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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
The Little Corporal on thu ii
to Fortune.

to Fortune.
WASHINGTON, Dec 22-'James ann, /. !,
attorney and counsellor at law. Atlantic
building, Washington, d. c., late com
missioner of pensions" is the way a
handsomely engraved card reads, which
has been placed in the hands of a good
many members of Congress during the
last few days.
The corporal is now full-tledged
pension attorney, and already has busi-
ness enough to keep five clerks on the
jump all day long He has handsomely
furnished offices in the best business block
in town. and it looks as if he was on the
high road to fortune.
General Algea has supplied the GRUB
stake" and will be his financial hacker as
long as he may need anv help.
Gen. Alger is working tooth and nail TO
secure the Republican nomination in '92,
and it is said that men high in the ranks
of the G. A. Il. make no secret of the fact
that they are for Gen. Alger in 80; nor
do they make any concealmeut of the
work that they are doing to bring their
organization solidly into line for the
Michigan man.
1t is rather remarkable circumstance
that great many of MI. Tanners clients
are Democrats, who, in sending him their
cases, take occasion to mention their
Democracy and to make some not over
complimentary remarks about Harrison
and the way he treated the eex-commission-
er and corporal. The corporal reads
these letters with "shoulish glee, chuck
les to himself and thinks of 80.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Vermont News.

A pension has been granted to
Geo. E. Corbet, Chester Depot.
A patent has been issued to Frank
II. Cram of Morrisville for a paper
making machine.
ne banon Springs train which
r @eulington at 5.45 p. m. on
S8a ran over and killed an un-
kncap an at Petersburgh Junction
Hiram Field of Bellows Falls,
brakem an on the Cheshire railroad,
fell from a freight train near Fitzwil-
liam summit early Tuesday morning
and was killed. He was about sc
years of age, married, but had nc
children,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Letters from the People.
Is Vermont Handicapped by Freight
Ratess

Editor Of the Sitter
Vermont is distinctively an agricultural
state, and is so clased. But she has other
resources that if developed would in
crease her prosperity materially. Our
streams abound with water power, and
these once utilized, or largely so, would
introduce a class that would be consumers
of agricultural products, benetlting the
farmer by afiording steady home de-
mand for his goods.
am not disposed to speculate too
larssly. on the possible benefits of in
creased manufactures. Mills will not
grind outhoppers full of gold or factories
spin silver cards for gratuitous dis
tribution. What we can look for is
mutual benefit. Increased business will
tend to decreased prosperity as rule,
1t has long been an object of comment
why Vermont with it's immense natural
facilities has had and has to day SO little
manufacturing. We have water powers
equal in Possibilities to Lowell or Manches-
ter, and why do we not have Lowell or
Manchester in Vermont? / have spoken
of this many times to business men, and
have so many times been told that trans
ports ton rates were against such pro-
jects. | have been told that time and
ag"in capitalists have been to different
points in the state with view of estab-
lsning manufacturing, and have found
everything favorable until the matter of
freight rates killed the whole thing.
Manufacturing is done many times on so
large a margin that the difference in
freight destroys the profit.
Are these things so? Somebody must
know about this. Is Vermont handicapped
in her development by transportation
rates that practically excludes capital?
If so, we ought to know ii. This is a
legitimate subject for investigation
Can the Commissioner of Immigration do
wiser thing than to investigate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
MA RRIkLi.

In Winhall, Dec. "a, by W. d.
Leonard, Esq, M. A. Doolittle of
Brattleboro and Miss May b. Allen
of Winhall.
In Weston, Dec. 10, by Rev. d.
G. Thatcher, Miss Cora A. Horton
of Hartford, Conn, and Henry o.
Drury of Weston.
In Weston, Dec. %, by Rev.
Moses Adams, Willie G. Young and
Miss Jennie E. Bolster both of Wes-
ton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
PRICE THREE CENTS.
NEW YEARS. 1890.

