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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
ANOTHER sCoToH,IRIsH CONGRESS

The pro moters of the Scotch-Irish Con-
gress which assembled last May in Col
umbia Tenn, were so much gratified by
the success of the occasion that arrange
ments have been perfected for another
congress on May 29-31 next at Pittsburg.
The selection of the site for the congress
is particularly appropriate, inasmuch as
the Scotch-Irish race played a conspicu-
GUS part in the colonial history of Penn
syivahia, and Scotch-Irish memories and
traditions have been more carefully pre-
served there than in any other Northern
State. Since the Columbia convention
several Scotch-Irish State societies have
been organized, as well as National So
ciety, with Robert Bonner as its Presi-
dent. 1t is proposed to make the Pitts
burg congress a free and open assem-
blage, and all persons of Seotch-Irish
lineage are to be welcomed, whether they
come as formally accredited delegates or
not. There is Scotch-Irish element in
New England of some consequence, par
tieularly strong, perhaps, in New Hamp-
shire, but as in the case of the Columbia
congress ola year ago, sonow ifatIIe case
of that at Pittsburg, there are few signs
of interest in the gathering in this sec
ton, nor, so far as we recall, have any
State Scotch-Irish societies been organ
ized.-BOstOn Journal.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
THE WOOL QUESTION.

Mr.. G. E. Abel of Orwell, writes to the
Boston journal in defense of the wool in
terests of Vermont and America, in re-
Spouse to the hearing recently had by
the Committee on Federal Relations, on
the petitions of Robert Bleakie and others
for the removal Of duties on raw wool,
Mr.. Abel says: 81 know that you, through
the journal, have constantly urged that
the duty ON raw wool be not only re-
tanned but should be increased sufficient
ly to make wool growing reasonably re-
munerative, so that our country may not
be altogether dependent on importations
for our necessary supply. Now, the wool
growers of Vermont (of which am one)
highly appreciate your efforts in their be-
half, although done incidentally, in advo-
eating the Just claims of wool growers
throughout the country.
SIN the communication of Mr.. Arthur
T. Lyman to the committee are some
statements the reason of which cannot
understand, but his motives are more ap-
parent. i cannot see that he desires the
''readjustment'' of the duty on wool cloth
or clothing; nor does he very strenuously
urge their free importation. He graci-
ously claims that the manufacturers do
not ask for duty on wool. He asserts
with confidence that we are simply in
juring the wool growers and manufactllr-
ers by our system of tariff duties on wool.
II he thinks that it would be a kindness
to wool growers to remove the duty from
wool, they are yetso intellectually obtuse
that they cannot view it in that light.
Would any one suspect that Mr.. Lyman
was 1og-rolling' at ALP Why did he not
say to the committee that what the manu-
facturers want is protection on their
goods, and free, cheaper wool, so that
they can make more money and make il
faster, regardless of any one else? That
is the kernel in the nut he tried TO crack
before the committee The unselfish
feeling shown for the poor consumer and
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
NEWS AND NOTES.

