The Bennington daily banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1877-1877, 1877-08-18
Local Intelligence.

READ notice of excursion to Nebraska, adj
vertised elsewhere.
Full choral services will be held at Eve
ming Prayer in st. Peters church to morrow
a. 1880 o'clock.
An enterprising chap who undertook to
sell water at two cents per glass was drum
med ont of camp yesterday.
Mr.. Cuthbert Aills of the N. Y. Times lost
fifty dollars while at the Centennial It was
tai from his room in the Gates House.
delegation of citizen visitors from a
county to the north of us visited three places
where lager is dispensed each three times and
paid but one shot. Diplomacy.
JAMES A. BRIGGs of SAG East 25th Street,
NV York who graduated from the office of
the old Vermont Gazette office in Nov. 1928
has been in town attending the Centennial
AMONG the guests entertained by Mr. Hub
bell was DR.. L. S. sumner Of the New York
Medical University, grandson of the late
Dewey Hubbell, Esq, and most worthy
scion of the good old fumily.
THE carriage furnished for President
Hayes to ride in during his stay IN Benuing-
ton was not that of Hon. Frederick Billings,
but of Representive French, of Woodstock,
and we are glad to make the correction.
MIR. GoRDEN w. SQUIRE, now of Geneva,
N Y, formerly of Bennington and an old
resident here, with his wife; his son-in-law
Mr.. Il. NJ. Williams and wife, of Clinton. N.
Y, were guests of Geo. A. Wood Esq, during
the centennial celebration. They return
home next week.
WE have been informed that the Ladies
Bazaar at the Baptist church will be contn-
ued until further notice, and it is expected
that this evening the attendance will be
large. 1t may interest those contemplating
the purchase Of musical instrument to know
that the Steinway and Chickering pianos
and Estey organs, furnished for exhibition
by Mr.. +. H. Cluett yet unsold, will be dis
posed of at special prices. to save extra cart
age and freight, and any information desired
will be ehcertully communicated by consult
ing with Mrs. W. II, Graves, or address
ing Mr. Edwin Tracy, at the Putnam House
WHEN President Hayes arrived at the en-
trance to the centennial fields, upon his re-
ceptiOn here on Wednesday. he exclaimed,
What a beautiful camp" SO say we ALL
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs is accredited
with saying that the procession of Thursday
eclipsed anything in the centennial line ever
before seen in America. That was the opin-
ion of quite n number of prominent men who
saw both those of Lexington and Concord.
THE Springfield Republican pays the fol-
lowing graceful compliment to VermOnt's
poet: Mrs Dorr. the poet, an interesting
still beautiful middle-aged woman, with gray
hair and fashionable dress, sat on 1.-THE plat
form near the speakers staud during the
reading of the poem. Prof Churchill of An
dover, native of Orange county. inter-
preted it perfectly, and it considerably sur
passed anticipation"
AMONG the notable incidents on Thursday
evening was the dress parade of the First
Corps Boston Cadets on Bennington's Cen
tennial fields Col. Edmunds, commander,
and reviewed before His Hon. Horatia G.
Knight, Lieut.. Gov. of Massachusetts. 1t was
a very fine affair. The guard upon the field
during the time was by the First Regt of our
National Guard.
Ar the election of officers of Vermont vet
teran Reunion Society, held Friday morning
in camp Ethan Allen, the following were
elected for the two years next ensuing Gen.
VIM. Wells, of Burlington, President, John
w. Clark and Fred Il. Smith, of Montpelier.
Vice Presidents The next reunion camp will |
be pitched" in Montpelier the second week
in August. 1879.
THE Presidents party as IL left BenninR |
ton, consisted of the President aud Mrs
Hayes, Webb and Burchard Hayes. Miss
Foote, Secretary of State Evarts. Postmaster
General Key, Attorney General Devens, GOV. |
Van Zandt and staff of Rhode Island, L. w.
Stoughton and wife of New York, William
H. Bigelow and Mrs. Bigelow Ia cousin Of the
president), and two sons, Rollin Dewitt of
Fayetteville, cousin by marriage of the
president, George H. Bigelow of Burlington,
John A. Sheldon and wife and Col. A. F.
Walker of Rutland, and Charles S. Calhoun
of Pittsford. The party were accompanied
by the Sherman band and several press re-
representatives..