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The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02
PlTH AND POINT.

-"What course did you take In col
lege?' '0h, the regular -thrce-mile
course. Detroit Free Press.
-Cleverton-"Was Miss Griggson
bored by my talk last night?" Dash
away-"I couldn't get her to say
Truth.
college education? Pshaw! What
good did it ever do young Cutter?"
'.Lots of good! Why, every ball team in
the country is after him!"-
News.
If you want to see the difference
between man and woman let them
marry, and after time there may be a
new difference every day.-Boston
Transcript
-''Humor is the most powerful force
in the world, !" remarked Cumso. ''How
do you make that out?" asked Fangle.
sIt overcomes the law of gravity y
Harper's Bazaar.
MIR. Asker-"They tell me that the
book-keeper of your firm is behind in
his accounts; is that so?" Mr.. Taske i.
Far from it, he came out ahead. It's
the company that's behind. Saturday
Evening Herald.
His Chief Attraction. = Harry
"Why did you shave off your mus.
tache?" Wilt found my best girl
was getting too expensive, and have
taken this method of having her give
me the shake. brooklyn Eagle.
Boy {who has lost his way)-'I say,
mister, how far is it to Camptown
Creek?" Man (surlily)-"Find out l
am no city directory!" Boy with acute
emphasis)-"No, you amt; you're a
volume on good manners, you are!"
Gaining Strength. = Customer
"What kind of fish is this?" Waiter
"Weakfsh, sir; same as you had last
Friday, sir" "Well, it may have been
weak fish last Friday, but it is decided.
ly strong fish now.'-YOnkers States.
man.
"A man imagines that he has lots o1
fun in telling how difficult it is for even
a woman to find her way into her own
pocket, but all the varnish comes off the
laugh when he begins to remember how
easily she gets into his pockets. .-Phila
delphia Times.
look here" said the wrathfu
young lawyer; 81 thought you swore t.
give verdict in accordance with tht
facts?" "Wal," answered the juryman
thoughtfully pulling his beard, ''th'
facts didn't turn out as expected 'en
to. indianapolis Journal.
After all, in view of the fact tina
pretty nearly half of the matter printe,
in the New York dailies relates t,
sporting, am not SO sure but colleg
education is the very thing youu,
man needs to fit him for metropolitan
ournalism.-Detroit Free Press.
Promised His Mother He Wouldn't
"Inever use tobacco. No!
"I'ye never touched 1t yeti"
And then lie took match and lit
His nasty cigarette.
Chicago Tribune.
Sarcastic in the Extreme. Emma
''What do you suppose Aunty Quat
would do if robber were to demant
her engagement ring or her life. Juli
-''There'd be little difference whicl
he took. If she lost either she d neve
get another. Jewellers Weekly.
"A hardworking woman was asked
MADAME, are you a woman su ffragistP
''No, sir" was the answer, II haven
time to be" Haven't time? Well,
you had the privilege of voting, WHOM
would you support?" 1.-THE same ma
Thave supported for the past ten years.
"And who is that?" my husband. -
Nebraska journal.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02
A PREPosTERoUs SHOWING.
The Political Enterprise Of Pension Com.
missioner RRum.

