Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-07-17
ACROSS THE LAKE.

The grading on the Pittsburgh ami White
hall Railroad is being pushed ahead an along
the line from Pattshurgh To the Auslble
The railroad men in digging near the steam
boat landing, in Parsburgh. exhumed bone. Of
upwards of ninety soldiers of the war Of ST.
They have been re-iuterrel IN the soldiers bury
ing ground.
The Mendlessohn Quintette Club. Of Boston. con-
template visiting Pattsburgh about the sth OF
August
One thousand tons Of iron ore are now shipped
every day from Port Henry, on the west shore of
Lake Champaign The mines are six miles back
from the lake, and railroad is being built To-
transport the ore from them 10 the docks
A bold robbery was committed In Kee-eyiue
ON Sunday of last week, at the residence of Mr.
James Dolan, while the family were at church.
His house was entered and money stolen To the
amount of S3l7-gold, silver and greenbacks.
The Adirondack took 1900 passengers north
from the celebration at Ticonderoga on the 4th.
Geo. Blanchard. a lad Of six years. was drown
ell in a mill-pond in Plattsburg on the evening
Of the 4th. His hat was found on a log, ana
search beng made, his body was found next
morning.
4 yonng man by the name of Joseph Remillarl,
aged Is years, was drowned in the Big ebay
river, near William Riders house. on Sunday
morning.
hailstorm at Nooer's on the Both ult., did
much damage TO crops Of all kinds, and almost
destroyed some grain crops.
team, owned by Z. C. button, and driven
~ W. crawford, hauled from the 'O Old Bel
Nine IN the town Of Moriah, n y, to Lake
Chanpi on the second trip, July /, a load of
iron ore weighing wagon included ten gross
tuns the distance Is s.x and a half miles
MOUNTAIN VEGErAuox.-Prof. CUNNING in
an article in the Rutland Hcralf On Killinotou
Mountain, thus describes the mountain yereta-
ton
As YOU climb the mountain you viii note the
change Of vegetation. You soon leave below
the wild mulberry, the d" Rutland beauty the
elders, the milkweeds. The orchids and the
rose-bug are very common as high As tie
spring. On the very top you viii find scarcely
"a weed. There is the humble Hchen clinging TO
the base rock These are the humblest child
ren Of nature and the most universally diffused.
They are found far up in the regions Of the pole
and high up on the mountains. Humboldt
found a species Of lichen on Chimborazo 1890
feet high Some Of these species on killinpton
o-N N1LLlAlNA " Aut II llON nave the same
species wandered from Vermont to Switzerland
You viii see on Killington what Office the
ichcn fills in the scheme Of nature. The spore
falls on rock and throws off cell. This
throws out another, and this another. and so on
through hundreds of years, the mystery Of the
plant being to multiply cells and to continue
The cells adhere closely together and form
crispy thing which Is neither root nor stem nor
leaf, but all these in one--a " thallus'' This
presses on the conservative rock and prepares it
for higher use, makes it crumble away in littls
atoms Of soil. The lichen then is pioneer in
nature. 1t detaches grains Of soil from the
rock and prepares the way for higher forms Of
hie Here and there on the mountain are little
I,iuinps Of moss growing where the lchens had
oe n, ana near the highest ledge, sphagnum.
, "Illcn Is forming peat. The most abundant and
DeAutii1i hehen is the little d" Fairies Torch =
ne son on the top of Killington has been worn
from the hard rock by the lchens and the moss
The mountain has been struck by glacier and
some of the lodges were crushed and nnsbed
westward, but the ice hamper left no soil there.