Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-16
caAyIrArIoN-peRpervAL MOTION.
An Inventor who Expects 10 MAKE NIL
Hons Calls on the Governor.


Hons Calls on the Governor.
II expect to make one hundred millions
| out Of IT,"
This startling statement fell from the
| lips Of man who sat IN the Governors
| Office yesterday. patiently awaiting an
audience with the Executive.
Mr. $. Branch Mckinney, the assistant
secretary. who had the visitor In charge,
ventured to ask b. what means the
stranger. who was a Mr.. Branch. from
Georgia. proposed to add this comfortable
little sum to his pocket-book.
i've got an invention" quoth the gen.
tlcman from the Cracker State. ''and
| there's millions In II. I've patented some
thing that will run locomotive or n
stationary engine without steam, electric
ity, fire, or coal Next month ] am goins
York, and / expect to make the distance
ninety miles-in forty-fve minutes.
At this remark the speaker chuckled
in glee;. ,u ..
dred million is enough 10 interest any
body-and he inquired what sort OF mo-
| tive power would he used In the great
trial of speed.
quoth Mr.. Branch, OF Georgia. "My In
vention IL called 'Gravitation and Per-
petual Notion I've had 1t patented, and
| every day II gets stronger"
WOULD TAKE HIS FAMILY.
The visitor stated that when he ran the
| race on the train he intended TO take his
wife ard three children with him.
About twenty-five coaches would, he
said be attached TO the locomotive. and
| large party would accompany the In
yentor.
Mir. Rranch asserted that he had come
| to see the Governor TO invite him to go
| along with the crowd He had also in
vited the Governors OF Georgia and North
Carolina. Il don't think III invite the
| added the Georgian in this connection.
although South Carolina Is my NATIVE.
state. think he is sort of crank.
Mr.. Mckinney veDtured the remark
that Tillman would feel much hurt II
| Branch said he would reconsider the mat
| ter.
The stranger finally gained an audience
with Governor O'Ferrall, and invited the
Executive and Mrs. O'Ferrall to join his
party when the race comes on When he
| told the Rockingham Democrat how fast
| the train would go. his Excellency asked
i guess ia better take out some insur-
ance. hadn't I?'
Mr., Branch assured him that there
| would be no danger In the race-that IL
would be like sitting in a parlor.
WOULD BEAR 1T IN MIND.
The Executive promised to bear the
Invitation IN mind. and displayed great
interest i'm the explanation OF the speaker.
who talked intelligently, and showed con-
siderable "horse-sense."
Mr.. Mckinney subsequently asked Mr..
Branch what he proposed to do with the
hundred million. and the stranger. in "A
burst OF confidence. told him that he In
tended to found an orphan asylum with
fifteen thousand of 1t. and that he would
appropriate FIVE thousand more to the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association.
He said that when he got his fortune
he did not propose to loan any of II out
and what's more, he wasn't going security
for any man.
Mr. Branch appears TO be about s. years
or age. and says that at one time he
was quite active In politics. Some months
ago he challenged Tom Watson TO have
a joint debate with him, but the immortal
"where-am-I-at" man didn't reply at all,
and kept the postage stamps which Mr.
Branch enclosed. According to the view
OF the Georgia inventor. Watson wouldn [
have stood a ghost Of "A chance against
him.
The Cracker State representative said
that he was already negotiating for the
sale or his patent, and that the money
FOR IL would soon be coming In.
Mr. Branch Is exceedingly sang1Ilne
cheerful. and laxative He leaves to-day
for Georgia, whore he says he will confer
with capitalists relative 20 his Invention.