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was of great benefit to the sleighing
which was getting to be poor.
EDWARD L. NORTON has been i'll a
number of weeks, critically so for a
time, but is slowly improving.
THE net receipts from the recent per
Torrance of the cantata Esther, were
$500, which went to the Y. NJ. c. A.
SATURDAY being the Feast of the I'm
maculate Conception, religious services
were held in ST. Francis de Sales church.
BY special request, Rev. C. R. Sey-
'mour repeated his Thanksgiving sermon
in the Second Congregational church
Sunday morning.
ALBERT GODDARD, who has been con-
fined in the Jail here some time, for
burglary in the North Bennington post
office. has been released on bail.
Mrs. JARED HOWARD is seriously i'll.
For several weeks she has been nearly
helpless, but will slowly gain from this
time out, and she hopes to be out again.
A SERIES of revival services to last two
weeks were begun in the Methodist
church Sunday evening" The pastor
will be assisted by clergymen from
abroad.
F. o. GRAVES has presented the Stark
Hose Company with fine organ. The
instrument was put into the rooms last
week, and is a gift that is highly appre-
ciated. Mr.. Graves is member of the
company.
ABOUT seventy-tive persons were pres
ent at the clam chOwder, served by Stark
Hose Company in their rooms, Saturday
evening. Among the attractions was
the banjo playing by E. G. Corbin, and
singing by quartette.
The annual encampment of the De-
partment of Vermont, G. A. R., will be
held at BrattleborO, Jan. 30th and 3lst
next. Thus far only one candidate for
Department Commander has been an
nounced, Barney Cannon of Bellows
Falls.
WALARIDGE has an advertisement on
our third page in which he offers for
sale host of articles for Christmas
presents, and he has marked the prices
on these goods so all can buy. At his
upper store is large assortment of toys
which must be closed out as he does not
intend to deal in this class of goods after
this year, so there is your chance. He
also makes a leader of cutters, sleds,
skates, jardiniers and frst-class furni-
ture, stoves and ranges, in fact, house
furnishing is his speciality.
THE Sunday Globe said: "Hon. VIM.
r. Sanford, yesterday, returned from
White River Junction, to his home in Or
well. He is the only member of the
State Agricultural Society whose mem
bership dates from the organization, in
1850. lie was elected a director at the
first meeting, and has been a prominent
member of the society SINCE" Hon. H.
G. Root of this village has been mem
Der of the society as long as Mr.. Sanford,
having been one of the original members.
Mr.. Root was for several years president
of the society and at the annual meeting
held last week was elected director and
one of the finance committee.
THE death of Ferdinand de Lesseps
has some of local interest, from the fact
that the writer who was then residing at
Colon, the Isthmus of Panama, was one
of the committee to receive him when he
arrived at Colon, Dec. 2Sth 1879, on the
Steamship Washington, accompanied by
his wife, family and large number of
engineers, and other attaches who were
to begin work on the Panama Canal.
The old count was then in his very prime
although past seventy years of age. The
writer also accompanied the train that
carried the party to Panama the next
day and was also present when on Janu-
airy first following, de Lesseps, in the
presence of quite number of invited
guests, turned the first shovelful of
earth, in the beginning of that work.
He was followed by the President of
Panama and the Archbishop. In several
conversations with the illustrious engi-
neer he always expressed the most I'M
bounded confidence in the completion of
the work that he had started.
THE Rev. DR.. John F. Mesick, former
pastor of the Second Reformed church,
Somerville, n. j., writes thus in regard
to Rev. E. G. Reads book, "a Domino
in Bible Lands: "The book is so fas.
cinating, that when 1 take it up l hardly
know when to lay it down. The style
pleases me; it is so clear, natural, de-
scriptive, that feel while reading as if
was with the author, and saw objects
with my own eyes. l admire his sound
Judgment and good common sense in re-
jecting what is false in tradition in re-
gard to sacred places ia Jerusalem and
elsewhere in Palestine, and in reverence
for undoubted localities of scenes in the
life of our dear Lord. l am amazed at
the vast amount of information con-
densed concerning the antiquities of
Egypt and the historical places in the
Holy Land, exceeding any one book that