Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-30

cason TO stop 10 set down passengers and carried them
up. at rate varying from TO 10 miles the hour.
This Is the largest load which has been the road
at any single times aud when we compare IL with the
small size OF the engine, and consider the various ascents
on the Rail Road, IL may well be called immense The
Liverpool weighs about tons, and has nine-inc cyn
ders, with stroke oil is inches, and drives her four
wheels Her general working pressure so pounds rang
ing TOGO, at which the lock up valve blows Off add
these technical details, in order that the performance OF
tins engine may be Justly appreciated by professional
Our steamboat has arrived Bakely and in the
OF lew days we will open the Road the Roanoke. or
this desirable event we will, of give due notice
Yours, respectfully, HENRY d. BIRD
Tremendous Freshet-This section OF the State has
been visited by an unprecedented flood The rain COM
menced filling moderately Saturday last, and con,inu
cd to do so durng that night and the next day About II
O'Clock on sunday night thunder cloud arose, which
seets TO have spent its whole force upon the upper pa
OF this aud Pendeton District The rain Tell in such tor
rents for three or tour hours that every valley
appeared like small The river this place was
more than three feet higher than it known to be
beiore-so say our oldest inhabitants Every bridge OH
keedy River has been swept away.-The river was for
hours almost covered with trees logs rails sc. The APP
peaiance OF our falls awfully grand Such boz
dy OF water, rushing precpice of 40 so feet
was beautiful spectacle. The current was so strong as
to move rock feet square, calculated by good Judges
weigh 900 lb from the top TO distance beyond
the foot of the shoales-it lies upwards of 100 feet
from where il had rested for ages
The Sa!uda much swollen any stream W e have
rom All The bridges on this Sitton's
are gone. Near Wilson's Ferry, IL or 10 miles below
this place, two Negroes drowned which are the on
ly lives lost hat have heard Of The fiat at that fer
ry had been washed away and had lodged below Cap
tim Hugh wilson and another gentleman accompanied
the Negroes TO the place. when the Negroes the
Hat for the purpose of bringing it TO the shore. Before
they got The Hat away, drift OF logs struck split it in
two Capt. Wilson Immediately swan to the spot but
the current strong he could render no assistance
and narrowly escaped with his own life. These are the
particulars, as related TO us by gentleman from the
neighborhood. GreensriHe Is. c. .Mountaineer.
HORRIBLE AND DISTRESSING OurRAGE-It has
never fallen 10 lot TO record transaction, at once so
revolving in its nature. di-graceful humanity and so
narrowing TO the feelings of lrie ns one that lately oc.
Cured az Rondsborough. VT For several DAYS
TO Saturday, AN idle, transient man, whom no one knew
had been lettering about the place Sometime during that
day, Mrs. Ames, the wife ii Ames ESQ and the
mother Of highly respectable family, into the vii.
age on horseback 10 transact business one of the
stores-Havng purchased few articles, she got on her
horse and started Tor home She had proceeded, far
when coming TO hollow in small piece of woods she
was bese by this stranger man, pulled from her horse
and nsulted with the infamous proposals In a lone
and unfequened spot, beyond the reach of human aid
she found herself dependent upon her feeble
to resist this mercess, hendlke monster Though he
presented knife and threatened her with instant dea she
nevertheless resisted andit was not till after
gle that nature became exhausted and she sunk nsens
bic to the earth Even after he had perperated his heh
purpose, a"i his victim yet wrilhng in his brutal
iangs, lie presented his knife with the intention of finish
ing his demoniac work by putting to her existence
She summoned all her remaining strength, and i'm the
name OF herinnocen and ender babes she mploed her
eXecrabie destroyer 10 spare her life To this he finally
consented on con9ion that she would promise to re-
veal the affair This done, he fled, and his victim dive
cd oil almost every vestge of her clothing, dragged her
sell 10 the nearest neighbor and gave the alarm. In
moments the whole vicinity was in pursuit.
They chased the hearcss internal monster into the TO-
rests OF Monroe, where he was surrounded and taken
He denied not the crime, but only wonders how the wo
man could be such liar TO break her word, it
life Compared TO this brutal whelp, Clough appears yir-
uous and noble He at least had the charity 10 put his
victim quietly at rest The monster not only gives his
hankless existence but would have rendered that exis
lance still more burdensome by loading her with dis
graceful soui-slckenng secret Earthly vengeance
not reach the depth of punishment that such deed de-
serves-and yet we told mprisonment all that he
receve.-Berkshire aduocote.
The following simple and ehicacious mode of counter
actng the effects OF the bite of raesnake is related in
addressed the editors of the Miners Journal bv
NJ Robinson, Esq, civil engineer:
As a party OF assistants Engaged under my direction
in the location OF the Phpsburg Railroad occu-
ped lew days since, in proractons at their encamp
menf information was given them that attach
ed to the party had been bitten by rattle One OF
the assis' ants Mr.. Henry Hopkins, of Massachusetts
Immediately hsstened the spot and applied bis lips 10 the
wound sucking ii for time, and long appeared
10 him that the treatment could be of any service. The
hand and arm OF the nevertheless eed excessive.
ly; but in the course OF day the swelling
down. and neither he assistant nor the man have since
perienced the slightest Inconvenience The seems
to be very conclusive in favor of the efficacy OF
such treatment where an individual happens 10 be hand
sufficiently resoute 10 administer H. the snake had
previously very much inflated and the wound in The hand
was deep one. II is scarcely worth while mention
that the assistant took the precauton alter resignng his
patients hand of giving his mouth the bene f of
pretty thorough abution
Respectfully Your obedent servant
MONCURE ROBINS ON.
schuylkill co., Pa. Ang. s, 1888
valuable Salt Spring has been discovered hy boring
near Pittsburgh, the opposite side of the MonOng
river The depth reached by this process was 627 feet
and the stream OF salt water rises height OF Hirtg
Jee above the level OF the EARTH and the of
thousand gallons in 81 hours of strength sufficient TO
make twelve fifteen barrels of salt The following is
the account given in the Pittsburgh Gazette of the pro
gress OF the boring through the various OF coal clay
slate, sandstone, sc.
In boring, they struck the first rock kind of slate
at the depth OF thT,ythree feet, which continued for
eighty eight feet variegaied in color red, like
red chalk; perfectly white all pretty much alike
in substance. They then came upon sand stone of a
graylsh red COLOR which continued, with occasional
teruptioDs for ninety feet. They next came upon ano
Their vein OF slate, very like the first and variegaed
in the same way; and Immediately below this, they
found stratum Of limestone feet thick, the only
limestone discovered From this down to about 500 feet
they passed, generally through kind of rotten dark grey
sand stone, with occasional shells of harder sand stone
with portions ofron. The thirty feet was very hard
boringthe first ten OF these through gray sand
stone, almost as hard granite, the other twenty FIVE
through perfectly white and very hard sand stone.
Struck salt water 62j feet but not enough; went two
feet deeper, where they got the vein relied upon
When the chise struck this last vein it fell about two and
halt inches, thus indicating the depth of water.
In their progress they passed through the following
strata OF coal
AZ 1873 feet struck vein 10 inches thick.
ESQ do. LIZ feet thick.
$50 do 8l.2 do.
$50 do 3I-2 do