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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-26
Miss,ssippi Veterars 20 Meet

JACKSON, Miss. May 25.-Gov. Stone,
grand commander of the confederate veter-
ans of Mississippi has called a grand camp
and reunion Of that organization, to be held
on the second Tuesday in July at this place.
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Oolorad Marhodists.

PITTsBURG, May 25.-rhe next confer
ence of the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion church will be held in Mobile, Ala. in
1896, aud as the centennial anniversary falls
upon that year there will be grand cele-
bratIon in Mobile and also In New York
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-26
A Clothing Factory Burned.

LOUISVILLE, May 25.-The establishment
Barry 81 Landrum, manufacturers Of jeans
clothing, was destroyed by fire tonight.
The loss is sl00 900.
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GOV. BoIEs' CALL FoR HELP.

DEs MONIES, IA, May 25-Gov. Boies
has issued a proclamation calling for relief
for the flood sufferers at Sioux City. The
proclamation states that the calamity
greatly exceeds the early estimates. The
number of families rendered homeless is
placed nt 600. and the number of destitute
of all ages at fully 5000. The number OF
dwellings swept away is given as l67, and
700 more were rendered untenantable.
RISING BELOW vICKsBURG.
VIcKsBURG, MISS, May 25.-The news
from below on both shores is alarming.
BAYOU Macon has overfiowed and caused
heavy losses to planters. The Boeuf and
Tensas rivers are rising fast; over five feet
in twenty-four hours, and Tensas parish is
being heavily flooded.
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HOMELESS IN TIE FLOOD.

Ten Thousand People Driven Out OF
the L3wlands of Arkansas.
MARIANA, Ark. May 25.-Appalling
reports come from the lowlands on the st.
Francis and White rivers. 1t is estimated
that at least 10000 people have been
rendered homeless. Thirty-two lives
have been lost in the Arkansas
bottoms, and a report comes from
the White and st. Francis rivers that sew
eral negroes and Indians have been drowned
there
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-29
VERMONT DEMOCRATS.

"Col. Forbes" says the Barre Ledder,
''has forestalled the Democracy and an
nounced its candidates." etc. Well, the
the colonel has done pretty well on the
guess, as the following Will show:
Vermont Democrats have not been ac-
customed in the past to political activity
during the winter season, but this year
unusual interest in the coming presiden-
tial campaigns being manifested among
the party leaders in this State
In 1884, and also in 1888, the party was
united in support of that Apostle of
Reform''-GrOver Cleveland. The result
of the election of the candidate of the
Vermont Democracy to the Presidency
eight years ago was aspeedy distribution
of the Federal offices under the Jackson
ian spoils system among the faithful
Messrs. Phelps, Smalley, Atkins, and
the balance of the party, being promptly
appointed to office by the new admins
tration.
Time, it Is said, changes all things,
and change appears to have came over
the spirit of the dreams of the Demo-
cratic leaders during the last three years.
To-day the name of Grover Cleveland is
mentioned with reverence but not with
enthusiasm by the unterrified in this
State.
1t is not State secret that Col, Brad
lev b. Smalley, the head and front of the
Vermont Democracy, and who was
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GEN. GRANTS MEMOIRS.
Genuine Edition CIubbed With This Paper
and Cosmopolitan.

Genuine Edition CIubbed With This Paper
and Cosmopolitan.
The price of General Grants Memoirs
is 81 per set. Many of our readers have
bought the work at that price. We are
able to announce that we have made an
arrangement by which the Memairs can
be obtained for fraction of the usual
price. The BANNER $1.5O, the Cosmo-
politaa Magazine, SO, and the Memoirs
81, together we offer for s., an offer not
to be equaled The combined price Of
the three is S11.50. This is the pub
fishers original edition of the Memoirs,
not cheap edition, but the regular 500
copy. The Cosmopolitan is one of the
best and most elaborate of the illustrated
magazines. As many already possess
Grants Memoirs, we can supply in their
place either Sheridan's, or Sherman's, or
MCClclldn dI Jnc sdlhc loN ldlc vi f"'OO'
Subscribers will have to pay express
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lected. Postage on Gen. Grants vols.
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The Cosmopolitan has grown in three
years from a monthly issue of 10000
copies to regular circulation of $4,000,
with occasional editions of J00. 900 copies
You can have the advantage of the above
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VERMONT CONVENTION OF RE
PUBLICAN CLUBS.

