The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-03-11
STATE NEWS.

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ada. -..
The State board of health is taking
steps to prevent the spread ofcontagious
diseases.
Randolph has $40 voters, but only
$40 votes were cast at town meeting this
year.
Two typewriting machines have been
put in the public schools of Bellows
Falls. -
-Bounties were paid by the State last
year and the current year on 81 bears, 10
iynxes and over 200 foxes.
Wilmington is banner maple sugar
town, but in the whole town only nine
bounty licenses have been issued.
"A Tunbridge correspondent writes:
This town does not have liquor agency
and there has been but little Ia Grippe
here this winter.
Frank Moore of Wells River is some
thing of a somnambulist. Quite recently
he got up in the night opened the
window and jumped 81 feet, landing in
the snow.
1t is understood that the Montpelier
and Wells River Railroad Company will
soon erect another large stone shed at
Montpelier for the accommodation of
the stone trade.
More than half the amount required
to be raised for the Black River railroad
has been subscribed, and there is little
doubt that the work of grading will
begin in the spring.
Miss Laura S. Watson, for four years
teacher of history and English literature
in the st. Johnsbury academy, has been
unanimously elected principal of Abbott
academy at Andover, Mass, at a salary
of $500.
Ex-senator Edmunds was on the
floor of the Senate Friday for the first
time since his retirement from that
body though he has several times drop
ped into his old committee room, the ju-
dietary, of which he was for so many
years chairman.
More mortgages have been lifted
from Vermont farms this winter than
for years before. The hay crop and the
good prices were great boom to farm
erS.
"A Mrs. Smith of Craftbury, who re-
Gently died at the age of % years, is re-
ported by her son to have lived Al days
without any nourishment but very
little water.
d. l.. Stiles of Brookfield carried on
an abandoned farm last year and he cut
"a ox-loads of hay. raised 81 bushels of
potatoes and lot of apples and plums.
1t was small farm, too.
George Willard of Bellows Falls is
showing a two headed calf, the heads of
which are perfectly formed and the
necks Joined about four inches from the
lower jaw. 1t used to eat with both
mouths and lived to be eight weeks old,
dying then from an accident.
"A Winooski druggist, who became
embarrassed last December, settled with
all his creditors at 40 cents on the dollar,
and they discharged their claims against
him. Without any solicitation on the
part of the creditors he has paid the re-
manning 60 per cent.
Elk Senator Edmunds has engaged
passage for himself and family for
Europe, and will soon leave. 1t is his
intention to remain abroad year. This
would seem to dispose of the report that
he would accept the nomination for
governor of Vermont.-BOStOn journal.
The action of Springfield in guaran-
teeing the Black River railroad $4,000
as soon as the road was built through
difficulty.in that section. 1t is probable
that Weathersfield will now do so as
well and that grading will begin in the
spring.
Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. ..... 44y1
There is one defect in the sugar
bounty law which should be remedied.
Many farmers prefer to make sirup
rather than sugar and there is no bounty
on strip. The law should be amended
so that strip of certain weight and
quality would draw bounty.-Er-
change.
"A New York paper says that Rev.
Byron Sunderland is the only ''adminis-
tration' minister in the last 30 years who
has not prohted professionally by the
advertising he has received by presi.
dents attending his church. DR.. Sunder-
land is native of Shoreham, Addison
county.
"A gun club has been organized in
st. Adams. The object of the associa-
ton is the protection of fish and game
and also to hold fishing, hunting and
trapping privileges on the land they have
leased. 1t will be known as the Japan
Bay Gun Club. There are 10 men inter.
ested, and they have leased Shanty Point
and all the marsh in that vicinity con-
controlled by ]. P. Wilson and j. S.
Morrill,.
Lanes Family Medicine Moves the Bowels
Each day, Most people need to use it.
Work has begun on the trestles to
the Westminster suspension bridge. The
bridge is to be single span with two
trestles about one-third of the way from
the ends. 1t will be 300 feet long and
will be at least 40 feet from the surface
of the water. The cost for bridge and
approaches will be about $4,000. A
tract of 300 acres will become available
for building lots as soon as the bridge is
complete. ....H
The value of free importations at the
United States customs port during the
month of February amounted to S2GS60
and the value of dutiable impOrtatiOns
was 81, 354. The amount of duties col
lected was S25, 722,7O, or an average CT
nearly $1,000 per day. Among some of
the items upon which duties were as
sessed are 107 horses, 317S tons of hay.
425, 600 feet of lumber, 17,150 dozen OF
eggs aud 27,27S pounds unhackeled flax.
The monument to be erected by the
members of the 10th Vermont volunteers
at Gettysburg, to commemorate the part
which that regiment bore in the action
of July 3, 1868, will be made from Hard
wick granite, and the design is both