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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Before another issue of the New
DOMINION our readers will be called
to pass upon, at the polls, the CUES
ton Of aiding in the establishment
Of water works for the town.
After looking over the whole mat
ter and canvassing it very thorough,
~, the New DOMINION has only one
word of advice to offer, and that is,
to VOTE FOR THE WATER WORKS.
This is an opportunity to advance
the interests of our whole people
and the town which is, beyond all
measure, the most promising ever
offered us.
We can afford to pay the amount
required to secure this. 1t is but a
picayune in measuring the value of
the works to the town. This enter
prise will make Morgantown the
most desirable place for residence to
be found within the State. 1t will
advance the price of property quite
as much as a railroad. 1t will bring
comfort and health to every home.
1t is worth One Hundred Thousand
Dollars to Morgantown.
Our people generally appreciate
the enterprise, we think. OF course
there will be some votes against it.
There were some votes against a
railroad. There would be some
votes against the most attractive
proposition that could be conceived.
But large majority of our people
are in favor of it, and it will go
through, as it ought.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
Extension of the Boundary
OF THE
Town of Morgantown.

| AT meeting of the Town Council Of the Town O
Morgantown, held at the Mayors office. on Fr;
day evening, April 18TH, 1855, the following reso
buttons were adopted
Ist. vote of the qualified voters residing in IN,
corporate limits of the Town Of Morgantown. shall
be taken at the same time and place Mt which The
next Annual Election for Borough officers of said
Town shall be held ION the nth day of Nav 1sssl
upon the following proposed changes in the boun.
Diary of said corporation
Beginning at point where the northern bonnda.
ny line of said town leaves the Monongahela river
thence down said river with its meanders to The
southern boundary line Of the lands Of the West
Virginia University and with the same in an
direction to the eastern side of the county road
(which leads from Front street. in said town. to and
intersects with the Morgantown and Ices Ferry
road, about one mile from said town, thence along
the eastern side Of said road to the division line he
tween lands now owned by Kinsey Fife and Benia.
MIN >. Morgan, thence with said line and a pro
iongation of said line on its magnetic course in a,
eastern direction to the west side of the Morgap
town and Ices Ferry road, and thence along the
western side OF same in southerly direction to
point opposite the boundary line of lands owned bv
II. b. Purinton and others, situate on the eastern
side OF said road, thence with line at right angles
to said road to the Deep Hollow rum and down said
line to the present boundary of said town, so as to
include all the territory between the present boun
dary OF said town from the point of beginning to
the ending aforesaid, and said proposed new
boundary within the corporate limits OF said town.
I'd. vote of all the qualified voters residing ON
the territory proposed to be included within said
corporate limits by said changes in the metes and
bounds of said town. and of all qualified voters own
ing any part OF said territory whether they reside
thereon or mott, shall be taken upon said question.
on the same day, at the Mayors Office, in Morgan
town. near said territory.
By order Of Council
w. MOORHEAD. Recorder.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
From HagedOrn's.

HAGEDoRN's MILL, May. 5.-Our
farmers have plowed some of their
wheat fields and sowed them In corn.
A. G. Rixler had about an inch
torn from one of his fingers in the
saw mill the other day.
L. M. Runner has been making
some improvements on his farm.
Mrs, Huldah Pixler has returned
from Wheeling where she was visiting
friends.
George Long and wife were visit
ing at VIM. Pixler's Saturday and
Sunday.
WIN. Peterson Ia farming the
Weitman land;
A little child of g. w. Mayfield
has been quite sick far q week. Mrs,
J. B. Kennedy is also poorly.
Miss Ida McClaskey is trying to
secure school at No. 4. hope she
will succeed.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
RESOLUTIONS
OF COUNCIL
FOR POLL ON PROPOSED SUBSCRIPTION
70 The Ssssagsla Improvement Company

