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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-27
A Suggestion 10 Tnxpa,ers.

Mr.. Editorials the listers will soon APP
praise the real estate in Bennington en-
close the following copy of an old paper,
recently received from Dea. II. IL. Har-
wood. | notice in the Town Report that
the listers, for their services of one hun
dred and forty-days in 1880, were paid
two hundred and ninety dollars, equal to
the services of one man for six months.
The question of economy is answered by
the old paper, which compels the tax
payers to furnish the lister or assessor a
statement of his property, thereby Obvi-
ating the necessity of the listers travers-
ing the whole township to obtain the
same information which the taxpayer
could furnish without any cost to him
self Would not a penalty of one dollar
for its omission induce resident tax
payers to furnish the town clerk, or
other proper person on or before Speci-
fled day statement of their property.
thus saving the towns in the State thou
sands of dollars annually expended in OBJ
tanning this information. r..
The letter referred to is as follows:
To M Benjamin HdricOOd-SIR: By
virtue of the act of Congress of the Uni
ted States, passed the 9th of July, 1898,
entitled IAN act to provide for the valua-
ton of land and dwelling houses and the
enumeration of slaves within the United
States" you are hereby requested to pre-
sent to me, within ten days of the date
hereof, a list or lists of all lands, dwell
ing houses, out houses, and other build
ings occupied, superintendent or owned
by you within the United States, on the
first day of October, l70S. Hereof fail
not under the penalty of the law.
n. B.-The list must contain the num-
Der of acres in the farm or lot, specifying
the quantity of improved land and wood
land, and the right or division to which
it belongs; the height and dimensions of
the house; and the number and bigneSS
of the windows; and the dimensions of
the out houses, in order that they may
be justly valued. You are requested to
be attentive to the business of giving in
your list agreeably to this notice, as the
penalty for neglect is one hundred dol
lars
Given under my hand at Bennington, Dec.
3rd. l79S, in subdivision No. 2, in
assessment district No. /, 2nd division,
State of Vermont
JOSEPH Stafford,
Assistant Assessor.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

What would you think of a man who
came to see you every morning, about
breakfast time, and RECALLED your wife and
children while taking supplemental cup
of your excellent coffee, madam, with
dirty scandal, suggestive stories and de
tails of all the nasty crime of the day
preceding? He would be considered an
offensive gossip, wouldn't he? And you
would boot him out of the house after he
had done it about four times, wouldn' t
you? What's the difference between a
gossip of tongue and gossip of print?
I-HOWdrd, in ". y. Press.
Mrs. jefferson Davis, since the death
of the late Confederate chieftain, signs
her name w. Jefferson Davis after a
fashion in Louisiana and elsewhere in
the South, by which the French ceure
Widow is abbreviated to w." and
placed before the name of deceased
husband.
Rev. Sam Small, the noted Evangelist,
by the invitation of Rev. III. L. MOnro,
rector of st. Johns Church, East Boston,
will commence series of services in his
church, April 9Th, and continue them
until the 18th. In June Mr.. Small will
take orders in the Episcopal Church.
Having recruited his health, he proposes
to resume his laborS with increased ear
neStnesS.
Bismarck declines to be a Duke. 1t
has been more than suspected that the
great organizer of an Empire sees the
shadow of the coming German Republic.
The pastor of a church in upper New
York, whose hearers are among the rich
est i'm TOWN but are nippardlV in Their
contributions, has been trying to induce
poor people to come to his church, and
recently, through the columns of the
local papers, extended to them cordial
invitation to attend. Last Sunday at the
close of the service he said Brethren,
have tried to reach the poor of our town
and induce them to come to our church
and break with us the bread of life.
infer from the amount of the collection
just taken-S7.35-tha they have come. "
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-27
ROu;l1 SlluiIsbuFY.

