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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01
Flocks Ravaged by Dogs.


Waynesburg Republican.
Henry Rose, Esq, who resides
about two and one-half miles west of
town, had valuable flock of sheep
attacked by a couple of dogs last
Monday morning and eight of them
badly wounded, four of which he
found it necessary to kill out right
in consequence of the wounds. For
tunately Mr.. r. discovered the dogs
in the midst of their work and
drove them Oh, thereby saving, no
doubt, more serious damage, which
would surely have resulted. He
succeeded in wounding one of the
dogs before they escaped from the
field, but gaining trace of them fol-
lowed them up and soon dispatched
both, finding one at the owner s
house five miles away.
We learn that Messrs. Seth Rob
inson, +. Altman and James Cox,
farmers in the vicinity of Clarks-
vile, this county, had their focks
attacked by dogs last week and all
had more or less sheep killed. Par
ties having sheep-killing dogs should
make short work of them.
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Reedsyille.

REEDsvILLE, April 1.-THE pro
tracted meeting at Mt. Vernon clos
ed last Tuesday with no conversi ons.
The meeting was conducted by Rev.
Mr.. Humphreys.
Miss Annie linn has returned
home from Grafton, where she spent
the winter attending school.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Ashford
linn, a son.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Conley, also, son.
Miss Kate Wheeler is teaching a
subscription school at this place.
We wish her much success.
Miss Lenora linn has gone. to
Grafton to visit her sister, Mrs. C.
M. Brown.
Mrs. II. Hardman was visiting her
many friends and relations at indie
pendence and Newburg last week.
r. G. linn started west few days
since but returned home Saturday.
On Sunday last as Mrs. Calvin
Bircher was driving home from
church the horse took fright and
threw her from the carriage, inflict-
ing an ugly cash on her face. The
three children remained in the car
riage and were not hurt The horse
ran about mile before it was stop
ped. The carriage was badly torn
up
Mrs. Reason linn is no better at
this writing we are sorry to say.
Will give few reasons why there
are so many bachlors:
lst, Some men can not find ladies
able to support them in the style
suited to their tastes.
2nd, There are others who would
marry if they could find anybody to
have them.
3rd, There are still others who
think themselves above a poor girl,
and they can not get rich one.
We hope the Jones Ridge cores
pendent will be satisfied with these
reasons as we know no others why
there are so many old bachelors.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01
The Great Detective in Trouble.

Standard.
The great detective f. NJ. Snyder,
whose strange conduct in Fayette
county was commented on some time
ago, has come to grief at Waynes-
burg, where he was convicted last
week of libel and sending obscene
literature through the mails. Sny-
der had Henry Closer, a wealthy
Greene county farmer, arrested on a
charge of barn burning. Soon after
that Closer received through the
mail some horrible looking valen-
tines, on which was written some
very indecent and vulgar language,
the sender calling Mr.. Closer barn
burner and applying several unmen-
tionable epithets. Closer suspect
ed Snyder as being the author, and
had him arrested. The alleged de-
tective was unable to give bail and
has lain in Jail for three months.
He was tried and convicted last week
and sentenced six months to the
work house. Quoting from an al
ready published "odc:"
"Ah, Francis Marion Snyder,
From thy fate we all may learn,
Never 10 meddle in a business
Not suited to our turn"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01
Serious Illness of Ex-President Arthur.

