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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
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The Chinese Treaty.

Perhaps in the discussion of how the
dew Chinese treaty will affect this coun-
Try it will be as well to take the words
Of the treaty for inst what they mean in
plain English, for once, and look at the
result from that standpoint. In plain
English, then, it seems evident that Chi
ma is not DESTROYS Of pouring her chill
dren upon our shores. The preamble of
the treaty recites that, in view of the an.
tagonisms and serious disorders to which
the presence of Chinese laborers has given
rise in the United States, China desires
to prohibit their emigration hither. That
is distinct enough, and it is only COM
mon sense and fairness to infer that Chi
ma means it.
No new laborers are to be permitted,
in the meaning of the treaty, to come to
our shores. But those already here may
go back to China, and if they have law
full wife, child or parent or 81 900 worth
of property in America they shall have
the right to return. They may be alb
sent year, or if illness or other uncon-
trollable conditions arise the leave of alb
sence may be extended to two years.
1t is this provision which is contested
so hotly by the Pacific slope senators.
They say that under it the Chinese COM
panies can smuggle in as many Chinese
laborers as they desire, nothing being
easier than to show that Chinaman has
$1,000 worth of property. Chinese mer-
chants, students, officials, teachers and
travellers are to be permitted under the
treaty to come and go at will.
This provision, too, the western sena-
tors declare, opens the door wide for as
many laborers as wish to come, for
nothing again will be easier than for the
Six Companies to prove that any green
Chinese washerman arriving on our
shores is merchant" duly accredited.
But to meet this, provision is made that
the merchant or other privileged Chi
nese person coming here must get certif-
icate from our consul at the port whence
he departs that he is precisely what he
represents himself to be. So that if la
borers are struggled in it will be at least
partly owing to remissness on the part of
our own consuls.
The photograph proviso is abrogated.
Chinese laborers here must register,
however, and in return for that China
claims the right to make all American
laborers in China do the same. All citi-
zens of the United States resident in
China, including missionaries, must be
reported by the United States govern
ment to the Chinese authorities and
fully described.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

A firm at Marietta, Ca, buys old
lead from bullets collected on battle
fields.
Carnot will be the first president of
the present French republic to serve
out his full term.
King Sopieski of Poland was born,
elected TO the throne and died on June
II of different years.
A check for 95, 333, $50 on the Bank
of England, in payment for Kimberley
diamond mines, is said to be the largest
ever drawn.
The oldest inhabited house in the
Unite'l States is that of Killan Van
Rensselaer,, opposite Albany. 1t was
built in 1912.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

The art of turning wood was invented
by the Greeks
The earliest form Of the harrow was
bundle of brush drawn by a bullock.
The first record Of combmalxing as q
separate branch of industry was made
in 987.
When the Georgia poet writes Of the
"pale liquid moonshine," it isn't poetic
license. -Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Missouri and Kansas horses are grad
ually crowding out the small bronchos
and ponies from the southwestern plains
The tambourine is q combination Of
the drum and rattle. II Is found repre-
sented on Egyptian monuments 1000
B. G.
The germ Of the guitar is found in the
warriors bow, the string Of which gave,
q sonorous twang as the arrow sped to
the mark
Things that have become much better
than formerly, though still too bad, are
not to be remedied by refusing to 40
knowledge any Improvement
There is serious effort on the part Of
English clergymen to curtail the ex-
travagant and gorgeous decoration Of
churches for fashionable marriages
The people of Great Darlington,
Mass, are preparing to fifty celebrate
next August the fiftieth anniversary of
the famous Berkshire jubilee of Aug. %
and 2S, 1874
The chief of police Of Buenos Ayres
has ordered that dogs supposed to be
mad shall not be killed, but captured
by the police for examination by DR..
Dabel, the bacteriologist.
It is announced that furnace has
been unearthed somewhere along the
Nile in which the hot blast was used
centuries before the modern Nelson
formulated the same idea
A gavel made from wood that grew
on the farm where Abraham Lincoln
was born has been presented to the de-
partment of the Potomac, G. A. R., by
the Commercial club Of Louisville.
The frequency of the discovery Of
bombs in Paris has led to the provision
of a special vehicle for their transpor-
tation from the place where they are
discovered to the government laboratory.
In Baltimore the prisoners in the
Maryland penitentiary are reported to
have subscribed $435 for the benefit of
the unemployed and would have SUBJ
scribed more probably if the warden
would have permitted them.
The Twentieth Century club is a new
organization in Boston whose most
unique feature is the admission of wom-
en- to membership on equal terms with
men. Its chief aim is the promotion Of
better social order, and its president
is Edwin D. Meade
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
Congressional Morality.

