The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-26
Numerous Notes and Comments

AT the Coal Miners Convention,
held at Monongahela City, it, was
unanimously resolved to demand
three cents per bushel for mining.
Major James B. Lindsey, OF
Waynesburg, has been appointed
to position in the model room OF
the Patent Office by Secretary
Lamar.
Clara Virginia Cramer, niece of
General Grant, was married in the
Mayors Office, New York, to
Alphonse Bernhard, Of Paris,
France. we'll known litterateur
and journalist of the French Cap
ital.
Ten Republican employees in the
United States Mint at Philadelphia,
on Saturday, refused to go to work
until Superintendent Fox gave
them assurance they would not be
removed. His answer was their
dismissal. They hoped to embar-
rass the operations'of the mint.
AT Baltimore on last Monday
evening Beauregard Carter was shot
through the head producing death
instantly. The shooting grew out
of primary election. The coron-
ers Jury found the shooting to have
been done by one Daniel Williams
and two other men are held as &C
Emory A. Storrs the noted Chi
cago lawyer died suddenly at Otta-
wa Ill. on last Saturday. Mr.. Storrs
was native of New York but re-
moved to Chicago in 1860 and has
since resided in that city engaged
in the practice of law. And was
one of the most noted men at the
Chicago bar.
John L. Sullivan was fined 81
and costs, amounting to sly, for
playing base ball on Sunday at
Cleveland.
Prize fighting may be engaged
in with impunity in Ohio but such
fragrant crimes as playing base ball
on Sunday are permitted, Sullivan
certainly ought to have known this.
Virginia is to be bereaved OF
John S. Mosby, who has written
to his friends at Warrenton that
he will settle down to the practice
of law in San Francisco. In this,
California will probably be the loser.
Mosby is an ex-rebel republican.
His usefulness in Virginia is ended
but perhaps he may take a new
start in Frisco" and make a man
of himself.
General Simon Cameron's favor.
lite riding horse, Colonel, is dead.
He was thirty years old and was
one of pair of horses which Gen
eral Cameron purchased in New
York in 1860 at 81, 900 for the pair.
A Russian gentleman visited Don,
egal Farms some years ago and
when he spied this horse he re-
marked: Do you know that breed
of horses is allowed in Russia to be
owned by by the nobility only7
A terrific explosion of gas oc-
CURED on the 2 inst. in the Yough
Valley mines on the B. & O. rail
road near Guffy's station in Fay
cite county, Penna., by which
James Bradley was SO badly in
jured that he died in great agony on
the next morning, and James Ham
ilton was SO badly injured that he
will propably not recover. One
hundred men were working in the
mine, all of whom, rushed to the
entrance of the drift, except the
two unfortunates named, and most
OF them escaped uninjured.
A local option law has passed
both branches of the Georgia Leg
islature and will probably be sign
ed by the Governor. 1t provide.
that one-tenth of the voters in any
county can secure the holding o
an election at which the people
may vote for or against the sale o.
liquor, no further action can BIZ
had for two years; if it is for prohi
bition, liquor, can neither be sole
nor given away except by licensed
druggists for medicinal or scienti
fic purposes. Nothing in the bill
is to prevent the manufacture, sale
and use of domestic wines or cider
or the sale Of wine for sacramento
purposes, provided they are no.
sold by barrooms at retail.
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ha.
come out in card favoring "Higt
License" because as he says CAB
solute Prohibition is an impossi
bility." The Prohibition organ Of
West Virginia the Freeman in
speaking of Mr.. Beecher's course
says. ut will not be long until the
whiskey papers will be hypocriti-
cally lauding Mr.. Beecher as one
of the foremost leaders in Temper
ance work in the United States.
All the enmity of the Gem. Ga
.sette and Tribune towards him for
opposing Blaine will be forgotten,
and he will be held up as shining
light for all good Temperance Re
publicans to follow. The word of
a thousand Beechers cannot remove
the necessity for Prohibition, or
take the crime out of License.
The Electric Motor, if we are to
believe the Railroad Neaos, threat
ems to reduce the number of dis
tinguished citizens in the commun-
ity. 1t is explained that every
time new electric engine is put
upon a road, party of distinguish
citizens is invited to ride in the
special car and witness the triumph
of the new motor. But SO far the
performances of the motor have
not been encouraging to distin-
guished guests. In one case the
enCine undertook fo c1;noh +ba e;da