NEW LEAN ., loJu
Der stately dome
And humble home,
Der old and young,
Ger high and low,
The bells by merry ringers rung
With happy faces all aglw
Ring out in music far and near,
The advent of glad New Year.
To all who weep,
To all whose sleep
BY fear or foe
Is turned to pain,
To hearts oppressed by silent woe,
And those whose lives are lived in vain
All, may that music bring surcease
From sorrow, with the dear Lords peace
To all who toll,
Who till the soil,
Or stem the main,
Or, harder still,
Wear out the body through the brain
And face untiinching every i'll,
To all with WEAKNESS oppressed
May those clear bells bring new born rest
To him who hopes,
And on the slopes
OF far off hiss
Sees family CLEAN
A glory which the spirit fills
With realization of his dream,
May unto him his dream come true
As yours. dear friend. may come to you.
WILLIAM L. $. FALEs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

The SITTER learns from Brattlc-
boro that brother Hooker, one day
last week, went into the Phoenix Of
flee and berated its editor for his sup
port of Childs for re-appointment as
postmaster. Brother French is to be
congratulated that he didn't buldoze
worth a cent.
Fie, tie, George !
This will never do. Isn't there
some "old shebang" in Brattleboro
that you and Levi could buy me
too" would take the deed)! Then
you could have paper of your own,
a la West River News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
E. o. BENTLEY.
Farm 4 Timber Land
for Sale.

The subscriber wishes to sell his farm
in Sfrltfm and W"s5 Dover. known as
lie George Knights farm and Lawson
Phelps ia m Joined together. 200 acres
wooa and with good privilege for steam
mill with good house and bafn, two sheds,
hog house, sugar house, most new, cuts
i 20 tons hay viii fat 10 cows in the
pasture. Can tap 10 or u hundred sugar
trees About so rods from school house,
and TWO miles from four saw mills. 200
sap buckets, IL cords wood in sugar
house, storage. and II footiin evaporator.
one-half the hay in the barn will be sold
if wanted.
l will sell at bargain. Inquire of
DAVID FARNUM, Wsrdsboro, VT.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
How the Schoolmaster Examinations
Work.

Work.
Last week one John A. Reeve of
Illinois and A. j. Markham of Brat
tleboro were appointed reading clerks
of the House of Representatives.
Before being appointed, according to
the cant Of the times, they were put
through a so called civil service eX-
animation. How effective this ex-
animation was is shown by the follow
ing Press dispatch
Both of the men were tried on Friday
on manuscript and print, on mixed
manuscript and printing. on plain sailing
and assorted matter. 1t was the general
opinion that they had failed in every
thing. They blundered in decipheriug
the written words placed before them.
They mistooK irrigation" for ''immigra-
tion," and "artesian" for "artisan" with
the most mechanical indifference to the
context. They had to be perpetually
coached
One of the men had fairly good
voice, but the Vermont man, who won his
place by singing songs for Harrison and
Morton in the last campaign, had thin
tenor and no power of distinct enuncia-
ton. They were several times laughed at
| for their blunders. 1t would be good
thing for the House if the competition
were to be reopened and all merely poll
tical readers excluded from the next
competition.
| The annual advertisement of the Press
New York; will be found elsewhere in
our columns. We commend the press to
the attention of our readers. The paper
is but two years old, but is so cheap. SO
bright, and so earnestly Republican, that
it already has greater circulation than
any other Republican Daily paper in
America, having attained W ..a. L..
putation and inhuene.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

1t is now said that the friends of
Blaine are already pushing him for
the Presidential race in '92. James
G. Blaine is the greatest of Ameri-
can statesmen, but will probably
never be President. 1t isn't the
fashion these days to put statesmen
in the Presidential chair. Humbugs
and canling hypocrites stand a better
chance.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

Secures the SITTER and the Manches-
ter. n. H. Mirror aud Farmer.
To accommodate our many Demo
cratic friends we 8 We hem the bes,
rates we could secure upon Two o.
their leading papers: The SITTER
and New Yok World for Sl.S0,
The SITTER and Boston Globe foI
Sl.70.
$40 cents secures the SITTER and
either that superb magazine, The Cos
mopoIiian, Or that finely illustrated
young peoples magazine, Wide
Awake.
$l.75 pays for the SITTER and
Troy Week. " Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

