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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
George Gilman, IS, was drowned

Cadmus S. Gates, well known
citizen of Highgage, was araigned
before United States Commissioners
George f. johnson in Burlington Fri
day, on a charge Of smuggling, in as
sisting his daughter, Mrs. Lester H.
Greene, the wife of prominent
Montpelier druggist, in unlawfully
bringing across the Canada line last
February 200 ounces of sulphionlde
and phenacetine.
The drugs were bought at Mon
treal drug store, and customs officer
who happened to be in the store at
the time overheard the instructions
given about shipping. The drugs
were sent by express to st. Armand,
and then Mr.. Gates and his daughter
attempted to bring them across the
line without paying duty.
The couple were arrested, the goods
at once reclaimed by Mr.. Greene, and
by his paying the duty, expenses and
a pecuniary fine to the government,
everything rested quietly
Recently District Attorney Plum
ley of Mortified was instructed to in
stitute criminal proceedings against
the three. Mr.. and Mrs. Greene ap-
peared before Commissioner Johnson
June s and Mr.. Gates appeared Fri
day. They were, held in $500 bail
each for their appearance at the Oct
ober term Of the United States Cir
cult court to be held in Rutland.
Burglars entered the postotfice at
NIorrisville Friday night. -Four
heavy blacksmith's hammers, bit
and stock, a chisel and rimmer
were left behind, and there were other
evidences that the thieves were fright
ened away before they could open the
safe, which was tampered with. Two
dollars in change from the stamp
drawer is all that is missing.
William F. Butler, an inmate OF
the soldiers home at Bennington,
died Saturday after an illness Of sex
eral months. He was member OF
company f, lst Vermont cavalry. en-
listing from Brattleboro. He was Q
past commander of Sedgwick post,
G. A R., of Brattleboro. The re-
mains were taken there Saturday af-
ternoon in charge of Comrade Ii. L.
Franklin. His was the SD death al
the home.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

The Boston Journals coupon con-
test for vacation trips ended Satur-
day. A. W. Purbeck of Salem,
Mass, lead the van with Miss Lizzie
Borden second. Miss Borden in a
handsome letter through her counsel
declines the honor. OF the ten who
were voted a vacation, for themselves
and one friend, two are Vermonters,
Miss Nellie Brown of Plymouth, at
present teaching in Ludlow. The
other is also teacher, Mrs. Emma
S. Peters of West Randolph. Miss
Hettie Benson Of Andover received
I'LL votes and will receive the Jour
nails war book That great deal of
interest was taken in the contest is
attested by the fact that over million
and quarter votes were cast.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

There's lots of gore on the Western
moon these days. No sooner had
Gov. Waite of Colorado expressed a
wish to ride in blood up to his horses
bride than Gov. Lewelling of Kansas
threatens the coal operators with
bloodshed if they employ non-union
labor. These bloody governors need
something for their blood-a little
tight rope dancing-the rope around
the neck, wouldn't be bad. 1t would
at least have queting effect.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Teachers Examinations,
Windham County

Examinations will be held as follows /:
South Londonderry, August lst and I'd !;
Townshend, August Sd and 4th; Whining
ton, August 18th and 10th; Bellows Falls,
August 18th and 18th; Brattleboro, Sept
LIST and I'd; Bellows Falls, September sth
These Examinations will be held at the
usual places in these towns.
Daily Sessions begin at 8 a. IN. and
continue two days except the last Exam
ination at Bellows Falls. Let all candi-
ates be prompt in attendince.
H d. RYDER,
COUNTY EXAMINER,
Bellows Falls, June l3, 1898.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Farm For Sale.

