Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-05-23

There was some pretty lively time
made on the Canada Southern II few days
ago, when the Vanderbilt party were on
the return trip from Detroit to Butfllo,
Two engines were used, both bult Tor
! fast running. One run of SO miles was
made in ninetvsix minutes, including
two stops occupying seven minutes; ana
the remaining TIC miles was made in III
minutes-the whole run of 2l2 miles
being made in 20G minutes, which is sald
to be the fastest time on record One OF
the engines used weighs % and IL tons,
and has "A l7x2l cylnd n and 100 flies;
tho other weighs 80 tons, and has I'D
lSx24 cylinder and 1877 flues.
Since 1877, when the French academy
applauded De Lossep'5 scheme to inundale
the desert Of Sahara, engineers have not
seemed disposed to court its dlillculll's'
bnt an American attacks the enterprise
upon broader grounds As the desert Is Il
great radiator OF heat the proposed sea
would lower The mean temperature OF
Europe. The sands of the desert are
claimed also to act as IL vast absorbent OF
malaria and are thrust in between
unhealthy Africa and civilization. Now.
to spend millions of money in the forma-
ton of a dead sea with no oce lnic cur
rents ,-would be only an invitation for tie
maladies of the equator to spread norm,
using the Sahara sea as halfway house.
The objection is purely speculative and
hardly likely to obstruct the scheme,
1t is is evident that when the national
debt is finally paid off the United States
will be found to be a large gamer through
the destruction and loss of its paper prom
ises to pay. Every month the debt on
which interest has ceased, and for which
no one claims payment, increases, until
there is now lying in the treasury nearly
II 600, 900 of unclaimed principal and
interest, which has accrued 1T various
dates from 1887 and earlier down 10 Dec.
20, 1852 o.; The $40 .000, coo of fractional
paper currency issued during and since
The war 81, $50 5l2 are still outstanding
and redemptions have almost ceased,
The government gain on the $3iG, 000OO
legal tender notes will doubtless be very
large though much smaller percentage
than IN The ease of fractional currency,
where he wear and tear were very q eat.
Whether the government OF the banks
will eventually receive the benefit arising
from lost and DESTROYED bank currency is u
point not yet definitely determined, bat It
seems reasonable that for the currency lost
while in the possession Of the people, the
people themselves, through tie govern
ment. shonlI ,rcctve whtG bpnnGl shaU
finally ncclue on account Of This tlpsfrrc.
ton,
BEFORE TIE CoHON >rioN The en-
paror ana clnDrcss of Russia have oiyrn
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tiou. The city prpsen's brilliant and
pic nresqle scene Mlny delegates have
a., 'r" ,,olii lns'' inp "'G"' ~ St''g7 "'
hurr ROAD is almost concealed by blnfino
from every window ard housetop. Conl.
OF arm, for every province, portraits and
no4osi"ins Of Tue imperial fanny and
u'nlceS % "''coihe "'o everywhere ne
n""sa % cno soN'tno. Is GoV'I'u WIN "
WA I''I C w. '1'I ~, p,'N5S 'n' ','pF
A'.' >''"'i' 0uHo NOUNS "'ll !" GU"
he torrirn Hres. W'genoff net. -. -.
kind O! censor. Few press rpuresro,,riyr.
have av,l!ed themselves of tine hos j nIll1 |
of the government rs rcgarus free bmru
and lodging Wagenoli condu,lrd III, |
press representatives through tie cathr. |
t!ral., the krrmlin and polacr, D. ssirg -, |
the quadrangle in the IA senal be wern III,
rroust and y coal gates, where "A hun !!
,Ired pieces Of artillery taken from fore ou
toes are arranged in rows. The bpuqlol |
my hail IN the palace IL already ,it exec |
with costly plate, chiefly gifts from lol-