And continuing until everything is sold,
including 20 sets Single and Double Driv
ing Harness, 8 pair Work Harness, to-
gether with Robes, Blankets, Halters,
Whips, ETC., etc. Also, nice lot of
Single Sleighs, and Two-seated Traverse
Sleds.
To my former patrons and the public
in general, desire to say
This, without doubt, is the finest and
best lot of young, sound Horses ever of
fered at public sale in the southern part
of the State. Among them may be found
any kind of a Horse, from Pony for
children to the large Norhern Percheon
Brood Mare for the farmer four pairs
Team Horses, weighing from 2500 to
$500 pounds to the pair Horses for
general purposes, and three or four fast
ones. These horses were nearly all select
ed and purchased by myself for my home
market, and are worthy the attention of
all interested in good horses. There are
no old, broken-down horses among them
all are Young and sound, and will be fair
ly and honorably described, and warrant
ed as represented at the sale. For full
particulars and description of this prop
erty, see Catalogue, which will be issued
Immediately.
The Horses may be seen and trial
eiveo in any harness, by calling on me
any day at my Stables in West Chester
field, NJ II. On Friday, January I'd, they
will be in Brattleboro, at the stables OF
Geo. B. White and II. NJ. Burke.
Don't miss seeing the Catalogue, with
fuI description of property and don't
forget the date OF the sale,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

A correspondent of the Rockland (Me.)
Courier reports new cause for pension.
He says veteran in Union is - suffering
from strengthening of the brain. general
ability and chronical information of the
spontaneous hilarity system.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
For 1883.

For only ST. As you can have, by
sending the money TO this office. the
SITTER and either the Boston Wees y
Journal. Boston Advertiser, New
York Mail and Express, New Yo X
Tribune or New Yo.k Press for one
wear.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Liberation Notice F!

This is to certify thai have given my
son, Frank II. Clough, his time during
the remainder of his minority, and that
shall pay no debts of his contracting,
nor claim any of his earnings after this
date. II. q. CL0UGH.
So. Londonderry, Vt, Dec. 10, 1889
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

The Troy Press thinks Col. Hook
er will be the anti-prohibition candi-
date for Governor of Vermont next
year. Come off G. W. tried run
ming wet campaign once for Dea.
Estey, and then again last spring for
the town of Brattleboro-when he
shingled that bridge. As both prov
ed failures George will not try it
again. No, no!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

l.. w. Page has been appointed
postmaster at West Townshend.
Mr.. Page held the office for.30 years
prior to the incoming of the Cleve-
land administration.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

Terms, 800 Year, strictly in
advance. Persons ou' side of Wlndham
County who receive the paper in >'n.'e
wrappers must send 10 ceu'> in addition
to pay for wrapping and postage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

In the next European war, with any
thing ike favorable ground, artillery will
eifectually stop advancing infantry at
1000 yards distance,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

1t is reported that postal clerk
Geo. l.. Fletcher, Jr., has been
assigned to duty on the narrow
gauge.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

H. W. Grady, the brilliant South
ern orator and editor, died at his
home at Atlanta, Ca, on Monday,
after brief illness from pneumonia.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

The SITTER has made several bran
new resolutions for the coming year,
which will be announced in our next
issue-and lived up to, too.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

From now until Jan. LIST, Nickle
Alarm Clocks, warranted, at Chas.
A. Trip & Cos, Brattleboro.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

