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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-13

The WEATHER 80 o'clock on
Saturday evening there was shower OF
rain e00a after hich thesun came out and
the western skies were brilliantly lighted.
white In the east beautiful double rainbow
formed. During this time there were seeo
several fl Ishes Of lightning 10 the southwest
otu heavens, followed by thunder. About
orlock there Was another thunder storm,
Tho A ,shes of lightning being very vivid and
some of the peaIs of thunder quite severe,
while for time the rain fell 10 torrents.
Liter tie skies cleared and the moon and
stars shone. Yesterday the skies we're over
cast most Of the day, but in the evening the
wind got around to the north west, when the
cloada wars dispalled, since which time the
weat her has been clear and springike
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-13

There is constant demand for Flour, we'll dis
tribute as TO grade, and there is no change to
note in figures to day the markets, however, are
very strong and firm. Wheat is again in the
hands of manipu ators, and there is tax of May
CORNER" having provoked tpirit of speculation (;
conser vative dealers, however, have bat little
faith in it, and are buying cautiously and not an
ticipating their wants; we quote tho range for all
sorts at from 100 to lis; ro cho,c, longbsrry is
coming 10 this market Corn is steady at 79a81
in bulk Oats 60a63 Eggs 12a13. Butter Tia
% apd declining, Potatoes, Pork, Poultry, all
kinds OF produce, Millfesd, Hay and Straw are
scarce. Veal Calves and F ISL are dull.
BALTIMORE, April 13-Cotton dull middling
Q. Flour gu ct. Wheat-southern quiet; Fnit5
11Oa115; iougber1y 112 lie, No 1l2al1 Ii "A !;
steamer No 9 red ITO; Western hrmer; No z
winter red spot and April 49, May 1928 July
1Osa1O3A; Aug 1O5a1O5A. Coin-southeTn
fairly active; white 7e.78h; yellow 7zs rs ;
Western frmer; mixed spot and April 70 pic
May 74As74A; July II bid; steamer "a bid.
Oats firm Bye steady. Hay firm PROVISIONS
very strong. Sugar very active.
CHICAGO, April 13-1o:5O q. nl.-Wheat-8 May
1885,. Corn-May 6S1s; July 651s 90 "a. Oats
-Msy 54aA July 52A. Pork-Msy Sl2 62h;
Jnly $40 O5. Lsrd-May Sc 80; July So " y.
short ribs May S. 17ib
NEW YORK. April 13.-Cotton quiet; up'ands
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-13
onn FgLLows.-The Grand Lodg", l. Y
= ~ Virginia, will meet In annual sts-

oon FgLLows.-The Grand Lodg", l. y
n f. Of Virginia. will meet In annual ct g.
y ~ - 10 The city of Richmond tomorrow
:lo .rDine ct 10 O'Clock. J. B. Blanks. OF re-
m,' barg and J. B. Ley, Of Daoville. Repre-
tive. lives 10 the Sovereign Grand Lodge.
' ssti, snomt report showing white oid
r 81 IN the globe Jan. Let, 1891; Iodf-
r.Ssrr oder, Cos coo Manchester nity,
ND =, .,snd 70S 473 Total number OF men,
= i "a 46S 4?3-over one quarter of mil
. os No., : than reported by the next largest
10 ND y society increase of members "a
torel relief, Sl6S .435 10; total revenue
.It G95 66. Grand Master w. F. Larrsbee,
:, Hsmpton. will report the institution
u we've new lodges in Virginia
Q. large Increase In membership.
~" two lodges in this city will
LIZ shout coo members and will be repres snt-
i5 a D r. Stat sbury George s. Finch, ". W
cad - E Lyles and others, who left here to-
no in attendance. To morrow night re-
o"' -, wi be rendered tho Grand Lodge at the
3 u,,,-t Academy of Music, at which time an ad-
~ ,yil b, delivered by Hon. Chas. Bushee,
Yin Csroina, tho recently elected Grand Sire
l s.seordor. on the subject of The Principles
W, objects of Odd Fellowship"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
SPECIAL IEaIsIATIyE SESSION.

