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a fire in Albany, N, Y, Sunday
night burned Gray's piano factory and
Burch's stables. Two men were killed
by falling wall, and % horses burned,
Loss, 100000,
The cholera is making fearful raya-
gcs in Spain. The daily death roll
reaching into the hundreds, on Satur-
day Gas deaths with 1888 new cases,
on Moudry 5SS deaths and on Tuesday
473. Since the outbreak of the disease
over 1900 persons have died.
Last Sunday small steamer on lake
Mimetonka, ut Minneapolis was cap.
sized and eight persons were drowned,
including Ex-Mayor Rand and wife.
The disaster was caused bya terrible
wind and hail storm.
The Hessian fly is destroying hum
drods of fields of growing wheat in
Wayne and Ontario Counties, N. Y.
The total amount of destruction of
wheat thus far is estimated at over 1870,
600 bushels. In Lyons, Junius and
Arcadia wheat fields of % and 80 acres
each have been so injured that they APP
pear wholly barren where three weeks
ago a harvest of thousands of bushels
were promised.
A desperate battle took place above
the forks of the Kcnncbcck river in
Maine between party of rivermen
and Il cavaldade of Frenchmen who
were moving northward along the river
After long struggle the drivers were
overpowered, several of their number
being mortally wounded. AS they were
the attacking party, and out of pure
cusscdncss the result is not to be re-
GREETED. As it was on the 4th of July
they We're, no doubt, filled with fire
water.
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STATE NOTES.

Henry Mcpherson of Orwell, hung
himself Tuesday,
Harmon, the Swanton bigamist, has
been taken to Windsor for two years
stay.
An excursion of POO people from Bur-
lington and st. Adams region to the
Thousand Islands is planned for July
30, and 30th.
A. f. Nichols, prominent lawyer of
st. Johnsbury, while attempting the
capture of supposed burglar in his
house, Tuesday night, accidentally shot
his son, aged IA years, in the abdomen
with a revolver. The extent of the i'll
jury is not yet determined.
The claims already filed i'm the county
clerks Office against S. M. Waite's i'll
solvent estate amount to about $l24, 900,
while to offset these the assignees return
$17 900, which with other claims to be
filed and necessary expenses out, may
pay 10 per cent to the creditors.
The Deerfeld dam at Readsboro Just
completed by Newton Brothers is so
feet from the bed of the river and is
said to be the highest dam in the United
States. The canal was cut through a
solid ledge and bOuldcrs one quarter of
mile.
The anniversary of the Bennington
battle will be celebrated this year by
Custer post of Bennington. As August
16, comes on Sunday, the celebration
will come on Saturday, the 10th.
E. NJ. Foss, well known conductor
on the Central Vermont railroad, died
Sunday at Rutland.
James Mitchell, IL well known citizen
of Springfield, and formerly promi-
inent business man of that place, died
Thursday, July 2, aged 65 years.
Ex-Gov. Selden Conuer of Maine,
who was elected senior vice commander
of the G. A. r., was a law student with
Washburn & Marsh of Woodstock, and
went out with the Woodstock light in
fantry on its three months service in
the spring of 1861.
The Ludlow Congregational society
has bought lot Oh Main street in that
town with view to building church.
A Barnard man who returned from
the Vermont colony in Dakota a few
days ago reports very hopefully of the
condition of things out there. Good
crops have been planted and they are
looking full as well as the crops in this
state. Another one writes: The Yer.
mont colony landed May 80 with moth
ing but few shelter tents to cover them
from the storms and it was cold, wet
and disagreeable weather. They went
to work with will, preparing for them
selves suitable homes. Some ten or
twelve houses have been put up on diff
ferent claims. Near the center of the
town there are two stores, one hotel,
one livery stable, two offices, and one
dwelling house. These are all compile
ted. Religious services have been es-
tablished and a school house will soon
be built. The members of the colony
like the country.
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The habit of smoking leads away
from more refining influences, and tends
to give distaste for them. 1t makes
saloons more attractive, and rough and
reckless associates less disagreeable. 1t
generates seltishness, many man will
deny his family five dollars worth of
papers, magazines, or books per annum,
to save their cost, and then have the
sclfishness to waste twice as much in
fouling the air and the home with to-
bacco smoke.
1t will be said that tobacco soothcs
and cheers the weary toiler and solaces
the over workedbr brain. Such expedicnts
are falacious. When certain amount
of Framework or head-work has been
performed, nature wants time to rest
and recuperate, and all such devices for
escaping from this necessity will fail. 1t
is bad policy to set the house on fire 10
warm our hands by the blaze. The tem-
porary excitement produced by tobacco
causes destruction of vital force, and it
contains nothing that can be of use to
the tissues of the body.
"But ! cant quit it," is the response
of many who have become slaves to the
habit, but there are testimonies of thou
sands who have discontinued the use of
tobacco, some of them in advanced age.
Said James Parton, who was slave to
the habit for thirty years, and who he
roically broke from his chains: ~ have
less headache, step more vigorously,
room is cleaner, | am better tempered,
as well as more cheerful and satisfied.
1t did not pay to smoke, but it certain
ly pays to stop smoking" John Quin-
cy Adams testities that in early youth
he was addicted to the use of tobacco,
both smoking and chewing. Thirty
years after he had abandoned its use
he said the resolution was not carried
into execution without struggle of Vi
tiated nature, but he never yielded to
its impulse, and after Il few months
felt no privation. He expressed de.
sire that all afflicted with this appetite
would try the experiment he made, feel
ing sure that it would turn every acre
of tobacco land into a wheat field, and
add years to human life.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

