. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . pike wa3 had at that place. Thewriter says : Today the ceremony of laying the firstrail ou the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville &Danville Railroad, was held at this were perfected for the eventby which a large concourse of people assem-bled to participate in the formal inaugurationof this important enterprise. At three oclock this afternoon, under thedirection of the Engineer of the road, the firstspikes were drivtn by Prof J. S. Campbell,of Wabash College, amid the booming of can-Eon, the stirrin
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . pike wa3 had at that place. Thewriter says : Today the ceremony of laying the firstrail ou the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville &Danville Railroad, was held at this were perfected for the eventby which a large concourse of people assem-bled to participate in the formal inaugurationof this important enterprise. At three oclock this afternoon, under thedirection of the Engineer of the road, the firstspikes were drivtn by Prof J. S. Campbell,of Wabash College, amid the booming of can-Eon, the stirring music of the silver band, andthe enthusiastic plaudits of hundreds of ourcitizens. The spikes were driven withoutmissing, and the first rail pointing towardIndianapolis was located in its proper place. This road will run in a north-westerly di-rection from Indianapolis, via Crawlordsvilleand Covington, , to Danville, Illinois,and in the same general direction, via Ur-bana and Bloomington to Peoria, and so onpointing towards a Pacific Railroad connec-tion at GET THE BEST. IlSTlSllIIIlJIETMIMI 3000 Engravings; 1840 Pages Quarto. Price $12. 10,000 Words and Meaning* not in other Dictionaries. Viewed as a whole, we are confident that no otherliving language hns a dictionary which so fully and faith-fully sets forth its present condition as this last edition ofWebster does of our wri ten and spoke:. English tongue.—Harpers Magazine. The work is a marvelous specimen learniug, taste, andthorough labor. We praise it heartily, because we believeitdeservei the heartiest praise.—N. Y. Albion. These three books are the sum total of great libraries : theBible, Sftakspeare, and Webttcr^a Royal Quarto.—ChicagoEvening Journul. The New Webster is glorious—it is perrect—it distan-ces and defiescampetition—it leaves nothing to be desired.—/. H. Raymond^ Z>., Preset Vassar College, The most useful and remarkable compendium of humanknowledge in our langua
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