The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-02-02
GENERAL NOTES,

ing ever performed was accomplished
last Monday when a message was sent
from Vancouver to London across the
American continent and the Atlantic
ocean and reply received within four
minutes. The entire distance was more
than half way around the globe on the
line of its equatorial circumference.
BY virtue of new treaty just con-
summated two cents will now carry a
letter from any post office in the United
States to any other post office in North
America, from the City Of Mexico to
Quebec, and merchandise and parcels
can also be sent. through the mails at
the rate of twelve cents pound paid at
the Office where mailed. and where re-
ceived, if in a foreign country, at the
rate of one cent for each four ounces
with import duties added.
-Hnstilities have been commenced in
Europe. Friday while several Russian
soldiers were fishing IN stream near
the Prussian border they crossed the
frontier. % being ordered to recross
the line by two Prussian gendarmes they
refused to do so and fired at the Prus-
sans, wounding one of them slightly.
The Russians seized the wounded man,
but when his companion tried to rescue
him they released him and arrested the
other Prusslan, whom they took away
with them. This incident affords an
opportunity for considerable diplomatic
discussion or for the beginning of a
war.
An earthquake shock was felt in
Fair Haven shortly after midnight. Jan.
Both. Passengers on the Fair Haven
branch of the old Colony Railroad state
that tremOr of the earth was felt at
different points on the Cape. At Little
Campton, r. l., a heavy shock was felt
at 1910 a. m. Shocks are also reported
from other paris of Rhode Island. The
shock at Newport resembled a sharp
snap followed by a long rumble.
Senator Edmunds was given the de.
gree of LII. D. by Trinity College, Hart.
ford. Conn.,, recently, and the N. Y.
World says that he at once sent the col
Iege treasurer a check for 800, saying
that 1t was customary in England for
the recipient of college degree to pay
the costs of registering, engraving, print.
ing and such other expenses as might
pertain to the granting of the diploma.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the young
teacher of the Myra Valley, Nebraska,
district school, had thirteen pupils, from
G to 10 years old. A blizzard lately
struck the school house, and the build
ing was unrooted. Miss Freeman tied
all the pupils together by the arms with
stout Irvine, three abreast. The young
est child she took in her arms, after ty-
ing the Irvine around her own body.
Selecting her way carefully. she led
her little charges, with words of en-
enlargement, through deep drifts and
binding billiards. to farm house, three
quarters OF mile distant, and all were
saved.
1t was in Boston church at an af-
ternoon meeting during the week of
prayer One of the regular attendants
was colored woman who could sing
solo effectively, but was not always edi-
tying in speech. One afternoon. after
singing a hymn. she rose to her feet 30
relate her experience which she did in
substance as follows 4 thank the Lord
for what he has done for me. am 36
years old and have had three husbands.
They were all bad men, and, bless the
Lord. He took them all away = Brief
remarks were the order of the day, and
without further revelations of the bless
ings she had enjoyed she took her seat.
"A despatch from Providence, R l.,
January Both says: What those who ex
perlenced it believe to have been an
earthquake shock is reported from va
riOus sections of the State and CITY, al
about 10 40 m. today, lasting from one
to four seconds.
AT Washington proposed consti
tutional amendment extending the time
for the expiration of the 50th Congress
and the present Presidential administra
ton to April 30, 1889. Monday was re-
ported favorably from the Senate Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections. By
its provisions. Congresses and Presiden
tial administrations are to commence al
noon on the Both Of April, hereafter.
Salt Rheum
With its intense itching. dry, hot skin.
often broken into painful cracks, and
the little watery pimples, often causes
indiscribable suffering. Hoods Sarsa
parilla has wonderful power over this
disease. 1t purifies the blood and expels
the humor, and the skin heals without
scar. Send for book containing many
statements of cures, to CT. Hood & Co..
Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
The ice gorge which has formed on
the Mississippi in front of St. Louis be-
gan to move at midnight Tuesday and
drifted down stream 300 yards. lifting
two steamers out of the water, slightly
injuring them, when the immense
weight was checked and remained in.
tact until morning, when the January
thaw lOosened the mass and it slowly
crashed down upon nearly 81 500, 600
worth OF property which it is now slow
ly grinding into ruins. Already several
harges have been sunk and the steamer
Tamm, Matte Belle and the Hayes have
been sunk. The Hayes was large ex.
cursion steamer worth $50 900. 1t is
total wreck, The Matte Belle was own
ed by the Illinois River Company, Sne
was fine freight boat The Tamm was
a ferry boat, The wharf boat of the
Alton & Grafton Railroad Company was
swept away. The steamer City of Mon
roe snapped her lines al noon aud is a
wreck. Capt Mason and Mr.. Seeberger
we're badly injured.
One of the curious features of the
is an official complaint to the
Chicago & Northwestern from the Iowa
board of railway commissioners because
the company has not furnished cars
enough along the line to move the corn
which the farmers wish to sell. Every
available storage place has been filled |
and in some cases farmers have been |
obliged to haul their corn back home. |
OF course this interferes with the credl |
Of the farmers, because they are unable |
10 realize upon their products. But the
cannot control the blizzard |
The Burlington undoubtedly ready to |
handle all the traffic that can be SEM 10
Il, but if it had 10000 cars to spare they
could not have been moved during the
weather of the past fortnight, and II
hey had been distributed they could
not have been loaded. The result will
undoubtedly be II heavy traffic for all
he Granger roads as soon as the block
Ide is lifted and the country roads are
open.
The greatest land slide ever known
n California has taken place on the line
If the California and Oregon railroad.
The road is a new one and the recenl
leavy rains thoroughly soaked the fresh
Oadbed so that the whole country lei
20 and came down on the track, Abou
90 miles of track covered with the de