The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-03

ginning to come and some of it is
red hot.
AN exchange reports the appear
ance Of black leg among the cattle in
Grant county.
THE County Commissioners will
meet in regular session on Monday
March 18th.
CouRT adjourned on Monday. The
full proceedings will be found in an
other column.
EASTER this year fails on the 25th
Of March which is considerable earli
er than last year
WAS that West Side man who
said we were going to have new
Court House right off?
HiRscHMAN's goods are already ar
irving. His stock will include the
latest in gents furnishing goods and
novelties.
WE learn that Messrs. Fitzhugh
Il Hunters loss by the Parkersburg
fire was $2,S00 They were insured
for 81, 700.
BULLY FRuM was taken from Jail
here last Thursday and conducted to
Weston to the Asylum by Will Bland
and Charley Hayes.
THE Keyser papers speak well of
Kama Bright's management of the
Keyser and Moorfeld stage line Of
which be is. proprietor.
A CLOSE observer truly says: "The
man who stops his paper to econo-
mize, is like man who goes bare
footed to save his toes"
SOME of our farmers tell us that
the almost continuous freezing and
,iawing of this winter has injured
the wheat to some extent.
CITIZENS Of Cass and Grant, hurry
upi We want to see you do some
thing for yourselves, if you did de
feat the railroad proposition.
MANY citizens Of Cass and Grant
districts are enthusiastic over their
proposed railroad proposition. They
have our best wishes any way.
Our correspondents should not all
subside because the railroad propo-
sition was defeated We would be
glad to hear from them all again
HARRISON county will be one hun
bred years old July goth 1884. Ar
rangcments are being made for
grand centennial celebration on that
date
THI report that A. f. Lazier had
is without foundation. We believe
Mr.. Lazier has no idea of retiring
from business just yet.
TINS is the proper time in the
moon to plant a good sized advertise
ment, to insure heavy Spring crop.
The New DOMINION offers special in
tlucements to advertisers.
GRANT county can show up with
any Of it's neighbors in the way Of
marriages. A few days ago a mar
riage took place the groom being
sixtytwo and the bride twenty.
A COUPLE Of travellers in passing
through our county remarked that
the moss on the mile posts was about
eight inches thick in places and the
accumulation seemed to he increasing.
The fight that took place on the
street q few evenings ago has been
fruitful theme OF conversation among
the young folks. Some of them ex-
press the opinion that it is not done
with yet.
The Grafton Sentinel advises our
people to turn their attention to
building the Iron Valley road and
thus secure railroad communication,
as it has been denied us in all other
directions.
BLACKsvILLE is not going to quietly
surrender her prospects for getting a
railroad. A meeting is to be held
there on Saturday to arrange for the
extension of the Waynesburg and
Washington to that place. Success
to them.
THE festival at the Presbyterian
Church last Thursday evening was
quite a success socially and finan-
cially. There was quite good at
tendance, and every one present
seemed well pleased with the enter
tainment.
Mr.. GEORGE LENNON and wife, who
live in Durbannah, are said to be the
oldest couple about town. Mr.. Lem
mon is SO and his wife 81 years old.
Mrs. L. has sister living in Indiana
who is 81. The former lady is quite
active for her years and still does her
own homework. The aged couple
have raised Z children, only of whom
are now living.
MASTER WILSON STEELE, the bright
and intelligent little son of Rev. S.
Steele colahra tod his seventh birth