at Meeting of the Town Council of the
Iown OF Morgantown, held at the
Mayors Office, Friday evening, April
~, 1885, the following Resolutions
were adopted:
Be it resolved by the Common Council
| OF the ToWn OF Morgantown, county of
Monongalia, State of West Virginia;
ISL. "A poll shall be opened on the End
Monday of May, 1885, at the time and
place for holding the annual election for
Mayor. Recorder, Councilmen and Ser
geant, to take the sense of the voters of
the town of Morgantown, who NAV he
qualified at that time to vote for mem.
bers OF council, on the question whether
the council, on behalf of the said town.
shall subscribe to the stock of the Mon,
ongalia Improvement Company, the sum
OF Five Thousand Dollars to aid said com.
pany to erect water works, and furnish
the town and vicinity with a sufficient
supply OF water. Such subscription. if
authorized by said poll, shall be subject
TO the conditions and provisions herein
after contained.
"a, William Moorhead, Frederick A. Hen
men, and Nimrod N. Hoffman are hereby
appointed commissioners to superintend
said poll and shall conduct said election and
make return of the result thereof in manner
and form as required by law
3rd, Such subscription shall be made bv
council on behalf of the town, when author
lied by such poll, but upon condition that
the same shall not be payable until said
company shall have expended at least Five
Thousand Dollars upon its water works.
4th. Such subscription, when due and
payable. shall be paid in the bonds of the
town, at par, which bonds shall bear six
per cent interest per annum, payable semi
annually, and be redeemable at the pleas
ure of the council in not less than five nor
more than twenty years, And for same
when delivered to said company in payment
OF the proposed subscription, the said COM
pany shall deliver to the Recorder for the
town, full paid certificates of the stock of
said company. And TO pay said bonds when
due, and the annual interest thereon. such
assessment and levy of taxes upon subjects
Of taxation within said town shall be aunu- |
ally made as will be sufficient to pay the
same.
5th. The Recorder shall cause these |
resolutions to be published, as often as
may be. in the newspapers of this town |
from this date to the day of said election. |
and by printed hand bills posted con-
spicuously in said town.
By order of council
J. C. WAGNER, Mayor,
W. MOoRHEAD, Recorder.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
Washington News Notes.


ly 81, 100000 per day.
The United States treasurer on
Saturday received through the mail
an envelope, postmarked Washing
ton, ID. c., containing $500 United
States note, and n note saying
This $500 belongs to the treasury
Of the United States"
The commissioner of pensions has
: decided in the case of Mrs. Emma De
Long that Commander De Long and
the officers and men of the Jeanette
expedition were in the service of the
United States, and that Mrs. De Long
is entitled to pension.
During the month of April, Post
master General Villas appointed 600
postmasters Of the fourth class offices.
The greatest number appointed on
any one day was 1873, on April 81.
The majority of the appointments
were made to fill vacancies.
The postofiice at Hinton w. Va, is
understood to 90 to Col B. II. Thomp-
son, and Hon. NJ. G. Patton, an ex-
member of the Legislature is to sue
coed editor Gosorn, at Piedmont.
Mr. Ashby, of Charleston, has been
selected for the postmastership there.
1t is understood here in West Vir-
ginia circles that Hon. C. c. Watts
will succeed Flick, as U. S. District
Attorney for West Virginia. Column
bus Sehon, Of Mason county, will
take Marshal Atkinson's place, and,
of course, Mccormick will be dis
placed by Hon. J. r. McGraw.
The Postmaster General is taking
up the cases of fourth class post
offices now vacant, and is filling
them at the rate OF about seventy
five a day. There are about 1000
vacancies of this kind, and after
these cases have been attended to it
is the intention to consider those
where removals are desired.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
directed the suspension at the Phil
adelphia agency of 102 pensions
which have been drawn, although the
pensioners are dead; also the pen
sions to seven widows who re. MARI
ed in 1881, but who have continued
to draw pensions ever since The
Commissioner has addressed a com.
munication to the Attorney General |
requesting him to bring suits against
the pension agent and his bondsmen
for the moneys so unlawfully dis
bursed.
The Postof1ice Department on
Wednesday opened and scheduled
proposals for supplying adhesive
postage stamps for the next fiscal
year. The number of ordinary
stamps required is 1,452,315,15O of
newspaper and periodical stamps,
12,949,270, and of special delivery
stamps 100000. The bidders were
the Secretary of the Treasury, for
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, which completes for the work
for the first time; the American
Bank Note Company, of New York,
which. holds the present contract,
and the Franklin Bank Note Com
pany, of New York.
The Attorney General has sent a
letter to United States Marshal Bot
kin, of Montana, informing him that
his resignation would now be ac-
cepted, and if it was not received
Mr.. Botkin would be removed for
cause. Some time ago, it will be re-
that Office was investi-
gated and charges Of negligence and
lnefficiency preferred against Bot
kin. Toward the close of his adj
President Arthur romi-
mated a successor for the place,
named Cridley, but the nomination
was fought bitterly by some strong
friends of Botkin, who was retained
in Office.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
OF WEST VIRGINIA, IS

