The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-26
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was called mere Dy Ine ueaJu OF MS duuJ,
Mrs. Z. A. Cobb, and stayed over a few
days with the family. Mr.. Goodall is
looking well, but he says he likes the
bracing air of the Green Mountains
bet er than the climate of the National
Capital.
A HYDE PARK farmer, who during the
season planted some Japanese buck
wheat, was surprised when he found
that the foreign seed had yielded about
fifty bushels to the acre, or about twice
that of the home grown buckwheat.
The raising of japanese buckwheal
will now become a popular and re-
munerative industry for our farmers.
THE sheriff of St. Lawrence County,
| n. Y, has withdrawn tobacco as ia
ton from prisoners under his control
"Whereat," says Bro. Grant Of the
PlaJtsburgh Republicans. 18th old soaks
of the town threaten TO withdraw their
patronage. The order is a good one
and worthy offollowing." "Old soak"
is new name but wonderfully peril
nent.
rHE Rutland scribe of the Montpelier
Argus says "a tall, angular son OF toll,
who had been 'farmln' it for well nigh
90 years. stopped at the newsstand In
the depot last Friday morning and cen.
identis.ly asked the owner of the stand
il he could be directed to the residence
OF "a fortune teller named Clairvoyant "
We would have liked to know just what
Frank Stillson replied.
The Central Vermont management
propose to contribute to a proper par
ticipation iG holiday pleasures this sea-
son, as previously, by selling halt-fare
tickets between all station on their line
at Christmas and New Years time.
Christmas tickets have been good going
The esd and to return till the 20 h: New
Years tickets good going Dec. eth and
to return till Jan. I'd. This generous
provision will be fully appreciated by
the public.
IT may not be as widely known as il
deserves to be, writes a correspondent
of the British Medical Journal, that
twenty grains of salicylic acid, given in
liz. ammon. acct. three or four times a
day, will 80 far control a common cold
that the aching of the brow, eyelIds,
ETC., will cease in few hours, while The
snet ug aud running from the nose will
also abate and will disappear in few
days, and, more fortunate Eti !, the cold
will pass off and not finish up, as is GUS
tomary, with a cough.
THE conservation of Rev. A. r.
Graves, as Bishop of The Platte West.
ern Nebraska) is to take place in
Gethesemane church, Minneapolis, on
New Years Day (The Feast of the Cir
cumcision). The vestry of st. Peters
church (of which Mr.. Graves was
formerly rector), unanimously voted
Sunday to send resolutions of congratu-
lations by the hand of the present rector,
the Rev. w. B. Walker. They in this
voice the sentiments of many friends
here.
WE are in receipt of a copy o. Wal
toms Vermont Register, No. 81 publish
ed by the White River Paper Co., which
is full of useful information to every
Vermonter. This veteran index to the
business men of Vermont and the civil
government has always been Of value
and convenience to the public. The
Lyndonville Journal says: 1--WE would
suggest that If it bad place in every
school room in the State it would be Of
practical value" For sale, as u'Ual. at
the BANNER Stationery Store.
THE old and we'll known Burr & Bur
ton Seminary at Manchester, VT, has
an advertisement in another column.
Among its Alumni are some of the
brightest men and women who have
ever gone out from any school. By the
way. why should any one advocate the
claims of schools in other states when
we have Vermonts institutions of learn
ing which are the peer of those found in
lany other stateP Let us support Yer
mont in school matters as we are be-
lginning TO do in other important and
business concerns.
THE Poultney Journal, in burst Of
Impotence tells the truth about one
matter in these words: The season oil
cheek among newspaper men is now al
its height Every mail brings more OF
less circulars and letters asking you to
boom their particular paper and thus
add thousands if not millions to your
own circulation. Many a fifty cent
paper will offer you their paper in ex-
change for yours, provided you will
publish a half column advertisement
and call attention to it say three or four
times more. They are often lavishP in
their liberality and the only wonder is
that they find any gudgeon so green as
to take the bait when the barb is SC
plainly in sight"
THE Albany Journal says it is abouI
time for winter TO set in, for boom in
pig iron. and for farming to pay in Yer
mont. Regarding the latter statement
here is case right to the point A Mil
ton correspondent writes "a farm OF
222 acres, with good house and barn wa,
sold last May in the town of Grafton al
auction for $500. Young went there il
June and bought the farm on time pay
ments for $1,000. He estimates that he
cut oyer 80 tons of hay on the farm last
season. 1t is located about four miles
from Grafton village, and the same dis
lance from Chester depot. This IL
actual sale at $40 an acre and the
family moved onto the farm last week.
WE always publish such items Of
news, when obtainable, but well-ordered
families should zee to it that their births,
marriages and deaths are promptly pub.
lished In their favorite newspaper as 9
matter of record as well ss of current
news. Circumstances might arise wher
such publication would be of material
service. A family should have somt
pride in its membership, ancestry and
progeny, individually and collectively
Few people outside of the publication
office realize how often newspaper fi'e'
are examined for such records as We
have suggested.
THE Boston Journal publishes oul
| La. s,fI NADIA
title Of "a Free and Easy Jail" Il
then, under date OF Monday, says
Last nightlDavid Tenant escaped from
Jail here. Tenant had been convicted
of felonious assault on Saturday anC
was in Jail awaiting sentence. Jailol
Reed went down into the cellar with
Tenant to get coal, and an open win
dow gave the prisoner an opportunity t
break for freedom. One hundred dollar
reward Is offered for his capture.
Sheriff Pike, who offers the reward
gives this description of the escaped
convict Said Tenant IS 20 years o.
age, 8 feet 0 inches In height, and viii
weigh about 40 pounds; eyes grey, hail
brown, and wore light moustache; haC
on striped shirt, dark pants and dari
sacque coat"
The train out of Bennington at s A
Saturday evening ran over and killed {
man at Petersburgh Junction. Mon
day Troy papers explain, and in such
way as to preach another temperance
lecture, as follows: The remains of {
= man supposed to be Washington Cone
, of Williams own, Mass, were brought
to Hoosick Falls by Coroner Davis Sun.
day morning and given in charge Of
Undertakers Wright and Berger. Cone
was killed Saturday night at Peters.
burgh Junction. He had been hanging