Gayarre, the great tenor, who died re-
Gently, left an estate of SSOO,OOO.
Twelve thousand letters are received
daily at the pension office. There are
now pending 450, 900 pension claims.
Senator Stanford stated at San Fran
cisco on Sunday that he would resign the
Presidency of the Southern Pacific Com
pany at the annual meeting.
A Georgia editor has this notice posted
in his sanctum: strangers calling on
the editor during his absence from the
office will please leave their cards. Can
didates for the Legislature must leave
their cash."
A summer cottage built by New York
millionaire is of hemlOck logs hewn on
three sides with the bark left on the
fourth side. A veranda is constructed
on three sides of the building of hemlock
logs in the rough.
The United States Senate has decided
to hold Chicago to strict performance
of its pledges in connection with the
Worlds Fair. The cash must be pro-
duced before Chicago can have the fair.
That is business.
A plea was made to the school children
to contribute one egg each for a hospital
at Harrisburg, Pa, and the result was a
collection of 5000 eggs. ..
The unwilling of the monument erected
by Queen Victoria in memory of the late
Duke of Albany was performed on Sun
day by the Prince of Wales in the Albany
Memorial Chapel at st. Georges at
Cannes. ...t i-.'
At a New York Episcopal Church on
Easter, the women of the choir wore vest
ments for the first time.
When lovers hang over gate there is
good deal to be said on both sides be-
fore they quit.-Teras ShUtings,
The Hon. Ceancey NJ. Depew, who has
Just returned from trip through the
South, says the political generation of
the section does not lie in federal legisla-
ton. The new South believes in mines,
mills and corner lots and the develop
ment of its magnificent resources will
eventually bring a new population and a
change of old methods. The South, ac'
cording to Mr.. Depew, must work out its
own salvation. ....
A horse at Swansea, Eng, was SC
frightened by the sight of a menagerie
elephant driven along the road that he
gave a spring into the air and fell dead
The olive tree lives to great age. One
lately destroyed at Beaulieu had re-
corded age of five centuries and was 81
feet in circumference.
A mechanical clock, said to rival the
famous Strasbourg clock, the handiwork
of citizen of PittstOn, Pa, was recently
destroyed by fire in New York.
A Georgia farmer asserts that the CROW
digs hole and buries in it the corn Sc
cured in the field, holding the supply un
til necessity compels its use.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has the largest
sale of any medicine before the public
Any honest druggist will confirm this
statement.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10

U. S. Vols. April 9th, 1854; commits
stoned as Major General by Brevet A, RI
Goth, 1865, to date from October 10Th,
1864, Cedar Creek. He earned, as a sol
der, every step that his superiors &C
knowledged, as he made his mark under
their eyes. He commenced at Camp
Griffin with a determination that he
would master the intricacies of regi-
mental and brigade drill, and while many
of his brother officers carelessly passed
their time away, he studied the long win
ter evenings and unexpectedly prepared
himself for? Well, Assistant Secretary of
War.
"a true and loyal citizen, he will mas
ter the difficulties of the position to
which he has been appointed, and will
reflect credit on himself, his chief and on
both his native and adopted States. Col.
Proctor knows him well and intimately,
and knows that he is as thoroughly compe
tent as it is possible for a citizen to be,
and that whatever of hard, earnest work
there may be before him, he will &c
about it with will and that his loyalty
is unquestiOned. All soldiers of the
State who were personally acquainted
with the General will be gratified at his
selection for the position"
The Herald, editorially, adds: whats
the matter with the 9TH Vermont? Its
full cup of honor seems to be running
over Just now"
Gen. Grant is graduate of Dartmouth
| College,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
THE SWEDES.

Some of our contemporaries seem dis
posed to turn up their noses at the idea
of Swedish immigration into New. Eng
land. Nothing could be more absurd.
The Swedes are ''as good as anybody"
an industrious, moral, energetic people,
and fit companyfor the best of us. They
are the Vermonters of Europe. The
Mirror and Farmer says well that 1.-THE
Swedes are doing no small work for the
dairy. They have given us the deep cold
setting system, the milk separator and
the extractor, and they are doing practical
work in other directions. Professor Ma
thurst of the Royal Agricultural College
of Sweden has been experimenting in
feeding calves with milk from the separa-
tor, which leaves it as destitute of cream
as it well can be. He prepares it by sub
shutting for the lost cream hot water
emulsion of crushed flaxseed, in the pro-
portion of ten pounds of tiaxseed to 100
pounds of SKINNED milk, feeding it blood
warm to the calf. Ut. II. HOSkins, Watch
m0n.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10

The Free Press prints the following:
Apropos of this talk of the praoticability
of utilizing the cheap farms of New Eng
land for summer homes, writer in the
Manchester Union cites case in point.
He says: 81 have in mind case where
a noted physician of Boston did this very
thing. The farm he purchased was com
pletely run out and would not have sup
ported Chinaman, but by the outlay of
a few thousand dollars he has a delight
full place. They entertain their friends
in summer royalty, and with all this in
form me they can live more economically
and enjoy themselves infinitely better
than they can when in the city. They
take great interest in the people among
whom they are settled. With Others
they have started church and library
and are laboring hard to improve the
manners and morals of the neighbor'
hood" Doubtless there are many SINH.
lar cases in New Hampshire and Yer
mont. The summer home idea is good
one,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
THE STATE TREAsURER.