Albert Percy moves to the Alonzo Taf
place.
Next Sunday will be the last quarterly
conference meeting of this year.
Ed. Way of Manchester has been spend
ing a few days at l.. W. Coles.
A fine horse belonging to Clark Ston,
was stolen Saturday night with carriage
harness, robes and whip.
There are to be three or four new
houses put up here this spring.
About 100 car loads of ice passed ovel
this road on Sunday.
VIM. Caswell is about to move to No
Bennington. He had an auction Tues
lay.
Hugh Dunlap will soon move to Ben
nington, where he has engaged to work
in the creamery.
Miss Mary Mmroe has accepted posi-
ton as telegraph operator at the Shafts
bury station for the present.
School will begin on Monday next
Mrs. Charles Briggs and Miss Clara Bot
tom will be the teachers.
Jesse Spencer has removed to Albany,
renting MS pldCc W lilS pl"'Iol iii-i'"'
Mr.. Mitchell.
The Christiun Endeavor society socia-
BILE last Friday was n very enjoyable af-
tair, it being the first one held by this
society. 1t is to be hoped that Others
will follow in due course of time.
The workers" of the Methodist
church will meet with Mrs. c. F. Hast
ings on Friday afternoon, April 18th, and
in the evening there will be box socia.
BILE at the same place. A large attend
dnce is particularly desired.
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chenp E,cursIon to W. abingdon.

The Fitchburg Railroad has arranged
for popular excursion to Washington
City. on Thursday April 18th. A better
time for visit to the National Capital
could not be selected, as Congress will be
in session. and the galleries of the United
States Senate and House of Representa-
tives will be open to visitors, as well as
the public buildings. The Capitol build
ing is the most magnificent public edifice
in the world. The other public build
ings are on a grand scale, and can all be
visited. The Department of Agriculture.
with its extensive greenhouse: museums
of everything connected with agricul-
tural methods and products; the Smith
sonian Institute known as the National
Museum of Natural History, and contain
ing the Governments Centennial EX-
hibits, donations from foreign govern
ments, and an endless collection of curl
osities; the Botanical Gardens, which
consists of a series of vast Conservatives
filed with rare and curious plants, flow
ers and fruits, the CorcoTan Art Gallery,
containing a magnificent collection of
paintings, statuary and art objects; the
Washington Monument. which is the
loftiest and finest in the world; the Sol
diers' Home, surrounded by a beautiful
park; and the many other public build
ings and private residences, combine to
make a visit to Washington instructive,
interesting and memorable.
Stop-over at Baltimore and Philadel-
phia will be allowed on the return Jour
ney within limit of tickets.
Excursion tickets at the uniform rate
of $40. will be sale at all stations on
Western Division. Tickets will be good
only on train leaving Bennington at
1910 p. m, Thursday April 18th, 1890.
Apply to nearest agent of the Fitch
burg RaildVad foy further information.
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Military and GRIND Army

Commander-in-C Chief Alger of the Ma
tional Department of the Grand Army is
making arrangements for full attend,
ance off his staff at the encampment to he
held in Boston in August next.
During the week of the encampment
Gettysburg Post will give banquet in
Faneuil hall, and John A.Andrew Post has
also secured the hall for the same pur'
pose. -,
The Department of California will pre-
sent to the National Encampment at Bos,
ton the name of Col. W. Il. Smedberg OF
that State for cOmmander-in-chief. Col.
Smedberg enlisted April 18th, 1861. lie
lost a leg in the Wilderness. Suisse
quently he received an appointment in
the regular army, and in December, 1870,
was placed on the retired list. He has
since been active in Grand Army work in
California. serving as department com
mander in lSSO.-BOSton journal.
So it seems that Col. Veazcy is to have
an opponent.
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WAGES AND COsrUF PRODUCTION

Chief Wadlin of the Massachusetts
Bureau of Statistics of Labor continues
his valuable investigations into the eco
nomic conditions of the Commonwealth
in volume which appears to-day on the
relation of wages to the cost of prOduc-
ton. From this volume it appears that
in industries representing some 70 per
cent of the total manufacting products
of the State, the average wage cost is
above 90 per cent of the total cost of
production, and that in industries repre-
senting some p per cent. of the total
product the wage cost is above 1898 per
cent. of the cost of production. In spite,
therefore, of all our improved modern
machinery, the cost of labor continues
an important factor in Massachusetts,
manufacturing-a larger factor than
some of the individuals who argue for
the abolition of the protective tariff
would have been willing to admit. I'm
der free trade the Massachusetts manu-
facturer, who pays for labor one-fourth
One-third or one-half of the total value of
his product, would be liable to find him
self seriously handicapped in competi-
ton with his British rival, whose labor
cost is only a little more than half as
much. These statistics of Mr.. Wadlin
are on an original line, and his facts and
conclusions will be appreciated by stu
dents of industrial questions everywhere
Boston journal.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-27

