Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-02-23
State News.

MISS Nellie DuTltlSu, VI IN. L., COul-
mences a select school at Sutton Cor
ner the first Monday in March She
has taught in Sutton before and given
excellent satisfaction.
Pownal, noted for drunkenness in
years gone by, is now the banner
town OF Vermont for temperance
Three successful lodges of G o d
Templars, numbering over 400 mem
bers. have been instituted there.
Mrs. Melinda Chatterton, who died
recently, was the Oldest person living
in WalIingford. She was born March
It'll, being the first white child born
in that town The town was surveyed
in June, ITO.
Joseph Couchier's wife, OF Burke,
woke up last Wednesday morning,
and found her little babe, about eight
days old, dead. 1t was well the night
before, and people in the vicinity
think sutfocation was the cause of the
death.
On Monday last, II. G. Dickerman
was fined So, and 1925 cost for in.
toxication. l.. W. Fisher was fined
S., and 1876 costs for the same of.
Tense Hugh ODonnel was fined 81,
and 500 cost for abusing his horse.
Lyndon Union.
WHEELOCK. One day last week
A. j. Heath, district collector of tax
eS called on VIM. Hart for his tax
Hart invited him into his house when
an alteration ensued about something
and Hart kicked the public function
airy out of doOrs. Hart was arrested
plead guilty and was fined $780,
Union.
The small pox has broken out il
Castleton, and created great fright
among the people there. The village
schools have been stopped, churche;
closed, and the doctors are reaping &
great harvest. One doctor vaccinat
ed 100 in half day. The panic ha:
been so great and the fright of one
man so much, that he ordered another
man off his premises, who lived a mile
and halffrom the pencil mill, (whert
the first case appeared) and who haC
not been to the mill for a month. An
other person declined 10 take money
from the hands of a man who had beer
to work at the mill.
Albert R. Hendrick of Burke, haC
an abscess opened by NJ. c. Spalding
NJ. d., three or four weeks since, OF
the lower extremity of the spine, from
which a small quantity OF hair, re
sembliug human hair, was squeezed
out, being between the cuticle an,
spine, Hendrick had suffered pail
and inconvenience more or less, il
the locality OF the sore, for about |;
years, though nothing serious unit
some little time before the sore came
but Is now getting well.
MAIL ROBBERY.-ARREsT OF tn
RoBBER.-tor sometime past the pos
office department has been aware o
frequent losses OF letters passing owe
the route from Springfield. Mass, t
Newport, W., and also on the Chesl
ire railroad "a. E4i,iuy, ,ho 9TH inst
at about noon. a number of letter
were found opened under the raj
road bridge, on the ice, at Brattleb0r,
which had that morning been MALE
at this and other places. The fnde
, TOOK the letters to Col :. NJ. Wait
, and asked his advice. Col. Wait
prudentN recommended silence. an
Immediately teIcgraphed to Mr.. NJ
Lellan, second assistant pOstmastt
general, requesting him to send
D special agent OF the department I
2. look up the matter who at once sci
f. special agent Ii. NJ. Hobbs of Was
j. ington. d. c., who arrived at Brattl
n boro Oh Saturday, and assisted
% Col. Waite, commenced an investig
f. ton. On Monday Mr.. Hobbs tel
d. graphed to New York for speci
il agent }. Gayler, who arrived tn
- night, and their efforts in "workil
m up the case were crowned with col
d plete success on Thursday afterno,
G. of last week, by the discovery and {
ID rest of the thief on the down ira
d between CIaremont and this place.
lie The thief proves to be Jarad
t. Davis Of Claremont, n. H., o.
N armed soldier who has been allow
Te the run of the cars Oh the trains
Il the railroads in this vicinity for t
~ purpose OF peddling books. 1t {
at pears that he has been suspected
" sometime, and on the down train m,
Id toned, trap was laid for him, a
IS ne was caught in the very act of ste
ing letters. Search was made aft
his arrest and twenty-one letters fou
u on his person which had that day be
40 mailed at Derby Line, Vt. He ma
st a full confession OF his guilt, and ;
IT mitted that he stole and opened I
tn letters found at Brattleboro, and a
n that he had habitually purloined
lie tiers from the mail cars for more tn
Of year. The act in which he was
ne tected was committed al No
IN Charlestown, n. ii. He was tax
III that night to Concord, n. H., a
ly, brought before a U. s., commissi
70 er and held to oail in the sum of $50
on and for want Of which was commit
he to jail for trial in the q. S. Giro
by court for the district of New Han
r. shire, to be held in May next.
he In a conversation with him at
es Island House in this place, Davis S;
he first stole package of letters
the cars between Claremont and t
ny place, on the day of a fair at Kee
~ n. H., which would make it Septt
&c. &c Der or October in 1867. He S;
il0 further that he meant to have left
10 stealing last spring; but that
'io temptation was too much for him.
q very naturally ielt bad at being caug