The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-01-19
GENERAL NOTES,

All AluduN hullilk Il lllp
to Europe, bought his wife beautiful
black velvet dress. On returning he
showed it to one of the employees IN his
establishment, when the latter amazed
him by bringing out piece of velvet
Immeasurably superior and at price
ess by 50 yard than he had paid for
the piece he purchased in Paris.
The bolt of eight republican mem
bars Of the Ohio Senate, while it was an
unfortunate affair, will have no effect
on the Republican party in the State
Party sentiment is sOlidly against the
borera, and while they have read them
selves out of the Republican ranks for
good they carry nobody with them.
-Gporge Washington Childs contin
ues TO build monuments to English
poets The Hartford Post thinks that
perhaps New York city is waiting for
him to bull n monument to an Ameri-
can soldier.
Gen Washington Seawell died at
San Francisco Yesterday. He was born
in Virginia IN 1909, and was graduated
from West Point in 1926. He served 46
years IN the army. and at the time OF
his death was the second oldest general
on the retired list.
The dead lock in the board Of over
seers of the poor at Fall River. Mass,
which has existed since the beginning
Of the year, was broken last night when
Alderman Reed. who has made a tie by
voting with the Democrats, went over
o the Republicans.
Sunday nights weather report
,howed the following below zero tenn
orratures: Huron, Dako'a. 26a st VIM
cent 30e, Fort Garry 25e. Fort Totten 800
Bismarck ego. Valentine 26o. FoIt Gus,
t"rl20. Qu'AppelIe 32a, Fort Buford 800.
Swift Current 800.
The ST. Petersburg Gazette announc.
ing that the first series of time expired
Iuardsmen nave already been dismissed
and that infantry dismissals will follow
shortly instead of on March /, the usual
period, welcomes the measure as an au-
surS of peace, arguing that these forces
would not be dismissed We're it likely
heir services would shortly be required,
The Springfield Union wants to
know why it is that Democratic free
traders don't say anything about reduc-
ing the 76 per cent. duty on sugar and
the 102 per cent. duty on rice, and sug-
gests that it must be because those
highly protected necessaries of life are
produced in Democratic States.
Speaker Carlisle has not given a
single Chairmanship of committee to
-lthrr California, Colorado, Connecticut.
Delaware, Kansas, Maine. Minnesota
Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oregon,
Rhode Island. Vermont or West VIr
Ginia. but he has given three each to
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Tex
~, two each to Arkansas. South Caro-
lima and Tennessee six to New York and
five to Missouri. 1t is obvious that the
South is IN the saddle.
The value of the annual product of
the Troy shirt and collar factories is 50
050,000. The pay roll amounts to about
one-third of this sum or SO 600. 900
Lately, foreign made goods have been
sold at retail in Troy at a lower price
than the Troy manufacturers can put
the same line of goods upon the market.
These foreign made goods pay duty Of
forty per cent, and the reason that, in
spite of this duty, they compete success
ully with the goods made in Troy is
hat the wages for the labor in making
hem are adjusted upon very much
lower scale. Most of the London goods
are made at Londonderry in the north
If Ireland. The work as described in
the Haberdasher. is done chiefly by
peasant girls who, with very limited
housekeeping affairs to trouble them in
heir lhatcted mud or stone cabins. find
time to do field labor as well as sti ching.
Ia Londonderry the mnst skilled cut.
ers receive SO per week the scale run
ning down as low as $3.50 per week
Girls in the stitching rooms esrn $3.50
TO So per week, and the women OF the
aundries earn from SO to $5 per week.
In Troy wages for the corresponding
classes OF work are as follows: Skilled
cutters, S15 to $50 per week. girls il
'tItching room, $40 to $l5 per week
girls in laundrIes, $l2 10 SEQ, II the
Troy employees were paid wages on the
some scale as those in Londonderry tht
Troy paw roll would shrink from $4,000
900 to $7SO,000.-[TrIy Times.