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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
CLIPPINGS.

The lions of India are going like the
buffalo of this country.
A christianizcd Chinaman is preach
ing through Georgia towns.
a Gainesville (Ga.) man has 20
acres planted with cucumbcrs.
st, Louis, No., has $50 societies of
benevolent and social nature.
There is one pauper in every 81 in-
habitants in England and Wales.
The seating capacity of the Colos-
scum at Rome was about 81, 1000.
Ten thousand dollars is now the
highest recorded price for violin.
1t cos $3.50 TO defend the Irish
members before the Parne!l commits
sion.
The two cables connecting Australia
and Java were recently simultaneously
broken by an earthquake.
North Caro- ina is one of the origi-
nal states; it came into the Union, or
ratified the constitution, on Nov. 81,
1889.
The government telegraph service of
Great Britain transmits, it is said, on
the average, $685. 70 words day to
newspapers alone.
The Ceylon pearl fishery, it appears,
was failure last year, the number of
pearl oysters collected not more than
covering the cost of obtaining them.
1t has been pointed out that Prussia,
although considered to be fully pro-
vided with railways, has 923 towns of
2000 inhabitants or more not situated
on any railway.
1t appears from statistics published
by the government of India that in one
year, while 92S persons were killed by
tigers, more than 1000 children were
carried off by jackals,
The Argentine Republic has trebled
its population since 1861, its increase
being relatively much more rapid than
that of the population of the United
States during the same period.
The elevators in the Equitable Build
ing, New York, have run of l35 feet
from the basement to the top of the
building, and it takes twenty seconds
to make the whole distance without
stops.
Never touch a vine that has three
| fingered leavcs-that is, leaves divided
into three parts. Vines that show
fivc-iingcred leaves may be handled
with safety. Poison ivy has three
| fingers.
Some one has figured that there are
in Denver, Col, 81 millionaircs whose
aggregate wealth is $40, 100000, and
80 scmi-millionaircs whose wealth az
gre@ates $1,000, 900, making in all
S64 900, 900 owned by &C men.
Odessa, Russia, has been preparing
to celebrate the hundredth anniversary
of its foundation. In 1894 the Duke
lie Rchclicu, Frenchman, laid out
the Plan of Odessa, now become one
of the most ilourishing cities in the
world.
Five little Italian boys were recently
sold by their parents to an enterpl Using
stranger ''for olive oil and 81 apiece"
and were being taken by their pur-
chaser to Hamburg, "to be shipped
with plaster of paris figures to differ
cnt parts of the world" when they
were found by the Austrian police
at Ala, in the Tyrol, and sent home
again.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
NEWS IN GENERAL.

me trouble between the Newfouudlandors
and the French fishermen Is still unsettled,
and serious outbreak may occur az any
moment, The pcop'e OF the west coast are
still determined to pay no taxes until they
receive better protection Rev, DR., Howley
of Halifax has gone to st, Johns In theii
behalf.
The supreme provisional government has
decided 10 place for the present the different
branches OF the administration under one
portfolio, hich will be In charge OF Gen.
Benjamin Molina Guirola at san Salvador.
Rev. George +. Cushman, DID, of Brook
yn, an associate editor of the Churchman,
died in that city day or two ago Of pneu'
monia. He was born in Pawtuckot, X, H.
Feb. -, 1919, lie was graduated from Am
Lcrst College in 1870.
Judge Z. IL. Fitzhugh OF the Richmond,
Va, chancery court was stricken with
paralysis at his home in Richmond recently
lieidelbach, Ickehemer & Co, OF New
York have ordered 1904 900 gold bars from
the assay OIL for shipment to Germany.
Hamilton O'Dell, as referee In the suit OF
Shlpman, Bar ow, Ltr0cque and Choatc, to
recover from the Bank of the State Of New
York the amount of the forgeries Of James
Z. Bedell, has filed his report, awarding the
drm Sl9S.0I5, with interest, or S2lS,5l0.
Edmund S. DeLuce, chief enoiueer Of the
United States Navy,is dead at New Brighton,
). l., in the CID year Of his age. He was
promoted to be chief engineer in 1861.
| Three bodies of women have been found
! 1t Johnstown. all of them beng in the river
ust above the stone bridge, where the great
mass of wreckage lay last summer. They
we're under the water in the sand, and all
were in fair state of preservation. Only
oae was identiied-Mrs. Roberts, wife OF
Hownr. Il Rnhprts ans biar N thn First No.
| .ional Bank. Mr.. Roberts. his wife and son
we're all drowned, but his Lody has not yet
been recovered.
building at Knoxville. Tenn. fell with a
crash. M one was hurt, The building was
owned by II. s. Payne and had just been
completed at a cost of $4,000. Briscoe 4
Co., wholesale dry goods and notions, had
stock worth S20O,O0O buried in the ruins.
!. II u1es .ot ram ihey VIII save 20 per cent;
seNeial o,n N pu..rui,'ss npal "ele uaniaSeo
sums vi i'oi' Soo' " SiVoo'
me MeNicnh newspapers persist IN mann
uai,i,'s .h"t 'h s u no rc.9'uiona.y ho o,
s 'hen' on .ne iIoii.IeI; anu ,he,eiofe 'na'
,cSts have henn modc at I .rado
~ -, ,.,,,
ni,n Ir, ane III NI,o ,,h H ta;%t near
NJ niGM..o, iIn ",,n SmS 'a .,
carried down The engineer. fireman and n
brakeman were Killed.
S;,oo ~, s,r,o,,,s =, tho 1,ou;,, H.;
s;,,. Toi,io 49, VI .ho a,,poiod pn,
Wimbrie Of Nav Jersey Went nersonollv IA
his house and apolor'zcd TO him for the out.
rage nothing further will be heard of the
matter.
M. ,,ou,,,, ,,;. ol,,.
re WIN w inn W,ni ia'e .,oo''
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
The Partisan Butchers Uniform.

