Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-01-20
Newspapers in Orleans County.

We find in print the following interest
ing history of newspapers in Orleans
County, by Rev. PLINY H. WHITE:
1S31.-The first newspaper in Orleans
County was the Northern Oziris," the
first number of which was dated l5 De-
cember 1881. 1t was published at Derby
by j NJ Stevens for the proprietors, and
was decidedly Jacksonian in politics
Isaac f. Redfeld, then a young lawyer in
Derby. was the editor. After an interval
of a month the second number was issued,
in which the announcement was made that
" it will be published on every Thursday
morning during the year, and we have no
good reason TO doubt that it will so con-
tinue to be published for the next half
century" Notwithstanding these brave
words, the final number appeared, 10
April 1892 The population of the Coun-
ty was too small to support paper which
made itself acceptable to a part only, and
odious to the rest
1S43.-No other paper was established
tia lS43, when the law allowing news
papers to be carried free for the distance
of.thirty miles from the place of publica-
tion- ENCOURAGED T., Rawson. to commence
ttfc Issue ut inc . L eonfen RECORD AT
Irasburgh The first number was dated
Is August 1s44, and was published on
sleet Is by ~ inches. In politics it was
neither Indifferent or neutral, but secured
the federation of both parties by the follow
ing unique prospectus of its political de-
Partmeut
The editor will not espouse the cause
of any political party, but will offer por-
ton of the sheet TO men of all parties, for
tie purpose of discussing their respective
yiews-this department to be under the
superinteudence of the County Committees
Of each party, under whose care, it is
hoped. the true doctrines of all parties will
he faithfully presented, thereby giving the
readers a better opportunity to judge of
ue merits of the various political ques-
tons, than is commonly afforded in period
i:als devoted exclusively to the support of
any one party"
The Record prospered so well that, at
he commencement of the second volume,
the size was enlarged to 20 by % inches.
In September 1s47, \. G. Conant became
t te publisher and continued until the
following April, when Mr. Rawson resumed
/ tbe publication. The circulation continued
4 increase gradually till the Spring Of
$50, when the leading Wings of the
County encouraged the establishment of an
/ o1tspoken Wing paper, and, to avoid CON-
petition, the Record was discontinued.
; The last number was dated 20 March
: $50.
1S5O.-The d" Orleans County Gazette,
an organ of the Wing party, made its first
appearance at Irasburgh, IL May 1850
+ The editors were John 4. and Leonard B
- jameson, the latter of whom was publisher
r At the commencement of the third volume
t May 1852, J. n. Dana became edito
and publisher. At the commencement o
the fifth volume, II June 1854, Georg
! W. Hartshorn became editor and pub
t Usher, and continued to edit the paper dur
ing the remainder of its existence. Witt
the twenty-ninth number of the fifth volum
= Sylvester Howard, Jr., became the publish
!. er; and with the thirty fourth number
# Messrs. \. A. Earle and S. Howard, Jr.
e began to publish it in partnership. Tn
s thirty-ninth number was published by Mr.
: Howard, and with the fortieth number
7 Mr.. Howard and II. D. Morris assumes
; the publication, and continued it until tn
4 close of the fifth volume, when the pape
; was united with the " North Union"
II 1S54-The North Union" was es
y tablished at West Charleston, 10 Jun
1854, as an organ of the American party
: which at that time was very rampant i
= Orleans County. Fernando G. Harring
le ton and E. E. e. Wheeler were the editor
N and publishers.
is At the sixteenth number, % Septembe
le 1864, Mr.. Wheeler retired from the paper
le At the third number of the third volum,
II u 19 June 1856, Mr.. Harrington retired, an
Il the paper went into the hands of an assC
4 ciation of stockholders. George A. Hill
d man became the editor, and continue
v until October 1856, when the paper wa
at discontinued.
I'd 1S56-The "Orleans Independel
a Standard" Republican paper, was e
=, tablished at Irasburgh, January 185,
at by \. A. Earle, who having been
a iourneyman in the office of the " Yeomen
~ Record" and joint publisher of the G.
r zette, now assumed the independent pos
al tiou of sole editor and publisher. l
= :; original price was ,25 per annum, al
- "a by sc inches Under the pressure
ce the paper panic of 1868, the size of t
\ paper was reduced for few months, aft