NEW YORK, April 20.-Ex-P resi-
dent Chester A. Arthur is a very
sick man. 1t may not be beyond
the simple truth to say that his
case is hopeless; certainly it is
not TO say that many of his most
intimate friends never expect to see
him out of his house alive again.
This is startling news, but it cannot
be gainsaid For several weeks the
inner circle of friends, at the earnest
solicitation of the family, have been
reticent regarding the cx- Presidents
condition. The family physician
and the attaches of the house have
been under strict command to de
ceive the public regarding Gen. Ar
thurs health, and they have done so
and continue to do so against the
better Judgment of many friends who
correctly believe that the American
public have a right to know the con
dition of man who has been their
President, and who is one of the
most popular citizens of New
York.
But the time for deception has
passed. Friends have kept the I'M
happy secret rs long as they could
hold it, but they are beginning to
divulge it sab rosa. From three dis
tinct sources, any one of which is
beyond question authentic, the cor
respondent has been informed that
the rose-co lored views of Gen. Ar
thurs condition, which are given
forth to the press, are wholly at va
rance with the facts and that his
condition is extremely preearious.
His most intimate friends and those
of Mr. McElroy have been denied
admission to the house for some
days and have not been told his ex-
act condition. although where it has
been considered safe to divulge the
information it has been denied that
his health is critical and his disease
of a different character from the
statements which have been given
to the press. Gen. Arthur is suffer
ing from Bright's disease and his
most intimate acquaintance say
they never expect TO see him about
again.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01

On Monday morning. April 18th,
the remains of "Jen. "(Hixenbaugh }
Wiser, an INDECENT young woman,
were laid to rest in the old cemetery
at this place. She was about is
years of age. Her death was caused
by consumption, consequent upon
exposure. She was daughter of
"Dordy" Hixenbaugh, an unfortun-
ate man, who took to drink when
very young, and the temptation
proved too strong for resistance, con-
sequently he lived degraded life.
His wife died about a year ago, leav-
ing family of seven children. two
of whom were girls. "Jen." was
married to Tom Wiser, a foreigner,
in 1882, and living with her only
few months, he left her in destitute
circumstances. going to Tennessee.
About six months afterward he sent
for her to come to him. She went,
and the outcome of it was he nearly
starved her TO death, and left her
again with two little children to
take care of. What could she do?
Homeless. friendless, moneyless, dis
tracted and sick, she started home
on foot, and walking for about 500
miles, she arrived here last fall in a
critical condition. Not long after
ward she took pneumonia, which led
to consumption, and after lingering
in the travails of death for long
time, she expired on Saturday,
April 10th, 1886, at her sisters
home, in Troy Town. and was buried
as above stated.-Fayette City corr.
Genius.
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The Forced Issue.

St. Paul Globe
The newspapers are determined to
force the matrimonial issue on Presi-
dent Cleveland, and he is bound to
face it. 1t places him in tighter
box than the Edmunds resolution
did. There is no waiting for an adj
journment of the Senate and then go
on making appointments abou. this
matter. There is no chance to con
ciliate mutinous senators with a
promise of a few postoflices in the
future in this affair 1t is a stand
right up to the rock issue The
President has to jump the broom
stick within the next three months
or it is square back down. The
honor of the administration and the
peace of the nation are involved in
the settlement of this issue. 1t may
be true that Mr. Cleveland has been
taken unawares and is not prepared
for the issue that has been forced
upon him, but he is expected to
meet it like a man. If he is at
loss what to do under the trying cir
cumstances, our advice to him is to
adopt the Andy Jackson style-take
the girl by the arm, lead her to the
altar and have the whole matter set
tied in five minutes. 1t is the only
way to pacify the country. Then
let him fall into the line of Jeffcr-
sonian simplicity by foregoing
bridal tour and go right to house
keeping, just as the fathers and moth
ers of the republic did in their day.
The day after the ceremony let him
be found at his desk working away
in his shirt sleeves, and let Mrs.
Cleveland be seen fitting around the
White house with busting brush and
pan in hand and giving orders to the
hired girl. If this advice is follow
ed, our word for it, the American peo-
pie will keep the White house at the
disposal of Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland as long as they have de-
sire to occupy it.
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A Terrible Crime in Doddridge County.

SALEM, W. Va, April 2l.-News
of a most heartless and barbarous
crime has just reached here from
Robinson's Fork, Doddridge county.
Thomas True and his wife, it seems,
had some family trouble which en-
ragged and embittered True against
his wife to such an extent that he
drove her from the house in the most
brutal manner and swore that he
would kill the man that should keep
her over night. The homeless wo-
man went to the house of Robert
Miller, farmer, not far distant and
begged for shelter. Mr.. Miller took
her in and the woman stayed all
night. The brutal husband hearing
of this went to the field where Miller
was at work, about o'clock, on the
evening of the twentieth, armed with
a shotgun. True deliberately fired
at Miller, placing twenty three slugs
in his breast, killing him instantly.
True fed and is still at large. The
most intense excitement prevailed
after the affair became known, and
the neighbors Immediately formed
posse and scattered in search of the
heartless murderer If he is caught
there is not the least doubt that the
indignant people will lynch him.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01
VIM. l. PrOtzman'S Announce
ment.

