The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-01-08
EAST DORSET.

Christmas and New Years have
come and gone Santa Claus was
heavily loaded, young Americas eyes
are bright and he is wealthy and
happy. Some of the plenteous find
were too bulky for small stockings,
that of an Estey organ to Miss Cas-
sic Beers being among them. All Of
us have been wished the compliments
Of the season and none of us thus far
are sick or especially miserable. But
we "Yanks" seem to enjoy less than
other nationalties, in fact our fun
seems to be in q comatose state. And
when we read of fun, Masquerade
Balls, etc. elsewhere,
I'm moment we seem to be there
But alas recollection at hand
Soon hurries us back to despair"
Our visitors have gone and the
tears of JOY at meeting have been fol-
lowed by tears Of parting. Such is
life.
Our pastor, Forbes, had a Christ
mas tree at the Union church and
doings to please the little folks. He
is working hard to make us and our
Dandy neighbors better. But the
ground is stony it takes good deal
of narrowing to enable the seed to
take root. With us it seems to be in
difference, with our neighbors afore-
SAID unbelief. If a Salvation Army
could winter along the head waters OF
the Battenkill and Otter Creek, pos
sibly with its flies and drums and
shoutings it might induce some to
take the anxious seat and invest,
But this is difficult work and he mus,
be an evangelist of an uncommon and
successful kind who single handed
and alone can get up much Of a song
in our little vale about smiling al
"Satan's rage and facing 'frown
ing world"
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Grout will star
soon, possibly this week, for Lo'
Angels. Mr.. Grout has been herr
| in continuous railway service SOM
thlrty-fve years, nearly all that TIM
being also postmaster. We are sorr,
for ourselves but glad on his accoun
that he has decided to shake off dull
care and leave "Sweet Auburn," tenn
porarily.
Word has just been received tina
Leon Brophy who lately went Sout
for his health is in Georgia lyin
supinely on his back. The mos
dangerous place one can be in is th
bed. More people die there than an
where else. The next meanest plaC
is away from ones own home an
from his kit and kin and among entil
strangers. There is where doctor
, send their patients when they thin
"saltpeter can't save them"
|. Moses Sheldon of Dorset Is no
caring potatoes at our station. Mo-
t of them are being drawn from tt
} east side of the mountain, the prit
paid, as understood, being 20 cts.
, the cellars. AS they are now wort
a dollar it looks as if Mr.. Sheldon
enterprise would be we'll rewarded.
3 1t appears in print that the ''noble
red men are being "admitted to ths
t equal sky" nowadays in considers
BILE numbers. 1t is too bad to /
compelled to travel road where or
can't take his back track. Too ba
to be sent prematurely to "that III
discovered country, from whose boul
no traveller returns" But Lo mu
stop rolling murder as ''sweet mo
sci under his tongue" He must
good in fact as in fiction. Mercy
him is cruelty to Uncle Sans pione'
sons and daughters. Raising tt
scalps of men, women and childre
has been Los principal employmel
and greatest amusement about thru
hundred years. It's time he raise
some other crop. He should lay dow
: his CORY weapons and take up Il
t shovel and the hoe. If he dies,
/ this be his epitaph: This hog dit
of vacuum in his abdominal pant
9 because he wouldn't root.
The name of N. II. Downs ST