The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-08-30
NEWS IN GENERAL.

NEWS IN GtNtkAL
Tho treasury department on Thursday
paid out $40, 600. 600 on account of pensions,
notwithstanding which payment the total
receipts for the month to date are 81, 900 900
In excess Of the total disbursements for tho
same period.
The senate has confirmed the nomination
OF Q. IL. Riley as postmaster at Dedham,
Mass; q. L. Sleeper at Haverhill, Mass,
and q. Il, Rock Mt East Providence, Il. l.
The nomination Of John Dunno to DO post
master at West Medford, Mass, was rejected.
The farmers throughout Quebec complain
OF the utter ruin OF crops which the rain OF
the last two weeks has caused. Tho grain
has had to lie on the ground in swarths, and
Is rotten. While the drought continued
mass was said in Catholic churches for rain,
but now there is mass for God to stop it.
w. ]. Ballentine, postal clerk on the
route between Wilmington, n; c., and Way
cross, Ga, has been taken i'll with yellow
fever, and removed to his home in Black
shear, Ga. In consequence, Blackshear has
been quarantined.
kilograms have been pouring into the
white house, commenting the president on
the stand taken by him in his message on the
fisheries treaty. These kilograms are from
all parts of tho union, and many Of them
are from well known business men.
Mrs. Sheridan's pension will be fixed at
$500 a year. This is the amount agreed
upon by the house committee on invalid PEN
sions as midway between the $4,000 given to
the widows of presidents and $4,000 given to
the widows of distinguished generals. 1t is
all that the house will be willing to give,
and the senate will have to agree to it.
The friends of the French spoliation claims
fear that they have been defeated, for this
session at least. The item of S,41, 900 to pay
those already passed upon having been ruled
out OF the bill on point of order, the enc
mics of the claims will have no great diff
Guilty in keeping it out, by breaking a
quorum from time to time The friends of
the claims are however, hopeful of success
next session. The claims have not been made
a party matter, both sides having divided on
them.
Sellers Hoffman's large four-story mill at
Burmont, Delaware county, Pa, was lately
burned. Loss, 100000; insurance, 100000.
Health Officer Townshcnd and Surgeon
Genera, Hamilton have held a conference on
the yellow fever epidemic, and decided that
a Train inspection service should be orga-
nized to inspect all trains arriving i'll WASH
lngton from infected points. This service
will go into effect at once.
The largest of gold bearing quartz has been
mined from the workings of the Michigan
Gold company One of the officials of the
company says there was l35 pounds OF 1T.
From other source it is stated that there was
275 pounds. 1t carries free gold in large
quantities, and is valued by Judge Ropes and
other reliable assayers as worth $4,000 to
Sl5,0O0per ton.
Cox, who defrauded the Central bank of
Toronto last fall of $500 and who has
since beer at Niagara Falls and Buffalo, has
been arrested at Niagara, Ont, by the Can
adm authorities
Palmer and Coram the representatives of
Boston capitalists, who were negotiating for
the purchase of the Silver Bow mining prop
critics at Butte, NJ. T., for which 81, 25O, 600
was asked, have returned to Boston without
perfecting the sale. Judge Davis, attorney
for the present owners, has also gone there,
SO that if the terms of the contract are full
filled, it will probably be in Boston.
Captain Patton, champion swimmer of
Canada, and Professor Donaldson, long-dis-
lance swimmer of Brooklyn, N. Y, recently
swan So miles for a purse of 5000 Capt.
Patton won, covering the distance in one
hour and two minutes Donaldson was three
minutes behind.
While number of workmen were putting
the finishing touches on the six-story brick
building No. 126 West Eighty-third street,
New York, four beams on the fifth floor gave
way on account Of being overloaded with
materials and four mon were thrown to the
lower floor, two of whom fell to the cellar. A
workman named Flynn was killed, and three
others named Durkin, McCune and Quinn
were seriously injured, and were sent to the
Roosevelt hospital.
Papers have been filed and approved by
Judge Allyn Of Tacoma, Wyo., appealing
from recent decision of the supreme court
relative to woman suffrage to the supreme
court Of the United States.
Lawyer Herbert Gsdney of Goshen, N. Y,
one of the most brilliant and promising
young members of the Orange county bar,
turns out to be a forger, an embezzler and a
fugitive from justice. The amount of his
populations is as yet unknown, but will
certainly reach $4,000, and may rise to $780,
O00
Nine. Virginia Sherwood, the most daring
bareback rider of her time, died recently at
Pittsburg, Pa, of consumption.
Great excitement prevails at Florence, S.
c., and fears are entertained of a general
conflict between the white and black people,
because of shooting ARRAY which resulted
in the death of negro desperate and re-
spectacle and innocent white man.
The town of Clinton, Ind, has been nearly
destroyed by fire. The loss is not yet esti.
mated. H
Two enormous sections of rock broke away
from the side of Peaks mountain, at Bauff,
Ontario on the Canadian Pacific, and came
tearing down distance of 5000 feet, terrify.
ing the people of the town. who thought their
last hour had arrived. The village had a
narrow escape.
Vassia Verestchagin, the celebrated Rus.
sian artist, soldier and traveller. has arrived
in New York on the Etruria. He has come
here to study the scenery and people of the
limited States
Dolphin SANCHEZ, of the Interoceanie
Railway of Mexico, says there has already
been $2,0o0,00o subscribed by an English
syndicate for the railway, which will begin
at Vera Cruz and end at Acapulco, dis
tance of 700 miles,