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DEATHS.

In Weston, Jan. Z, George, young
est son of Mr.. & Mrs. Edd Martin,
aged ? years.
In Weston, Jan. IA, Walter c.
Foster, aged 80.
In Wardsboro, Jan. 10, Philinda
Morse, wife of Rev. E s. Morse,
aged 80.
Blest spirit we will weep no more,
But lay our selfishnesss to rest,
The Providence, which we adore,
Has ordered all things for the best,
LIES battle fought, the victory won,
To nobler tolls pass on, pass on!
In Wardsboro, Jan. ID, George
Hodgekins, aged 10.
The night time is lonely and dreary,
But soon will the shadows be gone,
The light on our pathway be streaming,
The veil intervening withdrawn,
We shall meet our beloved at dawn.
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LOVE AND DEATH.

Not here Oh Death, no: here. o..
Ia there no o,Acr flower for tAco TO takeS r
All the world Il thine, anl far It's sake,
Oh, come not here
See how bow myself before thy might
Ask Whist thou wilt, hut lea9a tls Inert to me,
Then viii deck thee with garland bright,
And freely give my sweetest dreams to thee
Whisper such loneliness in thine car
That taou shalt wish each day to DO night;
But come not here
Thou canst ne; come--I will not let thee pass.
Thou shalt not conquer me, Alas! alas
Think not "a what sald-I meant II not.
! KNEW cGrlot stay thee, il the lot
Is cast, Gt,l, 1T this one heart live,
And will livc "a al haze to give.
Al, me, may not die With sorrow wild,
Good Death, have ply on u little child;
Oh, comc not here!
Doath gently thrust the weeping child aside;
Bup aS H. slowly passed toward the roo9i-
Like diamond iiash.as rNsc rcd in the i:ioom-
Glistened n te9c not cy Death could hide
H2ortHTd.m
edward /, Stran.; in Magazine of Art.
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MANCHESTER CENTRE.

Mr.. & Mrs. Chas. Ames are spend-
ing few days with friends in Fair
haven.
A large party of ladies and gentle
men, members of the order of Eastern
Star, took sleigh ride to Pawlet on
Tuesday to attend the institution of
a new chapter in that place.
Jacob Burnham of Sturges, Mich,
an old gentleman 81 years old, who
is spending the Winter here with his
niece, Mrs. S. E. Thayer, fell on the
Ice the other day and was badly in
Jured, but is improving under the care
of DIR. Clemens.
John Batchelder, travelling sales
man for the Lyman Strong, Marble
Co., has been spending a few DAYS
with friends here.
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HOW TIE LITERATl LAUGH.

Lowell, Twain, Cable and Others Enter
tanned by t.e Poet Riley.
Ono of the most amusing things, be-
sides hearing James Wh.tcomb Riley re-
cite, the other evening at Chickcrng hall,
was to watch how the big literary lights
were affected by the inimitable "Iloosier'
poet, james Russell Lowell, tho Right
Rev II, c. Potter, Mark Twain, Dr. Ed
ward Eggleston, r. III. Stoddard, III. c.
Bunner and George W. Cable all had read
or recitcd their pieces on the programme
when Mr.. Riley was announced. He came
forward with luminous smile on hi.
le, jovial face, buttoned up his Primo"
Ill.,. TT coat, looked at the highly intel
III audience, composed mostly Of
S, and said he would recite poem
d, when the Frost is on the Pun
just as the old farmer was supposed
~ 1--we spoken. The laughter began as
soon as lie repeated the first line and con-
tinued until he finished.
Mr.. Lowell, ss chairman Of the ncc:
ing, tried tc look as calm and unnoyed rs
possible, bui his companion, Bishop Pot.
ter, could not reprcss his visibility and
Joined in the fun with graceful dignity.
Mark Twain's face resembied the diagram
of n tive-act comedy in blank verse, while
DR.. Eggleston's high tufted hair worked
backward and forward rs il the wind of
hunor had ii contract TO blow through his
tangled locks. Poet Stoddard crossed his
legs and laughed I'll the tears ran down
his face and were soaked up by his snow
white beard. Mr.. Burners black side
wh.skers ceased to LOOK staid and prim
and joined his smiles in boiero of almost
unrestraincd exclamation, and as for Mr.
Gable, he put off for a moment his Tire
mont Temple Sunday school air and roared,
not in his favorite patois of the Creole,
but in common every day English. Bill
Nyc, Mr.. Riley's side partner, merely
corkscrewed dry grin on his noble
facade, and kept it there at equal tenn
perature during all the fun
Toward the last of the "IIoosicr"
comedians recital the glacial dignity of
Mr.. Lowell melted somewhat, and he put
his hand to his f.eo and quietly bcalacd
several lipples OF enjoyment from his half
closed eyes. Mr.. Rilcy's power to create
fun was not gagged when his name was
placed on the programme, or else these dis
tinguished literati would have have been
prepared, and not taken front seats on the
stage, Maj Pond, who is somewhat of a
prophet, remarked carelessly before the
authors met that Riley would take the
bean" easily. If the bean meant to
| create the most amusement and delight
an audience as it had never been before,
he certainly deserved that richest and
rarest of Boston dishes. His personation
of the educator was decided hit
also. New York Commercial Advertiser.
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Dark DAYS of the Confrderacy.

