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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
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Exhumed History.

Every young reader who has been
charmed by the wonderful story of
Joseph In Egypt must be interested to
know how much modern science and
enterprise are doing to restore the
scenes and objects he looked upon, and
the outlines of the very life of his gen.
GRAFTON. Pithom, one of the treasure
cities" in which doubtless that Hebrew
hero and pattern man stored up the
surplus of the harvests of the "seven
years of plenty" has been discovered
by DR.. Naville and excavated from the
sand. 1t is the city which the Greeks
called Heroopolis.
Doctor Naville's explorations have
enabled him also to identify the early
camps of the Israelites, Succoth-a
district, not city-Pi-Hahiroth, Ball
lephon and other places, and so trace
their journey to where they crossed the
Red sea-
1t seems almost as if the localities of
Bible history were cast by design out
side OF the path of destroying time.
Climate, the embalmer's art, and the
all covering sand have kept the daily
world of the Pharaohs, like an old but
indelible negative" to be brought out
in full photograph by nations thousands
OF years younger than they.
Men like Mariette Bey, Mr.. Petrie
and DR. Naville have unearthed and
are still unearthing for US the very
halls and streets where old Egyptians
bowed the knee to Joseph or trembled
at the miracles of Moses and Aaron,
and restoring to the light of day the in
scriptions and some of the very papyri
which they actually saw and read.
1t is silent language these risen
relics speak, for the vowels are all gone
out OF them; but it requires but little
imagination to breathe life and sound
into the startling consonants-the skele-
tons of a past SO real and SO grand. -
Youths Companion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
She Couldn't Get Married.

The Boston Herald says: A Leomins-
ter housekeeper while looking over
some old letters of her great-grand-
mother ran across the following:
DEAR, GOOD JoHN-We shall have
to put off our marriage, mother is max
ing such an awful fuss about it. l don't
want to bit, now we are published,
but l have to. She says you amt old
enough and l don't know anything,
and then there Is SO much expense
about 1t. Now, John, just think of it,
My dress will be only nine shillings
($1.50), and my new calfskin shoes
would do. She says you shan't marry
me until you can keep two cows Of
your own. Father is willing, and says
he will give us the sheep, but mother
says he shan't, and you know she al
ways carries the day. Darni It'll l wish
she could never have got married her
self. Now, John, let us stick to each
other l shall be eighteen in about ten
months more. Now, you will hold on,
won't you, joint Come Sunday night
with the gray horse and shay, and we
will ride out and talk 1t over. Good
night. MARY"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
Briellets BY Wire.

The war cloud In Europe, If reports
are true, is assuming huge proportions.
On Monday, it is reported, Russia
landed 1900 Cossacks and $4,000 in
fantry within 60 miles of Constanti-
nople and Immediately took possess
sion of the two railroads leading to
that place, thus completely flanking
that city.
Mrs. Thurman, wife of Allen G..
Thurman is dead.
Severe rain storms have prevailed
dcfing the past week in England and
Ireland doing much damage.
A street fight occurred between
some sailors of the U. S. steamship
Baltimore and Chiian sailors at San
tiago few days ago. One of the
Baltimore's crew was killed and an
other will probably die.
Montana boasts of 1000, 900 sheep.
You can send a cable message to
London and get an answer in min
utes.
President Harrison, Secretary Fos-
ter and Secretary Noble attended
the Methodist ecumenical council on
Monday. The President and Secre-
tary Foster addressed the council.
Col. H. R. Sibley of Charlestown,
Mass, has been arrested for forgery
and has confessed the crime. Sibley
has a good war record and is a prom
inent G. A. r. man.
The wife of William Henry Smith,
the leader in the House of Commons,
will be elevated to the peerage.
At Indianapolis William Bause
and an unknown man, both laborers,
were killed by train while crossing
the tracks.
Col. Allen, republican candidate
for governor of Massachusetts, has
again been taken i'll, and his present
engagements have beer cancelled.
Brother Aldreas Binder, the first
and oldest Benedictine monk in the
United States, was buried in the
monastery burying grounds at Lat
robe, Penn, Friday.
James Parton the biographical and
historical writer and husband of the
late Fanny Fern died at Newbury-
port, Mass, last Saturday.
At Clarksburg, Miss, Bonds saw
mill boiler exploded Saturday morn
ing, killing Sam Harold and Ephraim
Ely, and mortally wounding Allen
Lindsey.
The formal treaty of peace and
amnesty between Honduras and San
Salvador has been signed. This
makes sure, for the time being at all
events, the peace and tranquility Of
the Central American states.
A shock of earthquake struck Burns
vile, Miss, at II o'clock the other
morning. Five other distinct shocks
were felt before o'clock in the after
noon. The shock was also felt at
Middleton and Florence, Ala, Inka,
Corinth and Nashville, Tenn.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
RAILWAY RUMBlES.

