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DAYS OF GRACE.
The Correct Version ofthe Law Relht-
ing TO TheIr A boIish menI.


The following circular, which has just
been issued by the Merchants National
bank of Burlington. and which we find
in the Free Press of Friday, is of interest
to readers: For the purpose of correcting
erroneous reports and of giving accurate
information regarding the laws enacted
this year by the Legislature of this State
regulating the maturity of contracts and
fixing legal holidays, we quote below the
laws governing the same, which Will go
into effect February LIST, 1893;
AN ACT REGULATING THE MATURITY OF
CONTRACTS.
1t is hereby enacted By the General as
sembly Of the State Of Vermont:
Section /. No grace, according to the
custom of Merchants, shall be allowed
on notes, drafts checks, acceptances, bills
of exchange, bonds, or other evidences
of Indebtedness, executed or payable IN
the State, whereby he, they, or 1t, shall
promise to pay any person, corporation,
or order, or the bearer, any sum OF
money or other value as mentioned
therein, and III which there is no express
stipulation to the contrary, but the same
shall be due and payable on the day and
date named therein.
Sec. 2, Allnotcs, drafts, checks, accep--
ances, bills of exchange, bonds, or other
evidences of indebtedness, falling due on
Sunday, or a legal holiday, shall, for
every purpose, be considered as due on
! the next following business day.
| Sec. 3. Sections 2009, Poll and 2Ol2 of
the revised laws, and number l42 OF the
/ session laws of 1888, and all acts and
| parts of acts inconsistent with this act,
| arc hereby reDealed
Sec. 4, This act shall nOtapply to con-
tracts made before the first day OF jan
uary A. ID. 1898.
AN ACT TO AMEYD SECTION POLO OF THE
REVISED LAWS OF VERMONT.
II is hereby enacted by the General As
sembEy of the State Of Vermont.
Section 1. Section POLO of the Revised
Laws of Vermont, is hereby amended to
read as follows:
The first day of January, the fourth
day of July, the thirtieth day of May
the twenty-tifth day of December, the
twenty-second day of February, Wash,
ingtons birthday, and any day appointed
by the governor of this State or by the
president of the United States, as day
of fast, or Thanksgiving, shall be Legal
holidays, and shall, for purposes of pre-
senting for acceptance or payment, and
for protesting and giving notice of the
dishonor of bills of exchange, drafts
cheques, and promissOry notes, be con
sidered like Sunday, but whenever
any of the days named in this section
falls on Sunday, the next preceding Sat
urday shall, for purposes named in this
section, be considered like Sunday,
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SOMETHING WITHOUT CHARGE,

Il you are suffering from some linger-
ing or long-standing complaint which re-
fuses to yield t. treatment, why do you
not consult the skilful and eminent DR..
Greene, of 81 Temple Pl., Boston, Mass,
by letter? He is the discoverer of the
wonderful DR.. Green's Nervura blood
and nerve remedy, and is a specialist in
the cure of all forms of nervous and
chronic diseases. He devotes special at
tention to the treatment of patients at
distance through letter correspondence,
and his success in restoring even the
worst and apparently incurable cases tt
health with its harmless vegetable RENE
dies is marvellous.
Write him a description of your case
and he will return a carefully considered
answer fully explaining yonr disease
and giving you perfect understanding
of all its symptoms, free of expense. II
will, therefore, cost you nothing to con
suit him, and there is almost positive
assurance of being cured. as thousands
of others have been. Send for his symp
tom blank to fill out.
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WEATHER REPORT.

