The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-05-30
NEWS AND NOTES.

Laura Bridgman, who died Friday in
Boston, was the most remarkable woman
ever born on this continent, She was
from infancy deprived of sight, speech
hearing and sense of SMELL and yet she
learned to communicate her thoughts,
and IN time became not only an intell-
gent being, but useful toIler. She at
tracted the attention Of Charles Dickens
during his visit to this country nearly
fifty years ago. She was then regarded
as a marvel. She lived sixty years with
less than one fourth the life vouchsafed
other beings, and the example which she
leaves of patience in afflctiOn and
ability to overcome obstacles will last as
long as humanity itself.-NeU York
World.
1t is a singular phase of the situation
that while fifteen Republican nominees
for congress have failed to receive certi-
ficates in districts where they believed
themselves elected, there is not one case
in which contest is raised over seat
given by certificate to a Republican, In
the Fourth district of Connecticut, where
there was some prospect of contest of
this kind, the Democratic candidate now
announces his withdrawal. OF the If
teen cases that will come before Congress
only one is from northern state, the
First district of Indiana. The other
fourteen contests are the protest Of the
Republicans of the south.
The fact would appear to be that the
Rev. Mr.. Schorr, a young clergyman of
Baltimore, committed suicide because a
young woman for whom he entertained
n m of f,i,
tive answer to his proposal of mar: iage,
The Clergyman could not teach himself
the first and most important Lesson of
successful minis'ry--self-denis 1t is
deplorable that self-slaughter ended his
life, and it is also deplorable that weak.
ening should have taken place where
strength is required,
The Pope in HE allocuton at the Con.
sistory on Friday, protested against Ital-
ian legislation hostile to the charitable
institutions of the Catholic Church. The
proposal TO erect monument in memory
of Giordano Bruno, who was burned as
a hereto at the end of the sixteenth CEN
tury, was denounced by the Pope as an
outrage udon religion. His Holiness
also referred to the recent Catholic con-
crosses, holding that these gatherings
prove that the Roman question is an in
t9rnational one.
MuraL Halstead. editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercials Gazette, who was re-
jected by the Senate for the German
Mission, sailed last week in the fast
steamer Augusta Victoria for Hamburg.
He goes direct to Berlin where his family
now are. Mir. Halstead is a personal
friend of Prince Bismarck, who will
doubtless make much of him. Halstead's
rejection by the Senate for the reasons
alleged was among the most disgrace
ful acts OF that body at its las: session.
About 4 o'clock Sunday morning, a
fire broke out in the Office Of the Times
in Bellows Falls, destroying the building
and injuTIng the mammoth block adiJin-
ing. The probable loss is about 500 900.
This is the second Vermont paper to suf-
fer loss by fire within short time, Bro.
Brown we condOle with you and expect
that like the North Star at Danvllle, re-
Gently burned out, the Times will rise in
a new dress.
Sulfonal is the name of the drug, W hich
like opium, cocoaine chlOral and ether
has come to make itself a slave master Of
the victims whom it may tempt to a state
of sweet repose and relief from trouble.
Finally it developes into sleepless de-
mon who fortunes its prey until death
comes to their re 'cue. Beware the temp
ter.
1t is stated that more money was pail
out the last pay day in the slate business
in Vermont than on any payday in the
previous history of the business. The
main reason was in the fine weather the
last five weeks.
Foreign capitalists are making heavy
purchases of New York real estate. The
seller does not seem to care whether the
purchaser comes from New Jersey or
Kamschatka.
The total receipts of Rutland's recent
music festival were $44S0.60. and the
expenses $432l. 80, leaving balance on
hand $l5S.5l.