The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-17
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
THE ice crop is safe.

THE ice crop is safe.
COOP bye to sleighing.
ONLY four days more of Almanac win
ter.
ST. PATRICKs DAY will be celebrated
by ST. Francis de Sales people here and
by st. John Baptist church, North Ben
ningtOn.
THE winter is surely breaking up, for
the last few days a decided change is
taking place and the snow is wasting
away at rapid rate.
''PAY your dog tax" says the bills is
sued by the town clerk, 'and save your
fines" This is good advice, as the pen
alties are doubling the rate after April
list.
"CHAMPLAIN's NAPLES" is what
correspondent of the Albany Journal
calls Port Douglass Bay, just south of
Port Kent and Trembleau Mt.
Hon. CHARLES B. EDDY, leading
criminal lawyer we'll known in this vicin-
ity, who has been suffering from mod
fled form of insanity, has returned to
his Bellows Falls home improved.
A WRITER in the American Agricul-
turist recommends wood ashes, with a
plentiful sprinkling of charcoal and salt
as the best medicine for farm animals,
especially for warding off hog cholera.
He keeps the mixture constantly before
his hogs in covered box, with holes
near the bottom, through which they
work it out as fast as wanted.
In addition to County Examiner Fer
ren's teachers examinations held last
and this week, the following are yet to
be held, of which our readers are re-
quested to make a note; Pownal, March
Gath and 25th, and Peru, April 10th and
18th. Examinations will begin promptly
at a. M, and will be held in the school
houses at the several places.
News comes from Chicago that the
people there are sick of the Worlds Fail
already on account of the great increase
in the cost of living which is likely to be
entaied upon them. The windy city, il
probably liable to find itself in some
thing like the predicament of the ole
negro whose friends came in such mum
bers to his wife's funeral that he wal
impe He'd to complain of ''too much com
pRny for de chair"
WE are under obligations to Geo, A
Robinson of San Francisco, for the obit
uary of John G. Haswell that appears il
another place. Mr. Haswell will be re
membered by our older citizens and b!
very large class of our readers who re
call the Old Vermont Gazette. He wa
also one of the leaders of the Free Sol
party, noted in the article to-day, "a
chapter from the Old Politics of tn,
State" and his paper supported tina
measure.
LAGRIPPE has appeared in New Yorl
city. This is one of the most dreadful
of all diseases, and it is rightly named
for its grip, when once fastened on il
relentless. And facts and figures SHOW
that it goes hardest with newspaper
delinquents. Better pay up. The BAN
NER is only $3.50 year, and the Week.!
Tribune free, but only to advance sub
scribers. And the figures following
your name on the upper corner of thi
paper shows just how your accoun
stands.
THE new military post near Esse1
Junction is to be called Fort Ethan
Allen" This will be an appropriat,
name, in view of the place which Ethan
Allen holds in the hearts of Vermonters
az the Green Mountain nero Of the Rev
Olution, and of the interesting fact, no
generally known, that the land occupied
BY the site of the post was formerly in
OIuded in a tract of land of several thou
sand acres owned by Ira Allen, Ethan''
Brother. The Free Press says: Capt
q. E. Pond, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS o
the United States army, has been her
this week completing the transfer o
lands, and from now on the land will b.
treated as military reservation. Worl
will be begun at once, and pnshed to
npid completion, and it is expected tina
fully Sl5O,OOO will be expended this sea
oil