The weather for the month of NOVem-
Der, as reported by the voluntary observ-
ers of the New England Weather Service,
was wetter than usual, with nearly
normal temperature. The temperature
ranges were neither large nor rapid; the
maximum was slightly over 60o and oc-
Cured on the 18th at most stations. Low
temperatures occurred on the 18th, 18th,
23d and oath, the minimdm being gen
orally on the latter date and ranging
from 1Oo to 20o below the freezing point
of water. At Boston the mean daily
temperature was very near the normal
during the drst half of the month; it
was above from the 18th to the 10Th and
then below from the goth to the end of
the month.
The precipitation was above the nor
NAL in the south and at or slightly below
in the north. The total for the month
was from 3 to in most of Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont, and from to
7 in most of Massachusetts,. Rhode Island
and Connecticut The total at New York
CITY was S.2S inches. More than the
| usual amount of snow fell except in some
parts of the northern districts. The tal
amounted to from 4 to 10 inches in the
south and from 8 to II inches in the
/ nerth. In the latter section 1T nearly al
came on the I'd, 9Th aud 10th and com
paratively little on the 28th-30th, while
| along the c1ast the fall was heavy on thu
latter dates and little or none came dur
ing the FIRST part of the month. TIT
earlier SHOWS melted very rapidly as thu
ground was not generally frozen and yer!
little lay on the ground at the middle o
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-16
RATES OF POSTAGE.

An old Almanac for 1914 gives the fol
lowing as the rates of postage prevailing
at that time 'For every single letter
by land, for forty miles, eight cents;
ninety miles, ten cents; $50 miles,
twelve and half cents; 300 miles, seven
teen cents; 500 miles, twenty cents, and
for more than 500 miles, twenty-five
cents. No allowance to be made for in
termediate miles. Every double letter is
to paw double the said rates; every trip
lie letter. triple; every packet weigh
ing one ounce, at the rate of four single
letters each ounce. Every ship letter
originally received at an office for deliv-
cry, six cents. Magazines and pamphlets
not over fifty miles, one cent per sheet;
over fifty miles and not exceeding ion
miles, one and half cents per sheet
over 100 miles, two cents per sheet. -
QuincV Patriot.
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The President concludes his message:
"This exhibits of the work of the exec
utive department is submitted to Con
gress and to the public IN the hope that
there will be found IN it due sense of
responsibility and an earnest purpose to
maintain the National honor and to pro-
mote the happiness and prosperity of all
our people And this brief exhibit OF
the growth and prosperity of the country
will give us a level from which to note
the increase or decadence that a new
legislative policy may bring to us.
There is no reason why the National in
fluence, power and prosperity should
not observe the same rates of increase
that have characterized the past thirty
years. We carry the great impulse and
Increase of these years into the future.
There is no reason why, in many lines
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he month in any section. On the goth
the snow covering was from trace to
"A inches in the north and from 3 to l
inches in the south. Although the
ground was bare during most of the
month no injury has been done to grass
and fall sown grain because of the equa-
BILE temperature. In many fields the
thick growth of grass during the fall WILL
serve as a splendid protection to grass
roots this winter.
On the 18th the Connecticut valley
was visited by severe wind storm which
worked considerable injury. A number
of tobacco barns were blown down and
others unroofed; a number of workmen
were injured in falling barn at Wind
sor, Conn. In southwestern New Hamp-
shire much damage was done to build
ings and trees. The storm of the 29th-
Both was most severe on the extreme
southeastern coast.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-16

HOOPS PILLS are the best family cathartic.
gentle and effective. Try box. Price Csc
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-16
IT Is USELESS

for young ladies who are troubled with
freckles, plmples, moth and tan and a
bad skin generally to use liquid paints or
dry powders, for they only make the
skin look well for the time being, To
have a good complexion you must have
pure blood. Use Sulphur Bitters and
your skin will be fair and complexion
ROSY. Young Ladies' Magazine.
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NurLEY Has LOST ITs JOY.

