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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
Lynn's Great Disaster.

The prosperous manufacturing
city of Lynn, Mass, near Boston, was
visited few days ago by an appalling
conflagration, which swept over an
area of square mile in the heart of
the town, and was stopped only when
it reached the shore of Massachu-
sets bay. Among the buildings
burned were the Boston IL Maine
Railroad Station, Western Union
Telegraph office, all the newspaper
offices and nearly forty shoe factor
les. No accurate estimate of the
loss can, of course, be made at pres
ent, but it is approximately estima.
ted at ten million dollars.
Lynn is in Essex county, Massa-
chusetts, and excels any other place
in the United States for the manu-
facture ofshoes. There are over 200
establishments here engaged in this
business employing about 10000
hands. The city borders on Lynn
Harbor, and is separated from the
summer resort of Nahant by PENN
sula. The city is on the Boston Il
Eastern railroad, only ten miles from
Boston, and in 1870 had a population
of 1928. In 1871 there were ship
ped from the city 9,036, 045 pairs of
shoes, in 1872. 1885, 200 pairs and
in 1873 9,54S,600. The value of the
shipments is about $l5,000,OO0 an
nually. There is very large fac
tory here, capable of tanning and
finishing 5000 skins a week. The
town is one of the oldest in New
New England, having been settled
in 1929, nine years after the landing
of the Pilgrim Fathers Swamp
scott, famous watering place for
Bostonians, formerly belonged to the
town.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
A Valuable Medical Treatise.

The edition for 1890 of the ster-
ling Medical annual known as Hos
letters Almanac, is now ready, and
may be obtained, free of cost, of drug
gists and general country dealers in
all parts of the United States, Next
co, and indeed in every civilized por-
ton of the Western Hemisphere.
This Almanac has been issued regu-
larly at the commencement of every
year for over one-fourth of a century.
1t combines, with practical advice
for the preservation and restoration
of health, a large amount of inter-
esting and amusing light reading,
and the calendar, astronomical cal
culations, chronological items, &C.,
are prepared with great care, and
will be found entirely accurate. The
issue of Hostetter's Almanac for
1890 will probably be the largest
edition of medical work ever pub
lished in any country. The proprie-
tors, Messrs. Hostetter & Co., Pitts
burg, Pa. on receipt of two cent
stamp, will forward copy by mail
to any person who canuot procure
one in his neighborhood.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
A Peculiar Case.

Fact is stranger than fiction.
Over twentythree years ago a man
named Holland died in Richie eoun-
ty and left a wife and one child.
Some time later the widow married
Hiram Peters who lives near Thorn
ton, Taylor county, and shortly af-
terward her child, beautiful baby
boy, was kidnapped Frantic with
grief the mother and Mr.. Peters
searched in every direction and man
ner for the stolen child but in vain,
the thieves had left no trace, until
to crown the catastrophe the poor
mothers mind gave way and the poor
woman, with broken heart and be-
nighted reason, vas consigned to a
cell in the asylum at Weston. Thrice
was she pronounced cured and re-
leased to her husband but as many
times did she relapse into her de-
mented condition as soon as she had
been out long enough to mourn over
her stricken home, barren of the
baby face which had frightened and
blessed it. And so the days and
years went on. The husband work
ed in silence and sorrow as he had
never worked before and the lost
child and worse than lost wife al
most faded from public memory,
save in the remembrance of that lone
ly laborer. But the night passed.
Day dawned. The wife was again
pronounced cured and returned to
her husband. A little later Mr.. Pc
tiers was called to Richie county on
business and while there unexpect-
eddy came upon clue which he fol-
lowed and which led to the discovery
of the stolen boy. He had been
taken west and adopted into a rich
family whose name he assumed and
who educated and raised him with
care and credit. To-day he is clerk
of the court in an Iowa county and
is worth $4,000. The identity was
complete, and overjoyed at finding
mother the long lost son wrote her
letter which is seldom surpassed in
tenderness and affection, and in
sisted that she should come with her
husband and make her home with
him hereafter. Three weeks ago
the mother went and her husband is
packing up his things and preparing
TO follow, where the best wishes of
long sympathizing community will
accompany him. Mr. Peters is
brother to Ulysses M. Peters, of
Grafton.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07

