The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-04-05
state Votes.

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Flat run, has declined. To 200 barrels a
day.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
will hold their annual state conven-
tion in Wheeling On June 2.
JACKSON county boasts of having
the fewest number OF representatives
In the pentenitary Of any county in
the State.
THE master was asking questions.
Now, boys" he said show many
months have twenty-eight days. GAN
Of them" replied sharp lad.
After four years of a dry spell, Shep-
herdstown has returned to a moist
loving atmosphere. Seven saloons are
the probability that face the unsuc-
cessful temperance element.
The telephone war between the Bell
and the independent interests is
growing better The Bell is making
concessions in several towns to head
off the independent companies.
DOGS are sharing public interest
with hogs at Clarksburg. Hydropho-
bla is prevalent, and the health officer
after several CANNES had to be shot
in several portions Of the city, issued
a proclamation that all dogs in the
city must wear a muzzle
The street fair to be held in Wheel
ing by the Elks the latter part of
June is attracting wide attention and
the authorities estimate that it will
attract 100, 900 visitors to the city.
Several of the streets will be closed to
traffic aud entirely given up to the
booths of the fair.
A wave of moral reform is pulsating
Wheeling. Violators of the Sunday
liquor selling law and the keepers of
designation houses are being given
their deserts. The agitation of the
churches continues against Sunday
base ball games, but it is very prob
able that games will be played at a
point just outside the city limits.
On the east side of the Campbell's
run development in Monongalia coun-
ty, West Virginia, the South Penn
Oil Company has drilled its No. l on
the Cynthia Kent farm into the first
pay, and has show for a 20 barrel
producer. The well was shut down
to move back the boiler and will then
be drill ed deeper.
1t is reported that Wall street
parties interested ia the payment Ct
the old Virginia debt by West Vir-
ginia were successful in slipping
law through Congress which direcrs
the Secretary of the Treasury to bring
suit The Wall street syndicate is in
opposition to the one controlled by
Col. Z. p. Chew, which has failed of
its purpose badly so far.
THE young ladies of Point Pleasant
according to the Register are giving
concerts to raise money to purchase
some kind of fire apparatus for the
town. The ladies in many places
have to keep up the churches and do
about all the humane work that is
done, but this puts Point Pleasant
away in the lead on this kind of bust
ness.
The universities of Virginia and
West Virginia did battle on the foot
ball field last November, and the re-
suit was gratifying to the younger
state. 1t was the first time they had
ever come together in any contest Of
brains or Drawn. Charleston was the
arena of the football game, and now
it is proposed to have them argue
the question Of baseball supremacy
at Martinsburg, April 26. No doubt
the West Virginians will repeat the
dose administered last fall.
Clarksburg intends to rid itself of
the hog nuisance. The ordinance
prohibiting the running at large of
the festive porker was declared illegal
some time ago, and the Republicans
in convention assembled, besides NOM
mating ticket for the municipal
election, April 4, adopted the follow
ing "hog plank" without dissenting
voice. "Resolved, That we are in
favor of a reduction of the salary Of
the councilmen. and that the poor
man be allowed TO raise his own hogs"
A FELLOW calling himself Prof.
Williams, claiming we are told to be
a member of the State Board of Hor-
ticulture of the State of Ohio and
that the United States Government
has sent him abroad in the Horticul-
tnral interests of the United States,
has been selling our farmers fruit
trees claiming, it is said, to be ever
bearing, frost proof, proof against all
enemies, etc, and has taken orders
not yet delivered aggregating from $5
to $50 in various places. Letters
from Ohio and also from the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington
say the fellow is fraud. The Wash
lngton letter deDounces him soundly
and says he should be summarily pun
ished.