Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-17

NAMES OF PLACES. The Bosten Mer- 7
camille Journal has always manifested
proper indignation for the scandalous taste
or rather want of taste, in naming places
in this country, and the last number ofthat
paper, after making some very sensible
remarks upon the suhjec:, makes the fol-
lowing enumeration OF names, taken mere
ly from glance at the index OF Mtchell's
map of the United States. 1t is very
choice assortment, 10 be sure, but exceed
ingly meagre and imperfect. Here it is
Bean Blossom, Bloody Run, Boggs.
Bono, Bon Pas, Funks town, Paint, 4
towns, Pumpkin town, Scuffle town, 2
towns, Trap, towns. Wh:skey Run, Su-
gar creek, l3 towns, Sugar Loaf 3 towns,
Plumb, towns, Peepee, Bebble, Oil,
Olive, towns, Olive Green, One Leg,
North East, towns, Newstown, Moon,
6 towns, Modestown, Metal, Mary Ann,
Mary Ellen, Logtown, Long-a-coming,
F'rogtown.
We could find fifty other names from
memory quite as pretty and as poetical.-
Our contemporary must have overlooked
SIingtai!, Shirt Tail Bend. Troublesome
Old Iron Works, Hogs Calamity, Burst
up, Blatherskite, Tumbleburgh, Whis-
keysokerania, Bundle Bee, Snakehamp-
ton, Blarneyville, Caaw Tobaccer, Ho,
Potater town, Dumping tonia, &c. &C.
~ Y Gazette.
SUCCESSFUL ExPERIMExT.-The Lon
don papers of February Is mention the
safe arrival, at Pernambuco, from Liver
pool, after passage of AZ days, Of the
iron ship Ironsides This was the first
sailing vessel, built of iron, that vas ever
sent from England on foreign voyage
| BY this voyage the great question of the
compases was satisfactorily determined
throughout the whole time they traversec
with the same regularity and accuracy a:
on board vessels ofthe usual construction
~ Y. Spec.
MAcKEREL FIsMERY.--Wel learn from
; the Portland Courier, that the quantity o
mackerel inspected and returned last yea
l in Maine, was 22,446 barrels, and 26ll
half barrels. The amount of tonnage EN-
ployed in that state in the mackerel fish
r cry, for the year ending September 81
| 1887, WAS l2,085 tons, and in the CO
fishery, 1926 tons. The Courier make
. statement of fact OF which we wer
, previously ignorant, but the CORRECTNESS
of which we have no reason TO doubt, viz
!, =" that large preparations are maxim
: in some of the ports of Massachusetts 70
an extension Of this ancient and irnportar
branch of New England enterprise; the
! are particularly encouraged to this pursu
. at this time, by the increased demand fc
! fish for expectation TO the Western countr,
in consequence of the increased faciliti,
! for Transportation. Boston Journal
i WIRE charlottesville act of Coz
g gress regulating steamboats,, requires III
S, iron rods or chains shall be used insles
n of tiller-ropes. We have before US su
z. stitute which strikes us as being far bette
10 1t is rope Of fine wire, both elastic ar
- pliable, and so prepared in the manula
ture that it does not oxydate. Aspecim,
or may be seer at this office, and also at Il
!, counting-room OF Mr.. Farnham, No.
> West street-M Y. Spec.
i MARCH OF Observation-Disclosures
!, for debt in Michigan was abolished total
to and forever BY the legislature OF that Sta
W on the 18th Kergennes Vermont