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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-08

EDWARD Rousseau. broker Of No. 1857 Leo
nard street brooklyn. disappeared from his
nome on Friday night Diigent search Was
made for him, as no reason for his A. ,sence
was known. His dead body was found yes
terdsy afternoon at WOodside. l.. |. He had
committed suicide by shooting himself in the
night temple with S2-calibre revolver. BE
SIDE him lay the weapon. The spot where tho
BODY lay was close tosCalyary Cemetery.
Coroner Homeyer OF .Ridgewood took
eharge OF the body. which was sent 10 the
home OF the suicide. Ii was learned Inst ni0bt
that Rousseau. on the day of his disappear.
ance. left letter addressed TO his sister tell
Ing her to dispose of his property. and that
he intended 20 take his life No cause can he
assigned Tor his deed.
POLICEMAN CALLAHAN yMDARRAssEp.
Loud cries and sounds of blows brougbt
Captain Brooks and Officer Callahan ont on
the steps OF police headquarters a little be-
Tore noon yesterday. Two middle-aeed
women, sisters, were lighting and a man. lie
husband OF one. was endeayorine to separs,s
them. He appeared 10 sympathize with tho
one who wasn't his wife. Officer Callahan
and Captain Brooks took them al into tI,e
Information Bureau.
One OF the women said she was Rachel
Aich. and that she lived with "A sister AT I73
Ludlow street Here she was 80 oyercomc
that she threw her arms about Officer Gala.
hans n9ck and putting her head on his blue
coated breast sobbed loud enough to be heard
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
Arlington.

The young ladies from Arlington at
tending school at Burr & Burton Sem
mary, will spend Sunday at their homes
rs usual.
Mr.. Niles, with Batchelder and Barber,
spent Sunday last at his home in Pownal
The last sociable before Lent will
be held in the Town Hall Thursday
evening.
The young upholsterer who has been
staying at Riverside, has returned to Rut-
land. He reports a fair amount of work
accomplished.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Norton have been
visiting their son, DIR. Norton in Middle
town Springs.
Jessie Parsons entertained a party of
young friends Wednesday evening.
Sylvester Deming, who has been home
for few days, returned to school in
Middlebury, Monday, Feb. I'd.
Mr.. William Hill, young man en-
ployed by Mcintyre d Griffith, had the
misfortune to lose three fingers and
thumb on the left hand on Friday last.
The young man had only worked one
day and half. DR.. Phillips dressed the
wound.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Adams are in Bur-
lington this week attending the G. A. r.
encampment and w. II. G. Their
daughter Maud is visiting friends in
Rutland.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. c. Woodwork gave a
very pleasant party Monday evening.
Mr.. W, d. Coleridge is quite sick at
his home on Water street,
Harry Bundy and c, II. Parsons,
who have been quite sick, are now much
better
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05

organized existence. The act which
authorized lite creation, or rather which
continued in operation the old establish
ment of the confederacy," expressly
promised that it should be continued but
one year, and thus it was renewed year
after year as temporary measure until
1894, when it was established as n per-
manent measure. In some parts of the
country then settled, regular arrivals
and departures of mails had not been
established. Not daily lmail existed
anywhere in the United States under the
first Postmaster General of the United
States. Postage was very high, sub
stantially the same as given in &C nants
Vermont" For every double letter
double the rates; for every triple letter
triple the rates. These rates continued
till along into the present century. As
above expressed, the high rates continued
down to my recollection, as late certainly
as 1925. The history as given by the
Postmaster General is quite full and in
this article can only notice few of the
important points. In 1885 there seems
to have been large gain in the postolfice
business, but all he says, there were
not more than 20 postOffices in the land
supplied with q daily mail" Twenty.
five years later, in 1860, the number OF
postoffices in the country had increased
to $4,000. The use of adhesive stamps is
of quite late date, which is of great i'm
provement. Since 1860 he says the post
office business had more than doubled
and he estimates "that letters and othel
pieces of mail matter are dropping int
the numberless receptacles of the posta
system at the rate of nearly 5000 ;
minute. The marvellous system employ
more than one hundred and fifty thou
sand agents.-B. FriSbie in POultne!
Journal.
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soMrrn1Na oF oREAr1NrEREsr

