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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
ALDEN's MANIFOLD CYcLopEp1A.

The issue of the tenth volume calls at
tention TO the rapid progress which this
excellent popular Cpclopedia is making.
The publisher promised the volumes at
Intervals of about month he is recently
more than keeping his word. The vol
ume extends from Cosmography to De-
bry, contains about $40 pages and about
100 illustrations, handsomely printed and
neatly bound in cloth, all for 80 cents !.
The manifold is more comprehensive than
any other cyclopedia except Casselrs
(Which costs several times as much). in
Guiding an unabridged dictionary of the
English language i'm addition to ordinary
cyelopodia matter, and though many of
the articles are necessarily brief, they are
sufficiently full for practical people, and
some articles are surprisingly extended
for instance, Cotton occupies Is pages /:
Crannogs, 8 pages; Creeds and Confess
sions, 3 pages; Cricket, pages Crusades
6 pages: Darwin and Darwinian Theory.
IL pages, and so on. 1t would be strange
indeed if cyclopedia of such great mer-
it, published at cost SO surprisingly
low, did not reach an enormous circula-
ton. A specimen volume may be order
ed and returned if not wanted. John B.
Alden, Publisher, New York. Chicago,
Atlanta and San Francisco
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Can This he Truei

Private Dalzell writes under date
of Caldwell, Ohio, Dec. 25, that as
a New Years gift to his comrade
pensioners he informs them that $l4,-
100000 awaits them in the United
States treasury. He says that not
less that 400, 200 pensioners are entit-
led to receive from S25 to $50 each
by simply applying for tin Washing
ton, as follows: Five cents per mile
from place of discharge home Twen-
ty-five cents daily for extra duty be-
tween April and October, 1862 ;
Twenty-eight cents daily while in
prison or on furlough. He says he
obtained his extra compensation as
pensioner in these particulars by sim
ply applying for it last year, and that
not one in ten Americans knows any
thing of the legality of such a claim.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Fire at East Arlington.

The Westinghouse and harness
shop of Adams Walters in East Ar
lington were entirely consumed by
fire on Friday night. The post-oflice
and Mrs. Walters millinery shop
were in the building and very little
was saved except what stamps and
registered letters Mrs. Walters had
taken to her room upon retiring for
the night. Mr.. Walters is in New
Jersey visiting relatives. The cause
of the fire is not yet ascertained; but
it is supposed to have started in the
millinery shop. The flames were be-
yond control when discovered by per-
sons in the village.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

In the old days-that is, when your
son-in-law was "kid'-it took a gun
smith days to rifle out the inside of a
gun barrel, SO that one could shoot a
squirrel through the head without killing
anybody in the next town. But now
the slow gun making process of "afore
de wen" has given way to the genius Of
dds OF recent improvements made in the
manufacture of rifles as many as 1870
barrels can now be rolled in an hour by
one machine. They are Strengthened
cold and bored with corresponding
speed, and even the rifing is done auto
matically, so that one man tending six
machines can turn out sixty or seventy
barrels per day, With the old rifing
machine twenty barrels was about the
limit Of days work, but the improved
machines attend to everything after be-
ing once started, and when the rif1ing is
completed ring bell to call the atten-
ton of the workman.-New York Tele-
gram.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
A woman,s discovery

Another wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by lady in this coun-
ty. Disease fastened its clutches upon
her and for seven years she withstood its
severest tests, but her vital organs were
undermined and death seemed imminent.
For three months she coughed incesantly
and could not sleep. She bought of us a
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption and was so much relieved
on taking first dose that she slept all
night and with one bottle has been mi
cured. Her name is Mrs. Luz
Their Lutz." Thus write w. c. Hamrick
& Co., of Shelby, N. C.-Get free
trial bottle at G. G, Smiths, So. Lon
donderry, or at +. Z. Smiths Jamaica.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
chief was a thoroughly bad
Lost Money Found Through a Dream.

