The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-07

man had assumed the role of a tramp: |
at some places he begged his food, and |
ing he had no money, and at others he
paid. These characteristics are all for |
eign to Mr.. Smiths well-knOwn habits. |
Some thought when they saw him that it |
was Ed. Smith, but had not heard of his |
disappearance. The search for that in
dividual is being continued. But little |
credence is given to either clue.
Secretary-of-W Proctor, ex-Gov. Jno. |
Gregory Smith, Congressman John w. |
Stewart, Judge LOveland MunsOn and G. |
ID. Hammond, general manager of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, |
were IN Rutland ON Monday. 1t seems |
to have been notable day.
Gen. Lewis A. Grant, assistant secre-
tary of war, will deliver the Memorial
day address at Rutland.
The death rate of Rutland during the
month of April:-There were twenty
two deaths from Monday the goth to
Tuesday the 9th, four of them instan-
taneOus. The death were about equally
| divided between pneumonia, induced by
| Ia Grippe, and chronic cases undOubted-
| ly accelerated by that disease. Two of
the instant deaths were old and we'll
| known residents: Frederic Chaffee and
George W. Hart.
At the annual meeting of the Rutland
Free Library the following officers were
chosen: President, Mrs. Julia C. r.
DOrr; vice presidents, Mrs. II. Henry
Baxter, Mrs. William A. Patrick; secre-
taIy, Mrs. Edward Dana; treasurer, Mrs.
John w. Cramton; auditors, Mrs. Geo.
r. BOttum; board of directors, Mrs.
Henry Clark, Mrs. J. II. Putnam, Mrs.
Levi G. Kingsley, Mrs Charles Sheldon,
Miss Mary Daniels, Mrs. John w. Nor
ton, Mrs. Warren E. Ross. The library
now occupies finely fitted quarters in
Memorial Hall. The total number of
volumes to 5,367. The largest number
given out in one day for home use was
on November 23rd-325 volumes,-and
the smallest number, circus day, Aug.
25th, 10; the average daily circulation
has been 80. The majority of the read
ers are among the working classes. The
library is supported by special library
tax of two per cent. on the Grand List.
amounting to $4,000.
The burial of the Rev. Thomas Jeffer-
son Conant, ID. ID LII. D., the eminent
scholar and divine, who died in New
York, Thursday, April 3Oth, at the adj
vanced age of 50 years, was made with
out ancestors and kindred at Brandon,
on Monday last. Rev. William II. Rugg
of SaXton's River offered prayer and
made brief address The pail bearers
were Hon. George Briggs, Obcd Meach
am, Charles w. Briggs and John Eng
ellis. DR.. Conant was a son of Hon. JnO.
COnant, well-knOwn man of his time,
and was born in Brandon in 1922. He
graduated frem Middlebury college when
but 81 years of age in the class of 1923,
composed of II members, of whom Hon.
Merritt Clark Of POultney is the sole sur
vivOr. He became a college professor in
1925, and had held classes in Columbian
College at Washington, d. c.; Water
vile, Me-. Hamilton Seminary, now Col
gate University, at Hamilton, n. Y, and
Rochester Theological Seminary He
spent two years in tour of Europe. He
removed to Brooklyn in 1857 and engaged
in literary work, which he continued I'M
til death. He had been an ordained
clergyman of the Baptist denomination,
but never occupied a permanent pulpit
or pastOrate. Among his literary
achievements was arevision of the Com
mon English Verson of the Bible" This
work occupied his hours of labor from
1857 TO 1875. DR.. COnant was recognized
as one of the finest Hebrew scholars of
his time, and vas author of a number of
theological works.