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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

the residents of District No. 1 by Vete-
rams, Elmer Rice, Joseph Sweeney, VIM.
Bradley, Edward Companion, Fred
Wheeler, and James Davis, accompanied
by the pledge of allegiance, military
salute and three cheers by the assembly.
Third. Song of my Country Side"
Fourth. Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Bigger. Fifth.
Reading of the address by Arthur Rice.
Sixth. Recital of the Ode to Columbus
by Miss Nellie Rice. Seventh. The
meaning of the four centuries by Rev.
Mr.. Bigger.
These were followed by interesting
speeches by David Sherman of Monroe,
Miles Tower, G. and Elmer d. Rice.
Space will not allow to print the entire
discourses of these gentlemen. Mr..
Bigger took us through the different
phases of Columbus life, illustrated the
value of this vast hemisphere and strong
ly advocated the praises and honor so
justly due to the discOverer of our coun-
try. Deacon Sherman talked very &C
ceptably of the advancement of religious
mental and physical education inter
spersed with his usual joVial anecdotes.
Mr.. Tower spoke of the progress this
century has experinced since his boy
hood and the independence of the
American farmer. Mr.. Rice explained
the uses of the flag and urged the teach
ing of patriotism to the growing genera
ton also thanking those present for their
participation towards the celebration of
the day.
Home, Sweet Home was then sung
in unison and the programme closed
with prayer by Deacon Sherman. At 5
p. m. all returned home and imbued with
deeper sentiments of veneration towards
the stars and stripes. Your reporter
wishes that all may gather again for
years to come under the protecting folds
of the red, white and blue.-Enterprise
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

Another effort will be made in the
Kentucky Legislature this fall to secure
the passage of an interchangeable bill.
A year ago or so a restrictive measure
was carried through the house by large
majority, but it was defeated in the Sen
ate. Always the Senate!
Lane's Family Medicine Moves the Bowels
Each day. Most people need to use it.
1t is grand achievement to be able
to till farm from which ample revenues
are reaped, and to hand it down to a sue
cessor with the fertility rather increased
than lessened. Men who handle farms
in this way are alone deserving of the
epithet of successful farmers.
up to date it is claimed that the
Homestead strike has cost the mill-own-
ers over 81, 900, and the men have
lost in wages S1,25O,OOO. War is always
costly.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04
DEFERREDOoUNrY NEWS.
wo0dfOrd.

Wood1Oru.
Miss Sadie Knapp has returned from
Hoosick Falls.
Miss Alta Cutler and her mother have
visited at Hoosick Falls this week.
F. A. Gleason will read at the morning
service in the Union church Sunday.
"Joe, the lost Frenchman," has been
found over in Somerset. He says he had
a hard time getting there.
Mrs. F. A. Gleason and children are
stopping a while with relatives in Will
mington and DumrnerstOn. ~
Mrs. VIM. Bowles and Miss Edna Glea-
son were delegates to the convention.
Several others attended and enjoyed the
exercises.
Mr.. Burdette and Miss Pierce of Put
ney, visited at Mrs. Easton's on their
way home from the Y. p. S. G. K. State
Convention at Bennington.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

Roses have enemies, but it is not
nearly so hard to succeed with them as
many flower lovers suppose. Most insect
pests yield to sprinklings of hellebore in
water or kerosene emulsion.
"A good mixer can milk from eight
to sixteen cows in an hour-all owing to
how they have been MIXED. l have
MIXED seventeen OF mine in one hour,
two minutes and half" says A. X. Hy-
att, in the Dairy World.
--Silage seems to be better suited for
breeding-ewes than for any other class
of sheep.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

Mr. Sheldon Moore is ill, it is said,
with infammatory rheumatism.
We are glad to say that Mrs. George
Burt, who has been very i'll, is reported
better
Mrs. Samuel Stafford of Cambridge, VT,
has been in town for short visit, on her
way to Bennington.
Mr.. Henry Billings of Cambridge, N.
Y, and his sister, Mrs. Amanda Mer-
riam, of Mimi, visited in town last week.
Two ladies who were driving "dowu
the river" found some red raspberries
one day last week. Rather late to 60
rasp-berrying.
The Rev. A. c. Field and wife, A. N.
Shepherd and wife. DR.. E. R. Clark and
wife, Ed. Hawkins and wife, Miss Julia
Buck and Mr.. b. L. Field attended the
State Convention of the Y. P. S. c. E. at
Bennington.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

The Dairymen's Union of California
has issued an address to the dairymen of
the coast asking them to sign petition
to Congress for the passage of Hatch's
electromagnetic bill, and then to Pc
tition their own Legislature to adopt a
law prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

A young lady of seventeen summers,
highly educated, refined, and of prepos-
sessing appearance, desires to form the
acquaintanceship of some nice young
man, whom she could advise, If trobled
with dyspepsia, to use the great blood
purifier, Sulphur Bitters.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04
West Arlington.