D 1 n + VI WEol VlNOtNlA, 3D..
At Rules held in the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court for Monongalia County on the Law Side Of
said court, on the first Monday in May, 1885.
John Bowers, Plaintiff, vs.. Charles c. Jennewine,
pefendent.-Debt and Attachment
The object of this suit is to from the de-
PENDANT the sum Of One Hundred and Ninety
Eight Dollars and thirty cents with interest on
$I3373 parcel Of principal thereof from the goth day
of May 1872, till paid and $64.5s cents, yssdus
with interest on same from the azsh day fJany 1875,
Hll raid, subject TO the credits endorsed on said
last named sum; and by two several writings oblig-
atory and to subject the real estate Of said defend
ant, attached in this to the payment of above
debt and interest," and affidavit having heen hed
nat resident Of this State, the said defendant is
EequiFsd To- appear within one month; after the
date Of the first publication hereof in the Clerks
therefor. and do what Is ueressary to protect his
interests.
Copy Attest
r. E. FAST, Clerk
KEex & Houo,I Auy's for pl'F.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Our railroad racket has not been
as riproarous of late, as some Of us
would relish, but there is nothing in
THO situation about which we can
complain. The work Of Buffalo
bridge has been delayed by unfayor-
able circumstances, but we believe
the bridge will now be completed in
very short time, and then we may
look for the rapid completion of the
road,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

A general meeting of the Stockholders Of
the Monongalia Improvement Company
Will be held at the office of the Secretary
on the
SrH DAY OF MAY, 1885,
at Z IL O'clock P. M, to consider the ques.
ton Of issuing preferred stock ana mort
gage bonds for the purpose of raising mon
ey to carry on its works, and for the trans
action of other business.
By order &C the Directors.
VIC. McGREW. Seo'y.
April Z, 1885.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
HOWARD N. OGDEN,
AttOrney-Nt-LNac,
FAlRMCNT, ". VA.

Will practice in the Courts of Monon-
gala and adjoining counties, in the
State Supreme Court, and the Federal
Courts. Collections and correspondents
inquiries and wants promptly attended
to. Farms, mills and coal lands bought
and sold. Real estate causes a speciality.
ss~Ofiice at Ogden & Ayers Drug
Store, Main Street.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Mccormick has not bullied Hart
into silence yet The latter still
fires away and punctures the collec-
tor every shot 1t seems to be set
tied that Mr. Hart is personally OBJ
noxious' to the pseudo boss.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Our Fairmont neighbors are ex-
pecting to make Morgantown their
summer resort if they can get free
passes on our railroad. The only
drawback will be that we will keep
mountain spring water, instead of
beer, ON draught.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

When we extend the corporation
line of Morgantown around the
whole population of Morgantown,
we will rank as very respectable
town. Heretofore we have only been
getting credit for about three-fourths
of the population which properly
makes up the town.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

From all we can gather there will
not be much done this summer to-
ward building the w. Va. and Pa.
railroad. A little work will be done
here and there along the line where
it is necessary to hold the route, but
no attempt will be made toward
constructing any part of the road.
The company is still firm in its pur-
pose to build, and the road will
probably be built at no very distant
day but not this summer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

We have no railroad yet, but the
certainty Of a road has already done
much for our town. There are more
buildings and improvements going
up this spring than have been seen
for some years. Our people have
better nerve and more hope in the
business future of our town.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
"A Republican Quamd AIRY.

