The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-08

of men who believe in radical treatment
of the evil. A Reform Exchange has
been instituted, to unite individual
efforts and make them stronger, some
what on the basis of the Associated
Charities. The University Settlement
idea, which has succeeded so well in
England and in New York, and which is
designed to bring men and women of ed
ucation into closer relationship with the
laboring classes for mutual benefit, is to
be tried in Boston under the title of the
"Annover House," which will be sec
ond TOynbee Hall.
The religious world has had some stir
over the Briggs and McQueary heresy
trials, the Presbyterian agitation for
creed revision, and the decision of the
Andover case, but on the whole grow
ing tolerance of new views in theology
and of those who hold them, has been
noticeable, and the unificatiOn of the
larger churches, especially where the
causes which led to division no longer
exist, has been earnestly advocated. A
remarkably harmonious session of the
American Board was held. Three hun
bred delegates were present at the great
Congregational council in London in
July, over which DR.. Dale presided, and
at which important doctrinal and social
questions were boldly handled. The
Episcopalians also discussed Socialism
in Its various phases at its church con-
gress. One of the noble expressions of
the time is that of the student-volunteers
to evangelize the world in the present
generation, 331 of these earnest mission
aries having already gone to the foreign
field; the recent gathering of represen-
tative clergymen in New York city to
induce the churches of Christian nations
to prevail upon their respective govern
ments to abolish war and substitute for
it arbitration for the settlement of inter
national difficulties; and the appoint
ment of Presbyterian minister in Wash
ington as a director in Roman Catholic
institution.
There have been only five great disas-
tiers, the loss of the utopia by collision
with the ram ON the "Anson" in the
harbor of Gibraltar last February, by
which over 500 Italian emigrants per-
ished; the Martinique cyclone, by which
800 lives were lost and vast quantity of
property destroyed; the floods in Spain,
in which the mortality was reckOned by
thousands; the famines in Russia and in
Mexico; and the terri BILE earthquake in
Japan, which either killed or injured
$4,000 persons and turned furnishing
cities into heaps of ruins.
The chief sensational crimes were the
poisoning of Mrs. Barnaby at Denver,
Col; the murder of Christie Warden at
Hanover, n. H., by Frank c. Almy; and
the recent attempt of the dynamiter Nor
cross to kill Russell Sage. In this coun-
try there have been 20 bank failures
against two last year, with revelations of
woful breaches of trust in some which
have had their parallel in Germany.
Early in the summer, Lieut.. Perry
started on a voyage of exploration to
northern Greenland. Later Lieut. Ryder
left Copenhagen to explore and map an
en- the east side Work has been begun
on the great Siberian road, which is to
be 4, 1856 miles long and to cost Sl34 ,000,-
600. The Hudson River tunnels are pro-
crossing. The Secretary of War has APP
proved the plans of the bridge across the
Hudson to connect New York and Jersey
City.
In the neurology of the year we record
Alexander William Kinglake, George
Bancroft, Benson j. LOSING, historians
Meissonier, the French painter; David
Kalaukaua, the king of the Sandwich
Islands; Abdurrahman Khan, Ameer of
Afghanistan, ex-EmperOr Dom Pedro of
Brazil, and Prince Napoleon Bonaparte;
Secretary Window, Senators Wilson,
Hearst and Plumb, and ex-Vice Presi-
dent Hamlin; William Henry Smith,
First Lord of the Treasury, England,
Chas. Bradlaugh, Charles Stewart Par
nell, Earl Granville, the Duke of Devon
shire; Field Marshal Won Moltke, Adj
miral d. D. Porter, Gen. w. T. Sherman,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, of the Con.
federacy, James Russell Lowell, Edward !
Bulwer LyttOn; Phineas 7. Barnum,
Nine. Blavatsky, President Balmaceda of
Chile and Gen. Boulanger.