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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-17
For the SITTER.
Hrat;lsborO Caucus-packing.

M. SITTER: Never since the time
(about twelve years ago. when good
Dea. Estey marched in from his shops
five hundred republicans and democrats,
men and boys, and voted them in solid
platoons for himself have we had such
Il perfect specimen of cut and dried
caucus-packing as at the republican eau
Gus last Saturday afternoon. But |
hope the consequences to some who re-
fused to wheel into line will not be as
severe as on the former occasion. |
happen to know and to have some feel
ing about that, for | was one of those
whose labor was not wanted unless
coupled with political obedience. But
about the Saturday caucus. 1t was put
up entirely at the Estey shops, so far
as | can learn, not Il whisper of the
carefully planned raid having been
heard in any other part of the town.
1t was right cunningly devised and
well executed piece of strategy, though
hardly high toned or edifying. At
the appointed hour about 125 men
from the shops, some of them demo-
Gratis, took possession of the hall and
proceeded to carry out the pre-arranged
plans. Printed tickets, containing the
names of the eight men who had been
previously agreed upon for delegates
were in the hands of all the faithful
having been carefully distributed be-
forehand-and they proceeded to ratify
in solid column what had been foreor-
dained by the bosses. Some forty or
fifty other citizens who we're not in the
secret, and who had gone into the cau-
Gus without any cut and dried pro-
gramme and without printed ballots,
supposing it would be run in the usual
open way, after becoming satisfied that
a fixed job had been put up, sat quietly
by as spectators of the show. On the
whole, it was beautiful illustration of
manly independence and republican
simplicity. But the people, after all,
like openness and fairplay, and such al
experiment as this may be tried once
too ften. And it was all needlessly
done to- get delegation to support
Levi Fuller for Lieut.. Governor, a po-
sition he will never get. 1t was toe
much powder for so small gun. Not
one fifth of the voters of Brattleboro
think he is fit for the Office.
The delegates chosen all profess to be
Edmunds men, and vote was. passed
at the close of the caucus UNANIMOUSLY
instructing them to support Edmunds
on any matter about the Senatorial
question that might come up in the con-
vention. OF course your friend "Lo''
was right in his element. His caucus
packing training under Gov. Smith
shone out to great advantage on this oc,
casiOn. "A SPECTATOR.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-17
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Who contemplate erectiASa AonA-
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-17
SPRING! GENTLE SPRING.!

We desire to announce that
we have just received from
market and are now prepared
to show to our patrons, as fine
a stock of merchandise as can
be found in this vicinity. Call
and see if we do not make the
finest display of
Boots & Shoes
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
How Fashion Plates are Made.

Did it ever occur to you when looking at fashion plate of mems deess, asks an exchange, who it is that establishes these fashions2 Each year we are obliged to wear larger or smaller trousers, shorter or longer frock coats, close-ftting or loosely flowing overcoats, wide or narrow col lars in short, there are more or less modi- fcations which, if we wish to be in fash ion, oblige us to consult the tailor. A French paper has just revealed to the world how all these changes in mems dress are made law, and why it is that all the tailors are agreed upon the new styles In Paris all the leading tailors belong to society which has for it's ob
 feet the relief of its members who are i'll or unfortunate. This society has mem
 bers not only in Faance, but in all the capitals of the world where the European styles of dress is worn. Its resources come from the sale of its fashion plates to its members. Here is how this plate is made: Each year the society names a committee of eleven members, which prepares provis- ional sketches. When the president of the committee has collected dozen de- signs representing the different parts of the masculine dress, he submits the re-
 suit of his researches to his colleagues. They discuss the proposed models, and suggest changes, if need be. These changes are immediately made by de- signer, who is present at the discussion, and then the modified models are put to vote, adopted, and the engraving is made and sent out over the world. The Paris tailors enter into competition with the English tailors, for there are many Frenchmen who think it is the correct thing to be dressed pAnglaise. For a long time the English cloths, by the originality of the designs, superiority of make and cheapness, have done much harm to French fabrics, but latterly the manufacturers have been making strong efforts to oust their competors from the market, and have in part succeeded.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
WiIIinu to be Her Sister.l

A singular story comes from the prov ince of Limburg, on the Dutch frontier. The owner of a large manufactory, who had married young, and was left a widower, had an only daughter, to whom all the most desirable young men in the neighborhood were paying attention. Her father noticed that she treated them all with indifference, and showed a marked preference for young clerk of his, an orphan, with no means but his salary. As he had always given the greatest satisfaction in the perform ance of his duties, and was exceed ingly we'll conducted, the father, per s,,aded that he would never venture to raise his eyes to his daughter, who evi- dently was sincerely attached to him, made up his mind to broach the matter to him. What was his surprise when the young clerk, after much hesitation, told him he would be only too happy to regard the young lady as sister, but he could not marry her, because he was not a man, but young woman in disguise disguise she had adopted when left an orphan, in order to get more lucrative situation. The conclusion of the story is that, instead of marrying the daughter, she is now the wife of the father.-Los- don Gle6e.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
Queen VictrOia's House ehOld.

