The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-12
THE COLUMBIAN BELL.

The latest bulletin of the receipt of
relics, frOmthe Troy Press, is as follows:
About 600 packages haYe thus far been
received for the Columbian bell and
more are to follow. Several states have
not sent in any donation, but have noti-
fled tho Clinon H. Meneeley company
that they will. BesTdes contributions,
New Jersey people have given $500 to-
wards the cost of the bell. Among the
recent donations are the following: Mrs.
Elizabeth c. L. Goddard of Colorado
Springs, a fob chain owned by Brack-
holt Livingston of New York and worn
by him in the Continental army: un-
known donor, buttons from the cloaks
and CATERS worn by Thomas Jefferson;
the boys of the Georgia school of tech
nOlogy, an ingot of bell metal purposely
stamped for the Columbian bell; Pat
rick Calhoun of Atlanta, Ca, silver
spoon which belonged to Senator John
G. Calhoun, and used in the Calhoun
family over century; w. II. Greenwood
of Atlanta, Ca, silver spoon owned by
his grandmother, who was in Boston at
the time the British entered the city;
VIM. King, one of the editors of the At
lanta Constitution, a silver spoon owned
by Henry w. Grady; Mrs. Egbert r.
Jones of Holly Springs, Miss, knob
from the clock given by Thomas Jeffer-
son to Mrs. Nicholas Lewis; Alfred H.
and Cornelia w. Alfrend of Chalybeate
Springs, Ga, handle of a baptismal
cup of Cornelia w. Alfrend, the great
granddaughter of Ann Washington and
an own niece of George Washington;
Mrs. Charles II. Phinizy of Augusta, Ca,
asilver spoon and a piece of silver urn
over 100 years old, which was owned by
Thomas Glasscock; VIM. w. Wight of
Milwaukee, Wis, only coin in the pock-
ct of his mother, Lydia A. P. Wight,
who died recently in Troy and who was
a descendant of James Van Aukren,
who fought against the English and the
Indians in this State; Mrs. w. W. Sher-
man, Chicago, relics from Fort Mich
illimacinac, Mich, established in 1871 as
French military post and Jesuit mis-.
sion Richard S. BaYham of Troy, a sill
yer shoe buckle worn by Captain Jacob
Poole of Arlington, Mass, who with four
sons, fought in the battle of Bunker Hill,
and who was in the Boston tea party;
Mrs. Andrew Reid of Baltimore, Md, a
piece of silver spoon once owned by
Geo. Washington; Mrs. l.. III. Stone OF
Kalamazoo, Mich, pin made in Greece
| from mites, the same as the widows
cast into the treasury as commanded by
Jesus; Governor Levi X. Fuller of Yer
mont, rare coins; Mrs. Mary A. eau
field of Arlington, Vt, silver eye glasses
made from part of a spoon cast in Ar
lington by B. Leonard at the time bull
lets were being made for the battle OF
Bennington; Rev. VIM. B. Walker of
Bennington, VT. sends relics of the
French, Indian, Revolutionary, Civil and
other wars; from Dakota mine com
pany, pound of American tin, and from
another in Nevada, pound of silver. A
large collection of articles was received
from New York ladies who are descend
ants of families prominent in the Revo-
lut: onary and Colonial times.
Burt of Bennington, in Boston Herald
AIDS these: From Washington, a cop
per kettle containing 10000 pennies; j
Everett Alden, Torrington, Ct, coin OF
1894 carried in Libby and Andersonville
Coles, Scotch Plains, N. j., piece of the
France in IT'S; Mrs. E. l.. Shaw, Troy
piece of the old bell from the old church
in Schenectady, N. Y, which was i'm.
ported from Holland; NJ. II. Duphon,
Emmettsburg, Md, flint lock used by
his great grandfather in the battle OF
Bunker Hill; Gertrude Greer, Whining.
ton, Del, gold ring taken from the fin
ger of an ancestor killed at the battle OF
Brandywine; Philadelphia chapter, d. A,
r., piece of cup used by Gen. Wagner
in ITS, also a silver cup made in France
in 1880; Mrs. Henry Rives, Eureka, New,
piece of copper from the famous man-of
war Hartford, also piece taken from the
steamer Jeanette, wrecked at the North
pole, also piece from the United States
sloop-of-war wrecked at Samoa; Joseph
S. Ward, Wards, S. c., piece of a cannon
used during the Revolutionary war.