The great need Of every county is
good roads, and times will not often
be dull in any country that has good
roads and an industrious and enter
prising population.
No county that lacks good roads
and has neither railroads nor navi-
gable water ways should hesitate to
invest reasonable amount of funds
in building needed roads. 1t will
pay to borrow money, on good terms,
to build roads, if the money is judi
ciously and economically expended.
The roads connot be taken away but
remain for the use and profit of the
people.
1t is true that it costs money to
build good roads, but IL the people
could get their products to the mar
ket, they could produce more, and
make more profit on what they pro.
duced. The people cannot grow
money on their land neither can they
get what they do grow to market, to
sell for money. Consequently taxes
is burden to them, that is hard to
carry. With good roads they could
pay higher taxes more easily than
they pay their present taxes, because
their land would be so much more
profitable to them. Taxes will al
ways be burdensome in a county
that has no roads to take away the
products of the land to the markets.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
West Virginia Land Titles.

The Coal River Record, in the fol.
lowing well timed article, very truly
describes the situation as to the land
titles in this State. The false i'm
pressious that have gone out as to
this matter has done more than all
things else combined to keep capital
and emigration from West Virginia.
The Record says: There is a feel.
ing outside of West Virginia that
the title to real property in this
State is very uncertain. This feel
ing is founded largely upon the un-
deniable fact that men have syste-
matically for gain, knowingly and
cruelty imposed on the unsuspecting
investor in distant parts of the coun-
try, at wildcat" prices. what are
known as wildcat titles" the buyer
is not, perhaps, in many cases to be
pitied, for it is the old story of try
ing to get something for nothing"
and with the usual result-complete
loss. But the reputation of the
State suffers always by every such
transaction. Base forgeries Of titles
have been imposed upon the people
so that there is foundation for the
feeling of uncertainty. The titles to
four-fifths of the lands of the State
are as well settled, and the surveys
as definitely located as in the States
of Pennsylvania, Maryland and New
York, or any Northern State. If
man wants an investment and is will
ing to pay fair price for livery
low, compared with what he would
pay for the same in Pennsylvania
he can get it, either in farm, coal
or timber lands, with the absolute
certainty Of getting a good title to
what he buys. Ordinary care, of
course, must be observed. A good
local attorney should be consulted,
as would be done in any other State
by a stranger before closing the con-
tract. See that the title is in the
man who proposes to make you a
deed, that there are no liens, that
the taxes have been paid, &c. If
there are serious defects do not buy.
Your lawyer will always be able to
advise you of the risks, If there are
any defects.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
To be Kind 10 the Farmer.
Kanawha Gazette.

The Congressman from the four
new States have been caucusing in
Washington, and have outlined their
course. We can't see that it differs
essentially from the policy that the
Republican party is and has been
pursuing. The most absurd feature
of this conference was the resolution
to insist on placing a duty on agri-
cultural products commensurate with
those now levied on importations Of
manufactured articles. This is in
tended as "a sop to Cerberus." The
farmers are to have the confidence
game played on them again. Their
cutlery against the burdens placed
upon them by protection of other in
terests than theirs is to be stilled by
placing duty upon their farm pro-
ducts. What nonsense! There is
already duty upon wheat and po-
tatoes, and what good has it done
the wheat and potato raisers2 Does
it keep out any of such products2
or does it enable the farmers to get
any higher prices for those articlesp
OF course it does not, and it never
will so long as there is a vast sur
plus of those articles raised here and
shipped to foreign markets. No
tariff duty can prevent the Liver
pool market rate for our principal
agricultural products from prevail
ing here.
But suppose the farmer did real
ize the amount of the proposed duty
or the present duty on his products,
what then becomes of the doctrine
of protection to the American Work
ingman? He subsists in the main
on the meat, the grain and the po-
tatoes upon the price of which is to
be placed the duty. To meet this
added cost of his living, his wages
must be raised or he must starve.
Well, suppose they are raised, what
then? Then the increased cost of
labor being added to the cost of its
products, down go the profits of the
manufacturers and others who de-
pend upon labor, and then it will de-
pend entirely on the amount of the
tariff-duty on agricultural products,
as to whether the tariff on manufac-
lures and other products can make
the tariff duties existing for their
benefit avail them anything. If they
do not, then the tariff must be in
creased and then the farmer gets
pinched again. So it would work
round in circle after all, and the
farmer would find himself just where
he is now-the dupe ana victim of
the Republican High Protectionists.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
The Difference.
Tygarts Valley Star.