The Political Enterprise Of Pension Com.
missioner Raum.
Gen. Raum pretends to state both the
number of union soldiers who have
died during and since the end of the
war; and the number of those who are
still living.
He puts the dead veterans at 1,004.-
65S and the survivors at 1,2OS, 707, max.
ing a total of 2,2l3,56 individuals who
bore arms in the northern armies at
some time during the four years be-
tween 1861 and 1865.
We have shown why it is<probable
that this estimate, and consequently
the estimate of surviving veterans, is
grossly exaggerated. If 2.215,365 men
| went to the front, as Gen. Raum al.
leges, then, on the basis of the census
figures of 1860, it follows that just
about one-half of the total male popu.
lation of the north of the military age
wore the blue and carried muskets.
This is a preposterous supposition, as
any body with common sense will per.
ceive at the first glance.
The truth is that no official statistician,
no unofficial student of military his
tory, no person in or out of the war de.
partment. the navy department or the
pension bureau, no human being any.
where, knows the number of soldiers
who fought at one time or another in
the federal armies.
The number of enlistments is known
with some approximation to accuracy.
In round numbers the enlistments and
reenlistments were 2,SOO,OOO. But this
total is far from signifying that 2,S00,'
900 different individuals went into the
army. Itreckons as two soldiers every
individual who enlisted and reen-
listed; as three soldiers every indivi-
dual who enlisted and reenlisted
twice; as four soldiers every in
dividual who enlisted first for thirty
days, then for ninety, then for two
years, and then for the war, and so on
But no veteran is entitled, under any
pension act, to one pension as a thirty
day soldier, and to another on account
of his second enlistment for longer
period.
The total strength of the unior
armies at each of the various stage
, of the war is also known. 1t reached
the highest point in the spring of 1865
just before disbandment, when thcr'
were nominally more than 10000
men in the service. The effective
strength of the armies however, was
: nearly quarter of a million less.
1t is simply ridiculous for the pen
= sion commissioner to put forwar
!, such figures as those which he uses t
!, cover and excuse still further politica
: enterprises in the way of governments
= bounty.
;. What is definitely and exactl
= known, on the authority OF Ger
y Raum himself, is that now, twenty
= six years after the close of the war
y and thirty years after its beginning, tn
: bureau is granting pension claims a
:. the rate of 100000 year-as man
: new pensioners in single year as ther
= were deaths in the union armies fro1
wounds in battle and all other cause
during the entire WARN. Y. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02
Its wakefulne.s Explained.

Cumso-An anti-kidnaping league
has been formed.
Mrs. Cumso-Then that accounts for
it. My baby is among the membership.
l thought it was merely insomnia, but
see now what it is. Jury.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02
GAME FOR A GRIZZLY.
Lonesome Lively in the Character
OF 1.-THE Mouse.
written for This Paper.1

i Il iuudDlIdhCS
of ofSomerindyck
Flatt were truly
A t h e n ian in
t j cir aStes.
They were con-
stant and perse-
vering in their
c n d G q v o r S
either to hear
or to tell of
S o M e II e w
thing.
1t was their
habit to assem-
bic, nightly, un-
der the hospi-
table roof of the
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02
An Exception.

cts mistake said Mrs. Herta,
Atter her guests had gone; sit is a mis-
take to say that misery loves company.
I thought I'd die with headache while
those people were here. Puck
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02

no doubt influenced chiefly hy the con-
siderations of policy which we have in
dicated, is obviously due in part to the
unmagnetic character-to put it mildly
--of President Harrison's administra-
ton of public and party affairs.
While Mr.. Blaine would be a formid-
able candidate we believe that the
democrats could, if wise in their choice
of a ticket. defeat him more decisively
than they did in 1ss4.-N. Y. World.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02

5Z.s
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02

THE great fortune OF the Duke OF
Westminster, the richest OF the rich
men Of England, is purely the result OF
appropriation. 1t no more springs from
the earnings of the present duke OF
Westminster or any Of his ancestors
than did the great fortunes bestowed BY
Russian monarchs on their favorites
when they gave them thousands of the
Russian people as their serfs. An En-
glish king. long since dead, gave to an
ancestor of the present duke OF West.
minister piece of land over which the
city OF London has now extended-that
is to say, he gave him the privilege,
still recognized by the stupid English
people, which enables the present duke
to appropriate SO much Of the earnings
of SO many thousands Of the present
generation OF Englishmen. = Social
Problems
Whoever laying aside prejudice and
self-interest, will honestly and careful.
| " make up his own mind as to the
causes and the cure OF the social evils
that are SO apparent, does, in that. the
most important thing in his power to
ward their removal -Social Problems
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The decision of the war DEF artment,
says the Boston journal, "tO allow the
enlistment of young Indians in the reg
ular army is becoming recognition of
the courage and fidelity displayed by
the Indian scouts in the Northwest cam
paign. The proposition is to admit no
less than 1000 Indian soldiers to the reg
ular service. They W ill not be organized
into separate regiments, as was at first
contemplated, since it was felt to bring
such large bodies of Indian troops to-
gether would have disturbing influence
ON the neighbOring population. The
Indians will be organized by companies,
and attached to each of the infantry and
cavalry regiments stationed in the West.
They will be subjected to much the
same discipline as the white soldiers,
and will have the same weapons, uniform
and pay. White commissioned officers
will command the companies, but the
lnOn-cOmmiSsioncd officers will probably
be Indians, as is the custom with the
scouts. This is an important programme,
partaking of the spirit of progressive
ness that under this administration per-
vades the war department. 1t marks a
d stinct advance in army sentiment
| TOW ard the Indian, and as such will be
gladly welcomed by the friends of the
aborigines.n
Please remember when you read this
and similar sentiments in the city dailics
that the BANNER was the first paper to
advocate such n step, and long enough
ago to avoid any late-cOme assertion of
priority. Whether Col. Proctor as Sec
retary of War gained his ideas of this
measure, or its suggestion, from our
proposal or not is another question. He
is as level-heade1 in this decision as in
many other matters.
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Circnlnrnf Treasurer Field.

