Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-17
NEWS AND NOTES.

cent courageous performances, is David
Backbone Hill.
Labor Day is now a National holiday,
the President having just signed bill to
make it SO.
The scrofulous faint which may have
been in your blood for years, may be
thoroughly expelled by giving Hood S
Sarsaparilla a trial.
The Boston young man who is en-
gagged to girl in California thinks it is
hard enough to be separated from her by
a continent without having the mails
eight days late besides.
If anything was lacking to insure the
vote of solid North for the Republican
ticket in 1896 it has been supplied by the
passage of the mongrel tariff bill through
the Senate.
Free trade in wool will work a swift
and striking change in the wool growing
States. Within their borders sheep and
Democratic voters will speedily become
equally scarce.
The President of Nicaragua has been
celebrating with great eclat the first an
niversary of the revolution which gave
him the Presidency. One year without
revolution is an extraordinary event
for Nicaragua
Our explanation of the efficiency of the
| regular troops in dealing with smob is
the fact that the federal army never
goes into scrimmage for its health or
for the fun of the thing.
1t does seem a little strange those
Pullman workmen during the period in
which, as they say, they have been
grossly wronged by their employer, were
able to lay by some 100000 in the saw
ings bank.
The British editors who think that
the doom of the American Republic has
been sounded should be reminded of the
fact that they made the same prediction
when the first gun was fired on Fort
Sumter.
Chicago does seem to have the
faculty of getting herself talked about.
But sometimes Chicago would be known
better if she were known less.
Demagogism is the flimsy wall that
stands between labor and capital, keep
ing them apart when they should be
standing together in harmonious union.
With reason and justice as their guide,
they should advance, clasp hands above
the pretentious obstruction and crush it
to the earth.
1t turns out that Mr.. Croker actually
saw Mr.. Whitney in London and had a
consultation with him. 1t is not at all
unlikely that Mr.. Whitney, with his
customary wisdom as a counselor, ad-
vised Mr.. Croker to come back to New
York and face the music like man.
The perversity of the Senate in re
fusing to vote to exempt the Presidents
salary from the operations of the Income
Tax law is a sharp thrust at Mr.. Cleve-
land. 1t will cost him more than 5000
year, and the government doesn't need
the money either.
1t would be interesting to know
whether Congressman Fithian's savage
denunciation of President Cleveland and
the simultaneous side-tracking of the
Fithian free ship" bill is or is not mere
ly an accidental coincidence.
'Why does that boy set up yell every
time locomotive whistle blows?" Hes
trying to see if he's got voice enough to
drown the noise of the engine" "What
for?' HE wants to find out if he's
adapted for selling papers. "-Tid-bits.
Congress has been fussing and quarrel
ing over the mongrel tariff bill eyer
since last fall, and now another election
will soon be here. Why not pass the
appropriation bills and go home, leaving
the people to decide the fate of the bill
by their ballots next November?
President Cleveland, according to
Washington advises, is no longer on
friendly terms with his party leaders,
and keeps himself secluded from them.
The leaders themselves manifest pref
erence for the for the other side of the
street when Mr.. Cleveland goes by.
Reciprocity will soon be thing of the
past if Secretary Carlisle's plans are car
ried out, as he proposes they shall be-
The Cleveland Administration is deter
mined that the very word shall be ex-
purgated from the lexicon of American
policy.
Only 495 miles of new railroad have
been laid in this country during the past
six months. This is the lowest record
since the war. In % out of the A States
building is at an absolute standstill, and
the present outlook in the West, where
most of the new lines must necessarily be
laid, is not at all promising to investors.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is
going to officlate Monday at the christen-
ing of the young duke of Kent in the pri-
vate chapel at Windsor castle-but the
baby won't know the difference between
the archbishop and a first lieutenant of
the Salvation army.