The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-06-07
NEWS IN GENERAL.
MEsTIo.

Senator Frye made an able speech In open
session of the senate ON Tuesday in opposition
to the fishery treaty,
Senator Hawley has accepted the official
invitation OF the city of Philadelphia TO dc,
liver the Grafton in Independence square on
the Fourth of July.
Two steamships arrived in New York
Iu sday with smallpox on board, One casa
among the Storage passengers was discovered
on the Elbe and several among the passen'
gers OF the Ethiopia.
Judge Thurman denies the report that he
has consented to the use of his name for vice,
president He has not been consulted and is
candidate for no office.
Mr.. John Gilbert, the veteran actor, after
twenty-six years of service at Walacks.
proposes to take his time in the future and
appear only occasionally. He will pass the
summer at Manchester.
Hon. Edward L. Pierce will deliver an
address before the Roslindale Local Improve
ment society next Monday evening
Frederick N Toye, township clerk his
wife aud three children, aged 5, and IL
years, were burned to death in their house
IL was the only one of the family that was
saved.
Some startling facts relative to tho defunct
Maritime bank of st. John, n, b., have
leaked out. Mr.. MacLellen, the manager,
evidently kept two sets of certain books. One
of the liquidators clerks swears that the de-
ficiency of the bank, after deducting the
value of the assets, was over Sl,SOO,0OO.
Mr., Blaine has written another letter de-
Ginning Internationally to DO candidate
before tho republican convention. Mr..
Blaine supposed that his first letter would
be regarded as conclusive that he was out of
the presidential race, but he makes his second
declination in even more emphatic terms
Phil Armour the richest man in Chicago
estimated at S25 100000 lives in very
modest house on Prairie avenue. Every
night, winter and summer, he goes to bed
promptly at 0 o'clock. 1t doesn't make any
difference what is going on in the house. If
there is company, he excuses hims4lf If his
wife is giving reception, she has to receive
alone after o'clock. Every morning, win
ter and summer, he is taking his breakfast
ut O'Clock, and at Z O'Clock, before any of
his clerks appear, he is at his desk hard at
work. He is very charitable, and gives away
about 100000 year.
At meeting of the central branch Of the
Irish National league at Montreal on Sun
day, report submitted showed that this
year $1,000 had been sent by the branch to
aid the Irish national cause.
Professor Anderson, principal of the Spen.
Ger high school at Spencer, Ind, and Misses
Lille and Clara Hornaday We're drowned in
White river, near Spencer, while on boat
ing excursion.
Potts and Hazlett, the Niagara river whirl-
pool swimmers were at the falls on Sunday,
and stated that one or the other would go
over the Horseshoe fall next Sunday in a
barrel. They tested currents by sending over
the barrel ballasted with sand bag and
freighted with live gamecock. The barrel
quickly shot through the rapids and went
tumbling over the falls 1t was picked up in
the eddy below Table rock in good condition.
The chicken was dead and buried in the sand.
The Frelinghuysen estate of Newark, N.
j., has sold the country residence of the late
Secretary Frelinghuysen at Raritan, Somer-
set county. 1t is situated on the banks of
the Raritan river and includes 800 acres The
older part of the house was built before the
revolution and during part of the war was
occupied as hospital. Even as long ago as
that time it belonged to the Frelinghuysens.