The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-05-15
STATE NEWS,

Officers at st. Adams, Friday night
seized POO gallons of liquor in building
occupied by d. Mcmillan as a grocery.
The liquor was recently shipped there
by Boston firm, and the case apparent
ly comes directly in line of the recent
Supreme Court decision regarding liqusr
shipped from outside States in original
packages. The outcome of the seizure
is awaited with considerable interest.
The Washington dispatches of Mon
day, say: "a movement is on foot to
make Col. Veazey of Vermont, the mem
Der of the interstate commerce commits
sion, the next national commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic. 1t is said
that as the annual convention of the
Grand Army is to be held in Boston this
year, twill be eminently proper to make
a New England man the successor of
Gen. Russell A. Alger. Col. Weary is
popular with the old soldiers, and re-
ceived good deal of support last year
when Alger was elected"
The late heavy rains and high water
caused an immense landslide at st.
Johnsbury, Thursday afternoon, when
part of side hill $50 feet wide slid into
the Passumpsic river, taking the high
towns loss will be over $1,000.
A new postoflice, Monday, was opened
in the granite district named Granite
vile, with Daniel A. Frazer postmaster.
This makes the fourth postotfice in the
township.
Henry Little celebrated his Odd birth
day at his home in Kalamazoo, Mich,
on April 20. 1t is believed that Mr..
Little is the oldest living man now a
resident of Kalamazoo County, and as a
pioneer settler he dates from November,
1881. Previous to that time Mr.. Little
was resident of st. Johnsbury.
Rev. S. II. Lee, formerly the Congre-
gationalist pastor at Brattleboro, has
moved with his family from New Haven
to Springfield, Mass, and will at once
assume his duties as financial agent of
the French Protestant College. and also
conducting some of the classes in the
higher branches. He thoroughly believes
i'll the movement to educate the French
population of this country.
May sth was the 25th wedding anniver-
sary of Col. and Mrs. l.. X. Fuller of
Brattleboro. Arrangements well under
way for a suitable observance of the Oc-
casion were interrupted by Deacon Es-
tey's death and there was no celebration
but the Battery improved the oppOrtu-
nifty to quietly send testimonial in the
way of a regulation artillery sabre, silver
mounted, of the latest design, for Col
Fuller, and solid silver berry spoon
and sardine fork for Mrs. Fuller, while
many other people who happened to know
the date sent expressions of their cordial
well-wishes and hopes of many happy
returns.
The discussion of war records is be-
coming contagious and the Bellows Falls
Times has looked up the record of the
editor of the Windsor Journal, and CON
cludes that he does not even know how
to handle printing Office shooting stick,
and dates his knowledge of arms back TO
his early infancy. We venture the opin-
ion that Brother Perkins would fire"
the shooting stick if lieutenant governor
ship lightning, should happen to strike
him,-Ciipper,
Good Minister awaiting the appear
ance of the lady of the house in Ben
nington County town. "What is that,
my little dear?''
Little Girl-"My apron. Use going to
put it in the wash. Mamma got it all
dirty"
"She did?n
Eyes, sir; she grabbed it up just now
to dust off the Bible"
The Portland Advertiser makes this
point on our sugar production: Yer
mOnt's maple sugar crop for the season
just past is estimated at nine millions
pounds, or three-quarters of crop. The
apnnnga1 hnrrnfu Of fvrn Giants "a tNnttnn
would bring in the comfortable sum of
$3.50, 900 to the proprietOrs of the maple
orchards; but unluckily the bill restricts
the bounty to the sorghum, beet and cane
products. Why this distinction? Yer
monts claim would seem to be as good
as that of Louisiana or Kansas" There
is nothing more remarkable in this than
that st. Adams should be neglected in
the matter of custom house building,
while hordes of insignificant Confederate
cross roads have been remembered.
The venerable Reuben r. Thrall of
Rutland, whose death had been expected
for several months, died there on Satur
day morning. He was born in Rutland
in 1877, and was consequently 93 years
old Mr.. Thrall was lawyer by profess
sion, having been admitted to the bar at
the June term of Rutland County Court
in 1919, and has been present at every
term of court held since up TO three years
ago, when he appeared in several cases
at the March term. He was then 30 years
old and was thought to be the oldest
practicing lawyer in the world. He was
postmaster at Rutland from 1922 to 1929,
and was elected State Attorney for Rut-
land county in 1896. He served in this
office but one year, and it was the only
Office to which he was ever elected. His
practice in all those years consisted en-
tirely in collecting bills. For this reason
he was never popular, though he sue
ceeded in becoming wealthy.
The American flag, is fast becoming q
common sight i'm Vermont, waving as il
does from the roofs of so many school
houses. Time has proven that 1t is a
pretty good flag 10 look up TO and we
trust TO see the custom spread until not
only every school house in the State, but
every one in the Nation, floats the star
spangled banner.-Erd.
The 1OS Congregational churches in
Vermont made a net gain in membership
in 1880 of O.. The additions, especially
by confession, were above the average Of
recent years, but the removals were the
largest ever reported, many churches
having revised their rolls and dropped
absences. The 40 mission churches
shw net gain Of n, the remaining $40
a net loss of seven. In proportion TO
resident membership, the mission fields
were twice as fruitful as the others.
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