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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06
NEWFANE.

Five thousand pounds of butter
was made at the creamery in the
month of December.
Miss Minnie Chatfeld of Winhall
has finished work at the County
House.
Mrs. George Knapp has returned
from Wardsboro where she has been
caring for her mother.
Judge Start will preside at the
March term of court.
Mrs. Milon Davidson spent the
holidays in Burlington.
G. W. Underwood has filled his
ice house with West River ice.
R. B. Dewitt, who is connected
with the W. S. r. R. spent last
Thursday in town.
The Windham County Savings
Bank has declared a 4 per cent div
idend.
Several couples from here attended
the hop at Williamsville Friday eve
ming.
Otis Park and family of Brattle-
boro visited relatives in town Tues
day.
Mrs. Henry M. Hescock has gone
TO Boston for short stay.
Arthur Howe of Burlington was
at home during the holidays.
Inc 1ncorporators OF the Windham
County Savings Bank will have their
annual dinner Tuesday the 18th at
the Worster House.
Will Eager of New York was at
home for few days this week.
Last Friday evening party of
skaters from here went to West river
and had several hours fun.
Morgan Whitney of Putney, father
of Mrs. G. W. Underwood, is seri-
ously i'll.
Rev. Mr.. Morse of Brattleboro,
L. w. johnson and Lyman Newell
of Wardsboro were at the County
House Tuesday.
Money orders and postal notes can
now be obtained at the postoffice
here.
Miss Ruth Warren returned to Bos-
ton Monday.
States Attorney Fish and wife Of
Addison county were in town over
Sunday.
D. A. Benson and wife of Andover
were the guests of Worthy Chase re-
Gently.
Miss Blodgett and friend, Miss
Thorn, returned to Brattleboro Mon
day.
VIII Ballou of Wilmington is here
on visit to his brother, station agent
Ballou.
Rumor has it that the Brookline
school is closed on account of the ina
bility of the teacher to cope with the
scholars.
Drama "Rio Grande" which was
played to full house here Wednesday
eve, Dec. %, is reported by all to
have been played well. The parts de-
served of special mention were the parts
of Judge Biggs and wife taken by Mr..
and Mrs. f. Bickford; Lieut. Cad
wallader, the dude, by schoolmaster,
Kendall; Sophia, the heroine, by Mrs.
Abbie Underwood; Mamie Bangs by
Miss Abbie Kenny. We hope to see
them out with another play soon.
Lyceum passed finely Saturday
night. The question, Resolved that
immigration to the United States should
be restricted" Affirmative, Hon. F.
L. Fish; negative, Herman Howe.
Decided in favor of affirmative. This
was followed by music, speaking etc,
closing with the "Fayettville Journal
edited by Mr.. Kendall and Miss Abbie
Kenny.
All those who have used Bakers Man
drake Bitiers speak very strongly in their
praise Twenty-Five cents per bottle.
In case of hard cold nothing will re-
lieve the breathing so quickly as to rub
Arnica & Oil Linimint on the chest.
Every testimonial regarding Hoods
Sarsaparilla is an honest, unpurchased
statement of what this medicine has ac-
tually done.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

&S~After this date / intend to keep,
for sale, Meal, Feed, Bran Cotton Seed
Meal &C., at wholesale and retail prices.
G. c. ROBINSON,
So. Londonderry. Vt, Dec. -, 1892.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

&8~LosT-Either at the North village
or between there and the South village
one ladies' No. shoe, new. The finder
will please leave it at the SITTER Office.
L. G.. Bills.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

&s~For Sale-One single sleigh, full
swell base, one two seated express
traverse sleigh suitable for one or two
horses, one travers sled suitable for
horses or oxen. All the above property
made to order and nearly new.
DAVID STOwEIJ
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06
BONNEVILLE.

The town of Winhsll has just put
into the town clerks office new safe.
This will be decidedly safer for the
town records.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

&~CASH FOR BARN-The sub
scriber, agent for Frank A. Cutting of
Boston, will pay cash for bark as soon
as loaded on the cars, delivered at any
station on the narrow Gauge.
j. b. Worthen,
So. Londonderry, vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06
LOCAL SUNNI AIRY.
AUCTIONS.