er offers for sale the farm known as the
Joel T. Pierce place located | l-2 miles
from the village of Londonderry on the
stage road to Chester. Contains J6 acres,
more or less, in good state of cultiya-
tion; buildings in good condition; 400
young sugar naples and some hemlock
and spruce timber and plenty of wood.
This is desirable place for anyone
wanting small farm. For further par
ticulars enquire on the premises.
Mrs. l.. r. JOSSELYN. y
Londonderry, July IA, '93.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Deafnes. Cannot he Cured

by local application as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way TO cure deafness, and that
is by constitutional remedies. Deafness
is caused by an inhamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflalned you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
cd forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an iniamed condition of the mucous sur
faces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by cafarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars; free.
F. ]. CHENEY & co, Toledo, O.
ES-Sold by Druggists, 75e.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, @.
ES@Sold by druggists. zoe.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
How western Crops are Eaten up

An Omaha dispatch says the crop
destroying crickets continue to grow
in size. The crickets are now neal
Lost Cabin, Wyoming, and are strip
ping the country of all vegetation
They cover section of land abont
ID miles wide by three-fourths of Q
mile deep and are travelling at the
rate oil three miles day.
The crickets fell upon ranch neal
Casper, Wyoming, on Wednesday,
and in less than four hours ate an en-.
tire potato crop of 25 acres and be,
fore night completely destroyed the
oats in a large field. All forms ol
vegetation were cleaned up mucl
more closely than the grasshoppers
or by any machine.
1t is believed that the crickets were
hatched 10 the Big Horn mountain.
and are being directed in their course
by strong northwest wind, which
has been prevailing in that section
for several weeks and much alarm i.
felt all over the state.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
A Washington special SAYS :

"No matter what those favorable
to the repeal of the ver-purchase
law may think or say about putting
some other man at the head of the
committee on coinage, weights and
measures, tell YOU Mr.. Bland will
be chairman of that committee in the
next Congress. OF course the com
mittee will be packed against him and
he will be as a man tied hand and
foot, vet the administration and its
friends will not dare to turn down
Mr.. Bland. If they do it is fore
gone conclusion that they can never
repeal the silver law. In whatever
position he is placed Mr.. Bland will
fight for free silver and nothing short
Of that. 1t will but anger him and
his friends by leaving him off the
head of his old committee and they
will fight the proposed repeal if it
takes all summer" Thus said one
of the ablest newspaper men at the
capitol today.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

During the Franco German war the
Germans lost 263 men from smallpox
and the French 3,449.
1t is estimated that one out of every
180 inhabitants of the United King
dom owns or rides bicycle.
The churches built in America in
1892 numbered nearly 10000.
The cause of red hair is supera-
bundance of iron in the blood of the
wearer.
Every unmarried man is considered
boy in Corea, thongh should he live
to be 100.
A resident of Barton county, Mo-,
has beard seven feet long.
China has 400, 900, 900 people and
only ten daily newspapers.
More than 100000 men stant
ready for battle in Europe.
A single Kansas cabbage head ha.
produced 400 s'cigars.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Smiths Rheumatic Cure!

IIIN AFFLICTED
Wardstor VT, Mar 1898.
Geo.
So londonderry VT
which bad
Ms and
mSse.
e Itook sapanas reon-
After that sent for bottle OF your kneu-
maicC marked ihe s@enmg
disappear have now taken tour bottles
The swelling disappeared from hands, attend to all
is the
Mrs. Dexter
Wardboro VT
o that Smiths
DeNerw 1. NJ
Wardsbo
Expresp pal u a ourt bottles
GEo. g. SMITH, Druggist So Londonderry. Vt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

Among the stories of failures, shut
downs and destitution, that now fill
large blocks of space in the big dailies
of the country, it is gratifying to
learn that the President is having
good luck fishing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

The Chinese, japanese, Malayans,
Siamese, New Zealanders and the
North American Indians are reeog-
nized as the .'beardless races"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

A carpenter by the name of NJ. S. Pow
ers fell from the roof of house in East
Des Moines, Iowa. and sustained pain
ful and serious sprain of the wrist, which
he cured with one bottle of Chamberlain
Pain Balm. He says it is worth s. bot
tie. 1t cost him so cents. For sale by
Goddard & Gibson, Londonderry.
Richardson & Leonard, Peru, VI.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

