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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-30
LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD.
New Time Table, Commencing Jan.
lst, 1890.

Leave Bennington 0 a. M. arrive in North Ad-
ans 10 2l a. M. Troy 10 :52. Chatham ll:4T, New
York 5gS. Leave bennington 1l:25 M, arrive
in North Adams 1855 p. IN Troy IS, Chatham
4:3O, New York gI6 Leave Bennington 20 p
m, arrive in North Adams 5'4, Troy 800
Chatham :25 p. m.
Leave North Adams 9:05 M, arrive in Ben
nington 1880 Leave North Adams go r. M.
arrive in bennington 200 Leave North Adams
p m. a~rive in Bennington sos.
Leave New York 20 a M, arrive In Benning'
ton 100 p. m Leave New YorK 10 :S5 a. n., arrive
in Bennington O5 p. m.
Leave nathan | 90 a. m. arrive in Bennington
2 90 p. m. Leave Chatham 80 p. m. arrive IN
Bennington :O5 p, IN. ~
Leave Troy so a M, arrive in Bennington
1890 a. m Leave Troy II a m arrive in Ben
Dngtoh , 100 p M. Leave Troy 100 P. M, arrive
in Bennington sos p, IN. .
Z. D. BENNETT. Supt.
JOSEPH CHILD, Gen. Pass. Ag't.
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CASHIER

wm y. Durgin OF the Boston Loan Co.,
2T5 Washington street, save: L recon-
mend Sulphur Bilters rs the very beat
medicine I have ever used. There is
like them to give an appetite
tone up the eystem. and do away with
that lsnguid feeling which is 80 fire.
quent among those confined indoors.
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FlTCHBURG r. r.
uoOsAC TUNNEL ROUTE.

On and after Dec. 9th 1889, trains will run az
follows
LEAVE BENNINeToN VIA. BENNINGTON RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington Z 43 a m, arrive Troy 20, a
m New York 10 p m, Hoosick Falls ~, N0rtn
Adams 10 IL Greenaefd II 81 a m, ,Fitchburg %,
Boston 20 D m, ,Mechanicville Q 25,Saratoga lo 10
a m.
Leave Bennington 10 40 p M arrive Troy 2ZO
New York 90, noosick Falls 32, North hnains @
32 l. Greenfield a. Fitchburg %, Boston ~ 20 p
M, ,Mechahcville 32.
Leave Remington is p m, arrive Troy oo'
D m, Hoosck Falls ID, No. AdamsI w H.
Mechanicville 55, p. M, Saratoga Zop' m.
Leave Bennington II 10 night, arrive Troy %
New York OOam
Leave Bennington for Rutland and Montreal
~ 10, g As a. m . %, 6 10 p. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
VIA BENNINGTON & RUTLAND ny:
12Oam, from New York, Albany and Troy;
942am, from New York, Albany, Troy, HOO
sick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga and Mechanic'
vile ,,,.,
3OOpm, from New York. Albany, Troy ,Hoosich
Falls, No Adams ard Boston.
40 m, from New York. Albany, Troy, HooslcK
Falls North Adams and Boston.
Arrive at Bennington from Rutland and Mont
treal 20. s O6 m, 10, 9 AZ p. m.
wuITMoRE J.R. WATSON,
Gen'll raffic Mgr, Boston. Genl Pass; Agt'
c. A. NIMMO, BOSTON,
Genl Western Passenger Agent. Troy.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-30

Mems white silk puffed scarfs appear
to have come to remain all winter.
Warming the stable and keeping the
stock comfortable is better than warm
ing it up once or twice day by giving
il warm water to drink.
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A z. CUTLER, DENTIST.


