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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
THE BORDEN MURDER.

A week ago yesterday, at Fall River,
Mass, the horribly mutilated bodies of
Mr.. and Mrs. Borden were found lying in
different rooms of the Borden residence.
Mr.. Borden, who was president of a saw
ings bank and director in many other
companies, went down town after break
fast that morning, but not feeling very
well started for home about 10 a. m.
Within twenty minutes after he entered
his own door the news of murder filled
the neIghborhood. The alarm was given
by Lizzie Borden, the murdered mans S
daughter. 1t was her outcry upon dis
covering the hacked remains of her
father on the floor of the room that gave
the alarm.
The body of Mrs. Borden was not dis
covered until afterward. Suspicion was
at first turned upon Lizzie Borden and
John V. Morse, the dead banker
nephew. Morse proved a substantia
alibi, and then Lizzie Borden was the
only suspect She was arrested last
yening.
Miss Borden and the servant, Bridget
Sullivan, were the only persons in the
house at the time of the discovery of the
murdered bodies, and the police reached
after some delibeTation the conclusion
blldJ bllt bbINdub hubW iHOIb dDOuJ ble
murder and the murderer than she cared
to tell. There were all kinds of rumors
afloat about strange people seen enter
ing the house on the morning of the
murder. There was a mysterious man
on the back fence eating pears, a horse
trader with base ball shoes and other
mysterious individuals. The detectives
hunted down all these mysterious per-
sonages and satisfied themselves, so they
say, that none of them knew anything
about the crime, although none Of the 8
or 4 people who saw the man with the
shoes were called to testify at the inquest.
The house was searched from cellar to
garret for the AK with which the murder
was apparently. committed. Lizzie
Borden's room alone was not searched.
When the detectives reached her room
she refused to allow them to search it.
THAT is my room and you shall not dis
turb it," she declared firmly. And for
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
THE WALKING DELICATE.

The walking delegate of labor union
receives compensation, it is said, of
four dollars and half or five dollarc a
day. This, however, is but small item
in his cost. A single strike which he or
ders by wave of the hand or a snap of
his finger may, and often has cost hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. The
tyranny of the Gar of Russia is mild
benign rule by comparison with the sway
of the walking delegate. A hundred
men are employed upon building, con-
tented, earning good pay, and looking to
their daily wages for the support of their
wives and children. The walking dele
gate drops in, gives signal, and every
tool is thrown down, and the men go
out on strike without grievance and
without knowing why. Later they
learn that it was because there was some
material about the building which came
from firm with whom some other body
of workmen had quarrel The strike
of the building trades which has just
gone to pieces in New York is case in
point. That trouble began with the re-
fusal of single employer to discharge a
workman. who was skilled and faithful,
but a non-union man. To coerce the
employer, the walking delegates OIL
dered strike after strike in the various
affiliated trades. They went about the
city and wherever they found building
in process of erection in which materials
were used which came from the boy
cotted firm, or from other firms which
had been involved afterward, they or
dered out all the workmen employed. So
the strike was extended until construc-
ton was stopped on hundred buildings
or more. In order to secure the compul-
sorry idleness of one man from fifteen to
twenty thousand men went into volun-
tary idleness at the beck of the walking
delegates. The strike has been pro-
tracted through three or four of the best
building months of the year, it has cost
more than million dollars, and now, at
the end of it, the non-union man who
was the original bone of contention is
still cheerfully at work, while the ma
jority of the fifteen to twenty thousand
men who stopped work in order to COM
pei him to quit will find their places
filled by other men now that the walk
ing delegates have given them permis
sion to seek work again. Was there
ever more wasteful and senseless exer-
else of tyranny than this?-BoStOn Jour
ndl
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
SHORT TARIFF SERMONS.-IMMI-
GRAFTON

