The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-22

work in "Algiers," in the town of Brad
ford, May 4.
Among those who united with the
church in Norwich the other day were
six children, brother and sister from
each of three families.
Asa Rice of Bridport, aged 81, is
dangerously ill with pneumonia. Mr.
Rice was the first Master of the Morning
Sun Lodge, f. and A. NJ.
Mrs. Susan G. Cooke of Knoxville,
Tenn, who has been elected secretary of
the ladies' board of managers of the
Worlds Fair is native of Bridport.
Mrs. Mary H. Dana of New Haven,
has the largest collection of oil paint
ings in Addison county, having $50 diff
ferent pictures, all the work of her own
hands.
1t is said that over 100 persons in
Barre were swindled by travelling photo
graphers, who took pay for pictures and
then left town without fulfilling their
agreement.
S. j. Hastings of Passumpsic, the
newly appointed superintendent for a
chilCren's exhibition at the Caledonia
county fair, is arranging the premiums
to be given.
Rev. Mr.. McLucas, residing in that
locality near Beecher Falls known as
Hall Stream, came near dying from an
overdose of oil of peppermint, taken to
relieve a severe toOthache.
The Montpelier and Wells river rail
road is preparing for n heavy business
this summer. Improvements are being
made about the stations, and the plat
forms have been torn up and new ones
laid.
Work on the new school house at
Bellows Falls is well advanced. A part
of the foundations are laid, and the
grading of the lot is about completed.
The building will be ready for occupancy
September |.
The wife of Philip Moen of Worces-
ter, Mass, who just died, and between
whom and the nOrtOrious Doc" Wilson
there was so much of unexplained mys-
terry, was VermOnter, Miss Maria Grant
of Chelsea.
Thousands of tons of ice harvested
during the winter of 1SS9-9O are being
dumped into Lake Champlain at Platts-
burgh, the owners desiring to use the
lumber which was used to keep it from
melting for other purposes.
-Halzi S. johnson, an apparently i'm
beetle individual, is now in iail at Guild
hall, charged with throwing a stone at
railroad train, between Wenlock and
North Stratford. The locomotive fire
man narrowly escaped being hit by the
stone, which the fellow says he threw
lust for fun"
When child, by any unusual symp-
toms, shows that it is suffering great
pain, use DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. 1t twill
sooth the little sufferer.
The simplest means are generally the
safest and surest. Hence the great de-
mand for Laxador, for liver disease, dys-
pepsia, headache, etc. Price 25c.
The celebrated bloodhound Jack
the Ripper" raised by J nks l.. Win
chell at the Fairhaven kennels, which
has been in Boston since the bench
show in that city, has been stolen, and
the police of Boston are on the lookout
for the animal. The dog is valued at
many thousand dollars.
The first annual meeting of the in
cOrpOrated village of MOrrisville was
held Monday evening of last week. A
tax of four cents was voted. The trus-
tNNo "NAb iiioil uNNtu W nave ~ SURVEY vi
the village made, to provide n suitable
lookup, and to investigate as to the put
ting in an electric fire alarm system.
There is danger in impure blood.
There is safety in taking Hoods Sarsa-
Perilla, the great blood purifier 100
doses one dollar.
Wright 6 Reynolds of Jamaica, are
cutting out and are to ship from that
station about 2,OOO,0O0 feet of lumber
over BrattleborO and Whitehall narrow
gauge railroad. The steam mills are
quite busy along the line of that road,
and an unusual amount of business is
anticipated during the coming summer
and fall.
james o. Written, proprietor of the
Boston glue works at AllstOn, died sud
denly last week at his home in Cam
bridge, aged 81. He was born in Caven
dish, and went to Cambridge in 1879,
when he started the glue business. His
liking for horses led him into establish
ing livery stable at Cambridge, which
he conducted up to the time of his death.
Mr.. Written was member of the BOs-
ton Chamber of Commerce, New Eng
land Breeders Association, Cambridge
Citizens Trade Association and several
other organizations. A widow and two
sons survive him.
The Boston papers say that Judge
II. II. Wheeler of Brattleboro is one of
three referees who are engaged in a
hearing at Boston on bill in equity, in
volving Sl,0OO,O0O; q suit brought by the
Manchester and Lawrence railroad com
pany tO compel the Concord railroad
to account for property OBJ
tained while the two roads were being
operated together
The Shel Ion museum at Middlebury
has just received Bible translated in
Geneva about 1860. Il is known as the
'breeches' Bible, and for nearly CEN
tury was the most popular Bible in En-
gland. IL was printed in London in
1911, the same year as the version now
in common use. A copy of both YER
siOns, printed by the same person, in
black letters, is in the museum.
The Bercan church of Burlington, of
which John NJ. Mathews was member
from its origin, was generously remem-
bered by him in the disposal of his prop
erty. He desired that a mortgage of
$500 upon the church property which