Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-08-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

DR.. Brldgham OF Sullivan Harbor,
Me-, has captured turtle 100 years ola,
that can carry man on it's back.
President Diaz of Mexico, has sent
out typographical and geological ex-
pedition to the volcano Popocatepetl,
owing to the attempts of an American
company to buy the mountain.
Naturally enough the Democratic
brethren are all wondering what Cover
nor Mckinley will do with their party
when he appears upon the stump in this
State. Of one thing they be assured,
and that is that the Governor, when he
grapples the Democratic record. will not
burden his hands with any unnecessary
gloves.
The Emperor of China, in stripping
Ii Hung Chang of the Order of the Vel
low Coat, has treated that great Minister
in very much the same heartless way
that Mr.. Cleveland has treated Senators
Vest and Voorhees,. These able states
men once wore the large pink rosette of
the Order of Royal Popinjays, whose
members precede even the Golden Mug
wumps in the throneroom, but they ex-
cited the suspicion of their royal master
by their unselfish support of his personal
policy, and he promptly deposed them.
DO you have headache, dizziness,
drowsiness, loss of appetite and other
symptoms of biliOusness? Hoods Sar-
saparilla will cure you.
-Vigilant seems to have taken a sud-
en- impulse from light Britannia breeze,
when she defeats the light weather yacht
by SIX minutes and leaves Satanita a
half-hour behind The Yankee crew is
just getting its second breath.
AT the service in st. Joseph's Catho-
lie church, Cohoes, n. Y, Sunday, Mgr.
Dugas read Mgr. Satolli's letter as to sa-
loonkeepers belonging to Catholic socie-
ties. After reading the letter the Rever-
end gentleman said that he could no
longer recognize any society connected
with the church that had in its ranks
saloonkeepers, and he said, furthermore,
that he would have to refuse the sacra-
ments to saloonkeepers who sold intoxi-
cants ON Sunday.
Abraham Lincoln was the tallest
president, being six feet, four inches in
height; Benjamin Harrison was the
shortest; William Henry Harrison was
the oldest, being sixty-eight years and
one month old when inaugurated, and
Grant, who was not quite forty-seven
years old, was the youngest.
"A large tree planted by Cyrus W.
Field, in front of his Grammercy Park
mansion to commemorate the compile
ton Of the first Atlantic cable, fell the
other day. Its roots had been eaten
away by insects.
The statue of President Grant and
its pedestal, presented by the Grand
Army of the Republic to the United
States, has arrived at Washington. The
statue, which came from Rome, is the
work of Franklin Simmons. The figure
of Grant is heroic in size, and represents
him in the act of laying aside his sword
and belt.
Farmers who are obliged to sit up
all night with shotguns in their hands to
protect their crops from the victims of
Democratic prosperity, are grateful, no
doubt, because they are no longer
robbed by the stealthy hand of high
protection" which Grover saw reaching
into their pockets when he cast his dedi-
Gated eyes over the land in the cam
paign of 1S92.-Worcester Telegram,
Our Democratic contemporaries are
gleefully noting certain signs of business
revival, but they neglect to emphasize
the tele,ting fact that they are contem-
poraneous with an increasing belief that
no Democratic tariff bill will be enacted.
The president of the Illinois Central
Railroad has issued a circular warmly
thanking. the employees of that corpora
ton for their loyalty during the recent
strike. The praise is richly deserved,
for the course which the men took re-
quired no small degree of courage.
The Catholic priest at Cohoes, N.
T., who declares that he will not recog-
nize any church society which has sa-
loon keepers among its members, and
that he will refuse the sacraments to any
saloon keeper who sells on Sunday, APP
pears to have no doubt as to what Mgr.
Satolli's letter meant.
The price of corn in Russia has
shrunk so low, in consequence of the
splendid prospect of the harvest, that
many farmers are sending their cattle in
to the fields, as the cost of harvesting
would exceed the price of the corn. In
the Caucasus barley and wheat are cut
green and given to the cattle. Forty
five pounds of corn are worth cent and
half.