The Pail Mall Gazette, London
newspaper, has stirred all England by
publishing stories of the work of men
IN high station in running poor girls.
The stories are of revolving character
and the Gazette is receiving curses with
out stint. A mass meeting of women,
held, Monday, sustained the paper and
decent men, generally, sympathisc with
its course. An investigation of the
Gazette's charges is now in progress
before the archbishop of Canterbury,
the bishop of London, Cardinal MAN.
ming and Samuel Morley, M. p. This
high authority will, no doubt, make a
report that will be accepted by the
world as true.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

A large land slide occurred last week
on Cherry mountain, near Jefferson,
n. H., which fairly out did the famous
Wiley slide. Fortunately no lives were
lost, though one man got broken leg.
The slide started from Owls head and
rush ed down the Jefferson side, dis
lance of two miles. Smoke, fire and
dust lowered in the wake of the mons
ter and sound like many waters or
of distant thunder attended it. The
ruins are spread over a field of some 10
or Is acres. Forest trees two and a
half feet through were wrung like
withes from their places, and hundreds
of thousands of feet of timber, blac k,
bruised and splintered, with huge bowl
dcrs, weighing 20 tons, meet the eye of
the visitor. Cuffs 25 to 40 feet deep
reveal the trail of the destroyer.
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Tenacity Of Microbis

The Glasgow Philosophical Society has
demonstrated that Mt about 1872 degrees
below zero. FAHRENHEIT, the flesh of animals
becomes so hard as to ring like porcelain
when struck, and also 10 be capable of be-
however, living in the flesh before freezing
have been found alive when thawing took
place, after an exposure Of 200 hours to
this intense cold
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

Congressman Wise of Virginia main.
tains that "the United States ought tc
pay the state debt" This is encourag.
ing. When people down that way be
gin to think that their debts ought to be
paid by anybody the case is hopeful
Rutland Herald.
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Quite fury Of excitement prevails
in the town of Reading over a find of
gold in that town. Experiments have
been made with very gratifying results.
AT depth of five feet the rock yielded
$1S per ton, at seven feet $40. and at
ten feet $50. This find is Oh the easter
ly slope of ledge running north and
south and to all appearances the lead is
extensive.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

A dis gruntled Texas Democrat ex-
presses his dissatisfaction with the
Cleveland administration by SAYING:
"Why, | have killed niggers when it
was necessary, yet could not get the
smallest Office to-day.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

Acknowledgement Garland has deci-
ded that the government is not bound
to accept the Dolphin. This brings out
sharp and cutting letter from ex-Sec-
retary Chandler.
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Legal Notices.
STATE OF VERMONT, The probate court

