Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-10-14
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

moving up North in the matter of the Mon |
treal " Vermont junction Railway The
Municipality of Misssquoi has voted to take
$500 900 of the stock The Village of Phil |
Hpsburgh has voted to take 100000, and St. !
Johns will probably take $40 900 of the
stock. Charles Seymour is the Secretary of
the Company, and is active in pushing it
along
The arrangement for the sale of the second
mortgage bonds of the Ogdcnsburgh Railroad
to the Cheshire and fitchburg Roads at par,
on condition that the former and the Vermont
Central shall give the others all their bust
ness, has been consummatcd, and the friends
OF the Ogdcnsburgh are in great SPIRITS
They say that it enables the Road not only to-
pay its coupons on the LIST of October, but
also to meet all its liabilities and have hand
some surplus.
1t is estimated that the September receipts
Of the Vermont Central will prove to DC rs
high az SSj,000.
The Springfield, Hartford and New Haven
Road has agreed to Join all the other lines
through the Connecticut River Valley be-
embracing line of near 300 miles in guar
auteeing 800 600 of preferred six per cent.
stock to be issued by the Connecticut AND
Passumpsc Railroad Company for the pur
pose of making a connection with the Cana
dian Railroad, which will within six months
be completed from Quebec to Richmond, and
thence to Island Pond in Vermont, where the
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The total cost of the proposed conncctionwill
be 81 300 900, of which all except this $780,
600 has been already secured.
The New York and New Haven Railroad
Company has already paid near two hundred
thousand dollars to those who were injured,
and those who lost their relatives by the ac-
cidcnt at Norwalk
The Houston (Tcxas) Telegraph asserts that
from recent surveys the fact has been revealed
that Il belt of country, varying from 10 to
100 miles broad, extends quite across the CON
tincnt, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which
is 50 level that a Railroad can be- extended
the whole distance without travrrsing a
mountain range. Tho Pacific Railroad may
be extended in an air line from Sacramento
to San Diego, ON this route, with as little
difficulty an open plain. This singular
feature in the surface Of the continent
seems to have been intended by nature for
n great national thoroughfarc. The great
backbone of the North American Continent
seems to have been broken down on this line,
to let the Pacific Railroad pass gently over it.
An underground Railway is to be built UNI
der London. The first line is to he II miles
long, and will cost 81, lOO,0O0, a large sum,
but cheap in comparison with Railroad
above ground in the same locality. The tun-
mel, or, rather, the arcade, is to be water
tight, and well lighted, and all trouble from
smoke will be avoided by not using locomo-
motives, though what is to be substituted is
not distinctly stated. The projectors pro-
pose next year to extend the line further
-MUsEUM SoLD.-The celebrated colcc
ton, made by the late Dexter Marsh of
Greenfield, Mass, of fossil footprints in the
red Sandstone of the Connecticut River Valley
was sold at auction last week. The spcci-
mems brought high briccs, ranging from -,
all along up to 1878. One impression of an
enormous foot apparently of bird five or
six times the size of the ostrich, brought
500. The gems Of the collection will re-
main in Massachusetts.
-BARY SHow.-Aitcr the great National
Horse Exhibition which is to come off at
Springfield, Mass, next month, II grand
Baby Show is to be held in the same place. \
number Of Editors going in for premiums,
and the display of ''fast" babies, and ''blood"
stock will be large. A ten acre lot has
been engaged with good drainage, and ac-
commodations for the wet nurses. Pap for
the infants, and bccswax for the visitors Ito
stop their ears with) will be furnished
gratis
"A SELF MADE MAN-TIon. Andrew
johnson, Governor elect of Tennessee, com
mcnccd life in an Aims house in North Caro-
lima, where he remained until his eighth
year when he was apprcnticcd to II tailor.
When his apprenticeship was up he married
a wife after his own heart, who aided him in
learning to read and write. He emigrated to
Tennessee, trudgng bareiootcd with his
hep-mate by his side. and in ten years found
himself in comfortable circumstances and
man of information.
Being good talker on the stump, he was
sent consecutively for a term of two years to
both branches of the Legislature. From
thence he was transferred to the House OF
Representatives of tho United States, where
he served six years.
-TnE LIQroR DEALERS STRIEE.-Spcak
ing of the rise in French brandy and the con
sequent rise in prices at retail shops to 10
cents glass, the Albany Jonrnd says
"lt is absurd to ask people to believe that
the price of retail brandy in New York is ai-
fected by the price of the French article. If
the dealers based their claim for four extra
cents on the ground that there had been Il
rise in burnt sugar, coc"ulus indicus, or
oxide Of lead, they would be entitled to some
credit. These articles enter much more
lur.rrlu iuLu ~ recommendation :. purn { ..cnu1 ~