The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

Judge Bradley has denied Breckin
ridges motion for new trial.
We are pleased to note that tn,
government commission has decided
to condemn the trolley railroad run
ming through the Gettysburg battle
field and the line will have to bt
moved.
Dispatches from all parts of Greece
indicate that former reports of deatf
and damage to property have under
stated the losses. The list of dead and
injured grows hourly. The misery il
the smaller towns of the stricken dis
tricts is extreme. Nearly 10000 per
sons are said to have been left destitute
OF food and shelter in the Locris dis
trict alone.
Reports from Atalati say that 365
shocks of earthquake were felt there in
eight hours. For radius of three
and one-half miles on every side of the
town the fields and highways have been
torn with deep assures. The sea has
encroached upon the shore about &C
feet. Vast masses of rocks have been
loosened in the mountains and have
rolled down into the lowlands. The
shore of the large island of Fubocal
which lies off the coast of Boeotia and
Attica has sunk 6 feet and half. The
Aidipeo sulphur springs are emitting
torrents of boiling water.
United States Senator Stock bridge
of Michigan died suddenly in Chica'
60 Monday night. Death was caused
by angina pectoris. The funeral ser.
vices were held in Kalamazoo, Mich.
last Thursday. The burial also tool
| place there.
Francis B. ockbridge of Kalama.
zoo was born in Bath, Me-, April 9
1926; received common school edu
| cation was clerk in wholesale
| house in Boston from 1S43 till 1847
when he went to Chicago and opened
lumber yard, iheing interested il
sawmills in Michigan in 1851 remov
ed to Allegan county, Mich taking
charge of his mills; was elected t.
the legislature in 1869 AID to the Sen
ate in 1871 was elected to tn U. 5
Senate, as a Republican. to succeed
Omar ID. Conger, Republican,, ant
took his seat March 4, 1857, Being
reelected in 1892 lis term Of offic,
would have expired Mar 3, 1859.
The St. Charles hotel, at New
Orleans, the most famous lltstelrie il
the United States, was tnrned las
Saturday evening. or The TWO hun
dred guests all but one escaped
The st. Charles Hotel building
was erected in 1851 on tue site of th.
old hotel generally known as the Ex
change Hotel, which had been burn
ed in that year. The loss on the lat
ter was nearly s1,OOO,OOO. The St
Charles was owned mainly by Messrs
Moore and Hyams. John A. Morri.
and Frank L. Howard, who hel(
almost the entire issue of stock. TIL,
hotel could accommodate betweer
600 and 700 guests. Within its wall,
jefferson Davis, Judah p. Benja
min and other leading figures OF ih,
Confederacy formed the first plan.
| for lht establishment of the new re
public before they started for Rich
mond
No less than six Congressiona
Committees have sat in its rooms try
ing 10 solve the Louisiana question
Countless political, RAILROAD, com
mercial and social meetings of ma
tional Importance have been held il
it. In its famous parlor p, the Kin.
of the Carnival had his headquarter
during his short reign in the Crescen
City. Presidents, Kings and nota
bles from every nation on the face o
the globe who have visited New
Orleans, have been sheltered unde
its roof. During the late war thu
hotel was the scence of many stirring
incidents, and Gen. Butler stopped
there for time.