The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-08-22
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store recently.
THERE is q woman in Simpson
county, Kentucky, who still spins
and weaves all the cloth worn by
her husband children.
PERRY Walton brought a fine
basket full of fresh fish to town the
other day which he had caught near
the Pump Station. Perry says there
are lots of them in the river but the
trick is to get them out. /.
The proprietors of the Grafton
Pump Factory, who lost such large
amount of timber during the July
foods, have force of men at work
this week, gathering up their logs
that were caught along the banks of
the river.
MANY persons visiting here this
summer have been heard to remark
upon the attractiveness and Clearly
appearance Of our town, and the hos
pitality, culture and prosperity of
it's citizens. Now since we come to
think of it we are inclined to pat
ourselves on the back and conclude
that we are altogether deserving of
the praise.
The Board of Regents Of the Nor
NAL School, have appointed Miss
Jennie Carter to succeed Prof Z. E.
Mercer, resigned, as teacher in the
Normal School. Miss Carter is very
well known here, her parents having
always lived in this county. She
received her education in Nashville,
Tenn, and is in every way qualified
for the position she has received
IadeT.
IF there is anything the people of
Morgantown do enjoy it is good
minstrel show. Therefore the an
nouncement that the great Barlow
Bros. Minstrels would open the sea
son here was received with delight.
Everybody we have heard speak is
going. No doubt the Opera House
will hold the largest crowd ever in
it to see the finest Minstrel Compa-
ny in America.
OSCAR A. CAMPBELL, of Plainfield,
N. j., who took the law course in
the University last year, has return
ed to Morgantown with the inten-
ton of establishing himself in the
practice of his profession. Mr..
Campbell says that he is well pleased
with West Virginia and especially
with Morgantown, and is going to
cast his lot among it's citizens, and
that he has no doubt it will be cast
in pleasant places"
PERHAPS the largest contract of
the kind that was ever entered into
in this country was recorded at Par
sons ON last. Thursday. The Conden-
Lane Boom and Lumber Compa-
ny, of Horton, w. Va, contracted to
deliver at Hendricks, four miles
north of Parsons, 100000 cords of
pulp wood, at $4.50 per cord, amount
ing to $2,250,000. The Piedmont
Pulp and Paper Company, of Pied
mont, w. Va, were the purchasers.
GOVERNOR MacCorkle received in
his mail recently letter from the
wife Of convict, making fearful
appeal for the pardon Of her husband.
The principal ground for her appli-
cation for the pardon is included in
the close of her letter which makes
the following remarkable statement:
"Now, dear governor, please let my
husband come home to his wife and
children. We need him. He has one
little child years old and another
2 years old and he has never seen
either of them"
The work of excavating for the
foundation of the glass factory is be-
ing pushed rapidly forward. Cap
tain Gilmore has the contract and
is working large force of men. The
large furnace is well under way and
the stack will soon be commenced.
The brick building when completed
will be $50 feet long, 60 feet wide
and two stories high. The question
that will soon confront the managers
of the plant, is that of housing their
employees, numbers of whom will be-
fore long be arriving. Now is the
time to build houses to rent.
WE have received from B. F.
johnson Publishing Co., of Rich
mond, Va, neat volume of poems
by Col Dudley H. Davis, of Quiet
Dell, w. Va. 1.-THE Kingdom Gained"
is the most pretentious poem and
gives it's name to the volume. Be-
sides this there are a number of
shorter poems relating principally to
local scenes and incidents. Undoubt-
edly there is much merit in the book.
The Baltimore Herald says Of it:
1T has the radiance of a golden sun
set whose hallowed glow will throw
its beams athwart the shades of the
valley and then glitter anew on the
shore eternal
A NEW writer has been found
among the West Virginia hills, who,
under the nom de plume of Mrs.
Guseman, bids fair to rival some of
our best writer's of fiction. Her first
book, Crazy Marge, or The Noun
tain Midget" is now ready for pub
LEGATION. There is not ore dull or
uninteresting line in the whole man.
uscript, but when once begun the
reader will become SO absorbed with
the thrilling tale that he will not
willingly lay it aside until finished.
The writer is the wife of WIN. A. Guse-
man, of GAINESVILLE. She has written
some beautiful sketches-some Of
which we have read-and when quite
young she wrote for The journal nm
der the nom de plume of Bessie, the
Backwoods Girl. This book is to be
followed in quick succession by the
Robinson Crusoe series, comprising
six books in all, and written espe-
cially for boys Her writings are pure
and good, and parents need not be
afraid to place them in the hands of
their children. Preston County
journal