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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

DR.. Farrand, of Charleston, reach
ed the one hundredth mile-post Of
his life's journey on Monday of last
week. Notwithstanding his great
age he is said to be able to travel
about the city and to read the finest
print without glasses. He is great
lover of newspapers and magazines,
which he reads with great interest.
He is a native of Pennsylvania, and
was at one time prominent physi-
clan of Philadelphia and contempor-
airy with the celebrated DR.. Bush, in
full practice. His name and fame
are said to have often occurred in
old medical works. He has but one
surviving child, with whom he now
lives. Notwithstanding he is feeble
in health he bids fair to live a num-
Der of years yet.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

I send you the report of the
that have visited this week
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

Morgantown has a new railroad,
new postoffice building, and now
her people want new town hall.
The staid old town is becoming
'frisky" as age advances upon her
Waynesburg Republican.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

Morgantown, the seat of learning
for West Virginia, is at last in rail
road communication with the outside
world, the road connecting it with
the B. & O. R. r., at point near
Fairmont, having been just finished.
1t is cause of great rejoicing
amongst the good people of that ven
cradle town.-Huntington CONNER
cidl
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13
JULIAN E. FLEMING,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.

The circulation of the NEW DOMINION 10
larger now than at any time since II was
estab ished, and, as an advertising medium,
y can not DO e1celled.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

The colored people of Lexington,
Va, are aiding in raising funds for
the Stonewall jackson monument
Gen. Jackson organized Presbyter
ian Sunday School among the color
ed people there twenty-five or more
years ago, and then the boys and
girls of the school are now the men
and women who are leading in the
matter.-Spirit Of Jefferson.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

1t is an open secret that Congress
man Golf is doing more than any
other man to defeat the confirmation
of Collector McGraw. This has an
especially bad odor and color in the
light of the following letters which
have just been published:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
March 18th, 1885.
My DEAR SIR:-I have known Mr..
John L. McGraw, of Grafton, w.
Va, from his early boyhood and
take pleasure in saying to you that
he is a gentleman of ability, educa-
ton and high character. Should
there he change in the office of In
ternal Revenue Collector in West
West Virginia, ! am sure you could
serve neither your party, your friends
nor your country better than by ap
pointing McGraw to that position.
Most truly,
n. Corr. JR.
His Erceltency, the Pres ident.
Endorsed.
| have known Mr.. McGraw very
intimately since he was boy.
most cheerfully and heartily concur
in all that Gen. Golf has said in tn,
within. He is good and affection
ate son, a good brother, good citi
zen, a good neighbor, a good lawyer
and / am quite sure will make
good and efficient officer
Very respectfully,
john w. MASON,
Mem. Rep. Nat. Ex-Com. for w. Va
GRAFTON, W. va, March I'M, 1881
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

trade. In Otner words Iney VIII not
purchase of him. They would rath-
er have him leave the town. This
seems to us to be very narrow and
short-sighted policy. 1t Injuries the
town, and whatever Injuries the town
Injuries every merchant and business
man in the town. Boycotting don't
pay.
The Drunken Lafayette College
students who thought it was fun to
smash the doors and windows of an
unpopular students room are finding,
now that the whiskey has got out of
their heads, that the performance is
likely to have a result that will be
anything but funny. To be expelled
and sent home in disgrace, which is
likely to be the fate of several, at
least, of the active participants in
the disgraceful affair, would be an
ending to the performance that
would be far from pleasant to young
men of character and brains. Per-
haps, however, the rowdies who took
the lead in the affair have neither.
II this is the case the college will be
well rid of a lot of fellows whom
nothing but fools could be made if
they remained students till the crack
of doom.-Zimes.
The Wheeling Register, comment
ing on the New DoMINIoN's state
ment that the B. q O. carries freight
from Pittsburg to Morgantown for
exactly the same that it charges to
carry freight from Wheeling to Nor
gantown, says;
If this is true of the B. 81 0. road,
it may in one sense be well for
Morgantown, but it will be another
good example of the injustice of dis
elimination in railroad rates. When
railroads make such determinations
what should be great advantages
are often made to count for nothing
and the benefits that should accrue
to certain districts are given to 9th
ers. 1t is in the power of railroads
to blot out the trade of town or O.
manufacturing and mining districts
West Virginia has not been favor
ed with many railroads, but she ha'
had as much discrimination in rate
as she wants. Trade and industries
that should have sprung up ant
flourished in our State have beel
given to Maryland, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania and other States. Merchan
disc has been carried from Baltimor
to Cincinnati and other western
towns at the same rates that it ha
been carried from West Virgini
towns 200 miles farther west, to tn
same points. Also Cincinnati AM
other western cities have shippe'
their products to eastern cities cheap
er than West Virginia could shi
them. So West Virginia has re
manned in the woods and sorrowfull
watched her more fortunate sister
leaving her far behind in the race c
\ prosperity.
1t is getting to be a pretty mes
when the towns of our own State ca
not profitably trade with one anotf
er. While the people along the lin
of the F., NJ. q P. railroad may II
gard with satisfaction the cheapnes
of rates to points outside of thei
State, yet the shoe that is so easy 0
one side of the foot will pinch tn
other side, and it may at times pine
hard, too. Whether the above repol
is true or not, the subject ought
interest our Chamber of Commerce
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

