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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
All Sorts.

A Providence (R. I.)husband and
wife are at law over the naming of
their child.
Virginia has just awarded a con-
tract for handsome State library in
Richmond.
The centenary of the passage of
the first divorce law in France has
just occurred.
There are but 100 colored voters in
North Dakota. There are 5000 in
the city of Baltimore.
If you are poor man and want a
wife, go to Lapland. Fashions in
women's dress change there only once
in thousand years.
A Cincinnati man has had a $500
crop. He sued convival friend who
humorously clipped his hair to the
scalp while he was in deep sleep,
and has recovered $500 damages.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
PRICE THREE CENTS.

Columbus week was inaugurated at
Providence, r. L., Sunday by pa
rade of 5000 Sunday school children
of the Roman Catholic parishes.
Edward w. Seymour, one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court OF
Connecticut, died at Litchlield on
Monday.
The case of young Arden Humph-
rey, who mysteriously disappeared
from the Brattleboro asylum few
years ago, is to be brought before the
Legislature. An investigation will be
asked for at the expense of the state.
Fourteen persons were injured,
two fatally, by the explosion of q
sky rocke, during.a a fireworks dis
play at st. Louis Saturday evening.
The immense Illinois grain elevator
at Chicrgo collapsed Saturday night,
scattering 1870, 900 bushels of grain
over the railroad tracks and into the
river.
William Rushler, workman at the
Crown Point Iron Company's mlne at
Hammondsville, fell 250 feet to the
bottom of the shaft and was manged
beyond recognition.
The Danbury (Conn) Roman Cath
olic Church was despoiled by burglars
of So 200 worth of property Satur-
day.
Fifty tons of giant powder explod-
ed on Capital Hill, Leadville, Cal.
Saturday night, soaring the citizens
and shaking them up.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

So Londonderry, VT, July II, 1892.
GEORGE G. SMITH,
Sir: Il used myself and in
my family last winter three bottles of
your Rheumatic Cure with most excellent
results. | had rheumatism three or four
years previous to that time, but it COM
menced to relieve me almost at once and
| have not been troubled with it since
taking the first bottle. My general health
was also very much improved by its use.
could mention also members of my fam
lily who used the remedy at the same time
and received much benefit thereby. l
consider it very valuable medicine and
do most heartily recommend it.
C. d. FARNUM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

A reported outbreak of cholera at Hell.
meta n. j. ,created much excitement in
that, vicinity. Investigation showed that
the disease was not Cholera btft,a violent
dysentery which is almost as severe and
dangerous as cholera. Mr.. Walter Will
lard, a prominent merchant of James
burg, two miles from Helmetta, says
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rh9a Remedy has given great sati>fac-
ton in the most severe cases of dysentcry.
1t is certainly one of the best things ever
made. For sale by
Goddard & Gibson, Londonderry.
Richardson & Leonard, Londonderry
and Peru.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
Sifterlets-ShOrt and Snappy-

AS elecIlOn Qay draws nearer the
claim of the politician becomes loud
er and more positive; on that day
nothing but votes will count.
The official returns from the late
Georgia election indicate that the
maxim "vote early and vote often
is not unknown in that State.
"You do the voting; we do the
counting" is pleasing motto to the
party which controls the election ma
chinery.
If all the school teachers followed
the example of the Canadian girl who
suicided because of her failure to con-
troll the bad boys in her school, there
would be mourning in every school
district.
There has been a turn in the tide
of good fortune upon which prize
fighters have been floating; in Eng
land one of of them has been SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment
at hard labor, and in Memphis one
has been killed.
The politician who keeps his mouth
shut now will not be in good posi-
ton to ask favors of the next admin
istration.
Lincoln, Darwin, Tennyson, Glad
stone, and Oliver Wendell Holmes
were all born in the same year-1S09.
That year has right to consider
itself an aristocrat among the years.
Denmark has a successful sold
maids" insurance company. The
idea wouldn't "go" in this country,
because no girl would ever be willing
to swear herself to be an sold maid"
in order to collect the policy.
France was bound to fight some
body. Failing to have the chip
knocked from its shoulder BY Ger
many, it tackled the King of Da-
honey, whose Amazonian soldiers
are always ready to fight.
The new boundary line between
Mexico and the United States, which
is being surveyed, has made "greas-
ers' of lot of people who fondly
imagined themselves to belong to the
family of Uncle Sam.
A foolish young New Yorker made
love to a mother and daug ghter at the
same time. He is dead, killed by a
bullet; but whether from his own pis-
tol or that of the husband and father
of the two women has not been de-
termined.
The campaign has reached the flop
ping stage, which indicates the near
approach of voting time. y
A "beggars ball" is the latest Eu-
ropean amusement novelty. To the
pretty American girl all balls are
beggars' balls; the men beg her to
dance with them.
1t is doubtless true that votes
are bought, but it is mighty hard
to prove, as neither the buyer
nor the seller are apt to volunteer tes-
timony on the subject.
The social status of Columbus is
apparently of more Importance to the
noodles who pose as representatives
of New York's so-called exclusive
set than his discoveries.
Gentlemen desiring little free
newspaper advertising may now OBJ
tain the same easily by doing the po-
litical flip flap act.
Indications point to an unusually
hard winter upon defeated candidates.
When the cold north wind doth blow
Where, oh where, will the poor fellows go.
1t may seem little queer, but all
the same it is true that the statesmen
who have gained the greatest honors
for England, during the present gen.
GRAFTON, were not Englishmen. Lord
Beaconsfield was a Jew; Mr.. Glad
stone is a Scotchman.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

