South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-30

condition and confident of accomplish
Ing his forty days task.
The next term OF the County Court
begins on the second Tuesday in August.
1t is the torn for laying tho County
levy and all the Justices will be prcsen.
until the levy is made For the rest Of
the term James Sheetz. President, with
i. r. .McDonal! and Isaac Pancake,
Justices, viii compose the Court,
Don't forget the Banquet tonight
at Literary Hall. An address will be
delivered at the Court House By Mr.
G. (. Poland, accompanied by Brass
Band Music.
We observe that our friend Judge
JoIN w. MYERS has been appointed
County Canvasser for Highland by
the Conservative State Committee Of
Virginia.
John A. Thompson, Esq, of Jeifer-
son, has withdrawn from the Green
back ticket rs 4 candidate for SUI
premc Judge of this State.
During the storm on Monday
night Of last week lightning entered
the Berkeley Springs Hotel and so
much injured the telegraph instru-
ment IS 10 cut off communication for
several days. The instruments at
Sir Johns Run and Alpine Station
We're also likewise damaged.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have built at Piedmont
three live stock ears under the patent
of George T. Patterson, which will be
sent to Parllcrsbnrg to be loaded with
stock for transportation to Baltimore.
All the stock will be watered at the
same time from troughs suspended
from 4 framework erected at Keyser,
Ihis State, for that purpose. If the
experiment with these cars prove Sue
cessiul, the railroad company will
adopt tho patent opoE oil their stock
cars.
The roof of the Kitchen adjoining
the dwelling of RoBEH1 w GlLKEsoN,
Esq, Of misplace, took fire yesterday,
from q spark falling on it, and, but
for the timely discovery, the fire hay
ing made somo progress, and tub of
water being near at hand, the flames
were subdued.
| TnS IIupsoy RIVER DIsAsTER.-
The collapse on the morning OF the
DIST OF the caisson TO Shaft used in
promoting the construction Of the
tunnel under tie Hudson river result
cd i'll n sudden and terrible disaster,
by which twenty lives have been lost.
The building Of this tunnel has been
a work ofpecu!iar difficulty, requiring
the greatest engineering skill and me-
chanical cOntrivancc owing 10 the
soft and ooay nature Of the silt ut the
river bottom on the New Jersey side,
! through which the tunnel, which is
intended for railroad purposes, has to
be pushed. The only way in which
| this could be effected was by means
OF q tube made OF iron plates thrust
forward through the mud By degrees.
| When thc earth outside tlfs tnbo had
settled and was dry enough the mud
core inside OF it was gradually remov.
Ell, and the pressure of compressed
air substituted for IL until a strong
enough masonry arch could be CON
strUctcd inside the hollow space thus
artii,ciaiiy procured. TIE work had
I'D he built in short sections. and each
section was cut oil from the others by
air locks aud other devices. The
pressure at such n depth must have
boon enormous, and there always has
boon danger OF Just such a disaster az
has occurred. Tie break yesterday
was ~ the bottom Of the working
shaft 90 aid in constructing the tunnol,
and just whore il connected with the
masonry Of tic tunnel 50 far as com
! plctcd and tho coTprossed-ajr work
/ ing5 beyond. Il occurred a. q gang
! of Wor.,mcn were passing through the
a'r-ioc!, at thjs point. The air escaped
in consequence of some flaw. the wa
/ ter rushed in, and the gang OF work
mon who were beyond this, i'm the I'D
vaucol and un.omplotod part OF the
tunnel, were cut oil from every pos
ebIe means OF escape. Ifuot drown
Ell they must have persisted in a brief
time from thc foul sir i'm the narrow
chamber whore they were at work.
| II will be three days before their bo-
dies are recovered.
On Friday morning last, there was
q heavy frost at Frostbure Maryland,
aud the thermometer fell 60 the for
ties.
There was Domocraticpole raised
at Piedmont on Saturday night last.
Wo arc requested By our old friend,
y. Il. Holman, Esq, Chairman Rep.
7 ~ Com. End Dis, West Va, for Tic
/ bencGs Of our hepuu',cen .e.3crs, 90
state, shat The r. & @. Il. y. Will is.
sue Round Trip Tickets % Koyser
/ Congregational Convention, good Tor 3
I days-Aog. 4th, 5th and 6th.
The democrats Of Frederick county,