TRAGEDY STRIKES THE TOWN
From the Vital Statistics, town of Orange, for the year 1859, we take the following list:
Name Month Age Mo. Cause
Nancy M. Sheldon Mch. 18 15 diphtheria
Charles M. Andrew " 23 4 3 ''
Howard Raymond '' 30 10 ''
Nelson S. Andrew Apr. 2 2 4 ''
Isaac B. Porter '' 2 15 2 ''
Frank N. Andrew '' 4 8 9 ''
Alice Porter '' 7 11 3 ''
Emerson H. Treat '' 7 11 ''
Elizabeth Beardsley '' 9 15 ''
J. Dwight Andrew '' 10 7 ''
Charles Porter '' 10 7 10 ''
Phebe Porter '' 11 36 5 ''
Collin B. Stone '' 11 10 ''
Ellen M. Stone '' 14 22 ''
Frank DeWitt Bradley May 10 5 ''
To offset this awful tale of infant mortality, the town gradually recovered and was even advertised as a health resort. We offer an article appearing in the New Haven Morning Palladium, during the year 1874, to substantiate this statement.
ORANGE
''The following facts may serve to show that the length of life to which many in the Orange parish have attained cannot well be surpassed, and that Orange is a good place to live in. During the year 1873, eleven persons died; the youngest was seventy-one, the eldest ninety-five. How is that for long life? With an elevation of more than two hundred feet above tide water, removed largely from that chilliness incident to a nearness to the sea, blessed with pure air, good water, dry localities and pleasant surroundings, with a good high school, a daily mail, a neat and commodious church, and every means for improvement, health, happiness and long life, in the midst of good society, what place can be more conducive to or desirable for a protracted stay in the world than this?
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