The training teachers who have at
tended the Graded school during the
winter term. finished their work here
last Friday. Their period of school
work was really much less than a term,
as it was interrupted by the teachers in
stitute, by the supervisors examinations
and by the illness of the superintendent.
The time devoted to school work was
less than seven weeks, and by far the
greater part of this time was devoted to
the details of primary and kindergarten
work and to methods of teaching and in
these directions the class accomplished a
great deal.
Sufficient time was found to train them
in the principles of clay modelling,
building with blocks, in the use of pegs
and tiles for number work and design, in
perforating. intcrlacimg. embroidery,
geometrical building with sticks and
peas paper cutting, mat-weaving, tablet
laying, and in the elementary principles
of free-hand, mechanical and perspective
drawing, and in their application to dec
orative and constructive design. In these
latter an effort was made to fix thor
oughly few essentials, rather than to
cover much ground specifically.
In addition to this the teachers studied
phonics, as applied to primary reading,
the CRUDE method in arithmetic, repro
duction work, etc. At the same time
they picked up considerable information
in the common English branches and
civil government, but none of these
branches were taken as regular study
through the term, except civil govern
ment.
The young ladies expressed themselves
as greatly obligated to Miss Collins, Miss
Norton, Miss Rogers, Miss Walbridge,
Miss White and Miss Whitney, from each
of whom they received more or less
assistance and instruction.
At the close of the last exercise the
class presented Superintendent Davis u
beautiful gold pen and pencil with a gold
pencil case.
The members expressed themselves
as more than pleased with the amount
and character of the work done here, for
they realize that they have not only
learned new and advanced methods of
teaching, but they are confident that this
knowledge is to give them higher rank
among teachers.
Any community will he fortunate to
secure the services of any one of ma
jority of this class. and if they secure posi-
tions we predict that some of these
teachers will be heard from.
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Golden wedding.

The 50th anniversary of the marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. jerry Bugbee, was duly
celebrated at the family residence, north
of this village, last evening. On the 10Th
day of March 1910, they were married
and have resided here, being reckoned
among oul most respected people. The
gathering consisted principally of family
relatives: Mr.. and Mrs. Richard NJ.
HougltOn, and daughter Ella; Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin S. Stratton; Fred Bugbee
and sister Miss George Bugbee, a brother
of Mr.. Bugbee, John Bugbee and family
of WOOdfOrd, and others.
The happy couple were the recipients
of gold coin, gold-bOwed spectacles, and
other appropriate gifts. The occasion
was one of much joy, hearty congratula-
tons were extended and the promise of
the Diamond Anniversary hoped for
These occasions come to so few of us that
none should be passed without due obser-
vance. The BANNER extends cordial
good wishes.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-27

Under date of March Goth, Commits
sioner Valentine will issue to the listers
of every town in the State blanks to be
filled out giving statistics relating to
manufactures, quarries, mines and the
dairy. The Vermont press have been
very generous of their space i'll helping
Mai. Valentine carry out his plans to
build up the State. Now if the listers
will be as generous of their time much
good will be accomplished. Why not all
lend hand?-Cdledonid
"A Vermonter who has been travel
ing in Florida makes out this list of dis
advantages of the Southern country,
which the Newport Express publishes: :
'The innumerable fleas, the lack of good
water, the intense heat, the absence of
rain. No milk to be had except the con
densed kind; no ice; very little fresh
meat: razor-backed hogs in great profu-
sion; table legs set in cups of water to
keep the ants from climbing up; general
shiftlessness of the native inhabitants"
Mr.. Asa Taft of White River June
ton died on Tuesday of last week, aged
rs years. He was one of the Stewards of
the Grand Lodge of Masons. The funer-
al services were conducted at the church
and the Masonic service was conducted
by the Grand Master and Grand Chap
lain. Mr.. Taft was for many years a
member of United Brethren Lodge, which
attended in body and numbered with
members from adjoining lodges, $50
men, all under escort of Vermont Com
mandery, X. r. No. of Windsor, 80 men,
Marsh o. Perkins commanding. The
Masonic service was very impressive, at
tended as they were by the Windsor cor
net band and a large number of friends
and neighbors of the deceased.
Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr, who has gained
considerable reputation as writer of
verse and prose, is native of South
Carolina, though generally supposed to
be a New Highlander. She is such by
adoption, having lived at Rutland ever
since her marriage, forty-threc years ago.
She began by writing stories, as so many
of her sex have done, having been
tempted into the field by prize of 500
for the best short tale for newspaper,
which prize she secured. Her husband
is said TO be responsible for her poetry,
having sent, years and years ago, bit of
verse of hers 10 magazine, unknown to
her. 1t was accepted, with request for
further contributions of a similar sort.
Now 65-women of that age are no
longer sensitive on this point-she has,
despite her inky tendencies, always been
completely domestic in her tastes and
habits.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-27

