The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-12

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hauling it to the river at Rivesyille.
THE opening of the railroad and
the Centennial celebration should
occur at the same time even if we
have to change the almanac little.
DIR. GEO. b. NORRIS, Dentist will
be in Morgantown on the 10th of
September and remain 30 days.
Call early and make your engage
ments.
A LADY has been elected principal
Of the Palatine public school, and
the same position has been rendered
to Mrs. NJ. L. Dickey Fleming in
Fairmont.
In speaking of the hard times the
State Journal very pertinently re-
marks: "What this country needs is
less bowling and more paying up of
little debts"
MANY of the students call at the
New DOMINION office both socially
and on business. They are clever,
manly fellows as rule and are al
ways welcome.
AMBROSE SNIvELY, plasterer, brick
maker and contractor, of Grafton,
has made an assignment for the ben
eft of his creditors. f. M. Durbin.
is the trustee.
The ladies New Mission Society
will give fair and festival about
the 22d of this month. We learn
that preparations are being made to
give an elaborate entertainment.
SEVERAL Monongalians shipped
cattle east last week. Among the
shippers we find the names of I. F.
Watson, Jesse Shuttleworth, Andy
Frnm, Thomas Jolliff and f. p.
Brand.
The examinations held last week
shows decided advance on the part
of our teachers. While few were
unfortunate, the majority was better
equipped for their work than hereto
tofore.
WE learn that Il. p. Reay has sold
his property in Granville and will
probable remove to Morgantown.
We invite Press to come ahead; we
have plenty of room here still for
good live men.
SALVATION OH is what you want
1t kills pain and cures the worst
cases of rheumatism, neuralgia, sore
throat, hoarseness and headache.
Take no 'just as good" Price
twenty five cents bottle.
The Clarksburg butchers, it is said
sell fresh meat from 3 to 10 cents a
pounds. That is the place the West
Virginia Press Association should
have met and we would all have
gotten good square meal.
SOME of the small Postoflices in
this neck of the woods were changed
recently and the late incumbents in
one or two cases have been unable to
suppress their feelings of sorrow and
the howl over it is heart rending.
AN eleven months old babe of
Prof. Reynolds died last week. The
little innocent had been sick before
the family started from their old
home at St. Adams, and grew worse
on the trip until after they arrived
here, when death relieved it.
The universal query is, "what has
become of the water works." We
have dim recollection that our dis.
tinguished fellow cititizen, Mr.. Geo.
c. Sturgiss, was talking water some
time ago, and he can have the floor
now.
WORK on the railroad is progress
ing finely. The, construction train
is considerable distance below
Rivesville and will probably reach
Louisville early next week. We have
assurance from officials of the road
that it will be completed before the
Centennial
The biggest ear of corn that has
yet appeared to our knowledge is one
X sent to this office by Z. j. Bowlby
1t is more properly a cluster of ears.
There is one very large one in the
center, and around it ten smaller
ones, every one being pretty nearly a
perfect ear, and containing perfect
corn. We guess +. j. gets the belt
LAST Sunday when the usual Fish
ing creek thunder storm came over
Texas hill, it saw the colored camp
meeting up at Cresap's Grove. We'll
you never saw a storm turn quicker
in your life and it went to that camp
meeting like an express train and
gathered it in and took the starch all
out of it in Is Minutes etzei
Democrat.
A NEW postoffice has been estab
lished near .Hagedorn's mill, and in
honor of our good teutonic friend
Lewis Hagedorn, has been named
Lewisville. 1t will accommodate a
considerable scope of country. 1t is
located near the lower terminus Of
the new road that is just about being
completed by Lewis. 1t will proba
bly, grow to a place of considerable
Importance.
FROM the Fairmont papers we learn
that about twenty five citizens of this
and Marion counties started to Kan
sas last week, some of them to stay
and others as excursionists. Among
those composing the party were Elihr
Atha, John Kuhn, Oliver J. Sutton
Nathan darlington, William E. Rich
ardson, S. M. Billingslea, Jacob j
Tenant, William Lemasters, DaviG
Tenant, John Wright, John L. Mar
tin and wife, c. j. Wallace, John M
Harden, Mrs. E. E. Fisk, j. o. Ath,
and Henry Cumpston.
The following is not ours, but oul
sentiments exactly: "1fyou have al
item of news, an item with no tain
of abuse, an item that's kind, wei
stored in your mind, let it go to thu
press, it's always of use. Hoard you
dollars and cents: price your hom
for it's sacred contents, hoard you
malice and hoard your spite, neve
talk crooked when you can tall
right. But above all, when the new
man is around, tell him where al
item is found. Or better still, jot i