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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27
Trade with wheeling.

We are glad that we now have an
opportunity of trading with the poo
pie of our own State.
If we mistake not, very intimate
business relation is about to spring
up between Morgantown and Wheel
ing. We will buy our goods at home
and thus, in a certain degree, keep
our money at home.
1t is but natural and reasonable
that we should buy in Wheeling if
we can buy to as good advantage as
elsewhere. 1t is now the nearest
wholesale market we have. Hereto.
fore PittsbHrg has furnished the
bulk of our merchandise. And it
will still be competitor. Pitts
burg has no notion of letting go of
its trade here without a struggle.
Already it has secured rates of
freight by rail around by Wheeling
and Fairmont exactly the same as
from Wheeling. That is, the rail
road company hauls goods from
Pittsburg to Morgantown, distance
Of 200 miles, for exactly the same
rate of charge as it hauls goods from
Wheeling to Morgantown, a distance
of 100 miles.
This will enable Pittsburg to stay
in the market for our trade on equal
terms with Wheeling; and it will be
Of great benefit to us. 1t will enable
us to buy goods cheaper in Wheel
ing than if Pittsburg were not also
open to us; and cheaper in Pitts
burg than we could before Wheeling
was open to us.
But we shall not be surprised to
find Pittsburg obtaining advantages
by water superior to any the rail.
road will grant, and when the river
improvement is finished, that will be
an indueement that our people will
> appreciate; but at the same time We
will hcnceforth have larger trade
with Wheeling than ever before.
One thing is certain: that there
will be more money in merchandise
ing in Morgantown than heretofore
The enormous grinding freight-tax
to which merchants have been sub
jected is one of the things of the
past, and they can now proceed tc
pocket the difference between an ex.
horbitant and II reasonable freight
charge.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27
Marriages.

MICHAEL-STATLER-Feb. 10th al
the residence of VIM. Glasscock or
Indian creek, by the Rev. VIM. N
Stewart, Miss Allan Statler to
Zimri f. Michael.
BERRY-HEss-At the home of the
brides parents, Feb. 2lst, by Rev
w. e. Rymer, Miss Belle Hess
daughter of VIM. Hess, to Samue
M. Berry, all of this county.
MIcHAEL-EDDY-Feb. 18th at the
residence of the brides parents
Miss Lavina j. Eddy to Ellis Mi
chael, both of this county. The Ger
emony was performed by Rev. VIM
n. Stewart.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27
KlNGWooD NOTES.
Some Comments and Compare
sons From the Little Noun
tain Town. ~
o The Editor Of the NEw DoM1S1ox.

10 The Editor of the NEW DOMINION.
KINGwooD, w. Va, Feb. al
shought | would try to add a few
more items to your interesting paper
from this place.
kingwood seems to be somewhat
initiative in good works, public inn
provements, dc Morgantown has
had her great religious revival, and
now Kingwood is having hers, and
both in the main by the Methodists,
at least at the Methodist churches
of the two places. Rev. Owen, the
pastor of the NJ. +. church, is elo-
quent, persuasive and logical. He
has been a member of the West Va
Conference but few years, he hay
ing formerly belonged to the New
York Conference, and was publisher
of various papers, religious and
church. His meeting here has been
held fully five weeks, and the mum
Der of conversions at the present
time amount to about so or 20. AL
though the meetings are held in the
Methodist church, yet they receive
the able assistance of all good PEG
pie of the town.
Another thing of imitation is
Morgantown has her railroad. King
wood has not yet, and is calmly
slumbering at present over her rail
road, during the bad winter weather
but in her slumbers she has pleasant
dreams for the future whether they
mature and prove real or not. W.
hope they shall.
Morgantown has new NJ. p
church, Kingwood has a new Baptist
church largely under course of con
struction. The NJ. E. church at this
place is neatly constructed edific'
costing about $4,000. So is tn,
Presbyterian and the new Baptis
church being constructed.
Rev. Geo. c. McGrew has gone t,
Brooklyn to fill the place lately va
Gated by the able DR. Newman.
Senator Dawson is in eastern cit
les at present, and will attend tn,
International Press Association err
his return.
Editor Kussart is in town at pres
ent, from Collector McGraw's offic
at Grafton. The Editor must hav
plenty of employment in "whistlinI
two tunes at once
Among persons talked of as can
didates for Representative are tire
: of Kingwoed, viz: Junior Brown
Judge Hoke and Senator Dawson
; Mr.. Brown, with his eminenet
in his party should he be the nomi
nee would stand good chance fo
election. Mr.. Hoke experienced
race for that seat once before, bu
was defeated by Mr.. Hoge, as
natural consequence in a distric
pretty strongly Democratic. Niue
good could be said of any of the ger
tlemen should they become cand
dates or not, but as all persons tall
ed of for such offices must underg
the risk of being overblown in tn
storm preceding campaign, it
only necessary to say that perhaI
the chances of all aspirants are
little less good than the present il
cumbent, Mr.. Wilson.
County Supt Squires informs N
I he does not expect to be able to Wis
all the schools of the county, OWN
to the great amount of territory
travel over, and the severe sno
storm hindering.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27
Shame! shame /!

