Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-26


town agent ut mblidgc for the past
year amounted to nearly $1,000, and
after paying all expenses netted the
town the handsome sum of &c.
j. G. Bailey, the superintendent of
schools in Hydepark, reported to the
Board of Education that in one district
in that town, in which a good school
was maintained for 1872 days, and have
100 scholars, and ought to have an at
tendance of about 49, 200 days, the re-
port shows it to have only 1854
Murray Buck has purchased OF Mr..
Parker, his hotel at johnson, and Ia is
now cunning" the same.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Grace Church, Randolph, is the Only
Episcopal Church in Orange county.
The salary of the Postmaster mt Brad
ford is 500.
The salary of the Postmaster at Chcl-
sea is $3.50.
Capt II w Long, of Ncrshirc, has
constructed furnaces at the copper mines
on new principle, by which all the
fine ore dust received, making n saw
ing of about 1900.
The fuel used at the Ncrshire Copper
mines is mostly coke from Nova Scotia,
with little charcoal 1t takes pound
of fuel to melt six pounds of ore. The
ore is refined by smelling to about 40per
cent. pure copper. About $50 men and
boys are mrloyed. The monthly pay
is S. 900.
Capt. Calvin Coburn, an esteemed cit
izen of Fairlee, died on the 18th, aged
II years.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Good new sugar is selling for 10c per
pound at Troy.
Freeman Wood, former resident OF
Bloomington, who has not been heard
of for nearly Is years, has turned up all
right in California.
Albert Lincoln, who forged some
notes and sold them to the Derby Line
Bank end others, as mentioned last
week, has been arrested at Montreal.
Silas p. Dorey, of Charleston, has a
heifer year old last January, which
| weight 720 lbs. 1t is of native stock,
with a quarter cross of Jersey, and has
only been well and regularly fed, having
eaten but little meal.
| Hay is very scarce in Craftsbury.
There is almost panic in Greensboro
about fodder, several of the best farmers
being entirely out.
John Bean, of Greensboro, has pur-
chased farm of B. M. r. Nelson, of
Barton, for $40, 900, and gives him one
half of his grist mill, at Greensboro, as
part payment.
Chas. Kidder, of Irasburgh, has Il
heifer calf which will be a year old next
July, which now weighs nearly 400 lbs.
1t has never been out of its pen, has
never had extra feed, and has been kept
rather short the past winter.
The oldest person now living in Nor
gan is Mrs. Achsah Elliott. She is the
widow of a revolutionary soldier, is now
so years old and still in good health.
She has II children, six of whom are
still in town.
Richard Hopper, known to all the in
habitants of Derby and ghbcring
towns, died on the 18th inst. AS near as
can be determined, his age was fully 100
years. He has for several years past
been supported by the town, and was
the last of its paupers.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Work has been commenced on the
new County Court House, at Rut-
land.
A large gray eagle, measuring seven
feet from tip to tip of wings, was shot
near Forestdale, by NJ. II. Paine, OF
Brandon, Tuesday last.
o. II. p. Ketchum, of Brandon, sold
last week, peck of the BIesee PrOlifics
No. 6, for the small sum of $26O-mak.
Ing the price over 81 900 per busl ell
Cyrus Jennings has sold, during the
past week, IL bushels of the No. 3, fol
$50 bushel. These potatoes vary sc
much from week to week that it is al
most impossible to give the market val
ue of them.
John Simmonds, Esq, formerly o
Shoreham, but for several years resi-
dent of Brandon, died at the latte
place on the 18th, at the age of rs years
Mr.. Simmonds was possessed of grea
wealth, but was still more remarkable
for strict integrity and public spirit