The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-04-12
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THyRE are 1854 lawyers in France.
An international conference of Quaker
women is spoken Of.
MORE than 10, 900 persons were cremated in
Toxic, Japan, last year.
THE official report numbers the sheep in
the United States at 5000, 600.
THE damage from the phylloxera in France
SO far is estimated at s., ,O0O, ,0O0,00
THAT big storm in the East cost the rail-
roads and telegraph lines fully 5000, 900.
PaEURo-PYEUMoNIA among cattle no
longer exists west of the Allegheny noun
tains
In Garfield County, Col. there are 100
unmarried men and only % unmarried
women.
ANOTHER large raft is being built in Nova
Scotia greater in bulk than that which was
recently lost at sea.
THE missing son of Baron Gevers, of
Holland, has been found working a. waiter
in a San Francisco restaurant.
MEASLES has broken out among the United
States troops at Jefferson Barracks, near
st. Louis, and caused many deaths.
JOHN D. RocKEFELLER, President of the
Standard Oil Company. has subscribed
$25, 900 to the Cleveland Y. NJ. C. A
THE wool clip of Southern Utah this year
Will eXC6eu Ludt VI ltboe ScdooA UJ coosooo
pounds, and will probably reach 4,0Oo, ,00o
pouads
THE Honduras Congress is discussing bill
for the establishment Of National jury sys-
tenn. Trial by jury is as yet unknown in that
country
STATISTICS appear to show that in England
domestic servants are growing comparatively
fewer. In 1881 there were ,0O0,U 100, but IL
1888 there are 1,25o,Oo0 oaly.
SINCE the convention Of the Irish National
League of America year and half ago,
Father O'Reilly, the National Treasurer, has
forwarded to Ireland over $l2o,0oa
THE census Of tenement-house population
in New York City has heen completed by the
health officers, who have inspected 81, ,534
tenements. and find that they contain 250,-
los families. including l,ol6, ,325 persons.
THE average yield Of wheat in the United
States in 1887 was about twelve bushels per
acre. and the average price 6S cents per
bushel. This Is at the rate Of only IS per
acre.
Two Frazee brothers, of Pittsburg, make a
claim to s32, ,OO0, ,0)0 worth of Trinity Church
property in New York city, which was leased
by their great-grandfather for ninety nine
years.
THE Cattle Trust Of Denver, Colorado, has
closed contract with the French Govern
ment to supply the French army with one
hundred and fifty thousand head OF beef
cattle annually.
THE new army register shows: out OF 2l62
officers on the army list 1851 are from West
Point, while 944 come from civil life, and
167 were promoted from among the enlisted
men OF the army.
THE late Chief Justice Waite was seventy
two when lie died. Justice Bradley is seventy
five, Matthews sixty-fou Harlan fifty-tve,
Blatchford sixty-eight, Gray sixty, Field
seventy-two, Miller seventy-two and Lamar
sixty three.
A FARMER living In Shiawassee County,
Mich, called on the agent OF an insurance
company doing business in the county, and
paid back S263 which he had received as in
surance on burned building. At the same
time he confessed that he had set the building
on fire.
FREDERICK SCHUMACHER, q California
German, ninety-one years old, committed
suieide on hearing of the death Of Emperor
| William. He tied chalk line round his
| throat and rolled out of bed. He had often
| expressed wish to die at the same time as
the Emperor.
JOHN REYNOLDS, who died in Buffalo late
| ly, was reputed to be the only soldier on the
| American Continent who took part in the
famous charge Of the Light Brigade at
(! Balaklava, but another survivor exists in the
person Of Captain Thomas Morley, now a
messenger in the Surgeon Generals Office in
Washington.