The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-20
STATE NEWS.

Among the towns making appropria-
tons for Memorial day are the follow
ing: St. JOhnsbury $50, Bennington,
Bellows Falls, Hartford and St. Adams,
500 each; Barre S65, Bethel, Mont
pelier, Fair Haven, Brandon. Man
chester, Bratteboro, Island Pond $50
each; Ludlow $40; Richmond. Essex,
Milton, Cambridge, Fairfax, Franklin,
Wolcott, Stowe, Hinesburgh, Under
hill, Putney, Morrisville, Hardwick,
Richford, Swanton, Wilmington, Lyn-
don, Thetford, S25 each. Burlington
always appropriates 800.
Mrs. Eva H. Hoyt, formerly of Will
mington, Brattleboro and Woodford,
was married Thursday evening, Feb.
81, to Mr.. Thomas Mallory at Jackson
vile, Florida, by the Rev. S d. Paine,
at the parsonage of the Ocean Street
Presbyterian church. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mallory are both from Vermont.
Rev Alfred j. Hough. whose poem
THE Modern Crusade" attracted so
Endeavor Convention in Rutland last
October, has accepted an invitation
from Rev Francis L. Clark, president
of the National Y. p S. c. E., to COM
pose and deliver a poem before the
ninth annual national convention at St.
Louis, Mo-, about the middle of June.
Bro Hough is the Poet Laureate of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Yer
mont.
II is TO Senator Edmunds's credit that
he has taken no stock in the movement
in the senate to punish the wicked
newspaper men. He is about the only
member of that august body who has
never been guilty of giving away its ex-
ecutive secrets. 1t is this fact that
gives point to his suggestion that the
members and officers of the sena G
purge themselves of suspicion of com
pllcitv in the revelations of the past
and drop the subject right there Mr.
Edmunds is one of the few senators who
haven't lost their heads. Boston Her
aid
An admirer of Senator Evarts in In.
dia sent him a sacred COW from Bur.
NAH several years ago, which the states
man sent to his farm at Windsor.
Here he spiritual animal had lived out
of her existence in the barn-yard so.
ciety of the other cattle, until recently
when even her sacredness did moi
save her from the butcher. There was
great demand among Windsor people
for sacred beef, but they say it was not
unusual, as the meat resembles that of
the Jersey cow, the flesh being very
dark red and the fat, dark yellow.
Boston papers announce the death in
Hubbardton. Mass, Friday, of Mrs
Mary Warehouse johnson, aged l0l
years, % days. She was native oil
Salisbury, Chittenden county. Her hus-
band died 10 years ago, after married
life of 81 ears.
Boston is con ceded to be a we'll po-
Iced city and most classes of criminals
are caught and served up with dispatch,
but the Boston Record which is in a
pretty good position to know, says that
'the manner in which the wholesale
disregard of the liquor law goes on
right under the eyes of the police is no.
torious and offensive, and that the an
swer is made that no police commission
can or will enforce these laws" Is any
better proof than this required that a
high license law would not be enforced
in this State2 Does the Rutland Herald
for instance, suppose that Vermont
mon could enforce such law if Bos-
ton with its regiment of law protectors
cannot do itP- Burlington CLIPPER.