The following circular issued yester-
day by State Treasurer Field is in regard
to the assessment of State and State
school taxes:
The attention of town and city officers
is respectfully called to number 2 of the
laws of 1890, entitled IAN act providing
for the assessment of State tax, which
assesses a tax of Is cents ON the dollar of
the Grand List for the year 1891, one half
of which is payable into the treasury of
the State on or before the 10th of No
vember next, and the remaining Lalf on
or before the 10th day of June, 1892.
1t will be noticed that unless towns so
elect it will not be necessary in their es-
Inmates of expenses for the coming fiscal
year to include more than a sum equal to
nine cents ON the dollar of the list for
the present year, to be payable into the
treasury as above indicated.
The State school tax of five cents on
the dollar authorized by number of the
laws of 1890, and necessary to be pro-
vided for, will be assessed for the cur.
rent year upon the Grand List for the
year 1890, that being the only list that
will be. prepared and returned u
the treasury ON May LIST next, when the
notices are required 10 be issued to the
several towns, to constitute a basis
for the apportionment of this tax, as
provided in section of the act referred to-
The Treasurer desires to add that he
expects to be able to divide the income
of the Huntington fund in season for til,
distribution of the public money il
March. HENRY L. FIELD,
State Treasurer.
Rutland, February 18th, 1891.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

The schools were closed last week
Tuesday, the teachers being in attend
ance at the Institute at North Bcnning-
ton. They returned to their posts this
week, animated with renewed zeal.
Miss Aura Hanaman, instead of Miss
Clara, was in Troy, N. Y, recently.
Mrs. James Williams who has been
suffering from an attack of Ia Grippe fol
lowed by rheumatism, which has kept
her indoors for several weeks, is again
able to ride out and call upon friends.
Sealey Mcdonald returned Friday from
Il visit to friends in Manchester.
The children of Mrs. Wilkinson are
suffering from colds, which seem. to be
epidemic just now.
Mrs. Jane Hayes passed last week
with friends in Shushan, n. Y, return
ing Saturday.
Among the victims suffering from
measles are Harry Phillips, lIerbie
Lackey, Denie and Tressie Calvert.
Mrs. T. c. Austin has been quite feeble
for few weeks.
Nelson Buck is suffering from the pre-
vailing epidemic.
Mrs. Jay Sherman spent several days
recently with friends in Salem, n. Y.
Mrs. Win Buck is dangerously i'll with
pneumonia.
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GENERAL SHERMAN.

William Tecumseh Sherman, general
on the retired list of the army of the
United States, died at 1850 p. M, Satur.
day. This brief announcement tells a
story of which the whole realm of the
worlds civilization will take note.
By this event the country loses the last
of the great milit ry figures of the wal
in the death of Gen. William T. Sherman
Grant, Sheridan, Mcclellan, Thomas,
Meade, Hancock, Hooker and Burnside
with host of others only less prominent
all went before him, and this when Gen.
Sherman was among the oldest of the
famous band.
Gen. Sherman was great man, SAYS
the New York Press editorially. All the
world knows that. One Of his qualities
of greatness was foresight. As we look
back over the bloody interval in which
he made his reputation it seems as if he
had been prophet.
When the war broke out the belief was
universal that the conflict would have a
brief existence. The men in Washing
ton could not believe otherwise. Like one
whose vision penetrated the future, vii.
liam Tecumseh Sherman gave out an
alarm. He said that instead of the Is, OOC
soldiers called for by President Lincoln,
hundreds of thousands would be needed
to save the Union. As were the prophets
in Olden time he was derided.
William II. Seward fixed the duration
of the war at ninety days. Sherman said
IL would take Years 10 conoupr fine Soufb
tivity. Had his family influence moi
been powerful he would have been sent
10 an asylum for the insane.
Ultimately the warnings of Sherman
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