You cannot convince Mrs. James Burr,
Of Monroe, that there is no truth in
dreams. She visited a store at Stepny
Depot to do some trading, She had in
her purse $40 gold piece, but she did
not take 1t out, as she had other money.
On arriving home the gold piece was
missing, and the loss worried her greatly.
That night she had dream. in which
she saw the interior of the grocery pict-
ured plainly. In one corner stood an
open box Of oranges, and this seemed to
attract her gaze especially. The dream
made deep impression on Mrs. Burr's
mind, though her family laughed at her
about it. She harnessed her horse after
breakfast and drove to the store. There
she told of the loss of her money, but it
had not been seen. She repeated her
dream to the storekeeper, and asked him
to look in the orange box. He very
kindly took out the fruit, and there,
down in one corner, lay the missing coin.
Mrs. Burr then remembered that she had
examined the oranges, and probably had
the open purse in her hand at the time.
-Ansonia (N W Cor. New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

An out-of-the-State subscriber
writes us that he hadn't slept for two
nights-he had received our law sup
plement and had been reading the
new school law. We are astonisbed
at our friend, who is a Vermonter.
that he would undertake such a lob
during this mild weather-but then he
don't have to pay the taxes that this
and other laws of the last session calls
for. We are not reading the school
law up here, friend b., but if YOU
Will come up next February or March
when the mercury gets way down
and the wind blows great guns from
'Greenland's Icy Mountains" YOU
will find half of our people sitting on
their north porches reading the ses-
sion laws. Perhaps then they can
Keep cool, but we will not warrant it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
BOYS OF VERMONT.


| sing of the boys of Vermont-the ia
nous old brigade,
The heroes of hundred fights and many
stirring raid.
Quickly they sprang to battle in the shock
of siXty.one,
And never once they faltered till victory
1t was at Bull Runs battle where they
first did meet the foe,
And once more at Lees Mills they laid
the Southron low,
At Golding's Farm and Savage Station
ON to the banks of the James,
In the blood that courses heroes veins
they wrote their honored names,
On the red field of Antietam Were deeds
of valor done,
And at st. Marye's heights again they
made the foeman run,
And in the Wilderness they charged and
took the hostile guns,
Twas there Vermont lost many of her
most heroic sons.
Again at Spotsylyania they fought the
desperate foe:
At Cold Harbor and at Petersburg they
kept them on the go.
In the Shenandoah Valley, with Vernon
tiers in the van,
The old Sixth Corpse like heroes fought
with gallant Sheridan,
Cheers for the boys of Vermont; their
work was nobly done,
With Grant at Appomatox, where the
foemen were out run.
From Bull Run to Sailors Creek their
banners we descry,
Where on every battlefield the noble he
roeS lie.
Tears for the boys of Vermont, who lie
in Southern land,
Whether in old Virginia, or the hills of
Maryland,
Where the path of " ar lies beaten meath
the fury of his wrath,
Where the spectres of the prison keep
the nations aftermath.
Cheers, cheers again. old comrades,
brave sons of Vermont,
God bless you for the deeds you've done !,
God keep you free from want!
And cheers, brave hearts of Vermont
aye. three times three today,
For that old flag for which you fought
our nations flag for aye.
The above poem was sent us by
Mr.. Peter S. Chase of Brattleboro,
who was IA member of the same COM
pany in which Dodge, it's author,
served. Mr.. Chase says that Dodge
"will be remembered by many in the
old Second Vermont regiment, where
hh served in all the toilsome duties of
the regiment from September 1861
to July 1865. On a march he was
always with his company. His KNAPP
sack would have made very credit
able pack for an army mule but, to
cheer weary comrade on, he would
carry his gun for miles. In battle he
was brave, calm, and in the front
rank. He went through the battles
of the Wilderness, was in Col. Up.
toms. charge at Spottsylvania, fought
at the "bloody angle" May II, and
was one of the five men to answer to
roll call that night out of company
that numbered sixty men seven days
before. If his valorous deeds, so
well and faithfully performed, had
been counted to him as they were to
many others, less meritorious, he
would have ranked as colonel in
stead Of corporal"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
The Annual Grand Army Encampment
at Brattleboro.

