of such alarming char
acter as should cause all men, every
where, to stop and reflect, and to ask
their own hearts, is it so that religion
is dead? Or if not dead, is it Ian
gushing or dilapidating? And if so,
why is it so: and what caused it; and
where are we to look for the remedy
for q Redeemer?
If religion is dead, the Church es-
tablished at Antioch still lives, or
else the Holy Scriptures are at fault,
for the gates of He'll were not to pre-
vail against IL. If this be true. the
Church must return to its first love;
its "candlesticks" must be looked af-
ter, to see that they are Of pure gold,
and kept bright and burning. Those
calling themselves Goods ministers
must be pure and good men, Jealous
in good works, not given to wine, wo-
men or babbling.
Instead of being active, turbulent
and noisy partizaR politicians, they
must be active workers in Gods vine
yard; they must shun bad and vain
society; they must withdraw them
selves from the ways of the world,
and thereby prove to the world that
the Christian religion has an elevat-
ing and purifying efect-that it YER
lily does make men better men.
Their walks and conduct must not
only show them better men than men
of the world, but also fit men to min.
lister around the altar. Then there
will surround them, be they where
they may, a holy magnetism that will
draw other men to them, and so mag
netize them also. Then religion will
revive, and the Church will again
flourish, and not till then.
The first tWelce selected by the
Master had one traitor among them
who for money betrayed his Lord
But he was summarily unrobed and
disposed of. How man y JUDAS have
we now among the so-called commits
stoned? Men who preach and pray
for money, for living, and nothing
else. Who will essay to save town
or station for good salary, but who
will let them all be damned if they
don't get fat salary.
Let US with shamed facedness take
view of tile class Of men called
'the clergy" Are they as a class
any better or more chastc, circum
spect, pure or cody, than any other
class of men calling themselves re
spectacle? To what class does more
harmful, vain. and often disgracefu
gossip attach, than to them? Take
Henry Ward Beecher, a short time
ago the ''great divine of the world
He is now unmasked-went to ines
hiding" was charged and tried fol
adultery with another man g wife, ant
finally, with deliberate perjury to ex
tricate himself, and yet he preache:
and disgraces Gods Holy Altar
Andsnow it comes that the Rev. Tai
mage, whose sermons and lectures 81
recently electrified the world. He il
now being tried OH a charge or charg
es of wilful and corrupt perjury, ant
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

PURE Rye Whiskey, for medicinal
purposes, for sale at the Commercial
Hotel Saloon.
AT Shisler's New Iron Store, can
he found full stock of the best Iron
and Nails of all sizes, at the very
lowest prices.
A COMPLETE stock of Reviewers,
from So up, for sale at Shisler's New
Iron Store.
DIR. GEO. B. NORRIS, Dentist, viii
he in Morgntown on the 22nd day
of December, and remain twelve
days.
The great subject of conversation
now about town is the cheap goods
at ID. Chadwick d Co.'S.
They sell % yards Of brown mus
lin for $1.00. 4-ss
They sell durable and genteel dress
goods for cents.
They sell nice wooden dress goods
for II to Is cents.
They sell excellent coffee for Is
cents.
Best bargains offered in towr for
twenty years.
Everything cheap. 1t is the place
to 90 and no mistake, if you want =
dollars worth of goods for sixty cents-
New Arrangement.
| have lately taken charge Of tho
Mackey Mill and with improved ma
ehinery and an excellent miller will
spare no effort to turn out good work.
A pair of new and tried buhrs have
lately been added and everything
about the mill is in excellent order
| keep constantly on hand all kinds
of feed, meal, -four &e. Give me .
call. j. JOSEPH.
FACTORY FAcrs.-Close confns
ment, careful attention to all factory
work, gives the operatives pallid faces,
poor appetite, languid, miserable feel
ings, poor blood, inactive liver, kidneys
ard urinary troubles, and all the ply
sicians and medicine in the world can
not help them unless they geteut doors
or use Hop Bitters, made of the purest
nd best remedies, and especially for
such cases, having abundanceiof health
sunshine and rosy cheeks in them.
None need suffer if they will use them
freely. They cost but trihe. SEQ
another column.
BEAUTIFUL Coal Vases, Firs Irons,
and the handsomest Heating Stoves
in the market, at Shisler's New
Hardware Store.
THE NEW DOMINION and Wheeling
Weekly Register $40 a year. Send
in your subscriptions now and get
two cheap, good papers.
COOKING Stoves and all kinds Of
the incest Hollow ware ever brought
to Moagantown, for sale at Shisler's
New Iron Store.
FINE line of Mems Furnishing
Goods just received at S. d. Hirsch
mans. -
A FULL stock Of general II ardware,
on hand and arriving, at Shisler's
New Iron Store
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

