Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-13
State News.
The Howe Scale Company, at Bran
don, has gone into bankruptcy

w luuSof county jail lido ho' d oihSio
occupant at present.
Hon. Charles Durkee, governor of
Utah territory, is native of Royalton.
A new monthly paper is about to
be published in Bristol.
Lake Champlain is 100 miles long
and from one to twelve miles broad.
The number of families in Vermont
are 54,277.
The number of schools taught by
males in Vermont in 1867, 8,068.
Vermont was partly explored by
the French in 1909.
The first settlement in Vermont
was in 1924.
The number of weeks school taught
by females in Vermont in 1867, was
1929.
The number of children in Yer
mont between four and eighteen years
of age is 1859.
St. Adams annually consumes five
thousand tons of coal and two thou
sand cords of wood.
S. B. Hazeltine of Bakersfield has
held the Office of town clerk for over
so consecutive years.
Ia Rutland for the year 1868, there
were 139 births. SO marriages and 1926
births.
The amount of wages paid male
teachers, exclusive of board, in Yer
mont for the year ending March 3lst
1868, was $56,354
The Rutland incendiaries, recently
convicted, have been sent to state
prison.
The court house and town hall il
st. Johnsbury are undergoing thor
ough repairs.
A Rutland officer has recently viSi
ted six "hOle8" in that town, aud made
seizures of liquor.
The valuation of Hartford is $41
784,165. 1t contains 1926 dwelling
houses; 522 stores, and 81 mills.
1t is said that Hon. 7. w. Parl
furnishes the capital for the new pa
per about to be started at Benning
ton.
J. Esty & Co., of Brattleboro, sol,
during the month of March 80 cot
tage organs, valued at $35,488.58.
Moses Corbett, of Guilford, la
! four eve sheep that have produce
ten lambs this spring = two pair
twins and two triplets.
t BrattIeboro has recently held
town meeting, and recinded the vot
of the annual meeting whereby tn
town liquor agencies was diScontinl
S ed.
! Mr.. Joel Parker of Mortified is
: his 93d and his wife in her l00t
year. They are hale and hearty, an
have recently been visiting thei
daughter in Cabot.
LIQUOR SEIZED.-ThursGay mOrI
n ing of last week, officers seized $40
y worth of gin and whiskey in the estai
{ lishment of James Kelly, Of Burlins
ton.
: Rollin Amsden, Esq, Of WindSo
! has received the commission of Del
: uty Sheriff for Windsor County, b
i was also elected Constable of Win,
sor, at the town meeting on Wedne
a day, 3lst.
u Mr.. Marshall, who was so seriou
ly injured at North Clarendon c
1, Monday, is still alive, and his case
5, considered more hopeful.
= Mr.. Aaron Lewis, one OF the olde
e and most respectable citizens OF PouI
n ney, died on the night of the 18th ins
Is aged 80 years.
+ John Ii. FIagg, of Benningto
d clerk of the Vermont house of repr
Is Sentatives, has been rendered the a
n pointment of principal legislati
ID clerk to the U. S. Senate.
e e Gen. Dewitt c. Clark, late prime
n, pal executive clerk of the Senate,
is strongly recommended for an AuC
It torship of the treasury.
a, S. II. Wade of Montgomery Ce
~ tire is about to erect a hotel at Ea
e. Berkshire, which place has been wit
out public house since the great fl
III there last spring.
to A REMARKABLE GALA COW Ow
NJ ed by d. f. Goodrich, of East Ra
to dolph, brought its owner a calf th
is weighed 1877 pounds when but eig
n hours old, weight rarely equal,
st at that age.
WINOOsKI.-Mrs VIM. Greenlet
is while crossing the street from t
ne house of Mr.. Greenleaf, on Wednt
Of day, slipped on some ice covered
q snow, and falling broke one arm abo
a the wrist.
COUNCIL OF CENsoRs.-We ha
received few returns of the vote (
Council of Censors on Tuesday,
- enough to show that the ticket is ell
r ted by a small majority. There we
re seventeen votes cast in st. Alban
in thirty-nine were cast in Burlingto
" five in Rutland, and nine in Poultnt
~ At the annual school meeting
- District No 1, i'll st. Johnsbury, it W
- moved that three ladies be added
;S the Prudential Committee, and tn
~ were elected without a dissent
- voice. The Caledonian says, this
- step in advance for Vermont,
bo ladies have been put on school co
-, mittees in Massachusetts and 9th
lf States for some time, and they a
n said to prove very popular in tt