The Dining Cars just completed for the
Great Rock Island Route, not only en-
body all the latest improvements in gen
eral use, but especial and distinctive fea-
lures of excellence, which render them
unapproachably superior to ordinary din
ing cars. They viii be placed on the
Rock Island Route west of the Missouri
River on and after March 23d, 1890, and
will impart the browning grace of perfec-
ton to its Solid Vestibule Express
Trains, giving that road continuous
Through Dining Car Service between
Chicago and Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo. The Rock Island is the only
line that runs two Vestibule Express
Trains every afternoon from Chicago to
Denver. 1t is not only the Fast line, but
it is also the most completely equipped
of all the Colorado roads, with elegant
Day Coaches, Pullman Sleepers, Free Re-
clining Chair Cars, and the finest Dining
Cars in the world
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JOSEPH Stafford,
Assistant Assessor


NUMBER |.
Dedr Editor When / left Bennington
in 1885 partly promised some articles,
now and then, upon Florida. But one of
the first things [ learned upon reaching
the Flowery State was that Florida had
been written mp and written dozen by
plenty of people so ignorant of it that
they either exalted it to heaven or thrust
it down to hell, according to their state
of health, fancy, financial success, friend
ships or political preferences And de-
termined not to become one more of a
long line of ciphers on the wrong side of
the significant figure in settling the true
value of this important State.
Therefore | have waited until myself
and family have visited p counties of
the State, several of them many times,
and have become acquainted with many
of its people, industries, resources, varia-
tons of climate, soil, timber, fruit, edu-
cational and religious advantages. and
now if the readers of the BANNER desire
1t, can give them a few facts, figures
and fances of flowers, fruits, fields and
folks in Florida.
To start with, Florida is neither par
disc nor perditiOn. 1t is of the earth,
earthly 1t has some of the finest loca-
tons for health, beauty, comfort, pleas
ure to be found anywhere. On the other
hand, some places have been doomed
by bad men, for bad purposes, and of
course with bad results. But honest
growth for honest purposes will secure
honest results throughout the State.
Anybody who cannot be satisfied with
Florida as to climate, healthfulness,
fruits, water and air somewhere from
Jacksonville to Key West, must he eX-
ceedingly hard to suit. 1t is the grand
est and most perfect sanatarium in the
world. Thousands of invalids come
here every year to find health, comfort
and courage. | believe the death rate
(outside of the yellow fever, which was
an invader) is lower than any other state
in the Union. In four years pastoral
work. embracing part of three counties,
never buried member of my church,
nor in the families of my church. The
summers are long but not excessively
hot. | never saw the thermometer
above OF there, nor night when it was
not cool enough for some covering to
sleep well. Truly,
L. C. PARTRIDGE.
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POwnal

A large number of our neighborS arc
suffering from throat and lung troubles,
James Doyle sells his farming and
dairy untensils at auction on Saturday
next, he proposing to enter other bust
ness.
An amateur drama of nine male char
acters is in preparation and will be pre-
scented at the Methodist parlors soon.
At the spelling contest of the schools
on last Friday, Lawrence Ladd was the
victor. A vacation is being held for a
few days.
A quantity of real estate will he dis,
posed of ut her residence by Mrs. Kim
ball, administrators of Benjamin Kim
balls estate.
Court was adjourned in the case OF
Potter vs.. Thompson until Monday, one
of the referees, d. f. Bates, being neces,
sarily absent at the funeral of Frank
Bates of WilliamStOwn.
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Vermont Able to sustain 1 900, 900 People.

