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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-06-20
Minnesota Good Te1nplars.

| The Grand Lodge of Good Tenlplars assem-
| bled at Minneapolis for the twenty seventh an
| nual session in Good Templar's hall The at
tendance was much larger than usual, delegatee
being present from various portions of the
| Of state - ~,
| The secretary's report showed menb ership
$3.50 in good standing.
! New lodges have been organized during the
year at Lake Crystal, A1nboy, Delavan, Blue
Earth City, Freedom, Napoleon, Elysian Ham
| ilton, Rushford; Leroy, Fairmont, Taylor's
Falls, Pine City, Forest Lake, st. Paul, Mime
apolis ~, Lnyerne, Edger ton, Mankato, EIgin,
Bluffton, Glenwood, Deer Creek, Willard
| Breckenridge, Brainerd, Cambridge and Yer
| non Center. IT, =. s..
The following officers were elected for the
| coming grand lodge year: G. ". c. t. John
NJ Durham, Of BROOKLYN Center; 6: ". G.,
Rev. William Copp of Window: 6. ". v T.,
| Mrs. :. A. Batchelder Of Albert Lea; g. w.
secretary Mrs. Kate +. perniman Of Mi,neap-
oils {re-eeesed); &. w. r.. Miner Bail of Ex-
eelsior ire elected; ~. S. ]. T., Mrs. O. A
Slater of Pine Island. Representative to the
r.. ". g. q OF Tie World; 4 f. Newt Of Min
neapolis; W. z Roberts Of Minneapolis; alter
| mates, =. 3. Patterson of Rochester; Rev. ".
". Satter1ee Of Minneapolis, adjourned to meet
OF Minneapolis the second Wednesday in June,
/ 1885. 4 81 SCI 55. 81 .E58 81
T Sewall z. Norton. of the Central
house, Crookston, endorsed forged
draft Of 81 900 for q guest who regis
tered as i. TAILOR, Elnnira, n II, and
who desired TO invest his capital. N or.
ton had to pay tile draft.
Mr.. Pearson was drowned while boat
ling on the river at ST. Peter the BODY
being recovered soon after.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-06-20

ZOE Tue 1OFIelGufe OF 3 .OUU acres or land
immediately north of Sioux City, which
is claimed by the Sioux City s. st. Paul
railroad.
The sixteenth annual meeting Of the
Minnesota State Medical society will
convene at the court house in Saltwater
Thursday, June 10Th.
Warden Reed of the State prison re-
ceived from Sheriff Holcombe of WASH
ington county August Stromberg
larceny from dwelling house, ont
year; from Fl. NJ. Richardson of Ohm
stead county Allen Robinson, arson, six
months, and Frank Smith, larceny in a
dwelling house. one year.
During the thunderstorm Thursday
afternoon the 18th, lightning struck in
several localities about ST. Paul. One
lightning arrester ia the fire alarm Office
at the central station was melted bv the
tiuid, md the wire leading to the elec-
tr1c Tight in the clothing store of Henry
Norman, at the corner Of Seventh and
Rosabel streets, was SO charged that the
light was fully lighted for several mo-
mepts
9. T. Byam who was arrested at Min
nesota 7: Point Lake Superior, recently,
upon FIVE indictments blythe United
States grand jury at y7iinona, for pine
land sforg genres, was placed i'll Jail at st.
Panl, to await his trial III the: United
States district court in October. It IS
claimed that he forged from d directory
/ names to pre- tion papers. for five
different pine land claims, and then
/ 1 hired strangers TO personpte the forged
names ats the receive r's offIl; lee. He lis q
resident Of Duluth and about iii ffre
years Of age.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
FALSE HAIR,

False hair, which everybody wears
nowadays, comes in abundance from
France and Germany, with q little from
other parts of the continent and England.
The largest quantity and the best quality
is from France. 1t is not hair of dead
persons, as many imagine, but come
from the heads of living peasant women
and girls 1t is gathered by peddlers,
who buy it for a trife-a silk kerchief OF
some other article which pleases the
fancy 1t is taken to Paris and sold 10
manufacturers, who assert it in length
and shades for export to America and
other countries. There is also an inferior
kind, not much used, which is gathered
from ash barrels and dust heaps of Paris
and Italy, and assorted into lengths and
shades. Tt is the cheapest kind of hair.
Dealers pay from six dollars to twelve
dollars dozen for switches, and sell
them at one dollar and two dollars each.
We get some raw hair in this country,
but very little. 1t comes nearly all from
the nunneries. I do not think there
would be fifty pounds of it in the half o
ton of hair which I buy in year. There
are some inferior grades made by New
York jobbers, but all the good hair comes
from abroad There are in France regu.
lar chair raisers that is, girls who
have their hair cut for sale every four
years.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
OHIO!
Sweeping Republican Victory!
10000 Majority!
= congressman Gained.
The Presidential Contest decided.


