The Londonderry Sifter from South Londonderry, Vermont • 1

Sifter John Euns me; If you want me pay for me The Lonix)nkii8ir Bright, Newsy and Saucy-Opposed to all Kings, Cliques and Factions. SOUTH LONDONDERRY, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1891. VOL. VIIL NO. 49.

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3. CALL west, forming the head waters of the Otter Creek which flows into Lake Champlain and ultimately finds its way, through the rivers St. John and St. Lawrence, into the sea at the Gulf of St Lawrence. An old church stands, or at once stood, in Andover, on the eastern rim of the basin, of which the Peru Valley joins the western side, the waters from the eaves of which, on either side, reach the ocean through differ TUB ELECTIONS.

The result of the state elections held last Tuesday may be briefly summarized, as follows Ohio elects McKinley and the entire Rrpublican ticket by an approximate majority of 20,000. The Republicans also control both branches of the legislature. The Democrats carry New York by nearly 50,000 majority. The legislature is claimed by both parties. Pennsylvania went Republican by a heavy majority probably exceeding 50,000.

Boise, Democrat, is elected gov A.nd see the Line of OVER SHIRTS from 25 cents to $2.00 apiece, Ladies' Underwear, Gents' Underwear, Children's Underwear, nil li or mis In Fall and State of Vermont, 1 Westminster, ss. The Probate Court for said District. To all whom it may concern, Greeting. Whereas Emma A. Howard, administrator of the Estale of Henry G.

Howard, late of New Mexico, deceased, having estate In said district has represented that The amount of debts due from said deceased is $876.34. The charges of administration, estimatcl, $40.00. Balance of debts chargeable on the real estate of said deceased, S91G.34. Praying lor license to sell all of the real estate of said deceased, as the same is necessary for the payment of said debts and charges of administration. Whereupon it is ordered that the same be heard at the sexiun of said Court, to be held at the Probate offic in Bellows Falls on the 5th day of December A.

D. 1S9I, when and where you may be heard in the premises if you see cause. Cii.as. B. Eddy, Register.

Special -Given Charles H. Haynes Id Goldthwalt'B Maga zine. Just why thousands of our country men go to Europe every summer and return every fall, to sing the praises of English hospitality, French maimers, German culture and Alpine scenery, is not plain. What do these people know of our own Green Mountains? What do they know of Vermont? of Bennington county? of Peru? There, within two hundred miles of New York City, is a region sparsely settled with good old-time, true-blue Americans. Among them generous hospitality is a religion; their untutored gracefulness would put to shame a practised habitude of the salon; the innate goodness of the heart casts such a halo about the uucouthness of speech that the culture of the schools is forgotten; while the sublimity of the mountain peaks, the grandeur of rocky precipices, the beauty of the verdant valleys, and the loveliness of forest, fen and lake, form a combination seldom equalled and certainly unsurpassed in any country under the sun.

There are left, here and there, bits of God-made earth which, perhaps, excite in a far greater degree the emotions, but here, the head, the heart, the soul is just fill ed to the limit of exaltation without being overawed. At the southern portal of this vale of beauty, whence the old turnpike winds its way down the mountain side, like a sturdy sentinel, stands old Bromley. Beyond, West Mountain overtoils, with "The Notch" between, traversed by "Little Mad Tom" and "Big Mad Tom." Mount Tabor curves away to the 'Derry Mountain forms the 'green room" for the rising sun, and silver-grey Stratton, with its heavily timbered slopes, holds the mirror for him to make his morning and his evening toilet A quiet hamlet trees, woods, forests everywhere lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, brooks aud rills full of the finny tribe rejoicing at the ignorance that sends thousands across the up-heaving deep and leaves them in quietude and safety. Many curious scenic and atmospheric phenomenon are witnessed here in the round of the seasons. Sometimes one may stand at tne summit oi nest Mountain, bathed in the purest sun shine, with a clear, blue arch of sky above; while below, vast masses of inky clouds are gliding along the face of the steep incline and pouring torrents of rain upon the lower slopes, the foot hills, and the verdant valleys.

