Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-09-23

A work has recently been published
in Philadelphia which gives some inter
esting information respecting that city.
1t states that there are in Phliadei-
phia and its vicinity upwards OF thirty
cotton factories, most of them on an
extensive scale. The average number
of spindles used in these establishments
is about 400, and the number of per-
sons actually employed is supposed to
be about three thousand.
The number Of breweries is rs, which
employed ITO persons, and sell at the
present reduced rates, maltliquor to the
amount, annually, of 100000 in value.
The price Of malt liquor has been re-
duced within the last year about one
third The amount OF umbrellas man.
ufactured annually, is about 100000,
and there are 81 umbrella makers.
One ofthe most interesting articles in
the book is highly satisfactory account
Of the water works. from which it APP
pears that the entire amount expended
by the city, on the successive opera
tions for introducing the Schuylkill wa.
ter is Si,444,5s5 Sc, Of which sum, the
present works, at Fair Mount, cost
S4s2,5la. A most beautiful plate re-
presenting the works. accompanies the
last number of the Edinburg Encyclo-
redia The whole extent of pipes now
laid, Of wood and iron, is about thirty
FIVE miles. The cost OF pipes to 1924,
was Sa0a,7sil3
AT the outset Of the undertaking, d
number of pipes were imported from
England, as models, and another impor-
tatIon has since been made to supply
the deficiency created by the failure OF
an American contractor; but at pre-
sent the pipes are made in this coun-
try. as well and at as low price as in
England. Or the above sum Of Sa0a,-
73I IS cents, only 5 6,9ao 81 cents have
been expended on imported pipes To
defray the expenses Of these operations,
taxes, are annually laid, and a certain
annual sum is paid by the occurier Of
each house in which the water is intro
duced. The annual rent paid for the
use Of the water in 1928, for the city
alone, was $26 ,l9l SO cents, an access
of near $4,000 over the interests upon
the cost Of the water power works.
in 1928, the Schuy kill was introdu-
ced by pipes into 1854 private dwellings
and 1876 manufactures, 40 private baths
were also supplied with il. The low
est sum annually paid by private dwell.
ling was 81, and the highest (by pub
lie institution) 500.
FeUer.-Died, on the nth of Au.
gust last, in Chestertown PenDsylva-
MIA, RACHEL PALMER, daughter oil
John Palmer, of Concord township,
sge about Is years
On the god of the same month,
JoHN PALMER, brother Of the above,
aged l8 years
On the 9th OF the same month,
LEWIS PALMER n, another brother, aged
% years.
The disease which SO suddenly has
tened 10 the tomb those three bloom
ing youth is ascribed to local cause.
An old building in state Of decay which
mad been used for milk house, stand
ing fifteen or twenty yards from the
door ofthe dwelling, had become part
iy filled with water and rubbish Of
rIous kinds, such as weeds and decay
ed logs; the fowls had roo sted under
his roof until it had become offensive
10th to the sight and smell. The wa.
Ger Of the well, which was situated be.
tween this old building and the dwell
ling, became also offensive and unfit
for use Doctors Marsh (ihe regular
physician,) Hamor, and Jacques, the
latter oil Wilmington, were all oil the o.
piplon that the disease originated from
this old building. The fever, which
was stubborn and unremitting and baf
fed all their skill, assumed toward
its termination a typhus and malig-
nant character. Four more Of the
same family. viz: The grandmother, a
young man, brotherto the former, and
two children, are lying dangerously in
with the same complaint.
The case Of recovery had become
so hopeless by remaining at the dwell
ing, the alarm and sympathy of the
neighborhood had become so much
excited, that il was thought best for
the whole family to abandon it at pre-
sent. Too much praise cannot be bes
flowed fnon those who onenad the;,