The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-29

| Mason >. stone, formerly supervisor
of schools in Orleans county and instruc
tor in mathematics in the University OF
| Vermont, has been elected SupeTintend
ent of Schools in the Easthampton, Mass,
district. Mr. Stone was for a time at the
head of the Bristol Graded school.
The baliffs of BrattlebOro have been
investigating the electric tire-alarm sys-
tenn shown by man from Boston. 1t is
proposed to put in six boxes, so located
that all the village shall be comprised in
six wards. The corporation voted $500
to be used in the establishing of such an
alarm and instructed committee to at
tend to the matter.
"a stitch in time saves nine," and if
you take Hoods Sarsaparilla now it
may save months of future possible sick
ness.
According to Vermont's 30th school
report, the average rent on grammar
school land in the State is about II cents
an acre, but it varies from less than S
cents to IS cents. In Huntington, Chit
tenden county, grammar school land has
rent of less cents an acre. In Lon
donderry college and grammar school
lands have rent of Is cents an acre, and
the ministerial land of Londonderry has
a rent of about cents.
The Springfield Republican thus speaks
of Thomas Waterman Wood, native of
Montpelier, who was elected president of
the National Academy of Design in New
York the other day: "Mr Wood is one
of the elder school of painters, but he is
entirely catholic in his view of art, re-
garding its field as so broad that it is
| free to all who have anything to say in
color, whatever method they choose in
SAYING it, short of absolute ugliness-
which is not in true sense art. He is
a figure painter and a colOrist, and one
of the best portrait painters in the
metropolis, and has been for many years
vice president of the Academy, as he
was long president of the Water Color
society.
There is a woman in Bethel with an
historic ancestry. Her name is Mrs.
Ruth Carter Rowell and she is great
great-granddaughter of the famous Han
nah Dustin, who was captured by the
Indians in 1897 at her home in Haverhill,
Mass and who after weary march of
several DAYS encamped with her captors,
| 10 in number near Concord, n. H., and
rose in the night and with the aid of two
companions killed all the Indians and
returned to her home. Mrs. ROwell has
in her possession the original cloth in
which her brave ancestor placed the
bloody scalps of the ten Indians and con-
veyed them to the Government officials,
for which she received large sum of
money.
Some of the Western States claim they
sent the Youngest soldier to the war, but
the honor belongs to Vermont. Francis
V. Randall, son of Col. +. V. Randall,
was the youngest boy in the army. He
was born at Mortified April 3, 1851, and
went out with Company +, I'd Vermont
Volunteers, in May, 1861, being 10 years
and one month old. He also served in the
18th and 18th Vermont, and was dis
charged July IA, 1865. He is now only
40 years old, and has never seen well
day since he left the army. He was at
the Battle of Gettysburg and was the
only drummer of his regiment that re-
manned on the field during the three
days fight, carrying water to the wound
ed and running for stretchers, for which
he was personally thanked by Gen. Stan
nard on the field.
Are the Changers capable of legislating
for their own best interests and at the
same time not damage the general inter
ests of the public. They cry out against
class legislation. and vet it is too fire.
auent that they indulge init, only chang
ing the class. And yet they do not al
WAYS get the good they anticipate. Ex-
perience has taught in some States that
the Changers, and we may say more
broadly, the farmers, as a rule, do not
make the best legislators. A recent in
stance is furnished by their action in
PENNSYLVANIA, where in legislative caucus
they decided to oppose measure look
ing to the improvement of country roads
"a measure which upon the face Of it
would seem to contain more good for
themselves than any other class Of peO-
ple. Perhaps il is better that they can
not fully agree among themselves. 1t
averts possible danger. Are they any
wiser In business matters2 In Illinois
they talk about fixing the price of wheat
and holding it to that price, as though
price was not determined by supply and
demand. No man or body of men can
long regulate the markets; and if they
could would be quite as likely TO bring
disaster upon themselves. We need
farmers in our Legislatures, but let us
have the level-headed kind.-West Ran
dOlph Herald d NelCs. The best reply
we know of to the question first asked
, above is the record of the Vermont
Legislature of 1890. 1t justly became
the laughing stock Of the whole country.