The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-28

There we're 80 deaths IA New York
last week
The vigilance committee At Chey-
came lalcly tied together three men.
guilty ~ theft. aud ssood thorn up ifu,
public. with these words affixed, Next
case goes up tree
The president II the Hudson river
railroad has discharged al employees
from the Troy machine shop and trans
ferred al repairs 70 0roenhush As
irulght i hereafter t. be billed directly
from New York b It's destination. tho
transfer freight house At Troy viii 50
under also
The total number 81 miles II rail
road in tho United States III the closo
of 1867 was jA.325, an increase over
lS66 ~ 2.7l9. number Of miles com
pletely finished 8S.605; increase over
1866, 1909, cost Of roads and equip
ment during the year, sl.654, 05o. 200
an increase over 1866 of SOL $50. ia.
New York possesses 3.lS2 miles Of com
plotcd railroad. Pennsylvania 4ia2,
Massachusetts, | 400. worth S1l,73l ,9A
New Hampshire SCI, Maine 5l2 Yer
mont 5sS Nearly all the southern and
western states average between loo aud
2000 miles a completed railway.
Rev II W Beecher is writing a
Life 81 Christ II il not % bo publish
cd in the New York Leagg
Belle Boyd, the former rebel spy
was granted divorce from hef husband
in the New York Courts, last week
Happy man.
The superintendent OF the Pl <
mill Seneca Fails, n, y has Toss ,,,l
the girls to chew gum during working
hours, and strike is feared in conso-
quence,
Sermons fears are entertained that tho
Horse Shoe fall Niagara river Is about
10 give way. II rs believed that a sub
terranean passage for tho water is nm
delmining tho great natural dam, and
the fail viii soon be only 4 Wild rapid,
The school committee 81 BostonI
may as well resign, They have decided
that May day shall no longer be con-
sidered as holiday in public schools.
II is suggested that Vallandinp ham
should be appointed Secretary of war.
Being peace man he won d be likely
to reduce the expenses of the depart
ment.
Five hundred and forty-sevon
thousand barrels Of -four were manu-
featured in Milwaukee last year an ox-
cess Of over 100000 barrels above tho
manufacture OF 1866
The louisville journal fenrs that
Meade is no improvement on Pope
That depends on how you look at him,
From this section it appears as if hoI
was.
Samuel N. Pike is estimated to be-
worth at least $4,000 900, one-third Of
which he made during the last two
years Making whiskoy is much
more profitable business than drinking
it,
Mike Lipman, in the circus bust i
ness, has gone into bankruptcy at Cin-
cinnatti; liabilities, $35, 500, assets, one
! live buffalo, three bears one wild cat,
one pony, one den, one monitor wagon
The Oldest inhabitant Of Quboe as
serts this to be the coolest Winter in
his memory; not SO much from the oc-
cas- onal state OF the thermometer as the
steady average degree Of cold.
The first company Of negro min
strels ever organized was at Youngs-
town, o., and existed for nearly ten
years, performing occasionally, though
it never Travelled. i. H. Grierson.
of cavalry fame during the war
and now brevet major genor-
al, was the banjoist and one "cloggist"
of the troupe, and good in both branch
es All the members but two arc now
living and filling responsible and innu-
entail positions at the West