Gov. Fuller in his message to the
Legislature said, in speaking of the bal.
lot law:
The present law requires such an
amount of clerical skill that voter, in
spite Of the exercise of ordinary care,
may be deprived of his franchise.
Holy Moses What can amount Of
clerical SKILL" indeed, it must take for
a man to take a pencil and mark an x.
What rot for a governor to get off.
If Jim Brown or Sam Jones had said
this the SITTER would be justified in
calling them blamed fools.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

Death has been striking some heavy
blows in the ranks of literary men OF
late but "E Pluribus Unum," "Old
Subscriber" ''Vox Populi," and other
well-known contributors to the press
still live, and will probably have ar
ticles in the last newspaper printed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

If Columbus looked anything like
some of the pictures of him the news
papers are printing, it was not strange
that he should have been imprisoned.
The only wonder is that he was not
beheaded. We do not, however, be-
lieve that these pictures do Chris.
justice.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

Candidate Cleveland did himself
honor in declining the invitation to
at tend the opening of the Columbi-
an exposition, and in his touching
allusion to the illness Of Mrs. Har-
rlSnn
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

The New York Supreme Court has
sustained the gerrymander made by
the late legislature, and the U. S. Su-
preme Court has decided, in the
Michigan case, that it is constitution
al to chose electors by districts.
This will be of advantage to the DEM
ocrats.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

Today the grand opening of the Co.
lumbian Exposition takes place at
Chicago. Gov. Fuller and portion
of his staff started for the lake city on
Tuesday. The tread of the mighty
Vermont warrior upon the shores Of
lake Michigan will awaken the echoes
of four hundred years, and cause the
Tecumsehs of the great West to turn
over in their graves and all the polli-
wogs to stand upon their tails to see the
mighty pageant. Oh-h I!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
BIRTHS.

In Londonderry, Oct. 3, daughter,
Ethel Augusta, to Mr.. and Mrs. Ashel
| Fuller.
In Rawsonville, Oct. II, son TO Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Stewart.
In Brattleboro, Oct. IA, daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs F. E. Day.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

The slaughter Of young fish not over
a fingers length in size, [sensation]by
strong, able-bodied men, is not pleas
ing sight. Tremendous sensation j
Extract from Governor Fuller's mes
sage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
-THE-
1LONDOND ERRYssSIFTER. I
HENRY M. SHANKs, PUBLISHER.

Terms, 800 Year, Strictly in
advance. Persons outside OF Wiudham
County who receive the paper In single
wrappers must send 10 cents in addition
to pay for wrappers and postage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

Costiveness is the cause of the intoler-
able "bad breath" OF multitudes DIR.
Henry Bakers Mandrake Bitters remove
the cause a4d prevent the evil, and cost
only % cents.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
Rutland is moving for city chal

A good sieel bowed, nickle plated,
cork nose eyc glass for 80 cents, at
CHAs. A. TRIP & CO., Jewellers,
Brattleboro, Vt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
New York, Sept. End, 1892.

New York, Sept. End, 1892.
Mr.. GEO SMITH,
Sir Enclosed please find money
order for bill sent for your cure, and can
say that it is the only thing of the kind
that has proved to do what is claimed,
and / have ordered these six bottles to
give to my friends claiming that it will do
the same for them, not only for the time
being but permanent cure, and l will say
that two bottles will do the work as it did
for me and l WIS so bad that | could not
walk without falling fiat and have not had
any trouble for three months and feel as
well as ever.
Very Respect,
H. h. PATTERSON,
420 Broadway,
New York.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
Sitter John. Editor.

