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RAIL ROAD NEWS.
At 128 Fulton Street, New York
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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The Principal Office being at ","ow York. a y e ar--SI In advance, and
By Munn & Company. 13 Court Street, Boston, Mass.
(Sun Building,) and
IMPROVED
GRAIN AND SEED PLANTER.
of the The
et and Boston o n the 16th inst. � ma k in g use
{lG-See advertisement on last page ..
the r e m ainder In 6 IBonths.
about mainly by the exertions of W. Raymond Boston and Providence Railroad. Lee , Esq., the efficient sup e r int e ndant
new branch road to the former place cars will leave Pawtucket at 8. A. M .� an d Boston at 3.30, P. M. T h is new arrange� ment, says a correspond ent, has been brough t of the
menced their regular trips between Pawtuck
On th e Providence Railroad the cars
Pr"vldence Railroad.
THE
COTTAGE .I!llIGRANT'S
In a lone mossy dingle,
BY AGNES STRICKLAND.
�WELL.
FARE
Their wild song of sorrow
By green trees o'erhung, Three Highland maids sung
York, y a few hours ride. Eight , hundred and seventy-five thous a nd p ounds, are yet wanting to complete the sum requiLower New site to bu i l d the road. Ohio
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ount of stock yet req'lirel for the completion of this road which is to u nit e M ch iga n with
our friends in Canada to gather up t h e am-
A vigorous effort is about to be made by Gre at West e rn RaUropd.
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Who were doomed, with their people O'er th e stormy Atlantic roam
In exi le to
To seek for a home.
For the hearths of t h ei r fathers, Had be en sternly extinguished
By Wanl's chilling hand
And they came, for the last time, The cool g ushi ng All weep ing , to bring, From that pleasant
Th at morn in the land:
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i n te n ded for manuring land and planting seed operation. connected WIth the two displayed in the eng r avi ng which
at one
Th is engr a vin g is a longit udina l view of a machine invented by Mr. Reuben Pratt, of Hiverbead, Long Isl a nd , N. Y. It is Ther e are two cog wheels
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the hill, and t he one on the second to cover it Railroad, with great unauimity, adviseu the up. These scoops as we!l as the cams a r e acceptance of the law for making the road to on the front axle o m a k e the ope ning f or work into one another, s o t h at the scoops can fixed on the axles E E, a n d the cog wheels
closed again.
second before the lower, and then buth are
F F, are two scoops, the o n e
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the railroad is to strike he Ohio ril"er at qu es tio n :
W he eling .
It appears from an article in the Balti more Patriot that it is at least a s e ttled and Baltimore Railroad.
The directors of the Baltimore and
fhB Patriot says in the article in Ohio
point that
It was piteous to see
waters spring.
Witl; th eir fast flowing tears, And looked their farewell
How thei r syeet eyes grew
dim,
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As they hung o'er its brim. To th at beautiful spot,
chanical arrangement deposit the manure first
be placed at the exact distance on the axles to aGcept it, and did acc e pt it. There is one thing that ciple i s exhibited. The Maryland Legi"lature, by the action to to insure correct operation, and the cams als o will re ad ily strike the mind, viz. that if a I to work the crank. T h is any person will un- which we have referred above, have approyed wagon could be projected t hat would make I derstand and see can be d one . K K, are the of this decision of the board and stockholders the proper deposit for the seed, and by a me- axles of the wagor, wheels. and , by retaining in office, the directors on t he are not seen,. but their ab-
sen c e IS not OC m uch impor tance as the prin�
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meeting, by a great m a jori ty
Wheeling, and the stockholders, in
general of votes, decided
and the-seed on thp. top of it, and then cover portant object would be gained. This machine
all up regularly and quickly, t ha t a
very Im-
for d eposi t agai n.
ving.
OPERATION.-Suppose the wagon to be mo-
The scoop F, has already made the bed G, has already operated on th notch
Esdeared by those t i e s
Which could ne'er be forgot.
is intended to accomplish this purpose and on
And oft from their vessels,
tends to apply for a patent, wil l warrant a perfect oper ati on .
light soils and leve l lands Mr. P r att, who in-
They restored the plre stream As fondly they lingered, And loth. to depart, To th e fountain again;
Replenished it) vain.
may be.
the poudrette or wh atever fine
these t wo boxes,
They sobbed forth their grief In the anguish of heart.
"Dear fountam of ou r native g len! And soon for other urns than ours Thy crystal streams will flow. Far hence we're doomed to go ;
" Thy snowy lillies still
Sweet founta i n of our native glen ! Though we behold t h em n o t .
On this delightful spot.
wia bloom
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D, the same for the upper box. H L, is a crank or eccentric connection for opening and c l osin g the openi n gs of the boxes A an d B. board to drive out and d e p osit the grain , and
B, IS the grain box. T he order of however, may be inverted. It is just as easy to place A below B to ans wer the same purpose, if requi red. C , IS a sl ide fertilizer it
DEscRIPTION.-A, is the box for holding
hav e been opened by that op eration . for I, a catch, connects t h e m both t ogether F, the of the crank and the m anure and seed box scoop, now upon the seco nd axle, as it is mov i ng i n a cont rary direction from the motion
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ng the seed and is going round .
ular course in this matter .
part of t h e State, h a ve confirmed their p ar tie Mlsslsslppl an d Ohio
is and CincinnatI together is a grand p roject. We understand that
The great Railr oad which is to liak
to the central route through Indianapolis, because it is
State of Indiana, by Vi nce nne s , is p referre d
t h e route through the
Railroad. St. Lou-
of the first wheel, is about covering up the seed, wh i l e G, on the same axle, is closing the revolution of manure and planting i. kept up as the wagon moves along . It can be made to
o[}ening s of the boxes a n d thu s a co n ti nu al through the Assembly. plant in drills or hl'lls as the case may be, and .
sarr,e vigor that t h ey have
are determined to prosecute t h e work with the
75 mi les shorter.