The present incumbent, the Hon. VIM.
H. Dubois of West Randolph, has held
the office of State Treasurer many years.
He has been, and is so acknowledged, an
able and efficient official, but the people
appear to think that the time has come
in which to make change. This is
shown in the growing feeling that has
now found expression in certain quarters,
and which the press of the State are be-
ginning to notice. Moreover, change
in the State Treasurership after about so
long period is one of the unwritten
laws of public policy in Vermont. In
this connection we are pleased to- learn
that the gentleman most prominently
mentioned as the successor of Mr.. Du-
Bots is the Hon. Henry F. Field, cashier
of the Rutland County National Bank, of
Rutland, whom we have known person
ally for more than thirty years. Mr..
Field possesses the qualities necessary
for that office in an eminent degree, and
will, if elected, reflect credit on the po-
sition in the long and honorable line of
Vermont State Treasurers. As such an
one the BANNER cordially commends the
candidacy of Mr.. Field to the Republi-
cans of the State.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10

The discussion of the public school
question appears to be settling down to
more rational and candid consideration
of this vexed problem than at first char
acterized it; and there are indications
that the day may not be far distant when
all serious controversy will be removed
by the adoption of fair methods born of
tolerance and proper conception of the
true province of education.
Rev. MinOt j. Savage, in an able paper
on this subject contributed to the Arena,
points out that the one great concern of
the Republican State is that each citi-
zen shall be self supporting, not public
burden; shall be sufficiently taught to be
able to vote intelligently, not endangering
the State by ignorance; shall be trained
to a knowledge of the fundamental prin-
ciples of right or wrong, so that II he vio-
lates his special duties, he shall not be
able to plead that he knew no better. 1t
is not essential to the State that the
school should do the work of the nursery.
1t is not the business of the State to fit a
boy for profession, which is only his
private way of earning money. Iwould,
therefore, have the public schools, which
are supported by public money, rigidly
confined to the teaching of those things
which concern the stability and prosper
ity of the State. II there is to be pub
lie school at all, fitness for self support
and for casting an intelligent ballot will
command general consent as points to be
aimed at. The one that will be disputed
is that which proposes the teaching of
the fundamental principles of morals.
Most extreme religionists have been ac-
customed to claim that the incubation
of their special dogmas was absolutely
essential. This has been the strength of
all priesthoods in all ages. 1t is matter
of prestige and power. Cupidity and
ambition are bound up with it."-Rut-
land Herald.
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The Banner.
BENNINGTON. VERMONT /:
Thursday Afternoon, April 10, 1890.
FOR WHOSE BENEFIT?

The Burlington Free Press, weekly, is
being offered in all parts of the state for
the campaign without money and with
out price, so the story goes; and at
any rate the papers are numerous every
where. Our enterprising contemporary
is rich and can afford this, perhaps,
whether to help the selectmen to pure
liquors or to accomplish other purposes;
but the terms seem to be rather hard for
the struggling country newspaper to
compete with.-WoodStock Standard.
While we do not care to say that the pub
Usher of the Free Press is going into the
undertaking business, we feel sure that
he Woodbury. every person to whom he
sends sample copy if it were possible,
even if he had to sacrifice every Page fol-
the purpose.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
WHY TROUT ARE PLENTY.