The policy pursued by President
Cleveland, since his Inauguration
| has been so free from mistakes and
blunders that it has placed his Re
publican enemies in an awkward
predicament. In fact, they are in a
quandary. They cannot find pin
or peg upon which they can hang
an objection or thread to which
they can suspend a criticism. By
his straightforward course and his
unexceptional appointments, his po-
litical opponents have been com
pletely disarmed, and their weapons
OF warfare have been hung up to
rest. A New York correspondent,
referring to the Republican dilemma
which President Cleveland has Gre
ated, discourses as follows:
president Cleveland's admins
tration has put the Republican poll
ticians here into curious predica-
ment. One of them said to-day:
"Cleveland completely disarmed Re
publican criticism. His appoint
ments have been so unexceptional
and his utterances so excellent that
it is impossible to pick flaw in his
administration. The Tribune tries
to find something to criticise, but it
is hard work. Indeed, we will have
nothing to say on the stump this
fall if he does not make false
move pretty soon. Our entire reli-
ance Is on the possible discord in
the Democratic ranks that may be
created by his administration. Pc
litieally speaking, we think he has
made mistakes, and our hope is that
these mistakes will cause discord in
the ranks of his own party. If it
does not don't know what we will
do. Our policy now is to shout for
Cleveland and praise him, and make
the Democrats believe that he is
two thirds Republican"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

SUMMER LAW LECTURES mine weeklvl
begin 9th July, 1885, and end eth Septembelr.'
Have proved Of signal use,-rst, to students who
design p pursue their studies this or other Law
school, I'd, to those who propose to read privately;
vantage Of systematic instruction. For circular
apply lP o. University of Va,) to JOHN b. MsNoR.
Prof. Com and Stat law, 4
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

1t takes a great deal of work and
a great deal Of something else to
-hrlild a railroad. In short, it is a
big job to build q railroad. There
are always bitches and delays in
every railroad enterprise before it is
finally completed. We have had
very few, thus far, in the F., NJ. d P.
We will not see it completed as soon
as we hoped, but we have every as
surance that it will at least not leave
us sticking in the mud through an
other winter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
If England and Russia lock hor1

If England and Russia lock horns
and that seems to be most proba-
ble-it will be the fiercest struggle
of the century. All the appliances
that money and human ingenuity
can bring to bear will be freely used
to slaughter and destroy. The end
cannot be predicted. All Europe
may be drawn into 1t.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

The phraseology might as well be
changed now and put thus: The
rascals are being turned out rapidly.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Clear, sparkling, uncontaminated.
snbterranean Water.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09


The alarmists have settled it that
we are to have no crops this season,
except peach crop. The latter is
usually the first to go. This year it
is reversed, and we will have to live
exclusively on peaches for the next
twelve months. There is favorite
mode Of preserving this delicious
fruit, SO that it will last all winter
without risk-indeed the longer it is
kept the better it gets. 1t is lit
tie thin for an every day diet, but is
generally accepted as a very fair
substitute for something more solid.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Spring long delayed with it's ac-
cumulation of work, has come al
most without transition period
from winter. From now on till fall
the farmer will have few idle mo-
ments for complaining Of hard times,
or to give to any subject except to
plan and execute his work AS to
the hard times the best cure for
them is industry and devotion to
business. And in any event the
farmer has this consolation and en-
couragement, that his business is
less subject to the influences of
panics and hard times than any
other. He is producer, and of
commodities that will always be
bought, for his grain, grass, fruit,
wool, cattle and horses are articles
OF prime necessity. If crops are
bad or small, prices go up, and so
compensate him. But the miner,
the merchant, the manufacturer and
the middle man often finds his occu-
patton temporarily gone, and bank
ruptcy staring him in the face, for
he then has no income upon which
to subsist, But tire farmer may
manage to get along on the produc-
lions of the land.
II war on a scale OF even moder-
ate magnitude shall involve any Of
'he European powers it will advance
prices, and furnish good market
Tor grain and meats, and many arti-
cles OF manufacture. 1t will be
wise for our farmers to provide for
this by increasing so far as practic-
able the amount OF their products
and stock. The general prosperity
OF the country is more intimately
connected with the prosperity Of the
agricultural class than with any, or
all others. Hence the wisdom OF
promoting its greatar, success that
Y mag share IN IT. Atheas
journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
10Th DAY OF MAY. 1885.

