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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

and injury by these things, and the
grievance is becoming yearly and
daily more aggravated by the Gov
ernment's neglect and disregard of
our interests.
The U. S. Government makes no
appropriation for any improvement
that is nearly SO deserving, and yet
for this it merely doles out enough
money to maintain a dangerous OBJ
struction in our river, while hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are ap-
propriated to render navigable mere
creeks and rivulets; this important
stream gets but few hundreds of
dollars, which are expended in plac-
ing Instructions in the river on
which to wreck the fortunes of our
hardy and industrious rivermen.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21
To Our Readers.

We cannot too strongly urge upon
our readers the necessity for subscri-
bling for family, weekly newspaper
of the first class-such, for instance,
as the Independent, of New York.
Were we obliged to select one publ
cation for habitual and careful read
ing to the exclusion of all others,
we should choose unhesitatingly the
Independent. 1t is newspaper,
magazine, and review, all in one. 1t
is a religious, literary, an educa-
tional, story, an art, scientific,
an agricultural, financial, and a
political paper combined. 1t has 80
folio pages and % departments. No
matter what a persons religion, pol
itics or profession may be, no matter
what the age, sex, employment or
condition may be, the Independent
will prove help, an instructor, an
educator. Our readers can do no
less than to send a postal for a free
specimen copy, or for thirty cents
the paper will be sent month, cna-
bling one to judge of its merits more
critically. Its yearly subscription
is $500, or two years for $500.
Address, The INDEPENDENT, 25l
Broadway. New York City.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The Louisville Courier publishes
letters from SO Democratic and 81
Republican Congressman, responding
to certain inquiries made by that
journal. The result was as follows:
Would you favor an amendment
to the rules of the House providing
that the general appropriation bills,
except the Legislative, Sundry Civil
and Deficiency bills, shall be pre-
pared and controlled hereafter by
the appropriate standing committees
on the several branches of public
service?
Reply. AZ Democrats unquali-
fiedly favor an amendment: 5 give a
qualified answer: oppose change
ond are non-committal. As Repub-
licans unqualifiedly approve: II
qualify their answer: 9 oppose a
change and % are non-committal.
Do you favor any change in the
laws governing silver coinage and
silver certificates, and if so, what
modification would you regard as
desirable?
Reply. Democrats: favor legis-
lation, 40 oppose it and 6 are non
committal. Republicans: go favor
legislation, Is oppose it and 10 are
non committal
To what extent, in your opinion,
would q revision of the tariff and in
ternal revenue laws be desirable at
the next session?
Reply. Democrats: SO favor agi-
tation; 3 oppose it and 3 are non
committal. Republicans: rs oppose
tariff legislation: favor it and IL
are non committal.
WEST VIRGINIA Congressman.
Wilson and Gibson answer: Snyder
and Golf are silent.
Congressman Wilson. s'First-I
favor some distribution among the
other appropriate standing commit
tees of the immense powers now cen
tralized in the the single Committee
on Appropriations.
"Second-I cannot give a specific
answer to this question. favor the
retention of bi-metallic currency.
"Third-The laws governing the
administration of our custom houses
need revision in the direction of
simplicity and equity. The Tariff
and internal revenue laws need re-
vision: First, to abolish any suplus
revenue; second, under the latter to
abolish taxes on the products of
agriculture in first hands, retaining
other internal taxes Except possibly
on fruit brandy. There should be
reduction of the tariff according to
the promise of the Democratic Chi
cago platform of 1884.
Congressman Gibson. "First-I
am in favor of the change in the
rules suggested.
Second am opposed to any
change in the silver coinage laws.
''Third-I am in favor of liberal
revision of the tariff laws, and am
opposed to any interference with the
internal revenue laws, except as to
tobacco in the leaf
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The Connellsville Courier in
speaking of free navigation on the
Monongahela river says:
There is some justice in the de-
mands of the Monongahela river peo-
pie for free-lockage and the compile
ton of the slackwater to Morgan
town. The general government has
done much more for less deserving
sections; besides it has recognized
the equity of the case already in the
improvements on the upper waters
But the strongest argument in
this behalf is found in the action of
Congress in appropriating money to
slack the Kanawha river By that
act, the West Virginia coal operators
have been given superior advantages
over those of Pennsylvania. They
are not only nearer the market, but
they now have the advantage of free
slackwater.
This is discrimination. 1t is the
duty of Congress to remove this en-
barge on the Monongahela coal trade
and to perfect slackwater navigation
on the river. This section pays many
times as much revenue to the gener-
al government as the Kanawha, and
is entitled to at least as much con-
sideration."
There is reason and justice in this
statement of the Courier, but it does
not make the case as strong as it is.
There was time when our raftsmen
and flat-boatmen could float their
products down the Monongahela riv-
er free of obstruction.
Seveal years ago the U. S. Govern
ment commenced it's Improvement of
this stream, and has placed lock
and dam at Hoard's, about nine
miles below this point, and has left
a space between that dam and the
other dams below which is not navi-
gable except when there is freshet
in the river. No steamers are usu
ally above this improvement to assist
in Juggling or carrying freight; and
the dam at Hoard's serves only to
destroy the natural current Of the
river, and to break our RATS and
fat boats.
Our river men have suffered the
loss of thousands of dollars by rea.
son of this supposed improvement by
the Government. And our immensely
valuable resources are, by reason Of
these distractions, and the excessive
tolls assessed by the Navigation
Company below, left undeveloped
The people of the upper Mononga
hela have suffered an irrcparable loss
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21
What Going West Means.