After one of the most vigorous and
bitter political contest ever waged in
this Country the great State of Ohio
has rendered its verdict-and Il decided
and vigorous one. A verdict that says,
in unmistakable terms, that the protec-
ton of American Industry and the
governmental management of her affairs
must still be retained by the great Re
publican party. and that the Copper
heads of 1864 must take back seat.
The net result of last Tuesdays cleo
ton in Ohio is a Republican majority
of 10000 and II gain of s congressman.
This virtually settles the Presidential
Contest, leaving no reasonable doubt of
the triumphant election of Blaine and
Logan.
Great rejoicing everywhere among Repub-
licans.
Last Tuesday evening, in all the cit
les and larger places immense numbers
of Republicans were out and had hal
leluiah time. In Detroit Mr.. Blame
spoke to 10000 people and the enthusi-
asm was unbounded.
West Virginia went Democratic, but
by reduced majority.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
THE RESULT OF A personal

A funny story is told of a lady who was
foolish enough to answer personal" in a
daily paper which stated that young
man was DESTROYS of making the acquain.
lance of a young woman, with view to
matrimony. She carried on long COR
respondence with the advertiser, taking,
however, the precaution to have her let.
ters copied by confidential friend. She
always sent the copies and retained the
originals Her answers came regul arly,
but her correspondent was quite as eau.
tious as she was herself, for he always
employed typewriter, and she had NO
means of.becoming familiar with his
handwriting. Finally, after a good deal
of gush, meeting was agreed upon be-
tween the pair, and the lady was some
what surprised, when she arrived at the
place appointed, to see her brother, wear
ing in his button-hole the flower which
was decided upon as the means of identi-
fication. They both acknowledged their
folly by indulging in a hearty laugh and
went home together, fully resolved to
have nothing to do with these traps to
catch the unwary, called personals.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

The average wages of the French mi
ner, including women and children,
was, in 1882, u cents per day; in Bel
GUM, 50 cents, and in Silesia, 80 cents.
The Chinese think railways noisy,
smoky, inartistic things,
Mr.. A. Rand of Shelbume, VT, has
grown the present season 700 named va
rieties of potatoes, Mr.. Rand has made
potato culture and the production of
new varieties the study of life
time. Very few indeed of the many va
rieties started ever prove good for any
thing. One lot of 1900 did not furnish
a single one worth saving,
A two foot alligator was found quiet
" grazing around the streets of Roch-
ester. n. Y, one morning lately.
In France, for some years, good ma
chine workmcn have been paid an aver
ooe of u cents an hour, and ordinary
worL.nen receive Z IL to 8 cents.
A New Haven, Conn, fruit dealer
coupht two boys stealing pears on Sat
urday. tied them up in two bags, and
hung them up ON the lamp post for an
hour
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
NEWSY STATE NOTES AND
CLIPPINGS.