Gov. Page has this to say about the
special session. To a BANNER represen-
tative yesterday he said: "a special SEES
sion will be called for August 25th. ]
have not yetannounced it, but shall soon
do so. 1t is not probable that the legisla.
ture will d0any more than formally ac-
cept the direct tax money. They may
vote to reserve it for a school fund. /
hope they will. But they will not APP
propriate it to any special school or
branch of education"
The Governor was discreetly silent on
the Senatorial question. He merely re-
marked that although the legislature
might attempt to supply the vacancy, yet
in his opinion they would have no power
or right to do so. 81 have not said
whom shall appoint" said he, II want
to get their minds on the subject, so as
to do the wisest thing. However, l
shall probably name my choice at that
time,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
Important railroad Plaps

From Montreal, Sunday, comes the
OF a plan to let the Canadian
Pacific into Boston, which, if authentic
will materially change the aspect of mat
ters in Vermont along the line of what is
called the''Lake road" The dispatches
say: 1.-THE Canadian Pacific and Boston
and Maine Railway companies have prac-
tleally agreed upon a plan whereby the
distance between Boston and Montreal
will be materially shortened. All that
can be learned about it as yet is that the
Canadian Pacific is to build from st.
Constance to Rouse's Point, connecting
there with the st. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain Railway, which is owned by
the Boston and Maine, and that the Bos-
ton and Maine is to build two ''short
cuts" to save distance, one from Hard
wick on the ST. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain to Barnet and Wells River
on the Passumpsic Division of the Bos
ton and Maine, and the other from Fair
lee, on the same division, to Canaan, on
the Concordia Division of the Bostor
and Maine. 1t is understood that the
section of the st. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain Railway, from SwantoIf tC
Hardwick, to be utilized in the new
ohO. Aiiio! 70 w 10 Asi BoiJ iuiplONSu any
relaid with heavy rails, and it is the in
tention of both parties to make line tC
Boston that will be beyond competition
The distance saved will be about 20 miles
and there will be large advantage tC
the new lines in grades and curves
The incidental advantage to the Canadian
Pacific will be a connection with the
Delaware and Hudson at Rouse's Point
The Hardwick cutoff will pass through
the famous Hardwick quarries."
As several Manchester men are inter
ested in developing the Hardwick granite
quarries, this proposal is of interest tC
several in Bennington county.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10

Now that the "direct tax" is to come
to Vermont, the questions of an extra
session of the Legislature to receive the
money and 'what to do with it, are
topics of discussion. The Governor has
decided, it is said, to call the non-descript
body of 1890 together the last of August.
What they will do if SO called together
will never be known until after they adj
iourn. They will probably vote to re-
ceive the money, and may spend it. Gov.
Page is in favor of adding 1t to the
school fund, and so are we. The Gov
ernor will also recommend in his call for
an extra session that action be taken for
ceding to the Federal Government a site
for the proposed new public building at
st. Adams for which Congress appropri-
ated 100000 This should be done, and
we hope that this press prediction will
prove true: 1.-THE Legislative session
will probably open ON Tuesday, August
%, and continue two days. The cost of
a session of this length will be about
$1,000. 1t is not likely that any general
legislation will be seriously attempted at
the special session, as public sentiment
is pronounced in opposition to the
consideration of any bills other than
those for which the General Assembly
will be called together"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
Sunderland.

Mrs. W. S. Holt is on the sick list.
DIR. H, S. Allen is visiting at I'M
Gregory's.
Fred Parker and mother of Hoosick
Falls are visiting at 4. s. Parl1er's.
A. P. Bowen and family and f. Tarbell
and family spent the 4th in London
derry.
Rev. R. G. Soaring of Arlington will
hold services in Union church on Sun
day, July 18th at o o'clock a. m.
The sociakle and sale in the Congrega-
tional church last Thursday evening was
success, there being large attendance.
J. P. Williams and wife and II. S.
King and wife are at Queen City Park,
Burlington. A. S. Williams has re,
turned.
4. Garreau is more comfortable at this
writing. His children were called from
Dandy and Proctor last week, in expec-
tation of his death.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
STATE FINANCES,

State Treasurer Field has published a
statement of the present condition oil
the finances of Vermont. The total re-
ceipts from Oct. It'll, 1890 TO Juue S0th.
1891, have been $500, 4O6.81, total dis.
bursements $743, 771.78. OF the receipts
the income from the Bennington battle
monument fund was S53.47; received
from the u. s. Government for the
Soldiers Home, s7,04S.01; appropriation
from U. S. Government for battle monu-
ment, $4,000; from U. s. Government
for endowment Of agricultural college,
$3f, 900. OF the disbursements. 81,
3S0.s9 was paid for the Soldiers Home
on auditors orders; there was also paid
the Agricultural College, endowment
fund Of S31 600. The interest on the
Huntington fund paid TO the towns
amounted to S12,6596l; when to this is
added the nearly $4,000 from the. di-
rect tax fund it win go a long way to-
ward lettering the present unfortunate
condition Of our public schools.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
SPIRIT OLE TIE PRESS.