All operations performed in the most thorough
nd careful manner aud at reasonable prices,-
My aim will be to give eatire satisfaction to all
cases submitted to my care.
Gas and Ether administered for extracting
teeth without pain, when desired.
Office Opposite Free Library Hall, bennington,
3Itf Vermont
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Having sold my dental practice to ORA. Z.Cut.
er, gentleman Of exper ence and ability, | be-
speak for him the same liberal patronage that has
been accorded me the past eighteen years.
DIR S. b. PIKE.
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KENDALL'S SPAWN CURE,

BRooKLYS, n. Y. November g. 1883.
DR.. p. ]. KENDALL Co.
Dear Srs desire to give you testimonial OF my
good opinion of your Kendall SPAWN Cure. have
used It for Iameness, StiH JOinIa and
Spavins, and have found 1t a sure cure, cordl-
ally recommend II to all horsemen.
Yours truly. A. Fl; GnBERT,
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Readsboro. f. j. Hicks F. l. Bowen,
Bishop Brothers. j. T. Carrier; Sears
burgh. Willard Sumner, &. Harrington.
C. H. Roberts; Su dgate, p NJ. Hoyt,
NJ. Y Hurd, imothy Hayes; Stamford,
j. w. illard. George Bridges. S. w.
Webste-; Wlnhall, c. V. Bryant; Peru,
NJ. j. Hapgood.
A. B. VALENTINE. Commissioner.
Bennington, VT, January 20, 1890.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
WEEKLY GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS THURsD JUNE

the first hint received of the insect g
work, aud then il will be too late for the
application of a remedy-the plant will
die. If, however, by close observation
we have discovered that a borer is in the
vine, having seen its cutting as cast out
from the point of entrance, and the vine
is not yet wilted, we may sometimes
save the plant by splitting it length
ways with sharp knife, and removing
the ''grub, - though the chances of sue
cess are by no means good.
The worst feature connected with the
work of this insect lies in the fact that we
are not apt to know anything about its
presence until too late for the applica-
ton of a remedy. The only hope, there
fore, lies in some kind of preventive to
be applied to all the plants at an early
stage of their growth, without waiting
for finding out that there is to be any
infection. The New York experiment
station has been trying to work up some
thing in this line, and q late bulletin of
the station says Paris green was mixed
with water at the rate of half tea
spoonful TO two gallons and the mixture
carefully applied with hand sprinkler
over all the stems for distance of two
feet from the base of the plants. The
result Of this remedy was that there were
eight plants affected by the porer to
twenty three affected plants on the
same number of hills not treated at all.
1t was further noticed that all these
borers had worked above where the Paris
green had been applied. so that really it
had proved entirely effectual where it
was applied. Should anyone desire to
use this remedy, three things will have
l.
vine at least three feet from the base of
the plant; do not make the solution
stronger than the one gwen here, as it is
apt TO injure the plant, and repeat the
application after every hard rain 80 long
as the usefulness of the plants would re-
quire it. We suppose London purple
would answer the same as Paris green,
though the quantity should be double
that recommended for the latter. The
trouble with such an application would
rest in our inability to always get the
poison on the underside of the vine-the
portion most likely to be attack ed by the
borers.
In our opinion a very thin flour paste
made up like starch for starching clothes,
though thinner, would be better than
the clear water, as it would longer hold
the poison on the vines and do away with
the need of such frequent application.
The same station experimental with
gas tar into which corn cobs had been
dipped. The dipped cobs were placed
on the ground about the vines, and it is
claimed that the effect, though not per-
feet, was decidedly good. OF course the
gas tar does not destroy the insects as in
case of the poison, but the supposition is
that its strong odor acts as a repellant,
preventing the moth from stopping in its
neighborhood to deposit her eggs. While
the New York station used corn cobs,
they were not specially necessary-any-
thing calculated to hold the gas tar and
prevent it running off into the soil would
have acted equally as WELL.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
An Excellent Idea.

