The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.

make fair profit on his investment
The report from Fort Buford, Oak, that
he Cheyenne Indians are in starving con-
jiton, Is discredited by the Indian bureau
officials. Each Indian on the reservation Is
now receiving daily three-fourths OF pound
Of beef, net, half pound OF flour, and &C.
coffee and sugar.
Hugh Grant, Tammany's candidate for the
has refused to let his photographs
be used for campaign purposes He thinks 1t
would bs bad taste. Mr.. Coogan, Mr.. Hew-
lit and Mr.. Erhardt are not so fastidious
The schooner Ella A. Warner, which ar
rived in New York a few days ago, reports
that she passed tho canoe Liberdaie near
Mayaguez, Porto Rico. Capt Slocum ana
his wife were on board. The schooner when
Capt Slocum commanded was wrecked some
time ago on the South Am erican coast. Hs
built the Liberiele to carry himself and
Mrs, Slocum back to New York. He ex'
poets to arrive early In December
The -four m1rket has been dull at Mime
apolis so far as new business was concerned.
There are flour dealers with considerable re,
ceived and contracted for ahead OF the chiet
advance, who are selling out below the price
millers ask now, which tends to make slow
business for manufacturers. This is unques-
tionably bull year.
The steamer Cearenz arrived in New York
on Friday last from Para and was permitted
to land at Roberts stores, Brooklyn, her
officers and crew being apparently in good
health. Next morning the captain died OF
yellow fever and the ship and those on board
were sent back to quarantine.
Patrick Scally, an Irshman from Lousi-
ana, started out to do New York one day last
week with about $4,000 in his pocket, He
got drunk At midnight policeman found
him sleeping on doorstep. Only 500 OF
the SIG, 900 was missing. In court Mr.. Scally
told how three years ago he stopped IN New
in a gutter with $500 in his pocket. A
reference to the records proved the truth OF
his story. He said he wished to be watched
until he became quite sober.
Divers are at work on the steamship Atlas
which was sunk in the Hudson river by
ferryboat. The owners of the steamship are
anxious to save $500 bags of coffee and lOo
/ packages of United States naval stores from
/ the vessels hold Many of the H. 900 punches
of bananas which the Atlas carried have al
/ ready come to the surface, and have Deen
! confiscated by wharf rats. The agents OF the
| Atlas line will bring suit for S2OO,OOO dam
ages against the ferryboat company.
Before sailing for Europe. Mr.; Baker,
nephew of Commodore Vanderbilt, bought a
handsome pug from dog vender Tor 10.
As he was entering his hotel with his pet. the
vender gave shrlll whistle from neighbor-
ing corner The dog sprung from MI.
Bakers arms, and ran down the street after
its master A little later another dog ped
der sold Mr.. Baker a Skye terrier for SO.
Mr. Baker had just tied string to the dog
as precautionary measure when
1 @snt dU sgppar enfRpsid dead 70 Mr. ' B'ker
let go the string The dog peddler whstled.
The dog revived and ran away. Mr. Baker
reported the matter to The police and learned
that he was the victim of two old swindlers,
ov,fct hop in the rOpneS' gallery,
A tie-up was ordered on Friday by dis
trct assembly IS on all the lines operated by
the Cross Town Railroad company of Brook
lyn. Committees have for year been try
ing to bring about a settlement OF the dis
} putes on this line. The trouble is revival
of the wrangle which brought about a te-up
last August, and grows out OF the discharge
of certain employees by Supt Sullivan.
There are more than 400 drivers and con
, ductors on the cross town line and its
branches. At the time Of the tie-up iii Au
; gust. it was said that the settlement by
Young Slocum was only truce to await the
, arrival of his father, Gen. Slocum, IRON
! Europe Since his arrival the executive
board has repeatedly tried TO settle thu
3 grievances of the men. but has failed t.
: do 30.
Reports by courier from the Cheyenne res
ervation, Is miles south, say that unless All
: is soon given the Cheyenne Indians by the
= government great numbers of them will die
a of starvation
The mail pouch that left Boston for Chica
., ca Tuesday of last week over the Michiga
u Southern railroad was robbed OF al the mrs
class mail matter it contained. The stole
packages consisted Of registered letters, an
the supposition is that large amount {
money was obtained by the thief.
Louis H. Livingston, owner Of the steal
yacht Adelai has filed libel in the I'm
ted States district court against the vi
Colony steamer Providence. The Providcno
:. September %. Mr.. Livinsgton sues fc
!: $500.
d W. H. English, trusted employe of Il
:. st. Louis Steel Range company, is under al
IL rest for embezz' ement. The amount know
i to have been taken is 5000. 1t is asserte
that English, who had access to the mi
q. opened letters containing money and checl
Ia from customers appropriating the funds ar
d child in New Jersey.
b Wolves and coyotes are doing much daI
1p age in northern Montana. q. W. Jackso
a, a merchant of Helena, barely escaped wi
10 his life few weeks ago, and Charles Adam
n was compelled to fly from the beasts, VIII
n they destroyed eighty of his thoroughbr
A. bucks. In one night $50 sheep were kill
ct in one flock, and also thirty colts belongil
an | W dHOuucA IdiShiAioh'
10 United States Circuit Judge Sawyer
he San Francisco rendered a decision in t
es case of ten Chinese, sailors on the Panar
es steamer Collins, who had shipped from the
nd for round trip voyage AMI who were
Of fused landing by the collector on their
he turn, on the ground that they had been OF
of side the United States. Judge Sawyer p
sailors had not left the United States in
its common acceptance of the term, and tt
en- they were under American jurisdiction
to well as in an American vessel and in Anne
Ter can territory
M N. Surg-Gen. Hamilton has written to
. aI governor of Florida suggesting the proprl.
gu, of establishing state board OF health
my my recent experience of that state, ought
loS make the suggestion popular, as well as
l lna inspire regret that they never thought o.
ioi 4efore.
as At Central City, Col, ]. V. Kimber
,gy B,ackhawk presented to the cashier of
lie. First National bank for safe keeping H
i'd tort of gold that had been mined IN one O.
low It's valuation is over $40, 600, tine ret
.gea weighing over 100 pounds This IS the la
up est amount produced by single mine in
I'M day since the metal was first discovered
ZEN, Colorado.
and Mrs. P. J. Lynch, aged &C. wife o
,ars wealthy merchant, jumped from II
ing story window of the Hotel Bristol, F
Ioe avenue, New York, and was Killed.
inc was suffering from brain trouble, and
by closely watched, but took advantage {
! nus momen airy absence of her attendants.
re- Benjamin f. Carter, the desperate
per- cowboy, was hanged at Rawlins, w. T.,
"a the cowardly murder of boy, John jeff
a on the Laramie plains in the fall of 1885,.
i.os 1t has been learned that the Babylo,
en' expedition OF the University of Penn
up, vania, which left Philadelphia early
avs summer, has been shipwrecked in the n
kest loerraned' 'e'
de- DR.. Robert Leonard OF Maucn CnuhK,
associate Judge of Carbon county, was k
ours by a train on the Lehigh Valley rairoa
7ery few days ago.
is a Gaetno Russo and his wife, Para, in
out York, were sentenced to IL and IA years
'ates prisonment respectively for manufsctu
vs. OF and passing counterfeit money. Both
10 notorious counterfeiters
leap
The Women's Christian Temperance u
o ra. superintendents concluded their labor
low New York on Friday last. They decide
ghts rneet in San Francisco Sept % 1889