The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-02

4 Brief Sy4trag q n4l4 on4 Ate14p4
Occsrring il 0Nf State.
Art Scissors Al Mill
The Greenbrier fresh meat COM
pany butchered and packed no
head ofine cattle during January.
A company for the manufacture
of ice has been organized at Hun
tington with capital Of $40, 600.
Pocahontas county is withonu a
Sheriff. The gentleman elected has
resigned. and they can find no one
who will accept the position.
A few days ago Mrs. Martin
Tucker, of Raymond City, gave
birth to three children. The mother
and one Of the children have died.
Major Jim Peterson says the re-
port that he was going to Kentucky
to start a republican paper is not
true. He still lives in West Virgin
ia.
Hough St. Clair, Of Jackson
county. will be IoS years Of age in
March. He has daughter aged ~
years. Mr.. St, Clair followed the
trade OF a blacksmith.
Samuel ]. Heatherly. lately
elected Sheriff of Barbour county,
and a prominent business man has
failed with liabilities about $50. 900.
His assets are GOO acres offne land
and a large amount Of personal
property.
The Russellville correspondent
of the Greenbrier Independent says
that Mrs. Christina Nutter, wife
Of David Nutter, deceased, and the
mother, grandmother and great
grandmother of all the Nutters in
this and adjoining counties, is now
in her tooth year, and apparently
has good use of herself.
There is something radically
wrong with the mail in Jackson and
and Roane counties. The mail bags
leak money. During the past two
or three months several hundred
dollars entrusted to the keeping Of
Postmasters atvarious points in the
two counties have mysteriously
disappeared, and the people down
there are becoming fatigued.
They have a law out at the town
Of Harrisville that whatsoever
swears or utters profane word on
the public streets the same shall
pay a fine therefor, and the Mayor
ofthat pretty little town swears (no,
he says that swearing shall cease,
or he will be blankety-blanked.
The record Of last week, according
to the Richie Reuiev, was as follow:
| ]. A. Hess, for swearing and
assault, $3.50. ]. B. Ayres con-
fessed to letting one oath slip and
paid 81. 50. r. S. Blair went before
his honor and confessed to saying
mad dog backward, for which he
paid 81. SO. Journal.
One of the best jokes of the sea
son. is on a well known citizen OF
Putnam in connection with Golf S
contest. A few days after the cleo.
ton, when the Republicans were
claiming COTS election, w. H.
Morris, of Hurricane, a Democrat,
and brother-in-law ofState treasurer
Thompson, gave up Fleming and
said: "Well, if any Republican is
to be Governor, | prefer Golf. We
are lawyers together and he is a
smart fellow. | am proud of his
personal friendship When Golf
entered his counter contest against
Fleming among the illegal voters
was the name of w. H. Morris.
Hurricane, Putnam county. The
reason assigned for his vote being
| illegal was because he was man
of unsound mind. Putnam De
mocrat.
The Board of Directors Of the
Mountain Lake Park Association
held an important meeting recently,
at which a large amount of routine
business was transacted. The prin-
cipal thing of public importance
done was the appointment Of the
Rev. w. B. Osborn, of Brooklyn,
as the Associations general sup
erintendent. Mr.. Osborn has had
a large experience in this particular
line Of work; he organized and
built up Ocean Grove and several
other religious summer resarts.
Mr.. Osborn was also for a number
of years a missionary in India. In
connection with the passing of the
Associations property into this new
SUPPLEMENTARY, the Mountain
Lake Park hotel was transferred
by Mr.. H. H. Vanmeter, who has
had charge of it ever since the
place was first opened to the public
as resort, to DIR. c. P. Masden,
kof New York, formerly pastor Of the
Fourth St. M. E. Church, Wheel
ing, and one of the originators Of
Mountain Lake Park, and the Rev.
c. w. Baldwin, of Washington,
D. c. The prospects are that the
coming season at the Park will be
one of the most enjoyable and
prosperous ever known.
Pleasant Birthday Party.