The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-17
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Under the heading: Prohibition
run mad" the New York World says
"The Vermont Legislature has Dustin
guished its self by providing, with re-
spect to carry out the existing prohibi'
tory lave, that it shall be the duty OF
any sheriff or his deputy or any con-
stable to search iUithOut a iCdrrent any
wagor, carriage, cart, sleigh, sled,
trunk, box, handbag, satcbel, bundle or
eothing conveyed or iCOrn along any
road or street in the State for intoxica'.
ing liquors # he thinks sIhere isla
chance of finding anything by so doing
This was duly approved by the Cover
nor and became operative within the
last thirty days in one of the common
wealths of thia alledged free country in
the last quarter of the Nineteenth Cen
tury, Ii the officer can discover the
contraband article he is rewarded by one
fourth OF the fine inflicted upon the
owner or keeper. Under the law he
can walk up to a man sleze his hand
bag if he has one, search it, and also
his clothes. simply giving us a reason
that he wants to ascertain II he has any
liauor about him. And he can subject
woman to the same process with I'M
punity, unless some patriot considers the
oppression to be one of the kind which
iustifies revolution and does society the
service of clubbing him. One may
search in vain among the Russian stat
utes or edicts for an instance where the
principal of personal liberty Is more
directly violated than it is here, or where
authority is given more completely the
form and spirit of despotc tyranny"
There is a good sprinkling of natiyes
Of Vermont in the Massachusetts Legis
ature. The only one in the Senate is
Alfred S. Fasseit of Great harrington.
who was born in Bennington in 1913.
Those in the House are Ira Allen Worth
of Boston, born in StarksborO in 1928;
Harrison Henry Atwood of Boston, born
in Londonderry in 1868; Moses Davis
Church Of Cambridge, born in Orleans
county in 1912; MyrOn j. Ferrin of
Stoneham, born in Corinth in 1868;
Charles Edward Spring of HollistOn,
born in Grafton in 1915; William Rich
ardson ROwell of Methuen, horn in Troy
in 1S4S; George Nathaniel Carpenter of
Brookline, born in Mortified in 1910 !;
Charles c. Bixby of Brockton, born in
Bridgeport in 1922; John Dunton Hol-
brook of Athol, born in Townshend IN
1S43; Nathan S, Cutler of Greenfield,
born in Vernon in 1887; Biram B. Lane
of Springfield, born in Newport IN 1924;
and Orlando J, Brown of North Adams,
born in Nottingham in 1S4S.
The grand encampment of Vermont
Odd Fellows will hold its annual session
Tuesday February 3, and the Grand
Lode Wednesday, February 6; at Mont
pelier. in the rooms of Vermont Lodge
No. 3, in the elegant Blanchard Opera
House block. The headquarters will lie
at the Pavilion Hotel, where special
rates have been made to the order. The
committee on credentials, of which Past
Grand Frank II. Blscom is chairman,
will occupy room No. /, office floor,
for the accommodation of the grand
lodge Montpelier has been selected as
the permanent home of the grand lodge
and the indications are that it will be
the largest session ever held in Vermont.
The grand lodge books and parapher
MALTA arrived last week and are now in
their place at the hall, The working of
the initiatory degree will be exemplified
by Hiawatha Lodge ofBarre.
The Vermont b ,ptisl wear book shows
that there are in the state seven Baptist
associations, with ia churches, having
an aggregate membership of 9l4S. There
are 81 pastors and 30 other ordained
ministers who are without pastoral
charge, In the Sunday schools there
are 1922 officers and teachers, and SO4l
scholars. The total amount of the be
nevolent contributions Of the churches
and Sunday schools for outside objects
was Sl0.712 for the last year and of
home expenses S67 sol, total of $7S.-
3l2.
The maple sugar exchange at Brattle-
boro has re elected the old board of Off
GERS The management of the exchange
will be in the hands of the Brattleboro
Jelly company this year. The first yeaI g
business shows good results both as to
the quality and quantity of the sugar
handled. Considerable of the product
went West and South and the sales in
cluded ia gallons of syrup, $1,000
pounds of cake sugar and 1871 pounds
in pals and tubs.
The annual repot of the Vermont Live
Stock Company shows stock on the
range valued at $23O,173, buildings
So, 4O4, outfit S1515, provisions 1856,
horses and muller $4792. The company
bought during the year 1000 head of
cattle, costing SIS, 537, and has sold 1899
head for $42 ,7O6. A six per cent divid.
end on the $3.50, 900 capital stock has
been paid, and the balance of $4,000 will
go for the purchase of more cattle,
An old man, who has the contract for
carrying the mail in the western part OF
Rutland county, Vermont, makes the
trip every day in the week, Sunday ex-
cepted, of 80 miles for SO cents a day,
furnishing team and boarding himself,
The contract for carrying the mail six
miles, twice day, from town on the
east side of the mountain is taken by a
man who does the work for five cents a
year.
The lumber business is practically al
standstil in Rutland. as it is impos'
sible to do any teamIng without snow
on the ground. The stock of lumber in
the yards is very low and unless snow
comes soon there will be raise in the
price of the different grades of lumber
No lumber is being drawn from the
woods, teams and men are idle,
The Royal Society of Good Fellows