The subject Of lights was another with
which it was found difficult to contend.
Tallow was used freely during the first
years of the war; old candle
brought out from their hiding
put to use, and taliow dips bee
miliar to US as they had been I
fathers. But the source of
these ''lignts of other days" so
exhausted, and womanfs inge
again put to the test. Lard also
in frequent use, and a favorite
a saucer or can filed with thi
substance wherein tioated II bur
amore ball. 1t, too, was growing
however, and a new material lust be
evolved. Several things were tried, but
mixture of beeswaX and rosin was
found best of them all. Through this
mixture, when melted, a long coil of
candle wicking was drawn again and
again, until thoroughly coated, and lin
order to make this coating even several
persons stood in Il row holding the wick
ing at short intervals and shaping the
wax upon it as it passed through their
hands The position of greatest honor
and difficulty in this undertaking was
conceded to be the one next to the pan
containing the heated melted mixture.
When cold, this waXen rope was
wound, row after row, around bottle,
with the free end put through strip of
tin with hole in it in order to hold it up
right. These candles gave forth u meager
but u steady light "Candlcmaking bees"
were quite the style, and young ladies' and
their military beaux ION leave" man
aged to exact great deal of merriment
from them. The refreshments were usu-
ally fruit and peanuts.--Jennie S. judi
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The Soldiers of Austria,

The Austrian army Is large and impos-
ing, but its material does not compare
favorably with that Of the English and
German armies, physically or intellcctu-
ally, except III some favorito or select bat
talions. The soldiers of Austria proper
are superior in appearance, more elegant
and clearly in dress, and more soldierly
in bearing than those from Bohemia, Hun
gary and other parts of the Austrian em
pire but there is a servilc manner about
most of them which must be the result Of
the despotc character Of the government,
rather than good military discipline.
Some soldiers from the Austrian prov
inces are SO poorly and cheaply uniformed,
SO untidy in person and SO very slouchy
and unsoldierly in carriage and bearing
that "a locker on in Vienna" is obliged
to doubt the military efficiency and sue
cess of an army composed in part of ma
terial of that characterized. Clark in
New York World.
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Velocity of Earthuuakcs.

