Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-18
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF NEW MILE
AGE PROJECTED IN THREE MONTHS
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE.
From the Railway Age tChicagoD
The fact that many, and perhaps most
of the great companies, had given as
surances to each other that they would
not engage in competitive construction
this year, the hostility toward railways
indicated in several of the State Legis-
latures, the great falling off in earnings
of nearly all existing roads, and perhaps
more than all the reported determina-
ton of Eastern financial agents to dis
courage the floating of new securities,
all seemed to the general public to war
rant the belief that little railway build
ing would be witnessed during the
present year:
But those who have made a deeper
and more detailed examination of the
opportunities and needs of new railways
in this vast country have seen that this
generalization was being refuted by the
demands of innumerable localities for
additional transportation facilities
While the hands of the great railway
companies have been seen very often
in projects for covering their territories
with competitive lines, as in every, previ-
GUS year. their absence has not only
failed to put the expected quietus upon
railway building, but the number of
new enterprises seems already to be
greater than for the same period
in any other year of the country's his
tory with possibly two or three excep-
tions.
The Age then presents table in de-
tail showing that 666 new lines, with an
contemplated mileage of So
1876 miles, have been projected since JAN
uary last; that, ON these lines, 14,SlS
miles are under construction or contract,
9,617 are surveyed and 29,001 are ineor-
pOrated or projected.
IF the condensed breath collected on
the windows or walls of room that
several people have been occupying
were assembled and burned it would
give off a smell like singed hair, thus
showing the presence of organic matter.
If it were left for few days and
then examined under the microscope it
would be found to be putreScent and
alive with animalcule. In such con-
dition it would form powerful factor
in promoting disease, but it can always
be got rid of by the free circulation of
freshair through the room.
IHAvE been afflicted with eatarrh for
twenty years: ii became chronic, and
there was a constant dropping of mucous
matter 1t extended to my throat, caus-
ing hOarseneSs and great difficulty in
speaking. indeed for years was not able
to speak more than thirty minutes, and
often this with difficulty: also, to great
extent. lost the sense of hearing in the
ear. and taste: by the use of Ely'S Cream
Balm all dropping of mucous has ceased,
and my voice and hearing has greatly
W. Davidson, attorney
at-law, Monmouth. Ill. 2s2t
COMMISSIONER of Pensions Tanner has
issued an order holding that whenever
a pensioner is disabled in a hand or foot,
emitting him to $24 per month under
the act of March 3, 1888, such pensioner
shall. by reason of that fact, be entitled
to the rate of $50 per month under the
lct of August 1, 1885,
This order will favorably affect the
pensions of some 600 to 500 disabled
veterans of the late war.
Iris claimed that the cows in the United
States give an aggregate milk-prOductiOn
Df 7.240.OOOOOO gallons. Four billion gal
onS are used for butter, 6,OOOOn for
cheese, and the balance for general pur- =
poses. The annual production of butter
S 1,35OOOO,OOO pounds, and 65OOOO0O
pounds of cheese. HOGTtFS DGiTymdn
thinks the claim for cheese is too much
5OOOOOOO0 being full as much as it is
MOODY says shouting and psalm sing
ng will never cover up sins.