Sometimes one may stand iu the valley, and in broad sunshine, watch the gathering clouds bathe iu tears the hoary head and rock-ribbed sides of the western I ranges. The hither border of the summer shower may come so close that the rythmic patter on the broad leaves of the maple, beach and birch is distinctly heard, and yet not even a stray drop falls where the observer stands. During the winter, frequent snow-storms oc cur in the upper mountain regions, when not a flake falls iu the valley two miles away as the bird flies. In some localities snow-slides occur, in extent and destructiveness almost worthy the name of avalanches. In Skinner Hol low, on the south-east side of Mount Equinox, the snow sometimes accumulates to a depth of more than one hundred feet, and times have been when venturesome parties have here indulged in a game of snow ball on the Fourth of July.

Near the summit of the West Mountain is a remarkable lake or pond. It occupies the extreme limit of the "great divide" the terminal point of three great water-sheds. The lake, though more than three thousand feet above the sea and about eighteen hundred feet above the valley below, is fed by numerous living springs, and discharges its waters into three separate and distinct water-ways; and, more than that, into three distinct drainage systems. An outlet to the east forms Haynes' Brook, the waters of which, through Mill Brook, West River, and the Connecticut river, reach the sea at Saybrook, Connecticut. An outlet to flws dovnl the opposite -n mleofthe n.lge into the Battenk.ll, which is a tributary of the Hudson, mu reaches the sea at New York City.

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The formal appointment of Secretary Proctor to the U. S. Senate was made by Gov. Page on Monday. The residence of the Prince of Wales was partially burned a few days ago.

Loss estimated at over $100,000. Last Tuesday was a cold day in Xew York and the Republican Fassett froze up, but the Democratic Flower came out fresh and blooming. Any woman would think as much of her husband as she does of her dog if the former always showed that he was as glad to see her as the latter does. Ex. If the Chilians keep on snubbing Uncle Sam's nose some of these days the old gentleman will go down there and make it too hot to be chilly any more.

The great heresy hunt has ended in the dismissal of the charges against Dr. liriggs. So, so Then there is hope that some of us poor devils that never heard the gospel preached may, after all, attain to a considerable growth of wingB. From an independent standpoint it looks much as if Bay State Republicans were in the valley and shadow of death. Too many bosses, too many monopolists.

Chili still maintains a defiant atti tude towards the United States, but it is hardly probable that she will go to war, although it is barely possible. Several of our war ships, including the Philadelphia, have gone South and others arc being rapidly fitted out. Base ball players get from two to four thousand dollars a year, while country editors get from seventy-fire cents to a dollar and a half. This is the difference between catching ball and catching from your subscribers. The Pamellites and McCarthyites are having a high old time these days.

Collisions, in which clubs and stones are freely used, are of almost daily occurence. Last Tuesday one McDer-mott, a cousin of Faniell, horse whipped Tim Healy. The startling news of the week was the announcement of the failure of the Maverick National Bank of Boston. This bank has heretofore stood high in financial circles, and was the depository of numerous small New England banks, including a number in Vermont. These will all be losers to a greater or less extent The full extent of the failure is not yet known but it is hardly probable that depositors will re ceive more than 50 cents on the dollar.

Asa P. Potter, president of the in stitution, and Col. Jonas H. French and Thos. Dana, directors, have been arrested charged, with eniliezzlemeiit Bnckinfrham's Dye for the Whiskers docs 118 work thoroughly, coloring a uniform brown or black, which, when dry, will neither rub, wash off, nor soil linen.

The New York city street railway employes have withdrawn from "the Knights of Labor. A labama is suffering from a drought and all Louisville and Nashville trains carry tank cars for the distri bution of water along the road. It is reported that ex-Senator James G. Fair will shortly marry Miss Mary Lake, who conducts a girls' boarding school in San Francisco. Acting Secretary Spaulding has astructed the surveyor of customs at St.

Louis to exact duty on a case of champagne stolen from a bonded warehouse, on the ground that the government is not responsible for its loss. Advices from Melbourne state that the epidemic of influenza shows no signs of abatement. Nearly every family in the city is afflicted. Serious reports come from country districts and deaths are becoming alarmingly numerous. About 600 car loads of raisins have so far coma east this season from California.

