Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-10-05

matle to come up TO the standards Of life
outside. Many parent OF experience has
had occasion to say that he would rather
trust son in the forecastle Of ship, among
coarse, brutal, swearing sailors, than to tho
temptations, trials brdtalities and false codes
of the college.--.Spriaqfeii Republscon.
How TiiEE MES CoMMirrLb A Bon
BEEY.--The taking SAC from the safe Of
Matthew Barr, at Nashua. n. H., last FRI
day, already mentioned, was a curious case.
A man goes to the bank and gets small bills
to the amojiul of S3e changed. and wants
one twenty dollar bill lie then goes 10 two
different stores to get the $40 bill changed
for small bills, with an eye. undoubtedly, to
find out where the money is kept, which
sore is 'hash," without success lie then
went to Bars, a hardware dealer. He
changed il for him and the man went out.
Shortly after. ano.hef man came in with
note book in hand, and asked for pen q
moment te make a memorandum. Mr..
Barr asked him 10 step TO The desk in the
counting room Just at that time man
came in and asked for jack.knife. While
Barr was showing that the man that was
writing at the desk left. The fact that he
had left SO anceremoniously excited Mr..
Bars suspicion and coon he looked into his
safe for his money. The safe was locked
when he left II, but the key was left in.
The desk was close TO the sale, and the mon
ey gone. Bare then began TO hunt for him,
lie FASTENED to the railroad station and
found The $50 man, and asked if he was tho
man that wrote at his desk. He replied
negatively, but when asked il he had not
been in his store he saidtl,ai he had been and
got bill changed he also said that lie saw
the man that wrote at the desk going. mo-
ment before down certain street. Mr.
Barr started in pursuit, but not without puss.
ting other men on watch of the $50 man
and seading for an oiacer. Before hc
left he asked the man if he had any ubieci-
ions 10 going to his store. and lie replied
that he had not, only he had something's ON
the train he wanted to look after. Before
the officer cane, the man started oil down
back Of the corporations, quarter Of
a mile off, lodging about like guilty one.
He was arrested and had only $50 about
him. He was tried Saturday and fuf want
Of &e0B bail, was sent to jail. Citeutn-
stances are oil against litii. II WIS proved
that he dined that day with man ans.
wering the description Of the ono writ
ing al tie desk, and that they ihet several
times on the street, and said few
words 10 each other as they passed. The
memorandum man was traced footing II half
way to Lowell, and then hiring d man to
carry him there; pro;nisin@hin dollar
which he did not pay On his arrival. 1t is
supposed the iack-knfe buyer, the S2O man,
and he Of the meinorandnm propenSities
were aceonplces. The game was shn1low
the getting The bill out Of the bank and
Immediately wanting 10 change il at a store,
aud the being seen tusether in the city.
were foolish.
TRAGEDY in NEw YoRf.-The New
York papers have accounts of a terrible
tragedy which occurred fii that city on Mon-
day forenoon. A Mrs. Jones, whose hus-
band died in July last. had received the at.
tentions Of a shoeihaket by HE mime of
Pirrepout, who had beconie devoted to her,
making Lcr many presents. His attentions
were encouraged, dnd Mrs. Jones engaged
to marry him but OF late she had avoided
him. On Sunday night Pirfepout found
her in company with another man, which
so enraged him that on Monday he visited
her, and after few words plunged shoe
makers knife into her arm, which severed
a large artery File woman escaped, ran
into neishboring house, followed by the
enrased tftin, who discharged pistol
through the closed door Of tile room where
she had taken refuge. The ball entered
her forehead, inactins fatal wound. Pr
repout then placed pistol to his own head,
but before be could pull the trigger it VISA
wrencbed from him by a bystandcr. A
crowd bad by this lime collected, who knock
ed down the trenzied man, bca: him, and
were on the point of lynching him, when lie
was tfkeu care of by the officers. lie is
an Englishinan, 40 years Old , his victim 10
l native ci ireland. about 20 years OF age.
Tie Standard has census returns from
EN- towns in Orleans county. The increase
N the population in these towns in ten years
eIIS.