st, Johnsbury has a new thing under
the sun in the way of n ''juvenile agri-
cultural fair" II was held Saturday
and had three hundred entries.
Fred Laven of North Hero was acct
dentally shot in the breast the other day
while duck hunting. The accident will
probaly result fatally,
The amount of the capital stock of the
Burlington skating rink association is
$4,000. divided into one hundred and
sixty shares, at $50 each.
Orson Butler, the Plymouth fat boy,
will be IS years old the 9TH of Novem-
Der and weighs 23S l-2 lbs. On his u
birthday he weighed 245 lbs.
Jerry Crowley of Poultney while cut
ting corn on Saturday of last week met
with serious accident, lie stumbled
and fell upon a corn-cuttcr cutting a
severe cash in his arm above the wrist.
Joseph Bray crawled under a truck
to loosen a chain on Monday, of last
week, in Shepherd a. Morsc's lumber
yard at Burlington. The truck tipped
upon him and his spine was broken
His recovery is not probable.
Rev. II. NJ. Tenney, former resi-
dent of Morrisville, now pastor of the
Congregational church at Wallingford
Conn.,, recently shot man through the
arm while engaged in Encyclopaedia at
his home in that place.
DR.. Chas. NJ. Duncan, who died in
Shelburne, Mass, October 4, was born
in Dummerstown, July Z. 1908, and
was the only son of DR.. Abel Duncan,
who was the beloved and successful
physician of his day in southern Yer
mont.
A valuable horse belonging to II. 6.
Cushman of Tumbridge ran away
Wednesday, the Sth instant, earring
with him the piazza pillar to which he
was hitched and, going about 40 rods,
dropped dead. His neck was broken by
the heavy pillar.
The town of Weybridge loses the suit
which it brought against the towns of
Cornwall, Addison and Bridport, fol-
the maintenance of road. The costs a.
gainst Weybridge will amount to a sum
large enough to have put and kept the
road i'll good state.
VIM. p. Spatford of Ludlow fell
from the high beams to the floor of his
barn. Thursday afternoon, breaking
his left arm near the wrist and disloca-
ting his right wrist, beside being bad
ly bruised. 1t was at first thought he
was fatally injured, but this fear was
subsequently allayed, and he will doubt
less recover.
Ansel Collins, Dover's old time land
lord, is dead.
Edwin c. Starr, one of Jackonsville's
prominent business men and brother of
Farley Starr of Brattleboro. died of
paralysis at his home in Jackonsville
Friday,
The postoffie at Ludlow was robbed
of four hundred dollars worth of
stamps Aug. 23d, and the fact has just
leaked out, the authorities keeping still
in hope of catching the thief. The
woman clerk was careless with the key
and left it where the thieves found it.
d. c. Gorham's five barns and sheds
attached at Westminster West, with a
bout IS tons of hay, the oats, from some
fifteen acres, 200 BUSHELS of corn and
some 200 feeces of wool and farming
implements, were burned by an incendi-
airy fire early Friday morning. The loss
is $4,000; insured, with the house, in the
Changers company for about S25O0.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
Items of Interest.

The forests of New Zealand are ever,
geen.
There is very little fruit of any kind
grown in Central China.
There is only one chartered bank in
Bolivia.
The annual total production of cur
rants of late has exceeded 100, 900 tons.
France produces an average of about
10000 tons of coal per year, and coal
mining does not appear to be very re-
munerative.
While Fred Cohn' drummer, was
Showing jewelry samples in store at
Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday, he
made an insulting proposition to fe-
male clerk. After COIN left he received
a note signed by the young lady asking
him to meet her at a certain place. Conn
went there and was met by ID men, who
made him take off his coat and receive
forty-tive lashes. They then escorted
him out of town.
India averages but 1-2 bushels of
wheat to an acre this year: yet ii is said
that one fifth can be spared for export.
A man in Albany bet that he could
get the signatures of ten highly-respec-
ted citizens asking the Governor to hang
leading citizen, and won without diff
ficulty. as not one of the signers insis-
ted on reading the paper.
In Missouri there is lake which is
unique. 1t possesses beech largely COM
posed of lead sand. This has been pro-
duced by the gradual breaking down
of a bank containing veins of galena.
The water is said to be poisonous, and
no fishes are ever found near the beach,
The Japan Weekly Mail says the ia
vorite puss of rich noble lady was
lately borne to its last home in snow
white coffin, covered with gorgeous
white-silk pail, while its inconsolable
mistress and a large contingent of fe-
male mourners followed the remains.
Priests, chanting a solemn litany, met
the bier and escorted it to its grave.
The fire insurance companies of Swe-
den have offered a rewrrd of 1000
crowns for the most practical device to
arrest sparks and cinders from locomo-
tive and steamboat smoke-stacks.
Mice dive into shoal water in the trib-
utaries of the great lakes and bring up
and eat the spawn of fishes. Black bass
and large trout are often found with
their stomachs full of mice.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
The Crop Report.

