The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-07-13


B. Hoge and H. A. Glenn, were appointed to
ceased.
E. llagcmau was raturaliZed.
VIM. A. Read was find $50 and costs for act
ing rs auctioner without licence.
A SAD AND DISTRESSING DEATH occurred
at the Lunatic Asylum on last Saturday even
ing about five O'clock The victim was Samuel
Clark, Il young man Of about twenty-four or
five years of age, well known and esteemed
throughout the entire city. The particulars
of this truly sad occurrence are as follows
For several weeks young Clark la Il been drink
ing, which resulted in deirium, and during the
prevalence of this fearful disease he was con-
fined. On Saturday, he was thought SO much
improved that he was allowed his liberty.
About three O'Clock in the evening he went to
the depot of the c. & o. r. r. and asked for a
pistol saying that he was pursued by two men
who were trying to kill him. OF course the
weapon was refused him. He then went over
to the Asylum and begged Mr.. Andrews to
give him pistol, repeating the same tale told
at the depot. Mr.. A. seeing his condition, told
him to go up to DR.. Hamilton, one of the ply
sicians of the Asylum, who would give him all
he needed. He went to the Doctors room,
and again asked for a pistol. The Doctor en-
deavored to quiet Inn and finally succeeded in
getting him to lie down on the bed and go TO
alone, and in short time whilst under the in
fluence of the delirium he leapcd from the bed,
ran into the chapel and jumped from win
dow, falling thirty-five feet to the brick pave
ment below, striking his hcadand crushing one
side of the skull. He was picked up, and all
that medical skill could suggest was done, but
to no purpose, and in ten minutes after the
fatal fall he was dead.
A jury of inquest was called and rendered
verdict in accordance with the above facts.
A patient who Witnessed the fall says, that
he jumped from the window feet foremost,
but turned directly before reaching the ground
and struck fairly on his head.
There are few young men who are more
highly esteemed by all with whom they have
business tI:an was Sam Clark. For five or six
years he had been clerking, the greater part of
the time with Mr.. Abby, and was regarded as
one of the best salesman and one of the most
honest and thoroughly competent men in the
town. His only fault was an addiction to Pc
riodical spells of intoXicaton. His quiet, cour-
teous and gentlemanly manner had attached to
him many friends who sincerely mourn his I'M
timely death and sympathize deeply with his
| widowed mother whom he so tenderly loved.
The funeral service was conducted on Sun
day evening by the Rev. Mr.. Baker, and the
large concourse of friends that attended his re-
mains to the cemetery attestcd the universal
favor in which he was held.
The NEW CITY WATER WORKS. SECOND
TRIAL.-The second trial OF the new city wa
ter works was made on Monday last, and prov
ed even more successful than the initial trial,
which we noticed in our last Issue as having
| been made on the 4th. A hose was attached
to the plug on the corner of Main and Angus
| ia streets, and stream an inch and three
quarters in diameter was thrown to the height
of twenty-five feet. Experiments were made
in the more elevated localities, ana proved
equally satisfactory. The engine worked
| splendidlys and fully sustained the high repu-
tation of the Wofahington patent. The agent
Of the company, Mr.. Drew, who was sent here
| to put the engine i'm operation, so thoroughly
understood and well performed his task, that
no fears need be entertained of difficulties
arising in the running of the engine.
| 1t is indeed gratifying to know that the
| city is at length the possessor of an abundant
| and excellent supply Of water, and it only re-
| mains for complete and suitable net work of
| pipes to be laid, to secure protection against
| the most destructive ,contagraton. Let the
committee not make the mistake too often
| made by other corporations-that of laying
| pipes entirely inadequate TO supply the de
mand which the improvement of the city will
shortly occasion. The pipes leading from the
mains should be gradually decreased towards
the suburbs. In the central and business
portions of the town, the cross pipes Should
| certainly be not less than six inches in Diane
ter, and we hardly think, that when the COM
parative merits of the six and three inch sys-
tenn are carefully considered by the intelligent
gentlemen who have this matter under con-
troll, they will long hesitate in adopting the
larger. when it is understood that six inch
pipe will discharge six times as much water as
a three inch, and that 1t can be laid at cost
| not exceeding thirty cents per linear foot, or
one third more than the cost OF the three
inch, the economy of its adoption is at once
! apparent. This large difference in favor of
the six inch system, is attributable to the fact
| that the friction of the three inch pipe is al
most as great, actually, as that OF ONO of doub-
lie lis diameter, wlilst relatively, or in propor-
ton to the volume of water which passes
through each, it is three times as great. In
other words, under the same pressure, the ye
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