Mr.. Biggert, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y,
was in town Sunday.
Mr.. C. w. Gale and wife, and Mrs. II.
G. Buck, visited in West Rupert, two
days last week.
Miss Alma Hoyt has not been as we'll
for few days. Mrs. Frank Clark is as
sisting in caring for her.
Mrs. James Williams spent the Sab
bath in Shushan, N. Y, the guest of Nj.
and Mrs. Geo. Marshall.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.. Mckee, accompan-
led by Mr.. and Mrs. Gale, visited in Cam
bridge, N. Y, Saturday of last week.
Robert McClarty, who has been en-
ployed in the shop of Messrs. Marshall
d Williams two years, has gone to Sche-
ectady, N. Y.
Fast driving, a wrecked carriage, caused
by cider, to say nothing of torn clothes
and SCARED face, were seen on our streets
last Sunday.
Misses Mile and Zuie Hanaman COM
menced work last week in the fly-room
in connection with the Orvis fishing rod
establishment, in Manchester, where the
former has been employed the past three
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gale, who have
been visiting relatives in this vicinity for
the past two weeks, started Wednesday
morning for their home in Morrice, Mich.
They were accompanied by Miss Elva
Buck, youngest daughter of H. G. Buck.
Miss Buck has gone to spend year in
Michigan, attending school.
"The weakest must go the WALL" Sal
walton Oil, the best of liniments is bound
to outstrip all competitors. 1t is good
and cheap. 25 cts.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04
PUT UP AND PUT DOWN.
want a word to rhyme With Ills.
have Il now; I'll put down pills.

Excuse me, though-than put down pills.
I'd rather suffer some big Ills.
To put down the old-fashioned, huge,
bitter pills, that griped so and made
such disturbance internally is more than
a wise man will do. He will not put up
with such unnecessary suffering. He
uses DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. As a
liver pill they are unequaled. Smallest,
cheapest, easiest to take. Put up in
walls, Theoretically sealed, hence always
fresh and reliable, which is not true of
the large pills in wood or pasteboard
boxes. As gentle laxative, only Que
Pellet for dose. Three or four of these
tiny, sugar-coated granules act pleas
antly and painlessly as cathartic. q
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04
Pownal.


George Barber is seriously ill, but not
dangerously, it is hoped.
Mr.. Charles Arnold is making a grand
success of his class in vocal music.
Representative D. Thomas Bates was
home from Montpelier and spent Sunday.
The jury in the suit Montgomery VS..
Pratt, jury found verdict of guilty and
Pratt appealed.
Some of our young people attended the
play, Escaped from Sing Sing" played
at the Wilson, North Adams, Mass, last
Saturday evening.
The Fitchburg offers another grand OPP
pOrtunity 10 visit the glorious city on
Nov. 10Th. All attractions are now open.
Fare 1925 and return.
Columbus Day was appropriately OBJ
served in all the schools of the town, with
the regular order of exercises issued by
the National Committee of Education.
In the afternoon all the schools with
their teachers met in the village at the
Methodist church where a procession
was formed with Sheriff Elijah Barber
as Marshal, with twenty mounted aides.
The North POwnal Brass Band furnished
VIC huolS. az v ClOCk TIC PROCESSION
marched to the depot to receive the
scholars from the North Pownal graded
school. The veterans under command of
Thomas " McCumber, came next after
the band, then the fourteen schools of
Pownal and teachers, citizens and others.
The exercises were held in the Methodist
church. The Presidents proclamation
was read by School Superintendent
Thomas II. Hall, B. o. Barber read the
Governors proclamation, America was
sung by pupils and audience, Mr.. Arthur
Laid, organist. Prayer by the Rev.
Thomas Monro of the Methodist church.
Song of Columbus Day by pupils and
audience. The address, 1.-THE Meaning
OF Four Centuries" was read by Prof. L.
A. Pratt of the North Pownal graded
school. The ode "Columbia's Banner
was read by Miss Sarah Frances Shaver,
teacher in the Pownal village school. In
teresting addresses were made by Rev.
A. ID. Clark and Rev. Thomas Monro.
There were about 200 scholars in line
each one having badge and flag, teach
ers ditto, only larger flag than the
scholars. The entertainment at North
Pownal in the evening was a decided
success.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