There is popular notion that polit-
ical life is corrupting to social as we'll as
commercial morals. One at all acquaint-
ed with Washington must have heard
the statement banded about commonly
that the official atmosphere of Washing
ton is morally the most corrupt in this
country. Sweeping assertions are con-
stantly made concerning the privat1lives
Of members Of congress that would turn
their constituents hair gray if these con-
stituents could hear the tales just as they
are told at the capital.
Most of the stories of debauchery and
shame are false or exaggerated. I'm
doubtedly majority Of our national
representatives and senators are moral,
clean men, living above the plane of po-
litical and social corruption. Whatever
may be said to the contrary, this is GER
tainly true.
But while this is the case, and intelli-
gent people throughout America know
it to be the case, the appalling self con-
fessed degradation of the congressman
on trial at Washington cannot help
tainting more or less the good name of
all members Of that body. They owe it
to themselves and the American people
to cleanse and purify the moral reputa-
ton of the national legislature. They
owe it to the outraged moral sense Of
civilization to speak out in no uncertain
tones against this phase Of Washington
morals. They owe it to the world to set
themselves right on this point, and moth
ing less will be accepted from them.
The private character Of congressman
is a matter that does concern his constit.
uents.
This nation is made up of respectable
people, who reverence morality and clean
living. The great majority themselves
live clean lives. They will not submit
to be represented in congress by those
who live otherwise. While they hang
their heads in shame at the awful dis.
grace that has come upon the American
people at Washington, they are learning
from it a lesson. It is that in the future
no man shall be elected to congress
whose life is not clear and open page
The world is not very good yet, but II
has advanced to that stage where fla
grant immortality and RIGHTEOUSNESS will
no longer be tolerated in the peoples rep
resentatives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
Literary Note.

The singular good fortune has fallen
to the lot of the Cosmopolitan Magazine
of presenting one of the most remarkable
pieces of fiction ever written-remarka-
BILE because of its author and remarkable
because it has remained unsupported and
undiscovered for more than hundred
years, only to be given to the world at
last in an American magazine. During a
recent call at the office of the editor of
The Cosmopolitan. he mentioned that he
had on the presses in the April number
a literary treasure, and asked me to guess
the name, saying that it was written by a
most distinguished person. After mo-
ment's thought ventured:
President Harrison?"
"Greater than he" was the reply.
"Guess again"
"3laine?"
"Greater than Blaine"
"Gladstone?"
"Greater than he"
"Bismark?"
"Greater than he'
"Emporer William"
''Much greater
''Pope Leo kip 1 guessed wildly.
"Greater than he"
Then was at loss, and hesitated.
"You must not conflne yourself to liv-
ing men," he interrupted.
You say it is piece of fiction and by
man greater than Bismark, Gladstone,
the Emperor William? l confess you
puzzle me-"
"Well, suppose say il was Corsican
story" The riddle was solved. A story
was actually in existence by Napoleon
Bonapart. The manuscript had survived
the vicissitudes of war and exile. Had
remained locked up for a hundred years
and was now about to be brought 10 light
in America. 1t appears from the research
es made by the French Napoleonic schol-
ar, Frederic Mason, who vouches for
The fact over his own signature, that Ma
poleon, when young lieutenant, wrote a
Corsican story. The manuscript of this
he confided to his, Cardinal Fesch, then
Archbishop of Lyons. When Cardinal
Fesch died in 1889, his papers were in
trusted to his Grand Vicar, Able Lyon
net. Napoleon's manuscript was sold by
the able to Libri, a member of the acade-
my and inspector of French libraries.
Libri sold this and some other manu-
scripts to Lord Ashburnham for $40, 1000
and from 1912 to recent date Napoleon's
manuscript slumbered in Ashburnham
Castle. The Cosmopolitan maintains staff
editors in both London and Paris, men
of wide requirements, who spend their
time in searching exclusively for what is
likely to be of great value to the readers
of the magazine. To the Paris editor be.
longs the honor of securing for an Ameli
can periodical the interesting manuscript
from the pen of the worlds greatest per
sonality.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