Gable lines will supplant 1000 horses in
New York.
San Francisco's cable system Is greater
by fifty miles than that of any other city.
Work has been commenced on the Du-
luth end of the Duluth, Red Wing and
Southern. The terminus will be in Supe-
rior, where it connects with the Duluth
and Winnipeg.
A traveller in Greece complains that
there is only one railroad in that land of
former glory--a miserable narrow gauge
line over which the trains crawl with ex-
asperating slowness.
Thirteen railroads center at Toledo, and
the general Offices of but one are located at
that point-the Toledo, St. Louis and Kan
sas City-and that is in St. Louis, the
western terminus of the road.
The harbor work at Tampico and the
Monterey and Mexican Gulf railroad, to-
gether with the branch of the Mexican
| Central from Tampico to San Luis Potosi,
will shortly open lower Tamaulipas to col
onization and investment.
John l.. Blair is said to be the oldest rail
way official in the United States, both in
| years and time of service. He entered rail
road service in October, ls46. He is now
president of two roads and director in a
| half dozen other important lines.
The New York Central uses large mum
| ber of plants on its line every year, buying
| them by contract from a florist in Tarry.
town The company has decided to make
more of it's floral ornamentation, and will
| build at once large greenhouse at Pough
keepsie.
The Pennsylvania road has equipped its
| New York aud Washington and congres
sional limited trains with Pullman ant
vestibuled cars of the latest designs anC
| finest finish. For internal beauty and tn,
safety and comfort of passengers it |.
claimed that the cars are unexcelled.
The Erie has taken new departure. Il
will run tourist sleepers every Thursda!
from Chicago to Boston. Returning tn,
sleepers will leave Boston each Tuesday
The route is by the Fitchburg Holders o
second class tickets will be entitled to Sc
cure accommodations on these sleepers.
Several of the railroad companies are do
ing two things that will be appreciated by
the travelling public; first, replacing shah
By depots with buildings of neater anC
more modern style of architecture; sec
ond, requiring the agents to keep loafer
and roughs from loafing about the depots
Section 2O5 of the new Kentucky stat
constitution provides that "any state, dis
trict, city. town or county officer or mem
Der of the general assembly or Judge VIII,
shall accept free pass or passes, or shal
receive or use tickets or transportation a
| reduced rates not common to the publ
shall forfeit his office"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Under this heading w. W. Hig-
bee of Charlotte, VT, has the follow
ing sensible talk in the New Eng
land Homestead:
A bigger humbug than 81 can buy
my feed cheaper than l can raise it"
never tickled the fancy of a New
England farmer. 1t is the veriest
nonsense. What is your land for?
What is your time for? What are
you going to busy yourself about
while waiting for the corn to grow in
Iowa or Kansas? If you buy your
feed you must get money in some way
to pay for it, and in the meantime
your land remains untitled or half
titled, and your farm grows poorer
instead of better. This constant
drain for feed and flour keeps you
hard up most of the time, and at the
end of the year you give farming a
kick and storm about its not paying.
Put business into your farm work,
raise all you can on your own land.
Study your business just as q mer-
chant, banker or professional man
does his. Take the papers, keep
posted and don't think you have got
to drudge yourself to death.
Above all, stop running down your
business. 1t sounds bad, discoura-
ges you and sets your boys and girls
against the farm, every time. A
merchant who is constantly telling you
that his business is not paying, loses
your confidence. You soon refuse tc
trust him, and finally you hate to
trade with him. Failures occur in
farming as they do in any other call
ing. | come back again to this
raise all you can on your own farm
Always have ga little something" tC
sell if you can. Stand by your bust
ness, put your time INTO it-a reason
able amount of it-and if that don'i
stop this talk about abandoned farms
there is nothing else on this greer
earth that will.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

