The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-12-02
DIARIES for 1894 for sale at Ma

windows added to his residence cor
ner Front and Foundry streets.
GEORGE p. ZrsN, who recently re-
moved from Preston county here, is
having a neat dwelling built down
onBeechurst, beyond the carriage fac
tory.
J. j. WHARTON has begun the
erection of new house on Spuce
street, on the lot adjoining Bert Ba-
ker's which he recently purchased OF
John A. Myers.
THREE weeks from next Monday is
Christmas. Four weeks from Fri
day holidays at all the schools will
begin. Every merchant should ad-
vertise for the next four weeks, il
for no other weeks.
The stores will be closed to-mor-
row. The merchants who don't go
hunting will spend the morning
quietly waiting for the beautiful
carcass of that turkey, and the af
ternoon will be dozed away in
dreams of it.
THE steamboat clerks says that
they get more game consigned at
Vaudeville Landing than any point
on the river, especially rabbits. They
also say that so far as they can see
the rule TO kill no partriges this
year is being observed.
The renowned Bishop John w.
Beckwith said when asked his opin-
ion of the same gentleman who is to
lecture here next Monday night: II
never heard a more remarkable ora
tion that The Reign of the Dema-
gogue' by John Temple Graves.
The postal clerkship on the f. M.
d 2. will not remain very long at
the small salary now paid. When
the line is completed the run will be
as good as on the main line and pay
as good salaries-for there will be
several clerks needed then.
MoRGANTowN is in mighty bad
way in the daily news paper way.
There was time when evening pa
pers got here the evening they were
published, but now we do we'll to get
morning papers late in the evening
of the same day. We pray for a
change in the time of trains.
The river was frozen over for the
first time this season Saturday night.
Some boys tried skating on it Sun
day, but they stayed very eloae to
shore. The ice was quite thin, but
it spread all the way across. The
boats coming and going on Sunday
loosened it and it disappeared after
a time
HARD winter signs are appearing
in the geological settlements. Goose
bones have large white spots, hogs
pelts run jagged, muskrats are build
ing enormous huts and squirrels are
laying in unusual supplies. Last
winter was the lesson of a lifetime.
Yon can't fool all the birds and ami
mails all the time.
MEN of money and brains would
not invest in West side coal options
if they were not assured that the
Pennsylvania company will build a
railroad over there some time. The
options would be worth nothing if
a railroad is not to be built. AS
they are worth great deal, why,
then, it is not a visionary idea to
suppose that the road will be forth
coming.
Col. KRETzER, right of way man
for the b. q o., was here last week
to secure ground for depot oppo-
site Jimtown. A purchase was
made of Alpbeus Yeager for the
purpose, at the intersection of the
county road to the river and the
railroad, which connects with Tait's
ferry Col. Kretzer had nothing to
do with giving the station name,
and what 1t will be is not decided.
A PRIVATE sewer has just been
completed connecting the Wood
building with the court house main
sewer. Private sewers are becoming
more numerous each year, but there
are quarters of town that will never
be improved from sanitary stand
point till some measure by council
is adopted which will compel it. A
town full of sewers is never a town
full of fever or other infectious dis
eases.
SLIDELL Brown, of Kingwood,s cer-
tainiy must have very immoral
wheel in his head. His paper I'M
blushingly says: "a Chinaman walk
ed into a waiting room and took a
seat beside an Irish market woman.
The Chinaman seemed to want to
make himself agreeable, and, rubbing
his hands, remarked: "Belly cold"
The woman looked at him with an
air of contempt and said: "If you d
put yer shirt inside yer pants yer
belly wouldn't be cowld, yer hsythen
blaguard."
A GLIB-ToNGUED stranger with a
new swindle has made his appearance
in some of the neighboring counties.
He asks whether or not the family
have lost any children, and if the
answer be in the affirmative, the age
etc, will be asked. Subsequently he
put in an appearance with a certifi-
cate containing the information,
and demands SIS for the same His
idea is to brighten the women into
paying the amount. Throw a pan
of hot ashes in his face, or let the
bull dog fondle him.
THE cattle market is fair, but
sheep are dull and the price low.
This is caused by the mad desire of
some people to get rid of their sheep
and go out of the business. Farm
ers will tell you that tho man who
changes his stock to suit every whim
of the market rarely makes any
money, and he who at this time
rushes sheep into the market makes
a serious mistake. Sheep will al
ways pay in West Virginia as well
as cattle if not better. and the far
me? who keeps we'll selected flock
of good coarse-w wool ewes will always
be ahead of his neighbor who chang
es his stock as often as the market
huctuates.
A MAN who knows says there is
not very much coal land near the
railroad on this side of the river for
sale. He goes further to say that
some years ago this land was all not
only optioned but sold to men who
knew at the time of purchasing that
the extension of the railroad was a
certainty. They bought in order