The opening gun in the Presidential
campaign in this State, will be fired at
the meeting of the Republican League
of Vermont, to be held on the annivers-
airy eff the birthday of Abraham Lincoln
February 18th.
The occasion promises to be made a
notable one by the Republicans of the
Green Mountain State who will assem-
BILE at that time at Burlington in large
numbers to revive and reorganize the
State League of local clubs formed in
1888.
The selection of Lincoln's birthday for
the assembling of Republican club con-
ventions in every State was made by the
National Committee of the League, and
received the cordial approval Of the
Executive Committee of the Vermont
League.
The convention will be called upon to
revise the Constitution and bylaws, to
elect officers of the League and to choose
eight delegates and eight alternates to
represent the League organization in the
coming National League Convention.
The formal observance of Lincoln S
birthday will take the form of ban
quet rendered delegates and others by
the Republicans of Burlington, on
lnuTSudy evening, TeD. llJI.
The post prandial exercises will in
clude an address by one or more eminent
Republican leaders from abroad, and
short speeches from distinguished Yer
mont Republicans. Col Albert Clarke,
| Secretary of the Home Market Club, is
expected to address the conveotion or
protection and other issues of the cam
paign.
The present week will witness the re-
organization of many old clubs and the
formation of a number of new ohess The
basis of representation in the convention
will be one delegate for every 80 mem
bers, and an additional delegate for every
fraction thereof. The president and
secretary of each club are constituted
delegates eJ-oficiO. The necessary blanks
| for forming clubs and blank CREDENTIALS
for delegates will be supplied on applica.
ton to members of the Executive Com
mittee, or to c. S. Forbes, Secretary, St
Albans, vt.
The usual courtesy Of fare one way h
| those attending the League Convention
has been granted by the railroads of the
State, tickets good going February 1lth
and 18th, returning February 18th and
| 18th.
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AGREAT DOCUMENT.

There is no politics in the comments on
President HarrisOn's message to Congress
in reference to the complications with
Chill, says the Democratic Troy Press.
A synopsis appears in another place to-
day. 1t is an able, dignitied and ringing
production. The people of the United
States who are for war, as well as those
who are for peace, unite in commencing
the message. Mr.. Harrison rises to
the greatness of the occasion and has
taken the opportunity to produce a state
paper that will historically rank with the
abiest compositions of his predecessors.
Mr. Harrison's foundation claim is the
riChtfulness of all our contentious. He
sustains Minister Egan, marshals his
facts and arguments in such manner
that the reader cannot help being con-
vinced that the attack on the sailors of
the Baltimore was tantamount to an act
of war.
There are no violent recommendations
in the paper. 1t is a clear, calm and high
toned statement of our case. Accepting
its premises and conclusions, the reader
cannot fail to determine in his own mind
that the position taken by our govern
ment must be maintained at every hazard
and in every necessary way.
The message brings the dispute to a
focus. The Chilian government has al
ready offered to make concessions. 1t is
willing to withdraw its request for the re-
call of Mr.. Egan and to swallow the of
fensive Malta note. The Baltimore affan
the Chileans propose to submit to inter.
national arbitration or to the United
States supreme court. Whether the lat
ter proposition can be accepted or the
ultimatum of reparation and apology
must be insisted upon is a matter tol
congress to pass upon.
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WAGES OF AMERICAN WORKERS.

The Iron Trades Rerielc says: Statistics
of the incomes, expenses and savings, or
otherwise, of 2, 400 families in the United
States are given by the Commissioner of
Labor in his annual report OF the above
1852 families are engaged in the pig iron
industry, G23 in bar iron, lS3 in steel, sos
in bituminous coal, 2l9 in coke, and 16j
in iron ore. OF 40 families investigated
in Europe, 7G are engaged in the pig iron
industry, 2j1 in bar iron, POI in steel, 1914
in bituminous coal, 29 in coke and 10 in
iron ore.
Itappears that the largest average in
come in the United States is by iron fam
lilies, it being S7S4.11. The smallest in
come is for iron ore families, it being
S4O1.65 In Europe the highest income
is for families engaged in the steel in
dustry, where it is S500.10. One would
naturally have expected that in the
United States the average income of fam
lilies engaged in the steel industry would
have been the largest, instead Of those in
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CLUB RATES FOR 1892.

