The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-24
NEWS IN GENERAL.


Rev. Dr. John Mcdowell Leavitt OF New
York, for over 40 years clergyman In the
Protesta II Episcopal church. publicly an
noun es change In views, He viii here.
after be n formed Episcopaian,
DR., Talmage's congregation will build a
new tabernacle at once.
A New York policeman is under arrest
for shooting passer-by while firing at
burglars,
A band OF highwaymen robbed North
Dakota elevator agent of Sss0).
Eighteen prisoners in tho Newcastle Dell
Jail effected their escape through u sewer.
The female giraffe at tho Geological Gar
den, in CINCINNATI, o., has given birth to q
male. 1his is said TO be the first giraffe born
In captivity in Amorico. The youngster Is
nearly Sc feet high and his estimate weight
Is $50 pounds.
The death of BabLitt, the millionaire soap
manufacturer is announced
A clerk Of the Western Union Telegraph
company at New York has been arrested for
stealing $500 from, the companySS
A Brooklyn lady, slightly demented
jumped from third-story window and was
killed.
The temperature is steadily approaching
zero in Minnesota,
N QudTTtI ptkNttu Il hNtlb ucipct auN q
Young white man at Greenville, Ala, named
Roberts resulted in the negro pouring easo-
line over Roberts. Another negro touched
OIL the fluid with lighted lamp, and in an
instant Roberts was envelop'd in flames.
He ran wildly up and down the main street
of the town, but there was no one awake
and he was literally roasted alive. When
discovered he was in critical condition.
One of the negroes has been arrested; the
other has escaped,
The boiler in Walton's saw mill at An
derscn, Ind, has exploded. The mill was
torn TO atoms and pieces OF the boiler scat
tered over three squares OF tho city. Horace
Kuhn and Walter Mingle were killed aud
William Rumler aud sam Cook were badly
injured +. c. Barlow, William Stanley,
John Biddle and Perry Denny were severely
hurt.
The workmen ut the Nation ull) gus
well have struck strong flow of pure gas
100 feet under ground The blaze shows the
flow to be stronger than any yet found in
that locality.
MIR. Royal Phelps Carroll, son OF ex-Gov.
John Lee Carroll and grandson of the late
Royal Phelps, the wealthy New York
banker, has gone to Africa to hunt lions.
He has ju returnel fiom Montana, where
he spent several months hunting.
H. H. Bigelow of Boston, agent OF tho
ElxltSu SNNIlCdtS, CUulpioltu tut put
cl la e of the three hrewerieS OF indianapolis,
Ind. Their annual output Is l25 600 barrels
and it is understood the price paid for the
three was &, 0O0,00o.
Mrs General Grant has been much i'm.
proved in health by her visit to Nienna.
who her son, Colonel Fred Grant is Tn ted
States minister. Her life in Vienna was
quiet and uneventfu!. She was received en-
famlie in the royal household. sa
Rev. DR.. Charles OReilly of Detroit,
treasurer of the National League fund, and
Col. John Atkinson, the Irish patriot sud
denly started for London. It is understood
that they go to confer with Mr.. Parnell and
other leaders of the Irish movement.
Frank Lotus brother of manager Tom
LOTUS of the Cleveland base ball team. has
been shot and killed, it is said, without prov
ocation. LOTUS was fireman on duty. He
stepped across the street to a saloon and
bought a cigar. As he was coming out the
door he accdently stepped on Paul
inent attorney, and, although but 81, is a
noted tough. He followed Lnftus out on
tho sidewalk and shot him dead. .sE
+. j. Warner, the missing Wagner palace
car conductor, has returned and admitted
the pocketing of a days earnings of the cars
that ran to the j rome park race track. He
said nothing in Justification of his conduct,
but as his DfOther Oltereu 10 restore inc
missing funds nothing further will be done.
The boiler in sorghum factory located at
Sucyrus, O., exploited and killed three men,
including tho engineer.
The solicitor of the treasury has given an
opinion that a woman. now do aimed in Now
York on her arrival from Scotland as being
unable TO support herself and two children,
cannot be sent back because one of the child.
ren was born in this country when the
mother was living in New Jersey about two
years ago, and Is therefore, an American
born citizen, for whom in the absence of her
husband, who deserted her, she is the nat
ural guardian.
The total receipts from internal revenue
during the first quarter of thu present fiscal
year were sS4 6S4, 526. or S. ITO, S07 greater
than the receipts during the corresponding
period of the preceding fiscal year. II the
receipts increase at this ratio during the re-
inainder of the year, the total receipts FOL
the year will aggregate about $4,000 600. OIL
$4,000. 900 more than the receipts during
the previous year.
The annu u report tc the secretary OF the
treasury Of the supervising surgeon general
OF the marine hospital service. John B.
Hamilton, for the fiscal year ended June 30
1889. shows that during the last year nearly
So 900 seamen have been treated ut the diff
ferent hospitals and relief stations through.
ant tte limited States