The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-07-24

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TENS and save money.
w. E. GLAssCocK has had an ad
. dition containing a bath room ant
n other conveniences built to his resi-
= dence
. SHERIFF HARE is going to make i
interesting to some people if theil
t, taxes are not paid with more celeri
ty than has been displayed up t.
= date.
II THE blackberry crop is the largest
G on record. The vanguard is reaching
town and in few days the whole
n earth will be deluged with the luscious
C berries. They are expected to be
; very cheap and great quantities will
be consumed.
: THE pavement recently laid on Wal
r nut street is very great improvement
D over the narrow one formerly in use
t on that thoroughfare. The making
: of uniform grade has not only help
: ed the looks of things but has made
II much better for pedestrians.
| AN operation for appendicitis at
/ Wheeling revealed a clear case of
cause and effect. The appendage
when removed was found to be com
: pletely filled with raspberry seeds. So
much do the people fear this disease
that the sale Of raspberries has prac-
tically been ruined in Wheeling.
W. H. GILMORE, a son of Capt. T.
j. Gilmore, has opened nice livery
} stable on Beechurst Avenue and is
prepared to furnish nice rigs, saddle
horses and everything else in that
line. Mr.. Gilmore is very obliging
gentleman and all who deal with
him will get the very best service.
IT is claimed that the Ohio river
stands third in commercial import
ance OF all the rivers of the world. In
the single item Of coal alone it is esti-
mated that nearly four millions are
sent to market over the Ohio every
year. Allowing about rs tons to the
car, which is fair average, this would
load 1865, 600 freight cars, which IT.
made up in single train would be
about ], 161 miles long
W1rH the outgoing OF the Monon-
gahela Navigation company Major
Thomas MCGOWAN of Monongahela
disappears from the public service.
He has been with the company since
1874 first as laborer and afterward
as superintendent of repairs. He is
now free man almost the first time
in his life time and is already ar
ranging for one more protracted and !
final deer hunt some where in
the mountains this fall
Ii was reported that the stomach |
of Abe Echards, of Harrisville, had |
been sent here for examination by the |
state chemist Prof. Whitehill but the |
rumor is unfounded. Foul play was
suspected as the cause of Echards |
death as he died very suddenly while
apparently in the best of health. He
had recently come into possession of |
quite large sum of money through
the sale of his farm. The body was
exhumed some days after the burial
and an examination made. Sufficient
evidence existed to warrant a further
inquiry and accordingly the stomach
was taken out and sent to Parkers-
burg. Poisoning is suspected. The
result of the analysis has not yet been
published.
WHEN your neighbours chickens
scratch up your garden or your flower
beds or otherwise annoy you, here is
remedy that will cure them every
time. Procure lot of small stiff
cards about 1x2 inches, write on the
CARDS, "Please keep your chickens at
home, tie short string to each card
with grain Of corn on the other end
OF the string and scatter these with
some corn in the place where the
chickens congregate. When the hun
CRY biddy gobbles up the grain that
draws the prize she follows up the
string, slowing it away till she comes
to the card, which of course she can't !
swallow. Then you will see her pull !
out for home, carrying in her mouth i
the card bearing your polite request.
FRANK SHAY, of this place, and !
Althia Woodward, of Preston county, !.
have escaped from the Reform school !,
and are still at large. The superin-
tendent offers reward of $40 for the '
apprehension of either of them. |
Frank had been model boy since his |
connection with the institution and /
was employed in the printing office t
where he was pressman. The yearn- S
ing for freedom proved too strong, how f
ever, and the taste of liberty given O
him urged him to further urge it, So
he and Woodward decamped. They 9
will be recaptured or record will be !,
broken. No boy has ever yet succeed =
ed in getting entirely away. The =
time of recapture varies but it always =
comes and 1t is expected to come II
again this time.
THESE items are taken from the
l<ingwood Argus One of them is T.
self explanatory but the other reveals Il
| curious state of affairs. 1t is be- a
ieved that such thing as republi- A
AN voluntarily giving up an Office is Il
unprecedented. ''Few die and none I"
'esign,' has become proyerb. Duke W
,he little pitcher is about the bright Ii
st star that ever shone in Kingwood q
md the people there think great deal J,
If him. The clippings are as follows: 9
Duke Dent, the famous pitcher of y
he Kingwood Base Ball Club played a.
n match game at Parsons yesterday II
With the Elkins club and tossed the q
'all for the preachers and struck out q
Eighteen men. The Parsonites won tt
he game by a score of four to one. &c
This is equal to league game. To W
lay they play match game with the Ii
Davis club. r.
The officials Of this county are at 81
asst moving toward an adjustment of n,
he scandal in connection with the :,
'illce Of the Prosecuting Attorney of ~
his county. AS matter of "
act, the county has been without an y
ttorney for several months and the a.
'arty who was elected to this Office "
las done nothing this year but draw te
It's salary. In fact, he has been alb III
ent from the county and state now ef
or several months and the county te
ouTt at this term drew up official til
harges OF neglect Of duty and filed pt
hem with his Honor, Judge Holt, OF ST
he Circuit Court, who ordered the m
he matter spread on the records and ~
office served on Mr.. Wotring at once. =;
he law requires five days notice and n
ne Judge viii be here again next -
l0Dday to declare the Office vacant ~
nd appoint some one In place Of Wot-l
Ing ITO serve till the next general m
lection In November, l608, when III
ono ono viii be regularly elected. &.