The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-01-27

FRANK BRoNoRI will soon open a
candy and fruit store in the old express
Office, North street.
A KEY was found on the sidewalk near
our Office this morning. The owner can
have it by calling at this Office.
THE Rev. W. B. Walker as d. D. G. NJ.
this week, has attended convention at
Burlington and officially visited the Ma
sonic lodges of North Bennington and
Pownal.
P. A. RUSSELL has returned from a
weeks visit in Peru, Vt He brought
with him an apple, two years old, in a
good state of preservation. 1t was kept
on shelf in the cellar.
JuDsoN H. GILBERT, brother of Mrs.
Olin Scott, died suddenly of apoplexy
last evening in New York. He is well
known to many Bennington people, hav-
ing been frequent visitor here.
EMARTIN McNARY, employed on the
building in extension of Campbell's mill,
fell yesterday from platform and was
considerably shaken up. he is not up
to-day but no serious effects are antici-
pated.
THE famous trotting dog "Doc.," that
so many saw at the Cambridge fair last
fall, was killed in an accident on the
Pennsylvania railroad, Wednesday. A
car ran off the track and crushed him.
This dog had earned for his little owner
up to last autumn over $4,000.
WIN. H. BRADFORD and John Davis
went out fox hunting last Monday on
the Pownal hills. They did not get as
many foxes as they wished, but shot a
wild cat that weighed eighteen and one
half pounds. Mr.. Bradford will have the
skin stuffed and mounted.
AMOS ALDRIcH, under whom Charles
Silver worked about 10 years in connec-
ton wi the B. & g. railroad, pays very
high tribute to the character of Mr.. Sill
yer. In all relations the deceased was
found TO be faithful and trustworthy.
But for the lack of early education Mr.
Silver would have risen to a much higher
place in railrOading.
LETTERS advertised in the Post Office
at Bennington for the week ending Jan.
2lst, 1893: Arthur Austin, w. j. Carpen-
ter, Mr.. JohansOn( Tailor, Ward G. Lewis,
j. w. Roberts, Mrs. E. NJ. Moor, Mrs. E.
Nourse, Miss Mary A. Morrison, Miss
Bertha Becker These will be sent TO
the Dead Letter Office Feb. 4th, 1893, if
not delivered before. In called please
say ''advertised'' giving date of list.
OF the Schubert Quartette, who are to
be at the Opera House, Feb. 18th, the
Baltimore american says: 1.-THE Ladies'
Schubert Quartette of Boston again APP
peared in this city, and the audience was
critical one and thoroughly enjoyed
the numbers presented. The individual
voices of the Quartette are excellent. AS
artists, the ladies left very pleasant
impression of their personality"
ONE of our valued subscribers writes
to ask why we do not give the markets
in the BANNER. In reply we refer him
and others to the fact that each sub
scriber who pays in advance, according
to our terms, gets the New York Weekly
Tribune free, and in that paper are full
market reports-in the case of Jan. 25th,
the current issue, too pages, including
almost everything bought and Sold
These reports are the latest quotations,
and far in advance of anything country
paper can do.
THE London Times has taken up Ia
borious discussion of the sea serpent
question, and Professor Huxley, one of
the leading living scientists, writes to
that journal, expressing his incredulity
of the existence of that creature. But
what, then, is to become of the state
meRts of many worthy people living
along the borders of Lake Champlain
who know there is sea serpent, and
that he has found his way up the ST.
Lawrence and Richielieu rivers into Lake
Champlain, because they have seen himP
THERE is considerable rivalry among
our local marketmen as to fat hogs, large
beef Critters" etc., and sometimes one
is ahead and then again another gets the
start. They tell the story of an Airing
ton wag who allowed" he had six as
tat hogs as ever walked, and the same
says that one of our meat men
drove up to that town one day, recently,
only to find that the fellow hadn't a sim
gle porker, ''let alone" six fat hogs. We
expect to be around when the boys are
asked out to stake suthin'."
VERMONT farmers are telling some
great maple sugar stories, probably I'M
der the sugar bounty stimulus. G. w.
Kellogg of South Duxbury tells of
maple from the sap of which thirty
pounds and twelve ounces of sugar was
made in one season. Then an East Cor
NTH man-name not given-goes one
better by telling of sap SO sweet, from
certain tree, that five quarts Of it made
pound of sugar. Then up rises a man
from Waitsheld, who declares he made
twelve pounds of sugar from one tree in
a day of twenty-four hours. And there
the matter stands, nobody bidding higher
as yet. But another Vermont farmer
declares that he sprinkled salt around
maple tree in his door yard one fall and
the next spring tapped the tree and got
a good flow of excellent brine.