The department of agriculture reports
that the October returns on corn aver
age higher for condition than in the
past five years. The wheat crop will
exceed that of last year by about l0o,-
100000 bushels.
The indicated yeald of rye is about Il
bushels per acre and the quality super
ior. The yield of oats is little above
the average, being about q bushels per
acre, and making the crop approxima-
lively $40, OO0, 900 bushels of good quail
ity. The barley crop makes the yield
nearly 20 bushels per acre and the prod-
uct exceeding $4,000, 900 bushels of av-
erage quality. The condition of buck
wheat averages 81, indicating a crop
slightly under the average. The condi-
ton of the potato crop is represented
BY SO.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

statement of and comment upon the Of
fetal career of his predecessor in office,
Let us hereafter bid fervent fare
well to the valedictory message of the
retiring governor, The facts of the cx-
piring executive year are all that the
new governor needs to make his mes
sage intelligent, but the valedictory mes
sage has outgrown all this; it has be-
come superfluous letter of advise.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

THE LONDONDERRY SITTER will be
sent to new Subscribers, from this time,
or from the time the Subscription is
received till January lst 1886 for ONE
DOLLAR. strictly in advance.
1t must be understood that this
offer shall not apply to subscriptions
outside of Windham County. except,
to neighboring towns, in Bennington
and Windsor counties, where we send
bundles; and, that said Subscriptions
be sent, either by yourself or through
your postmaster without expense to us,
as we cannot afford to pay commits
sions.
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER.
as heretofore will continue to be con-
Quoted in the material, social and po-
litical interests of the people of the
Upper West River Valley and contig-
uous territory. Politically it will be
untiinchingly Republican yet, indepcnd-
ent, opposing all ''ricksters" and trad
ers" with their machine methods and
tactics. Owing allegiance to no. politi-
clan, but holding itself only response
BILE to the people, it will be found
BRIGHT, NEwsY AND SAUCY.
and at the same time a clean family
newspaper, disdaimng to take up low
personal matters and ncighborhood
scandals or quarrels; relying for its
support upon the intelligence and viz
tue of its section.
Reader, if you would like to see
such paper permanently established
in the Upper West River Valley, lend
us your aid by sending in your sub
scription at once.
Address, SITTER OFFICE.
South Londonderry. Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
NOTICE.

The subscriber will sell fol
the next thirty days all kinds
OF goods in the grocery line
just as low as ever.
| am now closing out my
stock of flour to make room
for more of the same sort
which is George P. Plants St
Louis Flours. Call and get
a bushel Of nice onions for SIS
cts.
JONAS HILL, Bondville, Vt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
HOW THE SUPREME COURT rs OPENED

To begin with, there is a degree of
dignity and stately bearing about the
court and is members which permeates
even to the most humble aitache. There
is a quiet in the courtroom which re-
calls the Sabbath of the Covenanters.
When one enters, the involuntary feeling
comes on that the room is set aside only
for the contemplation of the sober side
of life, and woe to him who jibes and
jokes in the presence of the court. At
twelve o'clock (noon) the justices come
in from the consulting-room and take
their seats on the bench. Away to the
left of the chamber is seen youthful
officer, whose business it is to catch
the first glimpse of the advancing
judges. Then comes three raps with a
ponderous gavel by the same officer.
This is meant as signal for the audi
ence to rise. Then, with the chief Justice
i'll advance, the judges enter from the
right of the chamber. To the rear of the
justices seat is an aisle In the centre is
an arched entrance for the chief JUSTICE.
Through this aisle the judges file and
take positions on the right and left. None
enter until the chief justice energies
from the centre entrance. After all have
filed in, the chief justice makes grace
full obeisance to the standing audience.
Then the judges take seats, stroke of
the gavel is made, and the audience seats
itself The opening of the court falls
upon a youthful officer. It is after the
old English form: "Oh, yea; oh, yea, ;"
etc, and concludes with the words,
"God bless the honorable supreme
court" The court is now ready for bust
ness. All the justices are clad in black
silk gowns, with an ecclesiastical cut
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

