The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-22
Saturday, August 22, 1885.
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Saturday, August 22, 1885.
SEND Photograph of your house
to your city friends.
For your Sweet Caporal Cigar
cites call at the News Store.
CHEW the Forest City Fine Cut
Tobacco. For sale at the News
Store.
PRor. HODGES is holding the Tay-
lor county institute that is in session
this week.
The wheat crop of West Virginia
is estimated at one and a half mil
lion bushels.
Our large cattle dealers J. P. Keen
err and J. p. Donley each shipped fine
lots Of stock last week.
For good and cheap reading, by
the best authors, call at the News
Store on Walnut street. A large
stock just received.
AT the Grant memorial services
held in New Cumberland Profs.
Stewart and Wade of this place were
among the speakers.
SEVERAL good local letters are
crowed out this week. Occasionally
such things will happen in the best
regulated printing offices.
Mr.. A. r. Hess and Son shipped
a fine lot of cattle to Philadelphia
last week. They had the misfortune
to lose fine steer on the way.
The Press Association of West
Virginia holds it's next annual meet
ing on the ed Of September next,
in the city Of Charleston.
DIR. GEO. B. MORRIS, Dentist will
be in Morgantown on the 10th Of
September and remain 20 days.
Call early and make your engage
ments.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, expects to
have glass works started there at an
early day. Keep the wave in motion
friends. 1t will strike Morgantown
ere long.
PRoF. LoRENTz's family with their
visitors went picnicing to Crooked
run yesterday where they were met
by Thos. Maple and daughter and
Clara Hough. A pleasant day was
spent.
SIXTEEN pounds nice brown sugar,
$l.0O; 10 lbs. good roasted coffee,
$l.0O; ID yds. of indigo blue calico,
$1.O0; one dozen J gal. glass jars for
$l.0O, at Hutchinson u Jacobs, Lit
tie Falls.
A HORSE died recently in the pos
session of John Baker, in Fayette
county, W. Va, which is said to
have been shot while General Grant
was on its back at Vicksburg. The
horses hide will be preserved.
SALVATION OIL is an infallible cure
for headache, backache, pain in the
side and limbs, and all rheumatic
neuralgia affections. 1t relieves pain
and extirpates the disease that
causes it. Price twenty-five cents a
bottle.
MAJOR WHITING has advertised for
proposals for the erection of five frame
depot buildings and one brick on the
line of the F. M. d p. The brick is to
be at Morgantown and the frame ones
at Ellington, Little Falls, Whiteday,
Newport and Houltown.
THERE has been handsome mar
BILE monument erected over the graves
of the late John T. Greenland and
wife in Chestnut Hill Cemetery
ConnellsUiAe CouySer-Mr. Green
land was an uncle of d. Greenland
Thompson of this place.
CHARLEY ALLEBAUGH fell from the
roof of F. A. Behring'S house on Mon
day and hurt himself severely. One
of his feet was dreadfully bruised
and one of his hands cut badly, but
no bones we're broken. We hope to
see Charley all right again soon.
PRoF. SIrE, of the Fairmont Nor
NAL School has invented a contriv-
ance for attaching the traces of
harnessed horse to the whiffletree,
which may be loosened in moment
by the driver in case of q runaway.
1t is said to be an ingenius arrange
ment and patent will be applied for.
Mrs. JANE Brown, daughter of
Aaron Baird, deceased, died at her
home in Uniontown, Pa, on Friday
night August It'll. She retired to
her bed in her usual health and was
found dead Saturday morning.
Aaron Baird in his lifetime lived in
and near Morgantown for several
years, and will be remembered by
many of our citizens.
SUNDAY SCHOOL Picnic. - The
Goshen Baptist Church will hold
Sunday School Picnic at the church
on Saturday Sept 18th. Very elab-
crate preparations are being made to
entertain visiting Sunday schools
and the general public. Appropriate
addresses and music will be conspic-
uous features of the occasion. Fill
your basket and attend.
MoRGANTowN SEMINARY.--The
next term begins Monday, Septem-
Der 7th, 1885. Tuition in Primary
Glasses 81 per quarter of 10 weeks;
tuition in regular classes from IS to
rs per quarter; music lessons, $40
per quarter; for beginners, So; use
Of piano for practice, 81. so per quar-
ter. No reduction will be made for
absence from resitations or music
lessons except in case of sickness.
The Methodist Protestant Confer
ence will come next week. 1t will
be composed of some fifty or sixty
ministers of the gospel and about the
same number of lay delegates and
some visitors. The conference will
be convened by the President Rev.
Mr.. Stout, who will preside until a
President is elected. We commend
the brethren to the hospitality of our
good people and hope they may en-
joy their visit to the Athens of West
Virginia.
THERE is no better place in the
United States for the small farmer,
than Morgan county.-Neaos. There
is no better place in the world than
Old Monongalia for small farmers,
nor for larger ones either. We have