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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31
The Normal Schools as Exam
pies of Coz ucation.

The complimentary illusions that
have been made to the successful re-
suits of the co-education Of the sexes
in the Normal schools, drew this
response from the FaiImont Inder..
The compliment paid to our Nor
NAL School is as deserved as it is
graceful. And certainly it's success,
which we think is due as much to
the good management of the school
as to any other cause, at least proves
that the co-education of the sexes
is not injurious, but on the contrary,
may be attended with the best re-
suits.
The Normal schools furnish a
home example that ought to be very
conclusive of the advantages that
flow from the CO education Of the
sexes, and of the propriety of main
tanning and extending the system in
this State.
Nobody questions the success of
the Normal schools; nobody doubts
their usefulness; nobody finds fault
or cause for criticism because the
sexes are commingled in these
schools; nobody ever heard of scan
dial or Of any bad influences grow
ing out of co-education in these
schools; nobody wants the system
changed, and everybody would OBJ
ject-yea, there would be great out
cry all over the State if the attempt
we're made to exclude the girls.
Now If anybody doubts that the
success of the Normal schools is
mainly, and we might say almost alb
solutely, dependent upon the fact
that both sexes are admitted to them,
let him subtract the females from
the rolls of any one of the Normal
schools and see whether-numbers
being the test-they can be regarded
rs in a prosperous condition. Then,
if he could also subtract from these
schools the spirit of emulation which
the presence Of the ladies inspires
we venture the assertion that the
comparative prosperity between the
University and the Normal schools
would be as favorable to the one as
to the other.
Take the country over and the
same fact is patent to the most cas-
ual observer. The institutions which
have both sexes are the ones vhicl
have numbers, which have enthusi
asm, which have all the evidences O
thrift and prosperity, which have, il
fact, all that an institution of learn
ing is wont to boast of. And sucI
condition in the West Yirgini,
University only waits on the intro
duction Of the system there.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31
FARM FOR SALE.

| offer at private sale the farm upon
which now reside, situated in Clinton
District, Monongalia County, 6 miles
from Morgantown
The tract contains 1870 acres, we'll
watercd and timbered. The greater
part of it is to grass and is in cx-
cellent condition.
A comfortable dwelling, plenty Of
stabling and other out houses are uron
the premises.
The land lies near the Evansville turn
pike, and is convenient to churches and
schools.
l offer bargain upon favorable terms
to any man wanting good home.
SAMUEL q. Robson,
Ellington, w. Va.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

Farmont Index
The question Of the education
Of the sexes at the State University
has been receiving considerable at
tention from several of the infiuen-
tial papers in the State, notable
among which are the Wheeling Reg
lister and Inteligencer and Morgan
town New DOMINION. These jour
nails, or at least the Register and New
DOMINION, believe the policy of throw
ing open the doors of that institution
to both ladies and gentlemen, and,
without lowering the standard, giving
to each tile same or equal facilities
and privileges, would greatly enlarge
it's scope OF usefulness and materially
advance the cause of educatin in
West Virginia. In this view we
heartily concur, and trust that such
an arrangement, which cannot fail
to be productive Of general good, may
be speedily made.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31
From the Fairmon. West virginian.

The Morgantown New DOMINION
of week before last published long
article from the Wheeling Register
with its own comments thereon, both
advocating the admission of young
ladies to the State University on
equal privileges with the young men.
1t is the University of Virginia idea
that assumes that woman is intellect
ually inferior to man, and that she
should not be admitted as his rival
in University studies, but should
confine her attention to music, paint
ing, drawing, &C., that has dominat-
ed in the Board Of Regents of our
University and prevented woman's
admission to it on equal privileges
with her brother, over looking all the
while the fact that our Normal and
Public Schools have proved that CO.
education Of the sexes is beneficial.
If the Register and DOMINION had
urged this change years ago as vig-
orously as they now urge it, they
might have saved the University, but
it is now too late.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

