Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 October 1878 — Page 4

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Address all letters, WM. C. BALL & CO.

GAZETTE, Terre Haute.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24,1878.

Now that frosts have been general over the south, an end may be expected of new cases of yellow fever.

FOUR hundred thousand ounces of silver bullion will be purchased weekly by the United States treasury department, for the coinage of sHver dollars.

TBK rebellious Ameer of Cabul has told the British Viceroy: "You may do jour worst the ipsue is in God's hands," which means, being translated, that the Ameer proposes to handle his own local Affairs, all by himself, if he can. *»**»??£.i

A CONTRIBUTION of three thousand reichmarks, about

$700,

by Emperor Wil

liam of Germany, to the yellow fever sufferers in the south, a report of which Came over the wires Saturday, is a grace All act, and will not be forgotten.

EX-MAYOR HAVBMBYBR, in a letter €0 the press, denies that any of the telegrams sent from the south to his address were intended for him. They were sent •o other persons in his care. He never read any of them, never knew the cipher and never answered any of them.

THURSDAY evening oi tftis week Rev. £. H. Henderson, pastor of the Fri6t 9* punt church, of this city, will deliver his iicture on the "Source of Capital and 'Wsg.y at Armory Hall. Rev. Hender•on has devoted considerable time and study to the consideration ot this important branch of political enconomy' and those who Lave heard his lecture express themselves in enthusiastic terms of It. He should have a crowded house

The lecture will begin promptly at 8 o'clock and will be free. It is especially to he hoped that all working men, to whom the reverend gentleman ha* proved himeeK a genuine friend and counselor in lime of need, will come out and give him hearing. He does not speak in advocacy of any party, but on a subject which ought to be taken out of pofiticd, and be as firmly settled as any of the fundament«1 propositions of the constitution. »F

ANOTHER fresh scandal has just been Opened up at Washington by the suit of Henry S. Wetmore against Admiral Porter.

AThe

present suit is only to re

cover certain sums ot money deducted, by order of the Admiral, frem Wetmore'* •alary as a Naval officer, and paid to his divorced wife—the purpose being lest the ^legality ot such ac Hon. But this is said to he only the forerunner of a much more important prosecution. During the war Wetmore was an under officer in Admiral Porter's fleet, and, among ether good qualities, he possessed handsome wife. .The Admiral, like wne other men, had a weakness fo handsome women—even if they did |happen to belong to another and he was 1 marked in his attentions to the one question. An intimacy grew out of it which continued for years, and Anally resulted in separation of man and wife oby divorce. Wetmore's interest in the ^woman endeed there, as the decree gave her no alimony or other claim upon him hut the Admiral has since Often visited her. The proceedings against him have teen carefnlly matured, and are report* to be well fortified.

SCARCELY six weeks intervene before the assembling ot Congress, and as the coming a the second or final session of the present Congress, it will expire, by imitation on the

4th

of March next. It

.is what is generally known as the short session, and mil necessarily be crowded .full of business. There won't be 'time lor members to squabble and gas for two Ot three months before getting at the real work to be done, though nothing on earth can save the .country from a certain amount o: that sort oftbtag with every session. There are some Congressmen who will blow their bazoos about so much in spite of /erytbing. They really think tne country must has* a large amount of wind pudding diet to survive. Butiht* approaching session has so many jnipvruuK matters to be attended to that 'jprpmpi/Ks* and di&patcl<" will

the motto from"• the beginning. Just what financial legislation will be undertaken it is of course impossible to predict now, as the cornplc^jon oi the house as regards greenbacks, etc., is not yet determined. It is pretty safe to assume however, that there will be some pretty lively ''opposition' to the pet schemes oft Mr John- Sherman. Among other things provision will have to be made for taking the next census, and is probable that there will be an effort to settle apbp rules of procedure in counting the electoral votes for President and Vice President Of course some of the old measures of last season will be brought forward.