The shipments are now averaging 20 cars a day. The present estimates are that the total shipment for this season will reach 1000 car loads, or about 150 more than last year. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging in Portland, and vicinity. The natural gas well at Paw Paw, 111., has burned out suddenly, leaving its users stranded. Fatal Accident at Brandon.

Special to Rutland Herald. Brandon, Nov. 1. Ira Langdon, about 65 years of age, employed by the Brandon Electric Light company, was instantly killed Saturday after-uoon about 4 o'clock. He was at work on some piping over the main line of shafting.

As near as can be conjectured his loose outside frock caught on a set screw or collar on the main shaft and be was drawn on to the shaft, which was turning at the rate of 180 revolutions a minute. "The engineer was building the fire when his attention was drawn to the noise made by Langdon's body as it struck the flooring and the platform where he had been working at each revolution of the shaft, aud as quickly as possible he shut down the water-wheel. The noise had also attracted the attention of young Mr. Johnstone in the marble works, who unshipped the gearing connecting the machinery of the works. They both arrived at the scene of the accident about the same time.

Langdon's body was terribly mutilated. The large bone of one leg was found about 30 feet from where the body was wound around the shafting the bone of the other leg was found about 20 feet away in another direction. Both legs were severed from the body near the knees. His neck was Woken and about every bone in his body was either broken or crushed. Death was probably instantaneous.

His feet and shoes were found near, and pieces of flesh were scattered about. His face was not disfigured: Langdon leaves a widow in delicate health, a daughter about 17 years of age and four grown-up sons. He was a veteran soldier of excellent character and reputation. He was recently granted a pension of $12 per month for rheumatic trouble and disease of the heart, and he found employment at light work to earn enough more to support himself and family. The funeral will be held Tuesday at the house and the burial will be in the family lot about a mile south of Brandon village.

Chas. J. Orms-bee post, G. A. will attend the funeral in a body.

The Japan Earthquake. Late news of the earthquake in Japan is much more terrible than at first reported. It is now estimated that 10,000 persons lost their lives, and an immense amount of property destroyed. An appalling feature of this national disaster was the fact that many of the hundreds of wounded personswho in the mad rushes for safety were left to their fate, died not only from exposure, but from starvation. The towns of Okonau, Kano and Kassamutsu have beeu literally wiped out, but very few of the unfortunate inhabitants escaped.

'At Gifu 5000 houses were destroyed and 5000 persons killed. Eighteen thousand houses were wrecked and 2000 persons lost their lives at Oragora. Fifty miles of railway have been destroyed, and in the earthquake district a number of European residents were engulfed, but Cook's tourists parties now in the country are safe. Some writer has aptly said that all great inventions are really combina tions of minor ones that they cannot be called creations, but growths, and never the work of any one mind. The same may be said of the steam engine, the use of which is first men tioned in the early history of P-gypt, about zuu years B.

when an en gine and an apparatus designed by Hero was used to open and close the doors of the temple at Alexandria. Other crude affairs followed this in" after years, the Marquis of Worces ter, in 1655, reproducing a machine similar to Hero's with which he raised a column of water to the height of 40 feet. Thomas Savery, in 1698 secured patents for engines for pump ing water and draining mines. David Papin, a French mathetician, is credited with using the first safety valve. The names of Humphrey Potter, Thomas Newcomen, John Smeaton, Henry Bughton, Sir Samuel More- land and James Watt, are all associated with the invention of the steam engine.

It is a singular fact that the first railroad ever built was without a locomotive, and the first locomotive was without a railroad on which to run. Tbe first locomotive was built in Paris, France, by Joseph Cugnot, in 1769, and consisted of a boiler, shaped like a huge tea kettle, mounted on a three-wheeled vehicle. A speed of three miles an hour was attained on a common road, but on the first trial trip it ran into a building and was broken to pieces. In 1784 James Watt is said to have patented a steam locomotive in England, but it was never put to use. Trevetbick and Vivian also patent- a locomotive in 1802, and in 1804 it travaled at the rate of five miles an hour, drawing behind it a load of ten tons of coal.

Carson. What the Women Do and Say. Mrs. Alexauder Bremer, one of the factory inspectors in New York, lately secured the conviction of six clothing manufacturers for violation of the factory laws in compelling girls aud boys under twenty-one to work overtime. Mrs.