The following item from the Balti-
more Sun may tend to throw
"damper" upon the minds of those
who contemplate going West:
"Have any of our country friends,
asks the Sun, ever thought what wes-
tern land at dollar and quarter
means? 1t means wild land, remote
from transportation, much more from
market, often and chiefly now in
the open prairie, and to great ex-
tent that which is now remaining is
without wood or water. 1t means
the hiring of strong teams to break
the prairie sod, the cost of fencing to
be drawn from long distances, the
cost of house and shelter for cattle,
of digging and lining well for water,
bad roads, schools and churches wide
ly apart, and in some States, or parts
of States, the terror of billiards. and
cyclones, and in others the terrors of
swarms of grasshoppers. Where there
are settled communities, or where the
land is in proximity to lir4e of rail
road, the price per acre ranges from
two and half to ten, or fifteen. or
twenty dollars, while the value of the
product of that land is dependent on
the rates at which the railroads will
take it to market. To those remote
from railroad the long haul to
depot ON the line is to be considered,
and then follows, for them and all
other northwestern farms, the cost of
transportation, first to st. Louis or
Chicago, and next to the seaboard,
where the ultimate price is regulated
by domestic and foreign demand"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

This is not the season of the year
when it is usual to complain of the
sanitary condition of the town.
1t is our custom to wait till our
olfactories are offended by nauseous
odors, before we begin to complain
or even to observe the unhealthy CON
ditions about us.
Nevertheless, this is the season
when the basis is laid for offensive
odors, sickness and death in the
Spring. 1t is the season when, very
often, the poison is taken into the
system which develops into disease
during the facilitating weather of
the Spring.
1t is just as much against public
policy to permit nuisance to be
established now, as it will be against
public policy to allow that nuisance
to remain when the warm sun has
made it odious, in the spring time.
If,in the winter season, these disease
breeding deposits were hunted out
and eradicated, or interdicted before
they are allowed to accumulate, the
evil results which never fail to man
ifest themselves in the spring would
be avoided, together with much I'M
necessary expense to the town.
The Town Council is the tribunal
invested with the authority to pro-
hibit the establishment of these
nuisances, and charged with the
responsibility of looking after the
health of the town. 1t appoints its
Committee of Health to reconnoiter
occasionally and report upon the
sanitary condition.
4 But there is degree of squeam-
ishness manifested in these matters
that is little less than official cow
ardice and neglect. Nuisances are
deliberately set up where they will
not only annoy but jeopordize the
health of families in the immediate
neighborhood; the Health Committee
does not hesitate to say so; the prop
erty owners complain; yet it is next
to impossible to obtain any relief
from the nuisance until it becomes
SO loud or so deadly in it's effects as
to horrify the community. Then
when the damage is done-when the
victims are Frustrated with disease
or have been carried to the cemetery
an attempt is made to remove the
cause
There are at this very time being
established in numerous localities
through the town an unlimited mum
Der of hog-pens which already 'smell
to heaven" Some of these pens
drain into neighboring wells. Others
diffuse stencil into neighborine
houses that is almost intolerable
They are all deadly and inexcusablt
nuisances. But they are only sam
pies of other nuisances growing W
through the town.
! The question is, how loud shall {