The

tobacco men will

clamor tor the.reduotion of the tobacco tax the whiskey men will seek a reduction of the tax on spirits, and there may, too, be a renewed agitation of the tariff question, while the Presidential tinpleas. antness is likely to be brought into the HQuse by the report of the Potter investigating committee.

AN army officer who is stationed in Arizona, relates a pleasant incident of the late visit there of General Sherman, on his tour of frontier inspection. Upon the arrival of thfe General at Prescott barracks, he was waited upon by a committee of citizens and tendered a reception which was to include a grand ball and blow-out generally. The invitation was* accepted, and the committee perfected their programme by making a subscription of |io, the price of a ticket ot admission. When the affair came off it was gorgeous in the extreme. There were

300

400

ladies and gentlemen

present. In the midst of the joyous dance, a miner, a hardy son of toil, with unkempt hair, soiled face and hands, and the usual miner's outfit, trowsers in his boots, in shirt s'.ee'ves. a belt filled with cartridges, pistol and knife, approached the entrance door and said to the attendant "See here, my friend, how much does it cost to get into this lavout "Ten 2 dollars," replied^1] the attendant "Does that give a feller the right to go in and shake hands with General Sherman?" "Certainly," was the reply. "Ten dollars goes," said the miner, and handing the attendant a ten dollar bill, entered the ball-room. A correspondent who happened to be standing near the door when the conversation took place, had the curiosity to follow the miner to see the result of his investment. He wended his way carefully through the crowd, avoiding the ladies' trains as deftly as conld have done one of your famous German leaders, approached the General and said: "General Shermat, I merely want to •hake your hand. I fought under you in the march to the s^a," and turned and left the room immediately* If the General has ever had a more sincere compliment paid him, it. has never been an nounced. ••itf

THE BtbdjbY CHASM. In the sixth congressional district of Tennessee, which include* the city of Nashville, John F. House was unanimously nominatedTor Congress, yesterday by the Democrats. His speech contains sentiments of gratitude to the North for her bounty in providing relief for the yellow lever sufferers which indicates a rapid healing of the old wounds of war. We quote this part:

In the next contest between the two great parties they will divide upon governmental policy and without sectional animosity. Sectional hatred will be eliminated trom the contest. So far as the south is concerned I am certain that siich will be the case. I cannot fellow citiaens, find it in my heart to indulge in feelings of malice toward* the people of the north. When I witness their mag *nanitnous and generous conduct toward the southern people, I feel like pulling off my hat and standing uncovered in- their presence. Oh! jrander than the victory of the Appomatox is the victory won by the people of the north in their noble and generous contributions to the atrickand suffering south I Upon that fatal field the south aurrendered her sword, within the shadow of the dark wing of the pestilence, beside the newmade graves of her heroic sons/and daughters, with bowed head and tearful eyes, she extends her hand and surrend era her heart to the generous liid magnanimous north. God's own hand has bridged the bloody chasm let not the ambition of man seek to reopen the wounds and to kindle the embers of sectional strife. Let us go into this great contest of

1880

needs

without any of these tie

meets of sectional bitterness. Of course, we will be divided as to Questions of

Sit

vernment policy, but with element eliminated from the contest the representatives of the south can stand upon the floor of congress as the peers ot any from the northern states, and can loek to the material development of their own section, to the enlargement of its commercial relations, and make the southern people more prosperous. With fraternity and harmony restored, this great country can march onto a more glorious *nd" illustrious future than has been seen in the past

HYPOCHONDRIA.

The GAZETTE'S excellent friend, the Brazil Miner, seems to be afflicted with a severe case of hypochondria. Nothing else will account for the gloomy view it takes of everything. For example, in its last issue of yesterday, it breaks out into the following wail of despair over the desperate and dying condition of everything in thi* law cursed land v*.