The Watchman of this week gives
the following spicy record of Hiram
Atkins, the editor of the Argus:
"G) whose connection with the
Bellows Falls postoflice is not yet
forgotten in this community; (2) who
has been soundly thrashed by B. ID.
Harris, A. N. Swain, John W.
Clark, ct ais, for offenses against
truth and private character (3) who
was raided during the civil war for
his rank disloyalty and bitter copper
headism and at the point of the bay
onet forced to cheer the Union flag ;
(4) who while befuddled with cham
pagne at a banquet in Boston in 1883
pledged Vermont's electoral vote to
Butler in the next national election
(5) who not long since was abusing
Justice Hinkley, but had recently
been defending him for his leniency
to rumsellers."
That is rank enough to "smell to
heaven" yet there are good Drepub-
licans in Windham county who hob
mob with and have made post-oflice
dickers with Hiram, besides he is
Governor Smiths right-hand man.
Bah !
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
A Tribute to Freshmen.

Mr.. Phelps, in the course of an ad-
dress. paid a tribute to freshmen, which
every freshman should have been
present to hear.
Some one sent to me not long ago,
he said, 'for samples of the examina-
ton papers Of some Yale freshmen.
accordingly procured some for sending,
and seized the opportunity to look them
over myself. I was simply thunder
struck by the amount of information
displayed in those papers. had no
idea that anybody in the country, old
or young, knew SO much.
81 felt like apologizing to all fresh
men everywhere for having uncon-
sciously undervalued them, and in my
heart apostrophized them in words
! akin to the eloquent language of Daniel
Webster: Venerable men, have come
down to you from former generation
How gracious has heaven been in
lengthening out my years that l might
behold your joyous dayP"-Cor. New
York Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Attention is directed to our great
offer of books in connection with the
SITTER to be found on second and
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and the SITTER one year for only
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The famous Leather Stocking
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Any one set or all of these can be
obtained by any person who pays one
year in advance for the SITTER.
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

1t was told at the time in the SIF
TER that the Vermont Marble Co.
Proctor's, had bought at auction the
Dorset Marble Cos. personal prop
erty for some $4,000. After the
company had picked up and appro,
priated all they wanted they sole
Thomas Quigley and James P. Nc.
Dewitt what was left for $40. This
sale included an immense waste heaI
which is being overhauled, sorted an(
sold. Several hundred dollars worth
has already been disposed of and 6
vast amount is still left. The las
sale was a carload of two inch, to one
of Manchester "400," for the foo1
of hog pen. Report says this hog
pen is 80 ft. by 60 it,, IA stories o.
less with sky light and that the foo
or floors will circle round somewha
like railroad turntable. 1t is {
cunningly devised Yankee get up TO
putting together or separating a gen
tleman's live pork without soiling hi
sshesh kids"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Strangers In the House of Commons.
The number of strangers admitted to
the various galleries of the house of
commons in each session of the present
parliament appears, from the returns
granted to Mr. Childers on July 81 last,
to have been, in the second session of
1886, 6,22a, or n daily average Of pol;
in 1887 32,5iS, or a daily average of
203; in 1883, 35, 033, or "a daily average
Of 2l9; in 1889, 25,5S7, or a daily aver
age of 2lO; in 1890, 29,S17, or a daily
average of 23S, and in 1891, 22, S32, or a
daily average of 1862,
The total number of sittings of the
house during the present parliament
has been 73A, and the total number of
persons admitted to the galleries was
l52,Oi6 or ut the rate of POS per sit
ting. Ladies' and distinguished stran-
rers admitted to their respective gal
lerics are not included in the return,
which stated that the speakers gallery
and the strangers gallery were ANAL
gn!nated on June II, 1888, and desig-
mated the Members gallery. LON
don Tit-Bts.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
Written For the SIFTER,l
RAILROADS-PAST AND PRESENT.
M l

