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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
SUMNER MAILS.

Through the courtesy of Postmaster
Martin we publish the official time card
of the closing and arrival of mails from
the Bennington post office, commencing
July LIST, as follows:
On and after July 1st. 1889, mails close
for Troy, Albany and New York, ana all
points South and West at z a. M, $50 a.
m, 1920 p. m, 2 p. M, 8 p. m o. pm
For Boston and East at $3.50 a. M, 3
p. m, p. M, 9p. m.
All points on FItchburgh R. r. at $3.50
a, m, 8 pm up. m, 9p. m.
For Rutland and north of Rutland at
$3.50 a. m, 2 p. NJ, 0 pm.
Local p. m, 9p. N.
Points on Lebanon Springs r R. at 2
p. M, 8 p, m, 0 p. m.
North Bennington Ia. tn, 2 p M, 8
p. m.
Mails arrive from Troy, Albany and
New York, and all points West, at Z a..
m, 9:35 a. M, 1:30 p, M, 8 p. M, 4:3S
p. M, $3.50 p. M, From Boston and all
points east, at a. M, 7:45 a. IN $50 a.
M. 80 p. IN, 3p. IN.
Rutland and north of Ru land at 7 a.
M, 7:45 a. M, 1;l5 p. m.
North Bennington at $50 a. M, 3 p.
M, $50 p. m.
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In anticipation of an increased trade
in Dress Goods this season, VIM. H.
Frear bought in very large quantities,
which have proved to be much in excess
of the seasons demands. In order to
unload these goods quickly the prices
have boon cut in two. fyou want Dress
Goods of any description you can save
money by buying now at Frear's Troy
Bazaar. We give you few illustrations
of our reductions :
Doublefold (42 inch) ali wool Paris
Sulting, in light and pretty colors, worth
75c, is marked csc yard.
Doublefold 50-cent Figured Mohair, in
paisley patterns, former price SOC, now
marked 100 yard.
Doublefold Cream Nuns Yelling,
strictly alI-wool, reduced from 4Sc to
29c yard.
Twenty five cent Satteens, slightly I'M
der width, in pretty patterns, &c yard.
Doutlefold 44-inch Worsted Bunting,
light and dark colors, 40c, now marked
1870 yard.
Fifteen dollar Embroidered Pure China
Silk Pongee Robes, now marked $3.50
each.
If you cannot visit the Bazaar this
month send for samples of any kind of
dress goods you require.
FREAR's Troy BAZAAR,
Troy, N. Y.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
The Ten Health commandments.

/. Thou shalt have no other food
than at meal thine.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any pies or put into pastry the likeness
of any thing that is in the heavens
above or the waters under the earth.
Thou shalt not fall to eating it or trying
to digest it. For the dyspepsia will be
visited upon the children of the third
and fourth generation of them that eat
pie; and long life and vigor upon those
that live prudently and keep the laws
of health.
3. Remember thy bread to bake it
well; for he will not keep sound that
eateth his bread as dough.
A. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow or
borrow anxiety in vain.
5. Six days shalt thou wash and
keep thyself clean and the seventh thou
shalt take great bath, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy man
servant, and thy maid-seryant, and the
stranger within thy gates. For in six
days man sweats and gathers ii tn and
bacteria for disease; wherefore the Lord
has blessed the bathtub and hallowed
it.
6. Remember thy sitting-room and
bed-chamber to keep them ventilated,
that Thy days may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
7. Thou shalt not eat hot biscuit.
8. Thou shalt not eat thy meat fried.
8. Thou shalt not swallow thy food
unchewed, or highly spiced, or just be.
fore hard work, or just after it,
TO- Thou shalt not keep late hours in
thy neighbours house, nor with thy
neighbours wife, nor his man-servant
nor his maid-sgrvant, nor with his
cards nor his glass, nor with anything
that is thy neighbours.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
Reform school E.capnda.

