The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-02-06
IxvExrosY sale at Hirsehman' S.

INVENTORY sale at Hirsehman's
READ Hirchman's big Advertise
ment.
SEE Moss Jollities Thursday, Feb.
IL.
EVERYBODY is going to see Hoyt's
"a Trip to Chinatown" next Friday
evening.
PRICES that talk: Eye openers
every one of them; read them in
Hirschman's Advertisement.
DIR. r. W. DoUTHAT has rented the
brick belonging to e. Price on Spruce
street and will move into 1t April
first.
THE st. Charles Hotel was sold re-
Gently in Clarksburg at public auction
bringing over 800
ABOUT the nerviest thing on rec
ord is done by an exchange which
runs the births under the head of
little squalls.
The committee appointed by the
Legislature to visit the University
will be here tomorrow. They leave
Charleston this evening.
IT may be all right for Governor
Atkinson to appoint his son to be
his private secretary at a salary of
81, 200 but it doesn't look all right
THE Legislature has killed the reso-
luton asking Congress to pass the
Nicaragua canal bill arguing that
congress knows more about it than
the proposed instructors do.
THERE is one individual who does
not kick about the cold weather,
The man who is blessed with a ruby
proboscis doesn't need to make any
excuses as long as it prevails.
A PETITION containing $500 names
of persons living in the proposed coun-
ty of Augusta and who favor its for
nation has been sent to Charleston
and presented to the legislature.
MARTIN Cribs, 81 Kingwood, will
move his family to this place as soon
as suitable arrangements can be made.
He is stone mason and has been
working here for some time. We are
glad to welcome new citizens.
SATURDAY workmen dug up and re-
paired bad break in the water line
on Main street In front OF the Brock,
Reed s. Wade building. The break
had been there for some days and sew
eral of the cellars in the building
were flooded.
Ii the livery men have not reaped
a rich harvest from the rent of
sleighs it has not been the fault of
the weather. Seldom if ever has
there been such protracted seige
of low temperature as we have re-
Gently experienced.
| QUITE a fashionable audience will
attend the play at the opera house on
Friday evening. 1t is understood
that our society people Will generally
go in fill dress. The play, ga Trip
to Chinatown" is one of the most
popular in the country.
SATURDAY night the mercury hit
the toboggan slide in way which
was simply astonishing In the af-
ternoon it had gone up to about freez-
ing but as the sun set it scooted for o
hole and by midnight it was further
below zero than any time during the
recent cold SPELL
The B. d O. has some distinctions
and advantages that the public are
not fully aware of. 1t is the short
est line to Washington from from st
Louis by l02 miles; from Chicago by
So miles; from indianapolis by 112
miles; from Cincinnati by AZ miles !;
from Cleveland by SO miles; from
Toledo by 40 miles, and from Pitts
burg by 70 miles.
CLARKsBURe people are very much
in earnest in their opposition to the
formation Of Augusta county and
last week held a public meeting and
appointed Hon. John Basel and
Hon. c. W: Lynch to represent them
at Charleston in the fight against
it. These gentlemen are now in
Charleston and are doing all in their
power to kill the measure.
THE electric lights took quite a
spell last week and for several nights
were very unreliable. The engine
now In Use at the plant is too small
for the large list of subscribers and a
new and larger engine will shortly be
installed. The demand for electricity
has kept even with the progress of the
town and constant Improvements have
been necessitated and made all along
the line.