Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-04-12
ORLEAN INDEPEN D EN-
State News.

The population of Washington county
in 1871 was ga.
The number of rateable polls in Wash
ington county, is 5,977.
Tenement houses are scarce in st. Johns
bury.
McIndoes Falls is 44O feet above the lev
! ell of the sea.
The town of Wheelock is exempt from
taxes on its real estate by its charter.
The Congregational church at McIndoes
Falls was organized Oct. %, 1929
G. S. Mussey of Rutland lost $3.50 mare
a week ago Sunday by drowning.
Roxbury. the highest point on the Yer
mont Central Railroad, Is 997 feet above
the ocean.
Bethany church at Montpelier, of which
Rev. DR. Lord is pastor has (161 male and
242 femalel 403 members.
The Vermont Central earnings for De.
cembeI show gain of S37 900 over the /
same month of the preceding year.
On Tuesday, at St. Adams, new butter
sold at fiom 80 to sc cents, and old from
20 to 80.
The Howe Scale Company, Brandon.
and the Sampson Scale Company, of New /
York have consolidated.
They have in Sheldon only thirteen no.
tells and boarding houses! We hope they
will be fall t0pverflowing the coming sea-
son.
Mr.. l.. Fuller can tell pig story, which
we opine is and to beat, he having two
sows which in Il months past have brot
him 81 piSs.-I5aascriPt.
The sugar house of J B. Hatch OF Cabot.
WAS destroyed by fire on the Sd inst, with
all its contents. Loss $3.50. Insured for
500. Cause unknown.
Two young men in Westlord recently
trackeda fox to his den, and commenced
digging him out. After digging nearly all
day, thiy secured eight foxes, two Of them
being marty black,
The stockholders Of the Woodstock rail
road on Monday gave their directors au-
= thority o increase the mortgage on the
road to he amount of 500, 900, making in
all S350)00.
Mr.. B J. Brown Of Highgate manufac-
,
: Febrjtute Mixture, put up ten thousand
bottles dlring the month Of March. These
figures t,nd to show that this remedy is
, not altogether unknown.
2 The religious interest at East u. Johns
, bury winch commenced with the week of
prayer n January still continues. The
E meeting are still continued, and about 40
: have be,n hopefully converted
We hear that Joseph Morrill,, for many
i years keeper of the hotel at Sharon, has
leased tie hotel at West Hartford, of Chas
Thurstol, and is to take immediate posses
sion.
4 probable incendiary fire destroyed the
: barn ofMjchael Clouey of Factory Point.
d early Sunday morning before last. Three
l. cows Prished in the flames, and much
other property was des -royed.
4 The ,acancy in theofiice of Clerk of Ad-
olson COUNTY caused by the death Of Du-
gald Sewart has been filled by the APP
= pointment of Rufus Wainwrightto the po-
d sition, he having been Deputy Clerk for
% several years.
10 Last Saturday afternoon the brick house
! of Barney Sticknev. on the Hardy place. -
u two niles west Of St. Adams village, took
lie fire tpm a chimney, and was destroyed
most Il Us contents oeInS saNea. insured
IN IAe Ner4noh' Mutual Tor NooV-
S H. Sullson of Monkton. has lost 30
" swarns of bees during the past winter
- Otheis in that section lost their bees In
J. ike manner. 1t Is thought that this whole
sale destruction Of the honey bee is OWNS
to thu lack of bee bread. which they die
t not produce last season, FOR some reason q
st ''''0
id Samuel Wilson, esd, OF \ergenue>, eel
NJ ebrated his 18th birth day on "Wednesday
last, by assembling around him his child
rem. grandchildren, aud great-Crand child
2r rem, goodly number. The day pleasur
N closed with d supper and a characteristic
70 poem by Mr.. w
e. George Goyc recovered am addition %
+ Sl0o bounty from the town ~ Lincoln, a
>. the recent term OF the Washington count
1t court Inc Town had recently pad hiu
IT. 9ooo.s" l'al ne Aas no" secured the iuL
n amount CANNED >o''.
- TIE expep.e of the Ner-eune- Grade
- schod for the past year, wa, s. sos. q
81 which = .635 was forteachers' wages. Fiv
at teachers have been employed. ho.
CD huhoer OIL PuPi'S during inc Et.t'' Dol
s.. greahsJ number any one ieTm' w; iea>
Ia huh0er' -"' average NUMBER ellI''!et
Zoo.
y Too much talk derogatorv to the charaC
IS ter If a lady who kceps the boarding hous
Is at Messrs. Smith. Clark K co.'s bru,
81 works got a chap into legal ditiicultie, tn
"' othr dav. an arrest on t6r chrrge Of slar
wv der with $1,000 bail. beng TIE result
Is Baa"er'
Ell The number OF mile, run ~ the Y. {
is R.R. locomotives during the m 1nth
"a March. was 22.01l, of which b .lSo mil,
was run on passenger accountant 500
Of miles on freight account. This is a gai
We of 10000 miles over the lesDondiu
-nr month of 1860. and Is GOO miles over II
prvious month.
VS.
or ne mason arm ~ = l'lSLoIi'. n9 ne
TO- changed nailoe; l. - -la 'ou 'a dS.5 ITO
5 | Hi 4 Green & Sonstha balance 450 wi,
,a, 50 COW. toops farr,inlr ro,Is sta far S3a
400 Edward FIannarv of Richmond i.
lo' soId ,bo CutIar farr, ana stool- for ~ o0
5 a onJ bas bonrl+ r r Snanlding's fsr
.rv and stocl in Roltor far e1T 600
e
u At Rutland County court sentence
er- two years IN state PRISON was imposed
ro- John sullivan OF otocS6ndge, Ior ro6olI
by Na TssS Pota e Tago " Ivos 1o a.; :,
tic o,,o IN tho sa,, INSTITUTION for farc
Uuc tdaihort Inc. t,,o vears far obfai
e'- ny 49, nnder f,Iso ,lr3+oncet Tn
i'm ~ B. 49, ~ months fo bnr,Iarv and NJ
Am 49, Cli4ard and Wor,, Ann Stocter -' :
-ann,h- naci, for Iarr"n,.
10y A barn belonging to DR.. G. W. Bngha
of Pittsfield, was destroyed ~ fire on Il
afternoon of the 18th ult., horse valu