From the dimmest era, now lost in OBJ
scu.ity, says Wide 4nake, the Paris
butcher boy has worn uniform be-
tokening the trade of which he is invari-
ably cheerful ornament. The apron
he wears is most curious affair, and he
himself must be regarded as the aristo-
crat of apron wearers, for he sports no
less than three aprons at once Two of
these aprons are apparently superfuous,
as they are rolled up AMI fastened al
each side; the third is worn in front aud
held in place across the breast by q
string made into peculiar knot at the
back. Whenever you see this old knot
you may be assured butchers appren-
tice had tied it. The method of making
it requires as delicate manipulation as
does the successful arrangement of the
white necktic, and our gallant butcher
boy takes as much pains with its con.
struction as any swell dressing for ball.
lis tying is profound secret, and nc
matter what induccment you offer h,
won't disclose it-you must become s
butcher boy to find it out. With hi.
fresh, white aprons, ruddy complexion
and closely cropped hair-for never b.
any chance does he wear a hat during
the functions of his office-the butche
boy is by no means an unappetiziag OBJ
iect.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
HE LOTTERY ACCEPTS,
Louisiana Will Be Paid $3.50, 900 a
Year for Privileges,

The Louisiana state lottery has accepted
the proposition made by the senate commit
lee, increasing the amount to be paid by it
annually from $1,000 600 to 81 $50, 600. This
will probably go through both houses In
the committee Senator Provosty declared
that the New-Goss English syndicate was
prepared to pay si.5JO,O00 for the lottery
privilege. and he tried TO amend the bill by
increasing the license of the Louisiana state
lottery to 81 100000, but he was voted down,
the committee taking the view that the New.
Goss syndicate was incensed, and that its bid
was not genuine one.
The case against Mr.. Saint Armant, the
representative from Ascension parish,
charged with receiving II bride of Sl6,' 100
from the Lottery Co., came up in the dis
trict court in Baton Rouge day or two ago
The encouragement refused to take part
in the prosecution. The state had no wit
nesses TO offer, and the district. attorney at
once nolle pressed the case. 1t is PROBABLE
that the charge against Saint Armant will be
made the subject of a legislative investiga
lion. 1t is a SO proposed to investigate Judge
Strickland, who is charged with bulldozing
legislators and threatening them with arrest,
like Saint Armant, if they voted for the lot.
Terry
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
NEARLY LOST HER MONEY.
BOstOn Man Robs WaverIy Lady
Under Promise of Marriage.