The Queens household has four heads of departments-th Lord Steward for the food, the Lord Chamberlain for the furniture, the Master of the Horse for the journey, and the Mistress of the Robes for the apparel. Besides all that pertains to eating and drinking, the Lord Stew ard has charge of the gardens and every thing necessary for the administration of the staff of which he is the head. Under the Lord Chamberlain is placed the con- trol of the churches and chapels, the arts and amusements, and all that cannot be claimed by the other departments. The Master of the Horse controls the stables and all their gear, and under his superin- tendence there consequently come the coachmen and footmen. The Mistress of the Robes is concerned with dress only during Kings reign her place is taken by the Groom of the Stole.
 To each of these departments, at the several palaces, the purveyors are ap- pointed by warrant-the warrants of each department being of different distin- gushing color. Hence the number of appointments is large one, and, from the official list published on the first of January, we find that the warrants of the Queens tradesmen number 545. Of these 194 come from the Lord Steward, 22S from the Lord Chamberlain, 93 from the Master of the Horse, and 30 from the Mistress of the Robes.
 Taking the four lists together, we find 15 booksellers, 3 bookbinders, IT drug glsts, 15 cabinet-makers, carvers, 12 clockmakers, g dyers, ? embroiderers, 22 goldsmiths, 6 piano-makers, g matters, 13 iron -mongers, 15 linen-drapers, 6 music-sellers, photographers, il print CTS, 16 tailors, 8 turner's, 13 harness makers, and 13 coach builders, all hold ing warrants of appointment.-Leisure Hour.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
State Laws and Marrlase Licenses.

We have taken the pains to look up tho laws on marriage licenses in all tho States of the Union and give the whole subject, as learned from tho latest access sible authorities, in brief summary. The States which require licenses are: Ala bama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mas sachutts, Michigan, Missouri, Mississip- pi, North Carolina, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. In the following States no license is required, but the minister or magistrate who performs the cere- mony is obliged to see that the marriage certificate is duly entered on the town or county records: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylva- mia, and Rhode Island. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, when application is made for marriage without license, the person solemnizing it must examine one or both parties on oath before the ceremony as to whether the proposed union is legal In Delaware, Maine and Ohio, choice is permitted between license and the publication of the bans in church. In Vermont one publication in town meet ing or church will serve as substitute for license; in Kentucky publication filed in the county clerks office will suffice; while in New Hampshire the in- tention to marry must be published at three town meetings or religious gather ings, and the certificate of the town clerk of such publication is the license. as to the officer issuing the license. In Alabama and Nebraska it is issued by the judge of probate; in Ohio by the county clerk or clerk of probate; in Texas by the last named officer; in Georgia by the county ordinary; in Louisiana by the parish judge; in Mary land by the clerk, and in Mississippi by the registrar of the orphans court; in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes- see, Virginia, and West Virginia by an officer of the county court, judge or clerk, and in all the other States by the town or county clerk, In all the States it is necessary to have the certificate re- turned to the proper county official, the recorder, clerk, or officer of the court, to be duly entered on the county records. In Kentucky and New York there is a registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, who perform this duty Chicago Inter- Oce1n
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
Damn Reds.

The London Lancet, referring to the death of MT. Maas, the we'll known tenor,
 calls attention to the peril of sleeping in a damp bed. As matter of fact, this peril is of the greatest, and it is almost ever-present. The experienced traveller rarely hazards the risks of sleeping be- tween sheets, which are nearly sure to be damp, until they have been aired un- der his personal supervision at fire in his bed room. If this be impracticable,
 he wraps his rug around him, or pulls out the sheets and sleeps between the blankets-a disagreeable but often pru- dent expedient. The direst mischief may result from the contact of an imperfectly heated body with sheets which retain moisture. The body heat is not sufficient to raise the temperature of the sheets to a safe point, and the result must be disas- trous in the extreme if, as is sure to hap pen, the skin be cooled by contact with a surface colder than itself and steadily abstracting heat all the night through.
 There is no excuse for the neglect of proper precaution to insure dry beds.
 Servants are never to be trusted in this matter, and the managers of hotels, even of the best description, are singularly careless in respect to it.-Scientitfc Amer
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
A Talk Wifh a Tnxidcrmist.

