The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-21
STATE MUSEUM.
1T Is FORMALLY OPENED UNDER
Observation-Disclosures

! aSCl MOI aAstAos
A Large Collection Of Interesting Relics
and Specimens and Library Of Five
Thousand Volumes Does Very Well to
Begin With.
CHARLESTON, April THE State
Museum was opened with a grand
reception in the Capitol building. Be
fore the doors of the museum were
thrown open, addresses were deliver
ed in the hall of the House Of Dele
gates to large concourse of people
Governor MacCorkle presided and
introduced the speakers. Judge j.
II. Brown, DIR. j. 2. Hale, Maj.
Thomas L. Broun, Col A. W. Wat
rous, S. L. Flournoy and others de
livered short addresses.
The second Regiment band dis
coursed music through the evening.
Fully fifteen hundred people were in
thebuilding during the evening.
The West Virginia Worlds Fair
exhibits have been. installed in the
armory at the State House, and with
the archives of the Historical and
Antiquarian Society, make most
instructive and handsome display.
While these exhibits are complete
up to date, it is suggested, as they
are to become permanent showing
of the States wealth, that people
should interest themselves to add to
them such specimens as may be de-
veloped hereafter. Manufacturers
especially, are requested to send to
the Capital specimen products OF
their factories. In this way individ-
ual manufacturers will have an OPP
portunity to advertise their special
lines.
The display of the Historical So
ciety is interesting and instructive,
and is we'll worth the visit of any
citizen from the remotest corner of
the State The library comprises
over 5000 volumes covering the his
tory of the Indian wars, the early
settlement, biography of early set
tiers, sketches of travel, history of
the government of Virginia from the
earliest colonial times, the history
of the formation of the State of West
Virginia, with large number of
public documents pertaining thereto
and a large collection of books Gov
ering various subjects written by
West Virginia authors. Among
some of the most interesting of the
relics and historical collections are
a portrait of Daniel Boone. steel
trap used by him to trap beavers in
the Kanawha valley in 1888 (given
by Boone to Paddy Huddleston, by
Huddleston to his son Jared, by
Jared Huddleston to DR. John p.
Hale and by Dr. Hale to the society, J
and walking came cut by Boone on
the Yew Pine mountains in the eau
lev region; an original survey of ten
acres of land near Point Pleasant,
made by Boone in 1851, for which
the Kentucky Historical Society has
offered $500; autograph letters of
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer
son, James Monroe and Thomas
Randolph and an autograph card of
John Randolph; parchment deed
from Cuthbert Bullitt to George
Clendennin for the land on which the
city of Charleston is built and the
first two town plats; the vote of Ka
nawha county on the ordinance Of
secession in 1860; papers to which
there are original autographs of
Willard Fillmore, Daniel Webster
and Edward Everett; wooden
powder bottle carried by Fleming
Cobb in the battle of Point Pleasant
in 1774; powder gourd used by
Capt John Wilson in the war of
1912; brick taken from the ruins
in Rome, Italy, 1900 years ago
snuff box of Hartman Blennerhassett
presented to J. G. Laidley in 1905,
and by his son, Major A. T. Laidley,
presented to the Society; specimen
of needlework done by the women of
the Valley of Virginia before the
Revolutionary war; piece of can
vass embroidery, done by member
of the Laidley family in Scotland in
1850; handsome case of Indian rel
les. presented to this Society by DR..
j. p. Hale and j. F. Cork; coins of
foreign nations many centuries old /;
English numismatic display, etc. The
collections contain thousands of rel
les of various kinds and arranged in
elegant glass TOP cases and easy of
inspection.