at Brattleboro.
The second week in February will
be Grand Army week in Brattleboro ::
and prominent veterans already have
the arrangements well advanced.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Association of Union Ex-prisoners of
war will be held on Wednesday eve
ming, Feb. Is, and the twenty-sec-
ond annual encampment of the De-
partment of Vermont, G.. A. R.. on
the l4th and Is, which conjunction
will bring together an unusually large
number of veterans. At the ex-
prisoners meeting Major Frank f.
Moran, historian of the National As
ISOLATION, will deliver an address on
"Prison Life in the South" and
there will be other interesting exer-
cises. Major d. j. Stafford is pres
ident of the association, and Major
j. 5. brennan, secretary, and De-
partment Commander H. E. TAYLOR
is sparing no effort to ensure the sue
cess of the encampment, which will
be one of the largest yet held. Com
mander-in-Chief Warner of Kansas
City, Mo-, has announced his inten-
ton of being present, and other we'll
known Grand Army men will also
participate in the festivities of the oc-
casion.
The leading topic in connection
with the encampment is the election
of department commander for an
other year, and candidates are al
ready appearing. Mr.. d. L. Nor
gan of Rutland, Col. F. E. Smith
of Montpelier and Principal Leaven-
worth of Castleton are in the field,
and many of the veterans would like
to see Captain R. j. Coffey, the
superintendent of the Soldiers Home
ct Bennington, elected to the place.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
The Scent of Bloodhounds.

Some people doubt the possibility of
dogs tracking a criminal through the
streets and lanes and busy thoroughfares
of great city. They speak Of cross
scents; but in doing SO they speak of what
they do not understand SO well as-the
bloodhound does. He has got the right
right sort Of dog, he will lis stick to that hat
and no other. Besides, it has been done
over and over again. Whether to the
bloodhound nose every human being
has a different scent know not, but it
would really seem so, else how can the
animal follow his man SO directly, and
single him out among even crowd of
others at public house bar or in the
bosom of his unhappy family?-Cham-
bers' Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
The Holidays.

There is nothing more conducive to the
of the holiday season than
good health, to secure and permanently
remain free from Paralysis, Heart Dis
ras, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Kidney and
TINE, price $l.00, at your druggists.
Henry Abbott of Augusta, Me-, says =
Anti Apoplectine has done me the most
good of anything l have ever taken Cor
paralysis of the legs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Vermont News.

Enoch Rhodes, freight conductor
on the Central Vermont road, Slip
ped on the ice at Mortified last Fri
day afternoon and broke one of his
legs.
The new Masonic Hall at New
port is rapidly nearing completion,
and it is hoped it will be ready for
dedication in two or three weeks.
William H. Farrar of St. Adams
has been appointed Deputy Collector
of Customs at Newport.
The marble firm of ellison & Wood
fin of West Rutland have sold their
entire marble interest to the Vermont
Marble Co., for about 100000.
Samuel F. May, aged %, a form
er Dummerston boy, was drowned in
Milford, Mass, Sunday afternoon
by skating into an air hole in Hope
dale pond.
Three Yorkshire hogs from the
Brattleboro asylum farm were recent
ly killed which dressed respectively
739, 564 and SAG pounds.
Willie Underwood, sentenced to
States prison last March, for term
of two years, by the Windham County
Court, attempted to commit suicide
in his cell last week by cutting his
throat with small shoe-knife taken
from the shop on leaving his work at
night.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
UNFERMENTEp GRAPE JUICE.

All juices of ripe fruit contain
yeast or fermenting principles that in
an hour or two, at warm tempera-
ture, will excite a whole cask to ac-
tive fermentation, Mr.. Speer has
made special study to neutralize
this principal in the juice as it run
from the press without adding any
substance whatever. In his expert
ments he finally discovered process
of fumigation together with passing
an electric current through it for
some days, which although destroy
ing fermenting principal did not
change the character of the juice.
For sale by Druggists.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
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MARRIED.

In So. Londonderry, Jan. /, by
Rev. o. p. Fuller, Mr.. Frank Ed
ward Day of Brattleboro and Miss
Jennie May Bclden of So. London
derry,
In So. Londonderry, Jan. /, at
the NJ. f. Parsonage, by Rev. W.
A. Bryant, Carson Pierce and Miss
Emma A. Turner, all of Weston.
In Londonderry, Jan. /, by Rev.
o. p, Fuller, Mr.. Frank B. Spar
row and Miss Mary A. Whitman,
daughter of Mr.. Ara Whitman, both
of Londonderry.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Twelve more counties to hear from,

Inc candidates for U. S. District
Attorney, in the District of Vermont.
SO far as heard from, are Messrs. P.
Redfeld Kendall of Rutland, and A.
A. Hall and Guy C. Noble of St.
Aloans. They are all good lawyers
and good Republicans, and Mr.. Ken
dali was good soldier. He volun-
teered at the age of Is and served
three years, afterward going to col
lege. He is nephew of the late
Chief Justice Isaac F. Redfield and
OF the late Judge Timonthy P. Red
field and possesses many of their
traits as lawyers and a better judg-
ment in politics.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Chinese Excluded from Siberia.