There is not road leading out OF
Morgantown on which a man can
travel five miles an hour without risk
Of breaking his own neck and his
horses legs.
There is not road leading out OF
Morgantown over which one horse
can pull an empty vehicle except
- under a great strain and at the risk
of breaking the vehicle or destroying
the harness.
There is not road leading out OF
Morgantown that is not disgrace
to the town and county.
This is not an exaggeration. 1t is
demonstrated fact.
Is anybody interested in the
roads?
1t would seem not.
And yet how many business inter
ests of our town are suffering more
from this cause than any other.
Our merchants are cut off from
the trade of the county which would
naturally come to them but for i'm
passable roads. Hundreds of dol
lars are thus kept out of circula-
ton.
Every man who has anything to
sell or wants to buy is put to a dis,
advantage. Business between the
inhabitants of the county and their
county seat is practically suspended
for six months.
This may be a very small affair,
since we have got used to it, but
most towns would regard is as ca
lamity.
Look at other interests besides
those of buying and selling. Our
liverymen are compelled to stable
their stock at great cost with
scarcely demand. Nobody desires
to drive over our roads, and the own
ers of horses cannot afford to have
their horses go over the roads. Their
business is practically broken up for
six months of the year.
The owners of our neighboring
coal mines cannot get their coal to
market except at great risk and
cost, and their business threatens to
leave them for this reason.
We might follow the evil results
of this thing into every house and
place of business in our community,
but it is hardly necessary.
The one question is, what are we
going to do about it?
Does anybody say that this town
and county can't afford to macada-
mize the main roads to and from the
county seat?
If there are any number of men
who entertain that opinion let them
stand up and be counted.
The one thing this town and
county cannot afford to do is to al.
low its public roads to be in an i'm
passable condition for six months in
the year.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

The lynching of Joe Burns at
Martinsburg last Friday night will
certainly be condemned by all law
abiding citizens. He would GER
tainly have been hanged by due pro,
cess of law if the law had been given
chance at him. 1t will take Berke-
ley county long while to wipe this
stain from her record. Now what
will she do with the lynchers? Will
they be lynched, too?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27
THE NEW NAIL ROUTE.
A Misconception of the Ar.
ranxement.

To the Editor Of the NEw Duxasfos.
ARsETTsvfLbE, W. VA, Feb. o.
Did the accommodating postoffice
clerk at your town take into con-
sideration the following facts when
sending the petition on for the
change of the mail route from the
"West to the East side?"
If Arnettsville and Georgetown be
supplied from Opekiska, as has been
suggested, then as the train arrives
at Opekiska at 3:43 we will allow
one hour and quarter (which is not
an unreasonable time) for making
up the mail, ferrying the river, and
reaching Arnettsville, and il would
be 5 o'clock P. NJ. by the time George
town is reached; nearly six, perhaps,
too late for many Of the patrons to
get their mail that day.
Say Laurel Point is supplied from
Little Falls-train time, 4:22. Mail
could not be ferried and reach that
office (some 6 or 7 miles before 6 to
$50 P. NJ. And if it be supplied
from Morgantown 1.-THE nearest point
and best road) it could not usually
reach Laurel Point before 7 p. NJ.
Please all to mind the fact that
the people of Grant district pay tax
and they like to read as well as other
people, and then don't ask to take
away our mail facilities. The river
has sometimes prevented us getting
the mail even on the West side route
and if we are required to be supplied
from the East side it would certain.
ly very materially impair our chance
of getting it at all.
If the petition had only asked the
mail for Morgantown changed We
would not complain, but the whole
route is what they have no right tc
ask. After all does not the hack
usually get to Morgantown before
500, so what is gained by destroy
ing our facilities.
Will it be any cheaper to establish
routes to supply Rivesyille, Arnetts
vile, Georgetown and Laurel Poin
than by the present route, which
gives us excellent facilities and at ,
time of day that makes the mail ac
cessible to our people?
If the petition prayed as statet
| 1.-THE change of our route to the Eas
side) we hope your people, on rehec
ton, will see the injustice being don,
to us and at once move to right til,
wrong. Four hundred voters anC
taxpayers are not an element to vir
tually be left out in the cold in thi
enlightened age. Justice is all w
ask and we will be satisfied will
nothing less. ~
The above article was written b.
one of the most sensible citizens o
the West side of the river, and n
doubt expresses the feelings of tina
part of the county on the subject il
hand, if they all interpret the peti
ton as our correspondent has done
But the object of the petition is no
to modest in any way the presen
system of mail service on the Yves
side of the river, bat simply to hay
Uncle Sam arrange for the f., nj.
?. Railroad to carry Morgantown'
mail to and from Fairmont. Not
single man who signed that petitio
had any thought of disturbing Al
nettsville's or Georgetown's or Lau
rel Points mail facilities, and the
will not be disturbed. "Changin
the mail route" means, simply
changing the route for Morgantown'
mail.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

