Litchfield enquirer., 1871-11-16
NEWS SoF rHg WEEK.

The man who killed constable in Dub- lin recenty has been acquitted Franc6s-A terrible mine explosion has occurred, killing 50 persons.
 Thiers will propose the establishment of fapermanemt republican government. The new General Council favor compul- sory education, and system of free schools will soon be established in the department of the Seine.
 Baron Boilleau is appointed Minister l to America.
 Austria.-Von Beust has resigned. fs The Bohemian Diet refused to send del egates to the imperial assembly, 'ss
 Spain.-A serious riot has occurred in Valencia aG,fze t~E 1 Haly.-Floods in the Fiber have done much damage.
 .Stcitgesldssd. Miss Dinock, an Ameri- can, has been made an M. D.
 Iurkey.-The cholera is increasing in Constantinople.
 DOMESTIC. Horatio Seymour was counted out as Assembly lyman in New York city. Tlden was elected.
 Peter B. Sweeney and Judge Hilton have resigned their positions under the N. Y. rity government.
 Tammany Assemblyman Irving, who
 
 reelected by an admiring constituency, has been indicted for assaulting an U. S. Marshall
 q Great election frauds occurred in Brook lyn. An indignation meeting of the cit;- zens. was held and 8 committee Cf about fifty appointed to bring the perpe- trators to justice. a.;fs8-a 1 More arrests for murder have been made in Salt Lake City. a.f ...ga
 Outrages on negroes have occurred in Georgia and Virginia, several being killed. Six men were injured by-a boiler ex- plOsions in Fort Wayne. s&< sE2 sl A mail stage has been plundered by In- Ediansf in Arizona, several whites being Itnaurdered FS1 s.-&1E4>J 1tA :
 A serious railroad accident has occur red on the North Missouri Railroad, two soldiers being killed and many wounded. Superintendent Miller reports that New York insurance companies lost nearly $2l, ,OOO,OO0 by the Chicago fire 7. ;.
 The hog cholera prevails to an alarming extent in Iowa. r. A serious accident has occurred on the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad. ten persons being injured. i) ,at3<tIF
 The Governor of Wyoming Territory objects to any repeal of Woman Suffrage. He says women have made good jurors and honest, competent office-holders. 9 r F0rty-One deaths from cholera occurred on board the steamer Franklin, which ar rived at the NY. Quarantine on Satur- day, and there are 24 cases now in the West Bank Hospital ..noJ ] tia,A colored man has obtained verdict against Baltimore railroad company for being elected from street-car.
 The sugar and cotton crops in the South ern States have been seriously injured by recent rains.
 Thorough Railroad Construction.
 In aJselies of letters to the N. Y. Tri- bune, by MT. Charles Nordhoff, we'll known as the. former Managing Editor of the Eve ming Post, we find the following account of the work of construction on the Mid de D1vlson of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. @,..' i.'.f .. ' '-l ''''
 The main road from Colesmouth to Kanawha, Falls lies almost constantly in sight of the railroad, and freauently cross l es 1t, and thus we had an opportunity to see the condition of this work, so impor- tant to all this region. The grading is completed, with few unimportant breaks, to the Falls the ties are either laid or at hand, and all is ready for the iron. The work has not been very heavy so far, for the country is comparatively easy The mountain torrents,c which pour into the Kanawha, have made necessary a good deal of masonry, and it is plain that the Chief Engineer, Major H. D. Withcomb, has known how to, select good masons The high stone arches, bridges, and cur yatrlres are admirably solid, and the sand- stone of the country has been laid in so workmanlike manner that our party often stopped in admiration of it. | do not know of road in the country whose stonework. will compare with that of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad so far, as l have seen it.
 1 More than two years were consumed in the survey of the, wild country between the White Sulphur Springs and the Falls Of kanawha. The result is roadway 1 which passes through the mountains on an easier grade by far than any other of 1 the great East and West lines connecting the Atlantic with the West. The Erie Railway has grades as high as 84 feet to sthe mile; the Pennsylvania has 95 feet to the mile the New. York Central, though in general it has easy grades, ri1ns up to 95 feet to the mile; the Baltimore and Ohio runs up to 116 feet to the mile. The Chesapeake and Ohio will have no grades lover 30 feet to the mile facing west, and west Of Towards Creek it has none over 20 feet to the mile. It will have the low est grades of all the great East and West l lines, and this, joined to the fact that it taps the Ohio at point, Huntington, so low down that it is always accessible to steamboats, and that it will give the South west its shortest connection with the At lantlc, would make it great enterprise. 1 &rn n not pass through a region of unexampled richness in coal, iron and timber, which has heretofore been shut out from 8 mar ket, and closed against capital and indus try. as;s',. "a ,,1 r siTrgaa- st4 i5 1a sr s1l}
 The New River and the Greenbrier have, Tn the course of ages,. worn their way through the mass of hills and mountains which lie between the Falls of Kanawha and the White Sulphur Springs * It was to carry an easy grade that the en- gineers of the Chesapeake and Ohio Road selected the course of the New River for their line. There, Nature had done, in the course, perhaps, of millions of years, a work of excavation for them, which gave them the means of laying road-bed so nearly level that it presents no obsta- cles to travel or transportation. < At two great bends which the New River iuAheS, stuuueS are Ouu01ng. Ono OI these, 6, 400 feet long, will be the long est in the United States until the Hoosac. tunnel is completeds It saves nearly five miles of difficult road building. In these tunnels large gangs of men are employed at several points; and the whole line is in good state of forwardness. With the exception of some miles of easy work near the Greenbrier, which can be done so rap 1 idly that it was not advisable to put it under contract until next Spring, the l whole line of the New River and Green brier is under contract, and everywhere the contractors gangs are busily at work A great part of the road-bed has already been completed, and all is so planned and carried on that the whole line shall be done simultaneously with the tunnel at Great Bend. There is no reason to doubt that as the work is now going on, thefOad can be opened by or before the next Oc-