The Rutland Herald of last Satur-
day has the following very sensible re.
marks on valedictory Messages by our
retiring Governors:
''The transmission of valedictory
message to the Legislature OH the par,
of the retiring governor began with Gov
Fairbanks. 1t ought to died with him
as it did with Gov. n. p. Banks in
Massachusetts,. 1t really in the advise
~ tone that such messages assume is
the usurpation of the legitimate oppor-
tunity for the new govenor-elect.
Wedo not deny that the farewell mes.
sages of such men as Gov. Barstow and
Gov. Proctor included valuable, be-
cause thoughtful discussion of matters
of superior public consequences: nev.
the less, as rule the new govenor-elect
is ordinarily competent to deliver q
message entirely adequate to the emer-
gency; he is generally equal to stating
the facts of his predecessors official ca
reer and to placing any important re
Elections of the States retiring glory
before the Legislature.
The valedictory message is, we be-
lieve, to all practical purposes super.
fiuous, and we think it is the sense OF
the state thatit be dropped for the future
1t does not obtain in the larger states,
and even where it once had transient
life it has been discontinued.
In case of an exceptionally ignorant
and stupid governor, it might be of adj.
vantage to have his intelligent and cleal
headed predecessor make an understand
able statement of the history of his ex-
ecutive life accompanied by appropri-
ate advise and reflections: but as a rule
our governors do not stand for the help
less mediocrity that is not equal to a fair
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

The Londonderry SITTER being
Thoroughly Independent sheet. OPP
posed to all rings, cliqaeS, clans and
factions, and calling no man master,
and standing squarely upon its oml'
merits, solicits free expressions q
thought from the people upoa all iegHi-
mate aerspaper subjects.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

The suit of the Battenkill National
Bank to set aside the mortgage given by
r. T. Hurd on his farm at West Ar.
lington, at the time of his failure. has
just been decided by the [. S. court,
in favor of the Bank.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

Hon. Justin S. Morrill, was rc-elec
ted L. S. Senator by the Vermont leg.
islature, last Tuesday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

Among the bills introduced i'll the
Legislature is one to prohibit the build
ing Of barbed wire fences.
This is decidedly good, for of all
barb-erous fences the barbed wire takes
the cake. Now if these humane and
animal-mane Legislators will only
make it criminal otlense for any shoe
maker to put nail into boot or shoe
they will receive the lasting gratitude
of numerous foot-sore men, women and
children.
Saml- j. Tilden, in his recent letter
to the Democratic National Committee
shows wonderful decline in memory
unless it is unbounded cheek. We
quote, elsewhere, few things brought
out by the Rutland Herald: and there
is one other worth referring to. Mr..
Tilden says: "The Democratic party
consists largely of those who live by the
work of their hands, In this letter
Mr.. 4Tilden makes reference to the days
of Jefferson and Jackson, indeed he
seems inclined to ignore the present,
drawing solace from the past.
Now can he have forgotten that in
these old palmy days the majority of
his party lived by the work Of other
hands, in fact up to the time of certain
proclamation by one Abraham Lincoln.
The funny man of the St. Johnsbury
Index has drafted "reform BILL"
which among other things provides that
the "sum Of 1925 is hereby appropria-
ted for the purpose of erecting a sllita-
BILE tablet to the memory of the late gen
ial chairman of the Republican state
committee
To this is attached a rider to the effect
that something might be embezzled
for the bereaved family of the late Col.
Hooker of Rrattleboro.'
Section provides, that 1.-The consis-
tent editors.of the Rutland Herald are
hereby given vote of thanks for their
superhuman efforts to save their post
office. They are also assured that their
bids for state printing will be carefully
considered"
While section reads, that 1.-THE at
tention of the civil service reform ey-
aiming committee is solicited in the
case of j. L. Martin, Brattleboro or
phan. The Hon. Jim must be provided
for"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

The Vermont Medical Society held
its seventy first annual meeting at Mont
pelier, yesterday and to-day.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16
MARRIED..

At Jamaica, Oct -, by Rev. H. c. Leav-
it, Geo o. Huntington, of So. Londonder-
ry and Josie S. Bowen, of Jamaica.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

Tilden's letter is an able, clear cut
document in the, main, but it sounds
like political impudencc when he says
that the Democrat party has been "free
frem the corrupt influences which grow
up i'll the prolonged possession of pow
err Mr.. Tilden has evidently forgot
ten that it was under the Democrat ad-
ministration of Jackson that United
States Collector Swartwurt of New
York city, robbed the government of
a very large sum of money. He has
forgotten that it was under the rule of
democratic secretary of War; a Dem
ocratic secretary of the Interior that the
government was robbed i'll 1861 he has
forgotten that it was under the munich
pal tyranny of Tweed that the city of
New York was made to bleed at every
pore. M. Tilden has also forgotten
that it was nnder a Democratic admins
tratiou that Isaac V, Fowler, postmas-
ter of Now York city, robbed the
government of a large sum and fled
to Mexico where he lived to the day of
his DEATH Rutland Herald.