The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-10-09
CURRENT NOTES.

Luther r. Marsh lectured before the
Spiritual Temple in Boston Monday.
Miss Kate D. Knowles has been APP
pointed assistant postmaster at Newport
r.
Two hundred journeymen tailors of
Toledo, o., struck Monday for increased
pay.
Secretary Noble left Washington
Monday to attend the reunion of the
Army of the Tennessee.
"A movement is on foot to buy up all
the rice mills of the South by syndicate
composed, it is said, of Standard Oil peo-
pie and English capitalists.
Edwin Z. Campbell, prominent
quarryman of Watertown, n. Y, was ar
rested Monday for assaulting seven
year old girl, and confessed.
Timothy Hopkins, the contestant in
the will of Mrs. Searles, arrived in Bos-
ton, Monday, with his counsel, Judge
Holt. The will contest is to be resumed
October 14th.
Owing TO low water inl the Ohio
River eighteen steamboats, are aground
between Cincinnati and Point Pleasant,
W, Va. Great loss and inconvenience
are being caused
The steel screw steamship Arago,
bound from Oregon points for San Fran
cisco, was wrecked on the rocks off the
Oregon coast near Mashfield, Saturday
night. The crew and passengers are re-
ported safe.
George Schlinger, the Chicago po-
iceman who worked so valiantly at the
Haymarket Square fire Sunday morning,
was shot and dangerously wounded in
the evening by desperate criminal who
resisted arrest.
The model Christian is the man who
does not sit on store box and white
while his wife is carrying water to do a
two-weekS' washing.
Customer, at bird store-'Is this
parrot over here talker?"
Oowner of the Stors-''Is he talker?
Madam, we call that bird 10 Cook"
If plant happens to get frost bit
ten before it can be taken into the house
it should be kept out of the sunshine
and well watered. This will most likely
revive it. Sprinklng the leaves and
shading the plant are the best means of
reDairinp tho damoUnc
"A very unusual sight was witnessed
in the Columbia River the other day
when four large whales came inside the
bar and assembled the stream as far as
Knappton. They had absolute right of
way, all boats giving them wide berth.
Rev. Pink PUNK, in the Chicago
Herald says: "A certain amount oh dig
nifty is all berry well, deah breddern, but
de man dat gifts so dignifed dat he neb-
Der looks at de sidewalk often his digni-
ty unbalanced by steppin' ON de banana
peel dat hez been carefully avoided by
his humble neighbor
"A great wagon road scheme is afoat
for Western Washington. 1t is to have
a public highway from the Straits of
Fuca to the Columbia River. This
movement means coast road of nearly
three hundred miles in length, extend
ing across the State. The result would
be the immediate settlement of big,
unoccupied territory, which would add
immensely to the wealth aud population
of that portion of the State.
"A superstitious Kentucky gambler,
and gamblers are superstitious lot, had
been playing in hard luck for several
days. He conceived the idea few days
ago that if he were to open the grave of
woman who was recently buried, and
take from her finger gold ring which
was buried with her. it would change
his luck. He dug up the body and Sc
cured the ring, and was caught wearing
it. He was arrested and confessed.
"A rehearsal in the Broadway Thea
tire was interrupted the other day by
an inconsiderate usher, who fell head
first from one of the proscenium boxes,
landing on his feet, like a cat. The
scrub woman had left treacherous
piece of soap on the stage, which wash
ed the young man into the orchestra pit
But he was true to his Chesterfieldian
instincts, however, and apologized to
the stage manager for interupting the
rehearsal and went out to patch up his
bruises.
Between Sept. q and 2G, the water
in Salton Lake, in Southern California,
fell fourteen inches. The greatest depth
of the lake then was thirty-six inches
and its area thirty miles long and ten
wide. Recent visitors do not think it
has changed the climate of the sur
rounding country, and that the humidity
in that neighborhood has been increased
only in a modified degree, now register
ing 90 degrees, while the ordinary hui
Nudity of San Francisco is 70.
Record smashing is the order of the
day. A few days ago Mrs. Georgia A.
Brown broke the divorce record in Cali
fornia. She filed her complaint at Oak
land on Tuesday morning, the sum-
mons was served on Wednesday, on
Thursday her husband put in frivolous
answer, and on Friday the answer was
out. The case was referred,
testimony was taken, and the decree was