The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26

J1e season june l.
SO CTS, FOR salt at Posten's. Buy
now; this may not last long.
A PARTY of Uniontowners passed
through town Monday for point
near Wheeling where they will try
to catch fish.
PRoTzMAS's Brass Band will prob
ably go to Grafton on Memorial
Day. If the boys 60 they will cover
themselves with glory.
JOHN A PRICE has been doing
some very fine hardwood finishing in
various places about town. John is
a workman of rare skill and taste.
A FIERCE forest fire ragged for two
days in Laurel mountain, Fayette
county, Pa. last week. Two hun
bred acres of timber was destroyed.
PRoTzMAN's Band will escort the
members of the G. A r. Sunday
morning from near Skaters store to
the NJ. p church where the annual
sermon will be delivered.
CARPET layers from Pittsburg are
laying the carpets in the Hotel Pea
body. The workmen are rushing
all of the repairs for the opening of
the hotel to the public June l.
The Rod and Gun Club, of Fair
mont, is after the men who dynami-
ted fish at GAINESVILLE The banks
of the stream at that point were
strewn with dead fish a few days
ago.
MoRGANTowN husbands have
sprung a new excuse on their wives
for not attending church. Every
last one of them have to go to the
11:30 train to get the papers or see a
man.
OVER one hundred buildings were
burned down in Boston on the 18th,
inst. One thousand people were
made homeless and the money loss
reached half million. But one per
son was killed.
F. M. DURBIN, as receiver, will sell
all the property of the Buckhannon
River Lumber Company, under de-
cree of the United States court, on
June 4th The advertisement APP
pears in another column.
The excursion season has already
opened on the F. NJ. d p. r. r., and
there is good reason to believe that
thousands of people from neighbor-
ing towns in w. Va, and Pa, will
visit Morgantown this Summer.
THE passenger train had to slack
up Monday to allow a citizen to get
off the bridge below the wharf Some
Of these days, as we have said before,
the train will fail to slack up in time
and-we will all be sorry when the
funeral comes off.
THE big sea turtle received by
caterer John Hunt yesterday is at
tracing a great deal of attention.
1t is 33 inches long, % inches wide,
and weighs so pounds. 1t is the
largest turtle ever brought to town,
but alas he will soon bein soup.
"UNoLE BILLY" WELLS has sold off
all of his sheep. He says that there
is no use trying to raise them so
near town as the mongrel ours il
town kill them off about as fast as
he can import them. He had %
killed during the past three or four
weeks.
A LARGE number of our people will
attend the races, to be given by the
Taylor County Fair Association, at
Grafton on Memorial Day, May 80.
A number of good horses have been
entered, and the races promise to be
the most exciting in the history of
the Association.
Mr.. WAITMAN BARRIE, President of
the Alumni Association of the Uni
versity, is using every effort to make
the annual meeting marked success.
The close of the meeting this year
will be grand banquet ON the 18th
of June. Every Alumnus should
feel in honor bound to attend.
NErGHBoRs who have not been on
speaking terms for year are talk
ing to each other now. One yells,
"keep your NANCY cur out of my
garden or I'll blow his head off,"
this answer is gently waited back,
"keep your old shanghai out of my
cornpatch or I'll smash i'm in the
neck"
A PET coon belonging to Samuel
Pickenpaugh, Jr., turned up missing
at breakfast time Sunday, and Sam
uel found him later stretched
out on board basking in the sun.
About the same time Charlie Hitch
ems found % spring chickens dead
or missing. The coon is picking
feathers and saying nothing.
THE portable saw mill owned and
operated by Phillips & Lemon on
the Big Survey, was damaged $3.50,
by fire Friday night. The fire was
discovered just in time to prevent
the total destruction of the plant
There was fire in the boiler furnace,
but it is not known whether the
blaze was started by a spark from
the furnace or was the work of an
incendiary.
THE exchange bank of Manning
ton, of which Chas. E. Jolliffe is
cashier has been rather remarkable
business success. Though it has
been organized but two years its
loans are over $2lS,000 and its de
posits $2SS,000, while it's cash items
foot up over $4,000. That is
very remarkable showing indeed.
There is skillful business manage
ment in that institution.
w. j. W. CowDEN, ex- Post Master,
of Wheeling, some time ago brought
suit against the Pittsburg Post
claiming heavy damages for libel, on
account of some charges published
concerning his administration of the
Postoffice. A few days ago he.was
non suited for the reason that there
was nothing to show that the charg-
es were false and they related to
public office and were privileged.
GORDON KIGER caught 81 pound
catfish Saturday in the Monongahela
river four miles south of town. He
was fishing with trot line and when
the cat began to surge concluded
that he had hooked whale and at
once secured dip-net. 1t took two
men half an hour to land the fish,
and when thew finally sncceeded in