The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
DEFERRED NEWS AND NOTES.

Peter Shumway, who lived hermit
life near the Bradford line in West Fair
lee, committed suicide by hanging him
self in his cellar, either Friday or Satur-
day of last week. He was about 70years
of age.
A movement is being made by our
citizens to secure the muster next season
and it is expected to succeed. We have
facilities second to none in the state, for
muster grounds, and the prominent Off
GERS of the militia are favorable to COM
ing to Bradford to muster in $780,
Opinion.
The North Star of Danville whose sus-
pension was announced last week, was
the second oldest paper in the state. 1t
was founded in 1906 by Ebenezer Eaton
and was kept in his family for 65
years. 1t once held high rank in the
weekly journalism of Vermont, but its
old age has been an unpleasant one.
Several months ago, both the town and
paper suffered stunning loss from fire,
and business was prOstrated. Danville,
one of the towns in the northern part of
the state, has fallen behind in recent
times in population and business; it is
chiefly farming community, and many
of the farms have been abandoned which
in part accounts for the failure of the
paper.-Rutldnd Herald.
People are advised to examine their
dimes of 1887, for the secret service men
learned recently that silver plated coun-
terfeits bearing that date are in circula-
ton They bear a remarkable resem-
blancc to the genuine coin owing to the
plating, which gives them a ring nearly
like that of good money. The plating
also does away with the greasy feeling
by which most counterfeits can be detect
ed 1t is thought that there are not
many of them.
For some time many of the ladies who
ride after the hounds in England have ad-
vOcated sitting astride of their horses
like men, and it seems probably that they
will carry the day. Now Miss Mabel Jen-
ness, the American apostle of physical de-
velopment in women, seeks to introduce
a similar reform on this side of the water.
She claims, and with apparently good
reason, that the use of the side-saddle de-
velops only one-half of the body, and
tends to lateral curvature of the spine.
Miss Jenness has prepared a new riding
habit with bifurcated skirts, and having
tried sitting astride of her horse finds
that in this position she can ride more
gracefully as well as healthfully.-Hdr-
per's Weekly.
Parishioner troubled with doubts)-
'Mr. Honeyman, l should like to hear
you preach a sermon next Sunday or the
Sunday following on How to Become
Christian is Salvation Necessary or
some such topic" Popular clergyman
(reflectively)-"Let me see. Next Sun
4 o,,I a,-a,,fnor L ax-naat tn
preach on Economic Problems and In
fluence of Egyptian Art on Modern CiU-
| lization.' My subjects for several sue
cessive discourses in regular order will
be The Illusion of Philosophy Relative
Importance of Dogmatism and Science,
Are Secret Societies Commendable|
'Bellamyism, and Are We Not Sporting
Nation?' | don't think l can get around
to it, Mr.. Brownson, for month or two
yet."-Chicdgo Tribune.
A farmers convention of 800 delegates,
representing all but five of South Caro-
lina's counties, is i'll session at Columbia.
1t has issued a manifesto denouncing the
Democratic State Administration as in
efficient and corrupt, and declaring that
the frequency of lynchings is due to bad
laws and the shiftless and inequitable
manner of their enforcement. That is
precisely what Republican newspapers
have said scores of times of the South
Carolina situation, but it has always been
strenuously denied by the Bourbon press
and attributed to Republican malice.
Vermont has done her share towards
filling up the Great West during the last
hundred years. Opinion seems to be set,
tling that the old drain on our population
out in that direction is about to let up
and pretty much cease. This opinion is
well founded .-WoodstOck Standard.
Lincoln has voted to bond the town fol
5000 for a railroad from Bristol to some
point on the Rutland road.
The business men of Newport have de
cided to organize savings bank and trust
company in that town.
A st. Johnsbury man has found grass
II inches tall and as fresh and green as IL
the early summer.
There are about SO inmates at the re
form school at Vergennes at present.
smaller number than has been reported
on some previous occasions. The insti
tuition is doing finely under its new super
intendent. The boys divide their time
between making chair seats, study anC
play, while the girls are trained in gen
eral housewOrk.
The long -drawn-out suit of the Citizen
Bank of Topeka, Kansas, against the lat'
+. W. Brooks of Brattleboro, and others
has finally been compromised. The sui
has been in the courts a dozen years ol
so and involved large sum.