Candidates for Congress from this
district are multiplying. The news
papers in nearly every county have
from one to half dozen, all of
whom would make excellent repre-
sentativcs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

Nevada pays the highest salaries
for teachers: $140.50 for men and
$96.0l for women; and South Caro-
lima pays the lowest for men, $26.92,
and Maine the lowest for women,
1923 West Virginia occupies the
golden mean.-Register
'Mean" is good, but there isn't
much gold about it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

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Flat.
What's the matterS

What's the matterS
Have we no sands
Have we lost our spirit of jubil-
ations
Are we fat?
A few months ago everybody stood
on his respective head and flourished
his disrespective feet IN the air, and
''hollered," forsooth, that we had
reached our one hundreth ami
versary.
But
When the greatest event that has
occurred within those one hundred
years comes to pass
When we get out of the wilder
ness
When we get sight of the white
settlements for the first time
When our feet were pulled out
of ten inches of yellow clay mud
When we have had our hair cut
and put on clean shirt and shaken
hands with civilization
In short, when the last rail is laid
and the last spike driven which lets
in the daylight of the world and
drives out the darkness of one hun
dred years of isolation
Not note was heard.
Not bugle blast
Not man ''holleredm
Not an oyster Clipped.
Not a turkey gobbled.
But each man looked supinely
down his respective nose and went
his way as if it was matter of
course.
What's the matter?
Are VIC fiat?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

The owners of coal mines in this
locality have a problem to solve.
1t is one of the many business
problems which the railroad has
brought. 1t is one of the calls for a
general readjustment to the new
order of things 1t is part of the
business revolution for which every
local interest must ''look a leetle
out"
This is the situation: The rail
road can bring us coal from the
mines at Fairmont-in fact is al
ready bringing tat cost, de-
livered in the coal house, not exceed
ing that for which it is delivered
from our own mines. 1t is of quail
ity fully equal to our best coal, and
by many, will be preferred, by rea-
son of it's being harder and clean
er coal.
Now, during the summer season
the haul from our mines on the hill,
which have heretofore furnished all
our coal, is not difficult; but during
the winter and spring seasons the
road is next to impossible 1t is
worth more than the coal to haul it.
No man who values his team very
much will attempt to haul load OF
coal that road. The owners OF
these mines have never moved peg
toward improving the road. They
have dumped the coal out at their
mines for those who want it and will
pay for it, and let them consider
how they will get it away, knowing
that they must take it because there
is no other place to get it.
The boot is now on the other
foot.
These mines on the hill will have
to provide better road to their coal
or close up bushes. In other words
they will either have to put their
hands in their pockets and macada-
mize that road or prevail upon the
county to do it.
This is one of the necessities of
the situation and our coal men
might as well look the 'critter full
in the face"
Even with good macadam road
to the mines on the hill, they will
find their coal product greal deal
more of drug in the market than
ever before. There will be mines
opened on the line of the road, five,
eight or ten miles from town, which
can be delivered in town by the rail
road cheaper than coal can be hauled
from the hill.
In fact, we regard the business of
the mines on the hill as in very
precarious condition. The owners
of those miners are likely to lose
their trade entirely unless they are
active and smart; and they are GER
tain to lose it unless they secure bet
ter facilities for delivering their
coal.
We would be sorry to see these
mines abandoned, but we are not at
all sorry for the circumstances which
will compel the making of respect
able road to them. That road is a
shame and disgrace to everybody
who has any responsibility for it.
1t is only righteous revolution
which does away with the necessity
for using it.
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The w. Va. d Pa, railroad com
pany has had one man at work all
winter. The force will be doubled
in the spring.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

Mr.. Cleveland seems to have
enough backbone to carry the entire
Senate
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

The Senate has very little of the
confidence of the American people.
1t is the citadel of corporate and
jobbing power. Its constant aim is
to arrogate powers belonging to
other departments of the Govern
ment. 1t now wants to share with
the President the power of removal
claiming rights denied to it since
the first years of the Republic, and
never exercised except under the
laws invented to harass Andrew
johnson. And these laws were re-
pealed as soon as Grant became
President. Certain defeat awaits
the Senate in the contest it has in.
vited. Cleveland holds the fort
Ptttsburg Post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

About two thirds of the available
candidates for the State Legisla-
turc are candidates for notoriety
only.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

Hon. j. B. Sommerville, of Wells
burg, has been appointed Regent
of the State University from the
First Senatorial District, to fill the
vacancy caused by the departure
of Prof. j. M. Birch. Gov. Wilson
is to be congratulated ON his selec-
ton. Mr.. Sommerville is in every
way fitted for the position. He is a
man who has always shown great in.
terest in the school affairs of the
State, and we know whereof We
speak when we say that he will
prove a useful man in the position to
which Governor Wilson has called
him.-School journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

The entire State ought to join
with us in rejoicing that there is
at last a railroad to the University.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

Up to late last night no Mug
wump Congressman had refused to
draw his salary regularly.
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