Virginia. Railroad Commissioner:Annual report of the railroad commissioner of the state of Virginia Volume 1
- Taschenbuch ISBN: 9781130090895
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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 34 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: . . . to elect their own pastors, he roundly asserted, That those professed Presbyterians, who thrust men upon congregations, without, and contrary to the free choice their great King had allowed them, were guilty of an attempt to jostle Christ out of his government, and to take it on their own shoulders. In the preface to this sermon, which he immediately published, he expressly applied these assertions to the act of Assembly in question. In October following he preached another sermon before tfn Synod of Perth and Stirling, in which he affirmed the same doctrine, in terms equally unqualified, and of equal keenness and asperity. It is not improbable, that the strong feelings of Ebenezer Erskine and his associates on this occasion were, in a certain degree, exasperated by another proceeding of the Assembly, which had taken place a few days before the enactment. The Assembly had decided a question relating to the settlement of a minister of Kinross, in the presbytery of Dunfermline; to which great opposition had been made, both by the parishioners and the presbytery; and in which Mr Ralph Erskine, (the brother of Ebenezer, ) minister of Dunfermline, and Mr Thomas Mair, minister of Orwell, (both of whom were afterwards leaders in the secession, ) were deeply involved. The Assembly had not only appointed the settlement of Kinross to be carried into execution, with circumstances of peculiar severity; but they had prohibited the clerks from receiving any dissents from their sentence, or a protest which was offered from the bar by Mr Ralph Erskine and others. The following Assembly treated them with still greater severity. In 1733, Mr Ralph Erskine, Mr Mair, and others, were rebuked at the bar, for their determined refusal to enrol Mr Stark, then This last c. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 52 pages. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: . . . REVOLUTIONARY MASSACRES. 145 she took leave of her family, and returned to her prison, were torn with convulsions resembling the agonies of death; and the distresses of the scene, might be described by the pencil, but not by the pen. Q. Did vengeance rest on any of the revolutionists A. Yes; Brissot, and twenty others, were denounced as conspirators, condemned and executed. The noted Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corde; France bled at every pore; the excessive ravages of the revolutionary tribunal, were marked with blood throughout tlie kingdom; religious assemblies, and even all forms of religion were abolished; and one general scene of anarchy, execution, and distress, overwhelmed the nation. Q. What party now prevailed after Brissot A. Robespeirre; and in January, 179, Thomas Paine was arrested, md imprisoned; it was common to denounce, arrest, condemn, and execute members of the convention by dozens, as the parties prevailed; and in My following, Madam Elizabeth of the royal family, was tried, condemned, and executed. Q. Were there no insurrections in Frapce, during this struggle A. Yes; in La Vendee, Nantz, Lyons, and c. Q, Were they suppressed, nd in what manner; A. They were overpowered by force, bufciiered and massacred bythousands, nnd tens of tbuus. ands, mostly by drowning, in the following manner: They were crowded into tint holds ot vessels, set afloat on the river, then scuttled and sunk; 146 CONSTITUTION OF TE DIRECTORY. when massacred they were thrown into large pits, some of which contained 4 or 5000. Q. How long did this insurrection continue A. About seventeen months; 80, 000 were slain, 90, 000 taken prisoners, and perhaps one half of these destroyed. Q. What succeeded the rebellion of La Vendee A. A new constitution was frame. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 28 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: . . . me. Ast. Hear then my counsel! instantly provide A keen-edgd razor, and a burning lamp; At night, when sleep sits on his monstrous eyes, Steal from his speckld side, step to your light, And without fear behold his horrid shape, And with the razor cut his scaly throat; And so by death gain life, and he being dead, Psyche shall to some king be married. Pet. How doth our sister relish this device Psy. I do embrace your counsel, and this night Ill put the same in execution; Come, you have made me resolute and bold, And now receive your laps oer-swelld with gold. e. 2: it Ast. Swell in thy pride, until thou brea. kst thy heart! Yet come, well take her largess eer we part. e. zeunt Mid. Poet, no more; I have enough of Psyche, Her sisters and the serpent; all of them Most villainous lies; Ill prove it; and unless, To please myself, and keep mine eyes from sleep, Thoult let me shew thee some of our fine sport, Such as we use here in Arcadia, I will endure no longer. Apu. Well, I am pleasd. Mid. Ill shew thee in a dance. Apu. Art sometimes must give way to ignorance. I A Dance. Enter PAN, CLOWN, SWAINS, and Counrnv-Wancnas; they dance, and e. zeunt. Md. Was not this sport indeed Apu. My modesty gives thee no reprehension, For Im well pleased with your pastoral mirth; But as thou hadst a power over mine eyes, To sit it out with patience; so lend me Thy attentive ears. Mid. First, clear thy absurdities; Nay, gross ones too: here Psyche lies abominably, And says she has two husbands, the one young, The other old; how canst thou answer this Apu. Though thy vain doubts be most familiar To these judicious hearers, well experiencd n As well in matters moral as divine, To . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 40 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: . . . CHARGED FOR THE RESPECTIVE CLASSES PER MILE. For through passengers--all classes 2. 94 cents. For way passengers--all classes 3. 84 cents. For passengers--emigrant 2 cents. Average rates of fare charged for all classes 3. 58 cents. RATE PER TON PER MILE CHARGED FOR ALL CLASSES OF FREIGHT. Average rate per ton per mile charged on all classes of freight 1. 97 cents. TABLE E. EXPENSES OF ROAD DEPARTMENT. From passenger trains 449. 490 78 From tonnage trains 1, 328. 463 31 From rents 1, 210 65 From interest 12, 163 28 From telegraph 245 11 Total 1, 791, 579 13 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. The whole number of persons employed by the company on the 30th September, 1877, was as follows, viz: Road department 813 Machinery department 249 Transportation department 558 Executive and treasury department 30 In all 1, 650 The average number of persons employed during the year was 1, 496 PAYMENTS. Payments for the interest on the funded debt were 351, 132 72 Of funded debts, viz: Old Southside past-due bonds 2, 500 00 Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio interest funding notes 577 50 3, 077 50 Of floating debts 7. 17, 996 34 TABLE I. ACCIDENTS, THE NUMBER OP PERSONS IN LIFE OR LIMB, AND THE CAUSE OP THE INJURY, AND WHETHER PASSENGERS OR PERSONS EMPLOYED. Total number of persons killed 13 Total number of persons injured but not killed 7 1870, Oct. 14--Near Tuggles Tank, George Noble, white, fireman, while oiling his engine, fell off, was run over and killed. Oct. 31--At Abingdon, Robert L. Wilson, engine-runner, and Jesse Jeter, fireman, white, were killed by the explosion of the boiler of engine No. 17, to which they were attached. Nov. 1--At 293 mile post, Thomas T. Casey, white passenger, leaning from steps of sleeping car, was struck by a derrick and killed. Hov. 14--At Dublin, J. W. Whitaker, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<
