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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-11
An old gentleman At Towkesbnry 10,

An old gentleman at Tewkesbury for
many years rode blind horse. Though
sightless, the steed, which had probably
been good fenccr once, had learned to
jump whenever he received a hint that
he was desired to do so. One day, after
run with the hounds, some hunting
men were talking about big jumps, and
the owner of the blind horse stoutly
maintained that that animal would jump
over single obstacle which none of
their hunters would leap. He was
ready to back his words with money,
and as the result OF the conversation he
made four bets of G5 each on the SUBJ
ject. Very soon the four sportsmen re-
pented Of risking their money so rashly.
The owner of the blind horse put down
straw in the street, and this constituted
the ''obstacle." He rode up to it, and
the blind stecd, responding to his call,
"rose at the raspcr," clearing it with 0
bound four feet in the air, and cover.
ing twelve feet Of ground at lcnst. None
of the other four horses would rise at @
straw, and the owner of the blind horse
was EGO the richer. London Cour
Journal
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Iarm and Garden Notes,

Over 600 inches of rain-ffty feet
have fallen in some parts of India within
year.
1t is best to plow heavy and early in
the fall, if hoed crops are to be planted
next season.
The richer and better titled the ground
the less seed will be required of small
grain. The roots do not have to forage
SO far.
Let every farmer resolve that he will
give no quarter next year to weeds. This
fall is good time to begin with the old
seed heads. Burn them.
Plenty Of rubbing will produce good
coat on your horse. 'Ebow grease
opens the pores, .softens the skin and
promotes the general health.
An Indiana farmer advocates cutting
off part of the tops of potato vines when
they grow too rank and states that he
has increased the yield by so doing.
Don't put all your chances, says con-
temporary, in one basket; diversity a
little more. Try to have something to
sell from spring time on till Christmas.
Keep all the suckers that start from
roots of trees removed. They not only
make the tree unsightly, but will injure
its growth. Remove them early and
often,
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Two hundred years and more ago the
beds in England were bags filled with
straw or leaves, but not upholstered OF
squared with modern ncatness. The bag
could be opened and the litter re made
daily. There were few bedrooms in the
houses of ancient England. The master
and mistress of the Anglo-Saxon house
had chamber or shed built against the
wall that enclosed the mansion and its
dependencies; their daughters had the
same. Young men and guests slept IN
the great hall, which was the only no.
ticeable room in the house, on tables OF
benches. Wooden coverlids were pro.
vided for warmth; poles or hooks or
which they could hang their clothes pro,
jected from the wall; pcrchcs were pro.
vided for their hawks. Attendants and
servants slept on the 1oor.-Farm,
Field and Stockman.
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
The Keeping of Butt En-.

An English dairy woman gives the FOL-
lowing rules for practice in farm diaries:
Butter that has been properly worked,
sailed and packed, will 60 moldy and
rancid unless due care is taken to ex-
cludo damp air, etc. Promising that
butter is properly packed to within half
an inch of the top of the crock, make it
perfectly level and smooth, and spread
over it square of cotton or linen rag u
little larger than the top of tho crock;
press 1t over the butter, and on this put
layer of finely ground salt to the thick
ness of a quarter inch; see that it is
quite to the edge of the crock all round,
and gently turn up the edges of the
linen and fold it over the salt. Stand
the crock in shady corner of the dairy
table, and in few days natural brine
will probably have formed, or the butter
may be so dry that the salt will hardly
melt; in either case l have found the
butter keep perfectly, and at present
there arc crooks in our dairy put up in
June, and the butter is as sweet and OF
as good color as if newly packed. An
other advantage of the system is that the
butter can be looked after by simply
raising the edge of the cotton covering,
and if showing any sign of too much
damp, dry cloth and fresh salt can be
put on.
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An obstacle to Physical wcll.Belne.

Physicians rig htfully characterize constipa-
ton as an obst natodmpedimont to tho Welfare
important functions, such as digestion, bilia, !
secretion and an active circulation of the
blood, arc interrupted by tito a greater or less
degree, as tho development If the complaint
but with reasonable prompttudc, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters will relieve every symptom
70 which 1t gives rise, as well the minor mala-
dies that spring from 1t. among them indiges.
cathartcs 1t Is vain to hope for permanent
be eft, and there are few pursatiyes that are
not violent and profuse in their operation.
tho liver only, and taken frequently are per.
nicious to health. The Bitters reduces re-
taxation of the bowels without pain, and a re-
newal Of their regularity. 1t also conquers
fever and ague, rhoua atism neuralgia and in
activity of the kidneys
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MORE QUAKlNG IN. THE SOUTH.
Heavy Shocks in South Carolina
and Georgia.
The Rocket Creates u Panic IA seno"
a Chitd HhIed la The A'"s' 'f"'' Wv
building.

