Every morning a heavy trainload of provisions leaves Colon, dropping its freight as it passes the various labor settlements.

The Semicolon is used to separate those parts of a compound sentence, which are neither so closely connected as those which are distinguished by the comma, nor so little dependent as those which require the colon.

Of later grammarians, some retain the former colon in each sentence; some, the latter; and some, neither.

Some set a colon between the number of the chapter and that of the verse; which mark serves well for distinction, where both numbers are in Arabic figures: as, "'He that formed the eye, shall he not see?'Ps.