The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-03-01
MRs. SHELDON H. RocKwoop is i'll

sent out their tickets for county com
missioner, Hiram II, Hurlburt.
THE Graded schools close the 16 h
inst. There will be an entertainment
with public rhetorical exercises.
WE are assured that the auditors o.
the town of Bennington. will complete
their work today. If they do so the
town reports will be ready for distribu
ton Saturday evening.
Two Bennington gentlemen are soon
to enter the state of matrimony. Mr..
Wells Valentine next week, who shows
excellent sense in choosing las the writer
well knows) a Manchester lady; and Mr..
Harrison l. Norton who goes to far off
Walla Walla, Washington Territory, for
his bride. The BANNER extends con.
CALCULATIONS.
MRS. SALLY JAMES, widow of the late
Col. Randall James of Hoosck, N. Y,
lives in Bennington, and is in the eighty,
third year of her age, having been SO
last Saturday. Feb. 95th. On that day
she was pleasantly surprised by her de
scendants, comprising four generations
and numbering forty four, considerably
more than half of whom were present.
The present family residence on South
street. presented happy scene. 1t was
an afternoon visit, and the event was
greatly enjoyed, not less by the venera-
Bile lady herself than by those who were
younger.
The sudden but not altogether unex
prcted death of Mrs. John II. Bahan
Monday morning. has cast gloom over
a large circle Of her friends, especi lily
at her home in Bennington Center. She
was a daughter of the late Strong Poole
of whose family there now survives one
other daughter, Miss Kate II. Poole.
Mrs Balkan was a very estimable wo.
man. a member of the Old First church,
and lady who will be greatly missed
by all. Her husband and son IA. S Ba
ham survive. The otsequies were he'd
yesterday, the Rev. Mr.. Marten official.
ing.
On Monday Chas. W. hurley died of
pneumonia after an illness of less than
a week. Mr.. Hurley was a sou-in.law
of Josiah Burch. a mechanic by trade
and good citizen. Within year the
twin children of Mr.. and Mrs. Hurley
had d ed and the sudden death of the
usband under the circumstances is a
very great affl ction to his wife and the
whole family. His preparation for
death and Willingness to go is one of the
grateful memories connected with this
sudden dispensatio of Providence,
The family wish us TO return thanks for
them to the friends who assisted, to the
choir. to the Rev. Mr.. Tator and others.
a DISPATCH from Burlington, yester
day, says: 1.-THE United States Circuit
and District Courts, Judge Hoyt II.
Wheeler, presiding, opened at Burning
ton yesterday morning with docket of
upwards of seventy Ave cases about one
third of which were criminal. The in
dications are that the Grand Jury will
have an unusually large number of
cases to consider. The indictment found
IN October against Capt. Nelson o. Will
cox, once of Bennington. for mailing
obscene letters, was set down for trial
p. NJ. Meldon Of Rutland, j. L. Cush
man and j j. Enwright, both of Bur
lington, were on motion admitted to the
bar. The term will be Of more than the
usual length.
FROM the auditors report we learn
that the financial condition of the town
of Bennington, is good, and shows care
full management on the part of the off
GERS. The total liabilities of the town,
including the railroad bonds, bonded
debt, etc, is 1928 ,064 So. OF this there
are now outstanding of the four per
cent. bonds 800 800. The available as
sets are $l5, j29.S9. The net debt of the
town, Jan. 3lst, 1887 was $2l0, 4O4 OS.
The net debt Jan, 3lst, 1888, was: $201.
j34 81; decrease for current year. $ll,-
S69.4l. The cash in the Treasurer hand
is s., 906 6S. 1t is probable that it will
take a tax of 100 cents on the dollar to
pay the expenses and to pay bonds and
interest maturing this year. a decrease
of 30 cents on the grand list dollar.
THE Burlington and Pittsburgh
brethren of the quill usually dwell to-
gether in brotherly love, but now and
then prov gets the better o., their
discretion and they have a passage al
arms. The Plattsburgh brother gets the
better of it in late brush" because oil
the plate matter responsible. and &C
much used to fill up blanket sheets" as
follows: 1T is melancholy to observe
that our handsome sister on the other
side of the lake wakes in wickedness az
she progresses toward metropolitan
greatness. The Free Press of last Mon
day calmly chronicles a mill which
took place last Saturday night in a pub
lie in which 'claret was drawn anC
gashes inflicted and one gladiator was
'winded' and had to be revived with
brandy,-all just the same as if it might
have been in Sodom or Gomorrah-
Boston or New YoTk-instead of thu
Queen City of the Green State of Yer
mont"
BY the town meeting warning it will
be noticed that there is proposal to Sc,
if the town will vote to exempt from
taxation the new manufacturing inter
ests of Bennington. We have Away
believed that it was true economy not t,
say public policy, so to do. The Who'll,
matter in nut shell is the offering Of
an inducement for such to come here
for those already here to enlarge thei
business, and the whole to advance tn,
prosperity of the town. We gain il
both population and wealth. The farm
ers have an increasing market, with
certainty that as soon as the firm o.
corporation get firmly established, sa!
in five years. then the whole value o
their personal and real estate is addeC
to the Grand List and permanent in
crease is effected. II the opposite polio,
prevails we gain nothing in any sucl
degree as by the liberal and inviting
inducements which prevails in all on
larger towns with which we are in di
rect com petition.
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