Jane Edgar of Waverly, Mass. appeared
in the Yorkyie On. " police court against
John Little, a Boston hote! keeper, whom
she charged with larceny of $4,000. Miss
Edgar is 80 years old She said that she and
Little, who is 80 years old and wdower,
were to have becn married in Providence at
her sisters house. Miss Edgar drew S35, 0Oj
from bank, bought the wedding ring and
gave the rest of the money to Little. Then
she went to her sisters house but Little did
not appear. Miss Edgar felt sure he had
gone to New York and he was found there
and arrested. He still had Miss Edgar's
money and SiI3 beside. Little had Il ticket
for Europe by steamer about to sail,
and his trunks were labelled TOR the voyage
IN court Miss Edgar accepted his offer TO re-
tIrn the money and Withdrew her com.
plaint
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
FOREIGN NEWS.

uo,rr NJ storlev and HE aancae Mis-.
Tennant atian,leJ no cnmmemoration dav
exercises NJ Oyford iTniyersity. The under,
graduates gave Mr.. Stanley most uproar.
GUS reception, They cheered and chailea
him, aud when be was formally presented
they sang Hes Jolly good fellow" follow.
ing up the song with more cheers Tor the en-
p1ler, ana hh'shihg Win lone more Tor the
or'ue'
Several big manufacturers at Dresden have
d, cjded TO establish mills in America for the
manufacture of textile fabrics, providing the
Mehinley o'll passes,
Mr., Rochfort Mactiure, the nominec of
Mr. Parnel for the seat in the English House
OF Commons for North Donegal, made va
cant by the resignation of Mr., ODoherty,
rlso Home Ruler, has been elected without
opposition.
Serious conflicts arc rcnortcd between
Armenians and Kurds, in which many have
been killed on both sides.
The Enolish c,binet has a.c;d.J IN aron
The licen,ing clauses Of the local toxat;on
bin INT has nostnoned Tia decision rcg,r,lin,s
the DISPOSAL of the license money
Chancellor Won ranr;vi has rrouestea tbe
Reichstag to adjonrn from July s until
Nov. Is.
In tho ce,tro, cr;n;,o, oo,r, n, IorJo,
in The case Of The Mar"m,s do 7 awhile tho
mdge has dismissed Inc case Win n ycr.
lief ~ moi entity
M, ~
a. e sp.erninen' nus ISSUED ~, oihc,ai uc,
~ n,"I VI 'no ,"iiors .nat cn9'era mas appeareu
country is in excellent health.
made lis apnearance in different narts of
France, but no adyices reporting such an
A. h.. tI.a
outbreak nave been received, ana lhe rumor
.rp; ~ ra~chont nv ca,,,ir'' "'"'
M, ~ , an
,memd,nen,s a 40 ,he ormv 5;n "a and nnnrovsd
bv n vote nf oil 70 los Tie first noragranb of
lie hin which lives tbc neace efIsctive nj
iS69s3 men until April, 1884. The minor
ity included the members OF the Freisininge
and Volks parties, the Socialists and Is
members of the Centre party.
No more bodies have been recovered of
those lost by The breaking of the foot bridge
at Brest. SIEVE, of The Victims have been
buried II are still missing, and no conclu-
sion has been come to as TO where the blame
should rest Some arrests are impending.
Cholera confines IN diminish in Valencia,
III. N,os,,I,a,;. ri, p.o,.a,, ,,,;,-
lion. whose interests Rismorck tbougbt to
protect by prohibiting the Importation of
american pork, has sent deputation to the
grand collector of inland tayes mayinp him
10 inform the government that the protection
scheme does not work in their interest.
They will refrain from protesting IL the law
he rencaleJ.
Tho nor;oa =, o,oro,,;,o n, cu,ro,..r hoe
Inv poiiou VI yum ah'lue az uioi"iV"i haS
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
CRUSHED IN HIS PULPIT.
The Work of Fierce +. rnadO at CAL
latin, Tenn.

A terrible tornado passed over the northern
part of Gallatin. Tenn, lasting about five
minutes. 1t came with terrific force, uproot-
ing trees. lifting roofs and tearing awnings
and Signs from their fastenings. A church,
the African Methodist, was blown TO pieces,
and the roof caved in on the congregation.
Their screams and cries could be heard a
great distance. Ten were taken from the
d"brs S. and two, Ann Martin and Mrs. Mary
Hoffman, were so horribly crushed by the
falling timbers that they are dying. Gran
vile Brown, the minister, was badly crushed
in his pulpit.
The church was filed, and how any es-
capped is miracle. Galatians public school
was damaged by part of the front Blowing
in, but the loss is not serious. Fences and
trees were swept away by the storm and in
many private residences carpets were blown
from the floors and furniture smashed into
kinding wood. The tornado took a south.
westerly course, and very heavy rain fell
durinU the time,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
MAD MAN WITH a FLATIRON.
In a Fit IF Frenzy He Uses His
Weapon with Dire Effect.

