The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-06
MERE AND THERE.



Tracts of land aggregating $685.
500 acres in Webster county are adj
vertised for sale to salty Judgment
of $4,3l1.46.
One hundred and forty seven in
dictments were found at the recent
term of Wood county circuit court
against saloon keepers.
Webster county boasts of more
men upwards of six feet in height
than any other county in the State.
There are several seven-footers in
those parts.
Hon. A. A. Hopkins, of New York,
and Hon. T. r. Carskadon, of Keyser,
will speak at a monster temperance
mass meeting that the people of
Fairmont are arranging to hold next
week.
Major Appleton who is now part
proprietor and manager of the Salt
Sulphur Springs in Monroe county
was the keeper of Alexander III.
Stephens when he was prisoner in
Fort Warren at the close of the war.
An old lady named Pasco, living
in Tyler county, was severely bitten
about the arms, terrible wounds be-
ing made, by dog few days since.
For some time past the dog has been
regarded as dangerous one. Mrs.
Pasco is in serious condition.
The New Dominion Paper Mill
property at Shepherdstown, was sold
at public auction few days ago for
$11, 800, to w. L. Van Alstyne,
price regarded as a very low one.
The mill has been idle for about
year. 1t will be started up early in
the summer.
Two men and two women were ar
rested in Braxton last week on a
charge of butchering neighbors
sheep by retail. During the year
eleven head had been killed and the
evidence was SO strong that three of
them were committed to Jail, one of
the women being released.
On the high mountain plateaus,
at the headwaters of the streams
north of the Great Kanawha cherry
abounds to an extent unknown else
where on this continent. The wood
is worth in European markets $3.50
per 100 cubic feet. 1t grows on lev
els from 5000 to 5000 feet above the
sea.
Becky Williams, colored woman
of Martinsburg, was tried in the U.
S. Court at Parkersburg, the other
day, upon the charge of having taken
out of the postoffice letter contain
ing money intended for another, and
was convicted and sentenced to i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for
thirteen months.
At Webster C. H. the Cleveland
and Hendricks flag that was hoisted
ON the court house during the Pres
idential campaign, still futters to
the breezes, though not so gracefully
as it did when first hoisted. There
is knot tied in the middle of it now
and it is being gradually torn in
strips by the wind.
Another didn' t-know twas loaded
fatal shooting affair occurred at
Parkersburg the other day. Two
boys, one seventeen years old and
the other some years younger, were
fooling with pistol, when it was
discharged in the hands of the latter
and tho hoJI opforaJ thu baaI Of +bo
larger boy, killing him almost in
stantly.
Black spruce only grows ON the
higher levels in this State, and for
girth and height to limb, it is said
to have no equal. While this is the
highest and least desirable of all the
coniferous family, is the best, per-
haps, for such work as ship and
bridge building, where durability
and strength are required.
The Governor has appointed Ma
jor Ed. Mcdonnell, of Wetzel county,
Regent of State Normal Schools for
the First Congressional district.
S. A. Kopner, who was heretofore
appointed, failed to qualify. J. B.
Sommerville, of Brooke county, has
rendered his resignation as a men,
Der of the Board of Regents of the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute from
the First Senatorial district and was
appointed Regent of the University
for the First Senatorial district,
vice J. M. Birch, departed from the
State.
Bishop Peterkin, in speaking of
the work he has undertaken of estab-
fishing hospital, home and orphan
age in Kanawha valley, says that he
is seriously considering the matter
of location, and thinks that it ought
to be located between Charleston and
Coal Valley, that being more in the
center of the mining district. He
hopes to be in condition to commence
work as soon as satisfactory site
can be secured. The Bishop speaks
hopefully of the success of the pro-
ject, and expresses great faith in be-
ing abundantly assisted in the good
work.
Miss Anna NJ. Archer, who was
recently charged with burning
shool house on Worthington creek,
in Wood county, has been released,
the grandjury failing to find an in
dictment. The case was an inter
esting one. The school was taught
by young lady who had fascinated
an admirer of Miss Archer. Miss
Archer made numerous threats, and
was before the United States Court
here at one time charged with send
ing threatening letters through the
mail, but was acquitted. Miss
Archer is refined and attractive
young lady in appearance and the
case excited considerable interest.
We are informed that some parties
in the edge Of Nicholas county have
resorted to quite novel way of
evading the liquor license in Fayette
county. 1t consists of a wire
stretched across the river, with a
raal sf zach end nv which maane a