The Pilot Point horticultural society Is
taking steps TO establish for itself regu-
lar experiment station, with view to
testing the adaptability of the various
fruits and varieties of fruits to the eli
mate and soil condition of North Texas.
The idea ia certainly an excellent one,
well worthy the consideration of other
similar societies in other sections of the
state. Our very good friend, DR.. A.
NJ. Ragland, secretary of the Pilot Point
society says.
Every thoughtful fruit-grower recog-
niZes the Importance of testing new
fruits, or new varieties of old ones, and
furthermore, that such work can only be
undertaken by individuals at great per-
sOual cost of both time and money. In
deed, not MANY persons can give the
painstaking care needful to determine the
status of the large number of new varle-
ties promulgated with blare of trumpets
annually in the catalogues of nursery
men or more quietly presented with all
the paraphernalia of sample jars, and
colored plates by the oily tongued tree
peddler. Now, in fact, about nine out
of ten of these new intrOductions are no
better than older varieties at one-fifth
the cost. Now and then a new seeding
is found possessing rare merit; the fruit
grower wants it but cam t afford to pay
dollar apiece for nine worthless varieties
in order to secure it.
Doubtless this will interfere with a
certain class of nurserymen who depend
upon new introductions with high sound
ing names, at eXhor bitant prices for
large revenue; but 10 honest propagators
of new varieties this experimental work
will prove a benefit. The endorsement
of this society will be q splendid adver-
tisement to any nurseryman fortunate
enough to secure it. We invite and ex-
pect the cooperation of propagators of
new varieties of all kinds of fruits. Send
us such varieties as you desire tested in
the great cross timber fruit belt. We
guarantee the propagation full protection
against pirating. The work is IN the
hands of competent men who have no
connection with any nursery.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
The FAN Crop of Potatoes.

Texas Farm and Ranch says: ga
thing is easily secured and as profitable
as fall crop of Irish potatoes, should
not be neglected. Seed potatoes for
this-purpose should BIS saved from the
spring crop, small ones being as good as
any, These potatoes should be prepared
by spreading in the sun until they begin
to turn green, then stored until ready to
plant. Prepare the ground by pIowing
and fertiliZing, so as to be ready when
suitable seasons occur after the middle of
July and before the last of September.
When the soil is IN proper order as to
moisture, plant in the usual way. -
We are in full accord with our cotem-
porary in all particulars of the foregoing
with the exception of summing the seed
potatoes to greenness. In our opinion
that would not be the better way, as so
much summing would have a tendency TO
blunt the vitality of the seed, at least.
Our plan is to spread the seed potatoes,
SO soon as dug and dried off, on floor
in some open and airy place entirely
sheltered from sunshine. They must be
spread thinly. II kept long after dig
ging they will wilt slightly, but this does
not seem to injure them In the least for
seed; very soon after having been
brought in contact with the moist soil
they swell out and are as plump aud firm
as at first.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
EXCITING SCENES.
Charges of Bribery Against Member OF the
Louisiana Legislature-To Vote To-Day.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
NEW ORLEANS, La, June 20.-Ths
state legislature devoted all day to the
proposing to extend the charter of the
company twenty years for million
dollars year. The debate in
the house was exciting and
sensational. Mr.. Frank Roder,
member from New Orleans, was stricken
with brain paralysis during the debate,
and is in critical condition. Mr.. Shat
tuck pronounced the bid of the English
New York syndicate to give 81 .250 900
for lottery privilege to be blackmail-
ing fake, and charged that q leading
broker and banker, and one of the
wealthiest citizens of New Orleans
had threatened the Louisiana lottery
company that unless it would
admit him to its scheme he would intro
duce rival lottery bill in the legislature
and make the Louisiana company pay
81 800, 900 for the privilege. AS every
member of the legislature wished to
speak on the subject no vote could be
had to-day, but the question
Will be decided Tomorrow. Soon
after the legislature adjourned Mr..
j. II. Amant, representative from
Ascension, was arrested charged by the
district attorney with having received
three brides from the louisiana lottery
to vote for its bill. one of $1,000 in 1888,
one of $40, ZOO June 10, 1890, and an
other of $4,000 on June 20. The informa-
tion came to the district attorney only
to-day.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
An Unsafe Grass.

