The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-10
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

The line men reached Cambridge N.
Y, last week, stringing the wires for the
ele light company, which connects
that village with the plant at Middle
Falls, and we will soon have test of
this new lighting power, says the County
Post.
Harry. son of Charles Stafford of this
village, is living at SALISBURY this win
Ter and last Saturday wishing to come to
his home, and not being able to catch the
train after finishing his days work,
walked a distance of thirteen miles, ar
irving at eight p. m. the Thermometer
standing at zerO.-CGmbridge Post.
A prominent Methodist clergymen said
to a newspaper repor er in Albany re-
Gently that at the next Methodist Gen
eral Conference in 1895 the time limit
for a pastor on one charge would prob
ably be repealed. Perhaps so, but with
itinerancy will go one of the chief
characteristics of Methodism.
What is the citizen of average intelli-
2 nee to think, says Harris of the Hard
wick Gazette, when newspaper pub
fishes striking" portraits of six different
people snatched from the depths of the
grave and returned to blooming health,
anu all Nv IL Uldhu Va odl ouph
rilla? And each of them the only kind
that really cures. This sort OF thing is
calculated to destroyer at least twist
m ~ simple confidence in man. That's
what.
'.Reader, is this your paper? If so,
Allah be praised If not, why not?''
Such is the rather unique manner in
which the editor of the Londonderry
Sitter touches upon delicate topic
Arrearage in newspaper subscription.
The readers of the BANNER will smile at
90 original way of reaching business
point; and possibly some of them may
be suffi iently interested to glance at
their own account with the newspaper
man, as indicated by the date opposite
your name.
A recent ruling of the postofice depart
ment is to the effect that the writer has
the right to reclaim and regain possession
of letter, providing he can prove to the
satisfaction of the postmaster at the Of
fee from which it was sent that he was
the writer of it. Even after the letter
has arrived at its destination, and before
it is delivered to whom it is addressed, it
may be recalled by the writer by tele-
gram through the mailing office. Tue
reason assigned is that the United States
is only the agent of the writer while the
letter is in transit.
Referring to the extensi IN of the civil
service to postoffices having carrier de-
livery. the Argus and Patriot says:
"FOrmerly these rules applied only to
offices having as manv as so employees,
but the rules were so amended by an or
der promulgated by the President, Janu-
AIRY 5, as to make them apply to all free
delivery pOst-Offices, and to include all
clerks below the post master-postal
clerks, money order clerks, carriers, and
substitutes and all others excepting free
delivery messengers. This order brings
Gas more officers and 1910 more persons
under the operation of the civil service
rules. The rules will go into effect as
soon as the commissioners have Orga.
nized boards of examiners and prepared
eligible registers. The Vermont post
offices which are thus placed under the
civil services rules are Montpelier, st
Adams, Burlington, Rutland, Brattle'
boro, Bennington, and st. JOhnsbuly.'
Col. c. C. Kinsman of the 1st Regiment
V.N. g., announces his staff as follows
t. b. Perkins of Rutland, adjutant. p
X. Peck of Rutland, quartermaster. J
u. Wyman of st. Adams, |. r. p
William d. Huntington Of Rochester, sur
geOn. Henry H. Lee of Wells River
assistant surgeon. B. G.. Senton of Rut
land. assistant surgeon. Rev. III. f. Hill
OF White River junction, chaplain. f. II
Chapman of Rutland, hospital stewart