nuisance become before it attracts
the attention of the town authorities
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Louis Riel, leader of the Half
Breed and French Canadian rebellion,
was hanged on Monday, at s:23
o'clock, at Regina, for high treason
against the Queen of Great Britain.
His case was famous one and at
tracted much attention everywhere.
One of the expert physicians APP
pointed to examine him pronounced
him insane, but that was not the
prevailing opinion. His execution
has produced general uprising in
the French quarters of British
America.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21
Railroad Racket.

Our railroad is coming.
"And so is Christmasr' we hear
some one exclaim.
Hush up, you grumblers!
Who ever before heard of a rail
road within ten miles of Morgan
town?
Christmas may, indeed, beat the
railroad to town.
But, hush up,
Go read the history of the past
one hundred years of your town.
Search the archives. Peruse Wiley's
history. Interview the old residents.
Re-read the proceedings of our late
centennial celebration.
Do all this, and then say if you
have "heard tell'' of railroad within
ten miles of Morgantown,
If not, hush up,
Stop your grumbling!
1t is in harmony with the eternal
order of things that railroad point
ing to Morgantown should come
slow.
1t is coming slow.
It's nearly as slow as the seventeen
year-locusts.
It's slower than Kama Bright's old
leather spring coach.
1t has just about the speed of the
seven-year-itch.
But it's coming.
And it's only ten miles away.
Hush up
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

To the Creditors Of HTltidma L. donucay,
deceased.
In pursuance Of a decree Of the Circuit
Court Of the county of Monongalis, made
in the cause OF John Sanders administrator
of William l. Conway. deceased. against
Mary Conway and others, therein pending,
to subject the real estate OF the said Con-
way to the payment Of his debts, you are
required to present your claims against his
estate for adjudication to Marshall NJ. Dent
commissioner, at his office in the said
county. on or before the 18th of December.
1885.
Witness Richard E. Fast clerk OF said
court. this 10th day of Nov. 1885.
r. E. FAsT.
Jos. MoRELAND, Clerk.
Attorney
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Once more the country has passed
through the throes of an exciting
election. True it has not shaken
the country to its centre as Presi-
Dental election does, but it has
nevertheless aroused much bitter
feeling. These elections, and per-
haps somewhat of this bitter feeling,
are necessary, but now that the bat
tie is over, in the words of Gen.
Grant, ''Let us have peace" The
victorious Democrats can afford to
be generous and we should not for
get that with us rest the response
bilities as well as the glories and
the spoils of government The United
States was not made for the two
political parties but the political
parties were made for the United
States. The improvement in bust
ness is slow but it is sure and steady.
1t is felt in the large cities long be-
fore it reaches the country and the
small towns. "God reigns and the
Government at Washington still
lives" in spite of broad-handed as
sertions to the contrary.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Women are everywhere using and
recommending Parker's Tonic be-
cause they have learned from exper-
fence that it speedily overcomes des-
pondency, indigestion, pain or weak
ness in the back or kidneys, and
other troubles peculiar to the sex.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

We ought to arrange for an appro-
pirate celebration about January 1st
upon the opening of the railroad.
That event, in the judgment of many,
will be of greater Importance to us
than anything that has yet occurred
in our history.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