T. Thomas Fortune, the New York
rolored lawyer, has obtained from the
supreme court Of that state decision
which makes it obligatory on hotels,
restaurants, ginmills, etc., to admit col
ored persons on the same terms as white.
What led to the suit which ended in this
decision was an incident in T. Thomas
own career. He went into beer saloon
to get drink and was told by the bar
keeper that they did not serve colored
people there. and insisting on his rights
Fortune was put out. He got $1,000
damages and the above ruling.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

Hapless old Kearsarge! After rec
ord as glorious as any brave ship eyer
had it was her fate to be plundered and
ret on fire by wreckers as she lay help
less on Roncador reef. There her bones
will remain till the kindly shifting
sands bury the pitiful object out of
sight.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
New Things In Electricity,


A number Of experts have been giving
their opinions as to what the world of
1900 will see in the development of cleo
tricity. They say that all the street cars
and those of railways to points within
100 miles of the large cities will be pro.
PEELED by this agent. Electrical canal
boats will glide like romantic gondolas
along placid waters, only much faster.
Electric brooms will sweep the streets,
electric fans will cool the air of homes in
summer, electric heaters will warm them
in winter, electric cookers and lighting
will do away with coal and gas, and the
domestic millennium will begin.
Both the arc light and incandescent
lamp will be superseded by the Tesla il
luminator, which gives beautiful and
mysterious light without the interven.
ton of either globe or lamp. We shall
telephone as easily across the ocean as we
now do to our friend in the next square.
Wherever there are water powers OF
coalfields electrical energy will be trans.
mitted to points hundred miles away.
Instead of loading coal upon cars and
conveying it to the factory or machine
shop to be converted into power, the
power itself will be conveyed in the form
of electricity.
At this time machine is at work in
several large offices which receives and
prints as fast at it arrives all the news
of the day. 1t is like constant news
paper being printed all the time. Print
ed matter is rolled off upon piece Of
paper in much the same fashion as the
ticker prints. A man need not wait fol
his afternoon paper, but can get thu
news at once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

A popular advertisement says that
10000, 900 American gentlemen are wear
ing the grip buckle wire back electric
rapid firing suspender. Are there 10.-
DOC, 900 gentlemen in America?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

This from the Baltimore Herald: THE
peach crop liar is happy at last, and dur
ing the next two weeks he will slaughter
every peach bud in the state"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

Salvation Is character. A man IL
saved when he is good and lost when be
Is wicked" says The Outlook.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
- FRIDAY MORNING. APR. 6. 1894
'Atian,.,s Expos,,ion.

