The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-01-05
DEFERRED GENERAL NOTES.

Don't swallow the grape seeds. For
past six wears Giles Putnam. farmer OF
Fonda, n, Y, has been troubled fire.
ouently with terrible pains in his sides,
accompanied by large swellngs. About
a week ago he had a severe attack, with
Inflammation of the bowels. lie grew
worse. and the doctors who were called
performed an operation and found the
cause of all the trouble to be two grape
seeds, which had lodged in the stomach
six years ago and working their way
through the lining caused the swelling
and inflammation.
There were sombre as well as merry
phases to the Christmas festival, Anne
| O'Neil, poor widow who had supported
her children for ten years, was going
home at Rinebeck on Saturday night
laden with gifts that her employers had
sent to her three children, when she was
struck by a railroad train and killed. In
Buffalo a Mrs. .Bennan celebrated Christ
mas by getting drunk. Her husband
gong home found no Christmas dinner
ready, and he killed the woman
The extend to which changes have
been made in postmasterships in New
England is shown by these fects: In
Maine "a out of 36 presidential offices
have been given to Democrats: in New
Hamp-hire, 80 out of 81; in Vermont, 20
out of 81, the one still occupied by a
Republican being Montpelier, where
George w. Wings term II expire on
July ) next; in Rhode Island, 10 out of
Ii: in Connecticut, 46 out of "a. In
Vermont one Office, that of Winooski,
will become presidential office on Jan,
/, 1888, owing to increased receipts.
Mr., E d. Wolcott of Colorado made
the telling speech of the evening at the
dinner of the New England Society in
New York. He was applauded to the
echo when, speaking of the immigration
to this country, he said : 1--WE are be
ginning to realize, however, that the in
vrtation we have been extending to all
the world has been rather too general.
SO far we have been able to make Amer
rcan citizens in fact as well as name out
of the foreign born immigrants. The
task was light while we had the honest
and industrious TO deal with, but the
character OF some of the present immi-
grafton has brought conviction which
we hope you share, that the sacred rights
of cltiZ 4nship should be withheld from
certain CLASS OF Aliens lD race anu IAN
guage, who seek the protection of tn 8
government, until they shall have at
least learned that the red in our flag is
commingled with the white and the blue
aud the stars. [Great applause. ]"
-Woman's rights have lately secured
triumph in India. The native court of
Indore has declined to send to prison a
wife married without her consent when
a child, who upon coming to the years
of discretion refused to go and live with
paralytlc and impecunious husband un-
able to support her. This is the very
point raised in the Rukhmabal case,
which has attracted so much attention.
This infraction of an ancient custom is
savagely denounced by some of the ma
tive papers but it will greatly assist the
growing feeling among the people
against infant marriages, In this case
the husband who wished to claim pos
session of the wife who refused to live
with him calmly proposed to give her
up if her father would only provide for
him, his mother and his brother.