One of the most important factors
in the worlds civilization, is the rail-
road, No other invention ever con-
celved by the genius of man, always
excepting the printing press, has ac-
complished such wonderful results.
Next to the railroad, in real i'm
portance, and as an necessary adjunct
toits successful operation, is the tele-
graph. But should the world, from
necessity or otherwise, be obliged to
do without one or the other, railroads
would still have the preference.
The truly marvellous growth of
railways of few miles in length,
from mere tramway of wooden rails,
in 1872, to iron and steel rails of sew
eral hundred thousand miles, in 1891,
is indicative of the progress made
during the past 200 years, and more
especially the last fifty.
Iron rails were first used at White
haven, Eng, in 1888, and in this
country as far back as 1944-5 and 6,
when they weighed 40 pounds to the
yard, were 10 feet long, and cost
$4,000 per ton. No iron rails, how
ever, are manufactured now, steel
rails weighing Sc, p, So, 80 and even
100 bounds to the yard. 80 feet long,
and costing $4,000 ton, have super
ceded them, as they are cheaper and
more durable.
Originally the price of steel rails
made in England and shipped here,
including duty on the same, was
125.0O in gold per ton.
The first steel rails probably ever
used in this country were laid about
three-quarters of a mile out of st.
Albans on the old Vermont Central
railroad, in 1858 or 8, to the foot of
"Johny Cake" hill. Steel rails are
now in use on the same road between
White River Junction and Hartford
that were laid in 1872. The average
life of steel rail is Is years.
2600 ties tothe mile are required
to build a railroad 5000 being neces-
sary on heavy grades. The life of
hemlock tie is rated at from 4 to 5
years, chestnut or tamarack, 7 to s,
and a cedar, 15. 1t is said that there
are cedar ties on the Rutland Div. of
the Central Vermont system that
have been in constant use for 80
years. Granite ties were enc time
experimental with on the Boston and
Lowell railroad, years ago, but
but were finally abandoned as being
perfectly useless, owing to the action
of the frost in breaking them, and
the hammering out of the rails. Iron
ties have hardly proven any better.
Wooden ties, because of their elastic
ity and the facilities they offer for
quickly attaching the rails to them,
e, - III
The cost per mile for building a
railroad, fully equipped, is from S25,
900 to 1000.
CApaoN
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Judge Thompson, who presided at the
recent session of the Rutland county
court, enforced the liquor law with ex-
emplary fidelity. Fines aggregating over
So, 900 were imposed upon twenty-one of
tenders. One was sentenced thirty days
in the workhouse, another to thirty-siS
days, and two others to six months each.
Hugh Kelly, a cripple, was unable to pay
his fine and was given 800 days in the
house of correction. TO the appeal in his
behalf on the score of bis infirmities
Judge Thompson answered with COM
mendable good sense, 'that the plea that
| a man who had been engaged in the liq'
uor business was sick or a cripple would
have no weight with this court. There
were ways that he could support himself
or be supported, without breaking the
law" In seven cases bail was forfeited
After the adjournment of court the liquor
| dealers restocked their bars, but the sher
iff and his deputies promptly descended
upon them and made heavy seizures
| Watchmau-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Ben Abou in N. Y. Press has the
followig in reference to the Maybr1ck
am, told that the movement of
this country for the pardon of Mrs.
Maybrick, the American woman who
is in an English prison for life as the
result of trial for poisoning her hus-
band, had its origin in a pathetic let
ter witten by Mrs. Maybrick's moth
er to Mrs. James G. Blaine, wife of
the Secretary of State, requesting her
influence. Walker Blaine, before his
death, had read accounts of the May
brick trial, and in his mothers pres
ence had denounced the proceedings
as terribly unjust and the judges
charge as an outrage which in the
United States would have been fol-
lowed by impeachment. Mrs.
Blaine's mind was ripe for the moth
er's appeal on this account, and Abb
gail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) became
the medium through whose pen the
American public has been reached.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
Ingrateful.