The International and Cotton States
exposition will be held In Atlanta from
Sept. . to Nov. 80, 1895. The people of
Atlanta are fully alive to the advantages
an exposition brings to city. The one
they contemplate will be different from
any heretofore held in this country and
certainly one Of the most interesting of
them all. Part Of its purpose will BIO to
bring us into closer relations of trade
and friendship with the Central and
South American states, The Colombian
ports of Cartagena and Savanilla are
less than five days distance by steamer
from Charleston and Savannah, while
they are more than two weeks from Liv-
erpool.
Mr., w. L. Scruggs of Atlanta, for
merly minister first to Colombia, then
to Venezuela, says that the republics
south Of us are even more anxious than
we are to establish closer relations. At
lanta and the cotton states are taking
advantage Of this friendly disposition
and will make an especial feature at the
coming fair of products from those
countries. And every dollar spent for
this object in the south will bring back
at least five. Atlanta and the cotton
states are to be congratulated on their
foresight.
Mexico and Cuba, as we'll as the Cen
trail and South American states, are to be
cordially invited to spread themselves in
the display Of their products. Although
Colombian ports are less than five days
by steamer from Charleston and Savan-
nah, yet it is fact that the United
States has no regular line of steamers
thither, but the bulk of the exports from
that region goes to Europe, and the bulk
of the articles they buy comes from Eu-
rope too. A line of steamers established
from the ports named, steamers touch
ing on the way at other adjacent points
south of us, would bring steady stream
of prosperity to our southern states and
indirectly to the whole country. It
would at once become popular tourist
route It is to be hoped that the estab-
lishment of this line will be part at
least of the outcome of the Atlanta expo
sition.
By 1895 the American people will be
quite ready to attend another great show.
The Midwinter California exposition this
year will leave them with taste for an
other and varied one. The country is SO
great that we shall need expositions in
various quarters to do justice to all parts.
Such expositions unite the country firmly
in one brotherhood. The people of At
lanta will need large sum of money to
prepare for their show. Merchants and
manufacturers in the northern cities may
safely be appealed to for help.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

It is sad to see that even a good man
slips up his foot now and then. The
New York board of health has decided
that it was objectionable in that emf
nent clergyman, Rev. DR.. John R. Pax
ton, to marry w. G. P. Breckenridge Sc
cretly to Mrs. Wing and then purposely
omit to record the marriage, as required
by law. The board will sue Rev. DR..
Paxton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

CASH
Buyers look this over
and decide whether you
can or cannot afford 10
pay credit prices.
Our only terms are Cash
Mems heavy Jersey Over
shirts, 3Sc worth SOC
Mems Jersey Overshirts
at 5Sc worth 75c.
Gents Gary mix Under
shirts, heavy, 25c.
Ladies fast black fleeced-
lined Hoes, 10c.
Mems Scarlet, all-wool
Shirts and Drawers, 81 lie.
All-wool black Henrietta,
42c.
Ladies' best white Merino
Vests and Pants, Csc.
Mems red wool Mittens, 13c
Atwood tricot dress Elan
els, zoe.
S0-inch printed Chevrons.
7c a yard, worth IL IL.
Mems Rubber Boots $500.
Mems heavy wool Pants $1.5O
Mems red Pontiac Socks 2Oc
American 3B.inCh Cashmere
zoe.
Ladies Jackets as low as $3.50
actually worth $500.
We have them in finer quail.
ties cheaper than you would
think possible.
Tubular Lanterns, 29c, Tumblers, good
ones, &c, u OF, Dish Pans. 13c, Tin
| Wash Bowls, Sc, 80 #. Cotton Lines,
SC, 2 at. Stamped Paus, &c, Dinner
| Pals, 10, gal. Glass Oil Cans,
| 25c, 2 at. Collee Pots. 10, Nut
meg Graters, lc, Soup La
dies, &c, Needles, paper,
Pins, lc paper, Safety
Pins, lc doz, Shelf
Papers, doz. for
| &c, Wood Fau-
Gets, Sc,
White Envelopes, Sc bunch. Note
Paper, II ream for l0c, Turkey
Red Handkerchiefs, &c, En-
broidered Silk Handker-
chiefs, 10, Hemp Car
pets. - l-2c,
Window
Shades, zoe and Csc complet
And Plenty More Bargains.
AT
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06
| An IN III!