To TIE CREDITORS OF C. II. Holy
FIELD, DECEASED:
In pursuance of a decree of the Circuit
Court of Monongalia county, made in a
cause therein pending, to subject the
real estate of the said G.. e. Holyfield to
the payment of his debts, you are re,
quired to present your claims against
the estate of the said G. III. Holyfield
fer adjudication to Joseph Moreland,
Commissioner, at his Office in Morgan
town in the said county ON or before
The 7fil day Of June 1884.
Witness Marshall NJ. Dent, Clerk of
said Court, this 26tb day of April 1884.
NJ. M. DENT,
5-3 6. Clerk.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

The New DOMINION intimates that
the F., M. & 2. r. r. will not be ex-
tended beyond Morgantown for year
or two. This brings up the old say
ing, IF so soon to be done for" etc.
-Fairmont Inder.
Pray what's the use Of going be-
yond Morgantown? Isn't this the
goal of Fairmont's ambition, neigh
Dor? "See Morgantown and die
you know.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

ssIt would be no violation of the COM
maiidment,' said John B. Cough, sif a
man were to fall down and worship the
silk hat, for 1t is not made in the like
ness of anything in heaven, or OH earth,
or in the waters which are under the
earth." Besides it heats the head and
causes the hair to fall off. Parker's
Hair Balsam will stop that and restore
the original color to gray or faded hair.
Not oily, not dye, beneficial. deli
ciously perfunied. A perfect hair dress
ing. soc. All druggists.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

There is not much doubt but that
the State Democratic Convention
will give us an acceptable nominee
for Governor, and more or less ac-
ceptable ticket all through. But q
more important question than this is,
will it give us the basis of thorough
organization?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31
win Regard 1t with Favor.

Otreuo enterprise.
Believing that the University could
be placed on a higher moral plane,
and that the girls should enjoy equal
educational advantages with the boys,
it is suggested that the Board Of Re-
gents at the approaching meeting
seriously consider the propriety OF
establishing o-edueation in the Uni
versity. We think the citizens OF
the State will look upon the propo-
sition favorably.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

E. Shislcr, Esq, Chairman of the
Democratic County Executive Com
mittee, prcsides with dignity, and
conducts the business with dispatch.
Mr.. Shisler is an efficient officer and
is untiring in his work for the party.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

The Democrats of Monongalia
have pretty generally accepted the
conclusion that there is some virtue
in organization. We shouldn't won
dor ii ehere is.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

LOCAL RAILROAD NorEs AND CLIP
rINGs.-The popular and efficient
young Engineer Mr.. Ashby Wygal
has been assigned as assistant to
Capt. r. II. Adams, Resident Engin
eer.
Contractor Frizzell has 135 men
at work now and 20 more en- route
from Lexington Va.
Col. Foster has 140 men at work now.
Nearly all the heavy work on his sec
ton is completed.
Both contractors have made fine
progress with the work.
The culvert built by Fosters ma
sons. on the Brooks lot in Stringtown,
is an admirable piece of work of its
class.
Masons on Pennington's (2nd)
Residency, Fairmont Division, have
been examining stone on Andy
Frum's land for the work at Tom s
run crossing, just above Little falls.
A foundation will DC had and the
masonry commenced ut Booths creek
this week. There is good quality
of stone on the ground.
Major Whiting. Chief Engineer,
made short visit to town this week.
He is highly pleased with the pro-
gress and style of the work.
The following note received yester-
day will be of interest to our people:
CLARKsBURG, May 26.-The county
court meets here to day to make the
order subscribing the $l50,000 county
subscription to the w. Va. & Pa. r.
r. The Marion county court will
meet on Wednesday for the same
purpose. The engineers closed their
survey s. miles below here on Satur-
day evening and came within few
inches of meeting on the same level.
The road is now all located and the
estimates made. Nothing remains
to be done but to make up the plats
and take slopes. All is working well
and the work should be let within
three weeks from this date. Call it
q railroad gained,
A corps of B. q O. Engineers are
surveying between Morris x Roads
and the mouth of Cheat river. 1t
will certainly not be longer than next
summer until the Il. Il 0. will have
it's line completed from Fairmont to
Pittsburgh.
Work is steadily going on on the
line of the F., Nj. & p. Something
over hundred men are now employed
by the Bennett Bros. between the
mouth of Buffalo and a point opposite
the residence of j. j. Pitcher. Addi-
tional force will arrive and be put to
work soon, we understand, and the
work of construction pushed along as
rapidly as possible.
Col. Moore, of the f., NJ. 4 p, has
been actively at work on the east
side of the river getting rights of way
during the week past. He has paid
out to landowners about 81, 500, and
all rights Of way, with the exception
Of three pieces, have now been secur-
ed from the mouth Of Buffalo to Prick
ett's creek. Many rights of way
have also been obtained below the
point last named, we understand.
Palatine is still on the anxious
seat, awaiting the decision that is to
give or refuse her railroad.
The West Virginia and Pennsyl
vania Company is going steadily
along getting things in shape to begin
the construction Of its road at an
early day. A special session of the
| County Court Of Harrison county has
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

