The Washington Building Lime company, of Molar P. O., Jefferson county, has also been chartered. Its charter is to expire on September 1, 1939. Its capital stock is $500, ten per cent. of which has been […]
Killed. We learn that Mr. JAMES FLANIGAN, of this County, near the Old Furnace, was killed by Boyer, a quarry hand, on Wednesday last. The particulars of the affair, as far as we have heard them, […]
Lime-Boat Burned.A lime-boat belonging to Mr. CALLEN, was burned in the Canal near this place, a few days since, while on its way to market with a heavy cargo of lime. The fire occurred from a […]
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette takes ground against the theory that cholera is more prevalent in limestone districts than elsewhere, he says: Wherever water is used from wells dug through blue clay or soapstone, the […]
LIME.The subscriber has for sale 2,000 bushels of superior LIME at his kilns near Reynolds’ “Little Mill,” which he will sell on reasonable terms. WM. FLANAGAN. August 27, 1840
MESSRS. GALLAHER:– The following facts with regard to the limestone of this section of the Valley o’ Virginia, deduced from Professor Wm. B. Rogers’ Report of the progress of the Geological Survey of the State of […]
Nothing escapes the vigilant eye of our friend WERNWAG, the celebrated bridge builder. We found him, the other day, on the mountain side, four hundred feet above the river at Harpers-Ferry, engaged in a most superb […]