Lam located at
Manchester Centre.
am not giving away Goods but am
giving the most for the least money of
any dealer in southern Vermont
My Stock of
Harness and Horse Furnishings
Is complete. my prices are below all
competitors
You want harness of some kind this
spring. | am selling them cheaper than
you can Steal them.
See Here!
A genuine Full Rubber Trimmed single
Strap Harness for $4,000.
A nickel or imitation rubber trimmed
single strap Harness for $1,000.
A one and half Farm Harness, $35.
A double driving Harness for $37.
These are all my own make, made oil
No. oak stock and fully warranted.
You will always find full stock OF
Whips, Brushes, Halters, Curry Combs.
Surcingles, Blankets. Robes and Lap
Busters in their season, in fact every.
thug for the horse and stable.
/ sell the best hand made factory har
ness made for the money-$l2.OO.
Remember l will not be undersold.
Repairing and Trimming
specially.
All orders promptly attended to.
j. T. BENTLEY,
Manchester Centre, vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

Valuable vegetable remedies are used
In the preparation of Hoods Sarsaparilla
In such peculiar manner as to retain the
full medicinal value of every ingredient.
Thus Hoods Sarsaparilla combines
economy and strength and is the only
remedy Of which 400 Doses One Dollar
Is true. Be sure to get Hoods.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-06

1t is proposed to utilize the telephone
for steering vessels in fog.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-22
CHANGED HIS MIND.
Judge Brown Appoints a Receiver and
Then Rescinds His Action.

In the Circuit Court yesterday, Judge
Brown appointed receiver for the Indian
apolis Wood-finiskIng Company, end a few
hours thereafter reversed himself and de-
MED the application for the appointment
Of a receiver Several weeks ago two of
the partners in the concern filed suit against
the third member of the partnership, ask
ing damages for alleged fraudulent rep
reservations, which they averred had been
made to them by the third partner, and
also praying that the partnership be dis
solved. This suit is now pending in the
courts. The partner who had been made
defendant in this action retaliated by him
self filing suit asking that receiver be APP
pointed for the partnership.
On this petition a temporary receiver was
appointed. Yesterday the case came up in
the Circuit Court on an application to make
the receiVersh1p permanent. Hammond a.
Rogers appeared for the defendants i'm this
hearing. Judge Brown granted the petit
ton making the receiverShip permanent,
and appointed Smith III. Myers receiver
The defendants were ordered to turn the
property over to the receiver forthwith,
and were preparing to comply with the
order yesterday afternoon. when Judge
Brown appeared al the office of their at
torneys Hammond & Rogers, and an
nOunced that he had concluded to rescind
his action of the morning. This was done
and the petition for the making permanent
of the receivership was denied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-22
DEATH OF A VETERAN.
John Lehman, for Many Years q Resi-
dent Here, Passes Away.

John Lehman. aged fifty-eight. for many
years porter at the jewelry store on East
Washington street now owned by julius g.
Walk * Son, died yesterday morning at
an early hour. Lehman was born in
Berne Switzerland. He came TO this
country in the hfties. He first settled IN
LaPorte. this State. and afterwards came
10 this city, and. in 1853 entered the en-
ploy of w. =. Bingham. He remained
there until the beginning of the war. when
he enlisted and sarved until it's close He
was for eighteen months prisoner at the
AndersOnVille prison, and survived five of
his companions who were confined there.
After the war he worked i'm a bank, an
other jcwelry store and then returned 10
the employ of W. =. Bingham He held
his position with Bingham * Walk and
Walk * Son. He was very thrifty and
accumulated a small fortune in real es-
tate. He was unmarried and had no rela-
tives in this country.
Deceased was afflicted with a chronic
disease contracted during the war. An
operation was performed upon him at
Painters sanitarium several days ago.
but IL did not relieve him. II was his In
tenuOn TO dispose OF his property at an
early date and return 10 his native land
10 spend the rest OF his days there. The
funeral services will be held tomorrow
under the auspices OF the Grand Army
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-22
Cannot Open sharpe Street.

The members of the Board of Public
Works have decided that it would not be
practicable to open Sharpe street through
the Pennsylvania Company's yards, east
of the city, during this year. To make the
crossing safe viaduct would have to be
built. and the members of the board say
this would require litigation. The board
has been consulting with General Manager
Mclean, of the street-car company, as 10
a plan TO furnish to the residents of Wood
side the relief they want. They say they
want Sharpe street. opened so as TO give
them access to the Washington-street car
line The street-car company will probably
extend its English-avenue line to Wood
side and return TO Virginia avenue via
Fletcher avenue.