The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-12-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

There was an unusually large batch
of shocking affairs to record last Mon
day morning A Mississippi steamboat
is burned aud 80 lives are lost. A resi-
dent of Brooklyn and another of SYRIA
cuse n. Y. murdered their wives and
then took their own lives. Two railway
smashups, one in Arizona and one in
New York Stlte; one results in the loss
of life, and the other in the injury to
one or more passengers. A Maine mer-
chant is beat n nearly t. death and rob
bed The town of Hermansville Mich. has
been des royed by fire. A conf igration
and flood leave but little of Chinese
town. An abused women in Iowa
browns herself An Illinois farmer is
swindled out of $50, 900 by fellow who
hailed from New Y ork. A terrific ex
pl)sion in dynamite magazine at
Mount Pleasant. Ohio.
An English journal repeats warning,
frequently gwen and oft neglected, to
English and American girls about to
marry Frenchmep. It does not yet seem
to be understood that. though women
NAV be married to a Frenchman accord.
ing TO all the forms of the Eng .ish law,
she is not necessarily married in France.
The French law still requires that the
absurd and antiquateG torn of asking
the head of the bridegroOm's family to
consent to marriage shall be gone
through, and if this is omitted the mar
riage is invalid. An English women
who had been married to Frenchman
for two years was recently coolly infor-
med by her husband that they had not
h.. Id eli
ton not having been taken, and she had
to leave him.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster has shown that
her defeat when the Womdn's Christian
Temperance Union went over bodily to
the political prOhibition'sts has not
soured her. She has issued a circular to
non-parisan members of the union
urging them not to abandon If. but to
stand by the cause of temperance and
the education of public sentiment against
the saloon, and 10 try to secure the adop-
ton by State branches of the union of
the Pennsylgar la amendment TO ibe Con-
stitutiOn, declaring it to be the object of
the organization to unite women in
mon sectarIan and non partisan tenn
perance work" Mrs. Foster has long.
broad head.
The steamboat disaster on the MiIsis-
sippi few days ago, was teri bio affair,
involving as it did, the loss of twenty
three lives. but j. would have been far
more frighttul il the officers had not
displayed rare courage. care and skill in
saving the ma ITity Of the passengers.
The financial l1ss is heavy, but that is of
small account where 80 many lives are
sacrificed or imperiled. If the officers
of the steamers oftener displayed the
herolsm, energy and presence Of mind of
those of the Kate Adams, we would
rarely have the awful life-immolating
river aud lake horrors to chronicle.
That insult to the S airs and Stripes in
Macon Ga, has had the effect of stirring
up healthy and pronounced American
sentiment in the city, and it ia said that
the Macon people purpose to give the
United States Court new and beau l.
full fl * for u Christmas present and have
it hoisted regularly on the Court House
II the men who offered the indignily
to the Stars and Stripes intended thereby
t. revive the old rebel fe, ling, they must
be dumf ,unded at the unexpected CON
sequences of their folly. Their rash act
has had an exactly opposite result.
In an interview published in Chicago,
last week, large number of railroad
managers, bankers, and wholesale mer-
chanta and others agree that the i'm
mense depression in railroad shares dur
ing the last eighteen months, which is
estimated at 81 900, 900, 600 is due to the
Inter State Commerce Law. IL is also
stated on authority that soon after Con
gress meets an important modification
of the law will be proposed.
The funeral services Of the late Mrs
Hannibal Green were held at the Holy
Cross church Troy n. T.. Sunday. The
Rev. j. Ireland Tucker officihted. The
services were simple and impressive.
The church was crowded with those
who had subst initial knowledge OF Mrs
Green's devotion and kindness of heart.
The remains were placed in the receiv-
ing vault at lakewood Cemetery.
MIR. Cleveland's brave administration
has brought a lite black rep Iblic to
terms. Thus does he show the British
lion how dangerous il will be t. again
seize vessels fl Nova Scotia, and the
German empire what risky business /
is to disregard the American rights ia
Samoa. Powerful man is that Mr. Bay
ard.
Even on the white mems presentation
OF the case, which is all we have had,
It is clear that the rioting on the Mis-
sissipli soon TO X on the proper ions OF
an old fashioned negro hunt, originating
in pretty squabble in which a negro
may or may not have b. en- to blame,
There is complaint that the Boston
women who voted the other day played
tricks with the ballots. Well, Ism il
the claim Of the universal suffrage folks
that the sexes are Cqua2
The man who is SAID to have clio ed a
''blcssirg" al table, yours truly, Oliver
IJitson," is dead. But he was Yours
truly for he was d good man,