STATE OF VERMONT, / The probate court
Westminster, IS. ! for said district,
To all persons interested in the estate Of
Lura Muzzy, late of Jamaica, deceased,
greeting: Whereas. Heron W. Smith, has
presented to this court an instrument purpor-
ting TO be the last will of said deceased, for
probate You are hereby notified that this
court will decide upon the probate OF said in
strument at the session thereof to be held at
the Inn of F. & H Phelps, in Graftcu, in said
district, on the first Wednesday of August,
a. d. 1855, when and where you may APP
pear and contest the same, if you see cause.
{. b. EDDY, Register.
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nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or Is
offended, or made weak"
Health is wealth. Health is one of
the foundation pillars of happiness in
the home. 1t is condition of the best
instruction and the best education.
a clear bright eye
That can pierce the sky
With the strength of an eagles vision;
And Il steady brain,
Thta can bear the strain
And the shock of the worlds collision.
o give me these,
Natures harmOnies,
And keep all your golden treasures;
For what is wealth
To the boon of health,
And its sweet attendant plcasurcs.-Se.
lcctcd.
'Behold man. said Napoleon to
his officers when he first met Goethe,
who was the embodiment of physical
and mental vigor. The great writer liv.
ed to a great age, working ON beyond
his fourscore years. When he died-at
eighty-four-th medical authorities at
Weimar, being anxious to learn the
physiological problem of such great
work at such an advanced age, made a
post-mortem examination, which show
ed that all the internal as well as the cx-
ternal organs of the body were in per-
feet condition. And Goethe was fee
bic and sickly in childhood. Thorough
hygieic culture, with his own resolution
to indulge in not single sinful habit
superadded, brought strength, and life,
and usefulness. Alexander Won Hum
bolt was another example of wisely di.
rected health training. He crowed into
his ninety years of successful life whole
centuries of the life and toll of Other
men with equal natural cndowments,
but less wisely trained. For twenty
years OF more of the time in which men
are usually said to pass the "allotted pc
Rod of life," when they usually decay
mentally, he was writing the "Cosmos, y
the grandest work of his life, and one
of the greatest of his generation.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

Great excitement prevails in portions
of Kansas over threatened Indian
raid. Gen. Sheridan is on the ground
and troops are being hurried forward.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

The Presidents letter to Tammany
is being praised by the mugwump press.
There is, however, no need that he
should speak of "restoring a free and
just government" for when was it
more free and just than it was when he
became president? In the days of
Pierce and Buchanan BostonJ Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

Geo. Carson of Columbus, Ohio has
Just recovered two children kidnapped
by Gypsies a year ago. They were
found in Tennessee.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
How Buffalo Bill Was Named,

Many people have no doubt wondered
how Buffalo Bill got his name. The
writer had just enough curiosity to ask
him, some time ago, when the following
explanation was given: In 1867" said
Mr.. Cody, Il was acting as chief Of
scouts of the department of Missouri,
under General Pope. We were stationed
at Fort Hayes, Kansas. l was then get
ting the munificent salary of $50 per
month. The Kansas Pacific railroad was
being protected Mt that time, and thous-
ands of Swede5 and Irishmen were at
work on the grading. There was no such
article as fresh meat known in the camp.
Having a reputation as buffalo hunter,
they made me an offer of $500 per month
and expenses, and took it. In eighteen
months time the books showed that
had furnished $3.50 buffalo, ami this did
not take into account large number
which escaped but died of wounds. As a
consequence of buffalo steak for 365 days
and three times in the day, the laborers
were getting awfully tired of the feed.
At last one old Irishman, when he saw
me coming, would regularly exclaim with
q profusion of Celtic oaths, Here comes
that long-haired Bill with more buffalo =
This gradually grew into Buffalo Bill,
and few years later Ned Buntline
stopped with me on his way from San
Francisco, and wrote me up in serial
for the New York Weekly. "-Bufdlo
Courier
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