How can we expect harvest OF
thought who have not had seedtime Of
character?
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-04

"The weakest must go the WALL" Sal
walton Oil, the best of liniments is bound
to outstrip all competitors. 1t is good
and cheap. 25 cts.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31

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lnon 1N: wGpe sulnuloaeu 20 bne Deosloe OF tne
uyMg Dlsuop. anu were HaeISeI oy ntm 20
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nas alseahy Deen coIiecSeo sa ZOE Duiiding tne
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elluce e ,so wou scssu9. nIs properly, lying oe.
cween iloea anu llocn sIreecs, Ams.eroam
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Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle st.tes.

MRS. DIANA DoUTY, aged 103 years, nine
months and fifteen days, died q few DAYS
ago, at the home of her son. Bainbridge
Douty, in Charlton, Mass.
The famous case of Father McGlynn. of
St. Stephens Church, New York City, has
finally been decided by the restoration to
him of authority to perform his priestly
functions.
ALL the Hudson County On. J) ballot
box suffers serving terms in the State
prison have been liberated, the Court of
Pardons having paroled thirty 1.-TWO and par
doned one, John A. Whelan.
CHRISTMAS dinners and trees for the BEN
eft OF the poor warmed up New York's cele.
bration Of the festal day Nearly 10000
poor children received Christmas presents in
Madison Square Garden.
HENRY C. vARNUM killed his wife and
daughter and seriously wounded his mother
in-law in Worcester, Mass, and then COM
mitted suicide
RIVER traffic at Pittsburg has been sus-
pended. The Hudson River south from
Poughkee psie was closed for navigation.
Suffering among the poor In New York
City increased on account of the dearth Of
coal. The charities department has $500
applications for fuel on ius books.
JOSEPH KARGE, Professor Of Continental
Languages and Literature in the College of
New Jersey at Princeton, died ON q ferry
boat which was crossing to New York City.
He was born in the Grand Duchy Of Posen,
on July 8. 1923.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
CATTLE PLAGUE IN AFRICA
Millions of Cattle Perish From the
Niger Nearly to the East Coast.

Millions of Cattle Perish From the
Niger Nearly to the East Coast.
The cattle plague reported by Captain
Lugard as having swept away most OF the
cattle in the region OF the Victoria Nyanza
appears to have extended its ravages clear
across Africa. Captain Monteil. who has
just arrived in Algiers after crossing the
Soudan from west to east betwesn the Niger
and Lake Tchad, says that millions of cat
tie have died and on long stretches Of his
route not . single animal survived.
Captain Lugard says that the Wahuma.
north OF Victoria Nyanza, have been ex-
clusiveiy pastoral. and lived solely on the
milk and fash Of their cattle. Now chat the
plague has totally destroyed their stock.
the people are dying in vast numbers and
the remnant are de endent on the agricui-
turAl settlers for scanty Subsistence
When Captain Lugard left Uganda the
Wahuma were slowly learning to cultivate
the fields but vegetarian food was immature! |!
to them, and their gaunt and half-stArved
forms attested the hardships they were un-
dergoing.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
South and West.

