Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-12-06

The STATE Reform SCHOOL The Com.
missioners for the State Reform School,
met the citizens Of Waterbury, on Monday
evening, to confer with them on the sub.
ject on the location of the School. A
meeting was organized in the reading
room of Kcelcr's Hotel Of which Rev. c.
G. Parker was chairman, and which was
addressed by Rev A. G. Pease, in behalf
of the Commissioners. He said, as re
ported by correspondent of Watons
JoWn0t:
They were looking for proper place to
locate the Reform School They did not
wish to have it in a very large place, nei-
Their did they propose to set it in u very
small place: not in the midst of society.
nor entirely away from society. They
did not wish for a site in the centre Of
village nor in the suburbs, but a little
Jeyo"d the suburbs, just outside of a me.
dium sized place.
They wanted a farm; place where the
boys could work upon the soil and culti
vate corn and potatoes farm TINT
corId be divided into separate parcels each
having a set Of buildings that would ac-
commodate forty of the refractory juve-
niles, where they could have an overseer.
schoolmaster, and cook, who would see
that they had certain hours to eat, sleep,
study, play and hoe. Was such place to
be found in Waterbury, and if so, where
was it ?
A committee was then appointed to in
vestigatc the subject, who reported the
next evening that the farm of Lyman
Beebc was the most suitable location for
their school, in that town. We suppose
the commissioners are making like in
quiries in other places, before making
final decision.
FRETGHTlNd FROM BURLINGTON. Six
teen hundred cars of grain, an aggregate
of eight hundred thousand bushels have
been freighted over the Vermont Central
Line from Burlington in the past three
months, and nine boats heavily laden
with grain. are now discharging their car.
goes at the Central Wharf Indeed the
freighting business of the railroads be-
tween Burlington and Boston is so great
at this season that the supply of cars is
not equal to it Lawrence Barnes g. Co.
are now building fifty freight cars Of
their oyn to carry their lumber to
market
ca The summary of the crops of 1865,
pubished'by the Department of Agricul-
ture, presents several interesting features.
The wheat crop is very deficient both in
quantity aud quality, the decrease in guam
tity alone from 1864, being estimated at
l2,l72,944 bushels On the other hand.
the corn crop was never surpassed in any
respect. In quantity alone the excess
over the crop of 1864, is more than 49,
100000 bushels. The quality of other
crops is cqnal to the general average of
former years and the total excess for
1865 over 1864, is 2l5,0l5.4ll bushels.
INV VIEW OVfPEN tOlNAdE -Nui iN"-
ders may not all be familiar with the law
relating to the new copper money The
one cent pieces are legal tender to the
amount of ten cents. the two cent pieces
to the amount of twenty cents, and the
three cent pieces to the amount OF sixty
cents; so that a debt of ninety cents may
be legally liquidated in copper. The com
position of these pieces is 50 parts copper
and parts tin and zinc. The cent of
1857 was SO parts copper aud ~ parts
nickel. Nickel has been abandoned at
the mint, partly because it does not work
easily and partly because it has cost too
much to be proftably used. The dscov-
cry of the new nickel beds in Connecticut
may obviate the latter objection, but will
hardly break down the former,