The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-13
DEFERRED NEWS AND NOTES.

| A-JONtTuOT " lNt"tll wv
Bradford, has resigned as national Bank
| Examiner for the State, owing to hls
rarge business interests in Alabama.
According to the Engineering and
Mining Journal, the best time ever re-
corded in the history of raiiroading WIZ
made in late run over the Atchlsnn,
Topeka & SAINTS Fe system between b k
-rfied and LathrUp. a distance of 800
IN les, the distance being accomplished
in POS minutes. This is the greatest
speed ever made in continuous run fol
such a distance with one engine. Tn,
engine WAS of the Stevens type and bull
IN 1885. Her drivers were feet 10 IN.
ches and she burned 81 IONS of coal
during the run. The greatest speed at.
tanned was one mile in As seconds, tn,
fastest on record by 5l4 seconds, Tn.
best time made for sire CHI was 1919
IN les in 8 minutes, or little more tina,
As 8 seconds per mile. The train wa,
made up of two officials coaches and
ran as special, passing nine trains on
the run, indicating some nice work by
the dlspatchers.
Bedloe's Island has been selected "a
the future landing place of immigrants
at New York and they will henceforth
make their entrance into the new worl
under the protecting mantle of thu
Statue OF Liberty. Castle Garden will
.oon be a thing of the pa~t-only men,
DRY, as it were.
The oldest lawsuit on record IS now
being tried in the highest Russian Cour
At ST. Petersburg. 1t was brought 500
years ago against the city of K4mantz
Podosk by the heirs of u dead nublemau
to recover many thousand acres of his
e.t4te which had been contiscated by
the municipality. The written tesli-
mony is said to weigh 40 tons.
A cute young woman at ST. Joseph
Mo-, who had been forbidden by her
father to marry the man OF her choice,
managed to become bridesmaid at a
wedding where her lover was best
man" At the conclusion of the cere-
mony they advanced and were pro-
nounced man and wife before the girls
father or mother could interfere.
A Mixed Family-.-A widower with
a number of small children married Il
W dow who was similarly blessed In due
time the newly. married couple added TO
the number. Hearing a voice in the
yard one day the father went out to see
wnat was the matter. "Well, what was
II ?" asked the wife. a. h. returned out
of breath. Your CHI ldren and nv child
rem we're pounding 'ur children Was
the reply.-TerdS SiftingS
A canvas of the city Of Philadelphia
made by detectives employed by licensed
liquor dealers reveales the facr that there
are in that city nearly 900 'speak"as
ies," or unlicensed deslaIs in ardent
spirits There is more than three times
the number of licensed dealers, and the
latter, for their own pro ectlon, have
found it necessary to combine in war
against the "speakeasies.
The former young assistant rector Of
Trinity Church. Rev. Mr.. Adams, who
was called last year to the rectorship of
81. Paul's Church al Buffalo, il at once
one of the mort boyish looking and the
most eloquent of Episcopalian divines. |
His robes hide from his congregation the
yout hfuness which ordinary attire
makes only too apparent when he is on
the street. In Buff 10 few Sundays agr
an incident occurred which he has since
told as a good joke on himself. 1t was
Just at The close of the service. He was
IN the robing room when an old gentle
man came in. Seeing Mr.. Adams among
the choir boys. of whom he appeard 10
be the largest, the old gentleman march
ed up to him with the air of innocence
to make this inquiry "SuDny, Can you
tell me the name of the preacher this
morning ?"
Platt doesn't propose to get left even if
the Worlds Fair ia held in Oh cago. He
has ju-t invested $75.0 in real estate
in the windy cIty.-N Y. Press.
Illinois floats a fl q over every school
house in her borders, and requires every
child of school age to attend sehuol un
less i'll. The coming generation in Iii
nois will be patriotic and intelligent.
Instead of appointing a smelling COM
mittee to try and find out how the Sc
rrets of executive sessions leak ou' the
United States Senate should abolish the
executive session. The late Senator Rid
dleberger was right about this matter al
thou IN he WAS pretty generally wrong
in every other particular.
For more than 800 years the world has
that John Calvin believed in
and taught the doctrine OF infant dam
nation. We are happy to add, however,
that Mr.. Calvin was acquitted of this
terrible charge by DR.. Talmsge lat Sun
d y. While he is in the indicating |
business, we trust that DR.. Talmage will |
tell the world who killed Survptus. ST.
that this horrible suspicion will not lie
al Calvin's door.