Sheriff Pike received a letter to-day
from the Superintendent Of the Reform
school at Vergennes, that yesterday three
boys escaped from that institution. The
last heard OF them they had reached
Rutland, but disappeared. As one of
these boys was intimate with a former
inmate by the name OF Coyle now living
here, the offic rs think il well to look
out for these lads in and about Benning-
ton.
The larger boy is named Yandaw, is
IS years old and about o. feet; weight
1876 pound; very dark complex on, black
hair, small dark eyes and wore striped
pants aud cotton coat, round black Tor
dark hat, has a scar in the back of his
head that his hair wont cover. The
other boys are 10 years old-one has
quite a round face, hair cut short; the
other is spare. hair fair length and dark
brown. II is thought they have changed
their clothes since they left school.
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RenIghted Vermont.

We find in the NeW England Farmer
report of the June meeting of the
Farmers Club" of Pomfret, in which
is given some statistics of the resources
of that "billside town" Remember
reader. that this is one of the "back
towns" in Vermont (polls 200 votes at
State elections), and from which every
body goes west to better themselves in
agricultural pursuits; yet we see when
the resources and advantages are col
lected and classified, the statistics are
very enticing--almost as much 30 as a
sand plain in the far West or South
west, unimproved. The N. E. Farmer,
says
The Farmers Club" meeting at the
town hall June 18th was one OF the best
ever held, between three and four hun
bred people being present. Prof. Cooke
of the State Board of Agriculture and
Col. Hooker of Brattleboro were the
chief speakers. Prof. Cooke advocated
over stocking our pastures for the rea-
son that grass continually cropped and
starting from the roots makes better
butter aud the close cropping tends to
kill cut the weeds as they cannot stand
continued cropping. Supplement the
pastures with soillng crops. He prefer
red for soiling crops; first, rye; for the
second crop oats and peas, and common
field corn for the third.
Col. Hooker gave an eloquent address
upon farm life. He considered the care
of the health the first great essential to
success upon the farm; he believed in
pure air and water. Let the house be
well ventilated and do away with
screens and allow the flies to come in "a
they are for purpose. Do not allow
vegetables to remain In the cellar with
out ventilation-let ventilating tubes
run from the cellar out Of doors. Be
regular in your meals and also in feed
ing stock. Do away with pastry; if all
the wheat -four could be kept out Of the
State for ten years at the end OF that
time there would not be doctor within
her borders. Let meat and potatoes and
corn meal bread be your diet 1856 days in
the year. In stock keep one good, sound
brood mare and raise colt each year.
If each farmer would keep one good
brood mare and few sheep for raising
early lambs, all the hogs which can be
kept we'll and clean, and few good but
ter cows, Vermont would be one OF the
richest States IN the Union.
NJ. A. Miller showed the products of
Pomfret for the year 1889 to be Ill, 1856
pounds (66 tons) butter, 710 pounds
cheese, 50 $50 pounds wool, 1880 bush
els corn, 1924 bushels wheat, 8, 274 BUSH
els India wheat, 9,700 bushels oats, TO-
105 bushels potatoes, 5lS bushels rye,
531 bushels barley, 200 bushels beans,
Al, 240 pounds maple sugar, $40 gallons
syrup, 700 pounds honey, 1896 barrels
apples, A, 1928 tons hay.
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ANOTHER BOON.

The Troy Times of Saturday had the
information that an iron mire on the
farm of David Towslee, south of this VII
lage, and in POwnal, had been purchased
by heavy company in New York. It's
Pownal correspondent wrote Monday
The ore bed at Pownal that was pur-
chased by Russell p. Hoyt of New Jer-
sey is supposed to cover forty to fifty
acres and Is about three and one half
miles south OF Bennington. The ore has
been anslyz'd and is said to be equal to
the best car. wheel iron in the country.
Twenty-Five years ago the Burden firm
of Troy talked about buying this deposit,
but found II would cost heavily to take
the ore by team to Bennington. The
new company proposes to build rail-
road to Bennington to transport the
freight. A large brook has it's head on
this farm. about fifty rods away, on a
high hill, so that a fall Of $50 feet could
be got to the furnace"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
HOW LONG WILL THE WAR LAST,