VIM. |. Protzman has moved his
office to the second floor of the Odd
Fellows building, and here is where
you can get the best-the White; or
any other kind of sewing machine;
the best oil; the best needles, the
best second hand sewing machines,
worth double the money asked for
them; prices from so cents to % dol
lars.
Also the best and cheapest or
gans in the market, violins, guitars,
accordeons, etc, etc. Any class of
sheet music furnished to order on as
good terms as can be given anywhere
Will sell all goods on long or short
time, or for cash as the customer
may prefer. 1t is no use to go to
the city to look for better goods or
better terms. w. l. Protzman can
and will do as well by you as any
one can. For further particulars
call on or address VIM. l. Protzman,
or his son and agent, H. w. Protz
man, Morgantown.
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A Fiendish Murder in Richie County

PENNsBoRo, W. VA, April 2l.-
Information reached here this even
ing of foul and cold blooded muir
der that was committed near Auburn,
in this county, this morning. The
victim being an old lady about sixty
years of age and the murderer an
unknown man who escaped and has
not yet been captured.
The story as told here is that
while Mrs. Hardesty, who is widow,
and her daughter were alone in their
house this morning, stranger walk
ed into the room. The daughter
asked him what he wanted, but he
made no reply. Walking to the fire
place, he seized the shovel and
struck the old lady blow on the
head, which knocked her down. He
then struck her several more blows,
which mashed her head almost into
a jelly, and then deliberately left the
house. No reason has been assigned
for the horrible deed. The country
for miles around Is in a state of
great excitement, and diligent search
is being made for the murderer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01
Prosperous.

President +. NJ. Turner, of our
State University, who is now in the
city, informs us that 1856 students
have been enrolled this year and
that the number in actual attend
ance is now greater than ut any
time for five years. All this increase
of attendance has taken place, too,
in spite of the hard times that have
oppressed the farmers and business
men of the State.
This is good showing. The
Press ofthe State is speaking words Of
praise for Mr.. Turner and the Uni
versity, and the people seem pleased.
With the return OF good times, the
University under such management
as at present, is bound to prosper
Regisfcr.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01

JANUARY From the Roman god
Janus, generally represented as two
faced, looking two ways, toward the
future and the past. Also janus, a
door, this month being the entrance
to the year.
Observation-Disclosures, Roman
divinity identical with Pluto, feb
ruare, to purify, this being the
month in which funeral ceremonies
were performed. January and Feb
ruary were introduced into the cal
endar by Numa, the second king of
Rome.
MARcH:-Named according to ira
dition, by Romulus, in honor of his
father Mars. 1t was the first month
in the early Roman calendar, the
year commencing March 25th. And
the legal year in England commenc
ed at that date until 1862, although
julius Caesar made January LIST the
beginning of the as b. c., which was
the 708th from the founding of
Rome.
APRIL:-From the Latin aprillis,
from aperire, to open. In the Al
ban calendar this was the first or
opening of the year.
MAY:-From Maia, Roman di-
vinity worshipped May LIST.
JUNE:-In honor of Juno, wife of
Jupiter, queen of heaven.
JULY:-Originally called Quintilis,
fifth; changed by Mare Antony, in
honor of his patron Julius Caesar,
being that in which the latter was
born.
AuGUsT:-Originally Sextilis,
sixte; changed B. c. 30, by Angus
tus, who named it after himself; and
to make it as long as July he took a
day from February. He also chang
ed September and November from
81 to 30 days each, and October and
December from 30 to 81, so that
three months of 81 days would not
come together. This deranged the
convenient order which Julius had
fixed, of January and every alternate
month having 81 days, and all the
rest 3d., except February which had
n, and every fourth year 80. This
piece of chronological vandalism
has been regretted ever since.
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER
and DECEMBER signify, respectively,
seven, eight, nine and ten, those be-
ing their places in the ante Numa
calendar.
1t would obviatc great deal of
anxious thinking if the symmetrical
order of the Julian numbers could
be restored. And it is suggested
that, as the division of the year into
quarters is universal custom, these
could be very conveniently marked
by making the first and third quar-
tiers 30-day months, shortening De
cember one day for three years in
every four, making leap year per-
fectly symmetrical.
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hometown.

