Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-13
Vermont Items.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

Mr.. H. Stevens, of East Hardwick, hav-
ing lost Two hens bv an owl, set a trap
for the Inarauder, but the bird sprung it
and escaped. Soon after, a neighbor, Mr.
Addison Eastman. of Walden, los. four
hens, and on setting "a trap il was sprung
and carried off He then tried another
trap, and that caught and held his owl
ship, with the other trap on one leg.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
The salary of the Postmaster at Nor
risyille is S400.
The salary of the Postmaster at Stowe
is $3.50
There are27 churches in the Lamoills
Baptist Association.
The oo.eributions to benevolent pur-
poses by the Baptist churches in the
Lamoille Association, in 1868, amounted
to - o2i oo
-Lamoille county is wholly watered
by the Lamoills River and its tributar.
les.
Stowe is the most populous town in
Lamoille county.
The church of the Holy Apostles in
Cambridge, is the only Episcopal church
in Lamoille county.
-Lamoille county contains about 42O
square miles.
No settlements were made in La
moille county until after the revolution.
The Congregational church at Nor
risville has contributed TO the Vermont
Domestic Missionary Society, in Fifty
years, the sum af sS60SS.
There are nine Congregational
si.,.reh"4 ia T.pmoille county
The town superintendent Of Elmore,
in bis report to the Secretary of the Board
Of Education, says: "A majority Of the
teachers in their school are unqualified
for teaching school
ORANGE COUNTY.
Tho salary Of the Postmaster at
Thetford is $22O
The salary of the Postmaster at
Wells River is $3.50
Grace Church Episcopal at Randolph
has connected with the parish 15 families +;
135 individuals baptlsns in 1868, 4 4
adult, 3 children 90 communicate
males -, females 60 marriages 3 bu-
rials B. The Sunday school is composed
Of % scholars, 6 teachers and "A Bible
class of G2
-Braintrce is 732 feet above the ocean.
The towns in the Western part of
Orange County border on the Green
Mountain, and the whole county is hilly.
Tho Baptist church in Ver-hire was
organized in 1851.
The Baptist Church in Braintree in
1868 had only baptisms. 1t has total
membership of GO, "a of whom are resi-
dents
Orange County was incorporated in
February, 1861.
-Lebbeus Edgerton, Jonathan Jenness
and Daniel Cobb were the senators from
Orange County in 1887.
The Congregational church in Thet-
ford contributed to the Vermont Domes-
tic Missionary Society in fifty years the
sum of 81 ,s2s53.
There are twelve Congregational
churches in Orange County.
All the districts in Bradford sustain
school each year. Each district, with
few exceptions, have annually two schools
of from eight to fourteen weeks each.
DIR. John Poole, Of Bradford, died on
the 14th inst, aged n years. For many
years he was the leading physician of the
place, with q wide and successful prao-
tice
AT the late town meeting Of Fairlee,
it was voted, as at other times, not to pay
bounty to 8. 81. Mann and others.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Tho salary Of the postmaster at Bar
ton is $3.50.
The salary Of the postmaster at Der.
by Line is $500.
The Congregational church In Greens
boro has In fifty years contributed eS22.1O
10 the Vermont Domestic xissionary 30
ciety.
There are seventeen Congregrtiooal
J churches IN Orleans county.