Our clubbing offer for 1892 is as fol-
lows: The sum of Sl.95, will secure the
BANNER, the Boston Weekly Journal, or
the New York Weekly Tribune for one
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and Troy Weekly Times; $3.50 the BAN
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new, providing they will be neighborly
and tell their friends about this
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zine and Grants Memoirs.
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CHILEAN WAR ENDED.
THE SECO~D MESSAGE.
ChIIe's Apology complete and PrOfuEe
-UnenseS Against our Flag ADMIT
ted-Our Great NIOraI Victory.

ted-Our Great Moral Victory.
WASHINGTON, January 2S.-The fol-
lowing is the Presidents message trans
mitting the additional Chilean cores
pOndence to congress:
To THE SENATE AND House OF KEEP
REsENTATIvEs: transmit herewith ad-
ditional correspondence between this
government and the government of Chile
consisting of a note of Mr.. MOntt, Chill
can Minister at this capitol, to Mr..
Blaine, dated January 23rd, a reply of
Mr.. Blaine thereto of date January 9th,
and dispatch from Mr.. Egan, our min
lister at Santiago, transmitting the re-
sponse of Mr.. Pereiri, the Chilean Minis
ter of foreign affairs, to the note of Mr..
Blaine of January 2lst, which was re-
ceived by me on the 26th inst. The note
of Mr.. MOntt to Mr.. Blaine, though
dated January 23rd, was not delivered at
the State Department until after II
o'clock meridian of the 25th and was not
translated and its receipt notified to me
until late in the afternoon of that day.
The response of Mr.. Pereiri to our
note of January 21st withdraws, with ac-
ceptable expressions of regret, the Often
sive note of Mr.. Malta of the llth .ult.,
and also the request for the recall of Mr..
Egan. The treatment of the incident of
the assault upon the sailors of the Balti-
more is so eonciliatory and friendly that
am of the opinion that there is good
prospect that the difference growing out
of that serious affair can now be adjusted
upOn terms satisfactory this government
by the usual methods and without
special powers from congress. This
turn in the affairs is very gratifying to
me, as | am sure 1t is to congress and
to our people. The general support OF
the efforts of the executive to enforce
the just right of the nation in this mat
ter has given an instructive and useful
illustration of the unity and patriotism
of our people. Should it be necessary,
will again communicate with congress
upon the subject.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Washington, January 2Sth, 1892
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WELLS & COVERLX,
1856 and 3SS River and b. Is and II Fourth Streets Troy n Y

the bar iron, or any other of the in
dustries considered; but for several years
the new processes introduced in the man
ufacture of steel in this country have en-
abled the producers to employ low
er grade of help, so that bar iron with
its skilled workmen now leads the iron
industries. In Europe these processes
have not been so thoroughly developed
in the steel manufacture, and so a high
grade of skill Is found there,
Incomes vary widely even in the United
States. For instance, in the pig iron in
dustry the average family is SO with an
average income of S499,05 or an average
for each individual in each family of $685.
4S; in Illinois the income rises to $723. 90
per family, or Sl6S.30 per individual; in
Ohio, S5S6.3Y per family; in New York
S55G.90; in Pennsylvania, S625.59; in
Tennessee, S546,6 and in West Virginia
S696.61. For Belgium the income per
family is S374.53, while in Great Britain
it is S45G,SG.
For the 2,400 American families $40
own homes, and the average rental for
others is $l5.23 per individual. while for
Europe thirty one families out of no
own their own houses, and the average
expenditure for rent is $701 per individ-
ual, or half what it is in the United States.
The average expenditure for food in
Europe is S41.SO per individual, as against
SIS go in the United States. The total
expenditure for all purposes per individ-
ual in Europe is SS2.2j, as against Sll0.SS
in the United States, while the average
income per individual for the European
families is SSS. A, ,as againstSl2l.11 in the
United States. The average expenditure
for Intoxicating liquors for all the fam
lilies giving information in the United
States was Sl9.G0, and in Europe $23. II.
The average expenses for books and
newspapers are: In the United States,
500 in Belgium, S2.j1; in Great Britain,
| 81 10
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III WANT
A CALENDAR FOR 1892"

"well we published 1880, nine kinds, and
hav, only IS left, and are selling them for 26 cts.
each; regular price. i5c."
"Have you Peloubet's Notes."
Have had just 64?, only 10 left, Price $780,
our price, ST."
Give me one and an Episcopal Church Al
lnanac. No it is the Living Church Almanac
that want "
"An right; got both, and Tribune Almanac, ,25c.
The World Almanac in few days, as soon as
published"
What are the new. books?"
-"Vol McMaster's History of the People OF
the United States. our price, 50. The Sabbath in
Puritan New England our price 81. The House
of Martha, our price, ST."
II will take McMaster's History paid $3.50
each for Vols l and e.
And he took leave o happy man.
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THE guilty consciousness of Presi-
dent Beers and his associates says the
Press, lis revealed by the payment of
thousands of dollars to a blackmailer to
suppress revelations. Is it not incon-
ceivaDle that an honest management
would do so foolish a thing2 Is not
the very act of paying blackmail in truth
a plundering of policy. holders ?"
The Republican continues "There
can therefore be no doubt about the ne
cessity of Immediately divOrcing this
company from its present directory
The trust confided to the president of
the New York Life and his associates
was one of great magnitude and of n pc
culiarly sacred character. 1t should
have been exercised with an eye single
to the interests of the policy-holders.
Instead it has been used 10 build up the
power and fortune of the trustees. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars of the pol
y-holders, it is shown in the report of
the insurance department, have been
sunk in queer investments; hundreds of
thousands more have been suffered with
criminal negligence to be diverted into
the pockets of certain agents: many
thousands more have been paid out on
blackmail and lobby accounts; and much
more wasted-a stronger word would
best express it-in gorgeous publications
of no relation with the business, such as
the Massachusetts, Souvenir" and pub
lie Service of New York" Besides all
this, faVOritism of an unlawful character
has beed shown in permitting one man
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-29
BENNINGTON co. SAVINGS BANK