Traitors and Treason I'm tho,
GrcenbaclxC Camp!

Grecnbackers of West Virginia, we
feel that we. would he recreant to
duty and dishonest to our patrons
were we to conceal the truth that we
have been enabled to pick up within
the last week.
No doubt many Of you have learned
through the press of the proposed
fusion, by which the National Green
back Labor party OF this State is to
boost the Republican party into pow
er, your party disorganized and dis
banded after eight years of arduous,
persistent effort to carry our glorious
principles to a successful termination.
The Repub lican leaders of this State
through promise of money, plumber
and spoils, have been successful in
drawing toSther support certain in
dividuals from the ranks Of the Ma
tional party, who, by special contact,
have bargained, sold agreed to deliver
you and your party OVER to the Re-
publicans. Ofcourse these self-same
fellows and their immediate friends
are to be the beneficia..ies Of the bar
gain and sale.
A portion Of our State Executive
Committee are party to the contract
to sell the party out, and that they
and other pretended Greenbackers
have, for the promise of plumber and
Office, agreed to use their influence in
the State Convention to nominate a
Republican for Governor, members
Of the Court Of Appeals, &c.
1t is apparent that certain indiyid-
uals who have an ak to grind are
thus influenced.
Grrcnbackers it is not necessary
that we explain in detail how this ar
rangement has been brought about.
1t is a melancholy fact that the com
pact has been made by the Republi-
cans and q portion of the National
Executive Committee.
The important question for You to
determine is whether you will sub
nit to it, or whether you will go in
force to the Buckhannon Convention
to determine whether the National
Greenback Labor Party of this State
will play the tail to the Republican
kite.
If you are opposed to it and be-
lieve in the doctrine of no entang-
ling alliance with the common enc
my, come up to that convention
and help us stamp the life out Of
fusion.
Fusion is our greatest enemy. and
the sooner we throttle the monster
the sooner we will succeed.
Let the straight outs in every coun
ty go to work and appoint full dele
cations, and collect means to dcfray
their expenses where they are not able
to spare the time and means.
Eternal vigilance is the price Of
rty.-(Greenback organ) State
Standard.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

SUMMER LAW LECTURES mine weekly
begin roth July, 1885,, and end 10th September.
Have proved Of signal use,-Ist. to students who
design pursue their studies at this pr other Law
School; ed, to those who propose 10 sead prvately
and I'D, to practitioners who have .lnt had the ad
vantage of systematic instruction. For circular ap
ply Up. o. University Of Virginia. to JOHN B. MINOR,
Prof. Com. and Stat Law.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

Mr.. Jas. M. Todd, prominent
citizen of Wheeling is announced as
a candidate for State Treasurer. Mr..
Todd has numerous friends through
ont the State and we learn is likely
to bag the game. We have heard
him highly spoken of by those who
know him best.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

Opposite the Court House, any
newspaper or periodical can be
obtained. Particular pains ta-
ken to accommodate customers,
and every article required by the
Great Reading Public, if not on
hand, will be furnished on the
Shortest notice. Back numbers
furnished when desired.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

The Democratic Executive Com
mittee is body of intelligent gentle
men, and in appearance will compare
favorably with any body Of the kind.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

EVERYTHING at Chadwick's cheap,
and you will save money by purchas-
lug there.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

GROCERIES and canned goods, cheap,
at Chadwick's.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

A FIRST lot of that choice Flour at
Chadwick's.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

CuRTAIS LACE at Chadwick's very
low.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-05-31

The New DOMINION and Wheeling
weekly Register $2.75 year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
The Lime-Kiln Club.

