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eneil picture to the sunWater for the TownIt is a fact patent to all, that . dred foot away n sen should tire hreak out in certain | found a pair of shoes ti localities of our town, when the blown to the sunn ■ t oA wind is high, a large portion of the and a mule was found .. place would be completely at the place twisted into an iiu. mercy of the flames. It would be ' shape. The second eutrai. utterly impossible for us to obtain a | mine presented a similar a sufficient supply of water, on such , to the first. At this pnin*. an occasion, IVom the wells. They Hungarian family named would be of but little avail. That! whose house was shivered ! we have not met with this dire 1 atoms, but the inmates of 1., calamity before is a matter of surprise. That such will be our fate i in the course of time unless some i! efficient means bo adopted to avert i j it, is certain. It is a mere matter of• i time. The houses and property of• | our citizens, amounting in value to ■1 hundreds of thousands of dollars,1' are in daily and hourly jeopardy, i It does seem like tempting I’rovi-, deuce to remain longer as we are.; ! As a sanitary measure and a matter i of convenience it is of the highest' importance that our town should be plentifully supplied with good, pure •1 water. An abundant supply of wa-i ter pipe through our town would - be a strong incentive to our citizens -1 to engage in various small munufac-i tories and industries that wuuld add• immensely to the prosperity of the i place, and increase in a short while,■ j to an amazing extent, the aggregate I' wealth of the place. If we wish to , j see a variety of manufactories spring--: ing up in our midst, it is absolutely *; necessary that we should have water I piped through our town, and we canI i never have them until we do. Wemight add a number of other reasons 1 why we should have water-works, but will content ourselves in this . article with these reasons viz.:, 1st. Without it we are utterly . j helpless to protect our property fYom f; the ravages of Are.2. We need it as a sanitary meas-. i ure:II 3. It is important as a matter of■ I convenience.. | 4. It encourages the establishment, I of manufactories, and is absolutely ;! necessary in many branches of indus-escaped without serious inju At the entrance of the 1V stood the company’s large vc 'liich, with thehousearoiuu swept entirely away, leuvin; . gine standing on the I'm. shattered and broken, wit twisted and forced.As indicated, the force of a plosion was terrifle. ltocl; thrown through the work-sho every object that stood in tic 8 course of the forced air was . islied. Several workmen in the s•1-1sopstry.. J These, we think, are sufficient to , I justify the expenditure. The present, we think, presents a most favorable opportunity, if properly utilized. Such an opportunity will never present itself again. The Legislature has appropriated $40,000 to the University to Ire expended on sewerage and water supply. Now what we would suggest is: that we make a contract with the University to furnish that institution with water for an annual stipulated price, or unite with the University in the construction of a dam, reservoirs and in the purchase and laying of the main pipe as far as the University; the University can bear its ratable proportion of the costs for so doing, and the town can bear the remaining portion of the expense of getting the water fYom there, to and through the town, while the University betur the expense of distributing the water necessary for its own use over its buildings and grounds. We think either plan feasible. As to how or by whom the repairs are to be made when necessary, might be a matter of agreement and contract.In some of the many articles that we have written on the subject of a water supply for Charlottesville, (which we hope has been to some purpose, though we must confess appearances are against us,) we believe that we have shown tYom statements made by those believed to be reliable experts, and who had investigated the subject, that an abundant and available supply of water could be obtained in less than three miles from Charlottesvillle without the expense of pumping it tYom the river. This supply is nearer the University than Charlottesville. We do most earnestly call the attention of our city-futhers to this subject; and would press upon their attention the views wo have suggested of combining with the University. We believe it could be so managed that both could have an abundant supply of water,and that the com binatiou would be a mutual benefit and advantage to each. We repeat; we will never have such an opportunity again. Then let us arouse ourselves immediately tYom our sleep and seize thewere seriously injured, and the shops ■ themselves, as well as the locomo-! tive house, were leveled with the ground. Of the one hundred and fifty men who were in the mine at1 the time of the explosion, 1101*0110! has returned to the surface to tell! the fate of his companions, and t’ re 1 is 110 probability that a single oul1 of them survives.These mines have just begun to exert an influence in the bituminous trade in the country. Three years ago the first preparation for mir ng were made in the region, and on the completion of the New river Division of the Norfolk and Western Road, May 21, 1883, the Southwestern Virginia Improvement Company, owning the coal beds, was prepared for an output of 1,600 tons a day or 2,000 tons if required, at a cost of 30 cents a ton for the mining, besides an equipment of 200 coke-ovens. Flat Top rises 1,100 feet fYom the level, and has beds of coal aggregating 33 feet 4 inches in thickness, lying one above another tYom base to summit. One of