Nutley, n. j., that seat of music, art
and literature, situated upon the New
ark branch of the Erie Railroad over
looking the beautiful Yantacan River,
had small celebration on Saturday
night, when it became known that Mr..
III. C. Bunner, the respectable profession
al poet, who is editor of Puck, had dis
posed of his only donkey, and that joys
high baritone would no longer disturb
the slumbers of his neighbors. Red fire
was burned on the road IN front of Mr.
Burners lawn, and q feeling of hilarity
took possession of his neighbors. Nut
ley rejoiced because it was JOyless.
Every resident in Nutley will swear
that last March Mr.. Bunner bought a
donkey. In spirit of sarcasm this don
key was christened Joy. He had habit
of sleeping in the daytime.
The artistic citizens of Nutley have a
habit of sleeping at night. joys vocal
operations were confined to the time
when the other Nutley musicians were
accustomed to sleep Joy would begin
at G and roam dd libitum through the
major and minor scales, occasionally in
estate moments reaching Q sharp.
A syndicate was formed in Nutley
during the summer to purchase JOY.
Mr.. Bunner believed that his heartless
neighbors had conceived a wicked plot
to annihilate the tuneful beast. He
spurned an offer, it is said, which the
owner of fine trotter might have grasped
| at.
That night JOY rendered an allegro
ObLigdtO that would have entranced a
German band. 1t was so realistic hat
Mr. Bunner could think of no other wOrd
to rhyme with "duLcinG" than ''pdnd
Ced.'
In an old Latin work which he was
porting over Mr. Bunner came across a
paragraph which stated that a donkey
could not bray without Strengthening
out his tail, and he began experiments
upon Joy, with view to finding how
much weight was necessary to. hold
down donkey's bray,
When he found the happy medium he
tied stone of the proper weight tc
joys tail. The next night silence brood
ed over Nutley, and the night after thai
she brooded some more. But on the
fourth, after few preliminary trills anC
quaveIs, joys voice arose i'll symphony
mat lasted for long.
First the movement was dnddnte, theI
it became dlLegrettO, then aLiegO UiUdce
and it wound up with a triumphan
allegro .furiOSO.
Mr.. Bunner was writing a pOem-tht
ordinary occupation OF respectable pro
fesslOnal poet. For an instant he cOulC
hardly move, so astonished was he
Then he stole softly out of the house
There in the pale moonlight stood Joy
his feet on the ground, his tail, with tn
heavy weight tied to it, resting on tn
second step of the porch, looking at it
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Del. & Raritan Canal Co. Trenton, !

Del. 6 RarItan Canal Co. Trenton, N, J)
was troubled for several years with
indigestion and a burning sensation in
my stomach. accompanied with sore
ness across my stomach; my food did not
agree with me, and | felt miserable. |
saw Dr.. Deane's Dyspepsia Pills adVer-
tised in the True american and made up
my mind to give them a trial. After
using three 25c bottles can eat any
thing | want and feel no. i'll effect, and
am apparently as well as ever was.
As HARRY FABIEN.
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THE WIN. RADAM
MICROBE KILLER
MRS. MARY GIBSON. Agent, Bennington, Vt
Testimonials:
PARALYSIS,

MRS. MARY GlbSONs AEtHbs bShhAhEboAf W.
Testimonials:
PARALYSIS.
MOsHEIM leuu March 3lst, 1897.
Radam's Mcrube Killer. Nashville, Tenn.:-
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ber 1886 commenced the use OF Radam's Mi,
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as it has been for many years
attribute my paral zed condition to over.WOrk
both physically and mentally. having suffered
'iO ResnectmIly. D. X. SELF.
GOSHEN. n. V. Nov. 20, 1898
GentIemen-It is with feelings of gratitude that
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health. uf
NV Younger son 10 years Of age was great SUI
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I,ast winter had a severe tack Of la Grippe
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We have not hat a doctor in the house since we
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Ever and always thanking you, the dlscoVerer
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of production, we should not surpass all
other nations as we have already done in
some. There are no near frontiers to
our possible Development. Retrogres-
siOn wOul1 he a crime
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
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II have been trying DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup, and l am well pleased with it.
My son had the whsOping cough and
bad cold followed. 1 tried your DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup and in three nights
he was better. Moses VERIFY, Lancaster
Court House, Pa"
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The joints and muscles are so lubri-
Gated by Hoods Sarsaparilla that all
rheumatism and stiffness soon disappear.
Try it,
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EQUINOX HOUSE,
SUMMER RESORT.
Manchester, Vermont.