BY using Halls Hair Renewer, gray,
faded or discolored hair assumes the nat
ural color of youth, and grows luxnriant
and strong, pleasing everybody.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

Henry Clews, the well known New
York banker says, in letter to
Comptroller Eckels:
"The National Bank act certainly
should be amended to provide for
notes being issued up to the par value
Of United States bonds, and another
amendment would also be wise, to
provide for an issue of notes against
the surplus capital of the, national
banks to the extent Of IS per cent.
| thereof.
sThese two changes in the law
would make an increase in national
currency amounting to about $780,
100000 and would provide the nation
with enough new money for its needs,
and it would be the best and most
legitimate kind besides. The New
York banks now have surplus over
capital of $4,000, 900. The nation
al banks of other cities and else
where have probably 800, 100000 in
addition.
"This backing in cash or its equiv
a'ent to the notes issued against the
same would make them the strongest
and most legitimate character OF
money in circulation. No stronger
kind Of money could be devised. The
surplus against which the issue OF
these notes would be made would
| be under the National Bank Examin-
ers. The constant increase in the
surplus of the banks would also give
an elastic character to such money
which is a very desirable feature"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

Karl Hagenbeck is now IN America
and his wonderful show in Chicago
attracts the attention of all people.
The August issue of McClnre's Mag
azlne contains an article in which the
great animal importer and trainer tells
his adventures with boa constructors,
crocodiles, hippopotami, bears, ee-
plants and ether wild creatures.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Sitter John, Editor.

Copies oftkjs paper can be oJiaiaed
at Carpenters Ne,cs Rooms IN Brat
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

A press dispatch from Springfield,
Mass, gives the following doleful
account of affairs in that section:
There is much uneasiness in lIol-
yoke and West Springfield over the
prospect of general shut down of
manufacturing establishments. The
Connecticut Riverpaper mill has clos
ed down. Its machinery will only lie
started on cash orders. The SPRING
field Blanket company shut down
Saturday. The Merlick Thread COM
panv will run on half time. The Ca
rev Paper company at South Had!ey
Falls, the Heating Bicycle company
at Holyoke, and several smaller con-
Germs are already running on short
time. The Agawam Paper company
in West Springfield, one Of the best
known concerns in New England and
the largest in West Springfield, shut
down this afternoon. Altogether
over 1000 men are already thrown
out of employment. Extensions to
several large factories, which were in
progress, have been stopped.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
-THE--
IL LONDONDERRYssSIFTER 4
HENRY M, SHANKs, PUBLISHER

Terms, $I.OO a Year, strictly in
advance. Persons outside of Windham
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??, 1893-07-21

es-Entcred at the rost.ofdce at So. London,
as second class matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
In the Swim.
Mortified News

There come pleasing indications Of
prosperity and enterprise in Vermont.
Burlington has voted S65, 1000 to i'm
prove her water works, the only thing
needed to make the Queen city mod
el place of residence. Bradford Will
bond in support Of a railroad that is
70 develop her granite resources and
make her rival of lsarre and Hard
wick. 1t is dull day, too, when
some valuable mineral deposit is not
discovered within our borders. Man
ufacturing hourishes and we hear less
complaint from the farmt rs than here,
tofoIe. Besides these favorable
straws, we have four or five infallible
cures for drunkenness and othel ills
that flesh is heir to, doing land Of
fee business. We're in the swim, we
are
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
BIRTHS.

In Londonderry, July s, a daugter to
Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen Pierce
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

A full grown man exhales seven
teen ounces of carbonic acid gas
every twenty-four hours.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Wanted.

Lovers of good horses to have the best.
See stock on farm Of subscriber and if re-
quirlnS will be furnished service from
fleetwood Or Capt. Socket during Julfy
and Angustat $500 to warrant. Fair
view farm.
West Windham Per order of
6. H. Dutton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
Slfterlets-ShOrt and Snappy.

