The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-12-13
NEWS AND NOTES.

Daughter, aged 38facetiously)- Papa,
| found dozen gray hairs in my head
this morning and pulled them out.
Don't you give me away. though"
Father (sighing heavily -"Give you
away, Emily? I've abandoned all hope
of it. "-Chicdgo Tribune.
They are still counting in Texas At
last ac'oun they had thel Democratic
majority up to l08 1852, and had one
third of the counties vet to be tabulated.
They estimate ClevelaDd's majority st
100000, They are only counting for fur,
but If the national election turned on
the popular vote, they would run up a
majority of 100000 without winking
One reason why the people OF Northern
Dakota object TO changing the terTitor
ial name when they come in as a State,
even for so good name as that OF Lin
coin, Is that Dakota wheat" has a
market value the world over, and the
farmers are not sure that Lincoln
wheat would sell as well as under the
old name, even though it was grown on
the same soil.
The Governor of South Carolina, in
his recent message to the Legislature,
says of the public schools that he finds
an increase of 1S,4l7 pupils and large
expenditure of money for school houses
than ever before. The number and
quality of school houses in the country
have greatly advanced. The facilities
for the training of teachers have also
been enlarged.
1t is singular how suddenly some
Democratic Congressman have become
alive to the "moral side" of Ddkota's
claim to Statehood. Until they learned
that Grover Cleveland was defeated and
that the next Congress would be hope
lessly Republican anyway, they were as
violently opposed to the admission of
Dakota as if the great Territory had
been Timbuctoo.
The enormous sale which certain
novel dealing with religious questions
has had is due largely to the sermons
which have been preached in criticisn
or denunciation of it. A recent vigorous
sermon IN Kalamazoo enabled the local
dealers to close out all their stock. Min
listers will some time learn that the surest
way to advertise book which they
think to be Objectionable is to preach
against l..
1t seems to be the general opinion OF
Vermont papers which have discussed
the recent failure of the municipal stuff
rage bill in that State that the two prime
causes for the overwhelming defeat of
the measure were: First dissatisfaction
with the course of women in politics,
as illustrated by the w. G. 7. U. and
Secondly, a conviction that only small
numbPr of women, relatively, really
want the suffrage. BoSt Journal
The two thousands honest settlers who
have got to lose their homesteads be
cause of neglect or blunder of the In.
terror Department are probably not
over enthusiastic for this Administra-
ton. If Mr.. Villas had tried half as
hard to discharge the duties of his office
as he did TO carry the Northwest for
Cleveland, these unfortunate people
might now be settled, prosperous and
happy.
Loup City, Nebraska, is preparing an
unique present for the President-elect
Harrison-the railway company furnish
ing car on which it is to be construct ed
"a typical sod house. Two paintings
will accompany the house, one represen-
ting Nebraska in 1860, showing some
pioneers WITH an old coach AMI an OK
team attacked by Indians; the other
depicting scenes of 1885, growing grain,
farm house, a train of cars and other
evidences of prosperity. The legends
that will accompany the car are AZ
follows: "LOup City sends these offer
Ings of respect and esteem to the Pres-
dent-elect In 1860 the Republicans de-
clared that the Union must be preser-
we'd in 1888 that the commercial inter
ests must be protected. In 1860 Ne
braska had $4,000 population and no
railroads in 1888, 10000 900 popula
ton and 5000 miles of railroad"
An estimated deficiency of more than
four mi Ii IN dollars in the Post Office
Department for the last year is con-
elusive argument against any lesspning
of the rates of postage. The Depart
ment's business now and for years to
come will not warrant il. What is wal
ted is not CHEAPER bu a better service.
OF all the Departments of the Government
the postal service undes this Admins
tratlon has Uttered the worst dtteriora-
ton and been made the object of most
complaint. Mr., Dickinson argues that
it is better than that of France, G .rmary
and Great Bri ian. 1t ought to be better,
infinitely better, and it is no great
feather in the cap OF Uncle Sam that
though the postal service may be good
a compared with that of foreign nations,
it is still so positively bad as all INTEL :
gent American citizens know it to ne
Under the Harrison Administration the
Post Office Department will undoubtedly
come in for pretty thorough overhaul
ing. l. will have an official at its head
whose chief duty will be to attend to the
public business instead of devOting Il @
most OF his energies 10 politics and stir
ring up sectional Jealousy and hatred in
hop to benefit his prty by il.
Roman Catholics of Montreal and Of the
Providence of Quebec feel elated over
the announcement that there is posi-
biIty of Cardinal Archbishop Tascher-
eau OF Quebec becoming successor to
His Holiness Pope Kill as a ruler of
the Catholic world. This statement i.
BASED on an interview with Hon. Michal
Vidal, formerly representing Lou siana
in the American Congress. Mr.. Vidal
has but recently returned from Italy.
In an interview, alluding to the great
age of the Pope, he said that there was
a consensus of opiHion among Cardinal
that the next Pope must not be an al
ian. In Paris he spoke to Coruely of
Gau'oi1, an authority of Papal policy
Mr.. CorneIly found many Cardinals at
Rome IN favor of Cardinal Gibbons of
Baltimore as Leo's successor. believing
that the United States wouli support a
struggle for the restoration of the tenn
poral power. The objections to choos-
ing Pope from any of the European
States are mary, and of course the most
popular and least objectionable choice
would be Cardinal Taschereau of Que
bee, Cardinal Gibbons is not available,
owing to his representing a democracy.
Cardinal Taschereau, however, occupies
a unique and strong position as a Brit
ish subject and yet one who would be
regarded by France as Frenchman
He would thus elicit the sympathy and
support of two powerful nations. Car
nal Tascherean, though Of modera {
views is sufficiently liberal to satisfy ad-
vanced parties in Europe. and it would
not be surprising to find Canada supply