The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-04-02
STATE NOTES.

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Mrs. Ernest Wilkins of South Ran
dolph committed suicide few days ago
by taking paris green. She leaves a
husband and four small children.
The Barre school census shows that
there are 1903 children within the city
limits between the ages of 8 and l8
years and 1O4 who will come within
this limit during the coming year.
The citizens of Wilmington are TAX
ing lively interest in postoffice mat
tiers. The office in that town, it APP
pears was raised from the fourth to the
third class last October and the incum-
bent at that time, E. H. Porter, was
renominated by President Cleveland
The Senate, however, did not act on
the matter, which leaves an open field
to all aspirants. There are several
candidates for the Office.
Mrs. Emma A. O. Dowd, 81 years
old, is living in New Orleans, La.
| Her Father, Rev. Dan Kent of Benson,
served as soldier in the war of the
revolution from 1875 till 1881 and
was in the battle of BENIN gton. His
father, Cephas Kent of Dorset, was the
patriot at whose house the first meeting
of the famous council of safety was
held. 1t was there III September,
1776, that the resolution was taken tC
declare Vermont separate and indie
pendent district, in opposition to the
rival claims of New Hampshire and
New York, and there its first loca
government was organized.
The Vermont congressional delega
ton have asked for the appointment o.
j. D. Denison of Randolph as minis
ter to Venezuela. This position was
held by Vermont men during the Har
rison and Cleveland administrations.
The minister to Venezuela receives {
salary of $500 per year and the office
is one Of great Importance. }. d
Denison is a lawyer about 40 years old
a graduate Of the University of Yer
mont in the class of 1868 and a son o
Dudley C. Denison, lawyer who ser
we'd two terms in Congress over q
years ago, as the result Of fight a
gainst Judge Poland.
Montpelier, Ban re and St. Johns
bury are to have a system OF electrl
street railways this season, it is said
The builders will be j. S. Pierson, J
j. Flynn, F. G. Kennedy and A Q
Humphrey of Burlington. Montpelie
and Barre will be connected by an {
lectric road, which will also ru
E through the principal streets of bot
cities. The preliminary survey ha
been made and work will be begu
within two weeks. 1t is expected tha
in six weeks time from the start tn
tracks will be laid and cars running
Immediately on the completion of tn
t Monfpelier-Barre road, the workin
force will be transferred to st. john
t bury. The plan for st. Johnsbury ii
: cludes road running through til
e principal streets and also extending I
$ the growing village Of Lyndonvill
t eight miles north of st. Johnsbury vi
e lage.
e Cuttingsville was recent suffert
j from high water and an ice jan
It Twenty charges of dynamite dispose
; of the latter.
Bennington suffered a severe iii
l. loss last Friday through the burnir
! of the Stewart planning mill and Ste'
l. art block. Five families were mac
h homeless and property destroyed
y the amount of $4,000.
s. The authorities of the city of Bar
5 have imposed an extra tax on do;
W for the support of the library.
u The house of Ephraim Wilder
~ SALISBURY was burned to the groul
l. on Friday night about z o'clcc
10 Much of the household goods we
N saved. The house was insured t
to $500.
> There is more Catarrh in this secti
u of the country than all all other diseas
if put together, and until the last few yea
b. was supposed to be incurable. Fol
90 great many years doctors prom ounced
a local disease, and prescribed local re
edies, and by constantly falling to CT
W. with local treatment, pronounced it
er durable. Science has proven catarrh
on be constitutional disease and thereto
requires constitutional treatment. Ha
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.
on Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the OF
a constitutional cure on the market. II
taken internally in doses from 10 Dire
ed to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
nd blood and mucous surfaces of the syst