MIR. Rupert W. Fowler. of Garfield,
Texas, tells Texas Farm and Ranch
that after considerable experience with
Johnson grass Sorghum halapense) his
private opinion publicly expressed with
reference TO sowing the seed is to sow
them in the fire and make sure that not
a seed gets out. OF course it has some
good qualities. 1t makes fine hay and
lots of it, but while saying this IL will
also be in order to say that it will ruin
for any other purpose, any land on
which it gets start. If il can be eradi-
Gated at all, it is, to say the least, ex-
tremely difficult. On the farm he is
managing a few punches of the grass ap-
peared, the seed having been brought
there by some means from a farm two
miles away. He dug them up and
made most careful effort to remove
every root, but it still comes as regularly
as clock work. If, in digging, one joint
of root is left, it Will sprout, and be as
careful as you may, 1t IL almost impossi-
BILE to get every joint. If bunch is not
noticed as soon as it comes above ground,
and pillow passed through 1t, the pillow
is almost certain to carry roots some dis
lance and drop them, and these roots
will soon make bunch almost impossi-
BILE to eradicate. A crop cannot possibly
be raised on land that is over-run by
Johnson grass.
MIR. Fowler regards 1t as foolish
thing TO plant Johnson grass for hay, es-
pecially in Texas, where a success can be
made with so many other grasses that
have no pest qualities about them.
Where there are no farms, and never
will be, it might be profitable to plant
johnson grass, but wherever il is planted
in "a farming section of country, the
owners of adjoining farms will have TO
exercise the utmost diligence to prevent
it from spreading and running their
farms; and whoever plants it will have
curses showered on him ''even unto the
third generation. -
Our experience with Johnson grass
about comedies with that of Mr.. Fowler.
II is good hay grass, but on account of
other important considerations we'd
rather not have any of it "in our n. -
Some five years ago lady invited US in,
as we were passing, to see her kitchen
garden, she being very proud of her
gardening efforts. In looking about we
discovered, close beside the fence, q
stalk of johnson grass just coming to
seed, and called her attention to it. She
had left the grass because it looked so
thrifty and nice, not having any idea
of what it was. When We told her how
dangerous a thing it was to have in the
garden she promised to remove it, but
she didn It, for later we saw 1t still there
with a ripened crop of seeds. To-day
that garden is O. well-set johnson grass
patch-the pest has completely taken
the ground.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26

So says the horse department of the
Indiana Farmer. The pacing horse is
to again have his inning. Taste il
horse styles, as in everything else, has
its cycles. So far as the roadster was
of interest, for years it has all conferred
in his trotting qualities. The PAGER
used to be esteemed generally but for over
a dozen years fell out Of public esteem.
But'now his time has come again. He
has greatly grown of late years in num-
bers, III speed and in usefulness. Now
register associations are being formed,
rules for keeping his record are being
adopted, and soon there will be- good
deal heard about q 'standard' PAGER.
This class of horse is valuable in many
respects, and it is a pleasure to see him
winning his way again to public favor.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26

There is troublesome borer that
works into the suuashes, musk melons,
cucumbers, etc., literally spelling them
in every case, but this is not the borer
forming the subject of our present ar
tlcle. The borer just mentioned is the
lsrva or grub of a small insect commonly
known as the striped cucumber beetle.
1t is rather easily headed off in its work
il one gives it proper attention in time.
Where the fruit lies on the ground lift it
up while young and before the borers
have commenced their work, and place
under 1t about foot square of news
paper folded two or three thicknesses
and saturated with REORGANIZATION this
the parent beetle of the borer will fight
shy of that particular specimen. We
have never yet known a melon, cucuin-
Der or squash bored into after the appli-
cation of this simple preventive.
But the squash vine borer, so called,
(the Meliltia ducurbit9 of entomolo-
gists,) is entirely different insect, and
one far more difficult of management.
1t is the Iarva or young of small
moth or miller, with orange col ed
body and olive brown wings; that is the
wings incline to that color, though the
front pair are lighter and more or less
transparent in appearance. The hind
most pair of legs are peculiarly marked
by rather long orange colored and
blackish hairs. Is not SO large as the
cotton worm moth, and is more slender
in its general makeup, presenting al
most waspish appearance.
Early in morning or late in the even
ing this little moth flies among the vines
aud deposits oval-shaped, reddish look
ing eggs on the main stem of the plant
usually not beyond two or three feet
from Its connection with the ground.
Inst.om four days 10 one week these
se>Es hatch out minute worms. which at
once bore ipto the vine. The worm
grows rapidly until, when near full size,
we have notice of its presence by observ-
ing a sudden willing of the entire plant.
Without very careful looking this W Ill be
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26

