The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-12-25
NEWS AND NOTES.


West Windsor is annoyed by corn
bin thief.
Westminster is to have mill for the
manufacture of pals.
Several persons have been drowned
in this State during the last few days.
"A young son of A. A. McComber OF
Jay, had an ear bitten off while playing
with dog.
"A Sutton man expects to cut 100000
feet of lumber from lot, for which he
paid only $780,
The Fall Mountain Paper Company
of Bellows Falls has started new 90
light arc dynamo for inside work.
Eight Vermonters have recently been
elected members of the American Acad-
envy of Political and Social Science.
Judge Rising, the presiding judge at
the Graves murder trial in Denver, Col,
is native of Washington county.
= Cooking is to be taught in the Cleve-
land public schools.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone is painting Mrs.
Cleveland's dog, Kay, for his mistress.
"A New York firm has paid 500, 900 to
farmers in the vicinity of Charlotte,
which is to be used for the spring trade.
--Thimbles have been found in the
Egyptian catacombs in mummy cases
antedating the Christian era fifteen to
eighteen centuries.
The insurance on the Congrega-
tional church of st. Adams has been set
tied at $20,042 ON the church building
and $1,000 on the furniture, which was a
total loss.
-Penlope: do you see that hand
some fellow at the piano? l rejected
him once" Peridita: "That's nothing.
/ rejected him twice"
Three sisters of the house of Nazar-
eth, a Roman Catholic institution, were
made American citizens the other day in
Chicago. They are refugees from Rus
STA.
Henry Sanderson of North Spring
field has been sentenced by the Windsor
county court to seven years in State
prison for larceny of wool, he having
pleaded guilty to the charge. This is his
third term.
Allen Shepard, Charlotte boy,
aged Id, attempted to shoulder log the
other day, when he fell under its weight.
His head struck stone and the log fell
upon him, cracking his skull from the
base to the front. His recovery is doubt
full.
Roy. George Crosby Smith, presi-
dent of Drew Ladies' Seminary at Car
mel, N. Y, who died afew days ago, was
born at West Burke in 1880. He gradu-
ated at Wesleyan University in 1855.
Before going to Carmel he was professor
in the seminary at Newbury.
The faculty of WesleyanU University at
Middletown. Conn.,, have removed their
restrictions upon gentlemen callers. The
ladies assert tkat they are old enough to
behave properly unhampered by rules
Undoubtedly this is SO.
"A Wyoming rancher is very anxious
for wife. He says in his advertise
ment that he is not particular about her
looks, her age or her fortune, and she
need not be good cook, as he is some
thing of an artist in that line himself.
The long distance telephone lines
cost $1,000 mile, and one of these lines
is now in successful operation from Bos-
ton, as far north us Bellows Falls, tax
ing in the circuit Brattleboro, and rem
ders distinct conversation possible with
long distance offices in all the large cities
of the East, from towns and cities in
connection.
Thomas O'Brien, the buncoer, await
ing extradition in England, has secuted
as counsel in the extraditiOn proceedings
the famous English attorney Sir Charles
Russell.