Learned men tell us that in Latin
the word editor means ''to eat" In the
United States it means to scratch around
like blazes to get something to eat.
From one Oho probably knOlos.
More than thirty years ago Kansas
was known to the people of the United
States as bleeding Kansas" That de-
scriptive title will apply now as well as
then, butthe people who are getting gen.
erously bled reside usually in the New
England states.-Brdndon Union.
The most disgusting feature of city
journalism to-day is the prominence
given to prize fighters. The life of these
brutes comes solely from the free adver-
Using they get, and if no word were pub
lished about their doings for six months
there would be 70 prize fighting.-Bel-
lo,Us Falls Times.
Il see no intimate connection be-
tween base ball and salvation, but there
certainly is a good deal to be said in
favor of athletic sports-amateu sports
in particular-which could properly be
said from the pulpit. Young men en-
gagged in athletics are kept from being
engaged in worse. 81 feel" said an
elderly gentleman to me yesterday who
interests himself in these matters, "that
am doing philanthropic work in help
ing the boys along who belong to these
athletic clubs. Times have changed since
l was youRgster when we worked from
sunrise to sunset. The boys to-day have
good deal of leisure, and,they are going
to use it in some way. Don't you think
it can be put in better in developing their
muscles than in loaf1ng around the
streets, ginneries and cigar stores ?
Well, do. - Hampshire County Journal
Practically, the case stands thus:
The present school law has set back the
cause of education in Vermont at least
25 years, and it has banished from the
State number of its very best educa-
tors, whom Massachusetts,, already a
hundred years in advance of Vermont in
educational matters, has been glad to re-
ceive into positions of high RESPONSE
bility.-St. JohHsburu Republican.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
A safe .Investn,ent.

Is one which is guaranteed to bring
you satisfactory results, or in case OF
failure a return of purchase price. On
this safe plan you can buy from our adj
yertised druggist bottle of DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. II is
guaranteed to bring relief in every case,
when used for any affection of Throat,
Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption,
Inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis, Asth-
ma, Whooping Cough, Group, etc.,
etc. 1t is pleasant and agreeable to
taste, perfectly safe and can always be
depended upon. Trial bottle free at
j. 7. Shurtleff's drug store.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10

How rare it is to see hale, hearty,
vigorous old man like this, who is adj
vanced in years but is good for many
years more. Too often we see old mea
and aged women weak, broken, sickly,
constantly suffering, miserable most OF
the time.
They look back upon their early years
with longing, and they look forward
with dread And yet no matter how
much their constitution may have been
impaired, there is no reason why they
should not live the rest of their days in
health and comparative strength. This
has been done by many in the past, and
is being done by more to-day. There is
a way for those who care to follow it.
Do you ask what this way is? We an
swer, by the use of that great life-giver
and strength imparter, Hunts Remedy.
1t is not only tonic, but food for the
life. 1t awakens to healthful action the
sluggish liver, the weakened kidneys, the
poor circulation. 1t makes the blood
better and gives a warm glow to the
system. 1t has been used for more than
fifty years, and is unquestionably the
best of all modern discoveries. Read
what has been said in its favor:
81 cheerfully recommend Hunts Rem
edy. 1t has almost raised the dead. -
DIR. L. A. PAhifER, Westerly, R. l.
Hunts Remedy siied me from death
by Bright's disease. "--JERE SMITH,
Kingston, N. Y.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10

