The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-02
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC.

1t is probable that another call for D.
900 900 8 per cent bonds will be made dur
ing the second week of September,
The Edgembor Iron Company of Edge
moor, Del, has contracted to construct a
largo iron bridge over the Missouri river at
RuIo Wis, on he line of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Princeton railroad.
The steamer Francis Smith, seized at Mac
kinaw by the Am rican authorities, has been
released
An old sea captain thinks that the allan
thus trees in New York parks are poisonous
and are The eau . of many cases OF sickne $,
A special meo ing of the New York Yacht
Cub Will b, held Sept. q 10 consider l. Gu
tenant Henn's challenge Tor an ocean race,
Rev. James c. Beecher of Coscob, Conn,
brother of Henry Ward Beecher and Rev.
Thomas X, Beecher, commit ID suicide at the
water cure at Albany, N. ", August 25, by
shooting himself through the head with u
small rife.
Famine is following in the whirlwind's
track in Texas.
special despatch to the Journal says that
an arm mob at Lakin, KAN, kidnappe
and killed Colonel Sam N. Wood and c.
Price, p omin mt lawyers, over county
scat fight,
The chooner Ella Elliott of Portland is
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's re-
PORT for July shows remarkable gains.
The Delaware & Hudson freight depot at
Sara oga has recently te,n burned.
Ex-Councilman George Chambers of Pitts
burg Pa, has decided to swim tho VIII RI
pool at Niagara He will start next week,
and, if moody interferes, go through the
whir pool without a cork JACKET, barrel or
anything else
The work upon the models for the oleo
! margarine tax stamps has been delayed, and
they wi not be ready for several days. The
| desiG is sail % be simply a bull trampling
n serpent under foot in the centre, while
around the margin are the words "Oieo-
margarine and "Iuternal Revenue" the de-
nomination of the stamp being indicated in
the corners
Gov. Hill of New York has approved of
the action of Mayor Grace in removing Com
missioner Squire
Willie Sells, the Kansas boy who murdered
his family has been sen -enced to imprison-
ment for life.
| A Chinese arrested at San Francisco last
week had on q coat of mail that cost $500.
| Gov. Zulick of Arizona credits Gle ronimo'
band of Apaches with 300 brutal murders S
Allen o. Myers, managing editor of the
| Cincinnati Enquirer, has been arrested and
! held IN SluuO Tor perjury.
| A S5,0O0,0OO mortgage was recently re-
corded at Poughkeepsie, N Y, from the
! Poughkeepse Bridge company of New York
and covers u bridge to be built over the
Hudson. 1t is given to secur, 6 per cent.
bonds of equal amount to run fifty years.
Prairie fires are raging southwest of Hal
lock, Mimi The Thermometer touched lO4s
Wednesday, and the grass i very dry. Sew
eral farmers have been burned out.
| During the absence of the commissioner Of
| Indian affairs and the assistant secretary of
the same office, Miss Minnie S. Cook is acting
as the head of the Indian office.
Ex- CHIEF Pension Clerk Gays defalcation,
as certifie to by the examiners at Pittsburg,
Ohio amounts to 81 ,337. The peculations
b gan five years ago Sums ranging from
$2O to 800 were taken most daily.
Arrangements are in progress for uiding
a railroad between Marblehead and Danburg,
O.. station on the Lake Shore road. The
new road will be caleb the Cleveland, Lake-
side and Toledo.
Secretary Manning has greatly improved
in health
General Newton has been appointed c3m-
missioner of public parks of New York city
and has sent in a request for h S retirement
from the army
The New York te-up is ended, the men
having accepted a proposition of the
company to give the six trip schedule fair
| trial.
The New York engine houses are to be re-
modelled so that their capacity can be
doubled without the cost of rebuilding them
H. H. Taft of Uxbrde, Mass, has two
curiosities which he will cxh bit at some of
the cattl shows this fall-an eight-legged
calf and pair of trotttng steers that have
made four IN les in half an hour.