AUCTIONS.
In Wardsboro, Jan. 10, the l.. G..
Bills farm. stock and farming tools.
In Townshend, Jan. -, the A. O..
Richardson farm, pasture lots ETC.,
etc.
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Special NOtICeS.

s~WANTED-Hemloc bark at the
Jamaica tannery, or it will be received at
any station on the narrow gauge.
+. G.. PERRY.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

The week of prayer will be observed
here meetings being held in the church.
A number of our young people at
tending schools out of town return to
their school this week.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

$3.50 pays for the SITTER and
Rutland Weekly Herald one year.
Address this office.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels each
Day. In order to be healthy this Is Necessary.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06
so. WINDHAM.

A new year, keep your good resolu'
tons.
The donation at the parsonage last
week amounted TO about $50.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

DENTAL NoTICE-Dr. H. A. Dalrymple
dentist of Rutland will be at the Peabody
House, So Londonderry, room No. |,
Thursday and Friday, Jan 10th and 90,
prepared to do all kinds of dental work.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

COUGHING LEADS To CONSUMPTION.
Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

&%NoTICE-All persons taking bags
from my place after Jan. lst will be
charged soc for each bag, which if retur-
ned in 10 days will be credited, otherwise
this amount will be collected All bags
now out must be promptly returned or
settled for.
All persons having unsettled accounts
with me are requested to settle before
January % to save COSTS
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

HOOPS PILLS do not weaken, but aid
digestion and tone the stomach. Try them. Csc.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-06

All those who have used Bakers Man
drake Bitlers speak very strongly in theil
praise. Twenty-Five cents per bottle.
In case of hard cold nothing will re-
lieve the breathing so quickly as to rut
Arnica & Oil Linimint on the chest
Every testimonial regarding Hood.
Sarsaparilla is an honest, unpurchased
statement of what this medicine has &C.
tually done.
The morning call., 1893-11-05

