Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-07-17

ONO. The valley between the high blulis
affords fine facilities for business streets. and
the bluffs give picturesque sites for private
residences. The iron manufactured is immense.
In every quarter tall chimncys bolch out fire
and blacklist smoke-as if the spirits of the
savages, who defeated Braddock at this spot
in oldcn time, were now undergoing the hot
test penalties at the hands Of the pale faces.
Pale; MOI OF all places Pittsburgh is the
blacklist. The streets, the dwellings, the
men and the women arc all sooty. Ropub-
licans and Democrats. Americans and foreign
ers, are equally black At dinner, the soup
was sooty, the butter sooty, and oven the
very ice had PARTICLES of SCOT imprisoned in
the chrystals. Pittsburgh is gem indeed
but Of the blacklist water. twill d8to visit
it-not for Vcrmontor tu-I1yc thoro.
One railroad liTt from Pittsburgh passes
down oR-thc North bank of the Ohio river
TO Ntngo, giving fine views in Ohio and Vir-
ginia. Both banks are fine. From Mingo
to Coshooton, through southern Ohio, the
country is ly-Vcmontsb, indeed Crops
good
,b,iy A. From Coshocton to Cincinnati.
via Columbus and Xcnia. a grand country
broad fields relieved occasionally by hills.
Corn small but of good color: wheat heavy
just beginning the harvest near Cincinnati.
Columbus is a fine town dropped into an
immense field, too nearly level to be beautiful
No fine scenery of course The state house
the largest and most costly of any in tho
Union is just os dull as the scenery about it.
/ It's immense length makes ituppoar low-aat,
indeed. It is not bcauGlul.-Morc fourth of
July at Cincinnati than we ever witnessed in
Boston, Philadelphia or New York-or in
all three combined. Almost every window
was ornamentcd with pair of small flags
every door and every lamp post with from two
to half a dozen. On one small store we
counted forty-cight flags and at dark, each
window of this store was Illuminated by from
nine to twelve lamps, accordu TO the size of
the windows. Fire works in every direction
and sundry fire alarms The latter brought
out the steam fire engines, drawn by white
horses of the largest breed. At the first
alarm the fire is put under the boiler. and the
machine goes through the streets looking for
all the world like a brass and iron cooking
range. In eleven minutes from the start the
machine is roady to throw water Great
squirts, these. managed by a very few men
we saw only two to one cngne,-oud very
effective in distinguishing fire. A great con-
trost 20 Che fighting mobs of frcmcn in Now
York and Philadelphia.
Cincinnati has the plague of every place
near the coal rogions--smokc but it is
thriving, and the suburban residences are
exceedingly beautiful. Hero, too. is novel;
ty to the Northern cye-thc grape vineyard.
Hundreds Of acres in this vicinity are devoted
to the grape, and native wine is made to
large extent aud great profit
The city does not look so new as we ex-
pocted but rather as if it were old, and in
the process of rebuilding. This is especially
true of the business streets, where magnih-
cent piles are going up for the worshippors
of Mammon. The stone generally used is
very fine drab-colorcd sandstone, which ad-
mits of the highest degrees of adolumont in
the cutting Streets of this stone would be
exceedingly beautiful were it not for the
smoke smoke smoke We leave Cucin-
natl by smoke and in smoke.
UNION SCHOOL IN MONTPELIER.
We are gratihcd to see that our people are
making move in earnest in reference to a
Union School in connection with a new Acad-
envy in this place. A plan has been drawn
mp by committee appointed by the Board of
Trustees of Washington County Grammar
School, and the Prudential Committees of the
respective School Districts, and is being sub
mitled to a vote of the several Districts for
their approval. We hope that the people
Will be awake to their present and future M
forests in this matter, and cordially adopt the
plan proposed Last Tuesday evening, School
District No. 8, Estate Street held a meeting
and unanimously passed the lollowing
LIST. t0fe4. That ye hereby associate ourselves with
the several School Districts numbers J., aud 4, i'm the
town OF Montpelier, and form with said Districts, a
Union District for the purpose Of maintaining Union
school according TO the provisions OF the Compiled Stat
utcs of the State.
%. That the first meeting OF said Uuion District for
the choice VI officers and organizing said District, shall
be- held the Grand jury Room the 22ud day of july
A. ID. 1887, at O'Clock p Nj.
The same votes were unanimously passed
in District No. /, Main Street Wednesday
evening. No. 4 have eirmeetng this Thurs
day evening, and No. , Friday evening.
Found DEAD-Mr. James Hayes, sec
ton hand Ton the first section between Mont
poIier and Northfold,) on the Central Rail-
road, was found dead upon the track about
one and half miles from this place on We'd
ncsdoy morning. Hayes came to town the
evening previous for the purpose of doing
some shopping, and was found by his wife the
next morning lying upon the track with both
hands cut off, and otherwise badly mutilated
He was an lrishman, and said to be an excel
lent hand. He must have been run over by
the accommodation train on Tuesday evening
1t is supposed that he was intoxicated
This is the second instance within very
short Time where the Railroad has lost a val
liable hand by intoxcaton; and we hope that
those in the habit of furnishing the liquors