The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-05-11

beers at Lazier's on Friday night.
The menu was excellent and mirth
ran high
LAY in a supply of diamond dust
-four. 1t will not be SO cheap again
and can be had at Henry 5. Hayes
at SO per barrel--$l less than the
regular price.
MEssRs. WHARTON q WEAVER have
the contract for furnishing three
hundred thousand feet of lum Der for
the oil rigs that are now being put
up on DAls run.
The cadets are talking of going to
Grafton Decoration Day. The good
people of the City of Peaks will give
them cordial welcome and are anx-
ious for them to attend.
HUTCHINSON q JACOBS are having
an unusually heavy trade this spring
which proves that prices are right
and a glance at their shelves show
that they have the goods.
WHEN a Fairmont society man
sees "no cards" at the end of the
marriage notice Of a friend, he re-
marks that "that girl has put some
of her pious notions into Jim's head,
but he'll get over them after he's
married while"
ROAD CARTS have become "quite
the entire thing in Mosgantown,
and it is the rule and not the excep-
ton to see the young blood in a neat
cart pulling the ribbons on a dandy
critter. The number of good driving
horses has also increased and every
evening can be seen exhibitions of
good horsefesh.
PRoF. w. z. WILEY, of the State
University, delivered his splendid
lecture entitled "There's a Women
In 1t" in the Palatine NJ +. church
last Friday evening, to most APP
preciative audience. 1t was full of
instruction, sense and wit, and was
eloquently spoken. The Indictment
weather kept many away who would
otherwise have attended, but a fair
audience greeted the speaker never
theless, and all were most favorably
impressed with Mr.. Willey's merits
as q public lecturer.-Fdirmont
Inder.
A FORTUNE awaits the man who
will establish hack line from here
to Crows Ferry. The boats leave
Pittsburg at 4:30 p. NJ. and run to
Crows Ferry, four miles this side of
Greensboro, by 9 O'Clock next morn
ing. A hack could come from there
here in at least two hours. This
would be the way all the oil men
from Pittsburg would come if hack
line were established on the line we
speak of The road is good one,
the drive would be pleasure this
fine weather, and the trip from Pitts
burg preferable to the railroad. Who
is he who will start the hack line?
There's money in it?
The oil boom has made j. Calvin
Morris the victim of lunacy Nor
ris' land is near that of Lemley,
and his excitement at the prospect
of a big fortune became so great
that he is now raving maniac. He
has always been respected and up
right citizen and his unfortunate
condition is deeply deplored. He
had been run after great deal by
oil men who wished to lease his farm
and the bargainings and other mat
tiers drove him crazy. The first
symptoms were developed on Friday,
when he came to town on horseback
and walked home forgetting he had
ridden into town. He now has to be
guarded. We hope for his early re-
eoyery.
A ROAD such as the one from here
to Jimtown would be a disgrace to
any county. That road is disgrace
to Monongalia county. If it is not
ordered repaired by the County Com
missioners the citizens of Morgan
town should raise common fund by
private subscription sufficient to de-
fray the expense of that needed re
pairing. The drive from here to the
Lemley oil field would be pleasure
to the operator and Morgantown
would become headquarters for many
of them if we had good road from
here to Jimtown. 1t would be for
Morgantpwn's benefit to have the
road repaired-oil men won't make
this their abiding place when such a
piece of road as that has to be en-
countered every time drive to and
from the well is made. That jim
town road must be repaired.
THERE is one practice here which
is sure to prove detrimental to our
progress if it is continued. 1t is the
want-more policy A property holder
who receives good offer for his
property Immediately raises the price
high up in the air and scares the
proposed purchaser off the ground.
We know of dozens of this kind of
cases. The full amount of the prop
erty's worth is generally offered at
these times. The person thinks he
can always get more and as a result
he keeps his property at his price
and then feels like kicking himself
because he did not accept the offer
made. Nobody wants to move to
town where the fictitious value put
on house is so enormous. In nine
cases out of ten property owner
asks two prices for his place because
the proposed purchaser is stranger,
and in that way the stranger tells
other strangers that in buying a
house here its owner wants you to
pay for whole town. Such policy
is the kind of folly that hurts the
town and darkens her prospects.
When you get reasonable offer
either take it or say you don't want
to sell. There's a good deal of trans
ferring in prospect now
Letter List.
The following letters remain I'M
claimed in the Morgantown, W. Va,
postofice, May 6, 1889:
Miss Lena Lucas, Miss Prida