The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-01-12

lAE OluCeTS OF OlAUu COTpS POSC were
installed last evening by VIM. H. Sears,
past commander. The new year starts
off promisingly for this organization.
Mr.. CHARLES T. FARNHAM of Sara
toga Springs, N. Y, graduate of our
High school and now student in Brown
University, recently closed two weeks
visit to Bennington.
THE news from Mrs. Otta R. Bennett
of Rutherford, N. j., i'll with smallpox, is
reassuring. She is now able to sit up.
and no other member of the family has
as yet come down with the disease.
AFTER the disappearance of f. G. Mat
tison, as stated by us two weeks ago,
and his subsequent arrival at a relatives
in Illinois, he was put under medical
treatment and is better, but it will take
little time to recover. Meantime an
investigation was begun at the office in
this village. His accounts were not
written up, and on the face of things it
looked as if he might be defaulter, but
as the inquiry proceeds matters look bet
ter for the absent freight agent and YES
terday the Rutland Herald had des-
patch saying the shortage, if any, could
be easily attributable to careless book
keeping. The railway officials have gone
through the bills, and in calling on our
business men have found amounts both
ways, so that we are sorry Mr.. Mattison
did not stay and settle his own books.
The official statement of the company
has not yet been made public.
THE BANNER has issued the History
of Methodism in Bennington, W.T." com
piled by the Rev. A. d. HeaXt from a
historical sketch, written by the Rev.
John L. Bowen, and, also, from the
records of the church, and from various
other scources. This is a handsome
pamphlet of Y pages, printed on fine
paper and new type, and will be widely
sought after by members of that church,
both at home and abroad. The author,
in his preface, gives credit to DR.. Bost-
wick Hawley, by whose hand the records
of the church in this village were com
pleted up to the time his passionate
ceased in 1875, so that the readers of this
elegant souvenir of the Methodist church
In town may rest assured the story has
been accurately told. Elder Heaxt has
brought to his work ripe scholarship, as
well as an entertaining style, and in this
volume for the first time appears many
interesting facts of early history There
will be demand for the work outside
the communion it is, primarily, intended
for. The price is so cents per copy, and
orders may now be left at or sent to this
office.
Those who think we are too strict
here regarding contagious diseases
should read the following: "The danger
of diphtheria contagion, almost wholly
unknown for long time, seems more
and more seriOns as investigation is
made. The New York city board of
health has adopted rule providing that
no person who has suffered from diph
liberia shall be considered free from con-
tagion until it has been shown by BAG
THEOLOGICAL examination, made after the
disappearance of the membrane from
the throat, that the throat secretions no
longer contain the diphtheria bacilli.
Until such examination has shown the
absence of bacilli, all cases in the board
ing houses, hotels and tenement houses
are to remain isolated and under exam
ination. Distinction of premises un.
der the observation of the board of
health will be hereafter postponed until
there be certainty of the extirpation of
the organisms which cause diphthoritic
diseases. The persistence of the diph-
theritic plague in New York has baffled
the systematic effort of the authorities
to suppress it. In 405 cases of true
diphtheria, subjected to repeated exam
nations by competent psychologists at
intervals of three or four days during
illness. and until the Disappearance OF
the bacilli, it was found that after the
complete separation of the false men,
brane and recovery of the patient in 100
cases the bacilli had not been extir-
pated. OF these 100 cases, 100 showed
the germ for seven days, "a for u days,
Is for 10 days, four for three weeks. and
three for five weeks after the emulation
had completely disappeared from the
upper air passages. These results meas
urably explain the failure of systematic
efforts for prevention of spread of the
cOntagion. Persons apparently cured
may CONT -ue to spread it,"