Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-08-28
Vermont News.

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of her recovery.
The OLD THIRTEENTH. -Chas. w
Randall, son cf Col. Randall, has opened O
recruiting office at Montpelier, to recruit
volunteers to put the old Thirteenth agair
into the field as one of the veteran regi
ments from this State. If majority Of
the men of this regiment come together
under this call, Col. Randall will undoubt.
eddy accept the Colonelcy, and make the
regiment what it proved itself at Gettys-
burg, one of the very bes: in the service.
A youth named Andrew Clifton, Of
Craftsbury, aged about IL years, employed
on the rail, DAD, while attempting to swim in
Barton river, on Sunday, Aug. l4Ih, was
drowned.
RAILROAD NEws.-We learn from
good authority that on or before Saturday
next the passenger trains of the Conn. &
Pass. Rivers Railroad will run up to Bar
ton Landing, and that Mr.. Drew with his
stage teams will take passengers through
to Newport and the Line to supper. We
passed over this road last week, and were
surprised at the progress of the work.
We saw no work that could not be com.
pleted with wheelbarrows in few days,
and unless delayed by rains or some other
unavoidable delay, the ioa horse will be
snoring into Newport sometime in Sep
tember.-Ne,vport Meas
EXTENSIVE TuEFT.-About five hun
dred dollars were stolen from the safe in the
shop of L. Valiquette, in Rutland on Thurs
day evening of last week. The thief went
into the shop. professedly, for the purpose
of getting his bopts tapped. While Mr.
Valiquette's men were at work on the boots
in the back room of the shop, the thief
managed to abstract the money from the
safe, which was standing unlocked in the
front room, and skedaddled barefoot. Of
icers were sent after him. and the Rutland
Herdtd of Monday, says he was nabbed on
morning by Mr.. Lafayette Weth-
srell, freight conductor on the Rutland and
Washington Railroad On the arrival of
he train at Castleton, Mr.. Wetherell saw
he individual near the track, suspected
linn 10 be the thief from the fact that he
vas barefoot and answered the description
,iven, asked him where he was bound, and
IN receiving the reply that he was going to
Troy, offered TO take him down if he would
lct as brakeman. as he Che conductor) was
me man 6 short" on the train. The man
ssented-conductor helped the unsuspect-
ng individual into one of the cars, locked |
Jim in, run the tain down to Poultney,
where a warrant for the thief's arrest was
made out, and he was brought TO Rutland |
md lodged in Jail. The sum of 1884 10
vas recovered, which The man insists is all
re took from the safe.
An INDECENT cripple named Joseph War
EN- died in a meeting house shed at Bur-
lnston on Friday morning. He had pre-
'iously refused quarters at the almshouse.
The body of Thomas Kelley, an Irishman
70 years old, was found in an old building
It the same place and on the same day.
t was considerably decomposed.
Observation-Disclosures is a gang of bur-
'ars operating at St. Adams. Burglars
re also at work at Montpelier. At the
after p'ace, on Thursday night last. they
ntered the house of Charles Reed, and
lole gold watch and one hundred dollars
. money. The adjoining house of Geo.
". Reed was also entered. and all his sill.
err plate, together with his own and his
vite's gold watches, were distracted.
FINED.--A prrcocious juvenile was
rought before Justice Holienbeck. at Bur-
ngton, on Thursday, and fined one dollar
nd cost for abstract:ng gas from a burner
nbe in the Town Hall. The juvenile afore-
aid used the gas for Initiating miniature
aioon, but the Court could not see the
roprlety of his indulging in aronautic ex-
erlments at the expense of the town.
SERVED THEM RrGHr.-One day las,
'eek, couple of shavers amused them
l..
elves by robbing, not exactly hen roost,
ut fish roost, in the shape of a net that
'as noa'ihS IN the Narrows. Both of the
ounkers we're caught, and when asked if
hey wanted toPray before they were killed.
aid they didn't know how, but could swear
ome it that would do any good where
pom the owner of the net, took them into
boat, and when in good deep water