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gRrgp COMMENT.
There appears to be provocation for a
big hanging bee over in Bulgaria.

"BLAINE's first gun was loaded to
Inc muzzle and cooked full "; and the
eperal impression is that it kicked
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600 ASD ToAE.

~ OO0 CUSTOMERS WANTED
iOatOU Best ANTHRACITE COAL
Best West Virginia SPLlSI COAL. Best
" est virginia STEAM COAL. Periec, pre-
palutiOn OF coal and satisfactory prices
:. Il LArHROP & CO.,
au25 Seventeenth street al draw-Oridge.
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ROCKLAND LINE,

1893 barrels Of the celebrated CROCKETT
ROCkLANO LIME. in the Dock aud now
dischGigiIg. for sale low from schooner
n ullam Rec. ENGLISH PORTLAND ~
MINT. HOFFMAN ROSE&UALE 60.
TENT. CALCINED PLASTER snd MAR
BILE pl II on hand fresh. LiruS CAT
gLE-HAIR. SAVAGE FIRE BkiCk and
CLAY. WHITE SAND. DC. for sale. OuI
"ANCEOR brand Time always ~ nali
f,.n. WARNER MOORE.
Se1tnteeCih street. SOutn side iOck Lump
aud Ground Plaster Sdmac and Bark.
.U 20
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I kUNhENNhoS,
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POsVFlVELY CT RED ~ ADMINlSfBh-
ING
Ok. HAINES'S GOLDEN SPECIFIC,
nnoMa. nLArsONaM!, 81.

MIDSUMMER BOOKS.-The Long
VI Fun. by Miss Cleveland, 81; A Fa' .n
IDOL hy Ausiey. Me. a touNeat'onaI it'-
nemian hy Edmund Pend eton. Doc; t-S-
iou's Bargain, by Mrs. Alexander. Csc;
The Channels. Huaters frOu 'uc French.
use: Tempest and Sunshine. BY MA
Homes. 25c Or. C'aualus. 50c.; kitntp-
ped, Oy stevenson. Soc. Alone, by Maroon
Hsrlald use: The Min Mystery. by Green,
zoe; The Gus fdlan Angel by Holmes. soc.
WEST. JOHNSTON x CO.,
O.. an oil Main street.
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apnuEH uE>"HTs.

GUNNER And WINTER BOARD.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10 those seek
ing Comforto bic ana Elegant quarters Or
a shor, or long period. The well Hhd t''".a-
DIVAL HOUSE,
In the beautiful mountain town o. salem
Va oilers SUPERIOR attractions. t1rre-
spondence solicited. and circular OF inior-
nation fec. Address DUVAL HOUSE,
salem. Va.
an i7-lm
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MONEY TO LOAN on RICH
VI MOND CITY REAL ESTATE.
$1,000. three years NJ per cent
$1,000 three yesr5 at per ceui.
$1,000, tpIee years ~ q per cent
NcalsO nave sums Of $50 10 $500 tO 'oau
on CITY KFAL ESTATE. As our chtrs 3
qlp moderate. borrowers vii - well 10 con
.er with Is. FRANK % BILL * 90,
Real Estate AUcfouccrs and Brokers.
~. 8 UOrta Eleventh street.
an ls-eCd5t
MONEY TO LEND, ~ SUMS TO
VA suit. az 4 Ter cent charges reason
able. "a. SELDOM TAYLOR
Real Estate AGENT aud AUctioucer.
aU PAST
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Nine. Bernbardt made 1000 In
Rio, of which her own share was sa0,.
900.
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RATIFIED.

Before proceeding to the nomination
Of justices of the Supreme Court the
Convention, on motion of Henry A.
London, Of Pittsboro', by reclamation
ratified the nominations Of Superior
Cour: judges as made in the various
districts.
The serious work OF the Convention
then began. Colonel L. c. Fuller, of
Raleigh, in an eloquent speech, placed
in nomination for Chief Justice Will am
n. IL. Smith, the present incumbent.
q. NJ. Mcleod, Of Asheyille, placed in
nomination for Chief Justice Augustine
s. Merrimon. After speeches second
ing Smith had been made by r. W.
Winborne, OF Hartford, and NJ. l.. Hill,
and after John II. Small, Of Beaufort,
had seconded the nomination of Merri-
mon, the vote was taken amid half.
suppressed excitement. II was soon
seen that Smith was leading. The re-
suit, as officially announced, was:
Smith, 407; Merrimon, 1857. A
wild scene and cheering for many
minutes followed this announcement.
Smiths nomination was made unani-
nous. A melton was promptly made
TO nominate A. S. Merrimon and
Thomas S. Ashe as associate justices.
Finally it was decided that this was
irregular, SO nominations began. Ashe
and Merrimon we're regularly placed in
nomination. No other names were
placed before the Convention. The
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
A Story VariOusly Told.