PoNETowN, April 24.-F. NJ. Rob
inson will in the future be citizen
of our village.
l.. 5. Yost and T. Williams have
divided the land recently bought by
them of &. c. Williams.
Mrs. Rebecca Mason has moved
in with her son Sanford.
+. r. Wilson and son have leased
G. }. Ammons' farm.
Clark Tenant has bought farm
of % acres from Presley Tenant at
$2S per acre.
Sanford Mason was considerably
injured by large rock rolling over
him.
Mrs. Clark Tenant, who has been
ill for some time, is getting bet
ter
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01

Baltimore SUM-
The amendment to the inter state
commerce bill suggested by Senator
Camden last week is one in which
and will have a very much more de-
cided interest in the near future.
The fourth section of the bill pro-
vides that, with certain limitations
and exceptions, there shall not be a
greater charge made for shorter
than for a longer haul. Mr.. Camden
contends that there should be no
limitations or exceptions. The bill
as it stands, he says very forcibly,
lis a bill to increase the wealth and
population of commercial cities at
the expense of the country at large"
The thing he complains of, the Sen
ator is very well aware, is going on
now and he does not care to legalize
it. 1t is undoubtedly the greatest
drawback connected with the vast
improvement of transportation facil
tiles OF our day. Ihis charging
more for the short than for the long
er haul, as Mr.. Camden well says,
''discriminates not only against pro-
ducers at intermediate and non
competitive points, but discriminates
against the thrift and enterprise of
towns, against the distribution of
manufacturing industries, the value
of real estate and and all other inter
ests of the country outside of the
large cities and competitive shipping
points" The evil thus described is
far-reaching one. The growth of
many of our large cities has unques-
tionably been diseased growth
being by the absorption of adyan-
tages that ought to have been dis
tributed equally over the country.
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Blacksville.

BLAoKsyILLE is situated between
Dunkard creek and Mason and Dix
on's line; three houses are on the
Pennsylvania side of the line, and
three on the south side of Dunkard.
The village takes its name from one
Black, who once owned the land on
which it now stands; after dividing
his land into town lots, he disposed
of it by lottery.
The population of Blacksmith now
numbers nearly one hundred and
thirty, Nearly all Democrats, hur-
rah for ClcvlandD We have two
churches; NJ. f. church, Rev. L. HI.
Trainer. pastor; Baptist church, Rev.
Morgan Tilton, pastor. A business
directory would read about as fol-
lows: G.. M. Fletcher, C. l.. Tilton
and Thompson Strosnider, M. DIS. /;
IS. Headlee, A. l. Strosnider and r.
S. Lantz, merchants; Sam. Thralls,
jeweler; Rose h Howard, smiths
Burke & Sons, wagon and carriage
builders; Tasker & Hoskinson, cabi-
net makers and undertakers; J. Stro-
snider, cabinet maker; A. B. Pratt,
saddler; Sam. Garner, manager of
the planning mill.
If the Pennsylvania r. r. Co. ex-
tends it's road this way and wakes
our village from its Rip Van Win
klc sleep it may become business
place of some note.
Mrs. Belle Gass, who went from
this place to Kansas, on the Odd, ult.
was married in week after reach
ing her destination. The lucky man
was Ira Ross, formerly of Laurel
Point, w. Va, but now of Kansas.
The revised version of Greely's adj
vice to young men should read: Go
West, widows and old maids, and
catch husbands.
Miss Maggie Spragg, of Spragg's,
will begin nine weeks term of
of school at this place on the 26th,
inst. She is cultured lady, highly
recommended as teacher, and our
citizens were fortunate enough in Sc
curing her services. Under her man.
agements it is to be hoped the school
will recover from the effects of injud-
icious management during the last
three terms.
Wheeler Mcclure has gone from
here to try his fortune elsewhere.
The house vacated by him is now oc-
cupied by Mrs. Elisabeth Longstreth
and daughter.
VIM. Maple has moved from near
this place to near Bridgeport.
The members of the Blacksmith
circuit of the NJ. +. church. are max
ing preparation to build parson-
age in this place the coming sum-
mer.-Co,r. IYoynesdurg Democrat.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01

