The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ORCHIDS are drug In the English market
BELvA LOCKWOOD received one vote il
Kentucky.
THE export Of American apples continue
very heavy.
THE British Government says it will no
abandon Suakim.
TACOMA, Washington Territory, is to hav'
electric street cars.
NEWARK, Y. j., annually turns out $50,
oJO,0J0 corkscrews.
A CONGRESS of colored Catholics is to be
held in Washington.
THE California raisin pack has been an ex
ceptionally fine one.
APPLES are worth only ten cents a bushe
in Beutonville, Ark.
THERE were only twelve prohibition vote:
cast in South Carolina.
New ENGLAND made last year 100000, 00t
pairs of boots and shoes.
a NATIONAL coore1 school teachers asso-
citation has been organized.
THE people OF the United States wear 100
0JO,0Oo pairs OF shoes per year.
TIE Africans and the Arabs are cleaning
out the Germans in East Africa
THE worlds gold product for the current
year is estimated OF sl1Jo9J, 800.
Paul in tire matter of population.
MOUNTAIN towns in Californ are flooded
with counterfe fifty cent pieces.
The amount of copper exported in 1851
was 3, 1000 and in Is . 9. j13, JJJ pounds
DR.. TANNER, the famous faster is soon to
marry the daughter of a Partisan million
aire
FiFTY-THREE persons under sentence Of
a,.a ,G,,a i,,t ha
tiary.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the Kansas
milers to induce the farmers to sow more
wheat.
SOME sheep bred In the Argentine Republic
from imported stock were recently sold for
$40 per head.
ST.. LcUIs is the only large city in the
country that will send Slid Republican
delegation to Congress.
The Honorable Artillery Company of
London, the oldest military body in the
world, has been dis5auded.
FORTY large Eng ish steamships have been
chartered to bring iron ore from Mediter-
ranean ports to Philadelphia
NJ. DE GIERs is about to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of his correction with
the diplomatic service OF Russia.
CHEAT distress is said to exist among the
fishermen of Halifax County, Nova scotia,
owing to failure of the inshore fisheries.
THERE will be but four farmers in the next
Missouri State Senate, and only one mer-
chant, while the lawyers number twenty
two.
THE National Mil.ers' Convention has just
adopted resolution cutting down the output
of -four one-half during the month of Janu-
airy.
FARMERS in New Hampshire are this sea-
son shipping their apples direct to Liverpool,
England, and are obtaining satisfactory
prices.
INDICTMENTS have been found in jefferson
County, Ind, against every pilot who has
taken cut, Sunday excursion from that
locality.
TIE celebration of the seventy fifth ami
versary of the establishment of Dutch indie
pendeuce has taken place recently in the
principal cities of the Netherlands.
FISH COMMISSIONER GAY says that in
March from e0000,000 to 100000,0l0 white
fish will be turned into Lake Erie from the
spawn now in the hatchery at Sandusky,
Ohio.
Five tramrs who entered the village or
Burlington, Wis, Christmas Day, begged
money Of the citizens and purchased too $
generally used by burglars. The residents
became suspicious, and the village officers
and merchants procured guns aud watched
at night for the supposed criminals. Not
outstanding the precaution taken the fell
lows blew open two safes, securing $500 in
notes and $500 in money. They also entered
residences in the heart of the village The
notes stolen were found in railroad yard,
but the thieves escaped