Sam Jones seems to have struck
his first snag in Chicago on the old,
old question of whether a man should
say his prayers sitting, standing or
kneeling. 1t depends on the condi-
ton of the floor. -Pttsburg Post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

1t is so rare that the House hears
anything above the dead level of
commonplace that when so capable
speaker as Mr.. W. L. Wilson, of
West Virginia, gives wings to his
fancy the House wonders what has
struck it. We are not so slow in
West Virginia, after all Intelligen-
Ger.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

The Wheeling dailies are full of
the strike" conferences that don't
confer, and compromises that don't
compromise, but for the life of us we
can't tell from these paper whether
anybody's to blame or not for these
nine months of trouble between mills
and men.-Freemdn
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

Continued on fourth page.)
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13

In General Grants book twenty
four Smiths are mentioned, smaller
families in proportion, and since the
author did not follow up each Smith
with his given name the indexer has
had time of it. The index will
add greatly to the value of the work
OF the first volume $4,000 copies
have been sold. Still greater things
are expected after the second vol
ume is ready.-Intelligencer
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Nest of "a Tarantula.

A tarantulas nest is owned by citi-
zen of Rome, Ga, who found it while
travelling through Nevada. Its exterior
is earth, and at the first glance it has the
appearance on the outside of potato,
being about four inches long and AN inch
in diameter. The tarantula, which is a
species of spider, makes this nest by
scooping a pit in some dry, uncultivated
soil, and spinning a sort of web around
the inside. The web is very closely spun
and forms coating perhaps an eighth of
an inch in thickness. The entrance to
the pit is protected by round corner or
door, which is fastened to one side by a
hinge or spiderweb. The tarantula sits
near the entrance to his nest watching
for prey, which he carries, when cap
tured, into the pit to be devoured.-Chi-
cago Times.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Proper Position in Sleep.

What is the proper position in sleep?
should the head lie? A healthy man,
who works or exercises regularly, and
has good digestion, can sleep when lying
in any position. The majority of peo-
pie, however, are not healthy, and are
not particular about exercise, or of what
and when they eat. To these, lying on
the back is apt to cause nightmare. The
same result may follow lying too long
on either side. Lying first on the left
side until thoroughly composed, and
then turning upon the right, will usually
be attended with satisfactory results.
AS the currents of electricity within
the body flow in the direction, it is said,
of its lengths, one should lie sleeping on
an east and west or north or south line,
according to his opinion as to the posi-
bility of any benefit resulting from par
alleling the current supposed to be flow
| ing around the earth from east to west,
rather than from having the currents of
| the body at right angles to those of the
earth. If paralleling be preferred it may
be necessary to determine whether the
head should be turned to the east OF
west, whether the earth current should
| flow in the same direction with the cur
rent supposed to flow from the head
toward the extremities, and be opposed
to the return current, or the reverse. -
! Baltimore Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Abraham Lincoln in the Saddle.

l saw him this morning about $50
coming to business, riding on Vermont
avenue, near l. street. He always has
a company of twenty-five or thirty cav
airy. with sabers drawn and held up
right over their shoulders. The party
makes no great show in uniforms or
horses. Mr.. Lincoln, on the saddle, gen
orally rides good sized, easy-going
gray horse, is dressed in plain black,
somewhat rusty and dusty; wears a
black stiff hat, and looks about as ordin-
airy in attire, ETC., as the commonest
man. A lieutenant. with yellow straps,
rides at his left, and following behind,
two by two, come the cavalrymen in
their yellow striped jackets. They are
generally going at a slow trot, as that is
the pace set them by the one they wait
upon. The sabers and accoutrements
clank, and the entirely unornamented
cortege as it trots toward Lafayette
Square arouses no sensation, only some
curious stranger stops and gazes. SEE
very plainly Abraham Lincolns darl
brown face, with the deep cut lines, thu
eyes, etc, always to me with deep la
tent sadness in the expression. We hav,
got so that we always exchange bows
and very cordial ones.-Walt Whitman
Extract from Note Book.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
The Only Pure Italian.