On Saturday evening OF the 10th
inst. the people of Chenille were
treated to lecture by Prof +. $.
Lyon, of Clarksburg, West Va. The
subject of the lecture was, Neglect
ed Childhood" In treating of the
formation of the habits and charac-
tiers of children he maintained that
the early environments OF childhood
are all powerful and the parents
therefore are chiefly responsible for
the formation Of these. In portray
ing the evil effects of the use of to-
bacco and whiskey his arguments
were very strong. He contrasted
the voluptuous Byron and the puri-
tan Milton, and discussed the in
fuence of their writings upon the
formation Of the characters Of the
young. Many passages were elo-
qucnt and beautiful. Prof Lyon is
an exceedingly social gentleman and
we hope it may be his pleasure to
come again and lecture among our
people.--B Banner
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a Wonderful Achiev emcnt.

Our lady readers will be delighted
to know that an opportunity is now
offered them of obtaining a tirst-class
sewing machine at so low a price
that every household in the land can
he supplied with this useful article.
The house with which we have made
arrangements is so well and so favor
ably known (Demorest) that no lady
need hesitate about supplying her.
self with Demorest Sewing ma
chine, rs il will be found in every
essential precisely what the adver-
tisement says.
There have been of late, "a good
many projects for the welfare of
woman, but this certainly transcends
slacM alt. 1t is boon that every
onc will appreciate; there cannot be
"a greater to women of every condi-
ton in life, for wherever there is a
woman, there must he sewing also,
aud y great deal OF it generally.
Heretofore many were compelled to
dispense with the sewing machine
on account of its high price. and
these, especially, will " delighted
To hear of the liberal offer we make,
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Part of Libby Prison Collapses.

RICHMOND, Va, April 2l.-One of
the three tenements composing the
building known as Libby Prison,
used during the late war for keeping
federal prisoners, collapsed this
evening from overburdened floors.
The building is occupied by the
Southern Fertilizing Company, and
the collapsed tenement was used for
the storage of fertilizers. The dam
age to stock and building is likely
to reach $4,000.
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Death of the Man Who Made Millions Out
of Fairbank' Scales,

Thaddeus Fairbanks, who died at
it. Johnsbury, Vermont, Monday,
from the effects of fall which he
received March 81, was the inventor
of the famous scales bearing his
name. He was born iu Brimfield,
Massachusetts, in 1896, and after a
meager education at the district
school turned to the study of mes
chanics, for which he had a natural
liking. Becoming interested in the
cultivation of hemp, he was early
struck with the primitive method of
dressing and weighing the straw and
bent his mind to devising some
improvement. Mr. Fairbanks first
arrangement was to place an A shap-
ed lever in suitable pit and to bal
ance on knife edges on this a free
platform upon which cart could be
driven level with the ground. TO
keep this platform from rocking he
framed into it a vertical post well
braced and from the top of this at
tached level chains, being level did
not draw up or down, and the weight
of the load was correctly indicated
upon the steelyard. The invention
grew in popularity and value as its
crudities reached a higher state of
development, and finally became the
standard scales of the country if not
the world. So large was the de-
I q l. l. l.
and his brother, afterward Governor
Fairbanks, abandoned all other un-
dertakings and devoted themselves
to the exclusive manufacture of the
new invention. He founded the st.
Johnsbnry Academy, was very char
table, and leaves large fortune "a
one son and several nephews.