Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-30
Railway Items. sc.

Railroad, Eastern Division, are out as far
as Bay Greek, $50 miles west of Junction
City. = q, III. .....-............ .Et1r'rsa
Mount Washington, favorite summer
resort, rears its head only 6,226 feet above
The sea level, yet its ascent is SO fatiguing
that railway is now in progress, to enable
those who most need the exhilerating at
mosphere of our mountain topsto rise from
the sweltering valleys to the pure air of the
mountain. N
The Hoosac Tunnel has received an
other appropriation of 100000 from the
Massachusetts Legislature Ande2p0se Of
the great bore shows that it will cost $780,
100000, and that it will take forty-fiye
years to complete it. The borers have gone
one thirteenth of the distance through the
mountain, and it has cost $2,500,000, FIR
The London bridge is 92S feet long
and SO feet wide. 1t cost 100000 and
about 5000 foot passengers and 500 vehi-
Giles pass over it every hour. AS many as
20, 498 vehicles and 1877, $40 persons have,
crossed the bridge in one day. The bridge
consists of five arches, the center one be-
ing 152 feet span. The bridge connects the
Getty" of London with the borough of;
Southwark -f'.''T' '-'.s
The Scientific american prophecies
that before long no rail will be used alter
nately for freight and express trains, but
each description of traffic will have track
of its own, with great advantage and econ
omy to both. The devotion of double
track to steady freight ira ffic, is, the one
thing needful to render railroad freighting
as cheap and universal as it is expeditions.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
have introd iced nitro glycerine with great
success in lasting their way through the
Sierra New ada Mountains. The nitro-gly-
cerine is made in small quantities on the
spot, and thereby is avoided the danger
| arising from its decomposition and fermen-
tation. The difference in cost, and the
greater results, as compared with powder,
make an aggregate saving of fully one
half
"A French engineer has drawn plan
for fixed bridge from Calais to Dover--a
marine route, Extensively remembered by
all who have made the trip The cost is
estimated at 100000 900 francs. The bridge
is to he supported on piers, protected by
tic as it is, is held to be possible, and the
London Atheneuap waits and longs for
flying BRIDGE" as relief from sea sick
ness.
"A new war between the New York
Central Railroad and Commodore Wander
bilt l. threatened, unless the Central will
Withdraw its trains from the ATHENS cut
off" and cease to furnish patronage to
Drew's line of steamers between Athens
and New York city Pending the quarrel,
rumors are plenty as blackberries in Au-
gust that Vanderbilt will reduce the steam
boat fares to little or nothing, and bring
the Hudson River Railroad (Which he
owns) into the fight. u
The Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha
route, passing through country very de-
ficient in wood and water, has thus far lad
to be laid upon cottonwood ties or sleepers.
TO fit this soft wood for the service re-
qnired, it has been necessary to treat the
ties with solution of zinc, in a vacuum
b which the pores were first emptied of
til cir natural contents. This is called the
Btrrnettizing process. The zinc, penetrat-
ing the pores, gives the wood almost me-
tai ic appearance and weight, and secures
its durability. n rls -,--,~.,,
1t is reported on Wall street that a
novel enterprise is to be organized there,
with a capital of $1000,600-a sort Of
to embryo joint stock com
panies. 1t is to organize and put into
working; order, and upon the market, SO as
to sell their shares, any new companies
which need such held. For instance, a
mining property or mandatory which
needs c, spital for its development, would be
placed t fixed price in the hands of this
bureau, which will undertake to procure
RESPONSE BILE president anu board of direc-
tors, and then place the stock upon the
market. The attention of the bureau is it
IS said, be devoted principallyto mines.
The .car was full when portly, fine
ooking, elegantly dressed person entered.
A gentle man instantly arose and the new
conner t. )ok the offered seat, while he stood
laagine on to the leather straps. In
title w bile the gentleman who sat next
he graz d lady left the car, which gave
Ter an opportunity, by q little shake of the
'ustling drapery, to extend her apparent
,ccupai ICY to the space that had been oc-
;upied by herself and another. The gen
lerian who had resigned his seat waslstill
tandin g though her senior by some years
n age. Another gentleman sitting beside
Ter, ger lily suggested in an undertone, that
here W as room enough for the old gentle
nan to sit, when the grand lady decided
he cas-, beyond further consideration, by
aying, with some resolution, 81 don't
ike to be scrouged.' ''-Pittsbuagh Cownaer-
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