The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-16

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About thirty persons went from
one locality in Doddridge county to
Kansas last week.
A Boston man has leased some
lands in Calhoun county for miner
al purposes, and taken cargo OF
specimens east to be assayed
The legislature granted SAG. 600
for the construction work on the
new asylum atSpencer. The mon
ey will be divided between the
years 1880 and go.
A cranky farmer near Wheeling
has sent to President Harrison bad
ten pounds OF butter of his own
wife S making. A post Office should
come back by express.
Charles F. Gabert, the brake
man who was killed by train rob-
bers in California last week, was a
Pennsboro boy, and a son Of Mr..
John Gabert, Of that place.
Coal sells at Chenille for IS cents
a bushel, and is in great demand at
that price. 1t is foated down in
boats from the coal fields near the
headwaters of the Little Kanawha.
Two men of Berkeley county
felled tree last week in which they
found a package containing several
thousand dollars, which is supposed
to have been hidden there during
the war.
Tuesday night the general store
of ]. B. Knotes, at Wileyville,
Wetzel county, was destroyed by
fire. togther with its entire contents.
The loss on stock is about 81, 200,
and on the building $500 or 81, 600.
1t is said that close observer has
written the inside of things in the
city of Charleston during the legis
lature and that a limited supply Of
books will be printed for private
circulation only. 1t will be richer
than richness itself.
From the Mountain Herald we
learn that at the recent term of the
Circuit Court of Summers county,
a Miss Withrow recovered against
John Smithson and wife a judg-
ment for 81, 900 for SANDER, which
judgment the Court refused to Sc,
aside.
Two years or more ago. an OLD
man, Barna McGraw, tripped, on a
loose board crossing, in Ravens
wood and fell, hurting himself and
spilling his black berries, and there
upon sued the town for damages.
Mayor Sayre compromised the sui
last week by paying McGraw so2.
50.
Ex-senator Sommerville, Regent
of the State University for the
counties Of Ohio, Brooke and Han
cock, has named Wellsburg as The
most central location for the estab
lishment of an agricultural libary fo
the free use of the farmers Of thu
counties named. The first install
ment of books have arrived ane
will be in custody of Circuit Clcrl
S. B. Lazear, at the Court House
The books are secured through
John A. Myers, Director of thu
West Virginia Agricultural Elk
pertinent Station at Morgantown
VIM. M. Dent, c. P. Dent
James 0. Dent, Harvey Dent ant
Pleasant Dent met last Friday a
the home of Pleasant Dent, nea
Spring hill, Kanawha county ant
celebrated a reunion. These fv'
brothers are the only ones now aliv,
out of eleven boys, all OF whom
were natives of Virginia, and WHIT
separated February 8, I846-fort,
years ago-to seek their fortunes
There were originally eighteen child
ren--seven Of whom were girls-al
born to one mother. The farhe
and seven sons, brave soldiers, wer
in the Confederate army, and wer
engaged in the battle at Carna6l
Ferry, on Gauley river. Thu
reunion, after two generations, i
one of the most pleasant events o
the lives of these five venerabl,
gentlemen. Charleston Gazette.