The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-03-01

ask the attendance OF It's members.
NJ. B. MORGAN attended all the re.
hearsals, matinees aud concerts OF th,
Rensselaer, County Musical Association
held last week in Troy, n, Y, and wa
re. elected one of the directors of the az
ISOLATION. The Troy Times in giving al
account of the festival says, mo SINH
lar musical enterprise of local charac'
ter ever gave this community more
pleasure and profit"
AT North Dorset, last week, Charles
Conlan, aged eighteen, jumped from the
mail train north IN the evening, The
train did not stop at the station and Sd
he calculated probably to land in the
snow bank while the moving train was
passing near his home. The snow had
become solid so that his feet did not en-
ter it and he bounded back and under
the wheels, killing him instantly and
horribly mangIlng his body. 1t is said
that Conan was stealing his ride.
THE ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will open a lunch
room IN the old post office, Free Lii
brary building, on election day. Being
located right under the poll the ladies
will expect liberal patronage for their
baked beans, New England pies, sand.
witches, doughnuts. and that most delc-
iOus of all beverages, pure Java coffee.
At their last meeting this union passed
a resolution to remain as they always
have been, non seclarian in religion and
non partisan in politics, therefore all pc
litical parties will be cordially and hear.
tily welcomed.
ONE of the largest advertisers in this
country said recently. that he regarded
the weekly paper as the surest to repay
judicious expenditure of all classes of
newspaper publications.. IL would rath-
er have a hundred thousand weekly cir
culation, said he, than 100000 daily.
The readers of a Oily paper rarely read
it through. II is glanced over. The sal
IChb p'liNo VI news are lilulCdtCu w UiS
head lines, ana these are read through.
Then it is thrown away. But with
weekly it is different In the country,
where family only take one or two
weekly papers, every word and every
line of it is read over ard over again.
Advertising in such medium is sure
to prove remunCrative. 1t is sure to he
read, which is the first consideration.
and leads to the purchase of any com.
modify advertised"
THE Yves ern Trail. the organ of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway,
for the current month has for its illus
trations the town of Marseiles, H.,
(bird 's-eye view, with an enlarged cut
of the dam across the Illinois river,
which belongs to the Mar-eilles water
power company of which Wm.E Hawks
E q. of this village. is president, and S.
B, Hawks is secretary and treasurer.
The dam is $50 feet between bulkheads
and rises Sl5 feet above the river bot
tom, the pond from which sets back 20
miles, making it the best water power
in the Northwest. This number of the
Trail is particularly interesting IN its
comments on the country traveIsed by
the railroad above mentioned and whose
advertisement appears elsewhere.
THE liquor proceedings up to yester-
day, this week, before the Municipal
Court have been the postponement of
the hearing in the Putnam House case
to the 10Th inst, and the arrest of Dan
o. DInnell and c.. j. Wheeler for selling.
The former gave bail in the sum of 81 =
600 for appearance March oh, ard the
latter gave Sheriff Mccall leg bail, and
is now sojDurning in the Empire State.
In offering bail, O'Donnell's case, Dan.
iel McMahOn attempted to justify as one
of the bOndsmen in the sum of 81 900.
swearing that he owned house and lot
free from all incumbrance. An exalni-
nation of the records showed the site to
be leased lands and the buildings mort
gagged, thereupon Mcmahon was arrested
for perjury and held in the sum of ST.,
600 for appearance at County Court, Den.
mis- Martin and VIM. O'Donnell becom-
ing his sureties.
In another place today appears an in
terestlng letter from Mr.John H. PilIing,
now in Europe. When we went to press
last week 1t was supposed, and so stated,
that he would return with Mr.. Fred.
Hancock who cabled his departure the
Saturday before. But Mr.. Hancock ar
rived alone, Mr.. PIlling having gone TO
Paris. The former landel safely Sun.
day morning. the "Umbra' having
reached the harbor he evening before.
Several friends from Bennington were
there to meet him. The trip was not as
pleasant for Mr. Hancock as anticipated,
being sick a good part of the time, and
he did not even visit Swanzpy, his ma
tive town, which he left when twelve
years of age. 1t has grown meanwhile
from few thousand to a city of over
sixty thousand inhabitants. When off
Sandy Hook the "Umbria" was nearly
swamped by heavy sea, but Mr.. Han
cock escaped uninjured.
IT is not true, as published, that par
ties were here last week to see about
starting up the Bennington Wooden
Mills. Messrs. Jas. Mitchell and Jas
Mclaughlin. manufacturers of woolens
at Skeneatelas, N. Y, were in town tC
purchase some of the second hand ma
chinery and this probably gave rise to
the report. Mr.. Mitchell. however, who
is Scotchman, and was formerly g
manufacturer in Leeds, England, ex
presses himself emphatically on the
question of the tariff. With free trade
inaugurated here he should go back t
Leeds, because he could make clothI
cheaper there than here, but he wants s
protective tariff and hopes to remain ir
this country. One such fact based upor
experience and stated by reliable men il
worth Il thousand fine spun theories. II
this connection we give another person.
al instance of the difference between tn,
United States under a high protectiv,
tariff and free trade England. Mr.. II
Conant of Pawtucket, X. l., treasurer o
the Conant thread works, which EN-
ploys $500 operatives. recently quoted
the statement of friend of his VIII,
came from Scotland to establish threat
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