good story. He has as many stories as
had Abraham Lincoln and he is full of dry
wit. He likes to illustrate his points by
stories. and he is one of the best after
dinner speakers OF the West. He is good
speaker on the stump, and he is one of the
few candidates for the Vice-Presid6ncy
who have ever gone before the people. He
made 100 speeches last fall and he ad-
dressed big audiences in twelve doubtful
States The Vice-President is a man of
action. His whole life has been filed with
romance and 1t is itself good story.
gathered by numerous questions from the
Vice-Presdent himself.
l asked as TO his ancestry. General Ste-
venson replied: THE Stevensons come of
Scotch-Irish stock. My people came to
this country long before the revolution and
settled in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
They drifted from here South to the Caro-
iinas and thence on into Kentucky. / was,
you know. born in Kentucky, and
moved with my father from Kentucky to
Illinois. My father was farmer or
planter. He had the natural blood OF the
pioneer in him and he came from North
Carolina into Kentucky. and as the State
filled up he sold out and went to Illinois.
This was in 1S52."
"Do you remember the iourney" ]
asked.
Yes, I remember all the incidents of
it." replied the Vice-President. II was
only Is years old at the time. We had all
our goods packed in canvas-covered
wagons and drove one of the teams. The
journey from Lafayette. KY. to Blooming
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they desired, instead of being doomed to
grace a fricassee. He had just finished
dousing these goggle-eyed batrachans
with a fresh supply Of turbid Seine water
and given them stir around for morning
exercise, when Peter Dinuie. Salmagunde
Soir and Louis Guerin waited upon nim as
a deputation to commission banquet for
seven good livers in the petit salon cOnse-
Grated to art and debt.
"Salut! NJ. Pichou. We are in great
fortune, and you also. We come TO dine
CD grande toilette CONNIE un rOi. Frogs.
turbot, venison, volatile, perdrix rouge.
and everything agreeable and proper to
nourish art. Vim d'honneur also."
"Eh bien mon prince, vous ditesl You
have so many sous that you can recon-
pense a poor man for his wine and tried
potatoes. What chef d'euvre in history
or manners have you sold to the Queen of
England to build this castle in Spain? Or
has NJ. lie President conferred the ribbon
Of the Legion of Honor? Answer me that,
my prince. and then the chefs will polish
their spits."
''No. truly, Cesare. No canard. A
patron of the arts pays, rich American,
rich as Cr9sus and generous as MILFORD
philanthropist. VOicil He has ordered
his portrat-fve portraits all at once-and
he dimes us all carte blanche by compli-
ment."
'Parbleu! Is he balanced in the head ?"
'Yes. like SolOn, only eccentric like the
Americans. He has tonneaux of money
and wants TO spend 1t for our benefit.
What better can he do for poor devils than
give them good dinner and a commission
of 800 francs for his portrait, and perhaps
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must paint something in daylight or Pm
no happy. You are no just in fig to go
there yourself.
Peter pointed to a rentin the back Of the
Hon. Joshua's frock coat, which had been
split ruth lessly almost up to the shoulders,
and he was in addition literally Orna-
mented with Paris mud.
We'll, bows, guess they have called me
properly. Never mind, We'll make 1t a
dinner, and right good one. These frog
gies can do up dinner slick: Nothing like
It out our way. Beobub amt shucks to it.
But we'll have just little starter. 1ou
lead and I'll shout
Nothing loath. the students vowed that
America was the only country worth llv-
ing in, did Paris not keep them in chains,
and fanking Mr.. Shew in the middle they
proceeded, arm in arm. to the Petit Az
neau, in the Rue st. SEVERN. where they
appeared to be on familiar terms with a
number of the beated at the tables ana
with the garcoDs. Under the glare OF the
numerous lights, with the mlrrOred walls
to assist the illumination, they were able
to cement friendship in sparkling oeakers
of champagne, which the proprietor was
over1oyed to see paid for promptly With
out disputing the reckoning. and IN blow
ing clouds of fragrant cigar smoke 1nto
the air. also paid for with prodigallty
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ADLAI STEVENSON.
A Talk With the Vice.
President.
HIS VIEWS ON PUBLIC TOPICS.
Corruption i'm Politics and Our
Statesmen as Nor.
aliStS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-I spent an even
ing last week with the Vice-President OF
the United States. My last interview
with him was held five years ago. was
about to start on trip around the world
and he gave me letters to his friend. Gov
ernor Hubbard. our Minister to Japan.
At that time Mr.. Stevenson was Assistant
Postmaster General. Now he is Vice
President of the United States. He stands
within one of being the chief executive of
the nation, and the chances of life and
death are such that he may be the most
important man in the United States within
the next four years. l believe President
Cleveland TO be we'll. but the thrill that
went over the Union a few months ago
when 1t was reported that he was afflicted
with a cancer impressed upon the people
the fact that Presidents are not immortal.
and the question as to the character of
General Stevenson was uppermost in every
thinking mans mind. What kind Of man
is the Vice-President of the United States ?
How does he look, act and talk? What
are his ideas upon public questionsp These
are the interesting queries which L hear
from time to time in my travels about the
country. | cannot answer them better
tnan by giving running description OF
my chat with him the other night.
The Vice-PreSident lives at the Ebbitt
House. He has pleasant rooms in one of
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.

ton. ILL.,, was only 400 miles. and you can
go from one place to the other now in less
than day. 1t took us three weeks to
make it by wagon and when we got to
Bloomington we found there a town OF
only few hundred people. The Illinois
Central Railroad was theG being built, but
1t had not yet reached Bloomington. My
father started lumber-mill and | helped
him by hauling the logs"
Where were you educated, generalp'
My college days were spent in both
Illinois ana Kentucky" replied the Vice
President. ''l worked my way through
college, and l first went to the Wesleyan
University at my home, Bloomington. I
then went to Center College at Danville.
KY. This is the same school at which the
Brecklnrldges were educated, and Senator
Joe Blackburn was there at the same
time. The school has had a number of
distinguished men. Senator Vest was
among its students. Justice Harlan got
his education there, and among other
students who afterward became promi-
nent were Governor McCreary, now in the
House of Representatives, and Governor
Brown, who is now the chief executive of
Kentucky"
You say you worked your way through
college, general. How did you make the
money!" l asked.
"In different ways," replied the Vice-
President Il taught during vacation. and
at one time l remember l received S25 a
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the corners of this big hotel, and he is to
be found here almost every evening with
hir family about him. He is domestic in
his tastes and he spends his evenings at
home. There is no red tape about getting
to him. You send up your card. and a
moment later you are told to walk right up.
You knock at the door; it opens, and a
giant OF man gTeels you with hearty
shake of the hand. Vice President Steven
son is one of the big men among our
statesmen. He is feet 2 inches in his
stockings and he weighs more than 200
pounds. He stands as straight as Nor
wegan pine in his polished boots. and his
big blonde head is fastened to his broad
shoulders by strong, firm neck. His
arms and legs are long. His chest is broad
and full, and his shoulders are we'll thrown
back. His complexion is clear, and he
looks like man whose blood is pure and
who knows not that he has stomach. The
VIce-President has magnificent head. 1t
made me- think of that of Bismarck. 1t has
the same broad full forehead and the same
heavy iron jaw. The mustache which
flows out from under his big nose is about
as heavy as that of the great German
statesman. but is of a golden color. while
that of Bismarck by the furnace OF many
summers had melted from its iron-gray
into frosted silver. Bismarck has blue
eyes. Vice-President Stevenson's eyes
are also blue, but they are smaller than
those of his German counterpart. They are
honest eyes, however. and they look
straight at you as you talk to their owner,
changing in expression as the Vice
Presidents thought is serious or the
reverse. Now the brow over them
is corrugated and the eyes are full OF
thought. General Stevenson is thinking
of the tariff and he is giving you mis- ideas
as to the discussion of silver. Now the
corners of them are wrinkled with fun and
the eyes fill with laughter = the Vice
President is illustrating his point by some
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Wonderful Time-Keeping Automaton