Thousands of immigrants come to the
United States every year.
Why do you think they come here?
In order to earn starvation wages, to be
deprived of their earnings by Tariff
monopolists,'' to be taxed for the bene-
fit of the "robber- -barons?'
No, they come here because experience
at home, under the slavery of the
European wage-system, has taught them
that only in this country of high wages
and prosperity, Of contentment and Pro-
lection, is the laborer worthy of his hire.
Only in this land of taxes" has he an
adequate scope for the exercise of the
faculties with which nature has blessed
him, only here can he own his own
home, furnish it in comfort and educate
his children to be good and patriotic
citizens.
Immigration is thus the best possible
tribute to the benefits of Protection, a
mute but eloquent index of American
progress under the American system.
Immigrants did not flock here in Free
Trade periods. They remained in their
own countries, because the pauper
standard of wages which Free Trade en-
tails was not a sufficiently strong in
ducement to bring them here. Pauper
wages can be earned just as well at home
as abroad.
But when Protection again triumDhed,
when our mills and factories again
hummed with life and action, when
plenty again blessed the land, then the
masses of Europe again knocked at our
doors and asked us to share with them
our abundance.
immigration we do not advocate.
Restrict it if you please, prohibit it if
you can. But never lose sight of the
fact that immigration would not trouble
us il we were poor.
When Free-Trade begins the gates of
Castle Garden will swing outward in
stead Of inward. Under that system i'm
migration stops. Emigration takes its
place.-Americdn Economist.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
vERMONT,s MILITARY rosT.

According to the provisions of the
sundry civil bill Vermont will have the
military post which its delegation in
Congress has so earnestly and persever-
ingiy labOred to secure. Senator Proc
tor and Gen. Grout have worked together
in this matter, and as a result the House
and Senate both agreed to the provision
in question. This is a matter of no
small moment as it involves the future
outlay by this government of several
hundreds Of thousands of dollars, and it
has been secured only by the most per-
sistent and watchful effort for its sue
cess. 1t may be said that without such
experience and standing as Gen. Grout
has in the House its success there would
not have been possible, and without the
weight of Senator Proctor's influence in
military matters, derived in part from
his service as Secretary of War the
favorable action of the Senate would not
have been secured.
The advantages which will result to
Vermont from the establishment within
its borders of military post like that
contemplated in the sundry civil bill,
cannot be adequately estimated at this
time. In times of peace it will afford no
small feeling of security to the residents
OF This region, while its influence upon
our State militia, by way of example,
will without doubt be highly beneficial.
Should war ever ensue between England
and the United States the military post
would serve as the nucleus for force
which would do much to repel an un-
expected armed invasion of our territory.
Congress has done well in this matter to
make provision for an ounce prevention
before there was necessity for pound of
cure.-Free Press.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

If strikes are due to the tariff, why
are there two strikes in Free Trade Eng
land to every one in the United Sta
tes?
The theory on which the Fall River
police appear to be working in the Bor-
den murder case in throwing suspicion
on the daughter, is so monstrous and so
intrinsically improbable that every day
which passes without the discovery of
evidence increases the public impatience
with it.
The decision of the New York Su-
preme Court on the Apportionment act,
handed down by Judge Rumsey, has a
disturbing effect on the New York Dem
ocracy. Uni ess it is overruled by the
higher court before the election in No
vember there viii be bewildering COM
plications. There have been reports that
Governor Flower intended to convene
special session of the Court of Appeals,
but he lacks the authority to do so.
"A man calling himself Daniel Bill
ings White, and claiming to represent
the Boston Silver Plating Company of
Boston, recently swindled people at
Pittsford, Brandon and Middlebury.
White went around soliciting orders for
silver plating, promising to deliver the
goods in three weeks, and did big busi-
ness. He also borrowed money in sums
ranging from one dollar to five, of most
of his victims, and then suddenly disap-
Peared. Nothing has been seen or heard
of him since. The Boston firm SAYS
that no such man has ever been in their
employ and that he is fraud. The ex-
act amount of his stealings is not known
but will probably count well up in the
hundreds.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
TRoY,N.Y.