TTNhe Bennington County Savings Bank at the
i Bennington County National Bank is open
daily for the transaction Of business from 10 O'Clock
=. m. to o'clock p. M, Sundays and Holidays ex-
cepted.
interest to depositors strictly in accordance with
ne laws of the State Of Vermont. Money de-
posted anytime after the first day of each month
draws interest from the first day Of the next sue
ceeding month. Interest computed January
LIST and July 1st, and If not withdrawn will be added
principal, and interest thereafter will accrue
SponlS-
Loans solicited upon cal state and undoubted
personal securities.
A.B. VALENTINE, President,
W E.HAWKS, Vice President,
1T. SHURILEFF, Treasurer,
g. W. 4ARMAN, Secretary,
TRUsTEEs-A y. Valentine, VIM. <. Hawks
ii. W. Harman. Olin Scott, j. T. Shurtleff, e
Gibson j. X. Judson.
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A rear end collision between a pas
senger and freight train occurred near
Vernon, Tuesday evening. The passen-
ger engine, two freight cars and caboose
were demolished. Fireman George H.
Vassar, of BrattlebOro, jumped and was
very badly hurt.
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IyTl.NW n HIN II N wv
Washington, January 2Sth, 1892.
NEW YORK LIFE REVELATION.

NEW YORK LIFE REVELATIONS.
The large number of policy holders in
the New York Life Insurance Company
in this section has made the report Of
the Insurance Department of that State,
in its examination of the affairs of that
great corporation, a matter looked for
ward TO with great interest. The report
was given to the press last Saturday and
occupies three pages of small type,
columns the length Of the New York
city dailies. The BANNER having from
time to time published items concerning
the charges and counter charges, as well
as both sides-the Company's and it's
rivals-in our advertising columns, we
now give resume OF the comments made
by such papers as the Springfield Re
publican and New York Tribune, both of
which have stood firmly heretofore for
the Company's management, also that of
the Troy Press which has fearlessly
maintained that an investigation would
result in OuSting the Beers's manage
ment.
The Republican says: There is of
course only one conclusion to be drawn
from the results of the official inquiry
into the affairs of the New York Life In
surance Company touching its manage
ment. This management should resign
or, failing to resign, should be summar-
lily removed. 1t is true, and it is most
| gratifying to know it is true, that this
greatCompany, carrying so many millions
in trust for the widow and orphan. is
| perfectly solvent and has a large surplus
above all present liabilities after making
| allowance for the enormous and scan
| dalOus losses enumerated in the report
of the insurance department.
But it is to be remembered that the
question of solvency has never been
raised except by those who have sought
to divert attention from the real issue.
| Honesty of management has been the
real question, and this has now been an
swered in Il way to leave no doubt Sol
vency i'll the light of what this answer re-
veals bears no credit to the Company s
management beyond what belongs to the
! guardian of a trust who lets thieves make
off with $1,000, 900 when he might have
let them take 100000, ,000 1t only shows
how much more the insurance has cost
the policy holders than was necessary.
And upon the question of honesty of
management depends that of future sol
vency."
The report shows that the losses
pointed out by Deputy Superinten-
dent Shannon, exclusive of the enormous
salary account of President Beers. his
relatives and friends, foot up to more
than three millions, as follows:
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DIR, B. c. JENNEY, Dentist.

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stry in a thorough and vorkmanlikc manner. Per.
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ii ain st., Bennington.
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WILLIAM f. MASON, LAWRENCE NJ. ENNIS.
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Having sod my dental practice to ORA. Z.Cut.
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speak for him the same liberal patronage that has
been accorded me the past eighteen years.
DR. S, 3, PIKE.
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y. CUTLER, DENTIST.
A u.
Successor to Or. S. B. Pike.

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