The Bureau Of statistics reports a
most marvellous increase in our agricul
tural interests, showing q growth of ce-
real products from 615,000,000 bush
els in 1910 to 800, 900, 900 in 1850, L.
328,O00, 900 in 1860, l, 1881, 900 900 in
1870 and 2,441 100000 in 1870. The
annual product increased from 81, 961 =
600, 900 in 1850 to $7,977, 000,0 in
1860 and II 600, 000,000in 1870 yield
ing'exclusive of labor and wages, net
amount of S2,17O,00O,000, nearly 20
per cent on the total. There are still
400, 100000 acres of land available
north of the Ohio river which can pro-
duce of wheat and other cereals at least
4,800, 900 bushels annually to meet
the demands of our rapidly increasing
population. 1t is such information as
this that inspires the people Of the old
world to seek their homes in this re-
public now in its infancy. Nothing
but Chinese wall about the monar
chies of Europe can stop this ceaseless
tide. More than $4,000 emigrants
for America from one single English
port in October.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

INVENTORS and Patentees should
send for instructions, terms, refer,
cnces, &C., to Edison Brothers, Solci-
tors of Patents, Washington, d. c.
who furnish the same Without chuge,
Edison Brothers is well-known and
successful firm of large experience.
having been established in 1863. f..
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01
KANSAS.

Kansas is the Ireland of America in
regard to the uncertainty of its agri-
cultural productions. The potato bug,
army worm and protracted drouth, in
turn, leave a large number Of the in
habitants in a state Of starvation. A
heavy responsibility rests upon mum
Der of republican colporteurs who in
duced thousands of negroes to leave
their homes in the South, where they
had steady work, COOL wages and plen-
ty to eat and go to Kansas, where
they are starving and freezing. Tie IA
natics who induced them there will not
subscribe q dollar to take them bacl;
where they are most anxious to go, as
we'll as the white Inhabitants upon
whom they have been a burden. The
recent accounts coming from that re-
gion are really alarming as to the DIES
titution Of the people, which ought not
to be permitted in this land of plenty
and to spare. Emigration should be
directed to more favored localities, not
subject to climate influences which
seem to prevail in Kansas, where land
is equally as cheap and all other condi-
! tions of life quite as desirable. -Er.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

And now they are getting ready to
cut a big ship canal clear across
France to connect the Atlantic with
the Mediterranean. 1t will be 219
miles long and large enoagh to adj
NIT the passage of the heaviest war
vessels. One of these days somebody
will dig ditch to tho north pole.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

WE have little conundrum to
PROFOUND to our West Virginia eX-
changes of the Republican persua
sion, to the following effect: Has or
has not John A.Hutchinson, late can
didate, paid for his announcement
for Congress, in any or all of the pa
pers? What we propose to say on
the subject hereafter, will depend to
some extent on the answers received,
for we cannot get any from him.
Don't be bashful, gentlemen, because
he is WeHsburg Herald Rep
clay for him. Bro. Jacobs, and
the first time you catch him, attach
his spectacles. That will bring him
to time, sure.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

Senator Wade Hampton writes to
Bishop Howe, of South Carolina, that
the letter written to Sherman Daring
the campaign, which the latter in a
speech designated as containing a
challenge to mortal combat, was no
such thing. Well, it served purpose
in the bloody shirt business and that
is all the Republicans cared about.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

The radicals are quite willing that
millions shall be squandered on har-
Dor and river Improvements in the
north, but when it somes to fixing up
the decrepit channels Of the South
they cry halt The South is still
in rebellion according to the general
republican idea.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01
Terms of tho Tribune.
Postage free in the United States
THE TRIBUNE PREMIUMS.