"Judge Cadaver will please step dis
way" said Brother Gardner, as he mo-
toned to Samuel Shin to raise the alley
window and let ont the odor of burning
bootleg.
The Judge came forward with pres
sure of $50 pounds to the square inch,
and the President continued:
"Judge Cadaver, a society at Defiance,
O., known as DE Aggregation of Phil
osophy an Science has requested me
to send 'em down some member OBJ dis
club who kin deliber lecktur' full of
interest an instruckshun. has selected
you. Heah am eight dollars in cash an
railroad pass, an you will leave hear
tomorrow AFTERNOON.
that everybody began to grin.
81 now desiah to spoke few remarks
to you," said the President, as he laid
aside his spectacles. "You are gwine
among strangers. You will meet with
black-legs and bondholders an all odder
classes of men.
"Doan' talk too much wild your moaf.
Don't try to make anybody believe
dat you am a milIyunaire.
''Doan' stop to bet on de string game
or three-card monte.
"Doan' purtend you know what you
doan' know an nebber heard of.
'Doan' stop to argy religun wild in
fidels nor pollyticks wild a young man
who can't vote.
'If anybody calls you 'Kernul' you
needn't stop to explain his mistake, but
at the same time doan' hire anyone to
call you 'Perfessor.
eff you lose your money by playin'
policy while you am gone, come home
by de highway an say muffin to nobody.
If you am knocked down an robbed you
kin telegraph us an count on receivin'
bout fo' dollars in cash. OATS al,
Judge, an you kin now resume yer
roost. "-DetrOit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Starting an Avalanche.

The SHOWS in Nevada, says CORE
spondent, have been for the most part
wet and heavy, and have been followed by
warm, sunny days. Under these cir
cumstances slides have occurred with
great frequency, and have wrought de-
struction unexampled in recent years. 1t
does not take much to start an avalanche
which a moment later may make the
earth tremble. Two miners living on
Alum Greek, went up the mountain
above their cabin to set some stakes.
After their work was done one of them
made a SNOWFALL and threw it at the
other, who returned the fire. One of
the balls lodged on a slope more than
mile long, directly above their cabin.
The sun was shining brightly, and the
snow was soft. For a second, the ball
rested where it fell, and then it began
to roll, increasing in bulk as it went.
Presently the ball, once held in mans
hand, grew to the size of hogshead,
and when furious momentum had been
gained it burst into several pieces, each
of which continued rolling until strip
of ground a hundred feet wide was
cleared of snow. In their descent these
huge snowballs picked up rocks and
earth until, merging in one immense
mass, the avalanche, bearing down giant
trees and stumps, struck the cabin of
the men who started it, and carried it
away as easily as if it had been made of
paper. Everything in the path of the
slide was swept to the bed of the stream
and buried fifty feet deep in snow. The
miners watched the havoc they had
wrought, and, after examining the spot
where once their cabin stood, they
started for Hawthorne for tent and
blankets, and then returned to their
claim for the purpose of building another
cabin. They will start no more ava
lanches if they can help it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
A French Fencing-Master.

