The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-10
INTERESTING INCIDENTS.
A Brief Synopsis Of Haps and Mishaps
Occurring in Our State.


Hut Scissors Aat Mill.
| Huntington is putting on airs.
She is soon to have a n-broker's
shop. Charleston is in such flour
ishing condition that I pawn shop
would starve TO death here-Gd-
zette.
Seven ill-mated couples have APP
piled to the jackson County Circuit
i Court for relief from each others
society, which has become obnoxious
to all the parties interested. Jack
son county needs moral publication
If the applications for divorce are a
criterion to 90 by.
Wheeling has just developed a
strong candidate for Canada, but he
won't get there now Young Sey-
bold, a book keeper in the Bank of
Wheeling, carried away S24 600 in
cash. He then deposited a large
amount of his stealings in other
Wheeling banks, hence his discov-
cry.
A correspondent writing from Row
lesburg, on the 2Sth, says that "a
corps of civil engineers commenced
to day, here. to survey the route
for the Pennsylvania and West Va
railroad. The new road will inter
sect the B, q O. r. r. about three
hundred yards east of the B. q o.
! bridge. Seven men were employed
here to day TO assist them"
4 Preston county has a young lady
who would make fortune for a
dime museum manager She can
write as well with her left hand as
with her right. She has been known
to write two letters ON different sub
jects at the same time, one with the
left and the other with the right
hand, and what makes il doubly
curious is that the style of writing
of the two letters is always differ
ent.
Work on the shaft of the coal works
at Newburg having been suspended
indefinitely, the company has com
meneed operations on a limited scale
above ground; but the supply Of
coal is not sufficient to keep the
hands employed for any considerable
length of time. There has been
some talk Of closing the works at
that place permanently. Should
this be the case it will be a severe
/ blow to the town of Newburg.
The engineers on the railroad
route are making the permanent sur
yey and have completed the work
several miles up the West Fork.
The road will be built via Burns
vile. 1t has not yet been determin
ed by the company which of the
routes, Cedar Creek or O'Brien's
Fork, will be selected, but the chan
ces seem to be in favor Of the Cedar
Greek route, owing TO the fact that
Il large number Of land owners on
O Brien S Fork refuse to give the
right of way.-Brarton Democrat.
Judge Charles Ridgely, of Mineral
county, this State, owns u horse
that eats anything a man will eat
excepting Il lemon. He is especially
found OF sour kraut and plug chew
ing tobacco. We have seen him
take ten cents worth of plug chew
ing Tobacco from the hands of the
owner, chew il up and swallow il
with a relish, and then though
hitched to the buggy follow the
Judge on the sidewalk and beg for
more. II any body thinks he can
buy this horse cheap because he
don't smoke or eat lemons, ask
Judge Ridgely his price for him.
A young man by the name of Mr..
Pritt Dawson, while blowing on the
Greenwade farm, not far from Rom
ney, near the site of an old house,
turned up an old rusty pot which
was filled to the amount of 81, 800 in
old Spanish and Mexican coins.
The pieces contain dates between
17l6 and 1900. The oldest inhabi-
tants there cannot remember when
the old house was last occupied. |
Nothing now marks the site except |
the ruins of an old chimney. The |
young man is very jubilant over the
find and expects to go into business
in Keyser..
A dispatch from Deer Park last
Sunday says: General Manager c.
I. Brett, of the West Virginia Cen
trial, is here in consultation with
President H. G. Davis and Steve
Elkins. 1t has been decided to run
the first regular passenger train with
mail to Elkins, in Tygarts Valley,
115 miles south of Cumberland, ON
Monday, August 9. The telegraph
line was completed last evening. Civ
ing 100 miles of wire, with sixteen
offices AS completed TO Elkins, the
main road is 1l5 miles; Elk Garden
branch, s miles; Davis branch, 7; in
all 1870.
A young fellew by the name Of
Jacob Alkire was drowned in the
Left Fork of the Kanawha in the
flood of week before last, his body
being recovered several days after
ward. 1t was supposed that the
drowning was accidental, but later
point 10 murder, as
will be seen by the following verdict
rendered at the inquest. I'VE, the
jury, find that Jacob Alkire met
death at the hauds of Henry Smith
and Hershel lee" They are under
guard at Ireland. at which place
their hearing was to have taken
place to-day, but was postponed I'M
til Tuesday next, owing to the alb
sence of Prosecuting Attorney Nc
Gary, who was unable to be present.
fhe skull Of Alkire was mashed in :
and other marks upon his person are
evidence that he was dead before
ever entering the water.
Late reports from Gilmer county I
are to the effect that much more
damage than was at first supposed
was done in that county by the
cloud burst that caused such great
damage and loss of life in Writ
county. The streams that became
swollen so rapidly and swept away
everything that lay in their devasta- /
ling path nearly all have their rise
IN Gilmer, and that county was evil
IDENTIFY embraced in the edge of
.he cloud burst Late reports from ,
II lie