We observe in almost every city
paper something like this:
Bar Iron Men decide to make an
advance in prices
1.-THE Standard Oil Co., reduces
the price of OIL"
1.-The manufacturers of Woollen
Goods have agreed to raise the price
on certain articles of their manufac-
ture."
Sat meeting of the stock holders
of -- last night it was decided
to reduce the wages of their employ
ees 10 per cent"
"The hands at - mill struck
yesterday for higher wages" etc.
What do all these things mean?
We nowhere read that the farmers
have agreed to advance the price
of cattle or sheep. We have
no notice that the farmers and
wool growers have met and agreed
upon 33 cents for the next years
clip of wool, or that they have
agreed upon 5 cents per pound for all
cattle that weigh over 300 pounds
next year.
We don't read any where that the
butter makers of West Virginia at
late meeting decided to advance the
price of butter, for next year, from 5
to Z cents per pound. What do
these things meanp
The meaning is this, part of our
people are protected by the tariff
such as manufacture iron, steel,
queensware, wooden and cotton goods,
ETC., and another part of our people
have no protection, but are compell-
ed, by the tariff, to toll hard and
contribute of their earnings to the
protected classic raise cattle and
sell them at 3 cents per pound-to
make butter and sell it at 5 cents
per pound in summer. Protection
to man simply means that some
other man shall contribute, to the
protected one, portion of his earn
ings.
The farmer is contributing about
all he makes. He gets 20 cents per
pound too little for his wool-that
20 cents per pound he contributes:
he gets 2 cents per pound 100 little
for his cattle, and that he contrib
utes.
He pays 5 cents per pound too
much for sugar and that he contrib
utes. He pays too high for hard
ware, tinware, wooden and cotton
goods ETC., and the contribution goes
from the purchaser to the protected
mantle manufacturer.
How long will the farmers stand
this?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
REAL ESTATE.
FIRE, LIFE
AND
accident Insurance.
IT. w. Anderson
has for sale great variety of
FARMS.
BUILDING LOTS & RESIDENCES
for sale in Morgantown, and
HOUSES TO RENT.

Also writes Fire Insurance Policies
on application in the following COM
panies:
The American Insurance Company,
of Wheeling, W Va.
Peabody Insurance Company OF
Wheeling, W. Va.
Fire and Marine Insurance Company
of Wheeling, W. Va.
Franklin Insurance Company, OF
Wheeling, W. Va.
German Insurance Co., of Wheeling
Jefferson Insurance Co., of Wheeling,
Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn.
Agricultural, of Watertown, N. Y.
Reading Insurance Company Of
Reading, Pa.
Providence Washington insurance
Company, of Providence, Rhode Island
established 1893.
All the above Companies are as good
as the best-some of them having been
satisfactorily worked in this county fol
Is or 20 years.
If you want to insure your property
write him and he will come at once ant
inspect and insure it.
If you want TO buy Farm, or Build
ing Lot or Residence in Morgantown
write for descriptive list, to Morgan
town, W. Va.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
The Republican Scheme Exposed.
A recent special dispatch from
Washington to the Register says;