1 see chestnut going the rounds
credited to the Chicago Herald, which
paper claimed that John 7. Sullivan, the
Detroit actor, told the story, locating it
at Detroit. The story was that one of
the ferry boats was just going out when
the inevitable last man came running on
the wharf and jumped on the boat. As
he recovered himself he looked back at
the distance between the boat and the
wharf which was now great and ex-
claimed: "Jiminey, what jumpm This
mild chestnut" had its origin in New
York, where an Irishman made the spring
and exclaimed: 81 ord, what a lape. y
The thing might have happened in New
York but it is impossible in Detroit. De-
troit boats leave the wharf up stream and
the distance between the wharf and the
boat does not increase to any great ex-
tent till such jump is impossible. Be.
sides the iron gates are closed when the
last bell is rung as indeed they are in
New York as well. But in New York
the ferry boats come in end on, as it were,
and leave by striking straight across the
river. A variation of that same chest
nut is the story about the baker with his
arms full of bread who sprang across the
interval between the wharf and the boat,
scattering the loaves and the crowd, and
cried: "Just caught it, didn't l." 'Just
caught it you fool, why the boat is COM
ing in.-Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
SEEING ENGLISH SEALERS.
Our Claims in Alaskan Waters Said to
ke etutenable,


A despatch from Washington says: 1t is
gu te likely that there will arise a con-
troversy with Eng and concern ng tho
capture of British sailing vessels by
the revenue cutter, Corwin, in the
Kamschatkan sea. As yet the state de-
partment has no information concern
ing e.ther the capture Or any demand Eng
land may make. 1t is likely, however, that
a communication from the English foreign
Office will be received before !ong. The de-
partment will item inform itself on the sub
ject. All the facts connected with the cap
ture are not yet known. Ii it is shown that
tn, seizures were made within three miles of
the coast of either the mainland or any of
the seal islands, there can be no ques-
ton as TO the legality of the seizures Other
wise it is thought that tho position of this
government would be ultenable Our claim
to control over all the waters surrounding
the Alaska archipelago would pro 1ably have
to be abandoned II it were contested. There
is a vast stretch of water there which must
be considered by all nations as the high seas.
We claim the right of free entry into the
gulf of st. Lawrence aud all other arms of
the sea where there is navigable water out
side tie three mile limit. and there seems to
e no reason why an exception in favor of
the United States should be made in case of
the Alaskan waters. If the sealers CAPTURED
had on board the pets of seals, it is fair to
presume that they were taken from the
American seal islands, but it is questionable
whether they would be subject to seizure
unless caught in the act of
taking the seals and within the three
mile limit. 1t has been claimed by this
country that the cession from Russia inclu led
all the waters within the boundaries defined
in the treaty, extending to the end of the
chain of Islands. l. is not thought to be
likely, however, that this claim can be maia-
tanned. Any waters not within three miles
of any of these islan1s must be free. Russia
had no exclusive rights in these waters, and
could not transfer any to u.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
WHITNEY'S WAR SHIPS.
Soliciting Bids for the Construction OF
Cruisers and tsunboais.

Advert emen $ are sent to the press by the
navy department inviting proposals for q
variety of work and material in connection
with the new navy. American shipbullders
are invited to submit proposals for the con-
struction of enc cruiser OF about 1909 tons, one
of about 800 tons, one heavily armored gun
boat about 100 tons, one light-armored gun
boat OF about SO tons and one cruiser of
about 400 tons Proposals are divided into
four classes and may b, made under either
head, as follows:
For the construction of the hull and ma
chinery, including engines boilers aud appur-
tenanceS, complete in all respects; for
the construction of the hull, comp etc in all
respects; for the construction and cree
ton on board the vessel Of engine boilers
AMI appurtenauces. complete in all res zee s;
for the construction of hull according to he
plans and Specifications approved by the Sec
rotary of the Navy; the contractor to put in
engines, boilers and appurt,nauces of any
design which he may consider more suitable
than those called for by said plans and spec fl
cations, not to exceed, however, i'll weight
nor in the space to be occupied that allotted
in said plans and specifications, but no such
proposal will be considered unless &C ON
panied by full and complete plans and speciti-
cations of such PROPOSED engines, boilers and
appurtenanceS and satisfactory guarantee
of the results of the same if adopted.
Every successful bidder will be required,
wi hin twenty days after the acceptance Of
his proposal, to enter into formal contract
for the performance of his work and TO give
bond therefor, with sufficient sureties and
with renal sum equal to onefourth Of the
amount of his bid The three cruisers must
be complete within eighteen months and the
two gunboats within twelve months from
the yarutioO of the rpSDpctiye contracts
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