"The Tribune" has never been equaled in the
substantial and permanent value of its premiums c
agents and subscribers, and it adds its list this
year two of the most desirable it has ever offered
Note ri follnvinp.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01
Sleep, Appetite and Strength

is sl scientifically used by bilious dyspep-
tic sufferer, Moreover, since the brain SYM
pathizes closely with the stomach and its
associate organs, tie liver ard the bowels,
as their arrangement is rectifed by the ac-
ton of .he Bitters, mental dependency
p.odueed by that derangement disappears
For sale by all druggists and dealers gen
orally
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has final
ly sued for divorce. 1t is just pos
sible that she will have the tende!
sympathy of Senator Conkling.-
When Sprague married Miss Chase,
Washington circles were busy with
scandal concerning her ways and no
tions. She was regarded as beauti-
full but dangerous.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

The Washington Reporter, usually
well informed, has the following in re-
gard to the wool trade in its bailiwick.
The local wool market is in this cor :
diiion,-buyers will not pay over 40
cents and farmers will not take less
than 45 cents. Result--no sales.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

Martin Jack, Of Highland Co. Va.
sold last week one yoke of cattle that
weighed 400 pounds and another
yoke that weighed $3.50, realizing
1860 for the latter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

A WISE DEACoN.-"Deacon Wilder
l want you to tell me how you kept
yourself and family so well the past
season, when all the rest Of US have
been sick so much, and have had the
doctors running to us so long"
BRO. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
I used Hop Biitters i'll time and kept
my family well and saved large doctor
bills. Three dollars. worth Of it kept
us all well and able to W rk all the
time, and | will warrant II has cost you
and most Of the neighbors one 10 TWO
hundred dollars apiece to keep sick the
same time, guess you'll take my
medicine hereafter" See other COLI mn.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorhe, stops COW or steer from
jumping over fences by railing horse
shoe on ore forward foot. This pre-
vents the hoof from spreading and con-
sequently renders the animal unable to
spring. This is calculated to be very
effectual.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

CECOND NATIONAL BANK.
= Election of Directors.
Notice is hereby given that all electioa
of seven Directors of the
SECOND NATIONAL BANK,
of Morgantown,t to serve for the ensuing
year, will be held at its Banking House.
between the hours of IL and p. NJ. on
Tuesday, the 18th day OF January. 1881.
decll-4t. JOHN II. HOFFMAN. Cash.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

A correspondent of the Rural Mes
senger has had good results from the
application of lime, wood ashes and
old iron put around the roots of fruit
trees that were not doing well, thus re-
storing the trees to q healthy condition
and improvil the quality of the fruit.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

CARE OF HORSES One of the best
things in the world to givea horse, af
ter he has been driven, is a quart of
cat meal stirred in a pail OF water. 1t
refreshes and strengthens him, relieves
his immediate thirst and prepares his
stomach for more solid food. So says
Joseph Harris, after twenty years trial
of it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

SUBSCRIBE for your home paper.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

Reports from Washington state
that the season of gaiety has opened
unusually early and that the capital
is fall of visitors. With the return
of the old time jobbers, robbers and
tricksters under Garfield next year,
there will be no end to the revelries
and designations.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-01-01

PURE Rye Whiskey, for medicinal
purposes, for sale at the Commercial
Hotel Saloon.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

DEMOCRATIC EADJUsTERS OF BATH.
MIR. Charles Sitlington, of Bath coun-
ty, gentleman of intelligence and
character who has been, and is still, a
strong readjuster, and who voted for
Paul for Congress, published letter in
the Dispatch of Saturday week, in which
he says that he always ''voted against
the Republican party, and shall most
assuredly vote against Mahoneism in
the future" and he says that he thinks
he is safe in saying that all the Demo-
cratic readJusters of Bath county twill
in future support the Conservative nomi-
nees for State officers" So will good
Democratic readjusters do in other
counties. This letter will be found in
this issue. Read it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07
LAND SALES.