The course which an earthquake runs is
usually very rapid. From the moment
when the first shock was felt at Lisbon to
the period when all was over, and nearly
10000 people were killed, not more than
four minutes elapsed A few seconds, we
learn from ''Our Earth and Its Story, y are
usually more frequent time for the shock
or shocks to last. Yet while Caracas in
Venezuela was almost destroyed and 10 900
of its inhabitants killed by the earthquake
of 1912, within the limits of half a min
ute, there are cases in which constantly
recurring shocks last for weeks, months
and even years, as if the laboring earth
was still trying to relieve itself of some
of its superabundant energy.
For example, the Calabrian earthquake
of February, 17S3 was not quite finished
before December, 1856, and it is a COM
mon observation that the preliminary
shock is usually followed by one of greater
severity, and this in its turn by others
less intense, like the distant clans of
thunder which herald the passing storm.
But in this brief span the most frightful
havoc can be wrought, and the wave of
destruction propagated, from the most
distant regions. The rumbling earth
sound travels. for instance at the rate of
10000 or IL 900 feet per second, and the
earth wave, on an average, about ZOO
feet in the same space of time, though in
Charleston, as we have seen, much
higher rate was attained.-Toronto Truth.
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so. WINDHAM.

Colds are the prevailing epidemic
here for the present.
John Howe ahd Ed Chase have
changed places; John is to move ON
to Eds farm; and Ed is going into
the Hotel at West Townshend. Ed
is Just the man for hotel business.
Art. Blood has bought him a B.
year-old colt of Mr.. Cronin of Wind
ham. Silas Wellman has bought him
a horse. SO he will not need to go
on foot any more, unless from choice.
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Terrific Snow Storms in the far
West.

large NUMBER OF persons perish.
Last Thursday and Friday wit
messed the most severe snow storm,
it is said that ever occurred i'm the far
West. 1t extended throughout Da-
kota and over portions of Nebraska,
Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, and was
accompanied by the usual "bIizzard"
the mercury running from 80 to 60
degrees below zero. Travel was i'm
peded in all directions, but few per-
sons caught out escaped with their
lives, many perishing within a few
rods of home or shelter. Many chill
dren returning from school persisted.
The death roll is appalling and ex-
ceeds anything of the kind ever known
in this country. A dispatch from
Minneapolis on Monday gives re.
vised list of the dead as follows in
Dakota 81, in Minnesota II, in Ne
braska II, in Montana 2, making
total of 1874. Later dispatches add
to this number and it is not improba-
BILE that the total will reach 200.
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IN visit to his mother and sisters,

on visit to his mother and sisters
Mr.. & Mrs. W. f. Gale have
gone to Boston to spend the Winter
with their children,
Eva, daughter of Warren $. and
Francelia Foster is very sick with in
hamatory rheumatism. $.
S. s. Smith will be at this place q
few weeks more to favor the people
here with good work.
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RAWSONVILLE.

VIM. Landman has been having
the mumps-is getting along nicely.
Our Lyceum is closed for the sea-
son-on account of humps, and fear
of measles.
X. Kingsbury, from Hebron, is
here at present.
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100 EMERGENCIES,

And How TO Treat Them, Illustrated or
What to Do Before You Get Inc Doctor,
is a book that should be in every house
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accidents, that are liable TO happen TO
every family, but contains many valuable
recipes aud descriptions. This book
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GEMS. Send money or stamps direct 10
me publishers, DIR. +. S. Hutchinson s
Co., EnosDurgh Falls, Vt, U. S. A.
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Her Idea of Discipline.

Little Fanny was making visit with
her mother, and as guest was permitted
to have pretty much her own way. One
day she was doing all the mischief she
could in tho dining room when something
fell to the floor with loud crash. "Do
you think mother heard that" she asked
her hostess. what if she did," was
asked in return. 'I'll tell you," replied
the child; ''she'd send me upstairs flying.
She don't let me do as / please, and /
guess she thinks you're foolish for spoil
ing me-" There was severe discipline in
the house after that.-New York Tribune.
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WESTON.
tllre.

John B. Waite, who has been in
North Carolina for the last few
months, on account of i'll health, has
returned home.
Charlie Drury, formerly of this
place, but now of Boston, is in town
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19

Ex-Secretary Lamar was confirmed
a Judge of the U. S. Supreme Court
by the Senate, Monday by vote of
80 to 2S. Riddleburger, Stanford
and Stewart voted with the demo-
Gratis,
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For Sale!

