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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26
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Laurel Point Pointers.

LAUREL POINT, Dee. 14.-The corn
crusher and grinder here is idle on
account of some broken cogs. Jo-
seph Mercer is making a new set
and we shall have our mush again
soon.
The storm last Friday night did a
good deal of damage to fencing, DC
Walter Rice has moved into his
new house. He had IL public sale
the 9Th inst.
"Aunt" Katy Camp fell and hurt
herself very badly a few days ago.
She is unable to walk, from the eff
fects of it.
There is some talk of establish
ing graded school here.
The protracted meeting at Zoar
has closed. Rev. S. Kitchens preach
ed at Harmony Grove last Sun
day.
Jehu Stevens is making some i'm
provements on his property
Clay Miller was around last week
gathering up all the turkeys and
chickens.
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RONNY BEN BUTLER
Writes n Letter TO Two Gilmcr
County Girls About the
SDOons.

Two school girls in Gilmer
county, members of the history
class in the Chenille Normal School,
became interested in the poetic leg
end of Ben Butler and the spoons,
and wrote to that worthy, praying
him to relieve their minds of all
doubt on this question The Knight
of the Spoon replied as follows:
BosToN, Nov. l6, 1886.
MlssEs:-If Iwere not convinced of
the thorough good faith, honesty of
purpose and fairness of your letter, |
should not reply to it, but receive it
as an insult. But | am certain that
you mean rightly, but you are woe
fully ignorant concerning the matter
about which you write You ask me
seriously about some spoons which
you say were found in my knapsack
upon my return home, and want me
to explain apparently, although you
don't say so, where got them. And
you further say to me that your
teacher says l didn't know they
were there, he seeming willing to
give me the benefit of the doubt.
Who could have told you that
foolish story9 If you will read the
history of your country you will
learn that when | was in New Or
leans l was a Major General in com
mand of large body of men. l had
dozens of men about me to bring me
anything | wanted, head-quarter
train to carry my baggage and
everything I desired to carry with
me, and when | left New Orleans l
left in steamboat wholly under my
charge, and during the entire war |
never had knapsack, or any other
sack except sack coat and that
hadn't any pockets in it. Why, the
last story | heard about the spoons
was that | had on board the steamer
q coffin full of them. The man who
told that story was fool, because
there were a great many things more
convenient than a coffin for me to
have carried home spoons or any
thing else in if I had so chosen, and
the fellow who told that story must
be an own cousin to the man who
told the knapsack story. Why, my
dear girls, as Major General in com
nand at New Orleans ! could COM
mand money to be sent hither and
thither by the millions, and do you
really suppose that with money
under my order to that amount |
would have busted myself in picking
up spoons? See how foolish this
story is. The little people who tell
these foolish stories-I don't mean
young people-know that if they
had had the chance to have stolen
the spoons they would have done so,
and therefore they suppose | did as
they would have done.
write you this that it may be a
lesson to you, my young friends,
never believe what is said about a
distinguished man by his friends or
enemies. The first will say every
thing in his praise without watching
too carefully that it is true, and the
last will say everything against him
that is false, being very careful
never to tell the truth.
Very respectfully yours,
BENZ. +. BUTLER.
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Battelle Budget.

WISE, Dec. 12.-Mr. A. J. Santee,
one of Monongalia's former residents,
but now resident of Illinois, is So
journing among friends here for a
few days.
Albert Pyle, of Ponetown, is buy
ing cattle very extensively in this
section.
Mr.. E. is also quite drover.
There is a great demand for hogs
in this section, as they are very
scarce.
w. f. Staggers returned from
Fairmont last night.
This town needs a good physician,
there being none here, good or bad.
This is rapidly growing little town
and we think good physician would
do well here.
Miss Maggie Haines, of Wades-
town, is visiting at w. f. Staggers.
If the winter is very hard there
will be scarcity of feed in this see
ton.
A literary association has been
organized at the town hall with
prospects Of good success.
No deaths or marriages TO report
this week.
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MoRGANTowN, VIRGINIA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER


ing in the direction of the fugitive,
she saw that he also had been ava
kened by the confusion, and having
risen to his feet, was glazing at her
face with an expression that left no
doubt as to his madness. For a
moment she gazed fixidly into his
eyes, and then made an involuntary
movement toward the door. The
spell which held the maniac was
broken, and he sprang toward her
with o wild snarl The unfortunate
lady gave a scream of despair, and
sank senseless to the floor. AS her
eyes closed to Inconsistencies she
became dimly aware Of a bursting
crash and terrific struggle around
about her When she again came
to she was lying in bed in her aunt's
residence, surrounded by weeping
relatives. The terrible shock incl
dent to the night of horror resulted in
an aggravated attack of brain fever,
the effect of which was such as to
unsettle her rsason. The strangest
part of the story is that during her
illness her hair, which was of a
chestnut tinge, began to change in
color, and ultimately became white.
The maniac was the son of a neigh
Dor, and had been mad from birth.
He was considered SO dangerous as
to cause his being chained. The
night my aunt arrived at her desti-
nation he had broken his chains and
made his escape. His friends, who
made the discovery shortly after it
happened, secured bloodhound and
started on his trail. They traced
him to the cabin, and had sent for
the key. when my aunt's scream told
its own story, and caused them to
break the door down and overpower
the madman.-Baltimore american.
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From Bakers Ridge.

BAKER RIDGE, Dec. l6.-Jack
Evans and William Baker are buy
ing up turkeys and sheep; the lat
ter for wool, the former for feathers,
both for money. They now have so
many sheep that their voices sound
like the murmur of many waters,
and the gobble Of the gobblers like
distant thunder. If l had time l
would like to write poem on them
air. gobblers. (We're mighty glad
you haven't time. ED.
Miss Simpson had a spelling bee
the other night. There was a good
time, good order and good spelling.
Several from a distance were there.
Spelling schools bring about court
ships, and courtships brings about
neutrality-suspicious.. Do hurry
up. | am SO scarce Of items.
Miss Sarah Evans has been worse
this week.
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Macmillan's Magazine.

The basy activities of that little
town are silent now, its streets are
dirty and deserted, and the appear
ance of their squalor and neglect
disfgures one of the fairest scenes
of nature. The government arsenal,
so famous once, has been long dis
used, and the ground on which it
stood was advertised for sale. John
Browns fort is an unsightly ruin.
And yet / should not have liked to
omit visit to a place so closely as
ISOLATED with famous names and in
spring deeds. | crossed the river
and climbed the steep sides of the
MARYLAND Heights. From that emf
nence panorama is spread before
the eye, unrivaled in interest and
beauty. To the north and northwest
stretches wide, billowy champaign
to the confines of Pennsylvania, rich,
fruitful and bencfcent Beneath our
feet the Potomac makes music among
the rough stones which served so
often for the passage of armies, while
southwark, as far as the eye could
reach, overlooked by the strong
guardianship of the Blue Ridge to
the left and the Great North Noun
tains to the right, CLEANED like a
braid of silver the waters of the
Shenandoah, as they flow through
the fair Virginian valley to which
they lend their name. No mountain
guardianship could preserve that
quiet valley from the''red rain which
fell not to make its harvests grow.
From 1860 to 1864 the tide of war
ebbed and flowed through it inces-
sanity. In the great struggle between
the Northern and Southern forces,
the strategical importance of the
Shenandoah valley was immense. 1t
runs for nearly 200 miles in south
westerly direction, with scarcely a
gap in the protecting bulwark of its
mountain barriers. But the cgrcss
from the valley to the north would
bring an invading army 60 miles in
the rear of Washington, aid would,
therefore, outfank the Capital of the
Union; the passage of Northern
army, on the other hand, through
the valley would be march away
from Richmond 1t was necessary
for the troops Of the Union to com
mand the Shenandoah; it was the
object of the Confederates to prevent
this. So rich was the valley in its
swell filled barns, its cattle and its
busy mills" that Southern armies
lived on it for years, till at last the
decree went forth that it must be
cleared, not of the rebels alone, but
of the means it furnished for their
subsistence; and Grant sent out the
memorable word to Eat out Vir-
ginia clear and clean, so that the
crows flying over it for the balance
of this season will have to carry
their provender with them"
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Hard to Keep.

