The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-29
General News.

One hundred and fifty children of irish
parentage were Withdrawn from the pub
lie school in Bayonne, N. j., recently, by
order of Father Killeen, the priest of the
Roman Catholic church at Bergen Point,
who opposed the system of Catholic pa
rents permitting their children to attend
public school. A parochial school has been
established which the children will attend.
At Fossville, CAL, lives old Mr.. Foss,
noted stage driver of the Pacific coast. He
has retired from business, having grown
rich, AMI now keeps a refreshment saloon
on the stage road. He has a collection of
whips, given him by different associations
and friends. hanging on racks in his hall
trophies. one of them, given him by the
late MI. Ralston, is valued at so 600. and
is mounted with gold and richly set with
jewels
A Boston tea merchant named Dixon,
spending night with relative, said he
was unable to sleep because he repeatedly
dreamed that he had cut mans throat
from ear to ear. lie left for New York in
the morning, promising to forward box
of tea, which, however, did not arrive. A
day or two ago, however, the friend re-
ceived letter from Dixon, at Bellevue
hospital, saying that on the evening he
reached New York, and as he was step
ping from friends door, stranger
knocked him down and gave him cut in
the throat six inches long.
At the congress representing the Ameli-
can forest council, in recent session at
Philadelphia, thesecretsry read an instruc-
tive paper setting forth the advantages of
forest growing from a money-making point
of view, He referred to the constantly in.
creasing demand for timber. AS iluetra-
tons, it is estimated that the several rail-
ways of the country eXpend annually for
wood to be used for buildings, repairs, cars,
ETC., $3S, 200, 900, and that the locomotives
Of the United States consume annually for
fuel wood to the value of $50, 900, 900.
The 20, 000, 900, 900 matches made each year
in the United States require 230, 900 feet of
the best pine lumber. At least /, 800 cords
of wood were used to burn the 1883, 1882, =
900 bricks which the census of 1870 gives
as the number made in that year. Between
1850 and 1860 10000, 900 acres of forest
| covered land were cleared in the United
states for agricultural purposes. Many
| other facts could be adduced showing the
enormous consumption of forest ire IS.
Wood must soon increase In price in pro-
portion to other products of the soil.
While q great deal is to be said for forest
culture as n utililarian pursuit quite as
much could be urged on the ground OF It's
cvilizng influences.
The strangest enterprise next to the
Brooklyn bridge, blasting Hell Gate, and
tunneling the Hudson river, is lay ing a
pipe from the oil regions to the seaboard.
Yet this latter scheme is already contract.
he pipe is to be lap welded tubing, four
inches in diameter, and is to run tue i'm
mense distance of 27S miles. The pipe and
the driving engine to keep the oil in mo-
ton will cost from 81 200 900 TO 81 $780,
| 900. The course Of the pipe is TO be right
| over the natural surface of the country, p
| feet under ground, and near the populOus
places. SO that il can be watched and
mended Oil now cots SO IS barrel at
| the wells and sells for SO 30 in New York.
There Is a margin of $245 barrel The
pipe can carry 5000 barrels day at cost
| 10 cents barrel; the railways cannot haul
| it to the seaboard under 40 cents a barrel.
Low prices prevailed for a long time and
| discouraged production, but as the supply
was exhausted the rates rose, and %, 900
| barrels day are now pumped from the
ground, while the market would warrant
| the production of 10000 barrels. Mr..
Houpt, long engineer of the Pennsylvania
railroad has given his judgment for this
enterprise and made the surveys and esti-
mates. Pumps will be stationed at long
intervals along the tube to drive the oil, and
one pump now exists which with case
drives column of oil 29 miles