One of the most wonderful time e-keepers
known 10 the horologist was made in Lon
dor about 100 years ago and sent by the
president OF the East India Company as a
gift to the Emperor of China. The case
was made in the form of a chariot in
which was seated the figure of woman.
This figure was of pure ivory and gold and
sat with her right hand resting upon a tiny
clock fastened to the side of the vehicle.
A part of the wheels which kept track
of the flight of time we're hidden in the
body of tiny bird, which had seemingly
just alighted upon the lady's finger.
Above was a canopy so arranged as to
conceal a silver bell. This bell was fitted
with a miniature hammer of the same
metal. and. although it appeared to
have no connection with the clock, reg
ularly struck the hours, and could be made
to repeat by touching diamond button
on the lady's bodice. In the chariot at
the ivory lady's feet there was a golden
figure of dog, and above and in front
were two birds. apparently flying before
the chariot. This beautiful ornament was
made almost entirely of gold and was elab-
0rateiy decorated with precious stones.
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besides. The big men like Meissonier and
Gerome get what they ask, but the poor
devil who has neither name nor fame has
always hole in his coat and dun at
his heels, and may gang to his grave like
Mllet with fortune for other folks in
sight and a very thin watt OF for himself.
It's wonderful how pain ting keeps up your
vitality, and gars We sing when We should
be greetn' or breaking the skulls of deal
ers and the vulgar public with your mahl-
stick. You're godsend to this company,
sir. and you'll be proud of your portrait
If YOU could only put the lot in a Zoetrope
you'd hop, step and loup in ring as lively
as Yourself"
Darn me, my friend. If it aint a pleas
ure to encourage art. It's new sensation
to me. Over yonder we are all rushing
for money and not taking time TO count it,
The sight of your pictures in the Louvre
and. by gosh. right around me, is inspir-
ing. There's story for you anywhere
when you look straight, and it looks
to me heap better than lot of frowsy
carpets, pianos and gimerack furniture
you're afraid to hurt A newspaper
something, and hooks something. You
get np with something in your head when
you've swallowed them. but what in Je-
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orders for noble and majestic tableaux