We, Tie subscribers being duly appointed
the by Hon. Probate court for the district of
Westminster, commissioners to receive. exam
inc and adjust all claims and demands of all
persons against the estate of Samuel d. Cur.
It's, late of Londonderry. in said district, dc,
ceased, and also all claims and demands cx,
hibitcd III offset thereto; and six months from
the LIST day of July, last, being allowed by
said court for that purpose, we do therefore
hereby give notice that we will attend to the
business Of our said appointment at the Office
of A. Z. Cudworth Esq, in Londonderry,
in said district, on the Sd day Of August
and 9Th day of October, next from 10 o'clock
a. m, until four o'clock, p. m. on each of said
days.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

1t is now denied that the President
ordered the official axe TO be stuck in
the block.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

America pays whiskey dealers more
than she pays the laboring classes.
Drink costs three times as much as we
pay for clothes; fourteen times as much
as we give for public schools, and eigh-
teen times as much as we give to the
poor.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

DIR. Agol's Pills reach the very
foundation of vital action. Sold by
Smith & Taylor
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Just now the titled nobility of Eng
land are under cloud, or rather under
d couple of clouds. The Pail Mall Ga
zette has exposed the beastly morality
of many of the lords, dukes, earls and
barons, and Dressmaker Worth of Par
is has blacklisted those royal and noble
personages who do not pay their bills
for dresses. In the list are the names
of English princesses, duchesses, count
esses and so Oh down the list. This is
o very bad showing for the blue blood
of England.-Boston Post.
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TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Edited by Mrs. l.. M.Edmunds
of the W. q. I. u, wston, Vt.

at Is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine
nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or Is
offended, or made weak"
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GIVE are all TeetOtalCrS."

The Vermont State Medical Society
that recently held its semi-annual meet
ing at Bellows Falls, at the request of
the local w. c. II. u, unanimously re-
affirmed the following declaration. a.
dopted by the American Medical AS
ISOLATION at its annual meeting held at
St. Paul, June, 1882, viz:
awe, the members of the Medical
profession of the United States, unite
in the declaration that we believe alco-
hol should be classed with other power
full drugs; that when prescribed mcdi-
cally it should be done with conscien-
tious caution, and sense of great re-
sponsibility."
After this affirmation, with "a sense
of great responsibility" the Society Wis
tied spring of cold soft water, situa-
ted on the New Hampshire side, about
one half mile distant. N. B.-The
Medical Society was not to blame for
the fact that large Brewery was cs-
tablished at this spring, and, as amattcr
of courtesy, Of course, they accepted n
free lunch from the brewery proprie-
tors, but, with conscientious caution"
drank only from the spring-in a horn.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

J. W. Meleudy, Commits
+. NJ. Wood, sioners.
Z. W. Melendy, Executor.
Londonderry. VT. July 3. 1855.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

For SAFE By all Dealers IN Medicines.
10 introduce the Hop and Buniock Tonic WHERE
dealers do not have !, in stock, will, receipt Of
81, send two large bottles, express paid, to your
nearest express Office
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-25
While the Galveston CITY Col.
Hector is Sustained by the
Higher Court!
Manning's Man, Higgins, is n
High-tIanded BulIdOzer
and Lobbyist!
Canada's Champion Comes TO
the Front in Australian
Waters!
THE HIGHER COURTS
Hand Down Ducis ous in IA Numb,
OF Gases at Galveston.