tWe will undertake to preserve and fix up any kind of bird or animal, from a humming-bird to an elephant" said taxidermist to reporter for the New York Mail aud Eepress recently, "and, l might just we'll add, from bee to man. moths."
 "Are there many in this city who pur- sue your art?'
 About twenty. Too many altogether for any of us to do any decent business. It is not an easy trade to learn. Some times man may accomplish it ill few months; sometimes 1t will take much longer time; it depends upon the natural good judgment and dexterity of the pu- pill A little carclessness or want of skill will often spoil a job. In the prepara- tion of our subjects we use a large amount of arsenic in a powdered form. During the manipulation this powder is shaken into the air and is inhaled by the operator. As arsenic is an accumulative poison it will remain in the system until there Is enough to cause serious results. Very often man is compelled to quit the business in order to save his life. Life insurance companies hesitate to take risks on men engaged in our business. Arsenic is used to preserve the skin, fur and feathers of birds and animals. Scv- eral substitutes for this poison have been tried, but none of them have been found to be any good"
 "What do you most work on?"
 'We drive thriving business in the canary bird line. People bring their lit tie birds here to have them stuffed. The owners are mostly ladies, and you can imagine what a comfort it is to have their little feathered pets preserved in such a manner that their beauty and form of feather can be seen and admired long after their sweet voices are hushed. 'Love-birds are preserved in great numbers. Cardinals are somewhat rare, and their plumage is so bright colored and beautiful, that when they die they are seldom thrown away. There is al ways a ready market for them, and wt will pay good prices for them. Love birds are brought to us in pairs. It is customary when one of these affectionate little things die to bring its dead body and the living mate to us We kill the live bird and preserve the two together. , "Could the skin of man be stuffed2' | "Certainly in the same manner that 6 monkeys skin is. l would undertake the job, but it would cost great deal oi money. They say that the human skir is very much like the skin of hog, an6 that if subjected to a tanning process i would be very thick and strong-th' same as the hog leather which is used fo saddles and trunks"
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
H0meSickneSS.

once knew Q lonely young bride con- demned to live alone She had married the man of her choice and loved him to adoration, but she told me that in the miserable. She had left house full of bright, devoted sisters, where stream of friends and cousins came and went all day, where talk and laughter made the week one long sunbeam; and after a short honeymoon was over she was trans. planted to lonely country village, in the suburbs of a large town, in which her husband spent the day at his office. She had scarcely any friends with whom to interchange word, churchyard bounded her garden, and the passing bell, as it tolled dismally out, was the only sound which broke the long, terrible stiffness; and the contrast of the full, gay life, which had made her twenty summers so happy, with the mis- erable, lonely hours she spent now, used to come upon her with such force of home sickness that she lay helplessly crying day alter day, and when the young hus- band returned in the evening, expecting to find the liveliest and brightest of wives and thinking, as most men in their convenient Reconsideration do, that a woman must be perfectly happy in a home of her own-instead he found a limp and doleful creature, worn out from many tears and ready to throw herself into his arms and shed few more from sheer weakness.
 It is is not the gently nurtured or the weakly temperamcnts alone to whom this subtitle disease comes. Strong men, of herculean frame, have been shaken by it; peasants with little refinement, and seemingly less feeling, have trembled in it's grasp; adve lturers, men whose lives have proved failure, those black sheep found under every cline, reckless, careless, hardened, have s'sickened of this vague disease" and longed, and agonized, and prayed for one glimpse of the old coun- try to greet their dying eyes, one breath from some breezy upland. one wait from some flowing river to cool their fevered brow. Some, aye many--headstones there are in every continent and colony in this wide world with only rudcly carved initials to mark their identity; some little mounds without any headstones at all :; but if the green grass or stately palm growing over them could speak they would tell sad tales of the pining away of many brave young life, and nobody knew but God and themselves that the breath which had blasted them was the deadly one of nostalgia (homesickness). All the Year Round.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
The Ball that Wounded Hancock.

Dr. Lewis w. Read, of Norristown, thus relates the circumstances of General Hancock's recovery from his wound TO- ceived at Gettysburg: 'I was medical director of the Pennsylvania Reserves, and just before the 1st of November, 1865, came home on twcnty-four hours leave of absence. I called to sec the General, who was in bed at his fathers residence. found him very much dis heartened. He had grown thin, and looked pale and emaciated. He said he felt as if he was going to die, and that he had been probed and tortured to such an extent that death would be relief. endeavored to cheer him up, and as was about bidding him farewell he said: Good bye, Doctor; l may never see you again.
 q had my hand on the door knob of his chamber when he said: See here, Doctor, why don't you try to get this ball out. have had all the reputation in the country at it; now let's have some of the practical
 "He was lying in the bed with his wounded limb actually hexcd, and all the probing had been done with his leg bent at right angles. The ball had hit him just below the right groln, within an inch of the fcmoral artery, while he was sitting in the saddle with his legs dstended. l went down to my office for probe with concealed blade, and on my return Dr. Cooper and myself suc- ceeded in straightening the limb and placing it as near as possible in the posi- ton it was when the bail struck hlm. I inserted the probe and it dropped fully eight inches into the channel and struck the ball, which was imbedded in the sharp bone which you sit upon. In weeks time the General was out on crutches, and in two weeks more he at- tended Masonic gathering at Odd Eel lows Hall. forget the calibcr of the bullet, but it was big Mimic ball. "- Philddelphit Times.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
GOtham's Wealthy HOmeS.

