The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-04-13

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Pittsburg oilmen have leased
thousands of acres in Harrison
county, w. Va, and viii sink
test well on every 2, COO acres.
Traverse Stout, of Huntington
wants to be Pardon clerk in the
department of justice, a place now
filed by Hon. A. r. Boteler.
Pocahontas county is finally re-
lieved Of its dilemma as to the
sherihalty by the appointment Of
H. L. Neel, who has qualified.
A Baptist revival at Ravenswood
closed last Sunday with fifteen inn
mersions, among whom were Hon.
c. L. Brown and ex-judge Bob
Fleming.
Cabell county voted against
granting $50. 900 to the railroad up
Guyan river. Perhaps the road
will not be built, or if it is, may
GO in another direction.
L. M. Wade, on last Tuesday
night, addressed very respect
able meeting at Pigeon Roost
school house on Knawls Creek,
Braxton county, on the railroad
subscription, and reports the peo-
pie there to be all right. Mr..
Wade deserves much praise for his
efforts in the good cause.
Alkaline M. Hesser has just re-
covered the sum of 5000 from the
town Of Grafton for injuries receiv-
ed because Of a bad sidewalk. She
was walking home at night and fell
over stone, breaking leg. She
sued for S., damages but the
jury allowed her 5000 1t pays to
keep the sidewalks in repair.
There are three farmers living
near Golfers Station, Brooke coun-
ty, whose lands join each other,
who have lived on the same farms
for more than fifty years. They
are John Stansbury. aged 80; ia
cob Wright, 81, and John Fresh
water, aged Is. They are all hale
and hearty, well-to-do, and expect
to till the soil for many years to
come.
Terra Alta is to have water
works. A we'll is to be sunk on
the hill at the head of Main street.
A reservoir is to be built with a
capacity of a, 900 gallons; a wind
mill to pump the water into the
reservoir is to be purchased; the
water to be conducted through pipes
to the junction of Main and
State streets, and from there, by
the same means, east south and
west into dwellings, stores, &c.
Three young men, named Hiner,
Pruden and Hawk, who reside at
Hemlock, Jackson county, were
going though the woods a day or
two since, when one of them ex-
hibited revolver of thirty-two cali
Der. Hiner told Hawk that he
might shoot at him at distance of
ninety steps. The boy stepped off
the distance, and Hawk took aim
and fired, striking Hiner in the
back Of the head, inflicting a scri-
Gus wound.
In Grant county, one day last
week, Mr. R. c. Smith and wife
and Miss Annie Hanger we're cross
ing the Potomac river on horseback,
when the animal on which the lat
ter was riding stumbled and fell,
throwing the lady into the river.
Mr. Smith made every effort to
save her, but the swift current tore
her from his grasp and she was car
ried down the stream. The body
was found the next day some dis
lance below the ford.
Last Tuesday evening little
child of James Powell, living near
Long Run Station, was SO badly
burned by its clothing catching fire
from a fire place that it died in a
few hours afterwards. Mrs. Pow
ell had left the little one in the
house while she went to attend to
some chores, not being absent from
the house to exceed five minutes,
when she heard the child crying,
she hurried back to the house and
found it horribly burned. Its re-
mains were inferred in the town
cemetery on Thursday.
The following romantic story
comes from Ravenswood: I'm
1862 F. M. Hodge. then a farmer
in Mississippi, left his home and
family, consisting of a wife and
three children, to enlist in the Con-
federate army. Two years later
the wife died and kind friends tax
ing charge Of the children brought
them North. Porter Hodge, the
eldest, settled in Jackson county, the
other two going to Pennsylvania.
The daughter is now the wife of
Pittsburgh gentleman named
Thompson. Nothing was heard
from the father until few days
ago, when Porter received letter
from his father, now Of Grenada,
Miss, saying that a travelling
salesman had informed hiw of his
sons whereabouts. Letters were
exchanged. and it was found that
this indeed was the missing parent
for whom he had been looking for
twenty years. Mr.. Hodge leaves
for Mississippi next week.
Georgetown.
GEORGETOWN, April aside from
the political caldron which is boiling
furiously there is not much news to COM
muuicata and from, want Of cuf}ic;arf