The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-23

some Prophetic Glimpses and
Guesses.

| No man knoweth what day or
a decade may bring forth, but he
has the glorious privilege of guess
ling. We cannot like the Weird
Sisters in Macbeth, "look into the
seeds of time, and say which grain
will grow and which will not" but
we have weakness for trying very
hard to do so. In reading the fol-
lowing items remember that we have
never been Amounted with the oil of
prophecy.
Within or during the next five
years Slackwater navigation will be
completed to Morgantewn and the
river will be made free.
Co-education will be established
at the West Virginia University.
The Baptists of Morgantown will
erect fine church on Main street.
At least two new and large man
ufacturing industries will be estab.
lished here.
The streets and avenues of the
north end addition will be opened
up.
Water-works will be established
in Morgantown (maybe).
A vast amount of political ambi-
ton will be crushed to the earth
Several of our 'bonnie lassies'
will cease to be lassies but will still
be bonnie.
A better feeling will be establish
ed between the county and the
town.
Farmers will have better markets
for their various products.
The villages along the line of the
new railroad will double their pres
ent size.
The question of new court house
for Monongalia county will be agi-
tated lively and often.
The skating rink will gather up
its skirts and with mournful tread
retire to private life.
The F., NJ. Il P. will be finished to
Morgantown (probably).
The whole town will go off some
night in a magnificent oriental py-
rotechnic display, unless some kind
of a fire-serviee is established.
George Washington's body serv-
ant and the oldest man in the
United States will die several times.
Five or six new caves, each of
them more expansive and more mag
nificent than the Mammoth cave,
will be discovered in Cheat Noun
tain.
The man who started the Cheat
river h-its-bottom-
story will be outlawed, hunted down
and shot.
The old filthy covered bridge
across Decker's creek will be fired
into ashes or into the creek.
And there'll not be much weeping
and wailing and crashing of teeth
on account of it.
Our very highly esteemed ccntem-
pararies, the Wetzel Democrat and
the Wetzel Messenger, will grow
tired of illustrating the Kilkenny cat
story and take rest
Solicitors enquirers will at last
find out who struck Billy Patter-
son.
A new (?) railroad depot will be
built at Fairmont.
The colored people of Morgantown
will have n new school house.
The people of West Virginia will
find out that the best place to edu-
cate West Virginia boys is at their
own University.
Gold, silver and precious stones
will be discovered in about 80 more
counties of the State, and owners of
real estate in these counties will be
come wild, just as they have fire.
quently aforetime.
A daily newspaper will be estab-
lished at Clarksburg and one at
Martinsburg.
Monongalia county will have more
than four months free school during
the year.
The Methodist Episcopal College
will be built.
A half-dozen towns in the State
will be using natural gas that are
not using it now.
A summer hotel will be built on
the banks of the classic Cheat.
Durbannah will be annexed to
Morgantown.
A newspaper will be established
in Palatine, Marion county.
A new railroad will be projected
southwark through the State, and
will finally be constructed.
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