Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-25
Vermont News.
GENERAL,

completeness is Vermont"
/ The population of Vermont has risen
from 315, 100 in 1850, to $4,000 in 1870
An increase of nearly five per cent.
The assessed valuation of property Of
every description in Vermont shows an
increase of about ten per cent.
/ The wild or forest lands in Vermont
brought under cultivation in the last ten
years, is over three hundred thousand
acres, or over II per cent.
The aggregate increase in valuation
on the real estate in Vermont in the last
decade is s4s,OOo,OOO, or so per cent.
The average price per acre of land
has risen from $33 to $45. III
The farm implements in Vermont
have advanced trife over fifty per cent.
The production of wheat in Vermont,
for ten years past has increased five per
cent, in corn over fifteen per cent.
The cultivation of tobacco 10 Yer
mont, of which the production is merely
nominal, shows large increase.
The production of maple sugar in
Vermont from 1860 to 1870 shows large
decrease.
The production of potatoes, hops and
oats in Vermont for the last ten years,
have been about the same as the ten years
previous.
-Buckwheat and barley has largely in
creased in production in Vermont for the
last ten years. Rye has decreased.
The production of wool shows q
nominal increase, although the number of
sheep has decreased ten per cent.
Horses have decreased three per cent;
swine, six per cent; working oxen, nearly
forty per cent. all other cattle, forty per
cent.
-Milch cows alone in Vermont, of all
kinds of stock, have increased FIVE per
cent.
The butter product has increased
100000, and cheese has declined 3,o00,-
900 pounds.
The figures of the census of Vermont
would show that the increased area of
very much higher-priced farm lands &C
tually prod.ces less of all the essential
elements of agricultural wealth.
The fiscal year of the State of Yer
mont terminates on the last day of July,
to which time the report of each officer
who is by law required to make report,
shall show the condition of their respec-
tive departments.
The twentieth annual session of the |
General Assembly of Vermont was held
at Windsor, in 1877 commencing October
30th and closing November 10th, after
session of thirty days.
The mountains of Vermont should by |
no means be regarded as unfavorable to
the people, but as blessing. Rivulets
and streams of pure water proceed from
them, bringing much to enrich the lower
lands. The mountains sc rye also to fur
nish timber and fuel for the use of future
inhabitants, as well as to en- sure protection
from disastrous drouths, efte,n experienced
in more level tracts of territory.
-Messrs. John 1. Brown & Son will ap-
peal from the decision of the Vermont
Judge in regard to the "trade mark" of
their troches. All persons using troches
should be sure they are genuine, and bear
the imprint of John 1. Brown 81 Son, Bos-
ton.
The Prof. Greanleaf who died recent
ly in Burnham, Me, was formerly
teacher in that State, but was neither
Prof. Greanleaf of Vermont, author of a
treatise on grammar, nor Benz amin Gresn-
leaf, formerly the distinguished Principal
of Bradford Mass Academy, and author
of the popular series of mathemat
which bear bis name. The paragra gh
chronicling the event, published in vari-
Gus newspapers in distant parts of the
country, does violence to the memory of
two eminent authors.
An exchange says; Maple sugar has
stopped growing in Vermont. The cakes
still hanging on the trees are small and
knurly and begin to be parched by the
sun.
The Boston Journal in noticing the
HERALD correspondents startling
Facts" says: Some genius in Vermont
has made the startling calculation that In
that staid, matter-of-fact State there are
no fewer than $4,000 drunkards-that ia,
men who are recognized sots. Of hard
drinkers there are 1880, and of OCCASION
a! or polite drinkers there are over "a, 900,
making in all 44,300 tiplers.
The personal property in the unor-
ganized towns and cores in Vermont is
appraised at only $4,000.
ADDISON COUNTY. ..
Only six teachers were examined for
certificates in Middlebury to teach in the
common schools.
The appraisal of real estate in Ad-
olson county is S65,6720O. u |
The town of Granville was incor-
porated under the name of Kingston, but
was changed by legislative enactment to
its present name in 1884. /
Lincoln Pass over the Green Noun
tains is z, AIS feet above the ocean.
Addison county was incorporatedl
February 9th, 1887.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
bennington is preparing for Decora-
ton Day. Gen. George Bradford is to be
President. The Vice-Presidents are Hon.
Thomas White, W. S. Southworth, A. Is.
Gardner, Fl. G.. Root. We are not advise d
who is to deliver. the address. |
Bennington county has q, 456 taxable
heads.
Jonas Fay of Bennington and TIM
othy Brownsoo were both members OF