Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-23
scientific and statistical Items.

United States last year.
New discoveries OF coal are con-
stantly made in Poland. The sixth seam
has Just been found
The first New England saw-mill was
ere,'od at Piscataqua Falls, Maine, in
1854
II ON the lst TO the l4th inst, l2,-
500 ST., rage passengers arrived In New
York f. I'M Europr,
The Southern relief committee at
San Francisco RENTED to the New York
commission by telegraph the sum OF
sl6,SO0,
An Irish eronaut left Dublin lately
in balloon and landed In Westmore-
land, England, having crossed the Irish
Channel In the dark.
Emigration TO the West continues
active. Last week 500 emigrants passed
through Columbus, Ohio, OF whom 262
were for Ohio and 1877 for Missouri.
Such has been the influx of invalids
into Florida that hotels cannot be built
and enlarged fast enough to accomme-
date them.
1T is stated that the Erie Railroad
Company are about doing away with the
use OF wood on their locomotives, and
have already commenced selling Off the
wood they have on hand.
Tampa, Florida, boasts of a new
meat market at which from this dis
lance seems the old prices. Beef is
quoted fore quarter, 5 cents; roast, Z
cents steak, cents.
Progress In 1886 but three miles
OF iron rail had been laid In the country.
At the commencement of the present
year, 81, 1896 miles Of road had been fin
ished.
There is an Gronautic society in
England which holds regular meetings
and discusses aerial navigation gravely
and hopefully. At late meeting sew
eral new plans for ballooning were pre-
sented.
"A valuable addition to the State Ge-
illogical rooms, at Albany-known as
the Gould collection of shells-.-has just
arrived from Boston. The collection
consists of 10000 shells, American and
European, marine, fresh water and land.
They cost the State $4,000.
"A committee OF petroleum operators
have examined the wells of Pitt Hole,
and report that the aggregate production
of the wells is 92l barrels per day. The
aggregate estimate Of the producers is
l,135 barrels, a difference of pa bar
rels daily.
"A representative collection OF rich
gold and silver ores from Colorado have
gone forward to Paris, comprising some
5000 specimens taken from the princi-
pal mines of that territory also a large
quantity of gold nuggets, and photo
graphs and maps Of the mining re-
gions.
Allison, the historian, recently said
in a speech delivered in Glasgow, Scot
land at is doubtful whether our
royal navy as yet equals that Of Amer
lea, If forest'of hostile iron Clads ap-
pear off Spithead or Plymouth, vain will
be the forty or fifty noble sail Of the line
lying in our harbors."
In Detroit there are one hundred
and twelve men and companies that will
return $4,000 as their income for 1867.
or these ten return over 100000 The
aggregate of property returned for 1856
was $21, 1878 800, and the amount Of tax
was s376,674 so.
"A new and important branch OF
Southern industry is developing in the
swamps of North Carolina and Virginia
from which large quantities of peat are
now extracted, In the Dismal Swamp
peat can be manufactured at l 90 pei
ton, which now costs S. in New York.
The Boston Traveller says thai
Newport, H. once surpassed Boston II
foreign commerce, and looked doWr
upon its neighbor, Providence, as al
upstart village. Newport has an ex
cellent harbor, but it furnishes a very
Indifferent harbor for a cargo Of goods
"A few days since one OF Roberts
torpedots was exploded in well OF
Holmdpu Farm, Pit Hole. For Ion!
time the we'll had been doing only abou
six barrels per day, but after the ex
plOsion and cleaning out, the pump wa
dSdlu pun W WORK. anu Jue STdIllylDt
result Of forty barrels per day now re
wards the owner.
"A French engineer has drawn plal
for fixed bridge from Calais to Dove
"a marine route Extensively remembered
by all who have made the trip. TIL,
cost is estimated at 400,000,006 francs
The bridge is to be supported on piers
protected by buffers thirty feet thick
The plan, gigantic as it is, is held to b.
impossible, and the London Atheneun
waits and longs for a flying bridge" az
a relief from sea sickness.
They cut the earth to great deptl
for oil in the West. The Rose well il
Terra Haute (Illinois) is ! ,639 feet fou
inches deep. 1t is tubed | ,29l feet. |
is thought that the test now making il
one by which the well should not b.
judged. Still oil to the quantity o
about twenty barrels on the average pei
day has been pumped.
The average ratio of operating ex
peuses to gross earnings upon twelve O
the leading railroads of the country fo
n i