The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-06-19


MRS. Z. L. NICHOLS goes to New Yor
this week. The hot weather has cause
a boom in summer goods and a fu
stock will arrive next week.
Mrs. A. W. BREASTED, who is critical
ly i'll with an attack of acute Bright
disease, does not rally as was hoped
She is receiving the best of medical car
and nursing.
THE running team of the fire depart
ment has commenced practice for tn,
tournament at Rutland July 4th. w,
predict that the boys" will make !
creditable record on that occasion.
News received from DR.. Ellen NJ
Lyon, a former pupil of DIR. Mary Part
ridge, now in Foochow, China, brings
the information that she is quite pleas
autly located there, with two hospitals
and dispensaries.
The Father Mathews will hold the
annual picnic this year as usul. Date
to be announced later. As everybody
knows what an enjoyable affair this al.
ways is, there is doubtless large share
of patronage which will be reserved for
the occasion.
In the Bennington RefOrmer of last
week there is most humble apology
over the signature of j. II. Livingston
who some time since made serious
charges i'll that paper against States At
torney o. NJ. Barber. Livingston now
admits these charges were published
without the investigation he should have
made. which is on the principle of Judge
Lynch in the wild and woody west:
"First hang your man and then investi-
gate; he is probably guilty anyhow"
Such grOveling retractiOn must be bit
ter medicine to man with particle
of self respect, but the incident should
teach anew the folly of making newspa-
per charges without first getting the
facts, and of lowering newspaper
opinion to the level Of personal preju-
dice, or to crafty personal spite.-Bel-
lOlCS Falls Times
ONCE more Bennington comes to the
front on baseball. Last Saturday the
"Pruncersn of Hoosick Falls came over
for a game with the 81. II. AS" AL
though the visiting nine went under this
name, yet in reality it was composed of
the best players of the Falls, only one of
the regular nine being in the field. At
bllt tllNl VI ilit btNtllbll liiulilk illt 0bOlC
was 2-2. The visitors went to bat and
captured one run. Then the home nine
made score according to the umpire's
decision, but the visitors, seeing them
selves beaten, left tire field as has been
their custom recently. Four weeks ago
Williamstown witnessed the same act.
Mr. Mahoney of Bennington umpired
fairly throughout. The game was close
and interesting, and would have been
good one but for the unfortunate termi-
nation. The score was therefore decided
as 90, favor of the home team.
SOME years ago we wrote up the pro-
iect for an artificial lake near the farm
dwelling of Chas. II. lockwood. Ed
ward Rice made a survey of the land
to be flooded and we enlarged
on the beauty of the shore and site for
ETC., overlooking the lake.
This survey has been loaned to some one.
md Mr.. lockwood asks us to request its
return to him. We are also gratiiied to
learn that prominent gentlemen are
looking up this project with a view of
the idea. We hope they may
DO induced to in rest in this enterprise as
It will, in our estimation, be not only a
good thing for them but for Bennington
Us well. Many Of our readers will recall
-he BANNER article A very short dam
will flood acres of land to n depth suffi
,ient for small boats and afford fine fish
ng, and all within one mile of this vii
age
THE annual report of the Dairymen's
Association of Vermont is before us. 1t
IS full of good things that everybody
ought to know. Judge Royce in his adj
lress of welcome gave utterance to one
sentiment which we copy as follows:
The advice-sO unfortunate to Vermont
of Horace Greeley's, Go West I'M
fortunate because has robbed Vermont
If some of its best blood. They have
gone West, and believe very many now
'egret that they ever left the home of
heir fathers. A year or two ago met
at BrattlebOro. He came into
he hotel; he appeared to be thin and
,arewOrn. A number of the friends of
his youth gathered around to give him a
Vermont greeting on his return from the
West. They inquired when he was going
% return. lie said, Never y They said,
we thought you were pleased with the
country and were proSperlng'. well,
,aid he, it is good country in many
fertile and easy titled, and
I'll that, but says he, about a
month before | left, there came one
If those billiards. along; it took my
buildings all down, tore up my fences
md fruit trees that had spent years of
abor upon, endeavoring to get into bear
ng condition; in short, it stripped my
arm of everything but the mortgage; |
believe | shall leave that to take care of
tself, and live the rest of my life, and
lie in Vermont ] believe that If You
,ould get at the actual experiences of
many of our people who have gone from
Vermont to the windswept prairies of
he West, they would be glad to get back
% Vermont if they could let the mort |
rage go, and come to live and die near
he homes of their fathers. | think it is
,ur duty, as far as we can, to induce the
young people of the State to remain in it;
10 what we can to make the homes of
Vermont farmers comfortable, their lives
and their work profitable.
Do that, and we shall prevent the West |
ward flow of emigration from Vermont.
hope and trust such may be the re-
iult.n