TOMMISSIONERS' SALE OF VALUA-
~ BILE REAL ESrATE.-in pursuance OF
decree of the circuit court of Augusta county
entered at the March term, 1881, Of said court
in the cause of III. ]. Lushbaugh & Bro. VS.
B. B. D0naghe's Admir-, &C.," we the under
signed Commissioning. appointed for the pur-
pose. will proceed in front Of the Court house
Of Augusta county, in Staunton, Va, on
Wednesday, the 9Th day of June, 1881.
to sell at public auction, to the highest bidder,
the following real estate belonging to the estate
of B. B. Donaghe, dec'd:-
LIST. A TRACT OF LAND. containing 1867
acres, ly ing on the Churchville road, about
mile from Stuunton. This is good land, part
of it in timber, and will make desirable farm.
End, That valuable property on the -
of staunton, known as the sold Central .9aM
Bank property" now occupied by "Mrs.
Tams," and by the post Office''
TERMS OF SALE:-Enough cash in hand to
pay costs of suit and sale, and the residue upon
credits Of one. two. and three years. equal in
stalInents, bearing interest from day of sale,--
the purchaser executing bonds for the deferred
payments, with approved personal security,
and title retained as ultimate security.
g. M. HARRISON,
T. d. RANSOM,
mavIO ids Commissioners.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

VyIRGINIA.-In the Clerks Office, Circuit
Court of Augusta county. June Bird, 1881:
VIM. G. Doom, James M Doom, Charles R.
Doom, Benjamin F. Doom, Magnus T. Doom,
and James s. Doom, Plaintiffs,
VS.,
James Blackburn, w. s. Blackburn. William
Berry and Mary Berry, his wife, formerly
Blackburn, Kenton Doom, Marco Doom. Cicero
Alexander DOOM VIM. 81. SOnes and Elizabeth
Sones his wife, formerly doom,
IN Cbdnceyy.
The object of this suit is to obtain decree for
partition among the heirs-at-law Of Eliz beth
Doom. decd, of q certain lot Of land belonging
to said decedent's estate, and situate on the
South side ofthe Parkersburg Turnpike. q short
distance West of Stanton. or in case such par
tition in kind be impractie able. then to have
said land sold and the proceeds divided among
said heirs at-law according to their rights in
the premises.
It appearing by affidavit filed that w. 9.
Black burn and Alexander Doom are nOn-res1-
dents of this State, 1t is ordered that they do
appear here within one month after due publ
cation of this notice, and do what is necessary
to protect their interests.
Teste,-
]. N. RYAN, Clerk.
Guy Parrish, p. q. june7-4t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07
Small Business for a q. s. Senator


It seems that Mr.. Carmichael, who is
a son-in-law Of Hon. John Randolph
Tucker, and who lives near Middleburg,
Loudoun county, wrote postal card to
Senator Vance requesting him to send
him his speech, in which the following
language was used: "Send me your
speech on the id dog Malone"
The Washington correspondent of the
Alex. Gazette, under date of May 25th,
says
"a man named Bell, employed in the
city postofice, read the postal, and with
the funkeyism peculiar to department
clerks, sent the postal to Malone instead
of Vance. The great Readjuster pro-
ceeded at once to the General Postmas-
ter General and demanded an investiga
ton and arrest of the sender. The case
is being tried in Alexandria, Virginia,
and mu CHI interest is felt in the result
There is no telling, but if the dogs were
running little United States of their
own, that they too would have the Of
Tending Carmichael arrested for libel on
their race for indecent comparisons"
The majority of the people, no doubt,
think, with reason, that, if there be any
SANDER in this case, the dog is the par
ty that is entitled to complain. The
dog is faithful, Malone is treacherous.
Malone should consider himself COM
plimented by being compared to dog,
the most afectionate and faithful ami
NAL that exists. We are sure that this
is the view entertained by John s. Wise,
who appreciates dogs at their true value.
If Malone be party to the prosecu-
ton of Carmichael, as asserted by the
correspondent of the Alex. Gazette, then
we say that he is guilty of a very small
act wholly unworthy fthe honored and
dignified position he holds. It is mean
and contemplate, and will be so under
stood by the masses of the people, who
detest such inquisitorial and petty
tyranny.
That Malone would act the tyrant il
he had the power and opportunities we
have no doubt, and we have no doubt
that he is as treacherous as he his tyran-
meal, and that he is wholly selfish, and
that he uses his followers to subserve
his own selfish and ambitious purposes,
and that, to effect that end, he practices
upon them the most outrageous IMPOSE
tions-claiming to be q Democrat whilst
acting with the Republicans, protesting
to be laboring for readjustment whilst
using that question merely to hood
wink, Democrats and to make them the
unconscious aiders of the Republican
party. To call Malone dog is Sian
der upon the dog-unless he be q t'ya'.
Ter" dog. I'm this sentiments g
Wise will concur, JUN y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