There seems to be a standstill of all bueiue.66 transacted throughout the entire Union, all fof tne want of capital to

But alas! "We are in the midst of despair,' and the old machine of prosperity is at a stand still, and the "end is not ytt." Oh, great Heaven*, where is the end! can any one tell us our destination, providing it still continues its downward course?

The GAZETTK* fervently wishes its esteeemed contemporary woulJ take a brighter view of life. Especially it hopes the Miner will not misrepresent facts and distort well known events toits feed morbid fancy. Its first sentence is a misstatement

FjrMAll

THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. Elsewhere will be found an address by Grand Chief Engineer Arthur. He is the head oi the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in this country. His address was delivered before the international convention of the brotherhood in session at Indianapolis last week. We have delayed its publication until now, because the members ot the convention visited our city to-day, and .public attention will be the more directed to them on that account While this address was delivered to locomotive engineers, recites the history of the brotherhood, and discusses the present purposes and future objectl of the organisation, it still contains much matter of no little interest to the community at large*

THE uEKKE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

promote and push ahead its action, Whereby the laboring classes, could all have employment, thereby earning a good living for themselves and 'their families. Then the country would not be flooded wi'.h idle people. But every kind of business would then be in full blast, and the ties of life would be more blooming, in the mortals frames of our Free American citizens, of this grand old Union, were there plenty of money in circulation. Then this would be a land of liberty, and every man woman and child, would shout with glee, at its prosperity. And it is then our men of business would be seen flourishing in the land. And every wheel t6 the "business machine" of country would be in "volvation," and what a change all over this land you would be astonished to 'see it. Yes, a change you would appreciate, and greet with cheers that would upheave the entire continent.

business transacted

throughout the entire Union is not at a tandstill, for the want of capital, or for any other cause. Laborers wanting work, and willing to work, are not to any considerable extent, out of work. So many people, themselves busily occupied, have been saying thist hing on some body else's say, so tnat doubtless some persons believe in to be true. The plain matter-of-fact is that it is not so. It is not 60 here. We do not believe it is so in Clav Cunty. Everything is booming, sweetly booming, here, except the Notional-flat party. There are no hungry or starving people here no naked ones. People who want work and are willing to wopk for what seems to be small wages but which are really good wages, when the amount it will buj is considered, can get work to do. This, now, the very present that we are grunting about, is the business millenium.

The general stoppage of railroad traffic in the summer of

1877,

that was vexatious, and troublesome, and costly, did a very considerable amount of good^a. For years the railroad tvitem had been developing, in this country. Everything has worked smoothly, without jar or hitch. Old methods of doing business had quietly passed away, and everything had conformed to anew order of things. And this had been done so gradually, and so completely, that the old way was forgotten. Indeed the new way has been the old and only way to most of the younger portion of the business world. It is a high tribute to the efficacy, and thoroughness, and smoothness of working of the railroads, that people had really forgotten how largely they were dependent upon them every day of the week, and every hour of the day. When the sudden and general stoppage came there was a rude awakening. Conrniiinities discovered what they had never suspected before, via: that it was utterly impossible to get along without railroads that they were fo the business body what the arteries are to the phys! cal body. Railroads before had been the object* of attack for all classes and conditions of society. People had com* plained about their exhorbitant charges for transportation, and the farmers had organized into granges, the better to prevent what they were pleased to .call the extortion of the railroads. The stoppage of railroad traffic taught these things

(1)

That, as compared with any

other method of transportation, railroad charges were marvelously cheap

-uition fees in the school of experience are proverbially dear. It may now be poa Bible for a railroad to get some justice in a court from a jury. Occasionally a jury may be expected to find that all the scrub stock killed is not thoroughbred, and that the owner of stock has some duties to perform in the way of caring for his animals and keeping them off of railroad tracks. In fact, the great strike has taught the whole community, from which the ranks of jurors are recruited, that railroads are not proper prey for any bod who may trump up a fancied grievance agrainst them that, so far from beirg parasites, fattening off of all the rest the world, they render full service for all they receive that society, in anything like its present admirable condition, is impossible without them that they are the greatest civilizers of the age and the greatest peace makers, by reason of enarging the sphere of human acquaintance and human fellowship that they sustain a vast army of workers, as hon est, industrious, and skillful as any other, and just as good citizens, and that they should be justly and charitably dealt with in all their troubles.