CHARLESTON, s. c., Nov, b-There was
the seye,est shock yet lelt at Sumter at lao
to-day and n severe and continued shoch az
Greenwood, S. c., at ~ So today perhaps
the second severess yet felt.
All the schools here were in session at the
time of t,-dly's shock, One pupil IN Co.
ored school was crushed in Tho panic Oh .h1
pupils. and several pupils in the Shaw schooi
lcolored) were injured by falling pias'er-
l1ng ..,. :, ~
lunbia at 1928 tins afternoon. IL WIS ne &C
| compaued b. the usual detonations Inc
vibrations continued 40 seconds: Bun ihss
w re vi lenty shaken aud people rusheo OUT
into the streets. This shock was propaoiy
severer than any expetlencei thero
since August 81. No dama Sc has been IT,
ported
At 26 o'clock there was the severeSt
earthquake shock at Augusta, Ga, since
An ST. Jt lasted 70 seconds, and people
rushed INTO the streets, There was no aan''
At Washington a slight shock was felt
about II - p. m. -
At G@eigh, n. c., slight shock, short in
duration, hui quite perceptible, was 1elt al
1925 O'Clock IL afternoon -.
At Wilmington, n. C., a sharp aud dis-
tinct shocll wsfs felt at L.. p. M.
At Richmond, Va, two slight shocks were
felt at,la.3O D. IN. Vibrations were felt
sens bly, in upper st 9ries OF houses, ;.
At Savannah, Ga, sharp shock was felt
Just as cocks were striking y. Tvbee island
reports it the heaviest t'eit there since Aug
81 and preceded by loud tn hg nv; ~ las ~,
streets. No daa.age was dono beyond thu
fright. ~.
* mild shock was felt at Columbus. Ca,
about noon to-day. No damage was done.
Dispatches from WATERFORD, Greenwood
Chesterfield, Laurens, Abbeviiie ana othel
points in South Carolina indicate tha0 I'M
shock at tho,, nIaces was more severe thar
in Charleston At Walterhor it was so Sc
we're as to make PEOPLE rush iuto the street
and to cause the circuit court 70 auJouri
without ceremony.
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BIG SHOWS CONTEMPLATED.
Plans Of the Exposition Executive Com
mIttee Made Public.

At meeting of tho exposition executive
committee at Wizards Hotel, Washington,
it was ordered that a convention Of the board
of promotion, inclu ling the members from
the various States and territories, be called to
meet in Washington Dec z, to deliberate
upon plan and present the same TO Congress.
The board includes the Governors of the a.
States and territories, the mayors of all cities
containing a population of $4,000 and up
ward, the pr sidents and secretaries of boards
of trade throughout the United States, the
presidents and secre aries of all State agrl-
cultural societies and oranges, and the vice
regents of the Mt. Vernon Association OF
the Union. The programme to he considered
at the convention contemplate: ~ con-
stitutional centennial celebration at the ma
tional capital on March 4, 1889, by the 10
American sister republics in honor of the
Tooth anniversary of the constitution of the
parent republic the Unitel States. (2 A
worlds exposition at the rational ctpital
from May to the end of October, 1892, in
honor of the 40)th anniversary of tho s.
covery of America by Columbus. 81 A
permanent exposition at Washington of the
antiquities, history, arts and industries OF
the thu ee Americans, to be the outgrowth of
the worlds exposition of 1892, and to remain
under governmental control on plan some
| what similar to the national museum, but on
| q much larger scale.
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FOREIGN.