number would probably have been over
800. Owing to the rain much had to be
omitted from the original programme.
1t was intended to have the Readsboro
band meet the excursionistS at the sta
tion and then conduct the priests and
party to the church but the rain made it
impossible to do any marching so all the
playing was done inside the church.
Bishop Michaud performed the ceremon-
les robed in full canonicals. The corner
stone is of mable "a IS IS followed
out to receive the customary documents
and bearing on the face an inscription
consisting of the cross, and the date 1892,
in plain figures. On account of the rain
the stone was brought into the church
where the exercises took place.
A document written in Latin, briefly
dedicating the edifice to God, and giving
the names OF the president of the United
States, the reigning Pope, also the car
dinal, bishop, priests, ETC., and the ma
tionality of the congregation for whom
the church was built. The document
was first read in Latin, then translated
into Italian by Father Astorri into
French by Father Poquet and into Eng
llsh by Bishop Michaud. This paper
and copy of the Enterprise were then
placed in a glass jar which will be ce-
mented inside the stone when put in
place. The stone was blessed in due
form by the Bishop and after an eloquent
sermon by Father Astorri and remarks
by Bishop Michaud the large audience
was dismissed with the benedictiOn.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
WEATHER REPORT.

A week of cloudy and rainy weather,
with an average amount of sunshine and
slightly above an average of temperature,
followed the previous week of excessive
sunshine and heat. Thunder storms
have been prevalent, and, except along
the southern coast and southeastern
Maine, the drought has been thoroughly
broken. 1t may be interesting to the
farmer in Southern New England to
know that in Northern Vermont cor
respondent writes that it has been too
wet for potatoes. This certainly is not
the case over nearly all other districts.
HayIng has been. retarded and in
many of the northern districts it is not
yet finished. Grain is getting over-ripe,
too; but but the weather is not favorable
for cutting. Pastures have generally
felt the effects of the rains; but in some
places they are starting slowly, and
stock has to be fed from the barn to
great extent.
Blackberries are Tipening fast, and an
abundant crop is generally promised.
Pears promise well in many of the
southern sections. Complaint of apples
falling badly is still heard, although
good crop is promised in the northern
districts. Buckwheat and similar crops
promise well. CranberrleS have been in
jured to some extent In the vicinity of
Marshfield, but farther south they are
looking well.
VermOnt.-Westfield; haying greatly
delayed by bad weather; the season has
been too vet for potatoes. East Ran
dolph; haying finished, about an average
crop; potatoes are apparently healthy,
but rather slim. Brookfield: oats are
nice; corn doing finely, but wants several
weeks more of warm weather, without
frost. Hartland; haying nearly done;
an average crop, blackberries begin to
ripen, and there is apparently good
crop. Brattleboro; weather very favor
able for fall feed and all growing crops;
early potatoes are good quality, but
small crop. Bennington; plenty of rain;
good crops of barley and oats are being
cut; prospect good for large crop of
apples and pears,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN.

New York dispatches of last evening
give the pleasing intelligence that the
Republicans have gained steadily in the
general situation in the past few days.
Everybody admits that. The work of
getting into line seems to be going for
ward steadily and satisfactorily. The
contrast between the situation at Demo
cratic and Republican headquarters is
strongly marked. The gentlemen whose
duty It is to receive callers and distribute
news to the press at the Democratic
headquarters is in a constant mental
strain to discover anything that can be
distorted into the appearance of news.
The number of callers thus far is ex-
ceedingly limited and only of the COM
monplace soft,
On the other hand the Republican
committee rooms are crowded all the
time. Chairman Carter always finds
several awaiting him when he arrives in
the morning, and he is kept busy all day
long. Often he finds it necessary to re-
turn and sit at his desk far into the eve
ming, and when he does not return he is
always closeted at some hotel or quiet
corner with prominent leaders from
various parts of the country.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
Arlington.