the beds 12 feet thick is only 7J feet apart tYom another bed 6 feet thick. Only tha 12 foot bed is operated, which the railroad enters at the level of the stream. The deposit is entirely homogeneous, and equal in quality to t ’onnellsville coal for steam and coke. The mountain is tive miles through, and the dip of the bed tYom the horizontal line is about 30 feet to the mile westwardly. The distance from the mines to Norfolk is 378 miles and to Roanoke 120 miles. Pocahontas lies at the foot of Flat Top, an entirely new mining village of about 100 neat and comfortable dwelling houses, into nearly every one of which mourning has been carried by the sad disaster. The miners include Swedes, Norwegians, Hungarians, Germans, Frenchmen and blacks.occasion.A Dreadful DIkunU-i-.An explosion occurred about half past twelve o’clock Thursday morning in the coal mines of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Com-j pany at Pocahontas, Tazewell county, Va. About 113 men were at I work in the mine at the time, and 1* * --it is believed that all have perished.A telegram tYom Pocahontas gives | fuller particulars of the disaster there. It states that the night relief were In the mines at the usual hour, about one hundred and fifteen strong. A little after midnight the town was startled from its sleep by j a report that sounded like the rumbling of an earthquake, followed by a : clap of thunder. Soon a messenger ! came from the mines, three-fourths I of a mile away, with information to ! the Superintendent that there had I been a terrible explosion thereThe Superintendent and others repaired to the mines at once, and the scene presented to their view was in-! descrihnble. Words could not convey ; the faintest idea of the destruction that was wrought in a few short seconds. Signs of it were plainly ble 011 every hand. The entrance to the main drift was entirely torn out. The cars were taken up bodily and torn in part and their iron wheels broken and shivered. They were thrown three und four hundred feet away. The ridge and timbers on the ridge opposite this drift was a black-Judicial InvcMligulioi).Tl»e following article is re-, jtiu ed from the Stale;When .Imlge Newman, charged withLegislature of Virginia the Judiciary lt;mlttee took the question In hand, heard testimony of witnesses, an well an argon for and against the acetified. The maju report denying the proof of some or hargea, but conceding the proof ofitchconvict, for some strange reuson best kuowi to the signers, refused to ask for this iuconi petent Judge’s removal.Who cun lorget that halting, shuffling re port, which sought to And its ground In tin ridiculous assumption that because theuu proven charges outnumbered the prove) charges this Incompetent Judge should In allowed to go free. We repeal the lllustra tlon that we used at that time. If a man In charged with arson, burglary, and murder and the charges or urson and burglary artIs proven, the accused shall be given hit liberty! Vet such was the reasoning of thal unjust report, majority report It was culled which was signed by all the Mahoneltes olshall speuk further on. Mujortty report ! must have been decided upon the quest! of a majority of ofTeuces. A beautiful lt;1 Unction, to be sure !But a minority report was algo sent a minority report only In the number the singers; lor it voiced the sentiment the great majority of the people ol Virginia. Tills report, signed by tl the most honored und trusted members of the House, susta Incompetency, that had been sustained by the majority report, but others equally ai serious. Remember that the Mahoneltes am the Democrats who Joined them In making a majority report sustained two charges ol lucornpotency, and it is necessary only t prove incompetency In order to remove . Judge.The report1 dlscuArguile by Me,Smith d Christian. Thi for rford, Cailimply on the ground of sustaining a ms Jorlty report In a Legislature In which »igi •s’ party held a majority. This, at least, | ic most charitable const ruction ofthelr nc on. How inlstakeu their opinion was w list the gentlemen who voted for the nu jorlty report will see upon reflection and rlt; even though they cannot undo the! blunder.[Jut there are two gentlemen who signed e majority report and who voted ag iseatlng this Judge who deserves puiButton.mxlous to takeach he has seemed lt;e side of Mahoneltes , _lampion on the floor of the House. The . ad I n ess he shows la appointing hlr their couusel,and the Intensity with w he argues for them merits a strong imp Ion ol gratitude from the Malioneites 10 services In their behalf.The second of these Is lion. Joseph C __in, whom the people of Richmond elected the Legislature as a Democrat. Mr. llui tl made two speeches on the floor ol lhlt; belialt of the Hanover Incompetcugrfirlng for Newman with an anloi iv of a better cause. Remarkable, lu-i. is the seal of these Democratic tneni-In behalf of u Judge whose Incompe-■y has been clearly proven by the ma-which they neverthe) mend his removal.The people of Virginia .are growing weary of this shuffling, unsteady conduct on the part of men who were expected to do their duty and who have so grievously disappointed the hopes of those who elected them toofllce. The art of weav........*...... 1technicalities is the n Jurist nor or the slalesi —ople be deceived by tnids Its origin In lnclt;competency, simply hlt; .,the work of a writer of law books, i . x-presldcnt of the Mupreme Court.■pen foe Is never so dangerous as the ui “ildlerlu the cump of friends.such miNleglslai ion
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Charlottesville Jeffersonian Republican
Charlottesville, Virginia, US
Wed, Mar 19, 1884
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