THE snow storm after prevailing over the
Pacific Northwest for forty-eight hours
ceased. Snow fell to depth OF twenty
four inches.
A WRECK occurred on the Santa Fe Road
near Colorado Springs. COL. in which
many people were injured, two fatally.
E. s. CoRsER, OF Minneapolis, Mimi,
wheat speculation; the real estate firm OF
which he is head also suspended.
GENERAL FREDERICK I. DENT, distin-
guished Union soldier and brother-in-law Of
General U. s. Grant, died few days ago at
Denver, Col. General Dent was born in
Missouri in 1920. He was appointed to
West Point from that State in 1889.
ANOTHER convict who partook OF the poi
soned food at Helena. Ark. has died a. the
pennitentiary at Little Rock. making 9
total of nine deaths
Four persons were found dead in their
rooms at the Colored Home for the Aged,
Baltimore. Md. Two old women. Fannie
Ward and Maria Jones, were asphyxiated
by coal gas. Two colored children were
also found dead.
FIRE destroyed every business house in
Snow Hill, Ala. except one. The total loss
is $25, COO.
Two men lost their lives at an incendiary
fire which burned two Milwaukee tWis.l
tanneries and CAUSED loss Of $225. 600.
The official statement OF California's vote
shows that one Harrison and eight Cleveland
electors were chosen. The vote in favor of
the direct election of United States Senators
by the people was enormous, 1S7. .956 voting
for and only Ii, 342 against
FIVE wooden stores on Broad street, Cam
den, s. c., were burned. A snowstorm pre-
vailing at the time probably saved large
portion of the town from being burned.
THE Straits of Mackinac are frozen over.
Trains in Kansas were seriously delayed by
snow. and bitterly cold weather prevailed
throughout the entire West.
A BLIZZARD struck Virginia and South
Carolina, and for the first time In fifteen
years housetops were covered with q thin
coating OF snow and slect.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
.Wnshington.

GENERAL. JOHN w. FosTEh, Secretary Of
State, decided to resign that position and
accept the appointment as special counsel
for the United States in the Bering Sea ar
bitrntion.
The Secretary Of War issued q general
order announcing renewal Of the agree
ment between the Federal Government and
Mexico, whereby the troops of the two coun-
tries may cross over the territory of the
other in pursuit CT savage hostile Indians.
The Postmaster General has issued the
annual circular prescribing the telegraph
rates to be paid for the transmission Of
Government messages during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1893. The rates are
the same as those which the Western Union
Company objected to. The claims Of that
company for telegraph service rendered
during the past three years have not besn
settled.
CHIEF DRulMoND, Of the Secret Service
division, has cautioned his agents to exercise
the closest possible scrutiny to prevent any
counterfeiting Of the Columbian souvenir
coins.
THE Spanish Minister to Washington,
Senior Dupuy De LONE. has been recalled
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
FIGHT In MEXICO.
Ten Soldiers Killed and Five Burned
Halt Alive.

Hall Alive.
Reports, although conflicting, come from
every part of the Northern part of the Re-
pnbiic of Mexico indicating the growth of
the revolutionary movement. Dispatches
are rushing to and from the Mexican off,
cials to the United States officials.
An officer who desires that his name should
not be used, states that another battle took
place. when ten men Were killed at Coralvo,
where there is garrison. At this place
five of the Mexican soldiers were burned
half alive
A courier with official information gave
it out that the revoiutionists gave and
asked no quarter, but IA every way out
fought the regular Mexican soldiers those
at Coralvo being sleepy lot of half breeds.
1t is reported that the Government has
seizsd the railroads for official purposes. A
special train of tweives coac es, left Monte
rey for Lampasas Guayos. with eight COM
panies of cavalry
A Washington dispatch says: Rocha, the
Mexican general who is reported to have left
the City of Mexico TO join the revolutionists
on the Rio Grande border. is a famous
character. He is known to all the Mexican
army as The Tiger"
When Naximilian was fighting to estab-
lish an empire in Mexico, R0cna was one of
his favoritc generals. After the surrender
at Queratsro Maximiiian ami two o. his
generals, Mejia and Miramon. were ex-
ecuted. Lopez, who recently died. was dis
graced.
OF all the imperial generals Rocha was
the only one taken into favsr oy Diaz an
the Liberals. He was, after the reorgAnaza-
tion Of the Republic. given command OF
division OF the army. but almost ever since
his restoration to favor he has been kept on
some outy near the Mexican capital, as II
the Goyernment did not care TO trust him
IN the provinces
II .'rhe Tiger has gone to join the revo
lutionists it means something serious.
kocha las a record for desperate fighting
which no other Mexican general now pos
seSses.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31

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Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
Foreign.

