The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-24
GENERAL NEWS.


A woman whose name was given as
Josie Williams died at Beverly, N. j.,
and was buried last Sunday under cir
cumstances of great secrecy and mys-
terry. 1t is now stated that she was
Josie Mansfield, who became notorious
at the time of the Fisk Stokes tragedy
in 1879. Another account says Josie
Mansfield lives abroad.
The London Posts correspondent at
Rome says that the Irish bishops in
their collective letter to the Pope thank
His Holiness for the rescript and for the
distinction between the national and the
religious question.
In the Methodist Episcopal General
Conference, Saturday, the report of the
committee on episcopacy relating to
missionary bishops was taken up. 1t
was lengthy document and very in
teresting one, as it dealt with the ques-
ton whether Bishop Taylor Of the Afri-
can mission is true bishop or not. 1t
practically settled that question and
said that missionary bishop is bishop
IN the true sense of the term. The pass
ing of the entire report of the committee
on the episcopacy was considered great
victory for Bishop Taylor.
The Queen Regent OF Spain has in
vited President Cleveland to go over
and see a statue of Christopher Column
bus unveiled in Barcelona the first week
in June. This will be declined with
thanks as q matter Of course, for Grover
will be unwilling his Presidential cam
paIgn about that time,
The commander of the Grand Army
in Pennsylvania has issued an order de
claring that such posts as have created
contributing or honorary memberships
have done so without warrant or au-
thority. The order is supposed to be
aimed at Post 8, which. made General
Joseph E. Johnston contributing mem.
Der.
The books are full Of traditions. But
for fear the religious reader hasn't had
enough of them to sufficiently crafty
his love of the venerable, before we
leave the sacred edifice let him go with
us down stairs, where we can mingle
our mutual tears over the grave OF
Adam, our great paternal ancestor. the
head of the First Family, who originally
had country residence IN Eden, where
he married our great maternal progen
itor Mother Eve. We shall find the
original grave, If the tradition be true,
in the Greek Chapel of Adam. The ira
dition, like Adam, was born at very
early period. 1t relates that adam
was buried here, that the blood Of Christ
flowed through the cleft in the rock, of
which we have spoken, on to his head,
and that he was thus restored to life"
1t is from this tradition that the skull is
represented below the cross in the fa-
miliar cross (bones) and SKULL Mac
"Old World" Letters from the
Holy Land and dated at the Holy City.
Forgery may be committed by using
4 printing stamp as well as by pen,
according to recent decision of the |
United States SUI RENE Court.
Now that millions upon millions have
1een expended on ironolad ships, Eng
and announces the discovery that they
ire worthless against the new explc-
ives. Perhaps it is just as well, after
III, that the United States only recently
began to build navy.
There seems to be little hope of union
between the Presbyterian Church North
md South, and it is likely that Mason
md Dixon's line will continue to divide
hem. 1t is an unnatural and unfortu-
late situation. The church should re-
member and act upon the old saying,
In union there is strength"