National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-06-02
MONTPELIER AND WELLS RIVER

NAiLhoAD'-Ahe prospects OF thl
enterprise were never more nattel
ing than now. Mr.. Munson, TIN
contractor. is constantly increasing
his force on the line between her,
and Plain6eld, GO having been ad
dcd to the number at Plainfield las
Saturday evening, and this ten mile.
will be all graded and ready for thu
iron by the first of September. Thi,
iron has been provided for, and by
the beginning Of the next year sc
much Of the road will be ready To
run, when our Plainneld friends
and all in the region thercabOuts,
can come to the Capital by cars
from Plainfield the final survey has
been made over the summit, and
through the II miles of wilderness
on the other side. This eleven miles
of primeval forest proves to be very
heavily tmbered, with everything
going to show that the land will be
more valuable for farming purposes
than the great bulk of that under
cultivation in Marshheld, Groton,
and adjoining towns. There are at
least 200, 900 acres of this land, GOV.
cred with a magnificent growth of
lumber and wood, and an enterprise
that opens up such region to set.
Element and Improvement deserves
well az the hands of the people, as
do those who are pushing it through.
But the timber and soil is not all that
the survey developed of value
Within IL rods Of where the track
will run are apparently inexhausta.
BILE quarries Of very fine granite,
which quarries can be economically
worked, and the stone cheaply trans.
ported to a market where it is need
ed. From the first we deemed this
road of great importance to the
State, as well as to Montpelier and
the region through which it runs,
and every day strengthens our con.
viction that we were right Argus.
The Messenger intimates that
Judge Wilson Of st. Adams, who
went away for his health last fall,
found if, and a wife also.
Rutland is considerably agitated
inst now in favor of establishing
manufactures of various kinds
Last week public meeting was held
aud committee consisting of prom.
nent gentlemen was raised to re.
port upon the subject.
An exchange says; Maple sugar
las stopped growing in Vermont t
The cakes still hanging on the trees
ire small and krurly, and begin to
'c parclrl by the sun. t
There are three churches in Ran. c
lolph Centre; and no ministers - t
or several weeks the churches have t
'ecn closed, and there will soon be @
need of missionary work. Both a
Iethodist and Congregational par s
'arsonages are empty. Twenty Z
ears ago there were nine clergymen
4 town, now there are none.
Butter is finding Il pretty low fig. il
re in st. Adams butter market, b
he report last at hand quoting itat IL
ommon 14c, fair 1Sc. good 24c, eX. y
"a &c Farmers who have been Il
lshing from wool growing to dali a
wing will feel blue about these days. it
It present quotations wool is the "
lore profitable product of the two. J., y
The half past four express train &c
,uth on the 10th ult., ran over a al
Iiss Fales 20 years old, about two o.
lies below SO. Royalton, horribly i,
angling or, worse, tearing her body b,
} pieces, leaving nothing to show CO
lat the victim was a human being, II;
lcept the head and feet. She was ~ ~
albing with her mother on the 10
ack, when she suddenly fell in a sc
!. The mother probably not think 81
G of cars, left her on the track III
I'd ran some distance to house y;
r help, but before she returned tr
it'll aid the express train had taken al
G daughter into eternity. ed
ca
The citizens of Fairlee generally; W.
ID relatives Ofdeceased soldiers in ,;c
would express their tn