The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-08
HERE AND THERE.


ter of Cabell county tree, where it
had lain for nearly one hundred .
years.
About forty colored men who left /
Martinsburg a few days since and
went to Pittsburgh, have secured
work on some public improvements
in progress there
Not fewer than dozen lumber
mills are actively engaged in saving
out lumber along the line of the
Grafton and Greenbrier railroad, be-
tween Grafton and Philippi,
In Preston county a man who had
driven his owp wife from home and
then induced another mans wife to
come and live with him, was fined
at the late term of the circuit court
in the sum of 81 600
During the last meeting of the
Board of Directors of the State In
sane Asylum at Weston, thirteen
patients were discharged from the
institution by the superintendent.
They were considered cured.
Mike Fallen has brought suit
against the town of Pennsboro for
$4,000 damages for malicious prose
cution Mike was arrested on
charge of selling cider without a
license and fined, hence he sues.
Mrs. Martha Turner, who died re-
Gently in jackson county at the age
of ninety, was named after the wife
of Washington. The Father of his
Country visited her fathers house
when she was an infant, and kissing
her, hoped she would be as good a
woman as her namesake This was
shortly before his death, in 1893.
They have at present at the En-
sign Car Works, at Huntington, of
which company Hon. w. II. Barnum,
of Connecticut, is president, orders
for LOO cars and other orders
are coming in weekly. AT present
nine large box cars are turned out
daily, but this number is to be in
creased at once. A rolling mill is to
be built in connection with the
works at an early day.
A citizen of Calhoun county re-
ports to have discovered surface oil
on Steer creek, near Stumptown, in
Calhoun county. He says the gas
was so strong on the creek that he
set it on fire with match. The
blaze spread over surface of several
hundred yards and burned until a
strong breeze blew it out. He is
sanguine that oil in paying quanti-
ties can be got at very slight
depth.
A murder near Arnoldsburg, Cal
houn county, is reported to have oc-
/ Cured few nights ago. James
Sturms, a young man living neal
| that place was the victim, and his
murderers were Jas. Skies and son
Samuel. Sturm was stabbed in the
, breast by young Siekles and cruelty
beaten over the head by the old man
| He only lived a short time after be
ing stabbed, the knife penetrating
his lungs The Sickles were cap
| tured after an attempted escape and
t lodged in jail. The affair has Great
ed great excitement.
About o'clock ON last Saturday
; the alarm of fire was given at the
West end of this city, it being dis
covered that the stable of Mr.. .Johr
A. Hursey, on Locust alley, was OF
! fire. With great difficulty COW
and horse were recovered. A buggy
and sulky were also saved. The sta
bic was completely destroyed will
: all else in it, such as hay, valuable
harness, &c. Loss 5000. The fir,
communicated to the Reynolds hous,
and Patton property but was extin
1 guished. There was great trouble
to save the small house just east o
the stable.-Cldrksburg Neps.
The survey for the line of tn,
t Wheeling Natural Gas Company t.
r Wheeling is practically completed
Y 1t will start in Mt. Pleasant town
ship, Washington county, near TIL
+ village of Hickory, and pass int
9 Hopewell township, narrowly avoid
e ing the towns of West Middletown
Meloy and Atchison. The line il
e Hopewell will follow Brush run TO
e some distance, whence it defects t,
the southwest and crosses Buffal,
creek at Dunsfort, and short dis
>, lance southwest into the corner o
4 Brooke county, whence it will pas
n into Richland district, Ohio county
;. striking the Ohio river near tn
mouth Of Glenn's run, mile or tw,
: north of Wheeling. The line will b
n between twenty-one and twenty tire
n miles in length.
: Wednesday evening the way trail
d from Grafton to Parkersburg took
= side track at Long Run to meet th
i same train going east. Very clos
r by is frame school house in whicl
:. young lady is teaching a subscrip
e ton school. When the train stop
!. ped the crew noticed that the schoo
!. house was on fire All hands at one
:, grabbed buckets and what ever els
l. was near, and went to work lik
n heroes, and in short time put tn
d fire out and saved the building, an,
t perhaps the lives Of some of til
l. young children. At the time schoo
@ was in session, and teachers an,
scholars were wholly unconsciou
that their building was trying t
:, burn up. When the crew opene,
i the door and remarked to the teach
. er that the house was on fire, sh
fell in dead faint, and had to b.
;, carried out before she could be re
u vived-Pdrkersburg Sentinel.
y One day last week a diminutiv
little specimen of humanity present
:, ed himself at the bank with ehec
n to be cashed. DR.. A. II. Kunst wa
4 present, and took the check. 1t ha
q been made payable to Ezra Rexroat
and was from Hinkle, King & Co
= in payment for lumber The Docto
. looked at the little fellow very close
ly for moment and asked if h
was Ezra Rexroad's son. No, sir
he was Ezra Redwood. Was tn
check made payable to him? Yes
sir, it was for lumber he had brough
in The little fellow looked no lal
!. ger than an eight-year old schoc
i boy, and the Doctor thought hir