The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-09
NEWS AND NOTES.

1.-THE bloody shirt may be washed in
the tears of disappointed politicians and
hung up upon the Mason and Dixon line
to y."-Speech in Nashville, Tenn,
Why, certainly, provided you hang W
the Confederate flag at the same time
~ Y. Press.
Senator Evarts has improved il
health since HE eyes were treated in
Europe, but. says he, 1.-THE chief incon
venience is that my doctors tell me that
| must not read and l must not write
and must give give up thinking, so
will be compelled to turn to making
speeches in the Senate IN the future"
II John Wanamaker kept a saloon and
sold liquor on Sunday and to minor
and to the intoxicated, the New Yorl
Sun would not only not revile him fol
being Sin trade" but it would defend
him as being better than other people
"in trade" and above the law.
The new Bourbon Administration II
Virginia as it comes into power is con
fronted by an empty treasury and q
thoroughly demoralized condition oil
state finance. The only remedy which
the Virginia politicians can think Of il
high license tax on the liquor dealers
and such a course as that they feal
would MORALLY offend a class of people
whose support is essential to the De-
mocracy.
The late Edward N. Dickerson, the
eminent patent lawyer, was a sharp viii
as we'll as brilliant man. as the follow.
ing shows. It was in one of his suits
against a certain railroad company that
he was pitted against veteran lawyer.
The older counsel got up and remarked
curtly, referring to Mr.. Dickerson, who
represented himself cts well know n
legal axiom that when man is his own
lawyer he has fool for a client" Like
flash came the retort from Dickerson
But he is better off by far than the
client who has fool for counsel" and
he bowed gravely to his opponent.
Nationalism aims to have the govern
ment do everything for you instead OF
your having to do anything for yourself
1t wants the government to be your
cradle maker, your tailor, your shoe
maker, your halter, your caterer. your
builder, your house-furnisher, your en-
ployeI, your lawyer, your physician
your nurse, your undertaken and your
monument builder, as we'll as your rail-
road president, your hotel keeper, your
dramatic manager, your professor and
your pope.
The Rev. Howard L. Grose, formerly
of Ballston, N. Y, has accepted the
Presidency of the South Dakota Univer.
sity, to succeed DR.. Edward Olsen, killed
in the Minneapolis Tribune fire.
While 80 bricklayers we're working on
the arch in the Hudson river tunnel in
New York Sunday a great mass of mud
caved IN and in a moment the compress
sed air swept toward the men with the
force of a cyclone. They we're dashed
the air lock. Another mass of mud
caved in, and the terrified bricklayers
were jammed against the door of their
only means of escape. With great diff.
Guilty the door OF the air lock leading 10
the elevator was pulled opened. All
the men got safely in with the exception
of Christopher Nelson. He was caught
as if in vic and both his legs and arms
were broken and his body badly crushed.
He was finally dragged into the air lock
and sfterward sent to the hospital. His
injuries are fatal.
Congressman William Nc Adoo OF New
Jersey has presented to the House in the
form of bill. one OF the most stuDend-
Gus bridge schemes ever contemplated.
1t provides for structure seven miles
in length, reaching from the HackeD-
sack River, across and above buildings in
Jersey CITY. thence across the Hudson
to New York. 1t will be a suspension
bridge. accommodating at least six lines
of railroad tracks, as we'll as horse and
foot passengers. The idea is to enable
the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Lackawan-
ma and Western. the Erie, the Lehigh
Valley, the New Jersey Central and
other railroad lines centering at Jersey
City to secure swift connection with the
metropolis at the New York end. There
is to be huge union depot, The plans
were drawn by A. Gustave Lindenthal
of Pittsburg. The bridge is to be 80 high
that any vessal can pass beneath 1T, and
no river pier IS to he permitted. 1t is to
be constructed under the supervision OF
the War Department. The Interstate
Commission is to fix the tolls, to examine
the accounts of the company and find
out how much the structure costa, 30
that there shall be no watering OF stock.
Agreement is made to carry the United
States mail free.