state title is Victoria Regina, and sol
diers and servants, gay ladies and lords
whose breasts glittered with orders, were
alike on the Qui Uiue.
The Kaiser took carriage ride, and
his equipage was surrounded from start
to finish with outriders and gorgeously
uniformed guards. He breakfasted with
his grandmother, and the meal rose to
the dignity of state affair, with obsequi-
GUS flunkeys by the dozen to see that
everything went right and watchful
sentinels at every door to see that no Nc
Allisters came near the quarters wherein
their royalties took their chops and
coffee.
The Kaiser went to church, and a
splendid array of plumed and bedizened
military attaches rode by the carriage.
The English Life Guards, one of the
finest, if not the finest, of the crack cav
airy organizations of Europe, were pa
raded, inspected and then fell in and
solemnly escorted the Kaiser and his dis
reputable uncle, the Prince of Wales, to
the place of worship. They waited, grim
and stately, in stiff ranks, outside, while
the services went on. Then with the
same precision and ceremony, the party
went back to the castle again, making
almost as brilliant, though not as in
structive, show as one of Barnum's cir
Gus parades.
On the same morning the simple, I'M
ostentatious gentleman who is the Presi-
dent of the United States drove to church
at Cape May with two members of his
family, without any escort or fuss what
ever, just as any other plain citizen
might have done. Nobody expected the
President at that particular church; no.
body made any demonstration or display
because he went there. At the same
time President Carnot, the official chief
of the great armed French Republic, was
addressing the scholars at school for
workingmen's children in Paris, having
driven there unherald and unescorted, as
quietly and unostentatiouslya as President
Harrison had driven to church at Cape
May.
The contrast between the Royal and
Republican methods of going about is
striking enough to impress the dullest
mind. 1t is the contrast between sense
and nonsense; between silly and vulgar
and costly display for which the people
have to pay, and dignified, manly sim
plicity which cost the State nothing and
sets its people an example to be proud
of. 1t IS calculated to make sensible and
self respecting Americans and French
men heartily glad that they live under
Republican forms of government in
which the head OF, the State is merely its
| first citizen.-N. Y. Press.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
THE ELEcTRooUTEp oUARrrrrr

James NJ. Slocum, Harris A. Smiler
Joseph Wood and Schihiok Jugiro. the
four who were sentenced to death by
electricity at Sing Sing, N, Y, were exc.
cuted Tuesday morning. Although only
a few witnesses were allowed to be pres.
ent, and newspaper men were debarred
nevertheless, aided by vigorous imagi.
nation, the morbidly-hungry appetite Of
the American public was assisted to a
rather grewsome account of the proceed
ings.
The death warrant was not read to the
condemned men in the cell as was done
in the case of Kemmler. The warden
sad he did not know anything in the
law compelling him to read the death
warrant. As a precautionary measure
he would read it, but not at the time of
the execution-some time before if pos
sible. 1t was his wish to prevent the
other men from knowing that the first
man had been taken from the cell and the
exit was made quietly, and iron screens
were also placed across each cell-door.
The same order was followed in every
case, which was substantially the same
as at Kemmler's execution last summer.
except that the lower electrode was an
Piled TO the calf of theleg. The appar-
atus was of more improved and CON
venient nature than that at KemmeIOa's
execution, so that there was no delay
about turning on the current at any
time.
Slocum was the first, Smiler second.
Wood third and the Japanese Jugiro
last. All thu men went to their doom
without any trouble, and assisted.i in the
preparations in all ways possible. The
current in each case averaged 1900 volts
and was carried ON for twenty seconds.
The charge Of bungling in Reminders
case was removed by the action, here, and
at the same time it seems to be proved
that man viii not be killed by cleo
tricity until he has been roasted, as the
current was Of necessity applied sec
Ond time TO each man before death en-
sued, and every time the flesh was
burned Whether further experiments
and discoveries win remedy this remains
o be seen.
By $50 all the work was done and
early in the morning the autopsy was
commenced. Jugiro's body was first
placed under the dissecting knife. The
result has not been made public yet, and
may not be. There is some dispute as to
whether marks of burning were found
on the bodies or not.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
GOOD FOR yERMoN1, FARMING.

