The stock of the Wilton N. H. Branch Railroad is said to be all taken up.
A General Meeting of the proprietors of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway was recently held at Montreal. It appears by the report of the board of directors, that 5,364 shares had been taken up, amounting to about £1,200,000. All parties appear to be confident that this road will be constructed and in operation at an early day.
The Little Miami Railroad having been opened to Springfield, is doing a fair business, and adds important facilities to trade in that section.
The directors of the New York and Erie Railroad are said to be "going on with it in the right way to accomplish the great object of the undertaking." Contracts are already made for the construction of the road as far as the valley of the Delaware. Proposals for grading 133 miles more are advertised for, which will carry the road to Binghampton, 270 miles from New York.
It is asserted that of all single marriageable ladies who reached Oregon last season, two-thirds were married before the first of March.