Of all the men working in this vast hive of industry none are worthier than the locomotive engineers. Many men in the shops are perhaps as skillful mechanics, but an engineer must be a first class mechanic. They do not leap into the position in a day. They spend as much time as apprentices, learning their business in shops, or on locomotives in the capacity of firemen, as boys do in going through college, as cadets do at West Point or Annapolis, as theologians or awyers do in preparing themselves for their various avocations. And this is true: Few engineers

kare

along with nVuch* ^beer's as full of high courage and noble self sacrifice as ever graced the pages of martial history. Whatever tends to the improvement of their condition, to the advancement of their interests, to the broader and d&|>er culture of their memhers, to the making them better citizens or braver men, is of general benefit to all mankind.

(2)

that railroads, insteiki of making enormous profits, were most of them making very little money, and some none at all

that wagoning produce a hundred miles would cost more than to send it from Terre Haute to Europe

(4)

that thous

ands of hard-working, thrifty, intelligent and moral men, with their wives and littte ones, were dependent for a livelihood on the continued prosperity of this enormbus branch of business, in which they had invested a capital of several years apprenticeship (5I that it wchild turn the wheels of time back a hundred yeaTS to destroy this system, and that every traveler and every shipDer could better afford to pay ten times the usual rates than to see it seriously crippled.

A 51 this the stoppage during the strike taught it was costly lesson, but the

in acti\e

duty, driving locomotives, who are below the standard of excellence requisite to make them reliable and equal to the safe discharge of their duties. The number of incompetents among them is smaller than the number of weak brethren at the bar, in the pulpit, practicing medicine, fighting on land or sea or engaged in almost any other of the professions or trades of life. It is right that this should be to. Indeed it is ot immense importance that it should be so. For what the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has done in this direction—and it has done much, as very clearly appears by the address of Mr. Arthur, to which we have referred, and which is taken as the text of this articleit deserve the thanks of the community. There is not an engine driver in all the land who, eveyr hour that he is on duty, does not carry in the hoi,ow of his hand a cargo ot precious human lives. Oh the sobriety, and fidelity, and carefulness, and sleepless watchfulness, and eternal vigilance, and bravery under trying circumstances of every one of them immense interests depend. The annals of railroading contain examples of hetoism by locomotive en

In this spirit, and with this purpose in view, we have surrendered considerable space to the publication of the address of Mr. Arthur. It is a clear, manly, straight-forward exposition of the objects and purposes of the brotherhood, and will do much gcod in the way of enlightening the community on an order which very intimately concerns its vital interests.

In spite of yonr teeth, /, Both above and beneath Being lightly enamel'd and thia, They will a ever break down,1 *'H X«r tarn yellow ner brown.

II the tOBOUONrs daily brashed la.

fepaldiag's tllaa, save aid mead the pleeee

BASLINGSR'S LITTLE IMPOMP .f TUiH

(3)'

INDIANA.

Official Return of the Vole Cast at the Late Election.

Betow is given the official vote of the state of Indiana, bv counties, at the lute election on the

8th

rtams

day of October,

288? 18115

1878

The vote is that cas' for Secretary Stare, and, as will be seen, the Democratic plurality is

13,736.

COONUE3.

Prof. Smart1

superintendent of public instruction, wil run about 1,500 ahead of Shanklin. The total vote is

375,246.