UNITED STATES Senators Pugh, Vest and
Butler have gone to Europe.
WILL CARLETON, the poet, is going to
Eng and this fall to read and lecture to
British audiences.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
plerer, is to lecture fifty times in America
during the coming season.
SYDNEY BARTLETT, aged eighty-two, is
the leading Boston lawyer in active practice,
and is worth Sl0),0jO year.
THE three daughters of the late F. A.
Drexel have nearly s4,O00,O00 each. They
give away most of the income.
MRS. CLEvELAND's photographer is print
ing $50 pictures of the Presidents wife every
day and cannot supply the demand.
PORE Leo Kill has bought the Mignan-
ELI palace in Rome for $50, 600, and will
have it fitted up for printing house.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has accepted an invi-
fation to deliver the annual dlress before
the Vermont State Agricultural Society.
GEORGE l.. YAPLE the Fusion candidate
Tor Governor of Michigan and Profe sor
Dickie, Prohibition nominee for the same
office, were classmates at the same college.
IDA LEWIS, famous for her efforts in res
suing the drowning at Newport, is the only
woman in the world who holds the position OF
government lighthouse keeper. She is now
past middle age.
THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is ill
abroad. lie has. cancelled lecture engage
ment at New Brighton. England, and has
gone to the Hydropathic Institute at MofTat,
DumfLieSshire, Scotland.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
The Beygars OF Paris,

Next to the concierges, perhaps the
beggars are the greatest nuisances in
Paris. They have been augmenting so
rapidly of late and becoming SO aggres-
sivc that the project of police-now that
the spirit is abroad-has resolved to ex-
pei them, and has issued instructions TO
police sergeants to get at the number
and conduct of the fraternity in
their respective districts. These
Partisan beggars may be looked
upon as the aristocracy of the men
dicant world. Begging has become a
fine art with them. They take to the
streets from choice rather than necessity.
They have got sort of circular news
paper to keep themselves posted in
coming events, and Systematically take
different beats. Rows of them may be
seen at church doors when marriage or
funeral is on, and they hang round the
doors of fashionable restaurants. The
greatest nuisances among the gang are
those who won't beg at all. There is
an institution for the manufacture and
training of this species. They play
the role of distortionsts. Several
joiners are kept at work in
making small wooden carts, slaves and
various contrivances for them. Their
object is to draw money from the public
by their piteous and excruciating posi-
tons, and not by solicitation. And con-
sidering that many of them are so pal
pably frauds, it says good deal for the
gullibility of the Parisians that they sue
coed. The culs-de-jatte-those who
squeeze themselves into a sort of wooden
bowl and propel themselves along the
pavement with their hands--frequently
combine the functions of thief with
those of beggar, as they are just con-
venient height to reach ladies' pockets.
According to the Temps there were 2, 765
beggars arrested in Paris in 1884, and
Abs in 1855. When arrested they arc
first taken to central police station,
where they are asked to give an account
of themselves. Some are sent to the
hospital or to the Depot of Mendicity,
others to their native departments, and
the worst offenders to the police court.
There is in Paris privileged or licensed
class of beggars. The police have always
had power to deal with others who Oh
whatever pretence receive aims; but the
general liberation allowed on fete days
seems to have been allowed on other days
as well, until the condition of the street:
has become intolerable. Pail Mall Ga
setts
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
A Venezuelan Highway.

Let us GO back to the seacoast by the
old Spanish road. on mule, writes a
Chicago Ns,os correspondent from Venc-
zuela. 1t is much higher on the noun
tain and much in the forest. There are
streams in which there are lilies with
lavees eighteen inches wide and nearly
three feet long. There are begonias-
six varieties / Granddaughter than man,
real shrubs. There are all varieties Of
air-plants, orchids clinging to the trees,
some of their flowers looking like great
butterflies scarcely alighted. The mon
keys chatter in the trees, and high over
head wheel swift flocks Of parrots witt
hoarse cries, while swifter paroqucts dart
among the tree-tops. Here is waysid'
inn. You can get bread, cheese, coffee
liquor, cigars, and glance from blacl
eyes somewhere at this rude sylvan
| place.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
ONLY A PARTIAL REPORT.
The Work OF the Labor Bureau I'm.
avO;dubly Behind Hand.

