Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1873 — Ah Interesting Document. [ARTICLE]

Ah Interesting Document.

Last week a Brooklyn gentleman, who was tracing the title to a piece of land in Bath County, Va., belonging to his mother, lying on both sides of “Cow Pasture River,” and containing 200,000 acres, called on me to examine more than two bushels of papers, given to me a few years ago by a lady in Hillhouse avenue, New Haven; the papers having been left by her uncle, Mr. Wm. Hillhouse, a New Haven lawyer, at his death. We found one paper dated May 6,1832 (forty years ago), filed: PETITION AGAINST THS KAII-ROAP. To the Hotiorable General Assembly now confened at Nne Hdven: ' The subscribers remoistrste against granting the prayer of petition brought to this Assembly by James Brewster and others, for the following reasons: 1. The excitement on the subject of railroads has been much greater than any experience of their utility wHuwarrant, as la common with new inventions, as it has already been fonnd that they cannot be beneficially applied as extensively as the interested and exaggerated accounts of them hsVe heretofore led the people to expect *’~ " * 1 The difficulty and expense of constructing them, and of keening them tn repair, -are much greater than has been represented. 3. The danger to life which arises from the extensive use of them, from their liability to get out of repair is much more serious and alarming than has been supposed."

It is a long document,and saysthatthe growth and prosperity of Hamaen.Cheshire, Southington, Farmington, Hartford, Wetheraford, Middleton, Durham, New Haven and other places would be injured, and that it would take' the freight from the Farmington Canal, “and if carried north above Hartford, as it eventually would-be, it would draw into its vortex, from the Connecticut River and the canal, Mich share of-the transportation as would, be ruinous to those expensive improvements. ” It would bring the business into the outskirts of New Haven, and would injure Yale College, Long Wharf and the central part of the city, besides destroying the turnpikes and stage routes in the State.—- Goshen (Conn.) (hr. Winsted Herald, —An Ohio cheese merchant has invent- , ed an electrical machine for destroying. I skippers in I -A sET-vr job—nursing * sick man.