The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-12-01

ceries and anything you want to eat.
THERE are but five women teachers
in the Wyoming county schools.
A COMMISSION has been issued to
Thomas NJ. Pixler as postmaster at
Dellslow.
Born ON Saturday, November 81,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Furlong, OF
Beechurst, a daughter
JEFFERSON FULLER, a Wayne
county farmer, grew pears this year
weighing two pounds each.
WILLIAM Waller, Of Wheeling, is
at work on a flying machine which he
claims will startle the world.
THE Huntington health report for
six months shows "a deaths, con-
sumption leading all causes with
one-seveDth.
| A soMNAMBULIsT, Ethan Bonnet,
of Harrison county, fell into fire
and was seriously burned. His feet
will have to be amputated.
GRANT MOODY, whose skull was
fractured by a rock thrown by John
G. Dingess, near Huntington, has
died from the effects of the injury.
Born on Friday, November Goth,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Hackney, at
the Experiment Station farm,
bouncing boy.
CLARENCE Mason, of Putnam coun-
] ty, took nine pounds of fat from a
| 'possum killed there, the other night.
In Putnam they use 'possum fat and
save lard.
A TWO hundred barrel producer
has been struck in the Former field.
This will do much to relieve the rep
utation of the field which had begun
to be pretty bad.
GEN. JOHN MCGAUsLAND, the
agricultural king of Mason county,
has chartered the steamer Gabrielle
to transport to market his crop Of
wheat, aggregating over e,000 BUSH
els
THE Monday progress in obtaining
| jurors in the Eastman case was much
more rapid than was expected. Six
new jurors were accepted. bringing
the total up to sixteen. Twenty-one
are wanted When this number is
secured the trial will begin at once.
They may be obtained to-day.
YESTERDAY afternoon people at the
depot were treated to novel sight
The jacket on the passenger engine
had become SO hot that it was al
most on fire. The engine had to be
drenched thoroughly with water be-
fore the train pulled out. A large
number of people watched the oper-
alton with interest.
NJ S. CORNwELL, the sweet singer
of the Hampshire Review, whose fine
poem, "The Editor Man" was so
warmly received at the last meeting
Of the State Editorial Association,
left this week for Ell Paso, Texas,
where he believes the climate will
improve his health. Mr.Cornwe,l
has been i'll for the past year, and
his many friends throughout the State
will hope for his complete recovery.
The distinguished editor of the
Wetzel Democrat has been having
trouble with the gas He calculates
as follows in the last issue of the
Democrat: Turn down your gas
at night. We had to jump out this
week in our-none of your pajamas
either-and rush through fiery hot
room to red hot stove like old
Abednego. Before-to bed you 60
turn down the gas"
A LETTER from Bennett S. White
states that he expects to come home
for couple Of days during the holi-
days. He is in Proyidedce, r. L.,
with Brown & Sharpe. This flrm has
the largest, most Systematically ar
ranged and conducted plant of its
kind in the world. BENEFITS many
friends will be glad to learn that he
is doing very well in his position and
is most pleasantly situated.
BuTcHMRING season is now on in
the country and the poor swine is
now learning why he has been fed
so bounteously Of late. There are a
good many hogs this year and the
farmers are beginning to brush up
against each other in the contest for
the Largest hog in the neighbor
hood" The stories of big porkers
will soon be flying around.
4 RECENTLY telephone inquiry
came to this office from Dellslow
asking if it were unlawful to kill
wild turkeys. After telling the
questioner about the law in question
he was asked why he desired to
know and he replied that there were
a couple of flocks of turkeys where
he was and that if it were lawful to
| kill them he wanted to know it.
WE have received many inquiries
whether the legislature Of w. Va in
1897 passed any law in regard to the
use of ferrets in driving rabbits from
their burrows, For the benefit of
our readers we publish the law YER
batim as passed by the last legislature.
Acts Of 1897, chap. 80. sec. Is reads
as follows: ut shall be unlawful for
any person to have in his possession
for the purpose of using, or to use a
ferret for the purpose of catching
} rabbits or driving them from their
burrows. Any person convicted OF
an offense under this section shall
be fined not less than five nor more
, than twenty dollors for each offense. y
Part Of section 16 of the same chap
ter reads as follows. Gall prosecutions
under this chapter shall be In the
J name of the State of w. Va, before
any court, justice of the peace, mayor
or othes officer having jurisdiction.
All fines imposed and collected shall
be divided, one-half going to the
officer or person making the arrest"