We reproduce an excerpt of 1861 "a
showing what the answer to this ques-
ton was then. Looking backward near
ly one-third of a century it makes IN
teresting reading:
The New York Herald upon this ques
ton, speaks thus pointedly of the way
the war should and is likely to be fought
"Some give il ninety day but we will
give It six months. In this armed move
ment to the South the people of the
North are ahead of the government. II
Mr.. Lincoln wants them he can have
500 900 men In three weeks, and 200 mil
lion of dollars to render the war support.
sharp and decisive. In the first place he
can march on Richmond from Washing
ton with his troops to restore the author
ity of United States law. Wherever
there is post Office and a custom house
at the South, the federal government
has right to protect both with any
number of troops necessary for the pur-
pose, This is a view of the legality and
constitutionality of the action of the adj
minlstralion which seems TO be lost sight
of at the South. The principal towns
would thus be occupied in succession by
the advancing army, and that accom-
plished, the surrounding territory Is ne
cessarIly reduced to submission to the
federal power. The state of Virginia
has seized the custom house at its capital.
The federal government has right to
retake il and assert it's own authority.
In view of the near approach of danger,
the Virginia convention may reconsider
the secession ordinance, or perhaps the
state may redeem its honor by claiming
that it is not yet out of the Uni1n, and
by throwing the responsibility on the
people who are TO vote for it in May,
and would probably vote in the negative
in order to save their sill from becom
ing the theater of war. If Virginia
should give way, the other states will be
likely to follow her example. and thus,
in short time, the whole South would
be restored to the Union. II Virginia
resists, the contest cannot last very long,
considering her large slave population
which will either become fugitive or
take up arms against their masters.
Slavery would thus be abolished, and
abolitionism put an end to at the same
time. The majority of the people of the
North do not desire to mingle with the
slave property in the southern states;
but that the war must unavoidably re
suit in its destruction can hardly admit
of a doubt
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
AunInne CeIehraIion.

Independence day in Portland, Ore,
will be celebrated in what is probably
the most unique and Interesting mode
ever thought of. The idea is to illumi.
nate with large quantities of red-fire a
chain of snow mountains in the Cascade
range on the night of the Fourth. These
peaks range in altitute from 10000 to
1000 feet. Said one OF the gentlemen
interested in the celebration
When we first illuminated Mount
Hood it attracted attention even IN
Europe. Now we propose to fash the
red glare from snow-peak to snow-peak,
from State TO Territory, over vast noun
tain ranges and across wide rivers.
1.-THE most reliable watch in each par
ty will be set with standard time. Then,
in order 10 avoid the danger of deviation
The s.. Helen's party, say at 10 o'clock,
will burn few pounds of red fire as a
signal to the others, who can then CON-
pare their time and make the nece ,sary
allowance for any change. That small
flash will be seen 80 miles away. For
firing the signal blaze from st. Heleu's
acid will be employed. When the m Tin
beacons are lighted we shall use a kind
of fireworks to throw a fountain OF
sparks. That gives an instaneous blaze
by firing all parts of the powder at once.
Every large mount will be Illuminated. y
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
High School Roll of Honor. Prof. j. L.
Weld, Principal.