Mr.. DAvIs's LATE SPEECH.
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch prints Jeffer-
son Davis's version OF his speech at the
unvellipg of the statue of Stonewall
Jackson at New Orleans. 1t was writ
ten out by Davis himself, and liz it he
saws: jackson died confident of the
righteousness Of his country g cause, and
never doubling its final success. With
the same conviction live to- day, and,
reverently bowling to the wisdom OF
Him whose DEGREES may not under
stand, still feel that the Confederacy
ought to have succeeded, because it was
founded in truth and Justice"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

The MAHoNEITEs DEFEATED AND
BLUE.-The reports of the results of the
elections of last Thursday week fro~ IN
portions of the State. where b. 800
contests, show that the AD' go 80 49,
Mahonites with iAe Rsr ,h,;c.ns did not
work, a. even wher 9 thew were sure Of
success, they ~e.ee defeated. The Ma
nooe, les arc blue, ior they see that de-
feat awaits Them in the State election
The Democratic Readjusters have no
idea OF peing led into the Republican
party. They will no longer follow Ma
bsne or support his party. They see that
they have been deceived, and are un.
willing to be deceived second time
Democratic Readjusters will. in the
next election, vote for the Democratic
ticket. They will vindicate their char
acters as Democrats.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

nor RENT.-As authorized agent,
T. desire to rent the comfortable AID conve
nIent STOR E.ROOM now occupied
1t is a one and half story Frame a
House, " 49, with $50 feet of shelving, ~
counting-roOm, and a nice, cool Gel.
lar. the size of the entire building. The house
is in good order, it having been very recently
painted and otherwise repaired. This 10 ad.
mitted tn be one of the most desirable stands
known for a country store. 1t is almost In the
center Of the town, and at present enjoys lib
eral share Of public patronage. Any courteous
and energetic person who cOntemplates engag-
ing in the mercantile business, will ind this
locality exceptional for both constant sales
and prompt paying customers. There are also
n.any other advantages and conventencies
which are useless to recite, but which COM
mend it as q place specially adapted Tor that
branch Of business. ~ Possess on given Oc-
tober the 1st 1881.
For further Information, address-
P. A. ROSS,
tune7-3m Mount Sidney, Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

AN OVATION TO SENATOR ROBERT
SON.-Two thousand citizens of KatOn-
ah, N. Y, and surrounding country,
assembled to greet Senator William III.
Robertson, Senator Conkling's power
full opponent, on his arrival at home
Saturday evening from Albany. Rev.
DR.. Wheatley delivered the welcoming
address. during which he said the peo-
pie had assembled to express their ad-
miration for sthat manly independence
which will not bow to the dictation OF
an imperious leader" Mr.. Robertson
responded at length, during which he
hit the 'machine'' some hard ticks, and
concluded by declaring that neither OF
the resigned Senators, nor any other
person hostile to the present national
administration, can be elected to fill the
senatorial vacancies.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-07

SWALLOWING MAHONE.-The Alex
andria Gazette says that the Mahoneites
in their State Convention on Thursday,
as was expected, swallowed the General,
hat, plated pants, red socks, low quar-
tered shoes and all took him in whole,
and endorsed not only his attacks upon
his own State and section, but his bar
gain with the radicals, by which he put
them in possession of the Senate, and
his vote for w. E. Chandler.