The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-29
NEWS IN GENERAL.

While boring for gas near PaducalA KY,
vein OF silver ore was struck at a'depth OF
about 800 feet The vein is said to DO about
three feet thick.
At Livington, Ala, a few nights ago,
Henry James (coloredl and his wife went to
u church supper, leaving their three
children locked up in the house. Upon their
return they found the house in ashes and the
children burned TO crisp.
| About half the land west of Central Park,
New York, owned by the late Joshua Jones,
YVES sold at auction by the executors
of the estate and realized about g.
600, 600 The property was bought by Mr..
| Jones' father in 1905 for less than $4,000.
| 1t is rumored in Boulangist circles that the
| government intends to expel Boulanger also
to charge him with conspiring to overthrow
the existing regime.
A poor woman, Yetta Greenberg, left two
| OF her children In her room, in New York,
while she went to ask relief from charita-
bic organization. The children played with
matches set the bed on fire, and wero res
cued alter being probably fatally burned.
The mother, whose husband recently deserted
her, is almost crazed.
Gen. Viale, Italian minister of war, stated
in the chamber of deputies that the railway
| arrangements had been completed for mobl-
| Ling the army In the event thai it became
and the military will assume the direction
| of the service.
The national Sabbath union held a meet
ing at Chicago recently, and decided to hold
national convention in the interest of Sab
| bath Observance at Washington Dec. IL TO
| H. Chief Arthur and General Master
Workman fowderly and senators Blair and
Colquitt have been invited to make ad-
| dresses.
| A - IA, ~ Ia,
| and Canadians was held in London Sir
Donald Smith Of Montreal presided. The
question of laying cable from Vancouver
| to Australia, to touch at Hawaii, flaming
island Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand was
discussed and approved, and it was voted to
| urge tho imperial government 10 support the
| project 1t was said that the tariff between
| England and Australia ly this route would
be As per word.
An inspector of detectives of the Grand
| Trunk railway is in Montreal looking for a
former general of the United States army,
residing in Detroit, who went on big spree
and has disappeared. His friends offer $1,000
reward, and he has been traced to Montreal.
| The inspector refuses to give his name, but
it is believed to be Gen. Wheeler of Detroit.
The official canvass of the vote of Michi-
gan gives Harrison a plurality of %, 500.
Total number of votes cast, AIS 26O, an in
| CREASE Oi ~, oOD over 1OuT yours tbO, VI
vided as follows: Harrison, 1885, SO; Cleve-
land, 2l3, 404; Fisk, 20,942; Streeter, 45i2.
Perry Belmont is in Washington receiving
his last Instructions as minister to Spain,
and arranging his affairs so as to sail Dec. :.
He will probably follow diplomatic prede-
dents and sell the effects in his house on
Rhode Island avenue at public sale before
he leaves Washington.
Amovement looking to the formation of
an organization of all who favor the annexa-
tion of the British provinces is assuming
tangible shape aud meeting will shortly be
| held, to which Mr.. Ellis of st. John has
been invited There are many thousands of
provincials in New England who are under
stood to be strongly in favor of the idea,
| and it is believed that, ny forming an or
ganizaton. more can be done than is possible
while they remain in their present disjointed
isolated condition.
The Washington Post says: 1t can be
stated authoritatlvely that the president de-
| language attributed to him by Judge Rucker
in the now celebrated interview. AS mat
mer of fact, the president does not even re-
member having met Judge Rucker on the
| day in question Under no circumstances
has the president ever charged or intimated
that there was treachery toward him in
New York.
The 22d end last volume of the 10th census
report has just been issued. The whole re.
port makes library of l9304 pages, anil
cost, exclusive of printing, engraving and
binding, $4,s53, $50, or 6S-l00 cents per
capita Of population in IS O, less relative
cost than any similar publication ever is
sued. The appropr alton for printing, ell
craving and binding was Sl,5lS, JIG. A
large quantity of data was secured that was
not tabulated and published, owing to the
exhaustion of the appropriation.
Anton DALI a German manufacturer of
pianos at No. rs Hester street, New York,
fell through the elevator shaft at his factory
| from the fifth story to the ground f,of His
| horror-stricken employees sent out for tSIa po-
| lice and an ambulance at once and prepared
| to pick up what VIZ S left Of him. They found
bin in an excellent state of preservation.
He was on his feet before any of them
reached him, and with the casual remark
that there had been quite drop in the piano
trade went about his business as before,
A petition is being circulated in every
county of North Dakota addressed to Presi-
dent Cleveland tue senate and house, asking
the immediate admission of all states formed
from territories now ready for admission
into the Union, and a speedy formation of
state constitutions for the remainder, in
Guiding North Dakota. Washington and
New Mexico territories. Therefore it prays
the fiftieth congress forthwith to admit
South Dakota and Montana, and to provide
for constitutional conventions for North Da-
kota and other territories, in harmony with
the ordinances of 1877 and long line of pre-
cedents
S. l.. NJ. Barlow, who is now in Wash
ington, expresses the opinion that the re-
pubicans spent 81 ,O00 900 in the election in
| New York state alone.
Justice Lamar and Representative Glenn
I'll a.. l..
president and invite him to attend the Au-
gusta GA exposition. The president said
he would give his final reply the week after
congress met.
1t is announced that Messrs. John O'Con.
nor, Finucane Shelby, Mayne, Condor,
Patrick o Brien and Tanner, all members of
the Irish nationalist party in the house of
commons, will be prosecuted for intim dat
ing renters of evicted farms.
i A cave-in, covering tract about half q
milo square and six feet deep, occurred al
barre, Pa. Over 100 men are now at work
repairing the damage, which will cause nc
little delay and trouble. No lives were lost
but the walls of several houses are reported
badly damaged and cracked
1t is stated that an American has submit
ted to the French government a contrivance
by which dynamite shells can be fired from
ordinary guns, exploding at the target.
A dis 'grseable piece of news comes acros
the water to the effect that the stern of tho
English gunboat Scout has sunk consider
ably, and that the rear frames show signs o!
weakness. This sign of structural weakness
acquires import nee from the fact that thu
new gunboats, York own, Bennington and
others recently built for our navy are pat
termed closely upon the English mode, which
now shows signs of failure.
At Altoona, Pa, Albert Shuliz, Is year
old, returning from hunting expedition
thoughtlessly pointed the gun at his nephew
pratuing baby 8 months old, and pulled
the trigger. The gun exploded and half o
the infants head WAS shot off. The boy hat
been in the habit of snap ing the gun, wheI
unloadel, to amuse the baby. The grief O
the parents and young Shultz knows nj
bounds.
A new republican daily paper will b,
star ed the first week in December E. w
Fox will be the editor, assisted by his son
w. c. Fox, who for the past IL years ha
been United States consul at Brunswick
Germany. The paper will be started unde
tn, auspices of the National Republican
league, and has large amount of capital be