The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-26
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RE CbiOuSO8a Jail NiuO VIII
formally open the season at that
place on Decoration Day.
A MAN and his two sons were fined
$3.50. for seining fish in Dunkard
creek Greene county, Pa, few day 8
ago.
A COW owned by c. S. Rogers
was struck and killed by passenger
engine on Beechurst addition Thurs
day.
THE West Virginia Artificial stone
Co, with capital of 100000 will
be organized at Fairmont this week.
The plant will be put up at once.
LITTLE John Wright a few days
ago found silver coin that bore the
head of George Ill, of England, and
date of ITS, or the fifteenth year of
that rulers reign.
The stakes have been put up for a
race between james Conklin's horse,
Jim Grow" and Ranger b." owned
by James Warner. The race will
come off on the Fairmont track, June
9th.
PRICE Bros, of this place have re-
ceived the contract for putting in
the desks, book cases &c, in the Ii
brary which was presented to the
town of Carnegie Pa, by Andrew
Carnegie.
The University will soon run it's
own electric lighting dynamo. The
buildings are all wired and the plant
will be completed before Commence
ment. The Mechanical Hall engine
will furnish the motive power.
W. S. PIPES, charged with killing
Porter Hoffman at Waynesburg, will
be tried at Washington, Pa, June
25. Pipes secured change of venue
and the case was removed to Union
town, and later to Washington.
LONG ALLEY is now known as
Chestnut street, but the name has
never been officially changed. We
would suggest to Council that it
might find name that would be
more appropriate than Bumbo Lane,
for that thorough fare
WHAT is the matter with the City
Fathers providing cart to be used,
say once or twice week, to go along
the streets and haul off the accumu-
lated rubbish; on condition that the
citizens sweep up same into piles;
This plan works splendidly in
Waynesburg where it was adopted
sometime ago.
THERE are Is members of the Mon
nongalia county bar. According to
the eternal fitness of things. the gen
tlemen should play at least one game
of base ball, Should they play, we
give the Umpire fair warning never
to get into the clutches of the law,
unless he desires to ''stretch hemp"
for they'll be forninst him to a man.
THE Waynesburg Independent in
speaking of the closing exercises of
the public school of that town says:
THE closing exercises of the rooms
last week consisted principally of
drills in exemplification of the
Pollard system which was inaugu-
rated with the term just closed, to
gether with declarations" Garry
the news to Breckenridge,
A BUSINESS man who doesn't adj
vertise is like a man who goes fish
ing without any bait and bangles
the naked hook in the water, trust
ing to luck that some fish will acct
IDENTIFY run up against it and be
caught. Not infrequently will men
enter some business, put out little
sign and then wait for some one to
accidentally find that they want Gus
toners.
AT recent meeting of the Pitts
burg Humane society the encour.
aging statement was made that the
use of the high over-check is becom-
ing less frequent, and that
men having the care of horses are
becoming more thoughtful for their
comfort. 1t is pity that Nor
gantown has no Humane society to
look after the welfare of horses tor
tured by the over check.
The new tow boat built by Dew
ing q Sons at Pit Marion has been
taken to Brownsville where the ma
ehinery of the Horace will be put on
her. The new boat belongs to the
mill company and will be named
"Dewing and Sons The old hull
of the Horace ought to make good
wharf boat, and some enterprising
citizen of Morgantown should buy
it, and thus fill that long left want.
LAST week the managers of the
geological gardens of New York dis
posed of Tip, the big and vicious ell
ephant, presented to the gardens by
Adam Forepaugh. Quite a quaint
ty of poison was administered before
Tip gave up the ghost. The ele-
plant had killed eight men since his
captivity, hence he was dispatched
for his murderous habits He ought
to have been electrocuted according
to the laws of the State.
THE docket, for the June term,
1894, of the Circuit Court of Monon-
gala county has been printed and
distributed among members of the
Bar. There are la State cases, of
which 16 are for felony. The felon-
les consist of enlightenment, forgery,
assault with intent to kill, assault
with intent to commit rape and bur
glary. There are 81 civil cases and
1870 Chancery causes. Court con
venes June u, and promises to be
rather lively.
RUFUS WEST will have charge of
the University electric light plant.
There will be II arc lights on the
campus for the present. Students
of the Mechanical department will
assist in attending to the dynamo
and are now wiring the buildings,
they are gaining practical knowledge
of electricity in addition to book
"larnen." If they take their "best
girls" up for stroll and to tell them
all about show it was done"-well
we were all boys once and know how
| it is ourselves.
AS Morgantown has no crematory
in which to dispose of garbage, some
vacant lot outside of the town should
be rented by the town and used as g
dumping place for all refuse. Once
a week this refuse could be fired, and
the citizens in various parts of the