There are hundreds of our people who
are suffering from lingering diseases
who have not received benefit from their
family physicians. Such sufferers should
write a description OF their cases to the
famous DIR. Greene Of "a Temple Place,
Boston, Mass, the discoverer Of the re-
nowned remedy, DR.. Green's Nervura,
and successful specialist in the cure Of
all forms of nervous and chronic dis
eases. He can be consulted free OF
cbarge-that is full description of the
case should he written him. and he will
return his diagnosis of the case, whether
durable, and advice In regard to treat
ment, without charge. In his carefully
considered answer lie will fully explain
your disease and give you perfect UNI
Outstanding of all its symptoms, free of
any expense.
DR.. Greene has devoted special atten-
ton to treatment through letter cores.
pondcnce, and his success in tire cure of
this class of diseases by his harmless
vegetable remedies, is withouta parallel
AS consultation is thus entirely free, suf-
ferers in our vicinity should seize this
opportunity which affords an almost GER
tainty Of being cured.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
SLAVERY IN VERMONT

The Rutland Herald seems to take ex-
ccption to our calling the attention of
Vermont editors to the fact that slavery
never had legal existence in this State.
Had it published the whole of our short
item, instead of only part of it, its
readers would have seen that we were
referring only to the legal status of the
black man here.
One editor had spoken of Vermont as
hrving abolished slavery" We OBJ
iected to such statement, and showed
that Vermont could not have abolished
slavery, as it did not, for it never had a
legal existence, and so the State could
not have abolished it. That sO-called
slaves lived here after the State had
adopted its constitution in III, was a
fact, and few were reported here, by a
clerical error, in the census of 1900. The
fact, however, that certain persons were
called slaves after the constitution was
adopted, could hardly be said to give
the institution an existence here. We
could not properly say that slavery ex.
listed at the South, after the adoption OF
the thirteenth amendment to the cOnsti.
tuition of the United States.
In out of the way places, where the
knowledge of its adoption had but dimly
penetrated, traces OF the institution still
Iigered, but it is perfectly proper for a
writer or speaker to say that slavery
persisted with the adoption of the thir.
teenth amendment. We think it equally
proper to say that slavery never existed
in Vermont, meaning of course legally.
1t is certainly highly improper to say that
Vermont abolished slavery
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
THE NEW WORSHIP.

Says the funny man" of the West
Randolph Herald Dc NelcS:
mot many Sundays ago DR.. Thomas
X. Beecher preached a memorial sermon
upon the mother of Mark Twain, in his
own church at Elmira, n. Y. On account
of sickness Mark and his wife remained
at home in Hartford Conn, 400 miles
away But telephone connections were
made the entire distance so that they sat
in their room and listened to the sermon
as it was delivered. This we believe,
SURPRISES any feat of the kind that has
vet been performed. The feat, however,
great in itself, is greater in the possibili-
ties it discloses. We do not see WHY it
many not work complete revolution in
the process of going to meeting The
idea here put into action can be enlarged
almost indefinitely. The minister can
remain in his study, the sexton can
warm the church, turn on the telephone
and 90 home But this
is by 10 means the limit of possible
achievement. What can be done in one
State can be done in every State. And
what shall hinder that the whole country
be brought under one telephone system,
and one man do the preaching for the
| Nation? Let some celebrated divine, DR..
Talmage for instance, be located at some
central point and each Sunday morning
connected by telephone with every com.
munity, and if desired, with every home
in the land. 1t would be better to listen
in this way to his sermons than to read
them in plate matter. The fact is, that
in developing scheme like this we arc
only putting in force Bellamy's idea
We regard the measure as one OF econO
my on magnificent scale. But economy
does not end here. Aside from the ex
pense of supporting preachers there Is
the expense of Sunday clothing. This i,
enormous. There are vast quantities oi
people now debarred from church priv
leges because they have nothing to wear
These can sit at home in their every day
clothes and hear the sermon Just as wei
as to be compelled to drive several miles
in special Sunday rig. The money thu
saved can be used to buy fur caps for thu
Congo negroes.-The moral effect of thi
plan of distributing the gospel has it!
advantages in cases of Sabbath diseases
There will be no need Of exposure to thu
inclemencies of the season. The suffer
ers can lie in bed and listen as the ser
mon drips in through knot hole in til,
wall above their heads"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
TUE NEW BALLOT LAW.

