Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-01-05
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lob of completing the Hoosac Tunnel by the year
1874, for $4 ,504 ,29S.-A submarine telegraph
ia in contemplation from SanFrancisco 10 hong
Kong. Such telegraph will be necessity as
seen as the Pacific r. r. is completed MI
Duncan Morrison, of Portland, has invented Il
yelocipede which he expects to be much more
useful than the PaIis two-wheeled concern
Longfellow is in Rome.-Spain will not con-
slider the subject of selling Cusa-who wants 70
buy ?-The Cuban insurrectonlsts at Neorau
we're in possession of several bottles strychnine
with which to poison the Spanish troops through,
out the island Queen Isabella has purchased
a MAGNIFICENT residence on the Boulevard du roi
de Rouen for $3.50, 000.--Senator Sprague OF
Rhode Island has purchased very valuable IS
land on the coast of Florida. 1t contains 9Ooo
acres.--Lous LaBonta died last week in MIN
nesota aged 104 years. He leaves widow aged
99-The old servants of the Orleans iamnly
are now hack drivers in Paris.--Ex-Presldent
Roberts of Liberia has settled in Washington,
and bought a house. A Toledo DR.. who pre-
tended to make great cures by animal magnet
ism was arrested and six electric batteries iouho
on his person, by which he kept up the supply
"A Philadelphia Co. has bought 5O,OO0 acres
of land near Norfolk, Va, for 81 per acre.
Our Alaska lands cost us about two cents per
acre--The Baptists of Brattleboro recently I'M
mersed four converts through the ice, one OF them
being a lady 80 years old.--One man IN Mar
athon county, Wis, has killed 10 bears tins sea-
son and is still on the war path.--Mr Amino
ny Trollopc recently delivered a lecture on edu-
cation in England, in which he accorded to the
United States the credit of having surpassed all
other nations in popular education.--a Dan
quet was given to Prof Morse in n. \. city on
the Doth ult, at which Geographic instruments
were ',ro,.si.t ;atss,ne ROOM and dispatches sent
out and received from all parts of the world. -
A writer in the Boston journal is confident Of
great results to Boston upon the completion oil
the Hoosac Tunnel, in the way Of Western pro-
duce trade-and fears that unless it is completed
Boston may be outstripped by their eastern SIS
ter, Portland. England has to send to the U:
, s. for her Holsters. She may have them for all
we cars--The potato crop Of Ill. is estimated
at %, O00, 900 bushels.--A man and wife III
I New York, who are the parents of 81 children,
claim the championship. We have man in
"Spunky Lamoille' who is the father OF 70 lie.
, gitimate childrcn--he resides in Cambridge and
reioices in the name of Ainsworth. --katlt
. wood, daughter of James Wood of Middlctown
r Conn.,, aged IA years, disappeared very sudden
" and mysteriously, on the morning OF Dec. y
, and has not been Eeard of since. The family
q went out leaving her at ZONE, and on their re
turn found her gone, and it is feared sue na'
u been foully dealt with.--The 'anoerpiIt oePo
=. now being built at St. Johns park, n T., VII
cover four acres and is said to be the largee! ue
|. pot in the world. The land cost million dol
: lars and since the location of the depot real es
tate in the vicinity has spun up at rapid rate
: Before the war the Jews in the n. Y. owned very
n little real estate--they are now said to own al
most all the available Sites and they have doub
Z LII lo, fba;r TPplt
v cry stable Of Briggs brothers, the most EXTENSIVE
in N. Y. city, was wholly destroyed by fire OF
: the Both ult. A hundred and fifty horses wer
v burned or sufocatcd Loss $500, OOO.---Mucl
suffering exists among the poor in Montreal an'
soup houses have been established. --Baske
= willow is now successfully raised on upland
Wheat is successfully raised in Maine,----Ther
|. is an oak in Lawrence, Kansas, 30 feet In cir
/ conference, the lowest limbs of which are A.
feet from the ground. "A writer in the 'Prai
is rie Farmer says whortleberries would prov
a moro remuneratiye than Strawberries. Al
Irish woman applying for relief the other ia
&c was questioned as to her family by the lady t
N whom she applied slow many children hav
your SIX ''TIow old is your youngest
II ".Me youngest is dead, and Tue had Gnothe
| since!''--A gentleman walking near Oxfor
was met by some students of the university, on
"a Of whom addressed him with, "Good morning
" father Abraham" al am not father Abraham.
