The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-12-17
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Thirteen carloads of -four have been
subscribed for by Minneapolis mllers for
the starving peasants of Russia.
Mr.. Kemp Sanderford, sr., aged eigh-
ty three years, and Mrs. Susannah No
bles, aged seventy, lovers half century
ago, were married a few days ago near
Flora, Mss.
The boiler-house and the machine and
blacksmith shops of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company at Sixtieth
street and Woodland avenue, Philadel-
phia, were destroyed by fire on the 9th.
Loss $4,000 The burned buildings
were Of frame and one-story high.
One of the largest industries in Pc
tersburg and one OF only few years
growth is that of the manufacture of
trunks. There are three large establish
ments of the kind working on full time
and with a large force of hands. Vast
quantities of lumber are used and thou
sands Of trunks are shipped away to the
markets North, West and South every
mouth. Over 5000 were sent away last
month.
Since the roads in Alexandria county
have been so much improved the de-
mand for building sites for houses has
greatly increased, many officeholders
from Washington buying land and put
ting houses upon it. It is expected that
when the new Washington and Airing
ton Railroad is finished new town will
spring up around Fort Meyer, on the
heights overlooking Washington and
the Potomac.
9th, has the following in relation to the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad: 1.-THE
committee of English holders of Ohio
and Mississippi bonds have obtained
legal opinion on the validity of the Eng
lish vote in electing three directors
charged to carry out the policy of union
with the Baltimore and Ohio. The
counsel they have employed advises
them that there is not the slightest
doubt of the legality of the vote, and
that if the case is carried to the courts
the English bondholders are sure to tri-
umph.n This means the confirmation of
the transfer of the property to the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company.
A bill has been introduced in the Sen
ate to incorporate the Baltimore, Rich>
mond and Southern Railroad Company.
The bill proposes to acquire the Virgin
ia and Carolina and the Richmond and
corporators are John 6. Slater, J. L.
Barbour, Witcher Jones, t. e. Roessie,
Sidney T. Dudley, of Washington city;
T. F. Miner, Of Richmond G. W. Tur-
ner, of Manchester. The bill provides
that the road shall commence at a point
on the Potomac river in King George,
Westmoreland or Northumberland and
pass by the most practicable route to
Richmond, through Chesterfield to Pc
tersburg and ON to the North Carolina
line.
George johnson, of Hiseville, KY,
went out on coon hunt a few days ago
with his dog. The dog found q coon
and ran him into hollow tree. John
son cut the tree down and killed the
coon, but to his surprise and satisfaction
he found more in the hollow than the
coon. There was an earthenware jar,
which, on opening it, he found to con-
tain $3,700 in gold coin and two gold
watches One of the watches has since
been identified by J. b. Lessenburg, of
Glasgow, as one that was taken from
him by the famous guerilla, Bill McGru>
der. in 1862. This leads to the conclu-
sion that the treasure is part of the
booty of the band of guerillas that in
tested that part of the country during
the sixties.
During the year ended June 80, 1850,
the number Of passengers carried by the
railroads of this country was 492, 430,S65,
over two cents mile. Freight carried
weighed 636, Al GIT tons, for which the
revenue averaged less than one cent
ton per mile. For running a freight
train one mile the revenue was $3.50
and the cost to the companies was $1.05.
1t appears that one death occurs for
every 800 men employed on the railways,
and one injury for every SO men ems
ployed. A passenger riding continuous
ly at the rate of thirty miles an hour
might expect immunity from death by
railway accident for 1,700 years, but an
engineer, a brakeman, or a conductor,
under the same conditions. is liable to
fatal accident at the expiration of forty
years. The most common accident to
which railway employees are liable re-
suits from coupling and uncoupling
cars. Failing from trains or engines
cause most fatal accidents, however