The emigration from Vermont to the
West is gradually to decrease. The State
has within itself all the material condi-
tons of prosperity. 1t is land of hills
and valleys, of springs and streams. It
has fertile soil and climate that in
sures good crops. With the advance of
science better methods for tilling the
soil are introduced and, notwithstanding
the Western competition, the most intel
ligent farmers are making their farms
more productive and demonstrating the
fact that farming pays in Vermont as
surely as it does in the West. In her
mountains and beneath her soil she has
exhaustless quarries of slate, lime, mar
Bile, granite, serpentine and soap-stone
which hardly yet have begun to be
worked. Wealth is stored up in her soil
and stones which only awaits the hand
of enterprise and patient labor to yield a
steady and sure return. Vermont
through hbf agricultural prOdpts end
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Vermont soldiers Home.

Gen. William w. Averill. the we'll
known cavalry officer during the Rebel
lion, Assistant Inspector of National Mil
itary Homes for D. V. S. since the act of
Congress giving aid to State Soldiers
Homes, having been detailed also to
inspect the State Homes, makes the fol-
lowing reportof the Soldiers Home in
Vermont at Bennington, in a printed
pamphlet that has just come to hand
There has been steady improvement
with marked results in this Home since
my last inspection, but the great and
urgent need, hospital, has not been
supplied. Its construction was to be
considered at the next meeting of the
Board of Trustees. A one-stOry pavilion
for 20 beds and service room would be
sufficient. No Legislature has met since
last inspection and therefore there has
been no change in appropriations.
The economy is very rigid. There is
apparently no waste whatever. The
clothing of the members is mended by
using up old clothing; each man has two
suits. The dormitOries are rooms hold
ing generally two members and are COM
hA'l tNNli NlNEdlllN lHlNllth.
The large and well managed farm adds to
the comforts of this Home, not the least
of which is an opportunity for the mem
bers to work.
The average age of the members was
fifty-nine years and eleven months, and
the average age of those who had died
sixty-six years. There was no insane,
but two partially demcnted. The cost of
medical supplies per annum S400.
Record and account books i'll use were
complete.
The advanced age of the members of
the Home should admonish its manage
ment of the imperative necessity of a
hospital. The presence of the sick in
the same building with the well is a dis
comfort to both and interferes with their
welfare seriously. 1t may at any time
become a serious menace to the health
of all its members.
A larger laundry is also needed and
with the unequalled water power fur
nished in the supply of the Home, it
should be easily and economically estab-
lished.
NOTES.
The report of this Home ending March
10, showed Ga present; two have been
absent with leave since that date and
four have been discharged at their own
request for self-support, leaving at this
date membership of 81. Joseph Robin
son, Co. d, 9th VT, while in fit of in
sanity badly mutilated himself with a
knife and is fast falling being now so
that it would be impossible to take him
to the asylum.
William Bridges Co. |, 18th Vt, and
Oscar Head, 9th n. H., are in the .hospi-
tai. -
Uhusies Barton, Co, y, Let VT CdVWlEy,
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Special Announcement.

We have made arrangements with DR..
b. J. Kendall Co., publishers of "A
Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases, ="
which will enable all our subscribers to
obtain copy of that valuable work free
by sending their address enclosing two
cent stamp for mailing same) to DR.. b. J.
Kendall Co., Enosburgh Falls, Vt. This
book is now recognized as standard au-
thority upon all diseases of the horse, as
its phenomenal sale attests, over four
million copies having been sold in the
past ten years,a sale never before reached
by any publication in the same length of
time. We feel confident that our pa
irons will appreciate the work, and be
glad to avail themselves of this opportu-
nifty of obtaining a valuable book.
1t is necessary that you mention this
paper in sending for the Treatise" This
offer will remain open for only a short
time. Stl0