Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-10-10
The Fine Arts as Practiced in This County.

having a supply OF such articles as clothes
contemplating a rise in such goods, paid a
visit to the clothes yards of II. Wilbur,
7. Potter, Mrs. Sarah Cutler, Augustus
Child, and R. B. Pierce, all in one neigh
: borhood, in the town of Waterville, and
made selection of such articles as best
suited their fancy, taking from each yard
clothing of from one to five dollars. One
article selected from X. Wilbur's yard was
a couple of socks. In this they must
have made a mistake, as they took one
from each of two pairs. Mrs. Wilbur
thinks that if she must necessarily con-
tribute a couple of articles of this des-
cription, that it would be far more salts.
factory to her, if, in selecting, the thieves
would take mates, as now though only
two out of four are lost, both pairs are ru-
ined. We would suggest to the thieves
either to return both socks taken, or 60
and take the two left.
On the same evening, some one took a
good shawl belonging to Rev. G. T. Gar
win, valued at six or seven dollars. The
practice in this town has not been very
lively of late, though since our coat was
taken, we have to recount the loss of a
bride, reins and spices, all taken from
the barn of buttons Hotel, and all taken
soon after the coat was.
On Friday last, a new kind of game
was attempted, similar to that practiced
by soldiers when they got their uniforms,
only on a smaller scale. 1t was in the
evening, while we were trying to satisfy
the demands of hunger, when having for
a moment laid aside a pretty good hat
which we had purchased of Sergeant A.
NJ. Crane, of Sawyer's Cavalry, at a very
cheap rate, a person pretty generally
known in this vicinity, and, we presume,
in other places not far distant, too, as
"Banty" Terrill, happening in where the
hat lay, thought our hat better than his,
and that an exchange would be to his ad-
vantage, slyly made the swap, and imme-
diately started for home. Before he had
got away, we learned what was done, and
Immediately hailed him, and claimed the
hat. He pulled it off and we took it,
while he stoutly affirmed that We had
taken his property. We told him that
the hat was ours, and that We thought
him a thief. The next day he claimed
the hat, and made some false statements
when we told him VIC thought him not
only a thief, but a liar. He suggested to
US the propriety of repeating the state
ment, whereupon we did SO which, APP
parently, satisfied him. We think he is
a very Improbable member of commune
ty, and hat if he, and all the other vag-
abond, piratical, pilfering, worthless and
unprinclplcd scamps who get their misera-
BILE, hand-to-mouth living by prcying on
their neighbors in this county, could be
constrained to do a little service for the
State, a very salutary result, to them
selves, and especially to society, would
follow. There would be less complaint
of silver spoons missing, whips stolen
from carriages stopping at the hotels and
other public places, butter and pork taken
from cellars, stores broken open, harnesses
cut up, sc. there would be less whiskey-
drinking, and less of all the mean, low,
dirty things of which people so often COM
plain, done among us. Scarce a week
passes but some mean caper is cut up, in
some part Of the county, and it is this
class of people who do these things, and
we think there ought to be a remedy.
We would not have said as much, but we
have ourself suffered to the amount of
about twenty dollars within three weeks,
and VIC feel somewhat indignant that in a
community claiming to be Moral and
Christian, a man cannot be safe in the
possession of his own and having caught
one man in the act of taking still more
of our private goods, we feel as though we
had a place to begin at-somc one on
whom to pin at least a part of the rascal
lily being done among us, and over whose
back we may very appropriately deal a