Copies ofhis paper can be obtained
at Carpenters Nevs Rooms in Brat
tlebOrO.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

ss-Entered at the Post-oface at So. London
as second class matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

The Summit house at Roxbury was
burned to the ground Saturday night
1t is supposed the fire caught from
sparks from an engine. The contents
of the house were mostly saved. Loss
$500; insurance, $2500.
The wooden mill at the state line
about mile west of Fair Haven was
burned early Saturday morning. This
building was built about 80 years age
and has always been used as wool
en- factory. The main building was
about 40 by 60, two stories high, with
basement with an L about 20 by SO
feet, two sto.ies high. The buildings
and machinery were valued at $4,000,
on which there was no insurance. The
buildings were owned and occupied
by Hiram Kilburn. The old Jennings
grocery that was situated across the
road was also burned to the ground.
Loss, about s400, with no insurance.
A petition is in circulation at
Barre asking the Vermont Legislature
to pardon Elmer G.. Meaker from
state prison. He was imprisoned II
years ago for assisting in numbering
his aunt at Waterbury.
A. &. Bean, roadmaster for the
Central Vermont railroad system,
died ut his home in So. Royalton, at
5 80 o'clock on Monday of pneumon-
ia.
The Rutland county court did a
thriving business last Friday in the
way of touching up the liquor dealers.
Fines were imposed to the amount of
81, $40 and costs. This was divided
among fifteen dealers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21
VERMONT NEWS.
A Terrible Death Of Chester man

IerriDie Death OF n Chester man.
The Rutland Herald of Monday
has the following:
Clarence Coleman of Chester was
instantly killed and terribly mangled
last night by falling off a freight car at
Rroctorsville.
He was fireman on a special freight
train on the Central Vermont railroad
which left Bellows Falls yesterday af-
ternoon for Rutland. When the train
arrived at Proctorsville it stopped to
take water, and as the train started UP
Coleman started to walk over the top
of the cars to the saloon car.
He had passed over but few cars
when he must have made misstep and
fallen between the cars. This occurred
about 7:30 last evening.
Four cars passed over Coleman be-
fore he was discovered. His left side
was crushed, his left arm cut off at the
shoulder, his left leg broken in several
places, and his right leg broken. His
body was otherwise mangled and his
intestines protruded from the back be-
tween the spinal column and the left
side.
As soon as the trainmen discovered
what had happened they picked up the
remains and placed them in saloon
car and then telegraphed to Rutland
to have an undertaken meet the train
at the depot.
John Brislin saw that this was done.
Clifford Bros. were notified, and as
soon as the train arrived the remains
were removed to their undertaking es-
tablishment on Evelyn street, and the
body prepared for burial.
The sight was sickening one as the
remains were taken from the car, but
they were laid out in excellent manner
after considerable work.
Mr.. Coleman was a single man and
his parents live at Chester, where the
remains will be taken today on themail
train.
Mr.. Coleman, who was man about
80 years of age, had a large circle Of
friends, particularly among the rail
road men, and was we'll known in town.
Suicide at Ludlow.
Geo. 3. Parker Of Poultney COM
mitted suicide at Ludlow Saturday
morning at the h use of w. w. Stick
ney by hanging himself to the bedpost.
Parker was a slater; he had worked on
the Baptist church this season and had
lately been at work for Mr.. Stickney.
He leaves widow and four children.
Domestic troubles and drink are sup
posed to be the cause of the suicide.
The body was taken to Poultney Sat
urday afternoon by J. S. Remington.
Burglary at Bennington.
E. H. McIntyre's store on Main
street. Bennington, was broken into
Saturday night, the burglar or burglars
entering by breaking out light of
glass in door. The money drawer
was torn off and what money there was
in it, not over S4, taken. The store
to have been ransacked, but
no goods were taken. There is no clue
as yet.
Of DOw
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION.
kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

G. G. SMITH,
Dear Sir: / would like to speak
good word for your Rheumatic Cure.
After suffering five years with muscular
rheumatism | took one bottle of your
medicine and have not had rheumatism
since. That was last October.
Yours Respectfully,
MRS. d. F. DAVIS.
Londonderry, May 20, 1892.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 81, 1892,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-10-21

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels each
Day. In order to be healthy this is Necessary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-03
The Luckless Advance Agent.

Daniel sully, says the New York Commercial
Advertfser. the well-known Irish comedian,
was talking yesterday about advance agents
and the trials they are obliged to suffer. Said
he: Every one blames the advance agent.
Every member OF the company has it in for him,
so TO speak, and his bot Is by no means a happy
one II the company strikes q sman town with
all modern iEioonvoniences the agent is sarcasti-
caly referred to as q Columbus, who
discovers places no cne eise ever beard of,
remember once manager struck q town when
it was raining very hard and he said the agent
should have known better than to book the show
In q town where 1t was raining But musicians
are the greatest kickers Of all They blame
the agent for pad hotels, bad eating
houses, night rides and everything else that is
disagreeable. l remem Der once was in a com
papy that carried brass band. One Sunday
night we struck town where were to play
the next evening. 1t was dark ami rainy and
there were no rigs at the depot, SO the company
WAS obliged to trudge up steep hill to the
hotel In the brass band was particularly dis
agreeable trombone player who never lost an
opportunity to kick. He carried his big instru-
ment In a great box, and 1t was a heavy load,
especially when travelling up hill, as he
obliged to on the night speak OF, Well, he
was grumbling along and when about half way
up his foot struck q big stone. With wild
YELL he dropped his box, grabbed his injured
foot and growled feudishly: D that
AGENT He blamed the agent for putting that
stone In his path"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-03
Ex-Ireasurer Hyatt's Story.