We have called the attention Of our
readers several times since we published
the laws of 1890, to the provisions of the
Australian Ballot Law" enacted and
applicable to all towns, cities and villages
having population exceeding 1000.
Those of our local readers who took
our advice and have saved the BANNER
supplements should now take them out
and carefully study the provisions of the
law. 1t is as necessary for the voter to
do this as for the officials. The town
meeting being the first to occur is now
the subject of interest. The tickets are
to be printed by the town clerk and dis
tributed sin blocks of 1907 to the proper
officiatl, Sin towns 300 ballots for each
10 voters or fraction of fifty. This varies
i'm the different elections as to the num-
Der. The clerk is also to prepare definite
instructions in regard to obtaining bal
lots and the manner of marking them"
Sections 1, ), 6, I, etc, provides the
manner of making nominations. Strip
ped of all legal verbiage this amounts to
u caucus nomination by the Republican,
Democratic or other party which cast
sufficient number of votes at the last
election to entitle them to make nomina-
tons.
These party tickets are to be filed with
the town clerk; affidavits, varying, as pei
the statute, to conform to the method
employed in selecting candidates. To
illustrate, whether in open meeting, by a
committee, or otherwise, the varying
modes of procedure required as varying
proofs to be filed with the ticket
as made up. In the present
case the town COMMITTEES of Bennington
have until Feb. Dist in which to call The
caucuses and make and file the proper
nominations, all of which must be veri
fed by oath.
This system has been tested in ST.
Johnsbury and Barre village elections
and is said to work satisfactorily. The
directions are so explicit in the act, and
all our readers having been furnished by
us recently, with the full text of the law
that we do not deem it essential to dc
more now than to call, as we have done,
their attention to leading points.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
The EDUCATION QUESTION IN WIS
CONSIN.

The Democrats in the Lower House Of
the Wisconsin Legislature have acted
promptly in carrying out the purpose for
which they were chosen, by passing, UNI
der suspension of the rules, bill for the
repeal of the Bennett Compulsory Edu-
cation law. If the Senate concurs in this
action, as it is assumed that it will, the
State will be left without any law regu-
lating the employment of child labor or,
requiring compulsory education.
The sincerity IN the position OF the OPP
ponents of the Bennett law is disclosed
in the fact that the Republicans had
framed substitute measure which
remedied whatever real grievances were
contained in the law as it now stands.
This bill. ifit could be enacted, would
do no injustice to any one, and yet would
be an effective school law, but the Dem
Ocrats will not support any proposition
Of that kind, but are determined TO re-
peal the law absolutely. The substitute
bill known as the Bechtner bill provides
that every child between the ages of
seven and thirteen years shall attend
public, private or parOchial schools at
least twelve weeks in each year, except
in cases where instruction equivalent TO
twelve weeks of such school training
shall have been given at home, or where
the child has already acquired so much
education as shall be deemed the equiva-
lent of that impaired in five school years
of twelve weeks each, or where the pa
rents or guardians are unable to send
their children TO school or where the
mental or physical condition of the child
is unsound. These exceptions cover
every conceivable case in which the COM
pulsory requirement Of school attendance
could work any hardship, and are sufi-
Gent to carry the law to the very verge
of ineffectiveness. Upon the point of
education in English, the bill contains
this very moderate provision:
Every parent or other person having
under his control a child between the
ages of and - years, shall furnish II
such instruction in the English language
as shall enable it to read and write the
same, but this act shall not be construed
to prohibit the teaching of any other
language or branches of learning"
To proper understanding Of the pub
lie school question in Wisconsin, IL
should be understood that the enemies
of the public school, as represented by
the Democratic party, refuse to accept
so mild a measure as that which we have
lust outlined, and determine to sweep
away every vestige of compulsory educa.
ton. We predict that the time will come
when the issue Of 'the little red school
house" will be fought out again in Wis
cousin, and with different result,-Bos
ton Journal
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
BUYING FEED