A recent special dispatch from
Washington to the Register says:
At the Democratic caucus a few
evenings since the possibility of the
Republicans undertaking to override
the certificates of Governors and seat
the Republican contestants from
West Virginia and Maryland will be
considered. The prevailing Demo.
cratic opinion is that the Republi-
cans will not dare to attempt any
such revolutionary scheme There
is absolutely no precedent for it.
Formerly the Clerk exercised the
authority of organizing the next
House only by force of precedent,
but after many wrangles law was
passed, and now stands on the stat
ute book authorizing the Clerk to or
ganize the House, and making his
roll the legal membership of the
House until revised by the action of
the House ITSELF In pursuance of
this law, the Clerk has placed on the
roll the names of Messrs. Anderson,
jackson and Pendleton, democrats,
who have credentials of the same
character and force and effect that
all other members have.
The Democrats are solid aud uni
ted in their determination to resist
at all hazards every encroachment
upon their rights, or any denial of
the rights of contested members. In
a group of dozen or more Demo
cratic Congressman to-day were
Mills, Hooker, Springer, McCreary,
Mansur and others. All of them de-
clared that they would deadlock the
House for the entire term before they
would see any of the West Virginia
Democrats denied any of their rights
or privileges.
The firmness of the Democratic
attitude is having a marked effect
upon the republicans, as it becomes
more apparent that the democrats
are not to be intimidated, the repub.
licans manifest more disposition to
retreat.
Congressman Springer, one of the
best parliamentarians of the House,
said tonight: my word for it, the
Republicans will not attempt any
such revolutionary measure as to
overthrow a Governors certificate.
Nothing could be more revolutionary
and besides most of the Republicans
are on record as supporting and
maintaining the law and rules now
in vogue, there is no danger of our
being called upon to meet any such
issue"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
The West VS.. the East.
Baltimore Sun.


q 1t is a curious circumstance that
the contest for the republican nomi-
nation for the speakership now in
Washington is mainly between the
East and the West. Mr.. Reed, OF
Maine, is the candidate of the East,
and is supposed to represent the
views of that section in respect to
silver, the tariff, DC. The West has
a number of candidates. If it could
settle upon a single man it could
probably get him nominated. What
does this spontaneous antagonism OF
the East and West signifyP Does 1t
indicate line Of flssure in the par
typ Prophets have for . long time
been foretelling . rebellion Of the
West, but It has thus far failed to
take place.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07

II was most ready to return a
blow and would not brook at all this
sort of thing" for knew l would
cure all damages with Salvation Oil.
25 cents.
Never "bull-doze" man, but if
you meet one with bad cough you
may "bull dose" him to advantage
with DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. %
cents
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
Albany Union.

The seats of seventeen Democratic
Congressmen-elect from the South
are to be contested by Republican
opponents, and the programme of the
Administration is to seat all the
contestants. An attempt to steal
two United States Senators from
Montana and seventeen Congress
men from the South will make this
pre- eminently q grand larceny Ad-
ministration.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07

IT WoN'T BAKE BREAD.-In other
words, Hoods Sarsaparilla will not do
impossibilities. Its proprietors tell
plainly what it has done, submit
proofs from sources of unquestioned
reliability, and ask you frankly If
you are suffering from any disease
OF affection caused or promoted by
impure blood or low state Of the sys-
tenn. to try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The experience Of others IL sufiicIent
assurance that you will not b. dis
appointed in the result
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
STATE OF ONO, CRY oE TOLEDO,