Charles Seymour Of Manchester Centre,
VI, in fit of frenzy struck Charles Hard
ing, a jeweler, who was boarding with him
with ilatiron OH the head, back and above
the ear, knocking him down, and struck him
two or three times near the same place aftel
he was down Seymour's wife started to
run out OF the hou-e TO alarm the neighbors,
when I've struck her with fatiron knock
ing her down an cmbankment in front of the
house. lie then went back and struck his
5-year-old son on the head with the tlatiron,
and then cut his throat with pockelknifc,
severing the windpire, and also tabled
himsc in the abdomen. Seymour and
Harding will not recover, and the Others
are in 4 critical condition, but may recover.
Seymour has been in poor heath for severa
weeks. and had shown signs OF INSANITY.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
THE LABOR WORLD.

ALL Denver Col. building workers won
eight hours.
NINE THOUSAND miners are ON strike in the
st. Etienne district in France.
CHICAGO betting manufacturers are OPEN
ng up a big trade in South Carolina.
A SCORE or two of fertilizer factories are
being erected in South Carolina and Florida.
In nearly all Russian factories the en-
oloyes are required to work thirteen hours
per day.
THERE are forty brick machines in Phila-
lelphia, each Of which can make 10000
bricks per day.
A BROOKLYN On. W employer settled
Itrike by paying the 500 owed the unio- by
light of his men.
THERE are $1,000 colored people in New
Jersey whose children are without an indus
trial training school.
BROOKLYN IN. " tin and sheet-iron work
us struck for So. so for outside work, 50 for
inside and eight hours.
DURING the last twenty years 1901 lives
have been lost in Pennsylvania while mining
liz, 352, us tons Of coal.
OVER 10000 carpenters are said to have
been benefited as the result Of the recent
Mght-hour fight in New YORK.
A WORLDS CONGRESS Of the seafaring
fraternity will be held in Glasgow, Scotland,
Turing the first week in October.
THE cigarmakers' unions have gained
nearly 5000 new members through winning
forty strikes in the last few months.
THE strikes at Truman, Moravia, and
Gratz, in Syria, ended in triumph for the
men,. The employers acceded all their de-
mands.
THE international Shoeworkers' Union
has 80 900 members Is young and has raised
wages 100000 yeer, and gained Other
points.
IT has been decided to order strikes in all
carpenter shops in Brooklyn, N. Y, where
the eight-hour working day has not Deen es-
tablished.
PERHAPS the strongest and most cohesive
labor organization in the world Is the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, num-
boring nearly $1,000 members.
But few Cinnamon assisted in gathering
cherries at Haywards, in California. Girls,
twelve years old, made during tho season
from s. to 50 day picking cherries.
THE annual union of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Iron and Steel Workers was held
at Rock Point. Penn, recently. Between
1900 and &c, 0)0 people were present.
THE typewriter has invaded the British
proposed to transfer some of the work at
present done by clerks to women with their
machines.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT, of New Jersey. has
signed the bill prohibiting the employment
of private detectives to quell strikes. 1t for
bids the appointment of non-residents of the
State as special officers.
THE Street Cleaning Department Of New
York city has appointed three physicians to
examine all applicants for positions on the
force, to determine whether they are physir
cally fit to do the work required.
THE ''relief fund.- of the Pennsylvania
Railroad is no small affair. Last yee- it is
said the employees contributed s3T, 461 and
| the company $40, 1860 making total oil
| s474, ri OF this s343, 500 was paid out.
THERE has been strike of children en-
| ployed in the sugar beet fields of Saxony
| The children near Brachwitz quit work be
their employers refused to raise their wage
| from twelve to twenty-five cents per day
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
An "OriginaI Package Boom.

An ''original package" house has been
opened in Colchester, ,on the lines Of the re-
cent supreme court decision. All sorts Ct
liquors are retailed in all sizes of bottles.
each and every bottle being regarded as an
"original package" IL is reported that
wholesale liquor houses have offered 500 a
month and guaranteed immunity TO any
man who will open an "origina package
establishment in Macomb. A former saloon
keeper of keokuk. kept by st. Louis
liquor house, is preparing to open original
package houses in interior Illinois towns.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
The Distance to the Stars.

Astronomers agree in fixing the
distance of the nearest star at % ,000,-
600, 900, 900 miles, and we are proba-
bly, not far from the truth if we set
the distance Of Sirius at about 1o0,-
600, 900, 100000 miles. 1t is calcu-
lated that the ball from an Armstrong
l00-pounder quits the gun with the
speed of about 400 yards per second.
Now, if this velocity could be kept up
it would require no fewer than 10o,-
100000 years before the ball could
reach Sirius.-TChambers' Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
HEMING WAY FOUND GUILTY.
The Mississippi Ex-Trcasurer to Serve
Five Years.

