The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-02-01

Dor last week amounted 10 o,oIS,UUu
bushels.
No THEY do not know exactly when
the office is to be moved but every
one hopes that it will not be very
long.
The man whose feet fly out from
under him is lucky if he doesn't
break anything more than a resolu-
ton or two.
A PrrTsBURG paper says the West
| Virginia Legislature is a very repre-
sentative body: that half the member
ship seems to be Of the Hatfield Nc
Coy type.
4 MAIL clerk Nelson who was for
merly on the f. M. and P. and who
is now on the Grafton and Cincinnati
run is here to visit his parents who
live in the country.
A correspondent of the Uniontown
Genius writing from Flatwoods says:
Mrs. S. III. Protzman who has been
quite sick for some days past is at
present no better.
ALL arrangements that could be
made so far in advance are completed
for the Turn Verein's prize masquerade
ball to be held on the 18th. Nothing
will be omitted that could add to the
occasion.
THERE are always some unthinking
people who talk Of moving the capital
| from Charleston at every meeting of
the legislature. 1t is preposterous
and only subjects the one who does it
to ridicule.
SOME weather prognosticators think
there will be great amount OF snow
fall between this date and the same
time in March. So far as we are
concerned we can tie better after the
latter date.
The State Board of Agriculture has
announced dates and places for thirty
Institutes for this year. An institute
y as held at Cassville 10 December,
honce the new list does not include
any places near here.
WE are in receipt Of souvenir
edition of the Advertiser Sentinel, of
Trinidad, Colorado. Several famil
lar names appear, among them 5. H.
Stevens, who is connected with the
paper, Hon. j. NJ. John and j. Marion
Carlow.
THE prospects for the new com pany
get better every day and the likeli-
hood that 1t will be taken ia now
amounts to almost certainty. The
plans are all working smoothly and 1T
should not be long until the company
is reality.
| A COUPLE named Newton Lord and
Jennie Helper were married in a
neighboring town some days ago and
the editor of the local paper was
almost dubbed to death by the in
dignant groom because he made use
OF the heading Lord Helper"
THE bill which was presented by
Delegate Grant allowing mileage and
per diem for witnesses has been turned
down by the committee which had
the matter in charge. The bill was
one that was demanded by a great
many of the people of the state and it
should have passed If the wishes of
the people deserved consideration.
REV. MIR. ScHooLFIELD, the evan
gelist who will he here on the 9th
of February, was formerly a pros
porous merchant of Danville, Va,
but after his conversion felt it his
duty to enter the ministry. Prof.
Van Pelt who is remarkable singer
accompanies him and leads the
music.
TILE w. Va. University students
have been in colfiict with the police
authorities of Morgantown since their
struggle with the faculty and their
more disastrous battle with the exam
nations. There is material among
those students to make very efficient
football team if properly trained.
Their recent victories over the faculty
and the policeman show this.-Far-
mer's Advocate.
A TRAMP toby roller struck here
few days ago and victimized the men,
bers of his craft living in town for
various amounts. He also claimed to
have been in the civil war and in
proof of this he produced pension
papers. Since he left it has been
found that he is no good and pro-
fessional dead beat. However the
boys who helped him feel that they
did it because they did not care to run
the risk of allowing worthy man to
suffer.
A NUMBER of West Virginians have
leased the B. & o. hotel at Oakland,
Md, and will establish sanitarium
ia it. Dr. d. M. Longstreet, Of
{ larleston, W. Va, is the superin-
tendent. The lease is for term Of
f We years. We understand that the
otel will be equipped with steam
heating facilities. A number of i'm
provements are contemplated, such as
are required in irst class sanitarium.
The Institution will be known as the
Oakland Sanitarium.
The winter weather of the. past
few days is hard to improve upon.
The temperature remains at one
place and the nerves of everyone are
not wrung with torturing changes.
If the weather man wants the sincere
gratitude of everyone he will con-
tinue to run things on the same even
plane that he has been pursuing for
J the past few days.
A NUMBER of gentleman interested
in the west side coal field were here
on Saturday making some investiga-
tions with the view to possibly max
! ing large purchase. 1t necessarily
follows that these gentlemen have
reason to think that the railroad on
that side will be built before great
! while. In any event it is safe to say
that it will come within a year OF
: two.
A SHORT time ago DR. Leech sent
a draft to tax collector in Kansas
where he formerly resided to cover his
last years tax the assessment not
! having been made when he removed
, from Kansas A newspaper in that
place commented upon the matter as
unsual and added that it was the only
case of the kind on record. Dr.
; Leech didn't seem to think it was al
all strange as he said every honest
man paid his debts.
The South Penn Oil Company has
mace another good strike in the Flat
Run extention in MCnongalia county
e 1t drilled in its No. 3 on the Goldir
! Toothman farm last Tuesday and thu
$ well produced $50 barrels the first Il