The Indianians
pushed the bill
with a boy to guide the wagon a nd paying a little attention to the manure box not a few
the wagon and
This cra nk is as broad nearly as the bottom of
" And thou wilt from thy sparkling ce ll , Still softly murmur on.
When those who lov 'd thy voice to hear, " Dear fountain of our nallve gl en Beloved by us in vain,
ing and closing the orifices of the! e
tion will be given to f eede rs
is operated by cams G G, on of slide valves, will always msure correct .els of wheat. .----the cog wheels E E These cams as th e wheels op e ration, They must work or the wagon Railroad Sign als of" Dan ger. revolve c atc h hold of th e crank at proper PIa- ' must stop, or s o methi n g give way, and on this, Deton a ti ng balls as well as red ligh ts are ces and by slip p ing and catching it w i ll be the feeding p art , the wh o l e succes s of pow er observed from their shape t hat a trav erse moplanting depends-there must be no chance used in cases when trains are detained on the D and C, o p e nthe time required-the uppe r one opening a Receipt f"or m aking N ew Y ork lUlik.
Bluffs, Mo 'Johnson County, Iowa sh ip this operatinn of the [. reed boards C D , ll'ke t hos e year 800,000 pounds of pork and 75,000 bushnumber of acres can be planted in a day. The to Council through which these lines pass, will
que, Cedar Rapids, Iowa city and Keokuck by r ailroad , and a l so for a line fI'om Davenport
Measures are being tak e n to connect DubuI owa ll a I lr o a d .
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To oth e r lands are gone.
That ple a sa n t sound shall never glad. Our pensive e ars a gain.
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With br e aking hearts th y children pour Which w e no mor e must view, Their 101lg-their last a dieu. "
" Dear fountain of our n ativ e glen!
' ma i n in t he traditions of the North ' but whose IS al Al ot 0 f Engl' h R�ls h as b een s en t b ack " Take t wo pouods of lime' two and a q uar, race IS now exlInct. from this City to Liverpool, bec a us e no sale te r p ounds of chalk, one and three quarter Those who discover evidences of the Celts could be effected on aCCO"lnt of the ir i aferiorpounds starch, 20 quarts .of ram water, and of Ireland " or W ales , having di scov ere d Ame'1 I ity to those now made m Am er ica. The ral s to e very quart of the solut On add two table - i rica be for e Columbus, be it reme mbere d have made at the Trenton, N. J., I ron Co., are spoonsful of the drooping from a cow, so as only the claim s of the same arms as found in worth $8 per ton more than English r a i ls . to g ive it the right color. Shake it about ten S' eden, b e ing found in Florida. There is no use of e xp or ting a p oo a rticle , it mi nutes , then settle it with a soft brickbat; . is sure to find i ts level and its characte r . Origin of" Stays. then strain it through a p a ir of window shutStay s were �flrst invented by a brutal butchters-and you will ha ve the pure Orange co u n , Railroad Iron.
boxes at I
work about the depositing of t h e seed and ma nur e , and Mr. Pratt intends that there shall be n o n e .
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exceedmg lou
a p pro a hlllg engme the balls explode
English
ailway.s.
Under
the wheels f any
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ty milk . " Dr .
I see him in his manliness; I see his axe; I s ee his spade ; I see a man that God has made; his sha;'by dress,
110 n ot see
1 See a 1Ilan.
Scania, has discovered the skeletons of men
sed searches to be made in
Geologlc;;:iRe8eBrehes. L illew a lch of Stockholm, having cau-
the Ilwrshes of
er of t h e t hirteenth ce ntury , as a pu nis h ment for l is wife . She was very loquacious, a n d : . . findmg nothlllg wuld cure her, he pu a paIr of stays on h e r, m order to take away her breath, and so prevent her, as he thought, f roll! talking. This cruel punishment was
a nd animals in a remarkable state of preservation.
If such a man i>efore you stand,
And praise your Maker for such men; They make this old earUl yeung again.
Give him yo.ur neart-give him your hand'
stl'Ulllents for sport and fishing, and utensils
of di ffe rent descriptIOns, all of wh ich are in stone, showing that the use of metals was un-
Near them he al�o found arms, in-
. known when they were made . . They belo n g
! to
those primitive people of whom traces re-
iliiicted by othe: hsbands, till at las t was sc arc e l y a Wife m all London who :vas I being re.written by the operators at the Phil no t cond e mned to wear stays. The pUnish. adelphia <lffice. This is an improvement that en beca e so univ e rs al at last that the la- will be a ppr e ciated by all who have dea lings . dies III then defence made a falihIOn of It, and w ith the lightning lines, as a medium of commUllication wit h their corresponde.nts. so it has continued to the present day.
there I
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ly tha i the fluid can pass from one extremity I to the other, alld of course obviates the ne� cessity that formedy e x isted for AIl messages
The transmission of despatches b e t w ee n New Y o rk a n d Washlllgton ha s been ,reatly expedi by the insu lati o n of the se c on d or . wire bein g c o mpleted so perfect
T e l e graph I"provenJent.
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