Another land to close its doors against
Chinese immigration is eastern Siberia.
The government of the Russian prov
inces Of the Amoor has proposed to re-
strict the entry of Chinese, with this
statement: "The Manchurians form an
element which is dangerous to the inter-
ests of our Russian colonists, as by their
intelligence, industry, endurance and
frugality, competition of any foreign Ia
Dor system whatever with theirs is pre-
vented" 1t is proposed to levy capt.
tation and income tax OH all Chinese and
Coreans in Russian territory, and to ad-
nit Asiatics to the privilege of Russian
subjects only if they become naturalized
Russians. Kansas City Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Burglary at south Shaftsbury.

The general store of w. P. Matti-
son & Co. at South SALISBURY, was
entered by burglars last Friday night.
The thieves obtained $500 in money,
beside quantity of clothing. An
overcoat, owned by man named
Bruce, was also taken. The men
went to Hoosick Falls after commit
ting the burglary.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
MY WIFE AND !.

Around ncf throat and wrists she wears
Most aainty bits OF lacei
A tender light Is in her eyes,
A smile Is on her face
The house Is always neatly kept,
The children always clean
And that Is why our lives 30 by
Just like a summer dream.
We are not rich In worldly goods.
And yet we do not care,
For love can change our urgent need
To trities light as air,
Oh, I am very fond OF her.
Aud spare her all can;
could not do much less than that
And still be quite a mani
Frank II. Stauffer In Detroit Free Press
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
Died by the Roadside.

Robert Dolley, who has worked as
a stone cutter on the Bennington
Battle monument for two years, was
found dead on Friday morning on the
roadside, about one-half mile west of
Remington Centre. He was about
40 years old, was unmarried, and ev-
identity died from intoxication. An
empty liquor bottle was found on him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

Rome, once mistress of the world, has
made wonderful material progress during
the past twenty years. Within that
time eighty-two miles of new streets
have been made, over 5000 houses have
been built or enlarged, about 1927, 600, 900
have been spent in public improvements
and the population has increased from
244, 900 to $4,000.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
New York Press ::

Congressman j. A. Meek of Arkansas
wants to repeal the fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments to the Constitution
Mr.. Meek, if you are crossing the ocean
and you get sick about half way across,
do you turn around and go back, or go
On2
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
For Sale or to Let!

The Farm known as the Stevens Farm
in Londonderry, IL miles from Lon
dOnderry Village, comprising nearly 800
acres. Keeps 30 head of cattle and team,
good Sugar Orchard with house and
utensils for 500 trees Large Orchards,
best of fruit, all in the highest state Of
cultivation. Water works new and in
good condition. Fine place for gentle
mans summer residence, situated on the
shores of Lowell Lake, a popular sum.
mer resort. 1t is unsurpassed for natura!
and beautiful scenery.
Stock and tools with the place or sep
era G.
For further particulars enquire of S.
NJ. Holden So. Londonderry, +. E. Stew
ems on the place or
GEO. H. PAYNE, NJ. d.
Boston, Mass,
M
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
A Bloody Battle Az.