AT Florence and in the vicinity, but
more especially at Siena, it is said that
one hears the best-that is to say, the
only pure-Italan spoken in Italy. 1t is
the veritable language of Dante, char
acterized by long and sonorous words,
which, as they tumble from the mouths
of garcons and chambermaids, astonish
the visitor who has some knowledge of
the native tongue. If he is untaught in
that respect, as is the case with ma
jorty of the visitors, this wonderful
purity of speech, which in France is
only remarked in the valley of the
Loire, near Tours, Saumur and Anglers,
and in England certainly not in London,
is sadly wasted on him. He may prefer
to study the wines which are offered him
at the cafes, such as Chianti Montepul-
ciano, Red Muscat, Alcatico, Dolcepic,
can't and Verdea, or he can have the
sonorous Tuscan poured over him by the
waiter at the same time that he pours
the rich red Chianti down his throat
Italy Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26

An intimate friend and business asso-
ciate of Mr. Edison, in conversation
with reporter of elecs'ical tendencies,
said:
1T would be premature just at present
to make public mention of what is now
being done by Mr.. Edison in the line of
original investigation. There is much
TO be learned yet in the field of electric
ity, both as 10 means of production and
methods OF utilization. So far as the
conversion of steam power into electric
energy is concerned there is little left to
be desired, as our present dynamos give
an efficiency of 95 per cent. out of pos,
sble l00-and when the real is within
per cent of the ideal there is not much
to be gained in that direction. Gould
makers of steam generators and engines
approach anywhere near such perfection
in the construction of apparatus for con
verting heat into power the mechanical
millennium would be at hand. New
York Star.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
MenlH In ENGLAND.

The morning lasts till 2 o'clock, and
lunch is as informal as breakfast. The
men are still in the covers, or if some
have returned they come to table in
their shooting boots, and boast of their
achievements. The meal is a plain din
ner; all the dishes are set on the table
at once, and it is rigid and intolerable
etiquette that nobody shall have nap
kin. The children of the family are
often allowed to be present, and if the
party Is not very large, they sometimes
carve for the guests, that they may
learn betimes the hospitable accomplish
ments of after life. Sometimes gov
ernesses and tutors are seeu at this hour,
the latter often very accomplished and
agreeable peoples but l never knew them
to appear at dinner, as they do in novels
and make love to the young ladies'
Adam Badeau's Letter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN FOLKS"

Typical Housewife of the Old North
State-Family Life.
The North Carolina women folks"
lead very different lives from those in
the New England or middle states. A
recent visitor gives the following account
of the typical housewife in the old
North State, which is of interest: The
old lady and her daughters, with their
own hands, make nearly all the clothes
the family has. There was a time when
the old woman spun the thread and
wove the cloth, and she maintains now
that there is no other thread so good to
darn with as the thread of her own spin
ming. So she keeps her old spinning
wheel for occasional use and for spiritual
comfort and last year she gathered cot
ton from the field, which she followed
with her own fingers on its long journey
from the stalk to the stocking.
The housework and the gardening
are the only employment of the women,
but they seems always to be busy. Once
week they boil the clothes in pot sus-
pended from the tops of three poles,
which are placed in the front yard near
the well. The monotony of wash-day is
often relieved by fishing for the bucket
with the pot hooks. Cooking is very
simple thing, for the frying-pan and the
pot do their whole duty. Indeed, the
frying pan is the origin of all their all
ments, certainly of the old lady's dys-
pepsia, of the children's thin, gristly
faces and the Oldest boys necessity fol
grog. Fried bacon for early breakfast
will postpone the millennium anywhere;
add to that fried sweet potatoes, and an
active outdoor life and perfect atmos-
phere must do their best to keep natur-
ally robust people from groans.
The frying pan is worse enemy OF
man in all this country than whisky or
politics. When all the ground is ysl-
low with mellow apples, and the odor OF
peaches and grapes is blown over every
breakfast-ta table, nobody eats fruit except
"between meals:" and the very chickens
have the pleasure of life taken because
neither boiler nor oven awaits one ol
them, but always the frying pam In the
evening after supper and before early
bedtime the boys sometimes play or
their fiddles, their feet accompanying
the three tunes they know, "The Arkan
saw Traveller" Fishers Hornpipe," anc
1.-The Old North State" while the rest ot
the family hold their hands in silence
and many an evening these fine intelli
gent adults sit the livelong hours hold
ing their hands, saying now and then ;
word, as if by accident, and pretending
to do nothing; yet they are happy. Th'
art of resting has not been so well cult
waited anywhere else. True, the ole
woman does ply her knitting needles
stopping now and then to remark, Will
she rubs snuff, that her old bones fee
"streaks" of rheumatism, but that it i
hard to wear out an old leather string
The girls sometimes have cuttings, ant
there are the parties" of country soci
ety.-Ben: PerIey Poore.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
A PAsSER-BY.

