The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

Persia has the cholera, and the Lon
don Lancet predicts that it will visit
Europe next spring. This woul1 be
worse than to, have the Shah himself
come again. Il
The Detroit Journal desires to receive
by postal card the addresses Of all living
male and female descendants Of Revolu
tionary officers and soldiers of 1776, and,
when possible, the name and state of
ancestors.
1t is said that the Pope has become an
ardent newspaper reader, and devotes
his evenings to the perusai of the news
papers Of different nations. This is a
wise prOcee ding, for in no other way
can he keep so, well in touch with the
movements of theday.
The nav private car OF the, President
Of the Wagner Car Company will be out
on the fret of the next month. He will
then take a trip over the lines they oper-
ate. The car cost $50, 900, and eclipses
any car of this character that has yet
been built.
The English locomotive cost some
thing over $4,000. at a low rate for
labor, while our own for harder services
scarcely reaches $4,000 1t is doubtful il
the additional $4,000 is warranted by the
increased durability of the English en-
CINE.
There are apprehensions of storm at
the coming session of the Canadian Par
lament. Race and creed prejudices are
developing rapidly in the Dominion and
there are evidences that the political d.
visions will soon be on lines Of creed
and race.
DR.. w. Seward Webb emphatically
denies the recently circulated report
that he is to be the new president of the
Fitchburg road. He says that he is at Il
loss to understand how the story gained
circulation. ..
Autotypes machines have just been
served cut for the fret time TO some oi
the copying clerks at the Vatican; tn
they are only to be used for rough proof
work to be done in hurry. The Pope
is not in favor of the innovation, for he
fears that it will break up the admirable
school of penmanship which has so long
hourished at the Vaticanl
Prominent Epglish citizens Of Mon
tresl claim that the English speaking
population of that city is not diminish
ing, but on the contrary is increasing
and holding its own with the French
1t is rumored that linen who are about
to pull up stakes don't purchase the
most valuable lots. or build the mos
costly up. town residences, as the Eng
lush people of Montreal are doing"
Bishop Newman is earnestly advocat'
ing the unification of Methodism. In
closing a recent article he says: "Give
us such Methodism, unified in an ecu
menical conference, and the gate OF he'll
shall not prevail against her." Is the
Bishop fearful Of the prevalence of those
gates if such uniication be not accom-
plished?
"A dreadful Rumor-A.-I heard
that Congress is to be done away with
B.-Nonsense.
A.-No nonsense about it. A reliable
gentleman told me that hereafter Con
gressmen woul be obi ged to pass exami
nation by Civil Service Commission in
English grammar and spelling before
they would be allowed to take theiI
seats.-1ends SiftingS.
1t turns out that the real reason why
the colored men refrained from voting
ut the late municipal election in jackson
NJ 1885,, was an announcement when they
presented them selves a the polls that
the Democrats meant to have "a peace
able election" The colored people knew
from painful experience what such an
announcement meant, and discreetly
kept out of reach of the Democratic
bowie knives and shotguns,
The latest and most unique invention
is a machine for buttering bread. 1t Is
used in connection with great patent
bread cutter. and is intended for use in
prisons, warehouses and other reforma-
tory institutions. There is cylinderi.
cal!shaped brush which is fed with but.
as il comes from the cutter. The ma
chine can be worked by hand, steam q
electricity, and has capacity Of cutting
and butterIng $50 loaves of bread an
hour. The saving of butter and Of bread
and the decrease in the quantity of
crumbs which is said to be very large.
Honoring Jefferson Davis cost the
Southern Society of New York city two
of its most prominent members and Off
cials. Vice President William P. St.
John and George Rutledge Gibson, a
member of the executive committee,
have both Withdrawn and others are
likely to follow suit. They do not pro-
pose to belong TO any organization which
goes out of its way to hononr an arch
traitor.
According to Mr.. Stead's letters from
Rome in the Pail Mall Gazette Pope Leo
XIII. is fully abreast of the radical re-
formers in the labor field. Mr.. Stead
affirms that the Pope is vigorously push
ing the organization of Catholic trades
unions, having aims identical with
those sought by the general trades
unions. The Holy Father would short
en- the hours Of labor. so as to give the
wOrkmen time to educate themselves,
and he would fix by law and custom
the seventh day for rest. On the CONT
nent of Europe Sunday labor is much
more common than it Is in Great
Britain or America. Thoseiin the Pope e
counsels told Mr. Stead that he wou d
gladly cooperate with Protestants of all
scots, and even with representatives of
atheisiical and revolutionary societies in
enforcing the workingmeh's release
from lsbor on Sunday. In brief, the
programmes of the various Socialistic
mer, formed for the amelioration OF the
masses, will be observed, to be fol-
lowed with striking accuracy by the
programme the Pope has laid down.
Thursday evening Judge Thomas NJ.
Cooley of Ann Arbor. Mich, Chairman
Of the Interstate Commerce Commission
was sitting reading in his library, when
his negro cOachman, armed with a
double baTreled shotgun, entered. The
Judge was satisfied from his appearance
that he had become insane, but betray
ing no alarm he asked him what was the
matter. The negro replied that he had
decided to kill the whole family, as
they talked too much. and left him no
time to think. The judge betrayed no
alarm and told him that he agreed with
him, and that he would attend to it.
By the use of consummate tact the judge
succeeded in modifying the madmsn
until he at last laid down his gun and,
at the judges suggestion, left the room.
As soon as he was out of hearing the
judge ttlephoned to neighhors, and in a
short time deputy sheriff placed the
coachman under arrest. Doubtless a
frightful tragedy was averted by the
nerve and GOODNESS which the distin-
guished jurIst exhibited.
The following interesting sketch of
old times is by DR., E G. Pyrum Perry |:
-Chuch going in Maine, thirty years
ago, Us, Vermont, sixty years ago. ]
confine my story TO the habits of the
people W no went 10 the l. d meetir e. house
in Oxford county. The aged women
wore calico gowns, with fancy aprons
of bl ick alpaca trimmed with bands of
black velvet, and the poke bonnets, an
those of means wore long black lace
wells heavily embi o'dGred, and black