The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-02-23
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

OIL has been struck at Lehigh, Indian Ter.
ritory.
SWEDISH protectionists have formed now
Cabinet.
PRINCE BISMARCK was cheered by the Ber-
lin children as he left the Reichstag
SEVERAL American bishops are trying to
reconcile Father McGlynn and the Vatican"
THE discovery OF big cracks in the Boston
State House frightens Massachusetts, Legisla-
tors
A CONTRACT for 500, 900 pairs of military
boots has been given by the German Govern
ment
A WOMAN in circus at Dublin, Ireland,
put her head in lions mouth and was horri-
bly, lacerated.
THE ice blockade between Bath, Me-, aid
the Woolwich shore was raised by the liberal
use Of dynamite.
lGovERNoR BUcKNER, OF Kentucky, says
he won't surrender the Hatfields to the State
of West Virginia.
ERNEST BROCK, IS years DID, died in Chii
cago of hydrophobia. He had been bitten by
dog on January 10.
A SERIES Of dinners are to be given to JUS
tice Lamar by the Judges of the Supreme
Court, each one taking his turn.
THE congregation OF the Rev. Mr.. Was
sail, Of Mendon, Mass, cc;'e =: LiiJ wa,anis
papers because he smoked pipe.
SAN FRANcIsco's Chief of Police was
robbed by burglars, who got away with ST.
500 worth of jewelry from his wife's room
MRs SARAH STEIN, aged ~, accidentally
hanged herself while putting up a clothes
| line at Ttusville, Penn. Her neck was
broken.
AMERICAN potatoes are scarce in Chicago,
| aud Thousands Of SACHS hainp tat
| from Rotterdam, A recent consignment was
| 1850 sacks.
MGR. ADAM, of California, presented to
the Pope photograph of Gabriel an Indian
Catholic, 40 years old, for whom he asked a
special blessing.
| GEORGE l. FINKLE, leader in the famous
anti-rent war in the Hudson and Mohawk
valleys, N. ", in 1874 and 1915, died recent
ly, aged eighty.
| THE United States authorities have cap
tured a smuggler at Watertown, N Y, with
5000 worth of opium brought across the
Canadian border
THE French Government refuses to take
part in the art exhibition in Vienna as a re-
| prisal for Austria's refusal to participate in
the French exhibition.
Mrs. WILLIAM WINDEL, while quietly
listening to the service in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in Wheeling (W. Va, ex.
pired from heart disease.
| RECENTLY Captain w. s. Pitts, the great
Western tourist and Florida's alligator exter
minator made a contract to furnish one firm
with Is, 600 alligator skins.
ALBERT LITTLE, Sheriff of Gonzales Coun-
ty, Texas, was killed by negro desperate
named jackson. A posse overlook jackson
and riddled him with bullets
AN electric street railway has been opened
l -. bt.l,,,, IL
thusia,m. The line is eleven miles long and
the cars are in successful operation.
THE New York Commercial Bulletin says
that the January fire loss reached the I'M
usual aggregate of Sl6,0I0,000. The loss for
the same month last year was $1l 100000.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, the conductor of the
first passenger train in New York State,
which ran from Albany to Schenectady about
ffty-fve years ago, died in the latter city a
few days since.
THE new German Army bill increases the
strength of tie army by zoo, 600 men, and the
initial cost of putting the change into effect,
not considering the subsequent annual ex-
pense will be s70,0o0,0C0.
RICHARD CAssIBoNE, decrepit old man,
was arrested at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, charged
with having escaped from the Penitentiary
thirty years ago, while undergoing six
years sentence for manslaughter.
AMONG the items in this years Prussian
budget is one of 100000 marks for the ex-
tension of the German telephone system in
Berlin. All overhead telephone wires will be
placed under ground during the year.
Two villains, one named Hcgo and the
other Dargnesse, have been sentenced in
Paris, France, to penal servitude for life and
for twenty years, respectively. They muir
dered woman on bet of a cup of coffee.
DAVE LAsHER, engineer OF the cannon
hall train on the Texas &, Pacific, refused
to take his train out of Texarkana, Texas
che other night. because he had dreamed i,
would be wrecked Before reaching Bon.
ham, Texas the train had gone through g
trestle. e
The number of live cattle, live sheep ant
quarters of dressed beef shipped from tn,
United States and Canadian ports during tn,
year 1887 was as follows: l5S,S4O cattle
35,s2S sheep and 42l 1874 quarters of beef. Ii
1886 the total were IN, 694 cattle, 49, 421 shee]
and 524, 919 quarters of beef.
THE trouble at the Sing Sing IN. W Stat
Prison is over for the present. The Assembl,
has concurred in the S250,000 appropriat OF
by The Senate and work has been resumed
in the shoe and stove works. The 900 con
victs employed in these industries who wer
forced into an involuntary strike, rej0ice(
| rt the news when it reached them,