Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-07-27

Simpson, contains 2O.063 names, being
1913 more than were found in the sa me
volume last year. The first Boston -Di.
rectory appeared 1889, from the press oil
John Mormon and contained So pages
with l,425 names, but few more than
the present gain Of a single year.
A Cotton Factory, at t1il.sborough
Bridge, N. H.. on FRIDAY night last, with
a large amount of manufactured cotton,
was burnt. Loss estimated at $4,000,
on which there was insurance in Boston
to the amount of $4,000. r
The number Of emigrants who have ar
rived at Quebec the present season to the
9Th inst, IS 34,55s, of whom 1881 arriv-
FED last week. ~ ~
POPULATION OF Lone IsLAND.-The
census OF 1910 shows that the population
of Long Island, (Which contains an area
oil about 400 square miles. had increased
nearly siaty per cent. in. ten years, or
more than twice the average per cent. in
crease of the whole State. --~
The construction of The Long Island
Railroad will doubtless greatly Increase
the prosperity of the Island. Its popula.
ton now is greater ,han either Of the
States of Rhode Island Delaware or Ar
kansas.-N Y. Observer.
CONSPIRACY CAsE.-PRoPR1EToR
CoNVIeTFD.-The trial ofthe proprietors
of the Forwarding Lines indicted for a
conspiracy 10 keep up the price of wheat
90 the canal, took place at Pittsburg last
week. The trial excited the most lively
in:erest. and during its progress the
Court Room was crowded to excess
The case was ably argued on both sides
and OH Thursday evening was submitted
to the jury; who, on Friday morning,
brought in verdict Of guilty against all
the parties indicted. They were all to be
sentenced next day. The Manufacturer
says:
From Information brought out on this
trial we have no doubt but there is SINH
lar combination 10 Philadelphia. In the
constitution produced at the trial, the fol.
lowing is one Of the regulations
"loth. No proprietor, agent, clerk. or
any person for them, shall make contracts
for goods going westward. at any rate less
than established at the place of shipment,
&C."
FLORIDA INDIANs.-It appears from
Congressional document recently publish
ed, that S26,7O7 have been paid to % differ
ent chiefs of the Florida Indians. 10 induce
themio migrate. Nine hundred and forty
common Indians-men, women ,and children
also came in for money; and the general
sum paid to these is $50 each few are
set down at So, which were probably chill,
dren. The. result of the whole is, that
nearly $4,000, in addition to the expen-
ditures for troops, has been expended in
direct applications of money to the Flori-
da [ndians.
Mission to Engldnd.-It is now tue
intention of our brother Henry G. Wright
to sail fer England about the middle OF
| August He will 60 as the accredited
representative of the Nom Resistance So
ciety, to disseminate the principles of peace
and brotherly kindness, and to hasten the
time when swords shall be beaten into
ploughshares. and spears into pruning
hooks, and England, America and all
other nations shall learn war no more.
Funds are still needed to cover the ex-
penses of this christian mission. Reader,
will you not contribute something towards
it?-Liberator.
H7The plague of a Standing army
was we'll illustrated al Montreal on Thurs
day of last week, when no less than seven
soldiers were tried fol- larcenies. One
had robbed poor woman, an migrant, of
her little store. having first gained her
confidence by representing himself as
friend of her husband, whom she had
come out to join. Two others, passing
fatong the highway, fell in with a man
from the States, who had gone to Canada
to see his father, and who, fatigued with q
long amp, had fallen asleep at the road
side. Him they robbed OF fifty-fve doll
ars. Two others We're convicted of steal
| ing watches. --. s.s.
/ The Montreal Herald says that ofenc-
es by the soldiery have multiplied, to an
alarming extent. The police Office has
been crowded with them, and several are
in confinement awaiting trial,-N Y
4 Spectator. @ .--..--
/ RISKS OF MERCANTILE LIFE.-the
Journal of Commerce, noticing the state
| ment of General Dearborn, ".hat ninety
J seven out Of every one hundred person
lwho obtained their livelihood by buying
and selling, failed or died lnsolvent" y
/ adds the following testimony to the same
fact The Journal went part through the
Directory to letter B. and on comparing
, those Of 1887 with 1912, found that OF 95i
business men and firms, whose ms mes be
gin with this letter, in the Directory o
1887. 436 are not to be found in that 70
|, eI842. leaving 53i still remaining. Con
sequenlly, nearly one half have disappear
Led 10 FIVE years and it is reasonable Z