The farmer is q manufacturer Hay,
grain and other folders are the raw ma
terials, for the machines for making this
raw material into beef, milk, butter and
cheese. The manure and skinned milk
are the waste products to be utilized.
Many points must be taken into consid-
Grafton in order to make a profit, but
one of the most important is the raw ma.
terial-the feed. This is especially true
in sesOn like the present, when feed is
so high. From what ! learn. farmers
seem TO be buying about as much feed as
usual, with few exceptions. And what
is more to be deplored, many are buying
coru meal and paying 40 to 45 cents more
than it cost last year. Corn meal is as
high as cotton seed meal and nearly as
high as linseed meal. The loss sustained
by farmers who buy corn meal at pres
emit prices becomes apparent when we
consider the actual value of the above
mentioned feeds. The feeding value of
n ton of corn meal is estimated at SO. ~ !;
the manurial value at $6.04. The feeding
value of ton of cotton seed meal is
S44. %: the manurial value is S2S.0I.
The feed valued of ton of linseed meal
is S31 to $34 according TO the way the
oil is extracted; the manurial value is
S2I.S5 Cotton seed meal is not so safe
to feed as linseed meal, but if care is
used, it can be fed with profit. Il should
not be fed to young cattle, should be
fed in small quantities at first, and not
more than a quart and a half or two
quarts should be fed daily. Linseed
meal can be fed to any animal on the
farm, old or young. 1t is excellent for
horses and young cattle. Hens like it,
and so do sheep. The only substitute
for cotton seed and linseed meals, which
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05

An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago,
has a wife worth having, and she is re-
ported ia have helped her husband out
of bad break the other day: On the
day in question he saw lady about to
call whom he was anxious not to meet.
So he said to his wife: "Now I'm off my
dear, I'll run up stairs and escape until
she goes away" AfterabOut an hour he
quietly tiptoed to the stair landing and
listened. All was quiet below. Reas-
sured, he began to descend, and while
doing so he thoughtlessly but emphati-
cally called out over the baluster: "Well,
my dear, has that old bore gone at last?''
The next instant voice from below
caused the cold perspiratiOn to bedew
his ministerial brow and rooted him to
the spot. Then came response which
sounded ineXpressibly sweet to him just
then. 1t was the voice of his wife, who
with womanly tact replied Eyes, dar-
ling, she went away over an hour ago;
but here is our good friend, Mrs. Blank
whom am sure you want to meet.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
rue DElrn OF sEcKErARY wINDoM

The whole country was shocked last
Friday to learn that the Hon. William
Windhom, Secretary of the Treasury,
had been stricken down by death. He
had delivered a notable speech, which
we give nearly in full in another column,
and fell to the floor from his chair, ex-
piring in few minutes, even amid the
applause following. Under these cir
cumstances his opening words are quite
significant: "The subject is very broad
and my time very limited" The dra-
matte circumstances of his death will
ensure very wide reading of his last
words, and both will attract the atten-
ton of the world. He died at his post of
duty just as truly as if he had fallen at
his desk in the department at Washing
ton. His last formal utterances were
words of counsel and encouragement to
the business classes of the natiOn-the
important mission that had called him to
New York. 1t was mode of death that
in every way became an old and trusted
public official and conscientious and hon
Orable gentleman.
Mr.. Window was conspicuous mem
| Der of the group of strong men that Ohio
has given to the public service and the
Republican party. He united in a
marked degree in his personality the
buoyancy and vigOr of the West, and the
solid conservatism of the East. This UNI
usual symmetry of character made him
an influential figure in the National
House of Representatives and afterward
in the Senate, and caused his appoint
ment to be universally applauded when
he was selected for the important duty
of Secretary of the Treasury, first in
President Garfield's Cabinet, and then in
the Cabinet of President Harrison. I'm
questiOnably Mr.. Window has been one
of the main pillars of the present Ad-
ministration, and he will be greatly
missed. His conduct through the diff.
culties which even now have not ceased
to overshadOw the country has beer
such as to win for him the profound es
TEEN of his fellow citizens. Even those
who have had to disagree with him oil
certain features of his recommendation
ha re cheerfully recognized his ability
and integrity and his deep sense of his
responsibilities. One of the chief cir.
cumstances that have enabled us to CONF
thus far almost unscathed among thu
peris that have lately environed us ha:
been the knowledge that an experienced
capable and trustworthy hand was OF
the helm of the great Treasury Depart
ment.
His remains were taken from New
York to Washington, and fittingly laid a
rest, amid the most profound sorrow
Official notice was taken of the funera
, in New York, Brooklyn, as well a
Washington and other cities.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05