A good many big stories have been
told on the streets within the last few
days, since the trout law went off, and
the peculiar thing about them has been
that they were apt to be well founded on
fact. In other words, the trout season
has opened very auspiciously, and this is
true not only of the brooks about New
Haven, but of those all through the state.
Long strings are reported everywhere,
and the question is, what is the reason for
it? 1t cannot be explained altogether by
the fact that the honest anglers of the
state, under the leadership of the Con-
necticut Association of Farmers and
Sportsmen, for the Protection of Game
and Fish, have done such good work the
past year in keeping the trout undisturb-
ed between July |, and April /, and in
preventing illegal methods of capturing
them. This splendid service continued
through several seasons will inevitably
produce the most happy results. But
trout are not Matched and developed into
full size in single year, so that for this
seasons plenty of che speckled beauty
some further reason must be found. And
this reason is undoubtedly the liberal
stocking of the brooks that has been
going on of late under the direction of
the fish commissioners, DR.. Hudson, of
the commission, thus commented on the
matter this morning: ...-.........--,
"There is no doubt felt up our way as
to what is the reason for this abundance
of trout-and the fish are certainly very
abundant all through the state. The
stock of the brooks are beginning to bear
fruit. For the past four or five years the
commission has been placing 100000
small trout annually through the differ
ent brooks of the state, The report of
the commission shows just where these
trout are placed every year. Connecti-
cut has as fine trout brooks as any section
of the country and they are now filling
up well with trout"
DR.. Hudson spoke in terms OF. warm
commentator of the work of the Con
necticut Association. of Farmers and
Sportsmen for the Protection of Game
and Fish. He thought that excellent
work had been accomplished by it this
year in the enforcement of the trout law.
-,-NeW Hdren Register.
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NEW ENGLAND A GREAT WHET-
STONE .,. .,

Besides, even if for time New Eng
land should be deserted, it would be
nothing new. She has often had these
attacks before and recovered. Prof.
Hosford tells us that the Norsemen from
Iceland came to Massachusetts in the
year 1000, stayed 800 years or so, and re-
turned home discouraged by the inhos-
pitality of the climate. Then the Bretons
came, and damned the Charles river, and
fished, and made settlements and ADAM
doned them. And when the Pilgrims
landed, they discovered, you remember,
that the very Indians had just gone west
1t is no new thing for New. England to
be deserted. That austere section is one
of the worlds great whetstones, and its
use is to put an edge on mems wits.
When wits have been sufficiently sharp
ened by it, they have always been able to
bring about migration in the interests
of the stomach. No people has ever
spent three centuries there without get
ting smart enough to move. Let our
lazy, idle, rich flock in there, that their
descendants may grow poor, industrious,
shrew, and get rich again in due time
Life,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
EsTATE OF JAMES BIGART.
GUARDIAN NOTICE TO SELL real
ESTATE.

GUARDIAN NOTICE TO SELL REAL
ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT. l..
District OF Bennington,
In Probate Court, held at the Probate ONCE
IN Bennington, within and for said dis
trict, on the 9th day Of April. A. d. 1890.
Present, Edward L. sibley, Judge.
Mason Knapp, guardian OF David Crawford q
minor Of Woodford, in said district, makes ap-
plication to said court for license to sell the fol-
lowing described real estate OF his sale ward to wit
A certain parcel Of land situate In Woodford
bounded north by lands Of F. n. Squire, east by
lands OF l.. N. Evans Co, south by the highway
and west by lands OF said Squire, representing
thai the sale thereof, for the purpose OF putting
Inc proceeds Of such saleAt interest or investing
The same in siscks or real estate, would be bene
hcial TO said ward.
Wherenpon, It is ordered by said Court, that
said application be referred TO session thereof,
10 be held at the Probate ONCE In Bennington,
in said district, on the 10th day Of April. A. ID
1890 for hearing and decision thereon and,
Il IL further ordered that all persons interested,
be notified hereof, by publication Of notice Uf said
application and order thereon, three weeks success.
slyely IN the Bennington BANNER, before said
time Of hearing, that they may appear At said time
and place, and, II they see cause, object thereto,
Attest, Ell sfBLEY, Judge.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
WHY SECTIONAL OR PARTISAN ?