1577 6584 *83* 0 6 .896 *408 1|«6 2008 2977 %i9

2484 J«OT 1055 WRJ

Last Thursday morning Baalinger came Into the office with a poem beginning "Oh, softlv the moonlight sleeps on the cove," and told us, as he carelessly tossed it on the table, that it was a "little thing he had just dashed off a* he was coming down this moniing hardly worth fixing it up hadn'4 time to polish it if we wanted to take it as he threw it on, all right." We took it and published ,it and the next night, at the church so icable, his wife met us and said: "And oh, wasn't that a sweet little poem of Frederick's? And do you know he worked on that Irom 8 o'clock Wednesdav evening until

30 in the morning, and

wouldn't let a soul of us come into the room and then he made the last copy of it into his ijote-book at the breakfast table. Why do editors always prefer lead-pencil copy to Ink? Frederick said they did." And right there stood Mr. Bai linger all the time.—[Burlington Hawk-Eve.

EXQUISITE ODORS.

The UniquePerfunes made by Dr. Price are the favorite perfumea for the handkerchief andttoilet. His Floral Biches surpaaEes in rioh, fresh, flowery fragrance, any other Cologne or loliet Water. Dr. Price's Pet Rose, Alista B«uquet, and other extracts are ccstat:c.

Mr. Albert Simpson, an English magistrate, has been breaking stones to see how it

feels,

and doesn't like it a bit.

One nan is borrt to break stones another to break banks all to break the Ten Commandments, and some few to brealt their necks. Stones weren't Simpson's be»t

hold.—f

Wild Oats.

480

Allen Bartholomew Bent ii Biackforl.... Boone Brown Csrroll Cass Clarke Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Doo.atur DrKalh Delaware Dubois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin Fulton.'....... Gibson Grant Greene Ham Htm.. Hancock Harrison Hendrleks Henry Howard Huntington .. Jact son lasper Jav Jefferson Jennings Johason KAox Kosciusko. .. L-tprange Lake La port* Lswrvnce Madisoa Marion Marshall Martia Miami Monroe Montgomery.. Morgan Newton Noble Ohio Orange Ow«a Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaakt Putnam Randolph Ripley Rash ttnott Shelby Spencer Staske Ht. Joseph Steuben Hulllvan Switscrland... Tlppeeanoe... Tipton Union Vanderburgh. Vermillion ... Vigo Wabash Warren ....... Warrick Wa»hin ion.. Wayne Weils White Whiliey

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442

1*97

958

8784

598

448 808 486 009 187 788 835 178 621 120 1574 8P0

U93 452 814 702 847 41 15» .49 148 1488 1C0 16 f06 240 61 1847 49 imo

2722 1300 8167 3167 2'FTO 2137

IMS 2-200 2788 l?4Ki 32H9, SOW S8K0 15*1 K97 9066 2'82 15*8

2905 660 8V8I 1015 1116 1901 1408 140!) S202 2649 2141 2739 1 07 1411 5670 8050 2828 2!0t 878 1062 1860 8082| 19S8 1645 18)6 2985 1620 1615 ?9»8 1816 .2298 ^l 1511 900 2X52 1WW 19 6 2175 918 2074 «7l 1229 1094 20f8 1220 1264 1621 1894 680 2884 8487 2150 2481 672 2012 lp67 817 29*8 1744 1091 i8»r 4164 954 1118 4117 1148 2424 8109 1489 1788 1209 482i 770 1820 1266

1847

541 •*"4«1 88 270 1107 1188

270

960 192 1896

28i 181 188 25 245 .... *"*494 889 41

*"*494

785 "iioi 227 "fi'i

8118 2!2S 1870 17*7 1887

"iioi

817 712 418 *800 558 12*8 291 941 821

2411 8^88 «3n 199s 2570 177« 234s S6O1 2437 8*1 )05i 847« 1785 8190 8162 sou 167j S779 !«0i 807O 1977

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185

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185

COfl 169 875

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564

207 81 104 986

2128

il79

1112 600 20" 572 199 128 2*8 41 698 120 .... '"tin 552 550

31, 1878:

888

iro

21v

2288 W8 8888

fl?i

628

Gross earnings for the year— From passenger.-... freight express... mall rents

Total.

