The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-11-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

| -Ex-Goyernor William p. Dillingham;
has been acting as referee the past week
at Middlebury on hearings in the case of
Manning VS.. Leighton, arising out of one
OF the Alabama claims, having been sent
out by the United States court of claims
for additional evidence.
The Voice prints the votes cast b,
sixty-one Methodist churches, all that
had been heard from up to the time it
went to press, on the question of admit
ting women delegates TO the general con
terence. The footings are 1874 in favor
and lO3 against the proposition. Ten
churches IN Maine give 200 years and
only II naysj the church in CHEYENNE.
wyoming, gives II yeas and nays: at
Lincoln, Nebraska, so yeas and % nays /:
at Springfield, Vermont, Al yeas and s
nays; at Gardnertown, New York, s yeas
and nays; at Grace church, Newbury.
yeas and l, nay, and Trinity church,
cincinnati, 33 years and Is nays, All the
other churches give majorities against
women.
One of the leading young lawyers OF
Boston, Vermonter, writes us as fol
Flows: 81 am pleased to see the way Won
talk on the possibilities and resources
of Vermont. If the people there could
be made to understand that what Won
say is true, and not simply talk to keep
things up, Vermont would have such a
boom as she never saw. Her resources
OF lumber, stone, granite, marble, min
erals, soil and water power, would be no
longer neglected there within 100 to 15O
miles OF the greatest markets of this
country, and money kept from going
thousands of miles away from these mar,
kets, into investments far inferior i'm
character, Herald and Ne,rs.
Some further effects of the election
encouragement are put by the American
| Wool Reporter: "BOth domestic and for
| eign manufacturers who were contem-
plating locating in Philadelphia have
already abandoned the idea to some ex-
tent. In one case foreign manufacture
ers who were to build q weaving mill.
and place 100 looms in operation on dress
goods, have abandoned the idea entirely.
In another case "a new company of
domestic manufacturers recently organ
lied to establish knitting mill TO en-
ploy 400 hands, even after orders had
been given for the machinery. have
countermanded them, and still Others
might be mentioned who have done sim
ilarly."
Statistical said to show that only
40 per cent. OF the Vassar girls ever
marry. This is probably because they
make great, pretentiOns of being good
cooks and housekeepers. The average
man is afraid of the girl who VOWS that
she is good cook. He had rather take
his chances with ''greenhorn" in cook
cry, who loves him well enough to mas
ter culinary art for love's sake, Instead
of fashions sake.
One of the most important effects of
the electiOii'oii trade has been that in
which 1t has hit the farmer. 1t has nm
doubtedly checked the buying of wool.
Witness the remarks of the Reporters
own correspondents. Its statement that
In the New York wool market there has
been afalling off of demand is supple
mented by announcements from Boston
of more conservative feeling among
purchasers land from Philadelphia, Of
the ''bearish disposition of manufacturers
who come Tito the Market to say
nothing HOfs the bearish attitude OF the
manufacturers who don't come into the
markell This Offishness and bearishness
is all the more significant when it is re-
membeFed that, as Brddstreers puts it,
"the worlds supply is very light
n AuOi AduiAiC ~ ltdIs I'll III nebraska
on account of lack of cars to transport
coal from the Union Pacific mines in
Wyoming to points in that State,
lin theiKansas judicial district, which
includes Barber, Harper and Commanche
counties, Mckay, the Farmers Alliance
candidate was elected. Mckay is a |
farmer. has no technical knowledge of /
the laws, has never practiced law a day
in his life, and has never been admitted |
to the bar.-E6chdnge 1t is safe TO saw |
that If there is much litigation in that |
district, and it must be an exceptional
western one If there is not, that the ALI
ance members are likely TO have to pay
pretty dear for their triumph over the |
lawyers. The new judge may be man
Of exceptional mental powers, and in
time prepare himself, but it will take
time, and meanwhile what becomes ef
those having business before his court.
The idea isabsprd. You might as well
elect professor of mathematics from
the ranks of men who have no knowi-
edge Of the subject, as to do what these
Kansas farmers have done. The men,
bers Of the Alliance in that judicial dis
trict have demonstrated by this silly per-
Iormanoe that they are unfit to have po-
itical control. County Post