The contest over the will of the late
Mr.. Fayerweather, who died and left
millions of dollars to colleges and other
institutions of learning, was begun in
New York Tuesday. With the Press we
'hope that Mr.. Fayerweather's requests
to colleges will now be allowed to stand,
since Mr.. Hitchcock of the Union TheO-
logical Seminary, has proved that Mr..
Fayerweather was in consultation with
the Professor as long ago as 1884 on the
subjects of requests to colleges, and had
schedule then that they talked over.
Not much undue death-bed influence
about that
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
AN OLD VERMONT WHIPPING POST.

Fanny Richard, before her marriage to
Judge Samuel W. Porter, Springiield's
first postmaster, lived in Westminster
and an incident which occurred in 1909 or
1910 was often related by her, showing
how the law was executed. A woman
was sentenced to be publicly whipped at
Newfane with cato -nine-tails, 81
lashes to be applied upon her hare back.
The executi0i:-of this sentence dcyolved
.ppen 5he high sheriff, Mark Richards,
father of Mrs. Porter, and his deputy,
Lemuel Whitney. Mr.. Richards gave
orders to his daughter Fanny and a
daughter of Mr.. Whitney to prepare the
scourge. This they did in the cause of
humanity by making the tails of slack
twisted wooden yarn. The scOurge was
applied according to law, but it left no
marks. 1t was probably the last use
made of this law before its repeal
Springfield Reporter.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05
Divorces in Vermont,

Divorce proceedings in Vermont reflect
little credit on that State. At single
term of a county court recently, u di-
vorce cases were heard and 10 divorces
were granted, and at the last term only a
single divorce asked for was refused.
The causes for divorce in most cases
were slight, and would not have war
ranted legal separation in other States.
One of the judges gave it as his opinion
that when man and his wife had made
up their minds that they could not live
together, the law might as well separate
them. With such laws and such opinions
respecting their enforcement marriage in
the Green Mountain State is obviously a
failurc.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05

Dispatches from Kansas S tate that the
Alliance leaders are already beginning to
talk of Senator-clect Pfetfer as the Ali
ance or Third Party candidate for pres
ident in 1892. Speaker pro tempore
Matchett remarked that such a thing
would not at all be out of the question.
Said he: kansas is going to be the
leader in the Alliance movement. The
election of a United Slater Senator and
before the party is year
old is greater victory than was ever
achieved by a new party i'll any State.
1t puts Kansas to the front, and this
State may be called on to furnish the
presidential candidates. If Kansas
names the leader in 1892 it is probable
that it would be the new United States
Senator" The best way to beat Pfeiler
is to give his utterances the widest circu-
lation. His impracticable thrones couched
in the coarsest language will wage the
best possible campaign against him.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05

A leading merchant of Brazil has writ
ten to the Bureau of American Republics
at Washington, that 'almost everything
made in America is good" for his
country. His detailed statement of
items makes good his broad generaliza-
ton. But there is no way of getting
American goods to Brazil in competition
with the subsidized ships of England,
France and Germany, unless we meet
them with American merchant ships.
That is why Congress should not
fail to pass the Shipping and Tonnage
Rill
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-05

The instruction in Oporto, Portugal,
appears to have been a hasty, ill-consid-
cred affair, without respectable leader
ship or organized direction. Successful
revolutions do not begin that way. Very
few are the instances in history of gov
ernments being overturned by a mob or
a mutiny. The soldiers who tried to
start a republic on the basis OF charge
through the streets of Oporto have really
given setback TO the cause they So
rashlY espOused.