The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-05-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

Old age was especially honOred at the /
Union Church in Weymouth, Mass,
Sunday morning, the occasion being Old
Folks Day. All members of the parish
who are 20 years old or over were espec-
tally invited to attend. There are 80 or
more such in Union Parish, and ma
jority of them were present. Old time
hymns were sung, and the pastor, Rev.
Oliver Huckell, preached special SER
mon on 1.-THE Consultations of Old Age"
There was a large audience present.
A depression has been discovered III
the Egyptian Desert which is all that re-
mains of reservoir constructed by the
Patriarch Joseph for irrigation purposes
when he was Pharaoh's Prime Minister.
1t is proposed to reopen it, and II has
been estimated that this would add g.
200, 900 acres to the 6,000, 600 acres now
under cultivationin Egypt. The reser-
voir originally covered $50 square miles,
and was $50 feet deep. - 80 l..s
The Bourbons of Illinois have made o
desperate attempt tOinduce the farmers
to put a third ticket in the field this
year and draw off enough votes from the
Republicans to give the Democracy con-
troll of the Illinois Legislature. But the
farmers have declined to fall into the
free trade trap. The Republican party
is good enough for them.
| The balance sheet of one OF the iron
companies in Alabama shows that for
the year 1899 the total cost of producing
pig iron, including repairs, interest ON
capital invested, improvements, ETC.,
was only $3.50 per ton. We are beating
England, not only in iron manufacture,
but. in iron production, this year, and
islowlY but surely her ,sceptre is depart!
ing to the United States. -
The Democratic ''chivalry,'' ,pf Florida
has again given a characteristic exhibi.
ton of its spirit by firing volleys of bucki
shot into the house of Mrs. L, II. Craft
a wealthy and respected Northern lady
residing in Tallahassee, the. tiancee OF
United States Marshal Wicks of jackson.
vile. The. free trade cause in, Florida
must be in desperate straits if its friends
, lind 1t necessary to make. war. on de
fenseless women. ........ w.
Interest is renewed in the Sawtell case
in New Hampshire; by the finding of {
p vest supposed to have belonged to Hiram
Sawtell. 1t was found by party o.
r fisherman on the bank of Reyes brook
i not far from the county road traverset
/ by 1saao'On the fatal night, and not NOR,
r than 100 yards from where one of Hi
rams shoes was found. The vestwas OF
little point projecting into the brook
The vest may have been thrown into thl
brook by Isaac as he was driving across
bridge, and lodged on the bank.
A book publisher in Ottawa recent,
made a contract with a gentleman to i'm
a port a special edition of the works O
I Victor Hugo. The publisher is the au
! thOrized agent for the sale of Roman
Catholic books, and finding that tn,
clergy had prohibited the works of Vic
tor Hugo, he declined to execute tn,
order. The Judge of the Supreme Cour
held him responsible under the contract
denying the right of any ecclesiastica
3 body to issue an order which violated
. legal contract.
l 1t was shown at a recent Methods
D Conference in Maine that the average pa,
of the preachers in it's jurisdiction wa
81 cents day. .:.,.
The Knights of Honor in national con
y vention at Detroit have elected A. II
Savage of Maine, Supreme Dictator, an,
J. d. Carpenter of Rhode Island, Su
preme Chaplain. ..r