orders for noble and majestic tableaux
d'hstoire."
"Ah. i wish there were more crazy peo-
pie like that. None of our bourgeois have
any sense. They are stupid as melons
and gluttons like pigs"
"a la bonnie heure, messieurs," replied
Cesare Pichou. "a feast for the gods you
shall have. All the delicacies, cooked to
turn and good wine-ha! halle ben win
de Montmartre-you shall have it, my
friends, coute qui eoute. with champagne
for the dessert, and the true cognac'
''To-mGrrOw, at o'clock. plates for
seven,. al the round table IN the little
salon" {.
THAT will go well. mes amis. The Bleu
de Ciel will be decorated for a fete de
Boheme. Let us. drink to art"
And the rubicund and rotupd Cesare
produced bottle of genuine chartreuse
and circle of happy little glasses, with
which assistance feryd good wishes to the
cultivation Of taste were cordially toasted
Thereafter NJ. Pichou informed the vase
Of frogs that they must say their prayers,
for Monsieur of Paris with the guilotine
would arrive Tomorrow.
The little salon of the Bleu de Ciel had q
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extent accounts for the critical gusto with
which they paint banqueting scene, and
give the wine the precise hue tG irradiate
pleasure ON beaming faces, as has often
been proved by Orchardson. one Of Peters
prosperous countrymen. That dinner, as
suited the taste of freedOm-loving Bohe-
mians short of nothing but cash, took
place at the Bleu de Ciel, in the Rue des
EcOles, a quaint restaurant in the Latin
Quarter, famous for the merry company
that frequents it, and for the peculiar at
tachment which draws to it impecuniOus
but not careworn talent. NJ. Cesare
Pichou, the proprietor, was believed him.
self to have dabbled in art with crayons
on the curbstone, and at all events was in
possession of an historical painting
wherein, as the principal figure, he was
represented retouching Napoleon at Lodi,
with some red ocher for belchng cannon.
But he bad long forsaken the triumphs of
art for those of the cuisine, and his artistic
friends were grateful for he succeeded in
the one profession and materially assisted
them to succeed in the other. as they
were always sure OF pommesl de
terre frites, a ragout, and bread to
their soup when they mad nothing better
in prospect than the sale of few cows in
a meadow, or the moon rising in veil OF
mist, at few francs more than the canvas
cost to dealers always deplorlng impending
bankruptcy, the apathy of the public and
the scarcity of modern Titians and Claudes.
NJ. Pichou was now a jolly, pOrtly man,
with fat capon lined" and he loved to
gaze at fleeting humanity in the street
through q window in which huge vase OF
live frogs was prominent. hopping around
and about, but never out, as no doubt
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the cheeriest of humors, for each artist
had a commission which would keep him
in fried potatoes and hakewhite up til next
September, and Jules Duyal had some
brand-neW ideas for sketch ON American
eccentricity,
The record-union., 1893-02-06
YIJBA COUNTY FARMERS.
Action Taken by Them Regarding
the Caminetti Bill.
While Not Indorsing the Measure.
They Object to the Elimination
of the Penalty Clause.

At a mass meeting at Wheatland, Yuba
County, February 4th, of the citizens of
Wheatland and vicinity the following
preamble and resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
WHEREAS, Hydraulic mining as car
ried on in this State has resulted in the
destruction OF many thousand acres of
the best agricultural lands in the world
ana has done irreparaDle injury to the
naVlgabIe rivers and WATERWAYS of the
state; and whereas, the said hydraulic
mining has been declared unlawful by
the courts of justice, both State and Fed
eral; ana whereas, there is now pending
IN Congress measure known as the
Camlnetti bill, which claims to permit
the resumption of hydraulic mining
under certain restrictions and only upon
The condition that no further injury is to
be done 10 the valley lands and waterways
OF the State. Said bill as it now stands
prohibits and declares unlawful all hy-
draulic mining that directly or indirectly
Injuries the navigability of the rivers,
other than IS permitted under the provis-
ions OF the bill, and said bill further de-
clares that all parties who desire to mine
by the hydraulic process must come
under the provisions of the bill. The
Dill further prescribes an appropriate
penalty against those who shall violate
product and offspring of the hydraulic
mining interest of this State, and desired
by this interest only; and whereas, we
are credibly informed that all agent has
been sent to Washington by the hydraulic
mining interest to have the penal clause
stricken from the bill, or the bill SO mod
ihed as to avoid all responsibility under
Its provisions, and to permit hydraulic
mining to be resumed, or at least to be
no further interdicted until the provis-
Ions OF the bill can be put in operation,
which they claim will be many months
and perhaps may be many years; there
fore be it
ReSoI0ed, That we, the people of Wheat
land and vicinity, in mass meeting as
sembled, view with alarm any and all
efforts to secure by legislation the restor-
alton of hydraulic mining, knowing as
we do that II cannot be carried on with
out material injury to the rivers and val
leys below; and be it further
ReSot0ed, That disclaiming any and all
desire for the Caminetti bill to become a
law, we do protest against any modifica-
ton OF the penal clause or other provi-
slons thereof, now amended by the Sen
ate Committee and by which the river
and valley interest will be less securely
guarded than as now provided for in the
bill.
ResoJ0ed, That a copy of these resolu-
tons be forwarded to our Representa-
tlves IN Congress, and that a copy be for
Warded to the Sacramento RECORD UNION
and the Marysville Democrat for publica-
ton. ]. NJ. G. JASPER, President
j. f. BAUM, Secretary.