Carroll d. Wright comm ssioner of labor
submitted to the secretary of the interior his
report OF the operations of the labor bureau
for the year ending June 80, 1885 The COM
missi ner says: THE special agents Of the
bureau are now actively en-
ployed in The work connected
with convict labor, strikes, destitution,
and women workers in great cities, AMI the
investigation relating to labor, wages, etc. of
the railway employees in the United States.
| have delayed until some portion of the
force OF special agents IL be relieved from
the work on which they are now engaged
From the fact of the late organization Of the
ureau in 1885 you will at once see that it is
impossible to submit at this time the matter
constituting the second annual report of this
bureau. ! am in hopes, however by vigorous
service to be able to submit the results of the
investigation relating to convict labor, and,
perhaps to strikes, before the expiration
of the present calendar year, and those re-
lating to the other Investigations authorized
at the p. oper time i'll 1887. By this cours,
the annual reports of tbs bureau after this
year, can be transmitted contemporI neously
with the reports of other bureaus, and cover
the operations of the fiscal year. The bureau
has cen put on a very strong footing through
the generous action of Congress in making
appropriations in accordance with the esti-
mates and the office now stands in post ion
to perform its work thoroughly and prompt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
THE NATIONAL GAME.

GILLESPIE, Of the New Yorks, used to be
coal miner.
CARRIER pigeons are used at every game
in Pittsburg.
WHITE gets $500 season for guarding
third base for Detroit.
THE new grounds of the Philadelphia Clul
will be the finest in the country.
The Pittsburgs have shut out the famous
st. Louis Browns i'll two successive games
THE recent record of Temney, of Syracuse,
at short field, fourteen chances without an
error, has not been beaten this season.
WASHINGTON is a good base ball city for
winning club, at present. notwithstanding
its poor showing, 1900 spectators attend the
games.
NEW ORLEANS is very anxious to secure
place in the Southern League next year, AMI
it is possible that it may obtain the place re-
Gently made vacant by the Augustus.
The Washingtons played a strong game in
their last series with the New \ ork glanIs
They won the first game, were beaten ~ to s
in the second and played tie in the last.
RADBoURN, Stemmeyer and Buffnton, the
three Boston pitchers, have accomplished
what no other clubs trio OF pitchers have
done-each has disposed o. an opposing nine
Tor but one hit
THE st. Louis Browns have won more
games than the Bait mores and the Metro
politans combined, whils the Detroits have
won more than the It Louis, Kansas Citys
and Washingtons combined
'iJoE" START, the veteran Of the diamond
field. has settled down in Hartford, alter re-
fusing a handsome offer from the Kansas
City team. He will cover the first bass fer
the Hartford nine occasionally.
A LEAGUE is to be formed next season
taking in the towns Of stsubenyille, Ohio,
Barntsville, Ohio, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Mcke >
port, Penn, Erie. Penn Wheeling, w. Va,
and two other towns yet to be decided upon
CLARKsoS now has the League strike-out
record for the season SO far, lie ug Lut Ons
peg below Ramsey, the Association pitcher.
| The latter struck out seventeen Nets, while
| Garrison cau=ei sixteen Cowboys to fan the
| air
A PiTrsBURG man who has been timing
| the pitchers says that Terry Is tie swiites IN
| the association. he hell the watch on Gal
| win and Hecker aud found the hall Travelled
| from pitcher to cat, her in seyen-eights OF a
| second
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16

AT Toledo, Ohio, trunk arrived by the
Wheeling and Lake Eria road from Bellevue,
which exhaled so horrible an o1or as ( o drive
the baggageman from his pest. 1t was placed
on the platform, and the police authorities
notified. Soon after the arrival f. Wilson,
who had come from Bellevue Oh the /. Ike
Shore railroad, arrived with dray
and presented the check for this
trunk. He was immediately arrested, and t. c
trunk opened, when it was found to contain
The body of woman packed in hay. Wilson
and the trunk were then taken to the police
station. where the coroner examined the
body 1t was that of woman of about
twenty, much emaciated, partly dressed in
uuderc .otoiug of the finest quality. Wilson
is a school teacher of Ithaca, o., and last
winter student of the Toledo Medical Col
lege. He is held on charge Of grave rob-
berry, He refused to talk.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
A NATURAL GAS BALLOON,
First Experiment of the Kind In the His
tory OF AerOnautics.


