The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-02-04
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wheat tbna 81 before
Texas la uafytNo auA half
million acres ul unlmpfugcd land
TIE Central Pacific Railroads EN-
pl0y ten thousand mon,
First quality meershaum pipes are
nos made from potatoes
Si1ty four million miles II thread
are made il ten hours IN England
4 $4,000 fire occurred IL Chicago
Thursday night
In square inch Of the red meat Of
hog 100000 trichinu have been found
Twelve million bushels % oysters
were last year dug from the Maryland
oystcr-beds.
The war in Abyssinia progresses
slowly. The British army is advancing
but no engagement has as yet taken
place
The Tribune regards tho New y.
Times as sthe most able and effective
Democratic paper IN the country The
Tribune Is not far ont Of the way,
Mr. Thornton, the new minister from
England to the United States, arrived
If New York in the steamer Siberia on
Monday. He is a man Of great diplo-
matte experience.
Scion Robinson, tie veteran agri.
cultural editor Of the New York Tribune
has entirely retired from active duty on
that paper. He IS the oldest agricul-
tural aud cattle reporter in the country.
Jnarez has been reelected and in
augurated President Of Mexico His
Cabinet resigned and were reapoiuted
The country is in a very unsettled state
robberies and murders beng Of FREE
quent occurrence.
The gathering Of sponge amonng
the Blhama Island for conversion IN
to bedding, cushions, NC, or for use in
general upholstery, is becoming BUSH
ness Of much magnitude. Ffty-seyen
vessels are engaged in the trade.
From the report Of the Depart
ment of the interior we learn that mp
ward Of 100000 acres of land were
disposed Of last year The number of
acres belonging to the government is
1IG5. 468, 500 in addition to which is
Alaska with 1863, 529, 900 acres.
1T is reported from Chicago that
Mrs. Lincoln is without doubt insane.
She recently sold all the furniture in
her house and has two old men as body
guard, believing she will be robbed and
murdered Her great dread is that she
will come to want
The tax of whiskey and the tax on
tobacco, in its various forms, If honest
~ paid into the Treasury, would of
themselves pay the whole interest on
the public debt, and provide for its re-
duction at the rate Of nearly a hundred
MILLIONS ii year The frauds perpetrat-
ed in these articles are without parallel
in the history of taxation.
"A Milwaukee, paper states that the
farmers OF Wisconsin, Minnesota, and
and Northern Iowa have already re-
ceiyed SIS, 100000 more for their prod
ucts Of last season than they did for the
crops of 1866. This surplus is sufi-
cient to make the farming interests Of
those states toerably strong.
On Friday Il sleigh containing a
woman and child was crossing the track
Of the Boston and Maine Railroad, be-
tween South Reading and Stoneham,
when it was struck by an approaching
train aud demolished Tie woman was
knocked into contiguous snow bank,
but was not seriously injured, nor was
the child, although it was caught upon
the pilot board Of the engine and car
RED along until the train stopped
Right sentiments are gaining
ground IN tue South. The Rappahan-
mock Presbytery in Virginia has resov-
ed that any difference IN ecclesiastical
privileges founded on race OF color, is
repugnant to the sacred Scripture, and
that the doors OF this presbytery are
equa " open to all classes for ordina-
ton to the gospel ministry.
The New York Herald publishes a
list Of failures for the past four weeks,
amounting to over eight Ilillion dollars.
Twenty. five occurred in New York city,
amounting to $2,95O 900 aud three hun
bred and forty-nine elsewhere through
the country. amounting to $5,ll0,000.
The assets are about one-fourth the
amount.
The first public meeting Of the Con
gressional Temperance society this sea
son was held Sunday night, in the hall
Of the House Of Representatives. There
was crowded auditory, both on the
floor and in the galleries Senator
Wilson pre- ided. He said the society
was organized one year ago, and be-
lieved il had exercised a good influence
al over the land By crushing the re-
bellion and oyerthrowing criminal
institution the country had been made
great and free, bnt there was another
evil, hardly less gigantic, to be overcome
and that was intemperance.
Hinsdale, N. H., lately beat the
State on slcighrdes. WestmorcIand
proposed TO send to that town party
surprising in numbers, weight and
pretty ladies all that the latter could
produce in return; and so couples
turned out to enforce the challenge
Hinsdale responded on Friday With
1874 couples, drawn by ll5 horses in 90
single sleighs. II double and four in
hand making a procession a mile long,