The great trial of ex-Treasurer Heming-
way of Mississippi has ended in verdict Of
guilty, with Il recommendation TO mercy.
Motions for new trial were overruled, and
Judge Chisman asked the prisoner if he had
anything to say. He responded in five
minute TRADE Of abuse upon Dist.-Atty.
Miller, and asserted his innocence of the
charge of stealing S315.6l2.19 from the state.
When he had finished his spe. ch the court
sentenced him to five years in the peniten-
tiary. The excitement in the court room
was intense when his family and friends
gathered about him and wept like children.
An appeal was taken to the supreme court.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
RAILROAD MAN FINED $4,000.
The Penalty for Manipulating Grain
Rates.

The outcome of the case against the
Michigan Central officials for manipulating
rates, has ended in conviction for ex-
General Freight Agent Street. he being fined
5000. 1t Is the first conviction with pena.-
ty attached yet found under the interstate
commerce act. and is extremely unsatisfac-
tory to the prosecutors. in that it was found
impossible to make the railroad itself re-
sponsible or to impcate superior officers
who undoubtedly instructed Street to do as
lie did in manipulating grain rates.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
brown From the Bridge.

Robert Rogerson, 6 years of age, who
lives with his parents at East Boston. was
crossing q bridge of the Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn r. r, when he was struck
by the inward bound train He was thrown
a long distance and fell into the water. The
train was Immediately stopped and backed.
The little fellows body was face downwards
in the water and slowly sinking when 2, S
McNally and Charles Mcguire, both OF
Charlestown, plunged overheard and
brought it TO land. When it was found
that he was st II alive he was hastily re-
moved to the hospital. His skull is frac.
tured besides other injuries, and his recover,
Is doubtful.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
THE LOU. SIANA LOTTERY.
Favorable Ac ion by the Lower House
of the state.

The Louisiana House, after debating the
proposition at length, passed the lottery bill
submitting TO the populr vote constt,i-
tional amendment continuing the Louisiana
State Lottery Company for % years, in re-
turn for 81 100000 year to be paid by the
company The vote stood G6 to %, lust
enough to pass the bill. The bill is reason
ably certain to pass the Senate with the
same two thirds majority. 1t cannot he We
ed by the Governor, but gees before the
people in April, 1892, aud will have to re-
ceive majority of all the votes then to be.
come law.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
Music as a Medicine.

A London merchant rejoices because
he tried music as a medicine. His boy,
six years old, was dying with typhoid,
and was qui insensib,e with no APP
pearancc of being able to live through
the night. knowing his sons fond
ness for music, the father procured a
large music box and caused it to play,
with the result that the child's atten-
ton was aroused and his life saved by
the reaction.-[Trenton (N.J) Amer
lean.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
CAPT. YOUNG'S NEGLIGENCE.
Cause of the Accident to the Steamer
City of Rome.

The board of trade at London have given
Judgment iu the matter of the accident to the
Anchor line steamer City OF Rome. which
ran on the Fastnet rock during a fog. while
on her last voyage from New York, and
narrowly escaped destruction. The court
finds that the accident was due to the failure
of CAPT Young to attend to the warnings OF
the lead. The board in its decision gives no
indication of the action to be taken in regard
to Capt. YOungs certificate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
PANITZ \ EXECUTED.
rhc Tragic End of the Conspiracy
Against Bulgaria.

The sentence of death pronounced upon
Maj. PAM IN for conspiracy to overthrow
the Bulgarian government has beah carried
out, the execution taking place at fla. On
arriving al the place of execution he made
confession to the chaplain. With a firm step
he walked to the post alone and saluted the
military Officers present. lie was then bound
to tree. Just before the order to fire was
given the condemned man cried out in loud
voice: .'Long live Bulgaria" The body OF
the dead soldier was given to his widow.
Prince Ferdinand signed the death war
rant of Maj. Pan.tza on board q vessel while
ell route for Vienna. There have been Sc
re comments in the European press on his
absence from Sofia at this time.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
Struck by an Excursion Train.

A carriage containing four laoies. young
man and the driver. while attempting to
sross the track at Ute Pass, Col, was
struck by the Midland excursion train. The
carriage was utterly demolished and Mrs.
Cosgrove of Chicago was instantly killed.
Mrs. Wolf Of Newark, y. j., received in
iuries from which she died in two hours.