The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Pope has confirmed the decision
of the propaganda in favor of the plan OF
allowing American Catholic schools TO
be taught by state teachers, religious
instruction being given after school
hours, the object being to relieve Catho-
lies of the burden of the expense of sep
arate schools.
A dispatch from Paris says: "The
man who caused the bomb explosion in
Tours on Sunday, and who was himself
almost fatally injured, is a wealthy gro
Ger. He is known as pious man and a
Royalist, and nobody would ever have
suspected him of making use of bombs.n
Landscape Artist j. Foxcroft Cole died
in Boston Monday night of pneumonia,
aged 59years. Mr. Cole has been fire.
quent contributor to the Paris salon. He
was chairman of the advisory committee
on the fine arts of the city OF Boston
for the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
Our trade with Honduras has been in
creasing veryIrapidly of late years, and it
is likely to advance by leaps and bounds
under the influence of reciprocity. This
''scheme to bring foreign countries with.
in the shadow of our protective policy"
as doleful Democrats call it, now includes
so much of Latin America that the coun-
tries left out begin tolOok lonesome.
Deputy United States marshals are to
take an active part in the affairs OF
johnson County, Wyo. They will,
without delay, serve notice on thirty
three "Rustlers" and their associates
warning them against conducting or par
ticipating in round-ups other than those
authorized by the State officers.
LII
ment shows that the interest bearing
debt of The United States on April 90
was $685., ,029, ,030, an increase for the
month of S4OO. The aggregate debt was
$979, 9,24S, 1911, a decrease of SITS, ,375,
The receipts for the month were S27,-
3SS, ,S54.04, and the expenditures were
$31 ,09S, ,076.97.
A New York clergyman has organized
a company of poor people for the pur-
pose of Summing in Fifth avenue. This
seems only the fair thing. The rich have
been visiting the homes of the poor
the purpose of gathering facts as to
their metho ods of life and suggestions as
to how they might be improved The
poor should now be given a chance to
visit the homes of the rich, so as to see
how that half lives. There is no
doubt but that common knowledge
might be made mutually useful to the
two halves of the city's population.
A chmch spire seems essential to a
sense of completeness. The notion may
be old-fashioned, but steeple, the more
stupendous and sky-piercing the better,
| imparts appropriateness, beauty and
grandeur to an edifice dedicated to wor-
| ship. In this connection it is well to
chronicle a memorial benefacUion of
members of the family of the late Henry
c. Gibson of Philadelphia. They have
provided for the erection of spire to
the st. James Episcopal church of that
city, which will cost over $4,000. 1t is
to be built of stone, rising 1G6 feet, so
feet of which will be constructed of
solid masonry. A cross will surmount
the spire. Church architecture is re-
ceiying more and more consideration in
this country.
When he is Dangerous. Humorist's
| Wife: You must not trouble your pa
just now, dear; in his present mood he
is not to be trifed with. Humorist's $
Child: What is he doing, ma? Wife:
He is writing things to make the people
laugh.