Operating expenses, hestmeuts..

445 1#7»

WW *9*

2889 148# 8M*i

lw 668

1601 780 8747

048 2St 'w 458 HI 1* 879 577 10 4*5 1W 1024 "isia 148 672 55| 179 MS 971 S86 1949 8S9 65n 1186 "iso 6*0 514 492

8148 21157

a»8 2045 2*79 1986 1190 1748

Total 194'91

18*755

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Clifford's l'sMefR|t is not a panacea for alt the ills to whieh flesh is lelr. We do not profess to have discovered a care-all, bat we conldentiy recommend it to yon as a sure, safe and speedy care for all diseases arising from Malaria. In this class ofdls* it is a spec tion and utterly destroys the

eases

eciflc it enters cirealsdestroys the geims of the

poison it will pnrillv and baild up the debilitated system in a shorter time, sid with more lasting benefit, than any other known remedy.

J. c. RICIAXDBOH, Pri'p'r.

Fsr sale by all drucg sts, St. l^trals.

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E. &. T. H. RAILROAD.

TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT ma BVAXSVILLB AND TERRK HAUTE ROAD.

Ft6n Hie Evansrille Tr bun*.

To the Stockholders of the Evansville and Terre Haute Road Company: The Board of Directors submit the following report of the operations of the company for the fiscal year ending Au gust

Chargeable with interest on bonds and loan ... November dividend, 2 per cent May dividend, 2jf pvr vent.

Total cars

ft85,860 88 878,181 18 10,884 81 10,888 18 18^10 60

taxrsaad he-

•688,018 81 404,270 99

8178,748 58 8\281 51 90,838 00 26,228 28

An increase of cars To sum up, President Martin reports the financial condition of the road healthy and prosperous, and says too much pains can not be awarded to the heads of departments, and employes in genera], for their efficiency and faithfulness in the discharge of their duties firing the year.

A Texan revivalist (colored) is preaching the doctrine ot a I rigid hell with infmense 6ucces« to congregations that

GOODBYE, COAL.

An Inventory Labor of a Lifetime Crowned With Complete Succeti.

Mr. C. S. Salisbury, aNew York mechanic has been at work for twenty vears on a plan to utilize petroleum for fuel in producing steam. He has hit it, and is in a fair way to make a fortune. It was tested in the Brooklyn navy vard on Saturday, and was found to work to the utmost satisfaction ot the officers who inspected it. The furnaces were. in full blast, but nasmoke was visible. Great volumes of white steam rolled away from the pipe, but no coal was thrown upon the nre below. It had the look oi an effect without the cause. "The most wonderful sight I have ever seen," the veteran engineer Isherwood said. "It revolutionizes the iron and steal manufacture the world over," one of the largest iron men in the country exclaimed. "It opens anew era in glass manufacture. We shall soon have glass roofs on our houses, and French plate will be at cheap as common window glass," said a large glass maker.

The results were so extraordinary in the perfect combustion attained, in the intensity of heat quickly produced, in the enormous pressure of the super-

heated steam, in the astonishing evaporation of water, in the freedom from dust, cinderl, sulphur and all impurities that these experts at once realized that a revolution in all departments whence steam is used must occur immediately.

The fuel is made of the residue of petroleum and coal tar, which is mixed to about the consistency of molasses. It is conducted from the barrel to the furnace by means of a small gas pipe. At tho end of this pipe as it enters into the door pf the furnace is a funnel-shaped apparatus. As the fuel enters this funnel it comes in contact with a current of high ly superheated steam, which atomizes the liquid so that it leaves the machine. It induces the required amount of oxygen to enter and mix at the point of ignition. Thus the atomized fuel shoots in a fierce but delicate spray into the blazing fur* nace. The brick arches of the great furnaces are kept at a whit* heat, and a pure white flame flashes along the whole length, registering a heat of

899 70

137i

550

5,000

degrees, melting pig iron in ten minutes, ana making liquid glass in two hours instead of sixteen. All that there is to maintain this extraordinary heat is the silght spray dsrting in from the little furnace, which .is* within t1 .» door.