The finances of Hungary are in bad way.
The police of Vienna have captured noto-
rious swindler, who has operated in towns OF
America and Europe under the aliases of
Barton Walker" and walter Wilson,"
The Sultan has sent special envoy to
France to present to Madame de F'eycinet,
the wife of the prime minister, the insignia OF
the Chefakl order.
Sir Edward WatEin, theTweil-known rail
way magnate, proposes the establishment OF
a line of trans Atlantic steamers from Hull,
to run in connection with the Canadian Pa
cific Railway.
Johannes Dielmann, the sculptor of the
Schiller monument at Frankfort, is dead.
The Manchester (Eng.) Chamber of Com
merce has rejected, by majority of one, a
resolution opposing free trade.
1t is announced that the creditors of the
late King of Bavaria must accept immediate
cash payments at an abatement of from 10 to
go per cent. on the full amount in payments
extending over four years.
Mexican newspapers are agitating a pro-
posed constitutional amendment extending
the term Of the President from four to six
years.
News has been received from Colombo
Ceylon, of the cold blooded murder of w. G..
Thompson of ST. john n. b., mate Of the
Nova Scotia barque Strathay, by seaman
named Smith. The mate alleged Smith was
shamming sickness. An alteration followed,
when Smith picked up Delaying pin and
smashed the mates skull and dashed his
brains out. The murderer, who is also a
Canadian, was handed over TO the authori-
ties.
Heavy storms have prevailed throughout
Scotland. In Edinturg, the gable of new
building was overhrown and three workmen
killed and five injured
1t is said that the widow of the late Lore
Lyttleton is to become tho wife of jane
Russell Lowell.
The Canadian government has been petit
toned to cancel three of Edison's and th'
Blake transmitter telephone patents, on thu
ground of violation of the patent law.
Two women have been convicted of boy
cotting sheriff. sale in Ireland.
The proposed Socialist meeting in Londo
on Lord Mayors day has been prohibited.
Amnesties have been granted to reg iment
that assisted in the deposition OF Primo
Alexander.
The present Egyptian regime is declare,
by the Republique Franchise to be- worse tina
that Of the worst of the Khedives
Mr.. Gladstone, replying to a prominen
Liberal who propose a national ties imonta
to the ex-premier, says he does not desire it
A remarkable stormcloud has burst owe
the lake district of England. The storm wa
the heaviest ever known in that locality
The damage to prope ty was very large, an
many cattle were lost.
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new ENGLAND news.

Painters and paper h'ngers at Haverhill,
Mass. numbering $50, have struck for de-
crease of working hours. They demand the
same pay, $2.25 per day for nine hours
work. 81
Josephine Chauquette has been probably
fatally burned at Fall River, Mass, by the
explosion of a kerosene lamp.
The railroad commissioners have reported
favorably upon the petition of the Chat
ham, Mass. Railroad Company for charter.
Mrs. C. Eamln of Nashua, N. H., has
committed suicide by drowning in Sandy
pond.
The Bath, Me-. Board of Trade have ap-
pointed committee to call the governments
attention to Baths fitness for navy yard.
W. L. Stevens farm, at Franklin Falls, N
H., was recently burned, with 20 cows one
horse, pigs and other live stock Loss not
stated. The fire is supposed to be of incen-
diary origin.
The two-year-old boy of Nicholas Donovan
Of Sandwich, Mass, pulled from the stove a
kettle of hot water, severely scalding him SO
that he has since died.
George G. Davis store in Marlboro, N H.,
was recently entered by burglars, the safe
blown open and nearly 800 taken. The
town safe near by, with considerable more
money in it, was not molested.
Frank D. Bacon, commercial traveller,
married, aged about so, committed suicide
in New Haven, Conn, cutting his throat
with razor. He was respondent because
afflicted With Bright's disease
The Vermont house of representatives has
voted in favor of woman suffrage, 135 to 80
Shaw, Cooling & Co.'S shoe mandatory
at Portland (Me.) has been destroyed by fire.
Capt. All ert Warwick, well known SEE
master, died suddenly, at Portland, Me.
Small quantities of mackerel are being
taken in traps at Provincetown, Mass, bu
meters meet with poor success. All othel
kinds of fish are very scarce.
The Davis girl convicted Of attempting tt
poison a family in Wilmington, Mass, ha
been sentenced toseven years in the woman
prison.
young man, about 90 years of age, name
H. A. Rogers of Milford, Mass has beer
found dead at Holliston. 1t is supposed h
was run over by freight train.
Shoe manufacturers at Whitman, Mass
asked to consider two conflicting price list
for lasting, presented by the Lasters' Protec
tive Union and the Knights of Labor re-
spectively.
Patrick Crowley of Peabody, Mass, VIII
killed his wife. has been sentenced to fiv
years in state prison.
A bill has passed in Vermont to proven
my one except veterans from wearing G. A
R badges.
Bishop Walden has been assigned to p-esid
a. the New England Methodist conference q
Leominster.
James LAWYER of Greenfield died from tn
effect of blows delivered by John Shea. She
was arrested.
Fall River spinners want an increase Il
wages, but the treasurers claim moro time t
cons ider the matter.
The Democrats Ct SoJth birmingham an
adj lining towns celebrated the election Q
Mes Burnett and Slattery on the 9th.
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NEWS NOTES.
DOMESTIC.