CHOLERA has appeared on the Austrian
frontier as well as in HSmburg.
MICHAEL DAvIrr. the Homo Rnls agita--
tor, WAS unseated as Member Of the Brit
ish Parliament.
THE fact has just been made public that
during the Trefort Ministry, g. 900, 90 were
ernbexxled in the Austrian Department. Of
Education and Public instruction.
THE Coroner's inquest on the body OF De-
tective Synott killed In the Dublin (lrelandp
explosion, failed to give any cisw to the
perpetrators of the outrage.
TEN THOUSAND troops have been mobilined
to suppress the spreading rebellion IN the
Argentine province OF Corrientee.
CHOLERA Is said to BE- making steady
progress in Hamburg, Germany.
The Red Star steamship Noordland wa 8
towed into Queenstown, lrelend, with q
broken shaft, by the Ohio.
THE rebels in ths province Of Corrientes.
Argentine Republic, have defeated the pro-
vincial troops in numbero OF skirmisheA and
have seized the towns OF Mercedes and Css-s
eros and the railway lines OF the district
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
RAILWAY BUILDING.
About 400 Miles OF New Line Built
During 1892.

Statistics collected by the Engineering
News show that not far from 4lO0 miles OF
new railway line were built in the United
States during the calendar year Of 1892.
This brings the total railway mileage Of
the United States up TO ia, 600 miles
or about forty-five per cent. OF
the total railway mileage OF the
world. The longest line constructed was
tho Pacific extension Of the st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Manitoba Railroad TO Puget
Sound, $50 miles. completing another trans
continental route. No railroad was built in
i've States: but one mile was built In Kan
sas, and the greatest mileage was built in
Washington. 426 miles.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
When completed this cathedral win be one
Of the most magnificent and costly sacred

When completed this cathedral win be one
OF the most magnificent and costly sacred
structures in America. KS.
The ceremonies were held under tent.
which the severity of the weather made
necessary, erected in the shape of a cross
The day was particularly appropriate for
the laying of the corner stone as it is known
in the church calender as the day of ST.
John the Evangelist.
The corner stone stood in the central
square of the tent under a peaked roof
twenty feet hign Around it was built a
platform four feet high on which were
Bishop Potter, the visiting bishops, the
clergy of the diocese and prominent invited
guests. Tne platform could accommodate
exactly 1919 persons and just tnat number
OF tickets were issuel.
Inside the tent was a steam-heating plant
and ten radiators made the temperature
comfortable. Tne services began with a
procession to the platform, in the following
order
The Church Choral Society, students Of
the General Theological Seminary, Trustees
of Columbia College, Trustees of ST. Lukes
Hospital; the clergy; Arcnirect George L.
tees Oh the Cathedral; the visiting bishops:
Bishop Henry q. Posser.
As the procession ascended the platform
passages IRON the Psalms were read by the
clergymen and bishops. Then followed q
SPECIAL service arranged for the occasion by
Bisnop Potter, in which the musical fea-
tures, which were prepared by the Rev. DIR.
Huntington, were particularly elaboraye.
An address was delivered by the Right
Rev. DR.. William Duane Bishop of Albany.
The corner stone was then laid by Bishop
Potter, in which ne usei handsome silver
trowea, settling maui or oak. square, level and
plumu. Ths services closed with recess
sional hymn
In the stone was placed large pewter
box containing copy OF the Bible. Protes-
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
PAssAIC CITY, N. J.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 81 1892

church, journals of the General Convention
and the Diocese of New York from 1882 TO
1892, History of the Diocese of New
York, church aimanacs, various coins,
copies OF the Churchman, the Liv-
ing Church and the Standard.
and the morning and evening daily papers
and brick from the first church built by
Columbus in America, bearing the inscrip-
ton: Prom the ruins OF the first Christian
city OF the new world. where the first church
was erected BY Christopher Columbus 1893
Isabella Hispaniola.n
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31

4 ATTEMPTS to wreck trains on the North
ern Pacific Railroad have compellet { :e
management to patrol the tracks between
Tacoma and the Columbia with armed men
who have orders to shoot any one seel
tampering with the rails.
Passaic City record., 1892-12-31
PLEASURE PARTY DROWNED

a Yacht Capsized BY Sudden SQualI
in Australian Waters
A sad accident occurred at Sidney, New
South Wales few days ago. to party OF
merrymakers. resulting in the death Of ten
Of them. The owner Of . yacht made up
party OF his friends to take sail. All went
we'll until the mouth Of the haroor was
reached. Here severe squall
struck the yacht, and hefore any
preparations could Be made to meet it the
vessel capsixst. The squail passed. away
quickly, and vessels Ia the nsighborhoo1
succeed In picking up thirteen parsons who
were struggling II tie wa&nr but toa of -
party wers not - alter theysrhs s1rnsd