Number registered, 80 /; average daily
attendance, 39115 per cent of attendance,
81; not absent Or tardy, 8; not absent, O..
FINAL EXAMINATIONS.
BoTANY.-B4rtha Griswold, 100
Maude Townsend, 100 : Mary Rawson,
100 Nelson Murphy, 9S15 Apbie Sher.
man. 90 Jennie Cady, 80 Harrison
Peckham, $50 ; VIM. A. Cone, s6s5.
LATIN LESSONS -Maude Wheeler. 80 8;
Fannie Kinney, SO ; Edward Bennett,
"a 8; Lena Hathaway, 037; Edith
Dewey, SOL /; Russell Graves, $3.50 ;
Edward Rugg, 661.
POLITICAL ECONOMY Mile Parsons,
80 Fred Packard, 100.
ENGLISH PAST AND PRESENT. Mile
Parsons, 100 Fred Packard, 97.5.
PHONOGRAPHY james Donnelly, 90 ;
Jennie Cady, 90;
RHETORIC. -Mary Rawson, 90 8 Alb
bic Sherman, S938 Bertha GriswoId,
50 Jennie Cady, H.4 VIM. Cone. 90 5 ;
Maude Townsend, SO s.; Nelson P. Muir
ply, SO E E. Dewey, 9O3.
ENGLISH LITERATURE Mi lie Parsons,
90 Fred Packard, S75.
FRENCH. Mary Rlwson, $50; Ruth
Squire, 971.
MEDIEVAL HISTORY. Rugg,
1898 Russell Graves, 96s5 Drus'lIa
Dakin, 1875 Una Swift, S9.2 Ina
Hathaway, 69e5 It. j. Venable, "a 1-6 {;
Minnie Dickinson, 72 s Fannie Benton,
95 Nellie Rice. rs Grace England,
100; Ernest Lambert, 80 T. l.. Thorn
as, 1888 Ruth Squire, 100 John Bur-
CESS, 9625 Edith Dewey. 90; Geo. N.
Smith, 95.5 Frances Kinney, 93l G..
L. Barwood, 100 c. B. Bennett, SS11 /;
Maude Wheeler, 90 ; Melissa Morse, 50 !;
Perez HARDWOOD, S925 Chauncey Plumb,
So.
PHYsIcs.-E. E. Dewey. So; Eddie
Rugg, 6S; Fred Kennon, so; Ernest
Lambert, 76l5 Chauncey Plumb. 90 +;
G. L. HARDWOOD, 80 Harrison Peckham,
95 i; John Burgess, 862a Una Swift,
8l25 E. G. Bennett. "a 10; T. j. Ven
able, S3l u Edith Dewey, 70 SIS Theo.
Thomas, 80.
GEOMETRY collins Graves, 100; Fred
B. Packard, 100 Bertha Griswold, 100 /;
E. E. Dewey, 100; Maude Townsend;
96s5 w. A. Cone, 100; Abbie Sherman,
100 ; N. P. Murphy, % Sc.
CESAR Mary Rawson, 89li Jennie
Cady, 49, D.: Collins Graves, 80 SO.
ALGEBRA.-Russell Graves, SO; Har-
rison Peckham. IS John Burgess, rs !;
Ernest Lambert, SO /; Maude Wheeler,
SO Geo. N. Smith. 1917 Fred Packard,
SO !; N P. Murphy, 7l24 T. j. VeDable,
SO 81 I; E. e. Bennett. rs; Perez Har-
wood, SO 8 Ruth A. Squire, S42f.
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THE TROUBLE TRAVELLING WEST
WARN

One ofthe State assessors of New York,
who haye lately completed an examina-
ton of property values in IA counties
of the State, says that everywhere the
value of farm property IS depreciating;
mo one wants to buy farm lands because
no one can get their money out of them
In few years you will see more tenant
farmers than anything else," New York
farmers cannot compete with those OF the
West, he thinks, not even in dairy pro-
ducts.
New York, then, appears to be no bet
ter off than New England, where for 10
years at least the condition of the farm
ers as whole has certainly not improv-
ed. Nor is New York the only State
west of the New England line to suffer,
The Ohio and Indiana farmers complain
bitterly of the hardships brought to them
by the competition of the newer states.
The question of interest is whether this
SOFT of things is TO go on forever, or
whether these sections now suffering
from depression will in the course OF
time regain the prosperity they once en-
ioyed. The Springfield Republican be-
lieves that the East is presently to be on
more equal terms with the West, saying;
II there remained 20 be taken up in
this country as much and as good soil
as has been occupied and exploited il
reckless and wholesale productions in
the past 20 years, we might expect to see
even more startling changes in the con-
diuon of eastern agriculture. But the
amount of land available for the conduct
of agriculture on the large and destruc-
tive scale that has prevailed since the
war is becoming limited. There is q
vast area of unoccupied and arabic land
left, but it is not as a rule favorably To-
Gated for purposes of wholesale exDloita'
ton. The tendency must soon be to-
ward intensive rather than extensive
agriculture. Big farms, whether in the
East or West, must either be reduced in
size or worked with greater force oil
men, resources and care. Subdivision
of the larger tracts of the Northwest
has already begun. Ind ed, from 1850
down the average size of farms has beer
decreasing.
With the growing lack of vast and
favorably located areas of virgin soil tc
be taken up and exhausted in the des'
tructive manner that has prevailed in
sections of the-West we shall see this
tendency toward "intension" become
more marked The West will then bt
brought under agricultural conditions
more similar to those of The East. De-
velopment is not to be checked, No one
should suppose that. But development
in both sections will proceed on more
equal terms. We have not yet measur-
ed the capacity Of even the "worn-out'
soil of the East, The limits of produc'
ton on the occupied area are far from
having been reached. Here is an in
dustry where the trust" principle can
hardly take root. The subdivision oil
land is, therefore, likely TO go on in the
West as it has since 1860 in the East and
South and under conditions thus pre-
sented, where scientific farming shall
supplant the exploitation farming of the
praires, the New Highlander will have a
fairer field for effort.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS.