The Bellows Falls Times wonders
how Whitney and Davenport viii
mix. Why, on the Windham County
plan, to be sure.
Should Congress confer the degree
d. F. 1t mustn't be supposed that il
will mean d fool, but doctor OF
finance.
Burlington has just turned out for
ty-seven new doctors. If that doesn't
play it on the life insurance people
what would?
Hellertown, Pa, has one saloon to
every thirty-three voters and this
year the revenue from liquor licenses
is SO large that no other tax is impos-
ed. Isn't it about time to strike the
Ger" out of that's towns name?
Making silk purses out of sows'
ears has been given up along with
perpetual motion by most people, but
the free silverities are trying to re-
vamp these old ideas and cram them
into sensible heads. It's no go.
The ways of police force are al
ways past finding out. The Colum-
bian guards made no efforts to ar
rest that cyclone at Chicago the other
day although it kicked up big rum
pus.
Some of the sympathy and cash,
which are always bestowed upon peo-
pie of prominence who are visited by
misfortune, would be God-send to
thousands of poor devils who all their
lives have been sin the soup"
Kansas and some other states of
the great woody West are threatening
civil war if they cant have free silver.
They want to make it Hopkins choice,
free silver or free lead There is one
trouble about this: the other side can
play the free lead racket as well as
they.
1t is said that Gov Altgeld of Ill
inois is preparing "roast" for every
body that had anything to do with the
conviction of the anarchists. Altgeld
had better not get too near the fire.
He smells bad enough already.
Prof. Frisby Of the naval observa-
tory at Washington was watching the
comet the other evening when streak
of the northern lights shot up, and
he straightway telegraphed that the
comet had developed tail two or
three million miles long, more or less.
Vermont's astronomer governor would
have known better than that. But
then why shouldn't he seeing that he
was the inventor of the aurora bore
alis2
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21

Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cure indiges-
ton, Heart Burn, Costiveness and all ma
arial diseases. Twenty-Five cents per
hottie
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10

Even if the Normal building were to
be unsafe, instead of parading the
fact in it's columns and making it out
in as dark cOlors as possible, the pro-
per course would have been to GO
quietly to those having the matter in
charge and bring it to their notice.
The authorities of the school, local
and state, ought to be crsdited with
sufficient sense to provide for the
emergency of fire.
We would not have given the
article ia question any notice, as it
merits nothing but silent contempt.
except for the fear that students may
be deferred from coming to this
city through the care and fears Of
anxious parents, as all papers hostile
to the Normal schools mayb e depend
ed upon to jump at such false reports
as the Revieoo has spread before the
public.
Let our citizens and all others visit
the school and learn for themselves
how uncalled for "Citizen's" article
was,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10
HAS STRENGTHENED CONFIDENCE

r. G.. Dun & Co., in their weekly
review of trade. state that the repeal
of the silver purchase clause has al
ready done good, in that it has COM
menced to strengthen confidence in
financial matters. 1t has hardly had
time for it's general effect to become
noticeable. The effect from it. they
state, will be less noticeable than
would have been the case had it been
passed several months earlier, and
they might have we'll added were it
not complicated by threatened radi-
cal changes in the tariff, which will
serve to keep manufacturers in state
of uncertainty for some time to come.
In the textile market, Dun & Co.
state there is slight improvement,
the demand being considerably bet
ter.
In their wheat report Bradstreet's
state that the available supply in
sight is "the heaviest Nov. 1st total
on record"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10

MCKINLEY says: 'We have every
thing we had last year except conf
dence and prosperity" Well Why
have we not these two quantiti We
have the same Republican laws in
force that we have mad for thirty-two
yearS.-LeSueor Sentinel.
Yes, we have the same laws, but an
entirely different party at the helm to
administer them. A party which
proposes to knock them cut entirely;
which proposes complete change in
our economic policy, and give the
outside world an equal chance in our
markets with our own people. 1t is
not the Republican laws which are to
blame, they are all right, and with
the party which made them in power,
our prosperity would be continued. 1t
is the un-American policy of the party
in power which is at the bottom of the
trouble-the uncertainty of what we
are going to have, not of what we
have, that has given the nation an
attack of paralysis.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10
NUMBER p
DONNELLY is HAPPY.

