Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-23
State News.


Edward Foss of Fairfax, stole one
hundred dollars in seven-t thirty bonds
from his father last Sunday, and ran
away.
John Marshall shot John Smith at
Hartland, last Sunday, heavy charge
of buckshot taking effect in his thighs
and abdomen. Marshall had previ-
ously threatened to kill Smith. At
ter the shooting was done, he gave
himself up to the authorities, claiming
that the deed was done in self-defence.
At the st. Albans butter market On
Tuesday prices ranged from Is 10 26
cents. -
VIM. Spellman, James Burke and
John Jusham, confined in the Rutland
county Jail, charged with larceny.
broke Jail on Monday night by saving
off two bars of the door leading into
the hall of the Jail and picking the
lock of an outer door, through which
they made their way into the kitchen
of the Jail and escaped.
EXCITEMENT IN FAIRFAx.-Over
a case of cruelty, starvation, and
death in New England, there is much
excitement in Fairfax, and all that
region. Mrs. Sarah Davis, the wife
of Norman Davis, of Fairfax, was ar
rested on August 3, charged with
starving, cruelty treating, beating,
and causing the death, of her step
daughter aged years. Her exam
ination came off August s, and she
was held for trial, being put under
$500 bonds, for want whereof she
was committed to Jail at st. Albans.
1t appeared from the evidence given
by a majority of the physicians who
examined the child that it came to its
end by foul play, by beating and chok-
ing. The dissection of the chill d
showed the marks of two conclusions
about the temples, or in other words,
fractured indentations of the skull !;
also the prints of thumb and finger
marks on its throat, besides other
cuts and bruises on the body. The
story is told by the neighbors that
the child has been. .inhumanly treated
by the step-mother, such as knocking
it about, and jerking it into the house
by the hair Of the head, etc. The
child was made to sleep up stairs all
alone, in one corner Of the house, on
a bed of hay, without hardly the shad-
ow of bed clothes. When the corpse
was laid out, it was found to be in a
shocking condition, almost without
clothing, and literally covered with
dirt, vermin, and bruises, and when
the body was cleansed the blood oozed
from its wounds.-Argus.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Last Friday eve
ming, George G. Peck, Esq, of this
place, was killed under the following
circumstances. He borrowed horse
of Mr.. Cole, who owns the Chamber
lin gristmill, went to the depot, got q
friend from the cars, carried her tc
his house on the hin, and was driving
back to return the horse, when or
passing over a water-course, the wag
on hit the animals legs, and he begar
to run, going furiously down the Peel
hill, and up the little pitch by widow
Wings, then down the descent to
wards the mill, and on nearing the
mill suddenly wheeled to the left, raj
against the corner of the building
smashed up the wagon and threw Mr.
! Peck with terrible violence agains
the corner casing, pulverizing nearl,
Ievery bone in his face. He was tax
en- into the house of Ovel Peck, anC
several doctors were in attendance
as soon as possible. But no medica
aid could be of any avail. The acci
dent occurred at half past five ip tb,
evening, and the sufferer lived, per
fectly conscious all the while, unit
eight o'clock, when he suddenly die,
without struggle. Mr.. Peck wa
62 years of age. He leaves a wife,
son, (now engaged in teaching in Wis
consin) and two daughters at home
He was man highly respected b,
his townsmen, and has for many year
held the Offices of Justice of the Peac
and school committee. His loss
deeply mourned by his family and
large circle of relatives and friends
Lyndon Union.
FIRE IN WALDEN.-The North Sta
of the 10th gives the annexed accoun
| of fire in Walden on the 31st ul