Bloomington, who was lately elected to the school board in Jackson, has since been chosen treasurer of the board. She was required to give $20,000 bonds, and easily found wealthy women in Jackson to go on her bond to that amount. Miss Marcia A. Douglass has a fine apiary at Shoreham, Vt. She makes a specialty of white clover honey, and ships it to order to any part of the country.

The Woman's Medical College of Georgia, at Alanta, opens with double its previous attendance. The wife of Governor Northen is president of the board of trustees. Two women are assistant examiners in the patent office Mrs. Lypard of Ohio and Miss Amelia Tyler. Thirteen ladies are employed in the library of this office, as translators, assistants and indexers.

Dr. Jacobi, who is a specialist in diseases of women and children, says that tbe baby of today has a much better chance of life than the baby of fifty years ago. The better educated mother knows how to take better care of the children. Wake Dpi The age is one of rapid progress and we arc in it. Cur patrons are among the most progressive of the nation.

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ESTATE OF I. F. FAULKNER. Sta i of Vfkmoxt, Wl'-llH tl-Ifl-, By tlie Piolmie Court for said district, to all ppr-ons lutere.led In Hie ot I. K.

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18'd when and where you may be heanl In the premises, If you tee cause. Chas. B. Kddy, Register. ent river systems.

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Pittsburg Dispatch. BIRTHS. In Peru, Nov. 4, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.

Edgar Batchelder. MARRIED. In So. Londonderry, Oct. 31, by Eev.

W. A. Bryant, Arthur E. Baker of Lon donderry and Grace H. Hosley of Win-hall.

In Winhall Nov. 1, by C. Williams, Esq Ora and Bernice Benson. DEATHS. In South Windham Oct.

29, Mrs. Ln- cinda C. Harrington, daughter of Asa Whitman and wife of Ransley Harrington, aged 47 years, 9 mos. and 25 ds. In Glens Falls, N.

Oct. 31, of apoplexy, W. Garfield, M. aged 55. WE MAKE IT.

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Russell, Democrat of Massachus etts, is re elected by a plurality of 5,500. Other state officers chosen are Republicans. In the West, outside of Iowa, the Republicans make gains. Two or three Southern states that held elections went Democratic by the usual heavy majorities. Snow In North Dakota.

Grand Forks, N. Nov. 3. It began snowing about noon yesterday and still continues drifting badly. Many of the men brought up here from Minnesota and Wisconsin to help threshing are leaving off work on account of cold weather, and as a large portion of the grain is still un threshed, it is doubtful if farmers can finish threshing before spring.

East bound trains for two or three days have been crowded with farm laborers leaving the state. Letters from tbe Pcop le Vermont Wot a Pocket Borough. Editor Sifter: The assumption by- Mr. Hooker that delegates from Ver mont to future National Conventions would vote as Secretary Proctor dic tated is a libel on the Republican party in the State. Such loose talk ought not to go unrebuked.

Itlowers the standard of party manhood and gives the young men of the. Republican ranks an idea that personal judgement goes for nothing. Are we to educate ourselves aud them to the idea that independent action in matters of politics is not to be thought of There is a certain glibuess and hurrah bovs that does well euough in running horse breeder's meetings and agricultural fairs, but when it comes to speaking for the political action of an entire State, it is time for some body to call a halt to this loquacious and amusing individual. This enthusiastic citizen is affected by a newspaper interviewer somewhat as the gyser in the Yellowstone park. By throwing in a cake of soap the spouting commences directly, no mat ter if out of season.

We all respect and admire the wisdom and ability of Sec. Proctor, and his large acquaintance with men and public affairs claims reliance on his judgment; but to remain where Mr. Hooker places us is to belittle ourselves as a party. Vermont has never yet been classed as a pocket borough in nationel af fairs, and the time is not yet ripe for such a consumation. Axtel.

Shots From Exchanges. Philadelphia papers are crowing over new proof that advertising pays. A merchant of that city advertised for a boy and the next day his wife presented him with twins of male persuasion. N. Y.

Press. Don't put yourself in the power of a man who will work a horse with a sore shoulder. Ram's Horn. "Aren't you afraid you are living rather too well for your health?" asked the chicken. "I ain't in this for my health," answered the turkey, between pecks.

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