The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-04-03
HERE AND THERE.
The Most important Happenings
Throughout the State.


A few days ago Echo, mining
village on New river, in Fayette
county, was the scene of genuine
prize fight. The fight was between
two young miners. John Moore and
Harry Fairburn, and the cause of the
difficulty was dispute in regard to
who should occupy the front of the
bed. They went to their work on
the mountain as usual in the morn
ing, but while going up they decided
to decide their trouble in the most
improved pugilistic way, according
to the Marquis of Queensbury rules.
After reaching church ON the noun
tain they stripped to the waists, sec
onds were chosen from among the
miners and the fight began. The
fighting was pretty even all through,
although Moore was the heavier by
20 pounds. At the end of the tenth
round Fairburn dislocated thumb
and finger and cried, enough. Both
contestants were badly bruised.
Moore has left for parts unknown.
Conductor Geo. H. Bailey, of the
Fifth division, on December 18th
last, dropped bottle in Hughes
River at Cairo, containing a note
requesting anyone finding it to re-
turn it to him at his home in Park
ersburg, together with date and
place of finding. The bottle was
found in the Ohio river, by seven
-year-old boy, near Derby, Ind,
one hundred miles below Louisville,
on the 18th of March, having been
in the water rs days and foated
distance of 600 or 700 miles. Mr..
Bailey also tried the same interest
ing experiment in several different
localities, but so far has not heard
from them.
John Duff, Jacob Mercer and
Thomas Duff, three young fellows of
respectable parentage, were arrested
at st. Mary's Peasants county,
charged with chicken stealing. The
boys made confession and implica-
ted c. c. Davis, an attorney from
Ohio, who was in St Marys at the
time awaiting trial ON an Indictment
for obtaining $500 by false pretenses
from Mr.. Lore. George Hackathorn,
one Nully and a man named Tim
mons, all of whom are well known in
Peasants and Wood counties, are
also implicated. The charge of pet
ty thieving by these parties has as
tonished the neighborhood.
Two years ago little child of J.
c. Dabney, of Point Pleasant, swal-
lowed knife blade Local physi-
clans could not afford her any relief,
and she was taken to Cincinnati
and placed under the care of sur
geons, who, after a long treatment,
gave up the case and her parents re
turned home Two weeks ago she
was taken with pneumonia, accom-
panied with paroxysms from cough
ing. She dislodged the knife blade,
much to the relief of her parents, and
she is now ON the high road to re-
covery One end of the blade was
encysted, while the other was per-
fectly bright.
Mrs. Tallman Hooker, of Hancock
county, was attacked by a vicious
steer in the yard at her home, last
Saturday, and was dangerously hurt.
The animal knocked her down and
butted her with his horns number
of times She would no doubt have
been gored to death on the spot but
for the fact that the steers horns,
instead of projecting out in sharp
points, were turned back in such
shape that it could not gore with
them. Mrs. Hooker is under the
doctors care, and her injuries are
quite serious.
A contribution of $500, intended
for the conscience fund.- inclosed
in letter postmarked Grafton, W.
Va, was received at the. Treasury
Department at Washington, on Wed
nesday. The writer states that he
was in the Commissary Department
of the Union Army during the war.
He returns the money, which he con-
siders belongs to the United States,
because "When l die l want to go
to heaven, and l fear the $500 might
bar me out.
Thomas Coleman, postmaster at
MUSES. Bottom, jackson county, has
been arrested by Deputy Marshal
Mehen, of Parkersburg, on a charge
of violating the United States postal
laws. He was indicted by the Unit
ed States grand jury and nothing is
known of the details of the charge
excepting that it is based on the al
legged illegal opening of a letter. Mr..
Coleman is on old and wealthy citi-
zen.
1t is currently reported that there
are several illicit distilleries in oper-
alton in Slab Fork district, in Ra-
leigh county. There are seven in one
neighborhood, part of them in Ra-
leigh and part in Wyoming and
Mercer counties. There is no doubt
about these distilleries being in ex-
istence and good field of labor is
presented to the revenue officers.
Calvin West, a resident of Roane
county, this State, jumped from the
fast line passenger train at Sewell
recently, and broke his left leg in
two places. He had never travelled
on a train before, and when the
brakeman called "Sewell." West
feared that he would not get off in
time and jumped. He sustained in
ternal injuries that may prove fatal.
A remarkable double death occur
red last Thursday night, at Rowles-
burg. Henry Moore, an employee on
the B.. q o., died at nine o'clock and
his son at eleven. The former died
from a carbuncle on his neck, but
no cause can be assigned for the
young mans death.
Ground was broken on the Ohio
River Railroad Wednesday at Hart
ford City, Mason county. A large
force of hands have been engaged,
and the work will be prosecuted Wig