WlaHUHOOIO49 TUT N44V'
Ouick trains from New York, Troy, Albany;
Boston. including night train TO New York sun
daV.
Day drawing room and sleeping cars through
from New York withou, change. Time from New
York to Manchester hours.
The 30 y m. train from New York Saturdays
T pnSs n nott taken iI'''''' f. II. oRvIS.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-25
THE WEEKLY.

Yesterdays WEEKLY NEWS has won
instant commentator from Repub-
licans. We didn't really expect it to
command the admiration Of anyone else
as a whole, though Democrats and as
sistant Democrats must unite in the ad-
mission that it was fine, readable
newspaper. The admirable letter of
Mr.. Lansing, the exclusive account Of
the dissension between Honey and Page,
the ardent Republicanism which
breathed from every page made the
WEEKLY NEWS prominently cam
paign paper. while its admirable news
features make it valuable paper to
send to old RHODE islanders now liv-
ing out of the State.
Readers of the daily News were
pleased to note that we gave them the
benefit of all the special features pre-
pared with much care and attention for
the weekly.
The NEWS is going to make a great
fight for Republicanism this year.
Watch it and, if you are Republican,
get that doubtful voter to reading it.
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THE FREE PARLIAMENT.

Lansiug's Letter-The Pay OF Printers.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, June "a, 1892.
To the Editors Of the Neioe
am somewhat interested in reading
Mr.. Lansing's letters from England, but
he is "away Off in his comparison OF
wages for typesetting in Scotland by plac-
ing the price at I'd. or l5 cents per 200 ems
in that country as against 40 TO so cents
per 1000 here. In England, and, in fact
over the whole United Kingdom, the
price paid is per 1000 ens-here it is by
ems-which would make the comparison
80 to 5O-as an en- is half an EN-, the stand
ard OF measurement here, en- being the
standard there / thought you would
like to know this, so / write.
Yours, etc. 4. Il. 5.
A gentleman in the NEWS composing
room who has worked in the British
colonies of South Africa, but never in
England, says that the colonial scale is by
lens" and not Gems" We have referred
the whole matter to Mr.. Lansing for
further examination and report. The
pay of printers in Great Britain is, how
ever, estimated at from 81 to 80 weekly in
the consular reports and wage tables.
Another NEWS compositor, who has not
himself worked in England but who has
worked with men straight from the old
country corroborate this statement of
comparative prices and earnings. The
great discrepancy in weekly earnings he
attributes to greater "fussiness in fin
ishing work on the other side. American
printers spend less time in non-essentials.
A printer direct from Edinburgh where he
had earned upwards of $40 a week came
to New York and earned from SIS to $50.
This was night work in both cases, which
is better paid but very wearing.
EDS NEWS
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IN NEW YORK AND ELSEWHERE.

L
An ex-President is supposed to have
no political future, and Mr.. Cleveland.
accordingly, risked less in putting him.
self up against the assaults of victorious
Republicanism than any other man of
his party would have done. Supposing
Mr.. Cleveland to have anything to lose
by defeat, his position is most trying
and critical.
In New York city, the lair of the tiger,
the Commercial Advertiser, a staunch
Democratic sheet, has bolted inconti-
nently. "The convention" it says,
"has relieved the New York Democracy
of the obligation to exert itself to de-
liver the electoral vote of the State to
Mr.. Cleveland" And as if this deliver
ance were not blunt and flat-footed
enough: "The action of the Chicago
convention has rendered the reelection
of Mr.. Harrison an easy and grateful
task"
The Sun will support Cleveland and its
fearful and wonderful crawfshing will
hurt him more t1es, its opposition could
have done. Neither of the Virginias," !"
said tho Sun editorially on April "a,
"nor either of the Carolinas, nor Florida,
nor even Georgia, is surely Democratic
with Cleveland on the ticket"
The Democracy" it said on June 8,
might just as well disband at once as
issue these Claimants bonds fer defeat
every four years."
"RHoDE ISLAND went Republican"
it said on May 90. "Let RHODE ISLAND
champion the Great Defeated by all
means"
Monsieur De Buffalo," it has in
sisted in season and out of season " is a
back number" Its hypocritical assent
to the candidacy of "the same old sar-
cotic dervish" is as dire blow as could
be struck at the chances of its "great
big fat man of very petty character"
Tammany will not oppose Cleveland.
No split in the party is probable or pos
sible; but Bourke Cochran in his ex-
traordinary address at Chicago just be-
fore the nomination, stated Tammany's
position with absolute truth and frank
ness. "If we go back to our people" he
said, "and ask them to support Mug
wump candidate, one of two results
will follow. Either these people will
doubt our sincerity and refuse
to support the ticket, or
else they will concede our sim
cerity, but they will visit us with their
contempt and in both events the ticket
will be menaced with disaster" There
can be no question Of the genuineness Of
the belief of the Tammany leaders that
Cleveland, whom the Tammany rank
ard file have been taught for years to
despise, cannot in three months be
made an object of affection.
The Chicago convention did its ut
most 70 assure New Yorks electoral
votes TO Harrison. How is il elsewhere
The New York World, whose candidate
Cleveland is, counts these States as sure
ly Democratic: Alabama, Arkansas.
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
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Tho Annual Musical Festival OF
Lower Grades.

