The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-08-15

as lOUR do nO dCClueutdl gerry iDduuel
throws all The larger dioceses into one
section, we are more likely TO have the
will OF the majority expressed in the
action of the convention constituted as
it is than by any reform that can be
thought of as practicable"
Postmaster General Wanaraker will
soon make change in the handling of
European mails so as to facilitate their
delivery as soon as the vessel reaches it's
dock on this side. While Mrs. Wanna
maker was in Europe the Postmast
General observed that her letters to him
were delayed half u day and some.
times longer at the New York office, ow-
ing to the work of sorting the matter
after il had reached the office. In order
to avoid this delay, MIR. Wanamaker
proposes to have the mails assorted on
the steamer coming over, 80 that the
bags for each city will be ready to be
forwarded as soon as the vessel reaches
the wharf.
Major Powell of the Senate Irrigation
Committee advises what he calls the
tark system in irrigation in Dakota. By
that he means pond on every farm
where practicable that will catch the
storm waters and store them until the
water is reeded. He says that twenty
ace tank filled with water to the depth
of ten feet will irrigate 800 acres of land
and increase the value of the land from
500 to 400 per cent. IF we irrigate, we
would never need any other fertilizer,
and we might crop the land without ro-
tation for 5000 years. The water in this
case is the fertilizer, and the land can
never be exhausted where irrigation is
practiced."
According to despatch in the New
York Times, Dem, 10000 negroes have
left North C-roina since last November,
and a committee Of colored men, which
is promoting the emigration of their
race, has on its books the names of heads
Of families, representing nearly 100, 900
persons, who have expressed their de-
sire to leave this fall after the crops have
been gathered. Unjust laws are given
as the reason for this enormous migra-
ton, and neither white nor black labor
is coming in to take the place of that
which is departing.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia legislature proposing that no
intoxicating liquors shall be sold in that
State outside of incorporated towns hav-
ing at least 500 inhabitants. The Savan-
nah NelUS points out that "the officers
charged with tho enforcement of the
law would be controlled by the prevail
ing sentiment of the community, and
failure to enforce it in one place would
bring it into disrepute elsewhere where
as, high license would force majority
of the dramshops to stop business"
II appears that the Atlanta Postmaster
bad two positions to fill in the classified
service, ard there were only two names
certified 10 him by the civil service ex-
aminers. OF the two men, one was
white aud the other colored, and he put
the white man in the position where he
would be brought IN contact with the
largest number of people, and gave the
colored man the other. He simply
obeyed the law, and for this the Atlanta
Democrats, egged on by the Constitution,
are burning him in effigy.
The Pacific Coast Association, Native
Sons of Vermont, held an interesting
entertainment in their regular monthly
series, Friday evening last, in Odd Eel
lows Hall, San Francisco. The follow
ing named ladies and gentlemen partici-
pated Misses Lottie Crews, Bella and
Lolita Rodgers, and Lou Crackbon, Mr..
Neil Warner, Miss Ada E. Weige, Miss
Nevada Harrington, Miss Emmie Will
mot, Mr.. j. S. Mccormick, Mr.. Mark w.
Noble, Mr.. John j. Quinn and Miss Elsie
Duncan.
An editor works 3G54 days per year
to get out fifiy-two issues of paper
that's labor. Once in a while somebody
pays him years subscription that's
capital. And once in while some son
of gun Of deadbeat takes the paper
for year or two and Yanishes without
paying for it that's Anarchy. But later
on Justice will overtake the last named
creature, for there is a place where he
will get his deserts that's hell.-AuT-
Hilary,
Senator Hoar, in recent letter, men,
tions the fact that high officer in the
Post Office Department told him that, on
inquiring Of the persons appointed TO
the postal car service under the last Ad-
ministratIon what their occupation had
been, 80 per cent. answered that they
had been bar tenGers. Yet it is the re-
moval of this kind of clerks that the
Mugwump papers have described as "the
loot Of the railway mail service.
The absence of English ministers at
the Worlds Sunday School Convention
in London is accounted for by the fact
that the Sunday School, as it Is known
in America, is scarcely to be found in
England. Episcopal and Presbyterian
pastors make more Of catechsing than Of
less authoritative teaching, and Sunday
Schools are regarded only as SCHOOLS for
the poor.
County local option is much less prac-
ticable than town local option, and sell
dom produces wholly satisfactory re-
suits; but II the majority of the people
in any town by vote declare their pref
erence for prohibition, they should be
entitled to it. and it ought to be as effec-
tive as prohibition ever can be, because
public sentiment is back Of it.-Rutldnd
Herald.
"How ate you getting along with your
haying 7" inquired tourist as he pulled
up his horse at Pownal farmers barn
door. 81 amt getting along very fast, u
responded the haymaker as his eyes
wandered over his water. soaked fields.
II have turned the grass over so often
in the last four weeks that it is pretty
nigh worn out"
There will be an energetic campaign
in South Dakota between now and DC.
tober on prohibition. Under the ar
rangements made the question is sub.
mi-ted to the people as a separate issue
at the same time that the Constitution
is voted on. When this was done before
the prohibitory proposition was adopted
but by close vote.
On an average there have been two