The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC.

Hog cholera is reported MS ravaging
yarions sections of Indiana and Illinois,
Fifty people We're poisoned at wedding
five miles IRON Decatur H., recently, by
eating chicken cooked in copper kettle,
Commissioner Atkins insists that Geronimo
must be put TO death,
Dr. Gallaudet, the well.known educator of
the deaf, dumb and blind, has been invited to
visit England,
Treasurer Jordan says that The British
royal commission on finance VIII come TO this
country 10 obtain information. lnasnuch as
it is not an international commission, the
United States cannot be represented on it
The damage to Charleston has been placed
at S5,OOO,OOO; Boston's relief fund is over
1000,
Captain Fisher belonging on Nartha's
Vineyard, master OF bark Alaska of New
Bedford, Mass, has been fined clio and costs
at Auckland, N. r., for breaches of the
customs regulations b. landing contraband
goods at the Chath I'M Islands.
A collision ON the Holyoke AMI Westfiell
branch of the New Haven railroad ut West
fed, Mass, resulted in tn death OF Engln OF
George + Baldwin.
A recent cyclone at Burnside, CT, uu,
rooted house wrecked barn and cut a
path through the woods.
William Berry, clerk of courts at Belfast
Me-, has committed suicide.
Harry Hi OF New York has been refused
u license by the excise commissioners.
The fidelity and courage of Charleston re.
porters at the time of tn earthquakes has
been recognized by gift OF $500 from the
Associated Press,
Mrs. Frank b. Cheatham has been sworn
in as acting poStmistress of Nashville and has
assumed the duties OF the position.
A Kansas sheriff has seizal and destroyed
5000 bottles of beer at fair.
i. Twenty or more letters have been received
at the geological survey from different Parts
of the country making suggestions and offer,
ing advice with regard to the prevention OF
earthquakes. One of the latest proposes that
hoes be bored through the earth's crust &c
give the destructive gases an outlet. The
writer is as yet unknown TO fame
The exports of breadstulfs from the United
States in August amour cd in valu to SIS, :
llG, ISL, against 81, 100, $50 III August, 1855,
FOREIGN.
The steamer leasing, Captain Barends
which left Hamburg Sept. for New York
has been towel mo Queenstown. She is
disabled.
A Paris paper publishes telegram from
til, bish )p of Tonqujn, saying that 10l
Christians have been mastered and AZ
villages burned in the province of Manhoa
and that 900 Christians are persh!ng OF
hunger.
Tn English and French press are dis cussing
the cause of the murder epidemic, 1t is
variously attributed to the increased use oil
alcoholic stmulants, the excitement cause
by the political turmoil, the want of mora
guidance and the spread of atheism.
DAILY, one OF the 1884 dynamiterS is dying
in prison. The Smith O'Brien branch OF the
national league, to which DAILY beo lged, has
adopted a resolution expressing Indignation
at the government for refusing to allow
Days relatives to visit him.
Mr.. John Bryn Roberts, Liberal memtel
of the House of Commons for Carnarvon
shire, has drafted a Welsh land bill, bas &c
! upon the lines of Mr.. Gladstones Irish bill
which gives farmers right against arbitrary
disturbance from landlords, and full com
pensa;ion for improvements made by them
The concession granted to General Grants
Southern Mexi an railway for waste lands il
the States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, Olxaca anC
Chtpas have Len officially declared forfeite
by the Mexican government. The railway
concession hal Il long time since bee for
feited.
London shipping circles are agitated by thu
report that thirty or forty vessels OF thu
first-class have been promptly 10 flied t'
hold themselves in readiness for the trans
portation of material and munitions of war
The queen of Spain is suffering from pull
monary disease, which is making alarmin
progre 5. The affect on is similar to thai
which caused the death of King Alphonso.
| Petroleum has just leen found for the first
time in France. A fine spring, which il
| yielding well, is stu on an estate real
Ciermont Ferrand, in Auvergne. The oil is
of the best quality.
! Pope Leo Kill, has new volume of Lati,
poems really, one of which treats of tht
unbroken succession of Roman Pontitfs which
will last unbroken until the end of til
world
| The Marquis Tseng, Chinese amha sador
has stated, in an interview that the Russo
Chinese d fficulty has vanished.
! NJ. Mllsaud, the French biographer an(
member of the French Academy Of Sciences
! is dead.
The steamer Leasing, Captain Barends
which left Hamburg Sept amber 5 for New
York, has been towad in o Queenstown. Sh
is disabled.
General Bule: reports Kerry, Ireland
Unexpectedly free from crime