The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-02-20

A MERCHANT without an adver-
tisement is like bull dog without
teeth-poorly equipped for business.
The law exams. are in progress
and the lawyers are now wearing
that Pll-pass-if- it-breaks- a. hame-
string air.
AN opera singer dropped dead last
week while singing before an audi
ence. Such a happy relief has often
been wished for by people here dur
ing performances.
The fathers of triplets recently
wrote to the department of agricul-
ture asking for reward for this
notable achievement. His heart was
saddened by reply intimating that
such feats were not deemed worthy
OF encouragement.
''TRILBY" is to be played in Fair
mont in the near future. 1t is I'M
derstood that an outsider had to be
secured as no Fairmont girl had
pedal extremities which met the re-
quirements in the make up of the
principal character
The Fairmont train due here
from the South at 1l50 a. m. did not
arrive till 1890 on Saturday. The
engine sprung leak at Point Mar
ion and in its crippled condition had
to be assisted by shifting engines
throughout the balance of the run.
ConnellsuiHe Courier.
A LIGHTNING calculator afforded
much amusement to large crowd
on the streets one day last week. He
gave some marvellous exhibitions of
his skill and showed conclusively
that many minutes could be saved
in using his system. He represent
ed business college in Baltimore.
The bill providing for the separa-
ton of the School for the blind at
Romney from that for the deaf and
dumb has been reported adversely
and consequently will not pass. The
prospect for the separation raised
quite a lively row between several
cities which were desirousof securing
the location of the proposed branch
but this turn will cause them to
bury the Ratchet.
THE Washington Star of recent
date has an account of it in a paper
recently read before company of
engineers in Washington by w. Mil
ton Farrow. His subject is one dear
to his heart, that of making rifles
and the history of rifle making. His
address is complimented very highly
by the Star. We are glad to learn
that the Captain is making such a
favorable impression in his new
home.
A. S. LAW of the University who
is Superintendent of Free Schools in
Harrison county is getting out an
annual containing the named of each
teacher in the county, the number
of pupils enrolled in his school and
other equally important information.
This move is very commendablc
one and could be followed with pro-
fit by many other Superintendent.
The cost of the undertaking howev-
er will bar great many from at
tempting such work.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from
Warrington says the South Penn
! Oil Company has just completed
remarkable well on the L. G. Gala
CHER farm, located on Flat Run, four
or five miles north of that place. The
location of the well is on high ele-
walton, which necessitated drilling a
depth of 3,540 feet before the Cor
don sand was reached. The well is
producing at the rate of 200 barrels
a day and has the distinction of be-
ing the deepest oil producing well in
the world.
j FROM different sections of the state
comes tales of woe over the failure
of those Tennessee building and loan
associations. Some investors have lost
as high as $4,000 and great numbers
have lost lesser sums. In view of
these failures the solid substantial
conduct of all our home talent asso-
Citations is all the more commenda-
Bile. Invest your money where you
know the people are safe, conserva-
tive and business like in handling
it. 1t would not be worth while to
even try to beat the Morgantown in
vestors There are too many safe
guards both in the character of the
officers chosen and in the security
they have given.
THE question of whether all Of our
State Normal Schools ought to be
perpetuated by the Legislature ap-
propriating money from time to
time, OF whether the State should
turn all of the funds so appropriated
into one University and make it
! what it, of right, ought to be, is
now agitating many minds.- The
Normals are measureably local, and
counties which are not at least ad-
, jacent to them receive but little, if
| any, profit from them. While on
J the other hand, the University is ac-
! cessible to all. We mean to say
tutt ~ 10 a HucooiOh, anu i"ohSi q
, delicate one it is, and a move to dis
; pense with the Normals as State in
situations should be well considered
before it is made.-Cdlhoun Chroni
' Gle
GAIT ISAAC WOODWARD, presi-
1 dent of the Pittsburg, Brownsville
! and Morgantown line, is about the
D oldest steamboatman living in West
e ern Pennsylvania. He ia "a years
!. old and is still enjoying vigorous
life on his farm near town. Capt.
M. A. Cox is the oldest steamboat
man in this vicinity in active SER
: vice. He was born in 1921, began
steamboating in 1874, and has been
engaged in it without intermission
since. During that time he has been
! clerk and captain Of twenty-three
I different boats, running on the Ohio
4 Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas
/ Cumberland and Monongahela rivers
4 At the present time he Is the genial
j commander Of the Adam Jacobs. 80
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