A kcotucky engineer named Hughes
has discovered that it does not always
pay, financially, to save human life.
The other day he saw man named
Stevenson lying across the track ahead
Of his train. The engine was stopped
within a few feet of Stevenson. He
appeared drunk, Hughes pulled him
off and ID him two or three times.
Stevenson was not drunk, but in fit.
He had Hughes arrested and fined
1901, costs and fine, although he had
saved his life. Philadelphia Ledger
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
Wake Up /!

The age is one of rapid progress-and
we are in it. Our patrons are among the
most progressive of the nation. They
are quick TO take advantage of good of
fer. We make great many; but when
we recently offered a set of the memoirs,
either of Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Nc
Clelan, or Lee, in their respective orig
nal editions, for 80 cents set, in con
nection with years subscription to the
Cosmopolitan Magazine, SO, and years
subscription to this paper, Sl-$4.50 in
alive fairly outdid ourselves.
Thousands of orders have already been
received by the publishers, so that if our
friends wish to avail themselves of this
extraordinary opportunity, they must
wake up. No such offer has ever before
been made to the reading public, and it i:
doubtful if it will ever be duplicated.
Again we say, ''Wake up y
If not on reading terms with the mag
azine, send postal card request for free
sample copy to the Cosmopolitan Pub
fishing Company, Madison Square, New
York city.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
ESTATE OF NATHAN BUXTON.
STATE OF VERMONT, !

II
Westminster,
By the Probate Court for said district, to all
persons interested in the estate of Nathan
Buxton late of Londonderry in said district,
deceased, greeting. You are hereby notified
that this Court will decide upon the allowance of
the account of E. F. Rugg, administrator
said estate, and decree distribution thereof to
the persons entitled, at the session thereof to be
held at the Probate Office in Bellows Falls
on the 7th day of Nov. A. ID. 1891 when and
where you may be heard in the premises, if you
see cause. Chas. B. Eddy, Register.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

The New England Homestead is
booming a project for the free deliv-
cry of mails among the farmers.
That this would be great boon to
that large and deserving class of citi-
zens admits of no doubt. 1t is equal
ly certain that before many years the
free delivery system will be greatly
extended. The march of events por-
tends this. And. the only question as
to the adoption of universal free de-
livery will turn upon its practicable
ty. 1t is matter to think about.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Edison's latest is to abolish loco
motives and run trains by electricity,
making the two rails conductors, at
the rate of 100 miles an hour. Hap
lily there is no law to compel us to be-
leve all the Menlo Park wizard
coyS
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

The Rutland police court had six
drunks and four breach of the peace
cases Monday. Sunday must have
been high old time for the marble
CITY.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
TH LONDONDERRY VT, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1891

The worlds trotting record was
beaten on Tuesday by Sunol at Stock
ton, CAL, the mile being made in
2 :0S Ia.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
CARSON.

A horse which had been running on
the mail route between Highland,
Va, and Staunton, has in the last
six years made 1878 trips and travel
ed 1850 miles.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
Vermont News.

Patrick Kennedy, while at work in
u slate quarry in the south part of
Poultney last Monday, fell into the
quarry a distance of 80 feet, and was
so injured that he died in few min
utes.
Z. f. Fowler, Of the firm Of White
& Fowler of Burlington, met with a
shocking accident Monday afternoon
while assisting a veterinary in the
care of a sick horse. The horses
head was bandaged and Mr.. Fowler
had just brought pail of boiling wa
ter which he was holding under the
animals head to allow the rising
steam to penetrate the bandage and
cause perspiration, when the horse,
by sudden movement of his nose,
overturned the paiful of water on tC
Mr.. Fowler's left arm. When the
tight-ftting undershirt was removed
the skin and pieces of flesh came of
with it clear to the shoulder.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

Thirteen is not always an unlucky
number. That number of convicts
recently escaped from an Ohio Jail,
and have not been captured. Boston
Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

The reunion of the Vermont Vet
eran Association was held at Rutland
on Wednesday.