Those dismal people who are never
quite so near to being happy as when
they are endeavoring to show that New
England is ''decaying" got some very
vigorous raps over the knuckles from
Congressman Powers of Vermont, Satur-
day, in his address at the centennial
celebration of the town of Lyndon. Mr..
Powers's Grafton was striking eulogium
of Vermont, and its past and present
glories. One of the things he said will
excite considerable surprise even among
native Vermonters. He showed from
official statistics covering the years from
1880 to 1890 that Vermont raises more
corn to the acre than any other State in
the Union, with one exception-and that
one exception is New Hampshire. Fur
thermore, Vermont raises more wheat to
the acre than any other State east of the
Rocky Mountains; more oats than any
State east of the Rockies, except Illinois
and Minnesota; more rye to the acre
than any other, except illinois, Mime
sofa and Kansas, and more barley TO the
acre than any other, except Maryland.
California is the only State in the whole
Union that raises more buckwheat to
the acre than Vermont does, and there
is no State east of the Rockies that
raises as many potatoes per acre as Yer
mont Punctuated as these facts were,
in Congressman Powers's Grafton, with
the rather sarcastic exhortation, $50
West, young man." they were exceed
ingly Effected. In truth. they give the
pessimists heap to think about. With
such a record, old Vermont can hold her
head as high as any of her younger sister
States that have been won't to take on
rather superior and patronizing air when
they spoke of Vermont farming. YER
mont agriculture, as these facts demon
strate, is still in pretty healthy and
vigorous condition, and calls for no lam
entations from those men Iwho make it
a business to mourn the fancied ''de-
cadence" Of New England. -Boston
Journal
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10

John Hayes and wife spent Sunday in
Cambridge.
Mrs. Curtiss has returned with hei
millinery goods.
Miss Franc Prindle Of Poultney is stop.
ping at her grandfather's
NJ. 2. Hurd and NJ. J. Convey have re.
Turned from their pleasure trip.
George Vetal Of New York recently
spent few days with NJ. z. Hurd.
The lawn party, held at r. B. Randalrs
netted about twenty-five dollars.
Miss Ida B. Slade spent few days of
last week with friends in HOosick Falls.
w. II. Hoyt, teacher in Harrington's
school, Westchester, N. Y, is in town
for the summer.
Misses Bertha and Belle Hurd, of
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, are spending the
summer in town.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been using DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as well,
or that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran-
tee them every time, and we stand ready
to refund the purchase price, if satisfac-
tory results do not follow their use.
These remedies have won their great
purely on their merits. J. T.
Shurtleff, druggist.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10

1t pains the Bennington BANNER to
observe two newspapers using each other
in decent and respectable manner. All
WE'LL the entire State press cannot fol
low the Benningtonian style of Journal
ism. God forbid Hdrdiuick Gazette,
1t panied the BANNER to see two news
papers singing mud all over each other.
1t amused the BANNER to see these same
papers laying on the soft soap with equal
vigor only a few months afterwards.
All the same the Gazette evidently reads
the BANNER, inside and out, style or no
style.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-10

Elva Buck spent week with friends
in East Arlington recently.
Miss Grace Tuttle is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. G. B. Hard, at East Arlington, for a
few days.
Miss Amy Buck is at home, having
closed her school in District No. 3 last
week Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fowler and child are the
guests of Samuel Buck and wife, having
arrived Saturday.
Four couples from here went on Green
Mountain, July 4th, for pleasure trip
and partook of picnic on the top.
At meeting held with Mrs. Fred
Hoyt, June 25th, for the purpose of
forming a society of ''King's Daugh-
ters," the following officers we've elected:
Mrs. Fred Hoyt, president; Mrs. G. L.
Buck, vice president; Mrs. ii. Conlin,
secretary; Mrs. r. G. Mckee, treasurer,
There were ten names enrolled. Name
of society, Harmony" motto, "Begin
the web, and God will supply you with
thread" The next meeting will be held
with Mrs. Henry Colin, Thursday July.
after which they will be held the first
Tuesday of each month at the homes of
the members, as convenient.
1t may be of interest to some of the
readers of the BANNER to know some
thing of the progress the Rev. Mr.. Met
calf is making in church building in
Shushan, so copy the following from
the Salem ArtOm: 1.-The cornerstone of
the Methodist church was laid on Tues
day of this week with appropriate SER
vices. The following was the order of
exercises: Anthem, by the choir; read
ing of the Scriptures by the Rev. F. S.
Brink, pastor of the Baptist church,;
prayer by the Rev. w. S. Eaton, OF
Salem; laying of the corner stone by the
Rev. ]. i. Metcalf, with appropriate re-
ligious ceremonies, closing with the ben
ediction by the Rev. DR.. Coleman of
Troy, N. Y. The exercises were inter-
spersed with singing. In the corner
stone was placed copper box contain
ing a variety of both printed and writ
ten books, papers, manuscripts, hermet-
cially sealed. The stone, after being
placed in position, was securely cement
ed by the contractor, VIM. Mcintyre. The
exercises were all in keeping, and very
suitable for the time and occasion. One
hundred dollars was raised toward the
erection of the church.