From the Albuquerque IN. M Democrat
1t is related that few days since
a minister up the road announced in
his sermon that there is better
land than this beyond the skies,
and after the service Steve Dorsey
asked him if he knew of any desir-
able unclaimed government land up
there.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The Washington Post announces
that Senator Malone intends to leave
Virginia. A western exchange says
he is. to locate permanently in the
Red River Valley. The general inn
preston is that his permanent loca-
ton is at the head of Salt River
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

New York republicans are trying
to straighten up their battered
yisages, and they declare something
must be DONE or in the language of
Mr.. Arkell 1.-The republican party is
a dead rat in the pit" For Mr..
ArkelPs benefit it might be said
that something has already been
done" and that's what killed the rat
in the pit.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

One great and glorious thought
Comes to us DER and DER,
The railroads nearer here to-day
Than it's ever been before.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Ohio will no longer be called a
political straw; it has changed its
time for holding elections from Oc-
tober to November.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Every country seems to be affiict-
ed just now with it's peculiar misfor-
tune or curse England, Russia,
China, France and Burmah are full
of wars and rumors of wars; Canada
is being devastated by the small
pox and in the United States the
Forty-Ninth Congress is about to
break loose upon us. We envy the
Canadians.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

We state it as an abstract princi-
pie that some newspapers let loose
their regular fall crop of chickens,no
matter how the elections 90.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The press of the State has been
full Of complimentary notices of
Morgantown's centennial celebration.
Here is our". We hope to be
able to return the favor.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Friends of higher education
throughout the State ought to work
up a boom for the University, now,
in view of the fact that the great OBJ
jection-'no railroad" will soon be
wiped out forever.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

To new Subscribers, cash in ad-
vance, and old ones, too, who pay up
all arrearages and one year in adj
vance, we will send the New DoMIN-
ION from this date to january LIST,
1887.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The people around on the seats
may want some of the offices to 90,
but the performers are not shouting
themselves hoarse for any such
economic measure.-Itmes
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The various Gubernatorial booms
Of the country have become over ripe
and dropped from the stem.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

New York has her long idex-fin-
ger pointed towards man called
Cleveland for the campaign of 'SS.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

1t is perhaps well to remember
that the question of co-education at
the University is not dead but only
sleeping; sleeping fevered and fit
full sleep, ready to arise at any mo-
ment.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The turkeys are all mugwumps
and object to the spoils system.
But the rascals must go.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

AS will be seen in our University
correspondence, Hon. w. S. Hen
shaw, Of Martinsburg, has offered a
gold medal to that member of the
Parthenon and Columbian literary
societies respectively who shall de-
liver the best original grafton before
a committee, of which the President
of the University is to be chairman.
Here is an opportunity for the
best orator in each society to receive
medal. The intelligent liberality
of Mr.. Henshaw cannot be too high
ly commended and is worthy of i'm
itation in some similar line by other
West Virginians. We shall watch
with interest the men who receive
the Henshaw medals.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Get yourselves in shape for the
grand railroad opening.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21
ADJOURNED COMMISSIONERS
SALE.

l will offer for sale at the front door of
the Court House on Monday the
It'll DAY OF DECEMBER 1885,
The lot, on which ale two frame dwelling
houses, situate on the corner of Front and
Walnut streets in Morgantown, W. Va.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-fifth cash and the
balance in two equal annual payments.
GEO. W. LAISHLEY,
Special Commissioner.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

The boundary line between Poca-
hontas and Greenbrier counties has
long been matter of dispute, and
last week the line was run by COM
missioners of the two counties and
established. The settlement gives
to Pocahontas county about $4,000
acres of land and score of families
heretofore considered as within
Graenhriar
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-28
How Washington Bellies Ride