The Annual Musical Festival OF the
Lower Grades.
The pupils in the lower grades of the
public schools held their musical festival
ia the Federal Street School hall yester-
day afternoon. Miss Dora 4. Curtis had
charge. Pupils from Oxford, Federal and
Doyle avenue grammar aud Harriott,
Somerset. Warren, Greenwich, Eddy, Fed
eral aud Friendship street primary
schools took part Federal, Doyle aud
Oxford street pupils sang Natures
Voice" and God Is Good. I"
The Rev. Dr. NJ. III. Bixby, chairman Of
the music committee Of the, school com
mittee. made brief address explaining
the object Of the festival.
Pupils OF the fourth aud fifth years, the
intermediate and the primary pupils did
well, the latter performing fan drill.
Supt Tarbell made "A fitting speech.
Pupils from the Federal street gram
mar school -ssnr,-.wnen the Merry
Hearts" aud "Give" aud Oxford grammar
pupils sang Hark Hark; Hark." and
''rhe Night" aud Miss Avis Bliven gave
piano selection. George +. Barstow was
present
The result was very gratifying 20 the
teachers and members Of the school board
present
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GOV. BROWN AS A PRESIDING Off
GER.


The department of Gov. Brown as a
presiding officer during the past few
days has shown him to be.a man exactly
suited to the place to which the people
have called him. To an experienced
presiding officer the fillibusteriug
and dilatory tactics Of partisan mi
nority are sufficiently difficult to meos
but to one almost wholly without e1-
perience the task is generally insur'
mountable. The people, however, need
have no anxiety about Gov. Brown.
To his mind the Senate is assembled 10
transact business, and so long as he sits
in the chair that business will be done
as rapidly as is consistent with proper
care. The Democrats have learned TO
their sorrow that quorum is present
when there are nineteen men on the
floor whether they answer their names
or not. They have learned that talking
against time and like tactics are un-
axailing.
In short, they have learned that the
Senate has presiding officer who pre-
sides, and who has the courage of his
convictions.
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Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Mis-
souri,. North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Vir.
yinis. Six of them are reckoned bv the
sun as not by any means certain FOR
Cleveland, and the Peoples party may
give point to the Suns words.
OF the old doubtful States Qndiana,
New Jersey and Connecticut). Indiana
is conceded to the Republicans as a
necessary result of the Cleveland man
ayers treachery to Gray. Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Wisconsin, are the States classed by the
World as hopeful" There is no pre-
tense, ii will be observed. Of "hop-
ing" for RHODE ISLAND. Conservative
Democrats regard the nomination Of
Stevenson as a bait for Illinois, as a
plain case of rainbow chasing. With
Boies ignored, hope might as well be
abandoned of Iowa; Kansas, Michigan
and the rest are Republican States and
will SO remain.
Stevenson's nomination was bad
blunder. The Democratic ticket is
weak, head and tail. Republicans have
every motive to give summers jealous
and light hearted work for Benjamin
Harrison.