The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-21

CHEsTNUTs always come with the
October term OF court, and this time
is no exception TO the rule of cen
tury past.
The state press humorists, beg
pardon, would-be humorists is bet
ter, are wearisome to = degree their
frail intellects cannot fathom.
The game and bird law will soon
lift its prohibitory veil But par
tridges are scarce indeed this year.
The unusual severity of last winter
froze them out bodily.
The unexpected frequently hap
pens. John Meeks does not preside
behind stand Of edibles and drink
ables at this term of court. What's
wrong with the cider crop?
THIS has been a year of phenome-
nal and surprising weather. No
one now living remembers when it
was so actually warm as late in
October as it was all of last week.
MANY people predict that a very
great throng will be here to- morrow
to see the Barnum show. In fact
many think that more people will be
in town than ever before at one time.
GEORGE S. VANCE is now a resi-
dent of Morgantown He and his
esteemed family have taken up their
abode in his residence recently pur-
chased Of VIM. /. Protzman, on
Spruce street.
The work Of raising dam No. 8 by
putting on layer Of concrete Is
inches thick has been completed and
gives a bountiful supply Of slack wa
ter in the channel at Morgantown.
The work was done under the direc.
ton Of Col. Golay.
STEPHEN DAVIS, who lives over in
Grant district and drives here every
morning to attend the University,
had his road cart completely demol-
ished Friday morning. He let his
horse stand for few minutes, when
the animal walked off, increasing
his gait to q trot and then to dead
run. The horse was not hurt.
DEMuRRAGE on loaded cars at a
dollar day soon adds materially to
to the cost of grain, hay, -four, bran
or shorts. Having its own r. r.
switch or siding, and elevator and
plenty Of store room, the Victor Mills
Co. pays no demurrage but unloads
each car on the day of its. arrival,
and SO charges no demurrage to its
customers.
The postohice department has
made ruling that postmasters must
not furnish the addresses of patrons
of the office to creditors or others
DESTROYS of ascertaining their where
abouts. The decision says that ex-
cept for the purpose of delivering
mail to them a postmaster is pre-
sumed to have no knowledge of the
patrons of the office.
WHILE a newspaper may print
column after column eulogistic of
its town, its very brightest sayings
will be received with grain of doubt
II its advertising columns do not
bear the impress of enterprise. A
newspaper to be real benefit to a
town in the way of attracting inves-
tors must be the joint production of
the publisher and the local business
men.
The recent conference of coal op
orators and miners held in Pitts
burg ended without an agreement
being reached. The operators along
the Monongahela told the miners
they could not pay scale wages and
compete with those who were paw
ing only the reduced figure. The
failure to agree will 10 doubt stop
many Of the mines that are now run
ming.
HE division of the public schools
taught by Miss Jessie Reay, which
was closed as quarantine measure
to prevent a spread Of infectious
diseases with which some of the
little pupils were affected, is now in
working order again and the scholars
are healthy and happy, there being
but very few absentees on account
of illness. To close for few DAYS
was eminently proper.
A RAILROAD man was asked few
days ago where the train run would
be from and to, when the extension
is completed. He said that matter
had not been decided. There was
talk of making the run from Grafton
to Connellsville, Fairmont to Pitts
burg and from Clarksburg, by way
of the M. r. Railroad, to Uniontown,
but that he believed the run would
he the first mentioned.
A PHYSICIAN, in writing about
drinking water, says: "If in any
house there should occur single
case of typhoid fever or diphtheria,
test the drinking water or have it
done at once. A few cents will buv
an ounce of saturated solution ofper-
of potash at chemists.
If when a drop of the solution is adj
ded to tumbler of water its color
changes to brown, it is unfit to
drink; if it remains clear or slightly |
colored after an hour, it is, broadly |
speaking, safe"
IT is said that Granville and Ran
dali are both trying to show those
officials empowered with the authori-
ty to locate railroad stations that
one point is vastly more important
than the other, and vice versa.
These places are barely one mile
distant from each other, and the con
troversy is likely to be settled by
locating the station midway between
the places. Then wouldn't there be
a scramble in the County Court to
get control of the ferry that would-t
most certainly be established?
You want to know how to bring
about good times?' Stop croakiug,
pay your debts and so enable Others
TO pay theirs; buy for CASH, and put
the money you have boarded, again
in circulation. These things will all
help business and to restore good
times. Come to Barnum's circus.
See the great crowds, and pay cash
and take home in exchange baled |
hay, chop, meal, bran, feed or flour
as you need them, from the large,
cheap lot of most excellent stock
constantly kept on hand by the Vic
tor Mills Co.
HAULING by wagon from the rail