Hand Down Dccis Ous In IA Number
OF Gases at Galveston.
Galveston, March 2I.-The commits
sion of appeals to-day reported the
following cases. Josefa Lcal DE
TrevinO VS.. Yndalicio Trevino, from
Cameron county; reported for affirm
ancc by Delaney. Nj G.. Douglas VS..
Texas Mexican railway company, from
Arkansas county, reported to be re-
ycrsed and rcnanded by Watts. A.
#, Eals VS.. Texas & New Orleans rail
way, from Harris county; reported to
be reversed and remanded by Walker.
The commission of appeals to-day
closed their labors for this term and
adjourned to meet in Austin on April
9Th. The following cases, remaining
undlsposed OF, were referred to the
supreme court w. A. Allen VS.. X.
y. Read, ct al, from Houston county;
w. IL. Lee VS.. w. G.. Wilkens, ct al. /.
from Washington county; A. II,
Rippetoe ct al. VS.. Thomas DIVER ct,
al, from Washington county; w. H.
robertson VS.. &. II. Coates, ct al.
from McI.ennan county; Express
Printing company VS.. j. II. Copeland,
from Bexar county; w. Il Wright VS..
John Straub, from Lamar county; S.
". Kennedy VS.. 5. g. Upshaw ct a.
from johnson county, VIM. Delk
VS.. 5. w. Punchard ct al, from Hill
county; II 5. Willis vs. H. l.. Smith,
from BraZoria county; II. A. Ora :
benheimer Va. Rindskoii Bros, Il Co.,
from Houston county; Widcnauors ct
al VS.. the State, from Burnet county;
A. Whitaker vs.. Galveston, Harris
burg Il San Antonio railway, from
Harris county; l.. q. Horne vs.. II. X
Chatham Il Co, from Brazos county.
The supreme court to-day handed
down hut one decision, which was
rendered by Judge Stayton in the
case of e. B. Adams ct. al, VS.. l.. Z.
Fisher. tax collector of the city OF
Galveston. The case involved the
validity of the assessment of one
third the cost of improving the streets
levied upon the abutting property on
the street on which the Improvement
IL NADIA
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-25
WASHINGTON NEWS ITEMS.

Washington, March ga commit
ee co insisting of Joseph Packard and
WIN. Winchester. representing the
civil service reform association OF
Maryland. waited on the secretary OF
the treasury to-day and presented
him II copy of the resolutions adopted
by that association, protesting against
the appointment of Eugene Higgins
AS chief appointment clerk of the
division OF the treasury department
The secretary promised TO give the
matter his consideration.
Edwin X. Kcightly, third auditor
of the treasury, to-day rendered his
resignation. Judge Keightly is a
native of Indiana, and was appointed
by President Hayes. lie is an active
politician and took part in the last
presidential campaign in the interest
of the republican ticket. lie re-
signed at the request of Secretary
Manning.
Jno. W. Mackay of Nevada, called on
the President to-day.
1t is understood the cabinet session
to-day was devoted to a consideration
of the appointments to be made before
the Adjournment of the senate
Mr.. Muldrow, nominated as assis
tant secretary of the interior Wal
Colonel in the federal army and /
member of the 45th, 10th, 47th aDC
18th congress.
Mr.. Sparks, the new commissioner
of the general land office, il
n well-known Democratic politician
and served in congress from 1875 t.
1888, declining reelection.
MIR. McConville, Nominated TO b.
auditor of the postoiilce department
is from Stubenyille, Ohio, aud private
secretary to Gov, Hoadly.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-25

New York, March 2l.-The trial of
ex President james ID. Fish, of the
Marine bank, continued to-day. The
prosecution closed yesterday, aud the
defense opened this morning and
moved for the dismissal OF the
charges against Fish, on the ground
that no ofiense had been proved. In
the opinion of the counsel 1t would
not be necessary TO put single wit
ness on the stand in defense of the act
OF his client. The defendant was not
guilty Of any of the counts in the in
dictment. What the president of a
bank may do within the scope of his
administration may be maladminis-
tration, but did not come under the
limitations of the statute. There must
be willful appropriation of the funds
of the institution to make his actions
criminal.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-25

st. Loms, March PA Chatta-
nooga Crenn.) special says; Last sun
day young man, John Pearce, living
at Rock creek, this county, procured
a marriage license to marry Miss
Alice Penny, young lady, expecting
TO have the ceremony solemnizcd sun
day. The young lady refused and
Pearce became very angry and ex-
claimed, "Marry me.or | der Miss
Penny again refused Pearce there
upon drew pistol and shot himself
| lhrnngh the henrt.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-25

st. Louis, March 3i.-Amos Il AT
water, secretary of the national cattle
and horse growers association of the
United States, received from l.. n.
Moreland, vice-president of the asso-
citation for the state of New York, an
official weekly bulletin that the wealth
erin that state had been extremely cold,
but there was no loss among the cat
tie and horses. So far as known no
contagious or infectious disease ex-
lists among cattle or horses, and that
u very interesting coming event in
stock circles is the great public sales
of lIolstein and Jersey cattle to take
place in New York city in April and
| MAY.