South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-07-02
South Branch Railway.


The proceedings or iAa Stockholders
meeting on "wednesday last appeared in
last weeks paper. The relations OF this
Road with the B. & o. X. X. develope
no favourable results. The germ of the
5. d. X. X sprang out or correspon.
dence between Senator Henry G. Davis
and Mr.. kercheval, on the utility. econ.
omy and advantages Of Tram Railway
between this place and Green Spring
Run Station, not to exceed i'm cost about
$4,000 per mile. The latter gentleman
believing then and still believing such n
Road was alone sufficient for the inter-
ests OF this Valley, as an initial proceed.
ing. obtained charter for il, which, af.
forwards falling under its present man.
agement, found an alliance with the b.
& y. X. X. The Road was originally
graded for narrow gauge, and was to
be constructed on an estimate OF cost
OF Six or Fight Thousand dollars per
mile. The amount already expended
would have have completed the Road eli.
Their upon the scheme OF Tram OF OF a
Marrow Gauge Railway. How the pres.
ent complications will terminate is not
for us even to predict, but the Road is
now suspended. These facts are presen.
ted in no other than n sense OF Justice
TO all parties: certainly in no spirit of
cavil or complaint.
DRINKINe WATER.-There is no
doubt that most people drink too much
water, especially during the hot season
and many case of sickness. many a
death, if the truth was known, could be
traced to this cause. The following
views Of DIR. Hall, on this matter, arc
especially seasonable now, when the in.
crossing heat begins to increase the a
mount Of water drank.
"Thc longer one puts off drinking
water in the morning. especially in the
summer, the less he will require through
the day if much is drank during the
forenoon the thirst often increases, and
an unpleasant fullness is observed in
addition to 4 metallic taste in the mouth.
The less man drinks the better for
him, beyond moderate amount. The
more water man drinks the more
| strength he has TO exrend in getting rid
of it, for all the fluid taken into the sys-
TEN must be carried out, and rs there is
but little nourishment in water, tea, cof.
fee, beer and the like, more strength is
expended in carrying them out of the
system than they impart to it. The more
he drinks the more he must perspire, eth
er by the lungs or through the skin; the
more he perspircs the more carbon is Ia
ken from the system, but this carbon is
necessary for nutrition. hence the less q
man is nourishcd the less strength he has.
Drinking water largely diminishes the
strength in two ways, 6 yet many are I'M
der the impression that the more water
swallowed the moro thoroughly is the sys.
TEN washed out" Thus the less We
drink Mt meals tho better for us. 1.-THE n
mount were limited to single cup of
hot tea or hot milk & water ut each meal,
an unreasonable good would result to
us all. Many persons have fallen into
the habit of drinlling several glasses of
cold water, or several cups of hot tea or
coffee at meals. All such will be great
ly benefited by breaking it up at once.
1t may be very well to drink little ut
each meal, and. perhaps, it will be found
that in all cases it is much better to take
single glass, cup of hot tea at each
meal than glass of cold water, howev-
or pure"