West Virginia walking beam. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1879-188?, 1880-12-04
RAILROAD NOTES.
Wrtften OPP By Our Regular Raj
rOGd Correspondent.

| "e" OO'fCopUNtC"Cs
>am Houston, the irafton yarC
'nglnrer, who was 80 badly hur
ONE time ago by fall, is gettin4
cong finely.
Will Kisner. one of our brake
men, who has been laid up 80 long
with u fractured foot, has gone t
work again.
James Hannaway, a fireman, has
been laid up Tor two weeks with 4
lam" arm.
James McAvoy has been laid ~
Ihree weeks by getting his back
nurt, on the road.
Will Wells fell from freight train
while in motion, Iast week, and was
considerably bruised
Thayer,one OF our new brakemen
vent home sick 'aSt week.
Engineer Ben Pugh has gone to
york again, suppose he will re-
member where one particular bridge
is In the future.
Luther Bradford, who lost AN arm
N Panhandle R. K. rccident il
visiting in Parkersburg aid Graf
ton.
The 9th Ward boys of Parkers
burg want a steam fire engine and
over 500 voters say they ought to
have i +; and they are going to get
1t sooner or later, but we hope
sooner.
Nearly all the trains have been
delayed by the big snow several
days ago.
MoguI 221, while browsing around
east OF Pennington a few days ago
stuck her nose under some empty
coal hoppers and turned them down
The bank into the creek and one of
them laid right side up out in the
water. Hoppers will get scattered
around the country at Pennington
until Q, entuaIly the farmers will
have tongues in them and use them
for farm wagons.
A great deal of steeling has been
going or for some time all along
our Division in the broad open
light OF day. 1t is Il good thing, and
at the resent rae our whole line
will soon be steeled, with the new
ste i rail. The ling OF the car
heels over It makes fine music.
An axle broke under a car OF
grain at Smilhlon the other day,
demoIisning the car wheels and SOW
Ing the grain. One wheel went
through u rail fence and out into
meadow some distance from tue
track.
Two engineers of the sama name,
Geo. B Carr aud William Carr, lost
the water in their engines on the
same day last Week and had to be
mauled iuto The shops, .as. "a ..-.,..-
John Goly, OF the Grafton yards,
uas gone on three weeks trip,
,ome one says bunting rib. 1t ha"
ueen rumored tor some time that
John was golrg into the Dress
goods business.
Baggage Master Frederick has
been ruInrug Captain Nike FIan-
agan's train tor several trips.
Conductor Poe has been at Cen
Lral dlspalching trains for several
days.
1t has been raining nearly all
week aloLg the line and the streams
are much swollen.
We have another new time book
this week. TIE change is made to
connect lrelghtand passeLger trains
on eastern roads. Another passen-
ger taarn is on our Division, to ar
rive in Parkcrsburg at 2 p. m, and
leave Parkersburg " 6:2O u. m. tor
The east.
1t is said that Mr.. William Adair.
Supervisor vi track between Park
-rsburg and Petroleum, has been Oh
Tered u better situation on u South
ern road.
McCormic, of Grafton, has his
handsome brick block about COM
pleted, ard the occupants are NOV
mo in He has new style OF wins
dows and they look very pretty.
A car Of grain broke down at
Pennington on Dec. lst, and de-
Lained trains several hours.
A handsome new high wheeled
passenger engine passed through
Grafton last Tuesday for an Ohio
Division of the B. g. 0. G.. 81.
The miners al the CASTOR Mines
came out The OF ler day and demand