The attention of those desiring teach
er's certificates in Bennington County is
directed to the advertisement In the pres.
ent issue of the BANNER. In accordance
with the school law, certificates issued
in 1888 continue in force until Dec. /,
1899, but as only single examination
will be held in the Fall, and the location
of that is as yet undetermined, it is de-
sirable that as many teachers as possible
present themselves at the July examina.
tions.
Sec. Sc Of school law permits the Su-
pervisor to issue special certificate
upon private examination which shall
be good until the next public examina-
ton TO a person who was unavoidably
prevented by sickness or other misfor-
tune from attending a public examine
ton etc. Attention is called to this sec.
ton to show the desirability of all ap
plicants presenting themselves at the
appointed time and place for public ex-
animation.
A certificate granted upon private ex-
animation during the summer, will be
valid only until the 3rd Thursday in Nov.
The requirements of the law in this par
ticular, will be strictly enforced.
Teachers in graded schools will take
notice that No. 3S of the laws of 1884,
whereby greaded school teachers were
exempt from examinations 80 long as
they continued in the same school, was
by the law of 1888. They are
therefore subject to examination under
the present law.
Three grades of certificates are to be
issued at the public examination, for
full information concerning which, and
other points of interest. applicants are
to Secs. 40 "a school law of 1888.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04
New styles Of Postage stamps.

The specifications by the Postmaster
General for the guidance of bidders I'M
der the next contracts for postage
stamps. advertised for under date Of
June II, 1880, pravide for two series Of
stamps Of different sizes, one OF them
the size now in use, the other one-third
smaller. II stamps of the larger size
should be determined on when the bids
are in, the colors will be as follows One
cent, ultrsmarine blue; cent, metallic
red; 3 cent, vermillon; 4-cent chocolate;
cent, dark red 10 cent, light brown
Decent, orange; 80 cent, black; 6O-cent,
carmine.
II stamps of the smaller size should be
preferred the colors will be as follows
1-cent, ultramarine blue 2-cent. car
mine; Scent, royal purple; Accent,
chocolate; 5-cent, light brown 6-cent,
rmillion; 10-cent, milorI green 10
cent, steel blue /; 30-cent, black 0O-cent
orange.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-04

Railway horrors follow each other in
rapid succession, this time the scene is
near Thaxtons on the Norwalk and
Western, in Virginia. Dispatches from
Lynchburg give the time as ,, 80 am,
Monday, and state that rain had been
falling almost continuously, and at times,
very heavily, for "a hours, swelling the
mountain streams greatly beyond their
passed over the road during the night,
and it was thought that the line was
safe for traffic At the place of the ac-
cident, however, the water had under
mined the road-bed and caused a wash
out of over so feet long and so feet wide.
The water at this point was eight to ten
feet deep. Into this watery gulch, the
engine made a frightful leap, while
running at the rate of 80 miles an hour,
carrying with it the tender and eight
cars. As the engine struck bottom, the
rushing ofthe water exploded the boiler.
Debris was thrown in every direction,
injuring some of those on the train by
the flying fragments and scattering fire.
brands which ignited the wood work
of the coaches The flames spread and
set fire to large amount of mail and
express matter, besides spreading panic
among 1.-THE already terror-stricken
passengers. Yesterday it was said
There is hardly enough left of that train
of eight cars that took the leap to the
bottom of the awful pit to make one
car. AS soon as the boiler of the en-
CINE exploded, the whole mass ofdebris
took fire, and those who went down
and were not killed outright, were
burned to death. Portions of eight
bodies have been taken out and it is be-
lieved that fully Is others were entirely
consumed by fire. A survivor of the
wreck says that cries of help could be
heard coming from all portions of the
train and those unhurt were powerless
TO render assistance.