The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-08-22
STATE NEWS.

BY way of the department of state
comes the information that the expected
arrival of immigrants in Buenos Ayres
for the current year will reach 200, 600.
Anticipating difficulty from TIE fact
, that they come insufficiently provided
to succeed without assistance, the gov
eminent, has given or 1ers to their for
eigu agents to limit their departures to
two hundred month. One day recent
ly 1000 Irish arrived and found it i'm
possible to secure land at the terms an
ticipated as spectators had secured
control of large tracts that Il ey were
holding for sale on long-terms-credIt, II
is further stated that sixty-five per cent
of the influx from Europe is from Italy
ald that the government is contemplate
ing special legislation by which land
may be secured by it and resold in small
lots to actual settlers. The emigration
problem in the United States is not alto
gether unsolved, but it looks as if our
southern sister had heavier one on
hand just ow than We Poultney Jour
mel.
The following aides-de camp of E. T,
Griswold, commanding the division Of
Vermont s. of ", with the rank of
second lieutenant, have just been ap-
pointed Senior aid, Henry BaIrows of
Brandon, Charles W. Bonnet Of St.
JohnsbuIy, Charles E. Rand OF Burling-
ton, W. A. Clark of Barre, L. P. Kins-
man of Rochester, E. R. Houghton of
Woodstock, T. L. Drury of Rutland, G,
w. Wallace OF Barnet and +. G. Dryer
of Barton. Three camps in the division
failed to report for the quarter and were
suspended. There are thirty-six camps
in the division and the adjutants report
for the quarter is as follows In good
standing last report, SAT gained by mus
ter in, 147; gained by transfer, 6, by re-
instatement, 30. During the quarter SS
were suspended, transferred, 3 dis
charged, and died leaving the number
in good standing 93l,
Secretary Brownell has had an appli-
cation from parties in Virginia asking
him to refer them to good pedigree
stock stallion, which could be purchased
for breeding purposes. Other similar
applications to parties in this vicinity
have been made recently. This is un
doubleday the outgro.t of the work
being done for horses by the breeders
ass ociation and the Joint exhibition. 1t
is decided indication that the old. time
repu alton for fine Vermont horses is be-
ing revived and i: must be an encour-
aRement 10 the hOrsemen of our state
Clipper,
An int resting feature Of the muster
at West Randolph will he the presence
of the Fuller battery of Braltleboro with
four new steel breechloading rltied guns
with 80 2-10 inch bore, capable IF car
rying projectiles six miles. We are glad
these guns are coming here, as we have
a small army of woodchucks near The
camping grounds and have failed to
route it. 1t may be this battery can
drive the enemy out of its riff d pts and
bring about a surrender West Ran
dOlph Herald,
Marcia Guernsey Beach, wife of Rev.
j. w. Beach of Essex, drowned berself
in the Worcester branch of the Wlnoo-ki
River at II o'clock Friday night. The
She was undoubtedly insane, her malady
having been aggravated by the recent
death OF her mother.
A buttonwood tree, an old landmark
Of Castleton, standing IN the midst of
the village, near the old Moulton Man
sion, has been cut down 1t was planted
in 1903 by Hon. Samuel Shaw, member
of Congress from that district during
the war of 1912, and grandfather of Josh
Billings.
At the temperance mass meeting at
the Methodist Camp Ground, Mortified,
the leading speakers declared that q
great contest between prohibition and
high license had commenced through
out Vermont, and that prominent Re
publican papers had changed to high Ii
cense.
Gen, Ripley, formerly of Rutland, is
about to erect history apartment
house in New Yord, fronting so feet on
9th avenue, 25 feet on Both street, with
depth of 1855 feet. The front of the
building will be of yellow limestone.