A quarrel between a French and an
italian regiment in the army of occupa-
ton in Spain was settled by solemn
duel between the regimental fencing
masters, and Jean-Louis, as the chief
instructor of the French regiment in
question, took leading part in it with
distinction. But it is much to believe
that he saved his own side all trouble in
the matter by himself killing or disa-
bling 13 adversaries without once being
touched. Beginning life as an enfant
de troupe" in the armies of the First
Republic, a weakly-looking mulatto,
without parents, he gradually rose to be
not only a perfect master of fence, but
master who commanded the personal
respect of his pupils, comrades, and SUI
perior officers, and was not unfrequently
consulted in affairs of importance touch
ing personal or regimental honor. In
his old age he appeased long standing
feud between the engineers and the in
fantry quartered at Montpelier by the
bold and simple device of giving a mill
tary assault of arms in his own name, in
viting the picked men of both branches
of the service to contend and the rest of
the garrison to look Cd, and at the end
making the men a speech, and, with all
the authority of his position as lie pere
de Fescrime," compelling them to abiure
their enmity. Moreover, Jean, Louis
succeeded in making so good pupil of
his daughter that she completely took
the conceit ont of young professional
"a stranger to the school of Jean-Louis)
who had thought it impossible that
woman could be a serious adversary.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
THE OLD AND NEW.
1Ir. Beecher Discourses on 1Ian's Double
Life and Resurrection.

Mr.. Beecher's sermon Sunday was
from Hebrews, xii, ID. Below are
some extracts from it,
"There is an antithesis between a
mans life of his body and the life of his
spirit, and the things that are shocking
in regard to the body are supreme and
most gracious in regard to the soul and
the spirit"
els there anything more shocking
than cannabalism And yet the best men
of the world have been the food of all
after time. Mans spirit feeds on mans
spirit. The highest deeds, the noblest
qualities, the achievements of one or
another in the long round of history,
have been the food of those that came
after, and will live by, as it we've, eating
the spirit of our ancestors"
THE past is the great granary of the
soul, where the fruit of ages is collected.
The past is not a mausoleum of dead
men, nor is it a storehouse of mum
| mics, nor a cave in which ancestral forms
lie slumbering."
"There is an undying multitude of all
who in ages gone by have added to
knowledge, to virtue and to heroic deeds,
above our heads in the air
"There is process of airy resurrec-
ton of all that is greatly good in eminent
natures which, stored up, overhangs us
and rains down influences upon us"
1.-THE old Church is rich in its past,
and were it not that every child had a
right to despoil its mother-and so every
Protestant Church can draw from the
old Church-Protestant would stand
in very poor light as compared with
the old Roman Catholic Church"
"When men ask why the Jews have
sustained themselves as they have done
through the ages, it is because of family
instruction, the bringing the children
up in the knowledge of the heroic deeds
of their ancestry"
you that must have some mode, some
ideal hero; you that have some concep-
ton of your own, framed out of the loom
of your imagination, woven by the
brightest threads you can select from
among human beings, here you have the
appointed ideal Jesus, the Saviour Of
| the world"
"Your life is struggle. 1t is hard
for a man to live up to his purposes. II
is very difficult for man to live up tc
the ideals which he forms in his bright.
est hours.
"Thank God, while the soil may be
parcelled out the heavens cannot be-"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
His Scarlet Coat.

Mangin, the celebrated black-lead
pencil maker of Paris, is dead. He
drove every day in an open carriage, at
tended-by servant, to his stands either
by the column of the Place Vendome or
on the Place de la Bourse. His servant
handed him a case, from which he took
large portraits of himself and medals
with descriptions of his pencils, which
he hung on either side of him. He then
replaced his round hat with magnificent
FURNISHED helmet, mounted with brilliant
plumes. For his overcoat he donned
costly velvet tunic with gold fringes. He
then drew pair of polished steel gaunt-
lets upon his hands, covered his breast
with a brilliant cuirass, and placed a
richly mounted sword at his side. His
servant then put on velvet robe and
helmet, and struck up tune On an Or
gan mounted in gold. To the crowds
gathered around he then exclaimed: ST
am Mangin, the great charlatan of
France Years ago hired modest shop
in the Rue Rivoli, but could not sell
pencils enough to pay my rent. Now,
attracted by my sweeping crest, my way
ing plumes, my din and glitter, | sell
millions of pencils" This was true. His
pencils were the very best.