Lucas COUNTY, S. S.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm
of F. j, Cheney, q Co., doing bust
ness in the city of Toledo, county
and State aforesaid and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hun
d.ed Dollars for every case 81 { Ca
tarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEx.
Sworn to before me and subscrib-
ed in my presence, this 9th day Of
December, A. d. '86.
49,, A. w. GLEASON,
}sEALl Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in +.
ternally and acts directly upon the
blood and muscus surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. Cheney Il Co, Toledo, Ohio.
~Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07
LIBELs ON THE STATE.
Infamous Falsehoods Circulated by
Penny a. Liners.
The Latest Story About the Lincoln
County Trouble Vigorously Denied
The Exact Situation De-
scribed by Eye Witnesses.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Nov. 22.-
The Wheeling Inteliigencer which
arrived here to-day. contained hair
raising account ofa alleged visit of
big AL. Brumfield" and "Heart
Dingess" to this place by cores
pendent which that paper would do
well not to rely on in the future.
The men were represented as being
heavily armed and fresh from a hun
dred bloody encounters in Lincoln
county. They were said to be
cousins of Little AL. Brumfeld"
who was killed with his wife in Lin
coin county. The men, in the Intel
lgencer article, we're loaded down
with warrants for the arrest of par
ties implicated in the murder of
Mr.. and Mrs. Parish. The warrants
we're issued by TON Brumfield,"
and there would be "blud," "blud,"
'blud" unless the parties wanted,
surrendered and allowed themselves
to be murdered in decency and or
der. The infamous canard was da-
ted at this place.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE.
Here, where something of the real
facts of the Lincoln county trouble
are known, the publication of such a
falsehood in a West Virginia news
paper creates the intensest indigna-
ton. We have just had converse
tion with gentleman who has ar
rived from the Hart Creek region
and knows the whole difficulty. He
says that nine tenths of the matter
published in regard to the alleged
feud has been without foundation.
Every line which the Intelligencer's
imaginative and sensational CORES
pendent sent is falsehood.
In the first place there are not two
AL. Brumtields. Such a person as
big AL. Brumfield" is unknown in
Lincoln county. "Heart Dingess"
is also Pigment of some liars mag
nation. Second, Little AL. Brum-
field'' and his wife are not dead have
never been dead, and do not expect
to die for some time yet. The story
of their murder is fake, based on
the shooting of AL Brumfield by
Haley and Mccoy about two months
ago. His arm was shattered. That
is all.
ANOTHER PART OF THE LIE.
There are no such persons as Mr..
and Mrs. Parish in Lincoln county, SO
far as known. There is no such
place as "Field," and Mr.. and Mrs.
Parish were never murdered there.
No warrants could have been issued
for the arrest of the murderers, and
no such person as TON Brumfield"
is justice of the peace in Lincoln
county, and he certainly never is
sued warrants for the arrest of the
Parish or any other murderers. The
whole affair is fake of the first
water.
In conclusion, the gentleman said
that he was in the Hart Creek coun-
try the day that Haley and Mccoy
were killed. That was a month ago
and no deed of lawlessness has oc-
Cured since then. The whole sec
ton is quiet, and any stranger can
pass through it as quietly as he can
walk through the streets of New
York City. The people are attend
ing to their business and ask only to
be let alone. The fakirs who have
been originating and publishing
these stories, my informant said,
were doing more harm to the State
than all the peddlers of bogus land
titles ever did.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07

nx prices or TO regulate production.
The meetings are secret We have
seen that they keep no minutes, or
at best but meagre and meaningless
memoranda of their proceedings. II
we are to legislate successfully
against the evils of trusts we must
endeavor to do so, through laws that
shall be correct in principle, simple
in their provisions of enforcement.
The highest legal talent is always at
the command Of the defendant, and
the people can afford to take no risks
in the first encounter.
THE SPRINGER BILL
Perhaps / should not dismiss this
subject without referring to bill
prepared by Mr. Springer, of Hi
nois, and very strongly pressed by
him upon the majority members of
the committee on ways and means
of the last House for Incorporation
into the Mills bill. 1t proposed to
lay an internal revenue tax of 40 per
cent. on the products of trusts.
Such tax would neutralize to that
extent their protection under the
tariff and open the door for competi-
ton between foreign products and
those of the trusts in our market.
While possibly raising the cost to
the consumer, the profits of the
trusts would be largely diverted in
to the public treasury. But the i'm
mense practical difficulties in enforc-
ing such tax and the tremendous
power it vests in the Treasury De
partment over the industries of the
country were objections to its adop-
ton that seemed insuperable.
WIN. L. WILSON.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07

MEMS suspenders for 8 cts, UNI
brellas for so cts, and blankets at
so cts, at the Farmers Store.
BalNG your apples, potatoes, cab.
bage, beans, onions, poultry, butter,
eggs, corn, wheat, oats and all kinds
Of farm products to the Farmers
Store.
SIR tho plush q the Farmers Store
for 80 ~. : yard.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-07

We have often said, and repeat
here, says an exchange, that there is
no State in the Union in which CAPT
tai can be invested with greater GER
tainty of remunerative returns than
West Virginia. She possesses as
many undeveloped resources of
wealth as any other State. Her vast
coal fields; her exhaustless forests
of untouched timber; her vast de-
posits of building stone; her banks
of iron ore; all bespeak for her a
wealth which one day will bring her
to the front rank as one of the
wealthiest little Commonwealth in
the Union.