A new colony of strange people are
farming southeast of Pierre, S. d. They
are under the leadership of a woman,
and hold their property all in one COM
mon lot. The woman is rather hand
some and of commanding presence, and
rules oyer the colony of about two hun
dred in rather despotIc manner.
Their religion savors somewhat of the
Mormon and old Jewish religion, and on
Saturday last they offered burnt offerings
in the way OF calves, etc. They posi-
lively refuse to allow strangers who will
not be one of them in their midst, and
all attempts to gain any information
from them by the ordinary means have
failed. They have called their town
Moab.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
CHOLERA.
The Disease in Spain Probably Genuine Asiatic
Cholera.

The Disease in Spain Probably Genuine Asiatic
Cholera.
CHILAGo, ILL.,. June PA special cable to the
Chicago Daily News says: London. June 90
Mr.. Thomas Henry wakely. F. P. R. S.. editor
of the London Lancet, this evening furnished
the Daily Hews' special correspond
ent the following summary Of the
progress OF the cholera epidemic in Europe
up to date. While watching to see whether
cholera was this year to advance from Mesopa-
tamie and Persia by means OF lines OF human
intercourse between those countries
and South eastern Russia. the news
has come that we4tern Europe
is again the seat OF the disesse. The first place
affected was the village OF Puebla Dugert in the
Spanish province of Valencia. The village has
population of some 700 inhabitants.
The disease was first recognized May
the usual denials as 10 the true character of the
malady. Then its choleraic character was
admit ted and lastly came the official announce
ment by the minister OF the interior to the Span
ish cortes that cholera did certainly prevail in
Valencia, but wasn't Asaitic cholera. He
reports the outbreak may be regarded as
cholera-nostra rather than cholera imported
from Asia, but the history of the disease in
Spain is essentially that OF true Asiatic cholera.
In Paris II. constants on the report Of the san
Spain is the genuine pestilence, dis
patched the expert doctors, Charroh and
METER to superintend precautionary measures
on the frontier. Iron disiufecting chambers
coming from Spain are submitted to seal in Or
der to kill the microbes. 4 quarantine is or
dered at the port o. Marseilles against vessels
which have touched at any Spanish port.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
MAN WITH THE HOE.
He is Taking Possession of Northwest Texas
and PROPOSES to star.

WICHITA FALLS. TEX, June 20, 1890.
The man with the hoe is getting there-more
power to his elbow.-l GAZETTE.
Editor Gazette.
Yes. sir; right you are again. 'tThe
man with the hos'' Is here to stav; like
wise the schoolmaster. Both are in the
land and that too by Charge major
ity,'' and we are mighty glad of it.
All things come to those who wait
and work, especially SO with
those who work. THE GAZETTE
has worked for and championed the
cause of the man with the hoe in West
and Northwest Texas, and it is very
gratifying to the people in general, who
are in favor OF the settlement of the
West, to see THE GAZETTE prosper and
keep up with the procession. More
elbows with power is all that is wanted,
and with the help of THE GAZETTE and
the great Fort Worth and Denver rail-
way We will get there with both
feet Yes, dear GAZETTE, the man
with the hoe is playing s'frst fddle'' in
this country now. He has had q
''rocky' road TO travel. Obstacles
without number have been placed in the
way from time to time, but by being
persistent and having right on our side
We have finally succeeded in getting
fair start and we invite all in search OF
homes to join us in the upbuilding of
the country and to share alike with us
the advantages and resources of this
productive and healthy country.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
puols. Mithout Ponds.

correspondent of Farm Life says
many people imagine that 1t is an abso-
lute necessity to have a pond in order to
successfully raise ducks, but such is not
the case. He has raised large numbers
of ducks without more water than merely
enough for them TO drink. He thinks
they might give better satisfaction where
they had a pond or marsh to visit at will,
still such an arrangement he does not
consider absolutely necessary.
The preparer of these columns has had
much experience in raising ducks with
out water-range, and while he has
brought them through reasonably well,
they have always shown themselves TO be