This is as good a way as any of
sending you my valentine. The
postman will thank me for this
method, and you are certain to re-
ceive it at the right time. am en-
tirely in sympathy with the gentle
custom which st. Valentine inau
gurated. And my sympathles do
not end there. For instance, |
sympathize with those who knownot
good thing when place it before
them, and do not seem to under
stand that an imitation, is not as
good as the genuine. This, how
ever, is not the general complaint,
it is only in rare cases. You will
not be deceived in quality, style or
prices of any goods purchased at
my store. You that have patron
lied me for years can testify. My
stock of Mems, Youths and Child
dren's wear are as complete as can
be expected for this time of the
year.
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NOTICE TO SELL REAL ESTATE OF
BENJAMIN F. SEARS, Deceased.

NOllCE ~ DELL REAL ESTATE OF
BENJAMIN F. SEARS, Deceased.
STATE OF VERMONT
District of Bennington,
In Probate Court held Mt the Probate of4ce in
Remington, in said District, on the 18th day OF
Febr' y. A. D., 1891.
Present. Hon. Alfred Robinson Judge.
Chas +. Sears and Geo. b. Senrs. executors of
the last will and testament of Benjamin F. Sears
late of Bennington. in said district deceased
makes phi alton to said court for license to sell
all Of the real estate of said deceased, situate Ia
BENNINGTON, in said distric', s,ribed as follows:
One lot of land containing about - ares
bounded on the north by the Walloomsac river
asst by the highway leading to Bennington Cen
ire south by lands Of John II. Rahan, and the
Lebanon Springs R. R.; west by lands of Sam'l.
l.. Rob ns1n
One lot Of land. acres, bounded on the north
by lands Of he estate OF u NJ. Robinson: east by
the highway aforesaid; south by Monument
grounds and lands of estate # Daniel Robinson:
west by lands of Samuel L Robinson.
Home place bounded on the north aud east BY
lands Of John IL. Bahan; south BY Monument
grounds, and west b. lands Of Samuel b. Sanford.
One lot 6 six acres, bounded on the north by
ands Of John II. Bahsn; east by lands of the e.
tate of DR.. f. 3. CLARK; south by lands OF H. S.
Brown: west by Lands Of $. b Sanford.
The farm known the "Wabiidge Farm,"c n
tanning nearly one hundred acres. situated at
Benn ngfon Falls fIrmOre particular description
Of which ser land records OF Bennington repre-
SEEMING that the sale Of said real estate would he
beneficial 10 said estate and al. persons concerned
therein.
Whereupon, 1t is ordered by said Court, that
said application be referred to session thereof TO
be held AZ the Probate office in Bennington, in
said district on the 9Th day of March.
A d. 1891. for hearing and decision
thereon; and. It is further ordered, that all per-
Interested be notified hereof by publication Of
notice Of said application and order thereon three
weeks successfully In the Bennington BANNER, =
newspaper published at Bennington, and which
crculates in the neighborhood of those inter
ested, before said time OF hearing that they NAV
appear ut said time and place, aud II they see
cause, object thereto
By the LOurt. Attest,
SO ALFRED ROBINSON, Judge.
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SALISBURY,

The popular and pleasing drama "The
Last Loaf, will be presented in Social
Hal, Centre salisbury, Tuesday even
i g, February oath by the young people
of the Baptist church of North Benning-
ton. All are invited. Since the above
was put in type we learn that the enter
tainmcnt is postponed until some even
ing of the following week.
The Rev. VIM. II. Rugg OF Perkins.
vile, is supplying the pulpit Of the Bap'
fist church during the two weeks alb
sence of Pastor Steel. Mr.. Rugg was
pastor of this church for several years
finishing his work here in 1915, and al
are glad to renew his acquaintance.
Hugh N. Dunlap of Bennington has
taken his fathers farm and fills the
place of Geo. b. Dunlap, who, with his
family, has moved to Michigan.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