The Journal asks this question and re-
marks: at strikes us that it is some
what unguarded and injudicious on the
part of Southern Democratic Congress
men to complain that the Lodge election
bill is a sectional measure. Where is
the sectionalism in the billP 1t does not
name any State or section. 1t is as ap-
plicable to Massachusetts as to Missis-
sippi. The methods for which it pro-
vides become operative in @ny Congress
sional District in any State upon the
petition of 500 voters. The petitioners,
It is to be supposed, will be moved to ask
the application of the law by an appre-
hension of fraud, if the election is con-
Quoted under ordinary methods. Is
fraud sectional? Is it only i'll Southern
Congressional Districts that such well
grounded anticipations of fraud are like
" to exist as will prompt 500 voters to
petition for protection against them?
That indeed may be the case, but we
should hardly expect to find the South
ern Congressman virtually admitting the
fact by loudly proclaiming that the bill
is sectional, and aimed against the
South. If bill were proposed enacting
more rigorous penalties against theft, for
example, it would be rather an extraor-
binary display of candor if any person
were to arise and noisily complain that
the bill was aimed at him. In like man.
ner, the vehement indignation which the
Southern Democrats display whenever
anything is suggested to check election
frauds, seems to carry with it confess
sion that they are guilty of such frauds,
and are apprehensive of falling under the
penalties of the new legislation.
"The Democrats, it seems to us, are
also iniudiciously candid when they de-
clare that such bill as the Lodge bill is
partisan Is a pure ballot partisan"
Is an effort to secure to every man the
right to vote without mOlestatiOn and to
have his vote honestly counted 'parti-
san?' If it is asserted that to desire any
plan for honest elections is Republican
craftsmanship; what is this but the same
as admitting that Democratic partisan
ship finds its interest in tainted ballot
and in dishonest elections? From first to
last, there is not line in the Lodge bill
which favors one party at the expense of
the other-that is, of course, assuming
that both parties are honest. Provision
is made at every point for equal repre-
sensations of the parties i'll the election
boards, and for an equal share in super
vision and control. In most of the South
ern States the entire control of the cleo
tive machinery is in the hands of one
party, and every official who has any
thing to do with an election is a Demo
crat. 1t is extraordinary that men who
have fashioned such machinery as that,
and who owe their political power to its
manipulation and control, should have
the audacity to cry out against partisan
ship of measure of which gives to both
parties an absolutely equal chance. The
Democratic Congressman should restrain
themselves. They are making an incon.
venient and rather ridiculous exposure
of the secrets of their party success"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10

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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
AaaIninnt SECRETARY Grant

The new Office of Assistant Secretary
of War having been awarded to Gen.
Lewis A. Grant, by President Harrison.
A correspondent of the Rutland Herald
writes to that paper, as follows:
'Brevet Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Grant of
Minneapolis, Mimi, the new appoint
ment Of President Harrison, as Assistant
Secretary of War, like Secretary of War
Proctor, was an officer of the Fifth Regi-
ment of Vermont Infantry Volunteers
during the late war. All of the soldiers
of the Old Brigade will agree that the APP
pointment is most excellent. General
Grant was thorough soldier, and at the
close of the war was offered commits
sion as Colonel in the Regular Army, his
choice in calvary or infantry. He entered
the service as Major of the 9Th Infantry,
August 18th, 1861; commissioned Lieut..
Col. September 25th, 1851; Col, Septem-
Der 10th, 1862; appointed Brig. Gen. of
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-10
STATE NEWS.

An exchange says Vermont man of
an economical turn of mind drew up
somes valuable papers with homemade
ink, some years ago, and now finds. him
self $1,000 out of pocket, as his DOCUMENTS
are now nothing but blank paper,
The Vermonters In Minneapolis have
had meeting and appointed a commit
tee consisting of l.. A. Grant, c. II. Ben
ton, A. G. Belden, J. C. Griffin and b. L.
Perry, to confer with st. Paul people in
terested to form an organization of
Sons of Vermont.