Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-12

USE OF rus SEWERAGE OF CrrIrs, &c.-Messrs.
Editors: cut the following article from n late
Nottingham Reeieln. 1t may be interesting to
some of your sFeaaers, if not profitable. 1t Is
psIrt off report of an invest eating committee on
sewerage, which was brought before the town
council OF Nottingham, England:
aAt Rugby, the sewerage Is conveyed to 3
brick reservoir, situated about mile from the
town, from which it is pumped by means OF a
steam engine and distributed by iron pipes over
an area of about $50 acres ofland. The results
were stated to be satisfactory to the owner of the
land. who has been at all the expense of erecting
works, and is also under an engagement to pay
the local board of health ESQ per annum for 20
years for. the use of thessewerage
tEThese works have been IN operation about two
Tears At Leicester the sewerage works have
been in operation about seven monts; they have
been erected by company at a cost OF about
e2s, 600; the terms between the company and
the corporation of Leicester being that the COM
pany are to have the free use of the sewerage
for so years, at the end of.which time the whole
of the works are to become the property Of the
corporation.
.tThe process is altogether different to that
dopted at Rugby; the sewerage is deodorized,
the solid and fertilizing matters combined in 1t
are separated and the water passes into the riv-
er in a comparatively pure state.
ing separated from the water, are dried and made
into the form of bricks, in which slate they are
sold The selling price is now los. per ton, aud
the estimated produce is 5000 tons per Annum
-(producing nearly $50, 900 per annum.
At York, and believe other towns in Eng
land, it is usual TO have casks of pulveriSed char.
coal in the water-closets at the railway stations
to receive the urine The charcoal does away
with all the nuisance which is common in such
places, and the proprietor realizeSa very hand
some sum from the sale oft, when 1t IS fully
saturated.
Were the coal ashes used as a receiver ofli-
quid manure in our large towns, there are many
persons who might be employed Profitably in
gathering it G.. C., Mdson Co., Ry.-fC 0un-
try Gentleman.
HAPPY STATE OF ExsrEScE-In the present
.'evil tines upon which we have come, the fol-
lowing picture of an old man. residing near the
CASTLE Springs, Pa, is given by q correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger, is peculiarly refresh
ing He says:
In one of our rambles we came across ham
let ON the foot of the mountain. An old man
was sitting on a rude bench at the door; the
place was so quiet, secluded and the prospect
over the valley so enchanting, thatwe concluded
to rest 4 few minutes. Entering into converse
ton with the old man, We ascertained that he
was in his ninety first year, and had lived nearly
NIL his life within sight Of that spot. Hermit
like, all his life had been away from towns and
cities, and partaIsing in none Of the advantages
as well MS troubles and foibles of society, we
could not resist the curiosity of drawing out on
some of the leading topics of the day. We
found as is the case with most very old people,
that his recollection of events which occurred
more than halfa century ago, was very good,
but of the present and more recent affairs he
was almost entirely oblivious
He recollcctcd when Washington was Presi-
dent and had some faint glimlnerlngsof remote
events in the political world OF the present
incumbent he had no knowledge, and did not
know his name He had not even heard of the
Brooks and Sumner affair, and said he supposed
it was nothing more than common fight like
scores Of which he had seenat shooting matches
and other gatherings in his time. Steamships
crossing the sea he had never heard Of and the
telegraph was a wonder too Incredible for belief.
His habit had been to go to bed at dirk, as it
saved light and he rose at day break. He said
the fowls did it, and he supposed nature taught
them so. He enjoyed good health, and seemed
to be wearing gradually away with old age, sink
ing into that KsHess, dreamy state, which makes
the passage from life to death scarcely PercePti-
lille