]. w. Steele, an old pioneer of Moiave,
is in the city, and has presented to Will
lam Montgomery, of the American ex-
change, noted Indian weapon that has
caused the death Of twelve men. 1t is
stone battle ak about five inches long by
three wide at the thickest part, and
tapers both ways to almost sharp edge.
This AK has twelve deeply cut lines in it,
indicating the number of men who have
fallen by 1t.
Old Chief Lingona, of the Moiaves,
was once the owner of this weapon, and
1t was he who welded it with sucl DIES.
truction He first, while engaged in bat
tie with some emigrants, killed Tom
Jarvis, the leader. This was in 1854. In
he manner two years later he killed
Henry Koch and William Thompson
near Fort Yuma, being himself at the
time perforated with two pistol balls.
Then old Lingona slugged two of his
braves who displeased him, and with the
7-'"'' "f John Kincaid, who fell by
N M 1866, it is not known who the
.. are intended for Lingona
NJ ears ago and Mr. Steele Sc
tHsa ,. Weapon from the tribe. He
tts.7 chief was a thoroughly bad
Indian. he was In his day on the Mo,
jave desert what Slade was along the
line of the Union Pacific, and what Billy
the Kid and Wild Bill were. He only
made marks on his battle ak for the men
he actually killed with it. Those he
stabbed or shot he had another way of
reckoning. He indicated them by the
grizzly bear claws he had strung about
his neck.
"This string of bear claws is now kept
by his squaw at Mojave, who survives
him. 1t makes me almost shrink back
when l see that big string of claws.
There must be thirty on it, and if the
chief had brought all his dead together
there would have been enough for big
graveyard. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

The wife of Maj, Gen. Scho6eld
died suddenly of paralysis of the
heart, at Washington on Sunday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

Indispensable in every well regu
lated family-their local paper and a
good city paper. See our Club offer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

The steamer Bristol Of the Old
Colony line was burned at her dock
at Newport Sunday morning, and is
a total loss.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

Col. John c. Dent, brother-in-law
of Gen. Grant, died at his home in
Carthage, Mo-, Tuesday, aged rs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

A colored man found $4,000 in green
backs between the leaves of an old book
he had bought at second hand store at
Paris, KY.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
The Troy Weekly Times
and the SIETER. in Or ont the Siata al :
The Cottage Hearth,

We can again supply this handsome
monthly to our subscribers, everywhere,
for 80 cents. Send to F. P. Shumwav, Jr.
II Bromfield st. Boston, for Specimen
or call at this office.
@~Parties desiring more than one of
the above papers can have them by adding
40, TO or IS cents as the case may be.
ANYBODY CAN TAKE A DAILY?
We will furnish, in connection with
the SITTER, the Boston Evening
Record (daily)for $1.9O, or the
New York Daily Press for $500.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
500 fremont St.
LEGAL NOTICES.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

ESTATE OF HIRAM STEWART,
We, the Subscribers, being duly ap-
pointed by the Hon. Probate Court for
the district of Westminster, Commission
ers to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Hiram Stewart, late of Lon
donderry in said district, deceased, and
slso all claims and demands exhibited in
Offset thereto; and six months from the
Sth day of November last being allowed
by said court for that purpose, we do
therefore hereby give notice that we will
attend to the business of our said appoint
ment, at the office of A. f. Cudworth, in
Londonderry in said district, on the
fourth Monday in December and the third
Monday in February next, from 10 O'Clock
A. NJ. until o'clock, P. NJ, on each of
said days.
]. w. Melendy, (romm;ss;ners
H. A. Dudley. 0o'''A'i''inei''
II. J. Stewart, Admir-.
Londonderry, Vt, Nov. 81, 1888.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

N. Y. TRIBUNE,
or the New York MAIL and EXPRESS.
~ Remember this applies only to
Vermont subscribers. Parties out
side the state must add 25 cents to
above amount.
~ Remember this applies to ALL.
1t makes no difference whether you
are new or old subscriber to either
the SITTER or any one of the above
Journals.
Remember this is Cash In AID
VANCE, and that you must send your
money to this office.
The Mirror and Farmer
OF Manchester, N. H., and the SITTER,
within the State, l.6O.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03
HEAD0 UARTERS
FOR PICTURE FRAMES!

when you go to Brattleboro call on A.
WILDER, rear of Reformer office, who has the
argest stock of Mouidimss in town. Price
Low! Work neatly done,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-03

u 5 = .. eIIu Judy taIK, Dut not
= Ranges have been in
rowing the quality of
GiStinctness, rather
may be heard to-
message or repro
Il than one from
. order and under
And when the
j it talks very well.
=, STENoGRAPHY.
Il has been there
atinued the lawyer.
as of labor. When
,,.,e brief or con-
a. little spring, which
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