: GOOD morning, father Isaac" said second
le 81 am not father Isaac was the reply. 1000
=, ----.-:.-r T. 49,, IssaJ' hNs.iduSa,, liud ~ nj
u son of Kish, who went out to seek his father
il ASSES, and 10! | have found them," was the re
:. tort.--The old Dutch fashion of N. Y. of eat
y ing, drinking and getting drunk on New Year
t, day, was largely eschewed in home circles in N
Y. this year.----Gen Grant has at last express
! ed himself upon the subject of Cabinet appoint
It ments. Some friend of j. Davis having desire
ed place in the Generals Cabinet, he says h
. wont appoint him.--War between Turkey ant
e Greece is imminent. Turkey and Greece-s
:, the cable says---are stripped and ready for
) fight. European diplomats are trying to hol,
IS them, but the natural tendency of Mohammcd
ans and Christians is to fight-A disastreu
q confagration occurred in Providence, r. l., O,
the Slst, originating in the Office of the 'Eyenin,
- Press, which destroyed property to the vau
d of 800, 000--A large cross that surmount
G the spire of the Pittsturg cathedral is night,
So brilliantly lighted by gas, that it can be seeI
Z at the distance of miles Edwin Forrest i
c playing an engagement in Portland. 1t is hi
g first appearance in FIAT city. Since Portland
- became acquainted with "the Lamoile Valley
i they 60 in for first class things--The Bosto,
II Journal boasts Of very mild weather at tn
u hub. young man was fined SIS the othel
Y day, in Oshkosh, Wis, for winking at young Ia
!, dies in the street. Cornelius Vanderbilt Il
u reported to have made five millions of dollar
@ out of his recent purchase of nd.--During ,
festival at the colorcl Methodist church. a
. Cumberland, Nd, Christmas Eve. four whit,
fiends forced their wayinto the room, and muir
-, dered a colored man named Ross, by stabbins
ut av.1 tkn, t,.nt, ~. Nh
!, were arrested, but afterwards allowed to 20 al
d, largc.--A large coach, loaded with 30 passen.
% gers, returning from Pelham, N. H., where ,
It party had been to attend the Baptist festival or
the Both ult., to Lawrence, Mass, was overturn.
- ed, and five persons severely hurt-two of then
s probably MORALLY .--The agent of the Virgin.
la Express Co. was knocked down and robbed O.
$l2 900 at Norfolk, Va, on the 30th ult, while
: on his way to the Depot-C. NJ. Rogers of N.
Y. City was fatally stabbed in front Of his own
- house, on East 18th st. on the eve of the Both
q ult--Gen. Grant spent New Years day in
Philadelphia, and received the citizens in hide
pendence HAIL. "What Answer" Miss
3 Ann s. Dic5inson's new book, has already reach
ed a sale of 20 000.-----siiss Jones of Aurora
ILL.,, died recently of heart disease, an, a post
} norton examination disclosed the fact that the
valves of the heart had ossifed, or turned into
bone.---A dispatch from Suez in anticipation
of the Australian Mail, states that intelligence
had been received at Melbourne from New Ze-
land, that fifty European families had been muir
dered at Maories. Tunnel under the Chi
cage River, known as the Washington St. Tun-
mel, which is about 100 feet long, was complet-
ed on New Years day--A dispatch from Wigon
reports that terrible explosion occurred In
Haydock colliery on the Slst, ult., and that
Twenty-Five dead bodies have already been TAX