Prof, Carl Meyers of Mohawk, n Y, the
aeronautic engineer for Carlotta, made from
the fair grounds in Franklin Pa, on the Sth
inst, the first ascension known to the world
operat, with natural gas, the balloon rising
just one mile and sailing about one hour
Carlotta again made an ascension with ba,-
loon inflated with the same gas. At Hanover,
Pa, with coal-gas balloon
Prof. Meyers himself made an
ascension. He used 1900 foot balloon
weighing 260 pounds and carried 2O) pounds
of ballast. He used the same balloon at
FRANKLIN, but could not take twenty pounds
of ballast 1t is thus seen that the lifting
power of the natural gas is slight and it can
only be used where the balloon is very light
The natural gas is the second medium intro
duced by Prof. Meyers for aeronautc pur-
poses, the other being the heavy naphtba gas,
or so-called water gas, produced from steam
and petroleum or naphtha.
There are now five clements known that
are capable Of carrying man skyward Hot
air. introduced by the Mongolfier brothers a
century ago; hydrogen, introduced by NJ.
Oh rles soon afterwards, who invented the
gas balloon; carburetted hydrogen or coal
gas, first used by the famous English aero
naut Greene. the naphtha or water gas and
the natural gas from wells, intro !uced BY
Prof Meyers. Carlotta and an aeronaut
named Garage will have a balloon race al
the Watertown fair Sept IL
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
WAS SHE MuRDERED9
The Corpse OF Woman Found in the
Sound With Cut In the Neck.

At high-water mark, on the shore of the
Sound, near Southport Conn, Robert
Shepard, Francis Allen and Timothy OSBORNE
and younger brother all of Southport, while
cunning OF tho beach at the mouth of
tho harbor, opposite the channel
beacon, di covered what appeared
to them to be log of wood
partly covered with seawced and driftwcoi,
Reaching the spot they found the object to
be the body of woman which had recently
been washed up by the waves, and was very
much decomposed. The body lay on its face
Nearly all the clothing was gone, There
were remnants of a dark mohair dress aud q
black cashmere sacque, velvet-trimmed,
Around the head and neck, tied ina hard
knot, was white woo,el nubia, the surplus
portions of which had been jammed into the
mouth and down the throat of the woman.
On the let side of the neck co I'D be tracel a
wound inflicted with some sharp implement,
One foot was bare: on the Other was a stock
ing and leather gaiter run down at the
heel. The appearance of the body indicated
murder and that it had been floating in the
Sound ten or tweve days could not he
doubted The view of citizens is that the
woman had been attached tosome one of the
numerous canal-boat tows passing up and
down the Sound; that she was murdered and
thrown overheard, an that winds aud cur
rents at last carried her to the spot where she
was found. She seemed to I've OF middle age,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
PROFESSOR GURNEY DEAD.
A Rlpe Scholar and Head of the HIstOr,
Department mt Mt Harvard

Professor Quincy of Harvard College died
at his summer residence at Pride,s Crossing.
Beverly, on the 18th, at $50 o'clock of heart
dsea e, after a short illness.
Professor Quincy was at the head Of the
history department at Harvard and ranked
wi h Professors Bowen, Lane, Norton and
Pane, among her most scholarly sons, He
lived in Old Cambridge with his books and
his academic interests His influence was
felt as much for the moral strength as for
the educational progress of e students, and
he will be mourned as much outside the fac
ulty as in it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16

BY excuses or imprudence in eating, we can
not hope TO escape the consequences for any
ton must succumb to abuses of that important
function. But supposing that we have been
foolish enough to enfeeble the stomach, Is the
damage irreparable? BY no means. The dys
ultimate recovery First, he should adopt an
easily dgested diet. Second, he should use
with regularity aud persistence Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, the leading gastric invigorant
eff the age The multiorm symptoms of dys-
pepsia, and the almost invariably attendant dis
orders, biliousness and constipation, will as
suredly cease to persecute the sufferer II the
above advice is attended to. Who that has
suffered the torments that chronic indigestion
inhicts will neglect to take advantage of a
remedy which, il the most positive evidence of
received with due cre1ence, is an absolute
specific for the complaint.