Senator Donnelly seems to be never
so happy as when he is after some one
with a sharp stick. Last winter 1T
was the coal combine, now it is the
pile lands corruption. In relation
to the work of the pine lands inves-
tigation committee, which is at pre-
sent inQuiriDg into the alleged crook
ed deals, Senator d Innely told St.
Paul Globe reporter day or two since
that the testimony so far taken re-
veals some very surprising details,
and goes to confirm, he claims, the
theories of frauds and robberies on a
gigantic scale. Logs, he says, have
been cut on public lands without the
preteXt of title or ownership, and
coolly logged off without any report
whatever being made. He cites a
case where the state received pay for
900, 600 feet Of lumber sold, while he
claimes the committee has taken evil
dence to show that over 5000, GOO feet
was actually taken. The committee,
he says, has taken steps for a still
more diligent investigation and hopes
in the near future to be able to turn
over to the governor and attorney
general plenty of evidence : to
secure prosecutions which will
result in the recovery of large
sums of money due the state. He
claims that the investig alton SO far
has forced number of men to pay
over to the state sums of money which
probably otherwise would never have
| been paid.
1t is to be hoped Mr.. Donnelly will
secure better testimony in this case
than he did in his onslaught against
! the coal trust, and that where he and
/ his committee find indications of
crookedness they will be able to Sc
cure evidence of a kind which will
hold in court. Wherever the state
has been defrauded, those implicated
in the deal should be made to feel the
strong arm Of the law. But it is
probable the people would feel more
confidence in such being the case, if
some other man than Mr.. Donnelly
was engineering the job.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10

II is somewhat late insthe day, but
it is altogether probable that the
Democrats will take more interest in
getting closure rule adopted in the
senate now than they did while the
silver repeal bill was before it. They
have tariff bill they would like to
put through and they wondering
how they will do it if the wicked
Republicans" object, unless they re-
sort to Tom Reeds methods. Closure
will probably come now.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10
A WISE 1OVE.

In deciding to buy cheap pump to
be used in case Of necessity, the coun-
Gil made a wise disposition of the
pump question Saturday night, and
one which we think will be commend
ed by the tax payers. The kind of a
pump 1t is proposed to buy will have
a capacity of l 800 900 gallons per day,
and is to be used only in case. of an
emergency. The total cost of getting
it in place will not exceed $4,000 and
may not 81 800. This will only repre-
sent the interest of couple of years
on the cost of larger pump. Besides
this, if an expensive pump was pur-
chased, it would be necessary to hold
a special election, which it is estimat-
ed would cost about 1000. If the
bond proposition should be voted
down, that much money would be
virtually thrown away and the cheap
pump would have to be purchased
besides.
When this new pump is in place, the
old pump will be thoroughly repaired
and DO doubt will be able to do the
work for the city that will be required
of it for two or three years to come.
By that time the city will probably
be in better shape financially, and it's
wants and requirements ought then
to be thoroughly understood and a
irst-class pump can be purchased.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10

The st. Paul school enrolment eX-
ceeds the seating capacity of her
school buildings,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10

SENATOR PERKINS, of California,
says that since the Chinese came to
this country they have sent back to
China S8l0,000,OOO in American
money.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10
DR.. Prices
Cream Baking Powder
which is the

only brand prepared by physician of high standing
pure Cream of Tartar Powder brought the hghess
degree of perfection Free from Ammonia Alum Lime
any other aduteration
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-11-10

IT is said that President Cleveland
is opposed to the admission of Uta j.,
Arizona and New Mexico as states.