The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-31
NEWS AND NOTES,

Lynn, Mass, had another severe fire
last week Friday, doing $500, 900 damage.
The formation of reservoir COM
pany in Springfield has been completed
and measures will be at once begun for
putting dam on the Black River.
Railroad street in st. Johnsbgry is
to be partially paved with concrete, a
contract calling for the expenditure of
$2500 having been made, and the work
already begun.
Blanche, daughter of Charles Wal
lace of Ryegate, was thrown from a car
riage against barbed wire fence and re-
ceived very serious injuries.
Senator Brice of Ohio went to Europe
in good season to avoid the period of PTS
toll drawing among his brethren in the
Buckeye State. The question in Ohio is
whether or not he will come home in
time for the pocket book drawing.
The refurnished White House. when
President and Mrs. Harrison go back to
it this fall, will have 10 foreign TAPESTRIES
or carpets or furniture or furnishings in
it. 1t will be an American presidential
home, with the products of American
workshops and looms adjoining it.
The Boston Herald, a Jealous advocate
of the confirmation of Bishop Brooks,
prints a strong editorial to show that he
is not Unitarian. But why should such
an argument be necessary? Is it not GU
rious that so much evidence is required
to satisfy the public that an Episcopal
bishop is an Episcopalian?-Troy Press.
pheasant hours fly fast" Pleasant
hours with piles Absurd! Cure them
with Old Saurs Pile Ointment. At all
dealers for 25 cents.
Wisdom goes not always by years.
Any child knows that Old Sauls Catarrh
Cure cures catarrh. Don't take any
other. Price 25 cents.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says
that Mr.. Cleveland is sicker man politi-
cally than Mr.. Blaine is physically, be-
cause she is suffering from cancer of the
hopes, Bright's disease of the expecta-
tons, consumption of the chances, paral-
ysis of the delegations and a general
breaking down of the whole system"
This list may be completed by adding
palpitation Of the heart whenever the
Democracy West and South denounce his
silver views.
A city boy who went to spend a few
weeks with his uncle, a Leominster far
lllCI, WAS llON W OdIOh NOOu-
chucks in steel trap for his amusement
The first morning, says the Fitchburg
Sentinel, the boy brought up one all
right. The second morning he came into
the yard and called out: "See here, un-
Gle, have got black and white one this
| time, and it smells dreadful. 1t is awful
pretty, but can't stand it to drag it any
longer" The boy changed his clothes in
the barn.
The declining powers of old age may
be wonderfully recuperated and sus-
tanned by the daily use of Hoods Sarsa-
| parilla.
A Belfast, Me-, woman has invented a
chair which she calls book agent
chair. The back works with rachel at
tachment that allows it to go back, max
| ing reclining chair. When in position
the back is upright, and unless one is fa-
miliar with it it will pitch forward. One
day last week book agent called and at
tempted to seat himself in the chair. He
was well on the forward edge, and was
pitched forward to the floor. The man
was laid out his full length and his sam
pies were scattered in all directions. He
arose and hastily gathering his things,
fled without word.
Tho famous ST. Paups Cathedral
reredos case was dismissed in London
yesterday with costs against the appel
LIANT This was the appeal against de-
cision of the bishop of London, 1888.
The question raised was as to the legali-
ty of the figures in the reredos at the
back of the altar of st. Paul's Cathedral,
London, the contention of the appellants
being that the figures of our Saviour and
of the Virgin Mary were calculated to
encourage superstition and to suggest
unlawful ideas of devotion. The decision
sustains the bishop, who held that this
contention was not well founded, and
consequently insures the retention of the
figure.
A local news bureau quotes Pension
Commissioner Raum as talking in this
wise to the local pension agent at Chica-
go: affairs have been going altogether
too slowly in the Pension Department
and l am going to hurry through and
dump 900 original cases upon the va
rious pension agencies of the country be
fore the year is out. There is no sense
in letting these cases hang on, and | see
no reason why, with the big force OF
clerks at my command, we should moi
dispose of these cases at once. Then
when they are disposed of l can get rid
of lot of those clerks have there; per
haps we can do the work with half the
force after we dispose of the original
cases." Gen. Raum was quite enthusi-
astic over his new scheme and said he
had already given orders in accordance
with his plan.