Probably in no city in the world, :" said an ex-officer of the Army and Navy Club few days since, "does pedestrian catch glimpse of so many magnificent interiors as in New York. Naval men you know are great walkers when they reach port. It is an exercise that is bene- fcial in thousand ways, and in the course of my trips about the world have become familiar with the appearance of the streets of all the coast and many of the interior towns of importance. It is rather peculiar that the older the city the less the surface display and the more beautiful the zealously screened interiors. For instance in Rome the houses which are most elaborately decorated within have such somber and unattractive ex- teriors that they might almost be called repellent. In Chicago on the other hand when merchant prince or millionaire pork packer builds house he has it near the sidewalk and when the gas is lighted at night he is apt to raise the shades and pull the curtains back so that passers by may look in and see in what costly manner he lives. New York has not this shoddy idea, but where the houses are so close to the sidewalk and the house maids are careless there is very often a chance to catch sight of interiors that force a man of any sort of cultivation or taste to stop and admire. Last night I went to dinner in Fifty-seventh street, west, and as had plenty of time l left the navy yard about five o'clock, crossed the bridge, walked up Broadway and moved thence up Madison avenue and along Fifty seventh street to my destina- tion. Everywhere along the route above Madison square I caught sight of magni- fcently panelled walls, plush and laced curtains that cost fortunes, warm bronzes richly framed pictures and the like set off by subdued colored lights. On all sides were views of sumptuously furnished apartments sometimes in the basement and sometimes on the second and third floors of the houses, but never ostenta- tiously shown. I don't know whether people are generally aware of it or not, but there is more to be seen in a stroll about New York streets than in any other city in the world. And when the wind ows are not too securely screened flying glimpses of magnificently furnished homes may be had which must plunge beggar into the very depths of despondency." -Byuoklv7z En0le.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
Some Historic Dogs.

At a time when dogs, especially metro- politan dogs, are somewhat under a cloud, says writer in AU the Year Round, it may be we'll to recall some of the claims of our old friend to respect and esteem. Every one remembers the dog of Ulysses, who died in greeting his master, just returned from his long wand erings, and the story shows the consider ation in which the dog was held in the heroic ages of Greece. The old Persians, too. held the dog in high esteem; to the Magians he was sacred animal, the rep resentative and friend of Ormuzd the Benefcent, and the great satraps were distinguished by their trains of hunting dogs, as was the King himself, and Xer- xes set out for the conquest of Greece surrounded by a great bodyguard of faithful dogs. Those most highly prized by the Persians came from India, so-call- ed probably from the Bactrian regions, where the dog is still held in high repute. Captain Woods tells us that. the old-fash- toned Uzbeg would think it no insult to be asked to sell his wife, but would re- sent an offer for his dog as an unpardon- able affront, while among the border tribes of Turkestan the epithet of the dog-seller is one of the profoundcst con- tempt. Indeed, the birthplace of na- tions is probably the original home of the dog, and when our Aryan ancestors began to migrate westward from their ancient seats with their flocks and herds they brought with them, no doubt, their fierce and faithful dogs, who have left their descendants of to-day, the English mastiff, the Pyrenean sheep dog, the All banian wolf-hound. Ancient laws, too, record the estimation in which the dog was held: "A herd dog that goes for the sheep in the morning and follows them home at night is worth the best ox," say the ancient laws of Wales.
 The best herd dogs of the present day, perhaps, are the Breton sheep dogs rough, shaggy, uncouth-with an aspect as if they had little of the blood of bruin in their veins, but highly valued by their possessors, who are not to be tempted into parting with them by any thing under the price of the best OK; and the Breton dog is one of the most saga cious of his kind, watching and tending his flock with an almost incredible zeal and devotion.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
Had Become MOnOtOnOus.

A New Yorker lately met one of the American colony" in Canada, and in course of conversation asked him the cause of his seclusion.
 "Why, was county treasurer in H. linois, and was $13 short in my ac- counts" was the frank reply.
 "You didn't have to skip for SIS did you2"
 "Yes, sir"
 "I should have thought you could raise that among your friends"
 ''Yes you may think so, but if you had seen lem put up $2, 700 to save me on the other term you'd understand that the thing had become rather monotonous. "-