The following is copy of the
''rools" adopted.in Randolph county
school:
stake up at ate o'clock let out at
fore and give one our for noon.
mo playing on the rode to and
from school.
mo skeeting on the ice no snow
boiling no weepings to be carried to
school no tagging no news packing.
mo Citing up on cheers with
you feet no parchality to be show
ing.
mo chawing tobaccer and splitting
on the fore.
"These RULES must be stricly KEEP
by and all.
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Had ON the Wedding Crop.

A gentleman from the upper end
of the county said to the writer, in
speaking of the marriage license law,
that it had been a bad thing for
some parties in that section and the
edge of West Virginia. why" said
he, "the day before the law went
into effect there was one Squire in
our neighborhood married nineteen
couples; and out of the whole num-
Der but eight couples are now living
together The terrors of the old law
were so great that many of them
have verified the old saying, Mar
ried in haste to repent at leisure.
l shouldn't be surprised if our
divorce court would have consider
able business in the near future
WayBesbmg Republican.
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We haven't had . signal service
officer at M1rgantown for two or
three years, hut the weather seems
to go right long doing thriving
business at thl old stand.
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Martinsd rg is in the midst of a
direful pest lence, brous about by
fouland filtiV drinking water-some-
thing like much of our wellwater
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

Since Genl Lew Wallace has man
ifested such Ia, fondness for the Sui
tan's country be has been accused
Of being a hIsrem scarem sort of
fellow.
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If anything of public interest hap
pens in your neighlborhood, send the
NEw DOMINION NJ sspointer.' The
aim and mission of this paper is to
publish the news, and to publish it
while it is red hot.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

Our coffee is haAf chicory- dust;
our sugar half sand; our tea half
prussic acid; our bread half alum;
our canned fruits half verdigris.
and yet some people wonder at the
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Queer things, these human beings.
A good old rural constituent of Con
gresham Browne, "a Indiana, re-
quests that gentleman to write a
letter to the American Minister at
Rome TO get him an Italian queen
bee.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

Morgantown has been accused of
having somewhat of the stand-still
spirit Of the Old Dominion. "'Tis
true, tbs pity; aIpd pity tbs tbs true p
But we're doing better now, thank
x,n,,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

The Senate has passed bill Civ
ing Mrs. Grant y pension Of $1,000
a. year and the Thanking privilege
Mrs. Tyler, Mrst Polk and Mrs.
Garfield, have been favored in a sim
liar way.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

1t is Reported that the young la
dies Of Atlanta are boycotting the
beer drinking young men.
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Nothing Mean About Him.


Parkersburg papers are adyertis-
ing bushels and bushels of $4,000
farms for sale at $500 each, with a
hard boiled egg and Langtry chro
mo thrown in. A Wetzel county man
got his life insured, kissed his wife
and children goodbye, and went
down to Wood to cast in his lot
with them. Now he does a little
advertising for them gratis.
He says: II went to Parkersburg
and got hold of newspaper and
with necessary instructions went on
my way rejoicing. 1 first went to
see the $4,000 river bottom farm.
I found it on pine ridge seven
miles from the river, barren sandy
waste on which nothing has ever
grown but broom sedge and berry
bushes. / then struck out for a
twenty-five acre river bottom farm,
offered for $500. / found it. 1t was
up run, five miles from the river,
and there was only enough level
ground on it to hold the rocks that
fall regularly from the hills on
either side. Ididn,t want that farm.
And SO on from sandy ridge to stony
bottom went, and the further /
went the more rocks and sand saw.
If crow or buxzard would light on
onv ~ tho ,,lacoa I saw and afnv
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The Juagwumps are doing this
country, STATE and town much more
harm than fhe Mugwumps are.
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Living and Dead, lin and Ont
Of the State.

