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

o G. Ed. Towne and daughter, Miss Nam
10 TOwne, have moved here from HoosiC
# Falls, n. Y, and occupy Nj. ID. Twitcl
l. ellis house, near the college.
MRS. POoRE has moved into her ne
store on North street, noticed in la!
. weeks BANNER. Mrs. PoOre's domest
bakery is the place to purchase supple
: for the table. See notice elsewhere.
: HENRY W. PUTNAM, JR., has been in
proving his lodge on the Lake Chan
f plain island owned by him near Cha
:. lotte. The property, boats, etc., hay
, been overhauled, reprinted and put /
: shape for the summer outing.
JOHN CONNOLLY, son of Maurice Cor
molly, died Monday morning, and wa
buried from St. Francis de Sales church
Wednesday morning, following yer
quickly his loved mother who was burie
= quite recently. His disease was cor
sumption.
AND now it is telegraphed from Wash
ington, that Vermont was obligated +
' defend her frontier during the war henc
has no offset to the Government claim
5 Anything to prevent our getting the di
= rect tax dividend seems to be the idea il
some quarters.
Q THE May issue of the Star is out, and
5 as usual, is full of good things. Gu
people generally should pahOnize thi
enterprise by purchasing copies, so as t.
enable the young editors OF our Graded
. schools to get up a boon" issue to clos
the school year next month.
The centennial committees, State ant
local, expect now to have another join
meeting at Bennington the first or sec
Ond week in June. The preparations TO
but there needs to be much more dOn'
by our people in offering to furnish
places for people to stay in while here.
On Wednesday party of New Yorl
gentlemen accompanied II. W. Martin
the b. & r. officials and invited guests t.
Woodford, to look over the summer
homes in that town. The city visitors
expressed themselves as highly pleased
with the attractions of that Green Noun
tain resort.
THE family here have advices of a seri
GUS accident to Geo. w. Hall, Esq, al
Georgetown, Colo, a few weeks ago. A
piece of rock fell upon him from the TOP
of mine, cutting cash in his head ,and
as he fell his foot caught in the track
upon which he was standing and his an
Gle was severely crushed by the same
piece of rock. He is now cOnvalescing
which will be good news to his many
friends.
LAST week Monday the Herald issued
an extra edition called the Musical
Festival Edition." in which full pro-
gramme of the coming festival is
printed, with sketch of all the artists
that are to take part, besides much
other valuable and interesting matter
pertaining to music. This year the
great days are May 9th 2Sth and Goth,
but we do not hear as much about it as
in years past.
WIN. E. HAWKS, Esq, returned Friday
from a trip to the far Northwest, includ-
ing n run through Colorado to New
em and returning by the Southern
routes. He reports all the crops east of
the Rocky Mountains looking finely.
and Mississippi Valleys, to the west of
growing grain, corn, etc. We hope such
will not be the case this year.
TIE Troy Telegram of Wednesday
says: "The Rev. Fred Widmer, pastor
of Grace Methodist church, was success
fully operated upon Monday at st. Luke
Hospital in New York, for the removal
of cancer in his throat. The cancerous
growth was found under the windpipe
and weighed one and half pounds. 1t
took about two hours to perform the
operation, which the physicians consider
a very successful one. Rev. MIR. Widmer
will remain at the hospital for couple
of weeks"
i. NJ. PIKE of Rutland, is to be here
in few days on business connected with
the proposal of John S. Holden to put a
concrete walk around the property
owned by the firm of which Mr.. Holden
is the head corner of Main and Mill
streets. Concrete walks are very pOpu-
lar in the marble city," and that mater
ial is even used for paving the streets as
well. 1t seems to be durable and is
much cheper than stone. Mr.. Holden
hopes Father Michaud will unite with
him and so have new walk in front of
all the property from Dewey's to the
said corner before August
THE notice had gone out that the Rev.
Mr.. Conant, minister-in- charge of Zion
Church, Manchester Centre, would be
advanced to the priesthood next Tues
day, and the arrangements therefor had
been made. But now comes the notice
of pOstponement, because of the impOs-
siblity of getting the papers ready, the
action of two diocese being necessary as
according to canonical law, the proper
amount of red tape cannot be measured
off in time. We are sorry for this fact
as it will be a disappointment to many
beside Mr.. Conant and his people.
The Granville, N. Y, Sentineps court
report of last week has this item: I'm
the action of S. Walter Scott VS.. the New
York Sun Printing and Publishing AssO-
citation, motion was made by the de-
PENDANT to postpone the trial. This &C
ton has attracted considerable attention,
having grown out of the mysterious
death of Maggie Horrigan at Greenwich,
which created so great sensation some
months since. DR.. Scott, the plaintiff,
charges the New York Sun with libel, in
that it published an article charging him
with the alleged murder. The trial has
once before been postponed on the de-
PENDANTS application, and this term it
asks again for pOstponement on the
ground that its attorney, Frank Bartlett
of New York city, had been called abroad
by the fatal illness of his daughter. Dis
trict Attorney Hull appeared for the de-
PENDANT, Gibson and Van Kirk for the
plaintiff; and the trial was postponed to
the next circuit at Salem, on payment by
the defendant of costs of the term"
BEGINNING with this month the Ma
tional and American Express companies
ba, Fnr,,,n1 alliance 20 ht1l Nl,vA,,uI
on each others lines, making one rate
of charges to many points where two
rates existed before. The general super
in Albany. Z N. Smith remains the
superintendent of the Troy department,
and his assistants are T. Van Wagner,
route agent, Saratoga, and g. S. COlvin,
route agent, Troy. This promotes G. S.
Colvin, and we are glad to hear of his
well-deserved good fortune. The tariff
department of the new deal is at Albany,
under the direction of G. d. Austin. 1t
is also announced that at an early date
the American Express Company will
withdraw from the Fitchburg east of
North Adams and the local business over
that road will be transacted by the Ma
tiOnal Express Company, which has also
made an alliance with the Northern Ex
press Company for the interchange of
business, and continuous line from
ocean 10 ocean is formed. BY these
agreements packages will be practically
shipped through one company and there
will therefore be reduction in rates.
IT is now hoped that the exercises of
Commencement week will be more
varied and interesting than ever before
held in the history of the school. A
large part of the week will be taken up
in various exercises and exhibitions ar
ranged to show the public what the
school is doing in various lines of work.
On Monday and Tuesday of Commence
ment week at hours to be hereafter an