watched her pass with quiet gracss
The sunlight fingers on the spot
To gently kiss her sweet shy face.
wonder il she sees or not
The crippled lad who calls her his,
Whose only glimpse of heav'n she Is.
"My little grill" wonder what
q think sometimes with bitter smile)
any little girl" would say to that'
Perhaps for such little while
She would not mind-it is, you see,
So slight to her, so much to me
But when it rains she never comes;
All me, the long dull weary day
The people hurry to their homes,
When II never get away;
And, as lie and watch them go,
Her own sweet name l whisper low.
If only could touch her hand,
Or hear her speak, or meet her eyes
III once, just once, she would but stand
Near me, and kiss me angel
Life might be dreary as before,
But hard, cold, empty-never more
know place where breezes low
Stir the soft grass and aisy-heads;
That is my heav'n. Some day know
They'll find me room where no one
treads,
Where | can lie, no longer ill,
And dream of her, and love her still
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Settling n Question In Pottery.

"This vase, Professor Alter. Can you
tell me whether it is Sevres or Chelsea
porcelain: I'd very much like to know"
Madame. you can find out by putting
it in the furnace again"
with what result"
"If it stands heat it is probably Sevres;
if it cracks it is unquestionably Chel-
sea-"
"But the beautiful vase may be ruined
1t cost me 800"
madam. ii is worth that much to have
your mind ut rest. "-Philadelphia Call
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26

washington's Headquarters I'm France.
After the surrender of Yorktown and
the departure of the French Washington
established his headquarters at Newbury-
on the Hudson. The house in which he
lived is carefully preserved and shown as
an historical museum.
THERE'S a pleasant story of La Fayette's
atfectionate remembrance of the life
there. Just before his death, which oc-
CURED in 1884, he gave dinner party in
Paris to the American minister and some
Later i'll the evening, when it came time
for supper, the guests were ushered into
a room which was in strange contrast
with the elegance of the apartments they
had been in. The ceiling was low, with
large beams crossing it; there was a
single small, uncurtained window and
several small doors. 1t looked more like
an old-fashioned Dutch kitchen than a
room in French house. = long, rough
table was meagerly set. A dish of meat
stood on 1t, some uncouth-looking pastry,
and wine in decanters and bottles, ready
to be poured out into glasses and camp
mugs.
DO you know where we are nowY'
asked La Fayette as his companions
looked about puzzled and as if in a
dream. "Ah! the seven doors and one
window! and the silver camp goblets!
We are at Washington's headquarters on
the Hudson, fifty years ago." He had
reproduced the room as a surprise to his
friends.-St. Nicholas.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
The Honorable, Self Respecting C curse

The Honorable, Self Respecting curse.
1t is libel upon the American people
to assume that they viii long tolerate a
kind of journalism which makes the
ideal newspaper, not public benefit,
but public nuisance. They will insist
upon it that the newspaper have some
other purpose in the world than to amuse
and entertain the thoughtless and the
vicious: they will insist that the duty of
selecting goes hand in hand with
the duty of collecting the news; and
sooner or later they will make it appear
to even the most undudish of editors
that it is not true that indecency pays"
better than decency, but that in journal
ism, as in every other reputable calling,
the honorable, self-respecting course is
the only one that pays" in the long run.
Joseph III. Bishop in The Forum.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Horseback Riding for Old Men

The Hon. David Dudley Field, now in
his SD year, but looking not older than
80, still rides horseback daily, and is in
perfect health. This exercise, he said
the other day, is the best possible for old
men, because it produces the desired re-
suits with the least exertion.-The Argo
nnnpt
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Growth of Human Hair.

The average thickness of one of the
hairs of the head is about 400th part of
an inch, and its rate of growth about a
line and half per week, or from six to
seven inches year. Surprising man
TO have had fifty years growth at seven
inches year, he would have produced II
crop of the splendid length of about
thirty feet.-Exchange
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Fruit Trees In California.

The total number of fruit trees in
California is estimated at 100000, di-
vided as follows: Apples, 2,700, 600;
peach, 1900, 900; pear, 500, 900; plum and
prune, 100000; cherry, 100000; apricot,
100000; orange, 100000; lime and
lemon, 100000; grape vines in bearing
condition, 10000 acres.-New York
Market Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-26
Playing-Cards in England.

An official return just issued gives
some interesting information about the
manufacture of playing-eards in Eng
land. At present there are nineteen
manufacturers in the United Kingdom,
who pay license of 20 shillings, and
who produced 800, 900 packs last year.
This did not meet the demand of the
English card-player, so half as many
again were imported from Austrian and
American makers. The stamp duty inn
posed on those cards is now fairly i'm
portant source of revenue. Last year it
amounted to nearly $4,000 pounds ster-
ling. Exchange.