The Rutland Fish and Game Club, of
which Frank II. Chapman is president,
will renew the experiment of introduce
ing quail into the State. begun by Gen.
w. W. Ripley, Hon. Martin G. Evarts
and DIR. Goldsmith some years ago,
which was measurably failure, as only
a few have ever been seen. The deer
planted upon the mountains by Gen.
Ripley seems a success, rs many are
seen this winter, and they are quite
tame. Some even come to the farmers
yard and herd with his COWS.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

In the city of Brotherly Love, Tues
day, a notably wedding occurred in
which Miss Ava Lowle Willing of Phila-
delphia, and John Jacob Astor of New
York were united in marriage. The city
and society papers for week have
teemed with the elaborate details. The
long and short of the event seems to be
that two immensely wealthy families are
thus united, that some $4,000, 900 of pres
ents were displayed, and that professed
members of the Episcopal Church delib
erately set aside their religious convic
lions in that, as was stated, 1.-THE fact
that the wedding was celebrated in LEM
was not allowed to detract from the bril-
liancy of the occasion"
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NOTICE.

This is to no ify and warn all the inhabitants Of
the Town Of Bennington, qualified by law to vote
in Town Meeting, to meet at Free Library Hall,
in said Town, Tues lay. March 3r1. A. D. 1891, at
10 o'clock in che forenoon, to transact the follow
ing business, TO wit:
/. To hear the reports Of town officers.
2 To see what sums shall be raised by tax on
the Grand List OF the town, for the payment OF
the principal and interest Of the town debt, for
schools and for support of poor for State tax and
highways, and for all other town expenses and
to see when the tax shall be paid.
3 To see what sum, per day. shall be raid to
the town officers and board of ciyi, authority for
their services the pIst yea.
4. ro see wha' sum r. any the town will vote
TO pay Custer Post, q. r., toward the expenses
o oil serving Decoration or Memorial lay
q. To see II The town v Ill vote TO exempt from
payment Of null taxes members ofthe State Ma
tia re siding in aid town.
e. To see he town will votA TO extend the
iunsdc ion Of the constable over the stare.
To see Il the town " Il vote to pay IRON the
general fund In the town treasury. such sums as
are necessary u make gond the deficit in the
highway fui d.
s. To see in what m amer the highway tax shall
b. paid according to Sec /, OF Act IL, session
laws If 1890
Se!ccmen 10 place at Interest in some saie bank
ing i,stituiiOn any surplus furds, that may &C.
cumulaie in the town trea ury.
10. To see II the town will vote TO place the
tax bill the hands OF the Treasurer for collec-
ton,
II. To elect all town officers.
II. To transact any other business found nee
EMORY S. HARRIS,
ALFRED ROBINSON,
Seleclmrn.
Bennington Feb. i7th, 1891
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South ShaItsbury.

w. r. MathsOn of Waterbury, Conn,
is home for few days on visit.
The "Doestrick ST ule" Company are
preparatory to giving an en-
tertainmeDt, Efforts are being put forth
to bring it out next week. Further notice
will be given as to time and place.
There was no school after Tuesday
of last week, as the teachers attended
the Institute at North Bennington. A
goodly number went from this place.
The weather is extremely moist and
misty about these days; the streets and
walks are almost impossible for pedes-
trians on account of the running water.
Mrs. Arson Hawkins is on the sick
list at this writing.
A surprise was given Harry Mirfield
on Wednesday, in honor of bis birthday,
Only few of his most intimate friends
were present.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

The Stanstead, p. O., Journal, with
hich we exchange, has this to say of
the issue of reciprocity in Canada:
"'Unlimited Reciprocity would mean
unlimited Western beef in the Eastern
townships markets at 50 per hundred,
destroying the cattle business of the
townships. 1t would mean cheap NUT
ton from the tlocks of the West, lowering
the price of mutton sheep and lambs to
a figure our farmers could not contend
against. 1t would mean lowering OF
the prices of dairy products, and flood
the country with the surplus manufac-
lures of the United States, at slaughter
prices, destroying our manufacturing
enterprises. 1t would be found to be a
'delusion and snare as the greater
would drive the less to the wall, as is al
WAYS the CASE
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-19

We desire to say-to our citizens, that
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New Discovery for Consumption, DR..
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Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
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or that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran-
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to refund the purchase price, if satisfac-
tory results do not follow their use.
These remedies have won their great
popularity purely on their merits. j. T.
Shurtleif, druggist.