Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-09-22
Murders.

evening. The hackman drove to va
cant lot, and there the men robbed their
victim, and placing his head under the
wheels drove the carriage over his neck.
They then sent the girls home and threw
the body into the river, where it was
found by the police. The girls revealed
the crime, and the murderers and hack
man were arrested. The murdered man
had not been identified.
MURDER IN CLAREMoNT, n. H.
On Sabbath morning, about eight o'clock
the dead body of George Dusham, for
eigner, was taken from a well near the
race-way connected with the machine
shop of J. P. Upham. The body was
first discovered by Mrs. Katric, living
near by, who went to the well for water,
and on removing the covering saw the
boots protruding above the water. She
Immediately gave the alarm, and several
persons soon collected, and Sheriff White
entered the well, adjusted rope about
the limbs of the body, by which it was
drawn out. The face was found TO be |
terribly mutiated, a deep cash across the
forehead, the nose and cheek bones brok
en- in, and the whole covered with pro-
fusion Of clotted blood. A round, heavy
piece of iron, about an inch in diameter
aud two feet long, covered with blood.
was found near the well. An inquest
was summoned, and the body taken to the
Town Hall for examination, after viii h
a number OF witnesses were examined.
DR.. Toles testsfed that the blows were
evidently given with strong and deter
mined purpose to kill, given with steady
hand. A foreigner by the name of Jo-
seph Csdger, a brother-in-law of the
murdered man. was taken up and con-
fined on suspicion,-Northern Adrocate,
THE STANsTEAD HOmCIDE.-Re-
speciing the bloody fight at Stanstead OF
which mention was made in our last
paper, the Sherbrooke Gazette has the
following particulars n d sensible re-
marks;
"Levi Peavy, one Of the Holland par
ty, had his bowels ripped up from the
lower part of the belly to the breast bone
and the intestines cut in no less than five
places and let out upon the grass. A
man named Barnes, Of the same party re
ceived a stab over the heart, and was cut
up 10 the shoulder. A brother Of Barnes
was cut several gashes in the hip. Tap
lin Worth was badly bruised in the stom-
ach and head, and vomited blood. A
man named Hartley was hit in the face
with stones and badly bruised, and two
others, Morrill, Gray and his son, were
slightly injured. Two physicians were
procured as soon as possible, and Peavy'>
bowels carefully sewed up, but there is
little hope of his recovery. The others.
two Of them are badly wounded
will probably recover. We are assured
that this bloody affair is due principally
to the influence of liquor, which is open
" in violation of law, sold ia more than
forty places within five miles of Stan
stead Plain. The good people of STAN
stead as well as Sherbrooke and other
places, have heavy responsibility in this
liquor business. The traffic in intoxca-
ting liquor will bear its legitimate fruit
fighting n d murder
While the rum. seller is, in many instan
ces, perhaps as guilty as his victims,
those who look quietly on and do moth
ing to stop the evil, must share in the
blame"
MASSACRE BY INDIANs.-A letter re-
Gently received at Desmoines, Iowa, gives
IN account of the massacre by Indians Of
Hiram B. Stone and others Of a party
from Newton, Jasper county, while on
heir way to Idaho, on The last day OF X
July. The party were attacked by about t
500 Indians. They attacked the head
IF the train first and killed two men and pi
me aged lady, and carried off a girl aged in
Ie. They afterward killed Mrs. Stone. ra
Samuel Mcdowell murdered his broth, SC
r, John Mcdowell, at Missouri West, al
canada, last Saturday night, by beating :" ~
i'm on the head with a club. Both men 60
Yere in liquor at the time. tt
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LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 6. Th
chattanooga Gazette says difficulty oc-
urred at Knoxville, yesterday, between
Y. S. Hall, Clerk Of the Circuit Court L
t Knoxvile,and a young man named Ba-
err, late of the rebel army, resulting in
be death OF Hail. Baker was commit
I'd to Jail, but the citizens got him from
be sheriff and hung him in the street.
A very excited state of feeling exists :
atvyaan the whites and blacks of Chat tai