Governor Wilson is said to be
ull-hedged candidate for the United
States Senate. If he sets about ii
in dead earnest no man in the State
can work harder than Wilson.
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The idications are that the much
married Mormons must 60
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Are va to have an inexpensive fire
service of some kind? If not, why
not?
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Re for water works; what are

- Ian Who Killed-the-B Biggest
4Iog han the floor.
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Rev. Doctor c. p Masden, Of st.
Louis, has become pastor of Madison
Avenue NJ. +. Church, New York
City. He was pastor of Fourth
Street Church, Wheeling, q few
years ago, and was one of the most
eloquent pastors that church has
ever had.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

AN old and intimate friend Of
mine is Parker's Hair Balsam. /
have used it five years, and could
not do without it. 1t has stopped
my hair from falling, restored its
natural black color and wholly
cleansed it from dandruff. Miss
Peal Aneson, st. Louis, Mo.
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- Ioam0S is gone, 'herel
IS but six landmarks of the
|eracy-Longstreet, D. II. Hill,
Wis Beaureguard, Joe John
Id Jnbal Early. Davis is the
"unreconstructed" one Of
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

Elk Marshal G. w. Atkinson has
been delivering his lecture, Don t,
at various points in and out Of the
State, and has always had attentive
hearers. The fact of the matter is
Atkinson is one of the very best lee
turers in West Virginia, and deserves
all the popularity he has attained.
1t might make him large as to his
head" but it don't.
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5hs 8sp gemiuisa.
JULI<N :. FLEMING.
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
u,4nns or suBscnzsr.or.

The circulation 81 tho NEW DOMINION is
'arscr} ~ than at any lime since it was
~ blisaed, and, $ an advertising medium.
q sad not be execlled
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Martinsbmrg's Addiction.

MARTINsBURG, w. VA, December
14.-The people of this city and sur
rounding vicinity are undergoing
severe atfliction in the way of sick
ness. Twenty to twenty-five cases
of spinal meningitis, malarial and
typhoid fever are reported in the
city alone, and numerous patients
are suffering throughout the county.
There is a difference in opinion as to
the origin of the disease, some at
tributing it to- impure water and
Others to epidemic causes. The
doctors are almost tagged out with
worrying over the loss of so many
patients. The sickness is generally
the young and middle aged. The
local Board of Health are actively
endeavoring to ferret out the cause
of so much sickness, believing it to
be the result of local impurity. A
feeling of sadness and fright prevails.
Several deaths have occurred within
the past day.-Register.
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Later.

MARTINsBURG, w. VA, December
ia special meeting of the City
Council was held last night. The
local Board of Health and three ply
sicians, who had been notified to en-
quire into the cause of so much sick
ness in our community, made their
report. After thorough examine
tion of the streets, sewers and streams
of the city, they arrived at the fol-
lowing conclusion: Tuscarora, a
small stream flowing through the
centre of the city, was found to be
partly filled with filthy and decom-
posing refuse. The sewers and gut
tiers of the city were also found to be
anything else but clean. A large
cinder bank near the B. Il O. railroad
shops, which has been burning for
more than a year, has, during that
time, been emitting carbonic gas,
which has proven very deleterious
to the health of the community.
Most Of the sickness is traceable to
these three causes. The council at
once appropriated 81, 900 to the work
Of thoroughly cleaning up the city,
which work will commence ct once.
Our citizens praise the prompt ac.
tion az tie council and Will earnestly
coorcr8te WITH 4 N t. sctIen =
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CLARKSBURG COURT HOUSE.
Ben. Duzar After it With a Light
ming BuzZ-SaW.