ExUnited States Treasurer James W. Hyatt,
who Is now summering at ROTOR Point, one Of
NorWalk's beautiful shore resorts, drove into
Hartford the other day and unloaded this story
upon party of intimate friends, says the New
York advertiser;
Last night" said Mr.. Hyatt 81 was the DOS
SCISSOR Of $500 in RreenbAcks. There were four
800 netes and ave $50 bills. and I rolled them
up carefully and placed them in the left pocket
OF my trousers. On my way home, which is
near tbs beach. / lost the money, my wife
having neglected 10 sew up q hole inthe atore-
said pocket. l discovered my loss just as [
was getting ready to retire, and although
it was midnight and as dark as pitch and
had been raining very hard, lighted a Ian
tern and sailed forth on q hunt for my
missing treasure Inch by inch went over the
ground which had dreaded so joyously a few
hours before, but without avail, and was about
to abandon the search when heard wagon
light. stopped and inquired II he was on the
right road TO South Eorwalk, and l stepped
up to the wagon and gave the desired iuforms-
ton"
Mr. Hyatt said as he stood there talking to
the stranger he rested his hand carelessly on
the forward wheel OF the wagon, and as he
moved It nervously back and forth he felt
something the tire. He held the lantern
aloft and by the aid OF its fltful CLEAN he saw
what appeared 70 be a roll of dirty paper
Further Investigation disclosed the fact that It
was tho Identical wad OF money of which he
was In search. II had been caught In a little
crack In the tire and carried right into the own
err hand
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-03
On the Best Authority.


A story Is told Of trial for burglary In
which one Of the jurymen seemed to be so GER
tain OF the prisoners innocence and pleaded for
him 30 eloquently and so convincinRIy that the
ell ven others. who had no particular bias either
way, allowed themselves to be argued into re-
turning verdict Of mot guilty." says Hdrper's
Magazine. A few days later fresh facts came
20 light which proved the accused mans inno-
cence beyond a doubt, and one OF the eleven
wavering jurymen, happening TO meet with the
man who had so powerfully influenced them
eli. thanked him warmly for having saved them
from the commission of great injustice
And yet, now think Of it." he added, you
could rot have known then anything about
those new facts so how could you be so sure
that the man was innocent!"
We'll" replied the other, my chief reason
for thinking that he did not commit the crime
was that committed it myself"
Such authority was certainly not to be dis
puted, but yet more startling case OF the
same kind occurred not many years ago in
Paris, at the drBt representation of a tragedy
that had for its closing Icene the murder Of a
Swedish king, which had taken place nearly
half q century earlier. All went well till the
murder scene came on, when a very dignif1ed
strong dissatisfaction, and at length called out
Angrily:
absurd They've got ii all wrougr'
The manager himself heard this plainspoken
comment, and being naturally disturbed by so
sweeping a condemnation, he sought out the
critic and politely begged to know what fault
he had to find with it.
why. my good sir. cried the old man. with
an air or authority, 'rhe whole grouping of the
scene Is incorrect You have made them kill
the king to the right Of the door. whereas we
murdered him on the leftl"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-03
Not To Be Resisted.

The craving for freedom is so strong among
prisoners that they will even throw away their
chances Of pardon for the sake of its temporary
qualification. The author of THE American
Siberia, a book describing convict life in the
south, says that one prisoner had served out a
long sentence up to its last day. He had worked
faithfully, and never violated prison rule: all
of the officials had the utmost confidence in him
He was to be released the next day, and mean
time was one Of squad of men working out of
doors.
The captain OF the camp had occasion to use
barrel left on the top of a neighboring hill,
and said loosely to this prisoner
do you think you could come back II I sent
you over the hill for that barrelf"
He laughed at the idea.
why, OF course I could, captain, " he replied
I've had q hundred chances TO escape, and, be-
sides, shall be afrse man tomorrow"
60 ahead" said the captain.
He started over the hill and was presently
seen returning. When the captain looked up
again he was gone. And the pursuit proved
that he had run about a mile, and then sat
down TO hammer OF his irons When he was
captured he seemed half dazed and could offer
no explanation. except that he Just couldn't
help It,"
Another prisoner knew himself better. He
was to be released in q few days, and the
captain said to him, in reference to some err
rand:
do you think 10 would be safe for me to send
you over thereH
A singular expression overspread bis face
PLANTATION:
Captain" said he. you'd better not send
me; II got that far away, couldn't come
back IL wanted to-"