The managers of tho Pennsylvania Iron
company have posted notice OF increase OF
puddlers wages to So S5 per ton, and 0 per
cent. increase to other employees.
Rockford, H., has been visited by n great
conhagra,ion,
Tho threatened strike among the beef mon
at the Oh Cago stock yards has begun, ana
nearly 5000 men are now out from the
slaughter house. of G. #, Swift a. Co. ana
Nelson Morris The trouble is over the adop'
lion of the l0'hour system.
Thomas Stevens, who is making tour OF
the world on his BICYCLE, is now in Calcutta
He will push on to China and be home by
Christmas
Part of the Charleston cotton factory,
Charleston, S. c., has been wrecked by
boiler explo,io William Cakes was liter
ally boiled to deah.
"Lone Man, who is supposed to have cen
implicated in the massacre at Frog lake last
year has been arrested at Edmonton, ~
". i.
BY tho burning of hotel in u ogooee ,
Ind, yesterday, three lives were lost, One
of the victims had, on the previous day, been
elected county treasurer and another county
auditor.
Duncun G. Carceloa, n Chicago grain
dealer, has made an ASSIGNMENT in the county
court to Kenneth r. Smoot. His liabilities
are $4,000 and his assets $1,000
Thirteen freight cars were ditche1 and a
tramp killed AMI IL others wounded near
Vicksburg, Miss.
The strike of beef butchers at Chicago still
continues, but the establishments are dong
some business.
Lous Bieral was indicted at New York for
shooting Surveyor Beatte.
Statement is made that Col. Ingersoll has
consented to appear for the Anarchists.
The French delegates to Bartholdi statue
ded cation receive social attentions at New
York.
A complete canvass of Speaker Carlisle'
district gives him majority of NS
Judge Ingraham of New York reserves his
decision in the underground telegraph in
junction application.
Rochester revozes the license to erec'
telephone wire poles on account OF raise II
rates.
Canada is charging the United States witt
inactivity in arrangn g for new extiadi
ton treaty.
DR.. Aveling, the Socialist, on Henry
social revolu ion.
Wallace Graham, a Canadian lawyer, i
co ming TO Boston to get evidence in tn
Try seizure cases.
Severe shocks of earthquake felt in Sout
Carolina and Georgia; panic in school, ant
one child crushed to death.
Secretary Mcpherson says tho result o
Tuesdays elections was dus to tariff agita
ton and disappointed spoismen.
Only portion of the packers at Armour
ChCa re est ishment left work, and Ma:
ler w orkmall Blu Ter denies issuing the orde
to strike
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Points in Strawberry Culture.

A number of prominent horticulturists
testified at the late meeting of the Amer
lean Horticultural Society that straw
berries will thrive where the thcrmomc-
ter falls as low as as degrees below Zero.
The plants, it was reported, rarely freeze
during these severe winters, even when
there is not much snow on the ground;
but it is the safer plan to cover well with
hay, straw, etc.
Mr.. J. M. Smith, Green Bay, Wis,
who has had long experience, read
paper on protection against drought, in
which he set forth his own practice,
which has stood severe tests. His gar
den contains forty acres, sloping south
ward, and is divided into beds 1-2
rods wide. between the beds arc alleys
little lower than the surface, and un-
der these alleys are drains of tile to carry
off the surplus water. His theory is that
underdrained soil is better both in floods
and in droughts.
Another preventive of loss by drouth
practised by Mr.. Smith is deep plough
ing, and third is wood ashes applied
as fertilizer. In drought he keeps the
surface thoroughly worked, from one to
four inches. This mulches the soil be-
low and light rains sink into the soil in
stead of evaporatlng as they do when a
crust is formed upon the surface.
A strawberry bed of several acres for
six years he has dressed with from thirty
to forty loads of manure annually. At
ter the winter covering is taken off he
spreads on leached ashes and hoes the
ground twice before picking. His
strawberries, under this treatment, resist
long droughts and yield him over 5000
per acre, when others in that section do
not get half a crop.
G. A. Green thought too much credit
is given to ashes. Their application on
some soils is doubtless benefit, but
other soils gained nothing by the appli-
cation, not requiring potash.
Prof. Claypole, of the Ohio Univer.
, sity, explained why ashes prove an cx
ccllent application during or preceding
drought. The explanation was tina
water has strong affinity for carbonate
, of potash, so strong that it is almost i'm
/
possible to keep this substance dry ever
when kept in a corked bottle.
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Light and Air in Stables.