Ben. Duzar says in letter to the
Register: 1t was the hope of our
citizens that when our new county
Court House was built it would
prove q "thing of beauty" and a
structure they might well feel proud
of, and few of them, we presume,
contemplated the erection of the mar
row gauge, skating rink, ward school
house, tug boat concern from Indiana
selected by our county dads"
With several handsome and appro-
pirate designs to choose from our
commissioners from away back, !"
fell upon nice, pretty, red painted
hoosier school house, with ten pin
alley attachment, and notwithstand-
ing the fact that the county has re-
Gently purchased ground to increase
the width of the Court House lot, they
selected a building nearly ten feet
narrower than the old Temple now
standing, while in length it runs
"back, away back, terribly back"
Ola feet) and plants its heels across
Mechanic street, on Uncle Billy Bog
CESS front door steps. That any
three men with brains enough to ar
chitect a hen roost would put a
56x1I4 Court House on 150x150
lot is an absurdity we fail to "tum-
BILE to-" Gentlemen, if you must
have this particular bowling alley,
build it crosswise the lot, and in
time to come, you can hide another
$4,000 behind it where nobody will
oNci 'oo ~ unies ,I :. oe SO, ~
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Old church-goers of Nicholas
Fayette counties will remember
Presbyterian preacher by the M
of Schneider--the Rev. Frances q
Schneider. He is now in Brazil
has become one of the most Al
plished linguists that was ~
West Virginia, being prof
scholar in English, Latin, 81
German, Portuguese and Other
guages. He was born at Ef
Prussia, about 90 years aga
married Ella Grace Kingsley
Paulo, Brazil. He has been
Of the Imprensa EvdMgelico
lator on the NoUo Msssdo.
Revista Illustrada, Portuges
published in New York,
translated seymour's Aslel
fhe Romanists, and u Az
Hsstory n ~ RSformatten
Portuguese Language b
1kout 81 ~ time eiree "a
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

Our own William L. Wilson, mem
Der of Congress for the Second Dis
trict of West Virginia, is about i3
years ofage, but is already quite gray.
lie graduated at Columbia College,
d. c., in 1860, which school con-
ferred upon him the title Of Ill. d..
two years ago. He is said to be one
of the most modest and unassuming
members of the House, yet one of
the most cultured and eloquent,
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Pllowing are the w ashingtqn
es Of bur Senators and Con
b: Camden, laos H. street,
Kenna, 1886 10th street, N.
Gil 18th street, N. w;
00S IL street, N. W.; Glib
H. street, E. W.; G. P. Sny-
pnal Hotel.
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Benjamin 5. Stuart was killed on
Thanksgiving Day, 1861, at Hilton
Head, South Carolina He was II
West Virginia boy, at least he lived
in this State for some time, attended
school at Morgantown, and married
Miss Emma Hardin, Of Wheeling.
He taught school in Texas before
the war. As an officer in the Union
army he was beginning TO have 4
a good deal OF inference, when he was
killed by the bursting Of a shell.
He is buried at Washington, Pa.
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|ool workers of the courty
Unusually well this winter.
judge from surface indi-
| an .routcrop'' here and
teacher writes us that
g an average attendance
entnm, another 81; an
mother 80, and smother
teachers are evidently
york sand ought yo be
No doubt there are
|qually successful. Let
Them, also.
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Col. Jake kemple recently had
harder time in getting away from an
eastern sheriff than he had in max
ing his famous March from Wash
ington.' Jake had been promising
to pay these Boston hotel men his
board bill, but they found out chat
he was only joking and got the bail
iff after him. 1t is to be hoped that
the eloquent Jacob will quit sowing
his wild oats, now that he has be-
come Benedict, the married man.
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Toombs, Of Georgia,
!, in the seventy fifth
e. He was ELOQUENT,
for many years. had
most promineint fig
b. He was II e first
remained 3urkrecon-
E last. For veral
on ant;ral,, a nna in