The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-08-09
NEWS IN GENERAL



The big timber raft from .Toegins for Nav
york. IN tow OF the steam tugs Ocean Kin,
ana Underwater, is making fine progress
b. Van Valkenburg, associate Justice o
lhe FLORIDA supreme court died very sud
denly, Tie was native OF New York. AM
was minister to Japan under Lincoln.
W; u. Handley, aged 90 years, who sho!
anu Killed j. II. Warman, deputy sheriff OF
smith county, Tenn, was taken from the
jan at Carthage by mob and hanged.
The First Presbyterian church on Fifth
avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, New York, was recently entered by
thieves, who drank the communion wine,
Threw prayer books all over the floor and de-
oamped with much priced chalice.
The steamship Arabic, which arrived Mt
San Francisco from Hong Kong and Japan,
brings advices that band OF pirates In the
province Of Caiphong, China, which has
held its businesses since 1888, in an engage
ment In June, lost 10 killed and q considera-
BILE number wounded.
Emancipation day was observed by the
colored citizens of Canada. Parades, games
md speechmaking We're INDUCED in, and at
Hamilton monster procession, which pa
raded the principal streets, was formed by
visitors from many places in Ontario.
special from Kansas City says: 7. ].
Gocdwin, county treasurer of Rawlins
county, Kan, for two terms, has disap-
pearel. His accounts with the county show
shortage Of about 100000. 1t is reported
that the county will lose tho entire amount
OF the shortage.
A freight train on the Cincinnati Southern
raifroad broke truck Of the second car
from the engine, and all the cars tumbled
down an embankment Of $50 feet and were
completely wrecked. The conductor and two
tramps were killed
Great interest Is felt in Wall street, New
York, about the suit begun in the supreme
court by William L. Breese against William
X. Vanderbilt, for the recovery of damages
for breach of contract in transactions in
Lake Shore stock in 1854, The amount in
yolved is something over 81 ,00O, 900, and
thtro is no doubt that the suit will be prose-
cu'ed unless the claim is paid.
Rev. Stephen q. Hopkins, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Deposit, N Y, has
become involved in an acrimonious contro-
versy with tho members of tho Masonic
brotherhood of his parish, having refused to
oiiiciate at funeral conducted according to
Masonic rites, and assigning reasons for the
refusal which gave olfense to the members of
the order.
William Woods (colored) of Crittenden |
county, Ark, reports that monster |
plot is Matching among the friends of the me-
groes banished two weeks ago. to wreak |
summary vengeance upon the whites. |
Largely attended meetings have been held
and resolutions adopted fixing Aug II as the
day on which the crusade against the whites
Is to be inaugurated.
A hail storm from the Minnesota north
west passed over the Sisseton reservation re-
Gently and ruined all the crops in its
path She swath it cut was over mile
wide and ton miles long. Great loss of prop
erty is reported. Near Rosemont, Mimi,
young man named Cummings was killed by
lightning
The supreme chancellor of the knights of
Pythias, General William Ward of New
J Jersey, has issued an important circular to
the order, reciting the fact that at the lato
session of the supreme lodge it was resolved
that the institution of the so-called loyal
grand lodge in the jurisdiction of Pennsyl-
Vania be not approved, and is declared void
and of no cffectn
The alligators in the lower portion of South
Carolina attain an immense size. A party
u boys were bathing. in the river near
georgetown recently, and only a short dis
ance from the shore, when an alligator
about u feet long appeared in the midst Of
he bathers, and seizing 12-year- boy,
disappeared with is prey. Nothing has since
been seen of the boy.
Michael Murray, aged 81 years, of 81 Car.
'oll street, Brooklyn, having fortified him.
'eit with several drinks and put on SWIM
ming tights under his trousers, jumped from
The maintopsail yardarm of a bark, 90 feet
lbove the deck, and was drowned He was
good Swimmer, and had frequently jumped
nto the water from dizzy heights, and it is
imposed he would have accomplished his
asst feat in safety if he had been SOBER
AT typewriting contest for money prizes
t the rooms of the New York Metropolitan
association, +. r. McGurrn
arried off the first prize OF S25 with 40
words, corrected copy, in five minutes Miss
)rr flashed after him with 416 words, and
diss Grant with 400 words ia the same time.
diss Orr wrote the greatest total number of
vvords but lost through errors They took
he second prizes OF $40 and IS respectively.