If anything car be done to add to the
comfort and health OF the horse, no ami
NAL more deserves TO have such an effort
made. Our stables should be constructed
with special referencesto his comfort and
health. Endeavor to provide against
impure air, imperfect light and damp
ness. If there must be cellar under
the stable, let there be free circulation
of air and proper means of ventilation.
Let the connection between the horse
stable and haymow be closed tight, cx-
cept when hay is being delivered. Let
the horses head be towards the side or
end of the stable, and provide the stall
of each animal with a good-sized window
fitted with blinds, which can be opened
and closed at will. A horse wants under
all circumstances, whether sick or we'll,
plenty of light. A good horseman knows
that his horse enjoys light and air as
much as he docs himself, and. horse
will thrive better in the coolest winter
on the lee side of a board fence than he
will in a dark, ill-ventilatcd stable,
however comfortable it might be other
wise. 1t is stated that if all the exhala-
lions of the body OLA person were con-
fined around him by perfectly tight
silken or rubber covering, it would cause
death in twcnty-four hours. The same
is undoubtedly true of domestic animals
as far as the exhalation of gases from the
body go, and then add to these Others
arising from the ordurc, the need of
some system of ventilation to give the
most useful of all farm animals health
giving, pure air is apparent.-Lioo
Stock Monthly.
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LOST THE BOATSWAIN.
Terrible Voyage of the Steamer CnnO
kurY. Can't. LaNCnSt er.


bury, Capt. Lancaster.
Capt. Lancaster of the steamer Canon
bury, from Barrow, Eng, reports left Bar
row with a cargo of railroad iron for
Quebec and Montreal on Sept. 49, When
three days out met with very heavy
weather, and had decks swept, losing boats,
carrying away headgear and shifting cargo.
Returned to Barrow to secure cargo and get
repaired. Left again Oct. 49, and ex-
perienced heavy weather on the passage. On
The 26th shipped tremendous sea, which
swept the decks and washed away two boats,
the davits and wheel and chart house. The
boatswain was washed overheard and lost.
Capt. Lancaster had a most miraculous es
cape, being struck by one of the davits He
had two ribs broken, and received con
tusons on the face and body. Through the
efforts of Second Mate Brines he was saved
from being washed overt GARD.
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SOFT GINGER BREAD.-The materials
are one cup of sugar, one cup of butter,
one cup of sour cream, one cup Of New
Orleans molasscs, four cups Of sifted
flour, one tablespoonful of soda dissolved
in little hot water, one tablespoonful
of ginger, three well-bcatcn eggs, the
rind grated of one lemon. Add raisins
if you wish them.
DRIED APPLE CAKE.-Two cupfuls OF
sweet dried apples, soak over night and
chop; two cupfuls of molasses, and let it
simmer over two hours; when cold add
one cupful of sugar, two eggs, one-half
cupful of sour cream, sour milk and but
ter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, four cup
fuls of flour, four teaspoonfuls of CHINA
mon, one teaspoonful of cloves and one
nutmeg.
VEGETABLE SoUr.-Scrape two car.
rots, an onion, quarter Of cabbage, and
two turnips, and cut them into pieces a
little larger than dice. Put the pieces
into large saucepan with little but
ter and water, and cook half an hour;
then cut the potatoes in the same way,
take the meat out of the soup kettle,
skim off the grease and put all into the
broth, and cook another half hour,
FRENCH MUSTARD. Three tablespoon.
fuls of mustard, one tablespoonful oil
granulated sugar, well worked togethe T
then beat in an egg until it is smooth,
add one teacupful of vinegar, a little a,
time, working it all smooth, then set
on the stove and cook three or four min.
utes, stirring all the time, when cool add
one tablespoonful of the best olive oil,
taking care TO get it all thoroughly
worked in, and smooth. You will find
| this very nice.
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Household HIntS,

For cleaning bottles put shot into
them along with hot soap-suds.
A little soap applied to the hinges
of door will prevent their creak-
ing.
A few drops of oil of lavender or OF
cloves will prevent mucilage from mould
ing.
The warmth of floors is greatly in
creased by putting newspapers under tho
carpets.
To clean willow furniture use salt and
water; apply with coarse brush and
dry thoroughly.
Honey should be kept in the dark OF
it will granulate. Tho bees, knowing
this, work in dark hives.
The root of the garden beet is exceed.
ingly wholesome and nutritious. DR..
Lyon Playfair says that good brown
bread may be made by rasping down this
root with an equal quantity Of flour.