Chicago Tribune
The young ladies of the Domingue0
family are not only good tennis play
ers, but fine riders, and they and Miss
Margaret Blaine scour the country on
their well-bred chestnuts with staid
groom in attendance. Miss Blaine is,
a fearless horsewoman, and never
looks so we'll as in the saddle. She
has remarkably fine figure, and her
habit, hat, gloves and equipments, are
the admiration and despair of her girl
friends. Our environs abound in mag
nificent roads, and the bridle-paths
are as wild and primitive as if the Cap
ital was unbuilt and Congress non est
A half an hours sharp trot will bring
one into the heart of solitude where
in the city becomes as the figment of
dream, and Nature and the birds, rab-
bits and foxes have it all to them
selves. This is particularly the case
about the neighborhood of Cabin John
and Tenallytown, but there is hardly
place in which the great raking
chestnut, the firm figure and flashing
gray eyes of Miss Blaine are not a fa-
miliar sight.
Our bellies, in the matter of riding,
rush things very much rAnglaise-
They wear habits that come barely to.
their heels, patent feathers with straps,
pot hats, and in lieu of whips general
Iy carry hunting-crops. The horses
are also rugged after the insular pat
tern. with serviceable names and en-
tirely impracticable -tails-tails whose
stub-cut keeps them. well out of the
mud, but makes the observer shuddeE
for the season when gnats and horse
tles, midges, mosquitoes, and all the
other plaques of Egypt shall swarm
and feast on those, unhappy equineS-
Clipping in winter and cropping in
summer are the ''cut and come again"
that make the S. P. C. A. a reasona4
BILE society and a, wholesome thought.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-28
The BrOnchO.

A broncho is a horse. He has four
legs like the saw horse, but is decided
| ly more skittish. The broncho is OF
gentle department and modest mien,
but there isn't'a real safe place about
him. There is nothing mean about
the broncho, though; he is perfectly
reasonable and acts on principle. All
he asks is to be let alone, but he does
ask this, and even insists on 1t. He is
firm in this matter and no kind OF
argument can shake his determlna-
tion. There is broncho that lives
out some miles from this city. We
know him right well. One day man
roped him and tried to put saddle
on him. The broncho looked sadly at
him, shook his head, and. begged the
fellow, as plain as could be, to go
away and not try to interfere with a
broncho who was simply engaged in
the pursuit of his own happiness, but
the man came on with the saddle, and
continued to aggress. Then the
broncho reached out with his right
hind foot and eXpostulated with him
so that he died. When thoroughly
aroused, the proncho is quite fatal,
and if you can get close enough to
him to examine his cranial structure,
you will find cavity just above the
eye, where the bump of remorse
should be. The broncho is what the
cowboys call '.high strung" Ii you
want to know just how high he is
strung. climb up on his apex. We
rode broncho once. We didn't trav-
ell far. but the ride was mighty exhila-
rating while it lasted. We got on
Iarrio1- h,1t
we didn't put on any necessary style
evinced considerable surprise when
we took up our location on his dorsal
fin. He seemed to think a moment,
and then he gathered up his loins and
delivered a volley of heels and hard
ware, straight out from the shoulder.
The recoil was fearful. We saw that
our seat was going to be contested,
and we began to make a motion to
dismount, but the beast had got under
way by this time, so we breathed ST.
lent hymn and tightened our grip. He
now went Oft into Il spasm of tall, still
legged bucks. He pitched us SO high
that every time we started down we
would meet him coming up on another
trip. Finally he gave us one grand,
farewell boost, and we Glove the tIrma-
ment and split up through the hushed
etheral until our toes ached from the
lowness of the temperature, and we
could distinctly hear the music of the
spheres. Then we came down and
fell, in little heap, about one hum
dred yards from the starting point.
A kind Samaritan gathered up our re-
mains in q cigar-boX and carried us to
the hospital. AS they looked pityingly
at us. the attending surgeons marvel
ed as to the nature of our mishap.
One said it was a cyclone, another
that it was a railroad smash-up, but
we thought of the calico-hided pony
that was grazing peacefully in the
dewey mead, and held our peace
SGnte F'e Democrat