The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-23


Mr.. Nichols is editor of the Courier,
Winchendon, Mass.
NEXT Sunday evening at p. NJ. pas.
tor Widmer of the Methodist Church,
will deliver the ninth in his series of
sermons on the Apostles Creed" The
Second Coming of the Lord to Judg-
ment IS the subject and explains the
seventh sentence of the Creed.
CHAs, w. PIERCE has been entered as
freshman of Norwich University at
Northtield, having fully complied with
the entrance requirements. His record
oil admission is considerably above the
average, and he thus starts on his
college course with flattering prospects.
THE Battenkill Valley Fair at Man
chester is to be held on the 18th. 18th
and 18th days of next month. The
Journal says: Everything promises
that it will be the most successful fair
ever held by the society. We hope the
farmers and others, especially the ladies,
will do all they can to make it a grand
success. The old floral hall has been
removed to the back side of the track
and finish, off into nice horse stalls,
The new floral and mechanics hall is a
great addition. Let it be we'll filled"
SINCE the river became so low the
boys have swarmed in droves of six toa
dozen along the stream sharing fish.
There Is severe penalty against taking
trout In this manner, and that penalty
includes imprisonment. Several are
determined 10 stop this practice and if
the law is enforced, BOYS. some of you
Will hiring up suddenly at Windsor or
In some other prison. With the water
drawn down SO that 1t does not run in
many places for hours at a time the
Walloomesac would soon be striped of
trout unless these things were stopped.
Ii. s. MARCY, the well-knoWn traffij
manager of the Delaware & Hudson
Canal Co, will vote for Harrison this
year. MIR. Marcy is staunch Demo
crat and belongs to one of the historical
families of the State of New York,
which is noted for producing that kind,
de frankly says that he has parted from
Cleveland because of the Free Trade
issue. The opinions of Mr.. Olyphant
and Mr.. Marcy will influence many
voters on the line of the Delaware g.
Hudson Canal Co.'s railroad.
JAS T. CRANsToN 1.-THE Generally
sends some campaign literature, for
OF the BANNER. He also writes that he
hopes the publication of one item in our
columns will change vote or two in
old Bennington. He says he hopes to
hear good news from old Vermont, and
that the Democracy are wild when they
reckon Connecticut a doubtful State.
She will cast her vote for Harrison aud
Morton. Living in Birmingham, a
q r n ba -
features, Mr.. Cranston ought to be able
to indicate the pulse of the workingmen
of Connecticut.
The Bennington Rifles are at Muster
this week. The camp detail went for
ward Friday night and the company
followed Monday. The encampment is
is known as Camp Governor Ormsbee."
The review of the troops by the Cover
nor takes place this, Thursday, after
noon, at which time a number OF promi-
nent officers from other states have
signlfied their intention to be present.
Lieut.. Peter L"ary, Jr,, 4th artillery U,
s, A.. has been detailed by the war de-
partment to inspect the camp and rep.
resent the regular army during the
week. Capt. Coffey, an aid on Gen.
Greenleafs staff, together with Maj.
Valentine and others are also in attend
ance. The encampment faces Lake
Memphremagog and is very pleasantly
| situated.
THE big raft" which contained
100000 feet of lumber and which
has been safely landed, recently, not
experiencing the fate of the first one
which was lost, was photographed at
Vineyard Haven, Mass, and Mrs. E. L.
Nichols shows us a copy OF the picture.
She was on the raft at the time and
both her place and that of her son
Lester are marked with very good
pictures of them. Their party consisted
of ten, but they were only few of the
groups included in the cameras range,
Pastors Baldwin and Jump are sum
merlng at the Vineyard. Mrs. Nichols
and son returned last Friday having
been absent about three weeks. She
is enthusiastic over her visit to this
beautiful spot. 1t will be remembered
that several other BenniDgtonians have
stopped at Cottage City this season.
DR. 2. D. BRADFORD, of Mortified,
who has acquaintance in this town, ls
probably possessed of the largest private
collection of antiquarian curloslties of
anyone in Vermont if not indeed in the
| Union. He has full dinner service of
pewter dishes, well preserved, of vari-
GUS patterns, many of the plates having
been picked up in lots of one two or
three, but the sugar bowl, creamer, etc,
is of one pattern. He says he is going
to give an antiquarian dinner with
twenty five guests and use this service
of pewter table dishes. Among his relics
is snare-.drum which was used during
the whole of the Revolution, beginning
with Lexington, was carried through
the war of 1912, and a grandson of the
Revolutionary drummer used the drum
from l86l.'65 and brought il home in
tact. An accident happened to it since
which destroyed the lower head and a
new one has been put in with ropes to
tighten it mp, but with this explanation
this historic drum stands as it did in
l775.
THE rally last Monday evening was a
grand success. The evening was fine
and the large crowd assembled to hear
an Irish Republican speak on the Tariff
question" was good natured. Editor d.
X. Simonds, senatorial candidate,
opened the ball and introduced Capt. s,
j. Forhan who spoke at length. He was
perfectly familiar with the history Of
England, Ireland and India aud graph
lcally depicted the effect Free Trace
had had upon the two last countries
through the policy of the first named
England having built herself up as the
masters of the seas under Protection"
had first with Ireland, and next with
India forced free trade upon those peo-
pies. She now proposed if possible to do
the SAM with the United States
through the efforts of the Democracy.
Shall 1t be done? Every Irishman who
had fled from British tyranny answers,
No. We hear that his speech was well
rewarded. Howard Henderson, ESQ.,,
of Chicago, former Vermonter, closed
the speaking, gathering up the argu-
ments which had been made and putting
the motive for the issue on the bro,d
high ground of American citizenship
of which Protection is only one Incl
dent,
THE following item from Kansas
exchange will interest some of our
readers. The Prof. Garfield spoken OF
is the son Of the Rev. E. II. Garfield, d,
D., of Arlington. The news note says:
A student of the State University of
Kansas recently won a prize of 800 for
the second best essay on Protection TO
Home Industries" submitted to the
American Protective Tariff League, He
had been under the instruction of that
great Free-Trader, Prof. J. Ii. Garfield,
and this incident, togther with the fact
that nearly half his pupils as a rule be-
come believers in the Protection
theory, ought to lessen the demands