A Republican caucus will be held in
the Town Hall on Saturday evening the
18th, for the purpose of nominating a
town representative and the justice
ticket At the close of the caucus the
Republican Club will be reorganized.
A full attendance is requested.
The st. James Church branch of the
Woman's Auxiliary intends holding a
fair and festival for the benefit of the
church in the Town Hall on Tuesday,
August 10th, beginning at II o'clock a.
m. and continuing until II o'clock p. m.
Admission to the fair during the day
will be five cents, and in the evening 2j
cents will be charged to attend concert
that will be given. Efforts will be made
by the use of much varied talent to make
this entertainment the best that Arling-
ton has known for some time, and no
one can feel disappointed who attends.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

The Enterprise of Aug. 9th, has the
following: The corner stone of the new
Catholic church was laid Sunday with
appropriate exercises, though the day
was anything but pleasant for such a pur-
pose. The day was cloudy and it rained
frequently as hard as anyone cares to
encounter. The church which is being
erected has been raised, boarded,
shingled and is being rapidly pushed to
completion.
Mass was celebrated at o'clock by
Bishop Michaud; at s o'clock by Rev.
Father Paquet and at 10 o'clock by
Father Astorri, Right Reverend j. S.
Michaud, coadjutOr of the diocese of
Burlington, Rev, f. II. Paquet of Ar
lington, Rev. Vincentius Astorri of
Plasentia, Italy and Barney Cunningham
an ecclesiastic of the diocese of Bur
lington being present. At o'clock in
the afternoon an excursion train arrived
from North Adams bringing about one
hundred people. Had 1t not rained this
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

A writer in the Sunday Press, in re-
fering to ex-President Cleveland's letter
writing, 'gets off, good thing on the
campaign, as follows: ''If politics were
question of sympathy Mr.. Cleveland
should have it in large measure. His
campaign rests upon quagmire of en-
barrassments. The convention accepted
him with sullen acquiescence, and before
doing so hamstrung him on the tariff
question, While his canvass was to be a
protest against monopoly his nomi-
nation was the work of monopoly, and
his campaign would be impossible with
out its money. His ablest defender in
New York supports him as Protection
ist-while his most eloquent supporter
in the West champions him as Free
Trader. The stride from Henry George
to Pennsylvania Harrity surpasses that
of the Colossus, and Mr.. Cleveland has
made it. Mr.. Curtis, Mr.. Horace White,
and what might be called the Four
Hundred of American politics, give Mr..
Cleveland dainty perfumed support,
because he will maintain a civil
service At the same time Croker and
the New York people are in his favor.
because he will cut off hundred
thousand heads So that the aroma of
the Four Hundred is lost in an atmos-
phere of tobacco and gin. Nothing is
left to the poor philosopher of Buzzard's
Bay upon which he can free his mind but
the Force bill. Shall we have negro
denomination? Shall the proud Cau-
casian put his neck under the foot of
the African? Shall white woman be
compelled to marry negro? Upon
these questions only Mr.. Clevelann can
speak without fearn
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

The BANNER of July Goth, speaks of
Mrs. Sophia Winnie of Albany, n. Y, as
being probably the oldest person now
living, who was born in Bennington.
But have relative living in East
Georgia, Vt, Mrs. Emily Hyde Grinnell,
a grand daughter of Col. Samuel Robin
son, who was born July 4th, 1896, max
ing her one year and a few days older
than Mrs. Winnie.
A very hard wind swept over a part of
White Creek and Salisbury Hollow,
taking down buildings, trees, fences,
etc. 1t took Mrs. Fuller's old orchard
except one tree. 1t was accompanied by
a severe hail storm, breaking windows,
beating down corn, oats and other crops,
doing considerable damage.
Most of the farmers are through hay
ing, and some have harvested their oats.
Crops have not been as good as last year.
n
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

