The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-15
pEFrRREp NEWS AND NOTES.


Colonel w. Seward Webb of Shell
burne has been made director of the
Boston and Maine, which looks like the
harbinger of closer union between that
line and the New York Central.
The milk supply of New York for
the month of April was 5,SSS, 070 gallons
of fresh milk, of which sos, 1877 was bot
tied. In addition there was used $4,000
gallons of unsweetened condensed milk,
and al ,793 gallons of cream. The price
to the farmers two and one-half cents per
quart.
1t is announced that about $500 bonds
have been filled by Vermont sugar pro-
ducers this year. The number of licens-
es issued to Vermont producers in 1892
was some 2600, or nearly 1000 less than
applications have been made for by
our farmers this year. We hope the re-
suit will be the putting large amount
of money in circulation among our
people.
Charles j. Starr of New York city
! has given Middlebury college $50, 900 to
increase its permanent endowment. Mr..
Starr has been member of the board of
trustees since 1855. His father, Hon.
Peter Starr, a prominent lawyer of
| Middlebury, also served as trustee for
many years. Mr.. Starr and his two
Younger brothers, Egbert and Peter,
have for many years been the warm
friends of the college. and have from
time to time made generous donations
for its support.
Screaming about the "Force bilr'
will not fool the voters of the country,
though many of the leading Democratic
journals are engaged in that detestable
task in a desperate hope to distract at
tention from their party's attitude on
the Tariff and the currency. In fact,
ON the issue of free and honest ballot,
the Democracy is as weak as it is every
where else.
That church is often merely gath
ering place for the convenience of the
pew owners is shown by the placard on the
door that forbids- entrance during the
summer months. But why should it be
closed, even if the clergyman needs a va
cation and the members quit the town?
The very peacefulness of the empty
building is a sermon, and, during the
week, a tried soul might find relief and
consolation by silent contemplation OF
things spiritual within its walls, removed
for a moment from the din and the strife
of the world. Our Roman Catholic and
Episcopal brethren are more fortunate
than others in this.
The word commencement now il
the mouths of many, is of ancient date
it first appears in 1887 in Trevisa, in ex
PLANTATION of a statue of "Oxenford'
Harrison tells us in his Description Of
England (587), that ''in Oxford this
solemnity is called an Act, but in Cam
bridge they used the French word Com
mencement," and in his day the degrees
were always given in a church that hac
been dedicated to the Virgin Mary
Nash spoke few days later of "a Doctor
sealed and delivered in the presence of {
whole commencement" In 1882 Cotton
Mather wrote of orations made by com
mencers"; and in the seventeenth cen
fury the word commemorate was EN-
ployed.
/, The dismissal of the criminal libe
suit against Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., o
, the Twenty-third Street Baptist church
of New York city is another illustrator
, of the "bluffing' tactics of Trmmany
One would have imagined week ag
, that nothing short of red-hot fight il
the courts would have appeased tina
organization. AS soon, however, as
, became apparent that Mr.. Dixon intend
, ed to stand by his guns, Tammany cam
, to be less in evidence, and now the IN
= dictment has been dismissed upon tn
!. recommendation of the District Attorney
These same tactics were resorted to i
the case of Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, but /
: neither instance did the New Yor
! Sachems find men who scared worth
> | cent