The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
PRICE THREE CENTS
to avert the necessity for the importa-
tion of cotton into Russia.

tion of cotton into Russia.
Probably no American industry
started with smaller beginnings than
did that of the menhaden fishery. The
menhaden oil works on the north At
lantic coast now border the shore from
Maine to North Carolina. From tn
early primitive oil works have sprung
ninety-seven factories. There are about
5000 men employed in the fishery this
year, and seventy-nine steamers. There
are now about $2,500.000 capital in
vested. Last year the entire catch
amounted to 6000O0,000 fish, making
over 100000 gallons of oil.
Lloyd L. Majors rendered an impor-
tant service in the cause of surgery
when he undertook, a few days ago, to
break out of Jail, says the Virginia
(Nev.), Enterprise. In his fight with
his jailors his arm was broken, and he
died on the scaffold with the wounded
limb in splints. Until Majors died
the surgical profession has rarely had
an opportunity to study the earliest
processes of repair in fracture. The
felon's corpse was quickly carried to
the dissecting table, where the wound
ed arm was amputated. The investi-
cation was profitable. 1t exploded a
false theory, one which very likely
in practice has been attended with
serious consequences to people who
have suffered with broken bones
The immediate perfect adjustment Of
fractures has not been deemed abso-
lutely necessary to perfect repair.
From an examination of Majors arm
the precious and practical truth has
been evolved that it is unwise to delay
the work of perfect adjustment In
his case temporary union of the broken
bone had already taken place, not be
callous material = as had generally
been held to be the case---but by
means of the organization of the
blood which had been poured out at
the time of the injury. This disclos-
ure is of great scientific value. 1t
demonstrates not only that surgery is
a progressive science. but also that it
is not true that the worst use to which
man may be put is the hanging of
him.
Goldfish is associated with comedy
rather than with tragedy, says an edi-
torial in the New York Times. "Yet,
according to the figures, there is moth
ing in the list of articles for domestic
consumption which costs 80 much in
human life as the Goldfish. The rice
fields of the South are deadly to every
body but the negro laborer, though the
white man is careful not to expose
himself. Coal-mining demands an an
nual sacrifice of victims quite large in
the aggregate; and the whaleries were
once very fatal to those employed in
them. But in proportion to the num-
Der of men employed, the taking Of
the Goldfish is probably more destruct-
i've to human life than any other pur-
suit. During the last twenty-five
years the aggregate yearly loss Of
Massachusetts fishermen alone has
been nearly 100 men. Since August
last the mortality has been frightfully
large, no less than 254 men having
persisted in the past nine months.
Nearly all of these men came from
Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the
general excess of women over men in
that State must he greatly aggravated
by this mortality of the male popula-
tion. Much of this loss of life is
attributed to the carelessness of the
fishermen in anchoring their boats so
near one another that during a gale
two or three of them will break loose
and run amuck through the fleet, the
collisions being usually fatal. The
ocean steamers are also said to be very
careless and think as little Of running
down fishing boat as they would of
running over whale