The Special School Textbook
Committee, appointed last Septem-
ber by the County Boards of Educa-
tion to confer in relation to securing
state uniformity in text books, and to
recommend list to be adopted for
the next five years, has voted in favor
of state uniformity. The various
committees made their reports to the
full board, and the text books recon-
mended by them were in most instan-
~ -.lnnously adopted. The Text
Book Committee voted to recommend
the books selected by the sub-com-
mitlees to the several county boards
for adoption, and it is probable that
some of the text books recommended
will be adopted by nearly all, if not
all, the County Boards of Education
in the State.
If quarter of the enthusiasm, en-
ergy and capital yearly placed in the
West by Vermonters were directed to
building up the interests of their own
Green Mountain state, we should not
suffer the pang of reading about our
"deserted farms and hillsides." Ver-
mont is by no means a huge " desert
ed village" but it is undeniable that
her thrift and progress have been
greatly re tarded by her own citizens,
who, possessed of a cupidity for :" ten
per cents" and Western trust COM
panies paying large dividends, have
placed all their capital far from home,
and as result, the future prosperity
of Vernont-the state which bore
them, and which coined the capital
they so ungraciously deprive hers
threatened in no small degree. e.-Bran-
don Union.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

Speaker Reed has announced his
COMMITTEES. So when Congress re-
oonvenes after the holidays everything
will be in readiness for work.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

EternaIly opposed to all rings, eliques.
clans and facti0ns-The Peoples Organ.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

srEn'ered at the Post,oiice at So. London
derry as second.c class mater.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

One dollar pays for The LONDON
DERRY SITTER for one year-the best
paper in Vermont.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Saturday, Jan. 4th, 1890.

Also, witness the Grand Cavalcade of
Horses on tire Street, at O'Clock, a. m,
on day of sale.
c. 2. gibson,
Proprietor and Auctioneer.
u..st Chesfer.6eld n IL Dec o2d 1852
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

One j. A. Clayton, commonly
called "Jerry," has moved from this
town to Andover. "Jerry" is not a
cousin but full blooded brother of
Ananias, the man that always told
the truth CO Our Andover friends
will please take notice. The SIFTER's
account will, this fellow stands about
as follows:
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
Sifler John, Editor.

THURSDAY EVE, DEC. &c, 1889.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
DEA H..
Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse

Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse
he system ehec-ua..y. yet gen y
when costiye or biyious,or when tue
blood is impnse or Slug SHIT perma-
nentIy cure habi,ua constipation, 20
awaken me kidneys and liver TO a
healthy activity, without irritating or
weakening them, use Syrup of Figs.
"Goliah, one of the big trees of Cali
fornia, is a solid tree % feet in dimater at
the base, and estimated to weigh 100000
tons.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

To subscription, 2ys., 5000
CR.
BY 402 lies told about ii, at 1-2 cent
each, S2.01.
"Jerry" can get the cent due him
any time by calling at this office.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
E
1LONDONDERRYlsSlFTER. I

HENRY M. SHANKs, PUBLISHER.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26

Sale to commence at 10, a. m.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12
Kenosha Free Schools and City
Real Estate.

There are facts in the history of
this city which show the Importance
of our public schools on the value of
property. 1t may appear to many
persons extravagant to declare that
the public free schools of Kenosha
saved the city from much disaster.
The reputation which the schools
gave the city during the years of
real estate depression, beginning
with 1850, and from that period
forward a considerable number of
years when there was no demand for
city property, and what was still
more discouraging, many families
LETT the city to find more remuner-
alive business in prosperous towns.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12

The chief inducement for families to
stay here having children to be edu-
Gated was the advantages offered by
our free schools, which bore a good
reputation and were widely known
for the reason they were the first
free schools established in the state
and the first in the northwest. Citi-
zens who resided here during the
period referred to will bear out the
statement that many families who re-
garded the education of children of
primary Importance, consented to
forego better business opportunities
elsewhere and remain in Kenosha to
enjoy the excellent educational
privileges.
This piece of local educational his
tory is brought to the attention of
our citizens at this time when the
subject of needed new high school
building is agitated, so that it may
be understood what the schools have
done, not only for education, but al
SO for the property interests of the
city in the past. 1t is reasonable
to conclude that the friends of edu-
cation have just pride in perpetu-
ating the good name of our city
schools, and therefore will second
the efforts for the erection of a High
School house which shall compare
favorably with the many new school
edifces which of late have been built
in the state. Kenosha took pride in
early years in having school build
ings, of which there were none su-
perior in the state. The schools
were also furnished with teachers Of
more than local reputation This
city is acknowledged to have been
the first in the enterprise of free
schools, and now that the high
school building which has done good
service has become dilapidated and
pronounced unsuitable and unsafe
for use, will the citizens consent to
have the city lose in long good repu-
tation for its public schools, fade
away and fall out of the front rank
it has SO long occupied :?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12
Holidays Close at Hand.

