The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-16
NEWS IN GENERAL.

A gale blew down the wall of an unlln-
ished church in Brooklyn, n ", crushing
q house and killing two OF its inmates,
II is believed that st, Louis Is practically
out of the contest for the worlds fair site,
Indians have disposed of 1900 acres of
valuable land in v ashinglon, including the
: (and ON which have been built Spokane
Falls and Pennington.
Fourteen men we're killed by the collapse
OF a caisson of the new bridge in process of
construction between Louisville, Ky, and
Jacksonville, Ky,
The trustees of Plymouth church, Brook
lyn, N, V, have accepted an offer by Thorn
as g, Sherman, John Clalin and $, V,
White, to erect building in memory
Of Henry Ward Beeoher, The memo.
rial chapel will occupy the site of the
building in which Mr.. Beecher began his
Brooklyn ministry, 1t is in the rear of the
present church building.
A subStropical exposition is being held at
Jacksonville, Fla.
The defalcations in this country during
1889 amounted to over SS,0O0000.
Ward McAllister says his New Years ball
was the greatest social event in New York
since the one given to the Prince of Wales.
1t Is estimated by a New York physician
that there are over 100000 cases of "la
grippe" in that city
An old and wealthy citizen of Hookston,
Pa, was given a ride on rail around the
town bya gang OF so-called regulators
on count of his al egel i'll treatment of
his young wife
DR.. Kniffen and Miss Purcell were ar
rested at Trenton, n. j., on the charge of
numbering Mrs. Kniiien, who was found
dead in her home.
Califarpio'S raca;nIs from, ha s,la ~ 1r;n1
fruits, raisins and honey last year were fully
5000, 200, and the prospects for the bus ness
this year are very fattering,
Word has been received from Prof. S. w.
Burnham, chief of the eclipse expedition,
sent from Lick observatory to South Amer
lea, announcing that the observation of the
eclipse of the sun December % was entirely
successful and the expedition is homeward
bound.
Ex-senator Elbri lge Gerry L,pham, the
successor of the late Roscoe Conkling re-
Gently died at Rochester, n. Y.
The engagement of Miss Ellen Bayard,
the youngest daughter of ey-Secretary Bay
ard, to Count Lewenhaupt of Sweden, has
been announced Miss Bayard is about
Il years of age. Count Iewenhaupt, dur
ing Mr. Bayards term of office, was an at
tache of the Swedish legation.
The contest over United States scnatosr
from Montana will be transferred to Wash
ington.
Congressman H. p. ChPatham, the col
ored representative of the "a district of
North Carolina, is reported to have left his
seat in congress and gone down to stump
his district against emigration. He has be-
come alarmed at the continued exodus of
the negroes from his district 1t is claimed
that Cheatham has already lost sevreval
thousand votes in his district.
Miss Carrie Durham Kilgoro of Phla-
delphia has been admitted to practice before
the United States supreme court. She is the
fourth one of her sex who has sought Tor or
obtained this distinction. 1t is o somewhat
remarkable fact that one man novel the
admission of each of them Hon, A. G. Rid
die, who is an ardent supporter of woman
suffrage.
A new theory as to the whereabouts of
Defaulter Si'cott J.. that he is hiding in the
Businesses of the Dismal swamp. The rea-
son for TIL s theory is that just few days
before he and the congressmen's money Dis
appeared, he returned from long hunting
trip with large supply of game, ducks,
geese and quail, which he said he had shot
in the Dismal swamp. In speaking Of his
trip he said that if any one wanted to hide
where the whole United States government
could not find him, the place to go was to
the Dismal swamp