The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-08-29

rangements to remain permanently at
home hereafter and keep his Office open
all the time. Any one needing his ser
vices can find him always prepared to
wait ON them.
DIR. w. e. STEWART, dentist,
office over Rice's store.
APPLES are selling as low as ten
cents per bushel around Uniontown.
HAVE your Fall Suit made to
measure. No fit No pay, at Mem
myers, Morgantown.
w. S. BAKER has taken the con
tract for building Mrs. Naret's
house on North High street
Persons who live in the noun
tains report that there will be an
unusually large crop Of chestnuts
this year.
A NEW forebay is being built at
the Mackey Mill on Decker's creek
to replace the old one which was
torn away by the high water.
The iron bridge across Decker
creek, which was torn off its foun-
dation during the July floods has
been reset and is as strong as ever
EVERY one should be thorough
informed concerning the question
at issue in the present campaign.
Keep posted by subscribing for the
NEW DOMINION.
The elephant is commonly sup
posed to be slow, clumsy fellow,
but when frightened he can attain a
speed of twenty miles an hour and
keep it up for a half day.
A BODY of United States troops
was fired upon on August 18th, by
the Yoqui Indians. A fight ensued
in which number of the Indians
were killed and the entire band cap
tured.
JOSH BILLINGS says: ssThere is
no more real satisfackshun in laying
up in your buzzum an injury than
there is in stuffing a dead hornet
which has stung you, and keeping
him to look at.
ALREADY some students are here
for the opening of the year at the
University which occurs on the 9th
of September-two weeks from to-
day Every indication points to
larger attendance than ever before.
THE small boy stands and looks
with longing eyes at the fine clus-
tiers of gsapes in the Experiment
Station vineyard, but he doesn't
like the looks of that green powder
on the leaves. They have been
sprayed with Paris Green.
BUSINESS men generally are pre-
pairing for quite good fall trade.
Some of our merchants are receiving
early installments of fall goods and
many of them predict good business
notwithstanding the usual demoral-
izing effects of campaign year.
WEST Morgantown is growing in
to an important suburb. A barber
shop has just been opened and John
Boyles will soon open store. The
brick yard is one of the leading in
dnstries and besides, number of
the incest residences about town are
over there.
DR.. JESSE JAMESON has been boast
ing this week about little baby
girl that come to his home last Sun
day. "She weighs 25 pounds and
quarter, and will vote theDemocratic
ticket just as soon as woman suf-
frage carries the day." says the doc
tor Fairmont Free Press.
= The sale of the +. j. Evans lands
was postponed from last Saturday
to Monday Sept. 7th as the bids
were not considered high enough.
IA bid of $4,000 was made for the
whole lot but competent judges do
not regard that sum as over sixty
per cent of its real value Notice of
the postponement is given in anoth-
er column.
DID you ever see real Brownie?
OF course you have not. Well, if you
attend the Barlow Bros. Minstrels you
will see the only Brownie who has ey-
er escaped from Fairyland. Bring the
children to see little Eddie Pinaud,
the Brownie bicyclist and athlete. He
only weighs 20 pounds and is the most
skillful wheelman in the country.
Opera House Friday Aug. 2s.
MANY of the very foolish, falla-
cious and untruthful arguments of
fered by Morgantown Republicans
to people they think know no better
than to believe them, are enough to
excite the risibilities of the most
obtuse. Their foolish talk is always
exposed and thereafter their state
ments have very little weight. Old
time political tactics don't go any
more. People do their own thinking.
THE Mingo Band boys outdid
themselves in their concert in front
of the Wallace House on last Thurs
day night. The boys always do cred
it to themselves when they play, but
it was the unanimous verdict of all
who heard them ON Thursday eve
ming, that they played better than
ever before. Morgantown people
appreciate good music and are proud
Of the Mingo Band. They would be
glad to hear it often.
THIS country declared its inde-
pendence of Great Britain one hun
dred and twenty years ago, when we
had only about six millions of popu-
lation, and there were people in
those days W no claimed that it would
never do, that we could not get along
at all without the help of the mother
country. At Chicago recently there
was another declaration of independ-
encc on different line and there is
the same cry going up, that we must
first get the consent Of England
Shall the American people so far
debaes their manhood as to admit,
when we have population Of nearly
seventy millions and have the big
gest country on the globe in a gen
eral way, a thing our fathers repudi-
ated in the long dim pasts England
is no more powerful now in a finan-
cial way than she was in 1776 in a
fighting way, as compared with
America,