Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-30
STATE H,elCs.

The total amount of deposits in the saw
ings banks of Vermont, is s5,3S3.l4S.
Josiah S. EMERSON, of Barnet, will sell
at public auction Wilson's Supherphosphate
through Vermont, US last year, OH credit if
desired. Times and places will soon be an
nounced in the advertising columns Of the
FARMER
The following ycrmonters have been
granted patents: Joshua Sawyer, North
field, process for cleaning marble, granite,
etc. Dexter b. French, Grafton, wheel for
vehicles Warren Harris, Danville, stereo-
scopic camera William Weaver, Burling-
ton, shaving conductor for planning machines !;
Erdix N. Bacon, Chelsea, combined bow
fastener and guard for OK yokes.
The Vermont Life Insurance company
held its 5sh annual meeting at Burlington
Jan. Goth. The business of the past year
has been greater than that of any previous
year. and the income of the company is "a
per cent greater than it was in 1872. The
company holds Sl.l7 in assets, to each 81
in liabilities, exclusive of its 100000 cap
ital. Russell S. Taft was reelected pres
ident.
The twenty fourth annual meeting of the
State Teachers Association was held at st.
Adams last week, and was characterized by
unusual interest Its officers are Pres.
Edward Conant, Randolph Sec. X. w.
Westgatc, Montpelier treas. ii. S. Perrigo,
johnson; executive committee r. G. Will
Jams, Castleton Louis Pollens Burlington !;
H. T. Fuller, st. Johnsbury. The next
meeting is to be held at ST. Johnsbury.
A list Of the newspapers in Vermont,
recently printed in the Rutland Herald,
purporting to have been taken from Rowell's
Newspaper Directory for 1874, does i1jus-
tice to several papers by undertaking their
oireulatiOns Those papers naturally enough
tOke exceptions. But keep cOOl, gentlemen,
the figures in that list, as is proved by COM
parisoa, were not taken from the new Di-
rectory, but from that Of 1873, except in
the ease o. the paper in which the list was
first printed, and in that Of its principal
rival. Nothing intentional, probably !
Let us wait until the new one is completed
and then see how worthy we are found to be.
The will of the late Lyman j. McIndoe,
of Windsor, was admitted to probate last
week. Rev. Franklin Butler and Mrs. No
Indoe are the executors. The estate is es-
timated at $4,000. 1t is said that the
will provides that S24, 900 is to be divided
equally among his three children that the
proceeds good will and management of the
Vermont Chronicle are granted to the Asso-
citation of the Congregational Clergy Of YER
mont, with some benefit to the Congrega.
aioDal Society of Windsor, aud that some
similar disposition of the Vermont Journal
is to 20 10 the benefit of the Vermont and
New Hampshire Bible Society.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The Maloney farm of 1870 acres in Gran
Vile, was sold last Thursday; to Geo w.
Race, for s4,65O
Rev. George N. Weber, LID, Of Mid
dlebury College, has accepted the call to be-
come the successor of Rev. DIR. Vincent, Of
the First Presbyterian Church, of Troy, N.
Y.
Through the towns Of Leicester, Salisbury,
aud Whiting, along the fertile valley Of the
Otter Greek, are vast swamps, mostly hoav-
lily timbered with cedar, birch and pine.
These swamps annually furnish an incredible
amount Of wood, not only for the lime kiln,