Judging from present indications,
if nothing intervenes from this time
forward to Christmas and New Year
to cast shadowy gloom over this
region, the coming holidays will be a
Joyous Sc son. Stores and fancy
goods shops are receiving supplies
to meet the usual holiday want; and
crafty the taste for new novelties
which each succeeding year offers.
Every boy and girl expects to be re-
membered with something pleasing,
and if any we'll to do citizen knows
of family in his neighborhood too
poor to provide itself with a good
dinner, and he does not generously
furnish such family with the means
Of obtaining one, he deserves cen
sure. In land of plenty like this
it can we'll be afforded to make
every man, woman ar d child happy
once a year, so far as table supplies
can contribute to that end; also to
other comforts where practicable.
Among all the christian virtues there
are noue that rank above remember
ing the poor in their necessities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12

THE subject presented by the
President aud his secretaries, which
attracts the most attention, is that
offered by Secretary Window to the
effect that the unlimited coinage of
silver be stopped, but silver bullion
purchased at market rates and certi-
fcates issued redeemable in the
market value of bullion or of silver
dollars. This proposes an advance
step towards single standard, for
of course the market value" would
be in gold, and the single standard
is what the country must have ulti-
mately. 1t also virtually retains
silver as portion of the circulating
medium of the country. The depos-
it of silver as security for national
bank circulation, when the national
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12
Call for Ships of War.

The Secretary of the United
States Navy, whose annual report
has been issued, makes a strong ap-
peal to Congress for large increase
of the Navy. He appears to regard
the necessity imminent and requiring
immediate attention. There are no
war clouds now, nor have there been
any serious threatenings of war for
years; it is true alarmists have at
times attempted to make the people
believe that we were on the eve of
hostilities with some foreign power,
but the imagined difficulties disap-
peared on investigation; and in spite
of the causeless war rumors> this
country has been at peace with all
the world long succession of years.
Our home rebellion could not have
been prevented by any number of
war ships on the ocean. The num-
Der of battle ships and ships for
coast and harbor defenses and other
destructive engineery CT war, asked
for, would involve an expenditure OF
millions of dollars. The money ex
penditure should be no objection,
were it absolutely a national necessl-
ty; the country is rich. There seems
to be general sentiment that full
equipment of national war defenses
inspires the respect of neighborlng
nations and is an avoidance of war.
Among barbarous people, who are
kept in awe by superior power,
strong war equipments might be a
preservation Of peace. But the ma
tions of Europe, with which this
country is chiefly brought in contact,
it is hardly supposable that they are
frightened into good behavior by
the number of our vessels of war.
They are civilized and cnristianized
the same as our own country, and if
we Judge them by our own standard
of national comfy, we cannot sus-
pect them of taking advantage of
our deficiency of war defenses.
Every reader of passing history has
not failed to observe that when any
nation makes any considerable addl-
ton to its war armament, it ordinari-
ly provokes corresponding action IN
some other one. Universal peace
| in the christian world will never be
ushered in until there is general
disarmament. The time for that is
not vet; public opinion is not ready
to dispense with war ships because
they are regarded an element of
power.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12

bonds are all paid off, would be more
acceptable to the public, probably,
than the municipal or corporation
bonds which some of our statesmen
propose. OF course it would draw
no interest, but the remission Of
taxes and other burdens might com
pensate for this, and the main thing
desired would remain, namely, an
absolutely safe paper currency
WhVte70ater Register.