The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-10
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
ROSCOE CoNKLING left $3.50, 600,

Roscoe CoNKLING left S250,00o.
AN ostrich farm of 250 acres is to be started
near Red Bluff, Cal.
New YoRK Cry consumes $4,000 Frank
furter sausages daily.
THE police force of London has been in.
creased to 13, 500 men.
THERE were sixteen fatal accidents in the
football field il England last season.
M PoLIKoFF the Russian railway king, is
dead. His fortune is estimated at $50, ,00O,-
900.
MARY SHARPLEss, the richest child in
America, is nine years old and worth fifty
millions.
Two THOUSAND foreign Jews in Odessa,
Russia, have received notice to quit within
one week.
THERE are about $4,000 persons in Salt
Lake City, of whom perhaps $1,000 to 5000
are Mormons.
AN industrial school for colored people has
been started in Alabama, wherein twelve in
dustries are taught.
REPRESENTATIVE MULLIGAN has offered a
bill in the Kentucky Legislature to make
poker playing felony.
The mills of Minneapolis made 169, 200 bar
reis of flour last year, an amount exceeded
but twice in their history
SAMUEL MORRISON, the surveyor, who
made the first map of Indiana, recently died
at Indianapolis on his ninetieth birthday.
AT the Hoosic Valley (dass) sheep shear.
ing the other day, feeces from prize rams
varied all the way from Is to S0pounds.
Ex-ATToRNRY GENERAL BREwsTER's es-
tate of 100000 will be held in trust for his
son, until the latter reaches the age of thirty.
GENERAL GONZALES, Governor of the
Mexican State of Guanajuato, has decreed
the suppression of bull fighting in that
State.
AN American quack who went to France
was arrested and sent to prison for eighteen
months.
ST. HELENA, Napa County, Cal, has a
wine cellar in course of construction that will
cost $3.50, ,00J-and safely house 60O,0e0 gal
Ions of wine.
DELAWARE peach prospects are reported
as very promising The same is true of New
Jersey, which has become large peach-pro-
ducing State.
EXPERTS who have been for three weeks
examining the accounts of the fugitive ex
State Treasurer of Kentucky find the short
age to be S325, 600.
PETERSBURG, VA, leads all other cities
in the export OF manufactured tobacco, hav
ing sent abroad some 5000, 900 pounds in
the last tweve years.
Miss DIEHLE, of Toledo, Ohio, returned
from a two years visit to Germany, only to
find both parents dead and her home in pos
session of stranger.
1 CINCINNATI has subscribed more than mill
ION dollars for the exposition that is to be
held there this summer 1t is expected that
the exposition will be worth two million dol
lars to the city.
| DR.. JUNKER, the explorer, in lecture be
| fore the Berlin Geographical Society, ex
! pressed his conviction that Stanley is now
! with Emin Bey. I his is the opinion of al
the leading German explorers.
The revolt of the Roumanian peasants has
been suppressed. Wholesale arrests have
been made, and the prisons overflow will
/ prisoners Enormous quantities of grain
have been distributed among the starving
peasantry.
1T is stated that the financial arrangement
| with reference to Emperor Williams estate
have been concluded, AMI that each of En-
| peror Frederick's dau ghters will receiv,
e1,OO0,00O, and Prince Henry an estate of tb'
sarns value