In his mastery speech at Beatrice,
Neb., which we give the largest part in
another place to-day, Governor McKin-
ley called attention to the fact that the
second act of the United States Congress,
under the Constitution, was the enact
ment of a bill "for the support of the
Government, the discharge of the debts
of the United States and the encourage.
ment and protection Of manufactures. {"
This bill was reported favorably by
James Madison and was signed by
George Washington. 1t might not ap-
pear unreasonable to ordinary minds,
says the Messenger, that those statesmen
had some conception of the provisions of
the Constitution they had helped to
frame, but the Democratic National
Convention in this year of the indie
pendence of the United States, the one
hundred and sixteenth, knows great
deal better what it really means and
what its proper limitations are, or, at
any rate, what they ought to be, and de-
clares that protection to the manufac-
turing interests of the country is uncon-
stitutional, Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son and the makers of that instrument
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

The S2O,OOO,OOO in gold that started
from San Francisco last Thursday even
ing on a special train were safely deliver
ed to the Sub-Treasury in New York; after
a railway journey of four days and six
teen hours; over route of 5000 miles
long. This is an achievement of which
the railways concerned and the railway
postal service of the government, which
had the money in charge, may justly be
proud. The arrangements were perfect,
and not hitch occurred on the way to
delay the precious freight 1t is the
largest shipment Of gold on record.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

There is likely to be a lusty stirring
up of matters anent the late Alabama
election. The first dispatches gave
Jones Democrat), $4,000 majority over
Kolb (stump-Democrat and Farmers Al
liance,) This has now been reduced to
0,000 with all sorts of charges as to
fraud,-in one county 1000 Kolb ma
jority having been juggled into TOO for
Jones. When rascals fall out Just men
may gain an insight into Southern Dem
ocratic methods, if nothing more.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

The newspaper reporters at Homestead,
Pa, who have tried to make martyr of
the semi-Anarchist Iams, willnow receive
a set back. Monday Lieutenant-C Colonel
Jas. S. Streator was unanimously re-
elected to his position in the Tenth Regi-
ment, his term having expired. The
unanimous reelection Is an Endorsement
by all of Iams' companions in arms of
the punishment meted out to him.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Fayette Royce and
daughter of Boston, are this week visit
ing with their parents and friends, the
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Flanders and family,
at the Rectory.
Mr.. Barker of West Troy, will preach
at the Methodist church next Sunday,
morning and evening. The morning
service will be preceded by half hour
of song and praise service; preaching at
II and Sunday school at II o'clock.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

Out West the farmers are offering two
dollars and two dollars and half a day
for men to help them with their crops,
yet the calamity shouters insist that there
are hundreds of thousands of able bodied
men out of employment because there is
no work for them to do. The fact is that
there are very few men in this country
to day who are both able and willing to
work who cannot find work to do.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

some reason the police left the house
without making any examination of the
room. Four days later they examined it
and found dress hanging in the ward
robe with spot of human blood upon it.
The dress was Lizzie Borden's. This is
a concise resume'of the press report of
the weeks doinps.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
THE CAMPAIGN IN VERMONT.

The Republican campaign in Vermont
is well under way, and from now until
after the September election the State
committee proposes to make an exceed
ingly lively canvass. The opening speech
was made by General Stewart L. Wood
ford at Brattleboro. He spoke also in
other towns. CongressmaM Walker Of
Massachusetts, spoke at Newport on
Thursday of last week. Other rallies
are to be held in different parts of the
State and there is little doubt that every
Republican in Vermont will fully realize
the importance of individual action at
the polls. Gov. Mckinley will close the
campaign at Burlington on August 30th.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

Since the item in another place was in
type Lizzie Borden has been arrested,
because, as the magistrate says, of the
evidence adduced at the inquest 1t
does not seem possible that this daughter
killed her father and mother.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
Views and Acts of the Two CandI
dates on the Question Gf Pensions.

81 know of no high
er honor in this world
than to be called com
rade' by the survivors
of those who saved the
Union. BENZ. Hdrri-
son.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

Welead the procession in our sele
ment is complete, and will be kept so
show common sense novelties of hig
dinary best grades, yet the prices are
cases we quote below the market. We
attractive designs and peculiarly rein
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

Having sod my dental practice to Dr., A. Z.Cut-
err a gentleman Of experience and ability, / be-
SpeH accorded me the naet ei1bIesU vssTs nH' mas
DIR. s. B. PIKE.