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Tiie oi ihi Coveryjm»j» i.« iK»«cd fr-m ••tf.viu 00 tiie ol ,c. Mi., *-.1 ./iv'.v he is KSOLI a PRO, .011 tne produc ftti'.i the United i* Imes fr a perrn-,+,1• »i ,ct to ta*e fr*m Uu*ui ai Put--nil., r, 1 .»!• ir ku 'i ti I their dt»uii« .. r.-.v '. will give the j». i* rofit, and alv

.»1 *l'r

ng it to Hitt»bur£. X'»'* «c#an n'emnship bukinetts will alw feel the effect of this revolu ion in steam producing fuel. Experiments alirady made show that in a single trip acrors the Atlantic a taving of about

$5,000

will be effected in

the freight room alone, as the space now taken up for 8JO tons of coal will be used for freight.

But the greatest achievement of the new system will be in iron making. Sai the leading representative of this inter" est: "This the grandest achievement 6* science in this age, and this inventor's income, even on very small rayalities, will be greater than that of any .living capital* ist. With the mechanism invented by Mr. Salisbury a blast furnace of thirtytons per day will convert its liquid iron into plooms or ingots of wrought iron or steel at a co*t so trifling that it enhances the value of pig metal

100

per cent."

Sulphur ana carbon, the two deteriorative elements that are present in all the wrought iron now made, are utterly cast out by this new process. In the Salisbury furnaces the pig metal is melted to a thin liquid in fifteen minutes. It is then drawn off into a second furnace,

One

foot lower

than the first. The second furnace is immediately charged with a continuous sheet of hot air, and superheated steam ot

gitabon, aiidJ

ben utterly in from eight to teh minutes, when it is ready for the' pudler. At no time in this operation can any cold air come in contact with the liquid, and consequently everv particle become* united. In the two melting processes every trace of sulphur is taken up. The instant the metal is run off into the seconJ furnace the first is filled with pigs. When number two is taken out by the puddler the new lot is ready to run into the second furnace and so on in ceaseless alternation.

Note some points in contrast with the method where coal is used as fuel: 1. It hat always been impossible to free the iron from carbon and sulphur with the old methods.

$127,159 77 51.888 78 87,091 00 4058'11 83,088 98

Bslauee to credit of in"m* ac count. Gross earnings, show

vMcrwM

elv .: Expense-an rneass. Netnamtngsaa* mere se of. .. Number of passengers carried in tbey:ar, ntlng 21, 18 in excess of lust year. Increase of rev-:nu« Number of loaded freight cars moved .. Empty cars....

Ten charges are rut) off in a day and a night with the present process. The same number will be run off in ten hours with the new. One puddler will turn out in ten hours the amount that four puddlers and helpers will turn out in twen-iy-four hours.

18,168 28

85,218 18.788

The turnaces will be kept hot for three months continuously, as the fire brick, becoming intensified by the intense heat, will last tnat long. Under the present method—owing to the action of the sulphur and the necessity of scraping off the fine cinders and ashes, which form clinkers on the brick—the latter must be removed every day, and a new hearth made, during which time the furnace i» allowed to cool. 4. Not only is the quality (adhesiveness) of the iron improved by the new process, but the quantity is increased

pounds to the ton of material.

were not at all impressed by the prospect] 7- The cost of furl is reduced oneo» orthodox tormenw. I naif, reckoning ct «1 at only $3 per ton.

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One-half the labor in finishing is saved. 6. The heavy labor of handling coal and removing as he* is dispensed with.