Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-12
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Notes and Comments.

GREAT RAILROAD PRoJECTs.-Ihe last ar
rivals from the Salt Lake country bring the news
tina. the Mormons are making a strong and ear
nest movement for the construction of a great
railroad from their city to San Francisco.
The late foreign arrivals also apprise us that
Whitney is in London, pressing his great pro
iect of a railroad to the Pacific. and that the
prospect is that he will receive the patronage Of
the British Government. provided the road shall
run through Upper Canada, and within the lines
Of their territory. Can it be that our Govern
ment can be so blind as to drive Whitney to
this, and give the British such an advantage
We hope not.
TAvERNs AND WOODEN CoMBs.-Among
some hundred sleeping chambers, not only In
taverns, but in private houses, into which we
have been put, in our journeyings within the
last ten years, we do not r~ecollect finding more
than two or three supplied with a comb or hair
brush and we were consequently compelled to
comb our head with our fingers, as we best
could, or appear at the breakfast table with hair
standing out like Giant Despair, in the CPL.
grim's Progress" Now though this neglect in
the entertainers of guests is no great affair to
complain about, to be sure, yet, it places men.
unless they are accompanied with wives to comb
their heads for them, in a predicament that caus-
es no small amount of internal grumbllng. And
to the end that the evil may be remedied, and
that the expense may be no excuse for neglect
ing it, we would respectfully suggest to all inn.
keepers, and other entertainers to whom these
presents shall come" to 60 10 patronizing the
peddlers SO far as to buy a pair of wooden combs
for every guest chamber IN their houses; for we
can assure them that their guests will feel very
grateful even for that.
The LOST mi FoUND RING.-Among the
many interesting incidents associated with the
burning of Royalton and the capture of its in
habitants by the Indians, in 1880, the following,
of comparatively recent Development, is not the
least curious
A few years ago two old acquaintances chan
ced to meet and fall into conversation under {
large tree on the bank Of White River, near thu
spot where the Indians forded the stream wit
their captives, on their way to Canada when
during the conversation, one of them, while list
lessly beating the earth at the roots OF the tree
threw out a circular substance, which, when tn
e~ncasing dirt was removed, proved to be a mas
siye gold ring of antique workmanship. Var
Ions were the speculations, of course, which too
Mace between the two friends respecting tn
original ownership and loss of the ring; BIT
nothing was ascertained about it till som
months afterwards, when the finder made a joul
new to one of the old towns near the seaboar'
from which some of the early settlers of Roya
ton had emigrated, Here, calling on a famiI
with whom he had some business, in the dusk
he evening, and something in the course of tn
conversation reminding him of his ring, whic
he had on his finger, he related the singular il
cident of his finding it under a tree on Viii
River, in Vermont when an old lady of near
ninety years, who had been sitting in silence
an obscure corner of the room, sprang up, an
coming forward, requested him to tell that sto
again. He did SO, and the old lady at ont
identified the ring as her own. She, then q gi
was one of the female captives taken at Roya
on and carried to Canada, from whence she W
ransomed and taken back to her relatives in t
old settlement. When taken, she had this ri
On her finger, and fearing it would attract
notice of the savages, and perhaps endanger
ife, she took it off and cast it down at the 70
bf the tree where it was found, We believe
WAS a betrothal ring but what romance in r
ife, if any, grew out of the loss, we are
hpprised.