at his Office aforesaid, to execute said order, an,
to ascertain and report
First. The amount. location and value of the rea
estate, if any. owned by defendant Jacob s Shisler
at the time of and since the docketing of the plain
tiff7s said judgment, alleged in his bill
Second. The debts and liabilities that are liens on
the real estate OF the said Jacob S. Shisler thei,
amounts and priorities respectively, the annual
rental value Of such real estate Of said judgme nj
debtor, and whether the will in five years
rent for sufficient to satisfy said liens.
Third Anything else deemed pertinent or es.
peeially required by any of the parties interested
furnish to the commissioner such evidence as they
may decree to enable him to ascertain and report.
Given under my hand this 27th day of April
1885. JOHN ]. BROWN. Com.
NOTICE TO.LIEN HOLDERS.
To all persons holding liens by judgment or 9TH
erwise, on the real estate or any part thereof, of
Jacob s. Shsler
In pursuance OF decree of the Circuit Court of
Monongalia county, made in a cause therein pend
ing to subject the real estate of the said Jacob S.
Shisler to the satisfaction of the liens thereon Won
are hereby required to present all claims held by
you and each of you against the said Jacob S. Shis
ler which are liens his real estate or any part
of it, for adjudication, to me- at my Office in Nor
gantown, Monongalia county, w Va, on or before
the goth day of May, 1885,
Given under my hand this 27th day of April,
1885. John T. BROWN. Com
FRANK COX, Counsel for Plaintiff.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

The New DOMINION has frequently
called the attention of our young
men to the fact that money does not
| grow on the bushes in the west any
more than it does in West Virginia.
We have often told them that the
same energy and pluck that would
make a fortune there would make
one here. we offer for their consid-
Grafton an article from the gilbert
son Nebraska Sun. Read what that
paper says about West Virginia.
Here it is: considerable comment
has been made by the press of the
country on the reported distress and
suffering In West Virginia. What
we have to say is drawn from recent
observation and can be relied on as
the truth. 1t is true that in some
portions of the mountain State
there is scarcity of food and some
stock may have died, but the state
ments that the people are dying of
starvation, etc, are absolutely false,
and originated in the brains of SEN
sational newspaper correspondents.
West Virginia is second to no State
in the Union in point of natural re-
sources. Her soil is productive, her
climate is good, and in the way of
coal, iron, silver, lead, timber, etc.
her wealth can scarcely be estima-
ted. While we believe that Ne
bFaska is superior to any of the 9th
er western States in everything that
goes to make up d prosperous and
happy people, and that in the near
future she will outstrip her sister
States in the race of progress and
wealth. We believe that West Vir-
gipia in natural resources and va
riety Of advantages is ahead of even
Nebraska. The chief taapble with
West Virginia is that. her people
are to great extent indolent, and
lack the push and energy which is
characteristic Of the west. Her
railroad facilities are very Limited,
and this is the one thing that more
than any other induces emigration
from her borders. But systems of
roads are being projected, and in
few years she will ba "out of the
woods" Then a new class of Poo.
pie will fill her valleys and cultivate
her bills, and the impetus given her
by the iron horse will be like trans
fusion Of new blood in ianf yajns.
aud ~ q Legitimate result she will
take the position to which she is
naturally entitled"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09

Delicious, healthful, mountain
Water.