The Farm known as the Stevens Farm
in Londonderry. 2 IL miles fro
donderry Village. comprising n,
acres. Keeps so head Of cattlea
good Sugar Orchard with hot
utensils for 500 trees Large Oh
best of fruit. all in the highest
cultivation. Water works new and in
good condition. Fine place for a gentle
maa's summer residence, situated on the
shores of Lowell Lake. a popular sum-
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and b autiful scenery,
Stock and tools with the place or sep
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For further particulars enquire of S.
NJ. Holden so. Londonderry. F. E. Stew
ems on the place or
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Notice.

Persons holding town orders against
the town of Londonderry are hereby no.
titled that all such orders, drawn prior
to June lst lsS6(except No. 50 IL drawn
July 18th 1882, will bepaid on presenta-
ton to the Treasurer of said town, and
that interest ON all said orders will cease
on the 4th day of Feb. A. ID. 1883.
W. L. Gibson, Selcctmen
A. f. Livermore, of
H. ]. Stewart. J Londonderry.
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Woman as an EmplOye.

- -
A true woman's ambition in life is
to maintain character above re-
proach, and that noble desire pre-
serves her true not only to her domestic
allegiance, but to the interest OF her
employer, should she have one. Do
we ever hear of a woman cashier alb
sconding with funds of a firm! or of
a woman book-keeper making false
entries? Has ever confidential
woman clerk sold the secrets of her
employer to his enemy! No! Wom-
an is above such base and dishonora-
BILE acts, having never INDUCED in
poker, faro or futures with a forced
loan from the safe of her employer
Galveston Journal.
They Don't Distribute That Way.
The attention of the public has
been called to the fact that the dress
ed beef shippers are suing the rail
roads for above 100000 of over
charges on beef that has been brought
east. The public would now like to
know whether, when this modest sum
is recovered, it is to be distributed
among the people who have paid fol
the beef or pocketed by the shippers.
1t is our unenlightened impression
that the beef-eaters have paid these
overcharges, not the beef shippers
4
Hartford Courant.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19

A survey will be made, and proba-
bly, railroad will be built, in the
spring from a point on the Missisquoi
railroad to Montgomery Center.
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Circulation 100 copies and
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Sitter John, Editor.
For Isss.

Eternaliy opposed 90 all rings, ciiI"es'
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19

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Echoes from the Press


Virtue Is Its Own ReWnrd'
A Vermont cashier, who had serv-
ed fifty-one years in that position and
always showed square balance, was
the other day presented with ring
worth Sc by the bank directors. This
is another living proof that honesty
is certain to be rewarded in the end.
Detroit Free Press.
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1t is Absurd

For people to expect cure for Indigcs-
ioa, unless they refrain from eating
what Is unwholesome but il anything
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Mrs. Sarah Burroughs, OF 2iS Eighth
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For Sale.

In The village Of Jamaica, the house
and lot on Water street, lately occupied
by Mrs. Laura Howard deceased. The
house is two and half story, suitably ar
ranged for two families, water on first
and second iioors, and in excellent repair
The lot contains one acre in fine cultiya-
ton with good fruit, and can be bought
cheap, OF will be traded for other real
estate. Call ON or address
S. NJ. HOLDEN,
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A Confirmed Dyspeptic.

G. Canterbury, of III Franklin ST.,
Boston, Mass. writes, that, suffering
for years from Indigestion, he was at
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and, by its use, was entirely cured.
Mrs. Joseph Aubin, of High street,
Holyoke, Mass, suffered for over year
from Dyspepsia, so that she could not
cat substantial food, became very weak,
and was unable to care for her family.
Neither the medicines prescribed by
physicians, nor any Of the remedies
advertised for the cure of Dyspepsia,
helped her, until she commenced the
use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. "Three
bottles of this medicine" she writes,
"cured me-"
Ayers SarsaparilIa,
PREPARED BY
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Price 81; SIX bottles, So. Worth SIS u bottle.
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FOR SALE
BY Druggists and dealers in medicine generaI,f.

ANTI-APoPIEcTINE is manufactured only BIZ
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