Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-18
NEWS AND NOTES.

buting $500 to the Democratic clubs. All
he can say is that money talks.
When man goes into business for
where he got the money, but when he
fails and starts up second time every
body knows where it cane from.
Now that Commander Heyerman and
Lieutenant Lyman have been punished
for losing the Kearsarge let the people of
the United States concOct a scheme to
punish the administration for allowing
it to be destroyed.
After all is said and done, Coxey has
made quite as favorable an Impression
in Washington as many other of the free
trade and income tax cranks assembled
there.
Some of the Democratic organs are
unable to conceal their woe over the
fact that the Constitutional Convention
of the Empire State is to be controlled
by the Republicans. 1t is an unfortu-
nate situation for them, but these able
journals are not directly to blame for it,
Tho people of the sovereign State of
New York are primarily responsible for
the present arrangement of things.
Grover Cleveland and his advisers
have devised bill which proposes to
array the South and Europe against the
industries of the East, the North and
the West. 1t is sectional measure sup
ported by a foreign alliance. The
Cleveland brand of Americanism consists
of 10 per cent. of free wool and 80 per
cent. of imported shoddy.
Mgr. Satolli made public Saturday
the reasons why Father McGlynn was
absolYed. They were-frst, that full
statement of his views and doctrines in
regard to social economy contained no.
thing opposed to the Catholic doctrine;
second, that he amply apologized for his
derogatOry statements about the ecclesi-
astical authorities; and finally, because
he went to Rome as ordered.
The post Office at North Chester was
robbed Sunday night and money taken.
This makes the twenty-fourth post Office
burglarized in Vermont within the past
six months. There has been no arrests or
convictions in any case. The robbers
seem to appear in one part of the State
one night and in another the next.
Where are the u. S. officials? Is there a
conspiracy?
j. A. Harrington of Vergenues has
two pieces of the old galley Congress,
commanded by Gen. Arnold, in the nav
al engagement with the British fleet,u
der Capt. Prindle, October 18th, ITO, off
Fort Cassin. The Congress was run
ashore and sunk in Ferris bay. William
Adams of West Addison furnished Mr..
Harrington with the relics, which are to
be fashioned into gavel for use in the
Dorchester Lodge.
Several hundred people had narrow
escape from terrible death in Brad
ford, Pa, Sunday. In the course of fire
in barrel house at the Emery manufac-
turing company's refinery, tank of ben
zine on siding near the barrel house ex-
ploded. The cap of the tank was blown
300 feet in the air and large volume of
flame went with it. Thirty people were
burned about the face and hands and had
their hair singed. John Crosby is the
only one severely burned. Total loss.
$1,000.
The women of Lexington. KY, and
Fayette County are up in armes and have
issued call for mass meeting at the
Opera House on Monday, Nay 14th, ito
publicly protest against Colonel Breckin-
ridges denomination" The women are
intensely excited ever the campaign and
are boycotting the merchants who sup
port his candidacy.
The prediction of Senator Brice that
the enactment of the income tax would
lose the states of New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut to the Democracy in
1896 shows the quiet humor of tho Ohio
statesman's nature. Presently he will be
warning his fellow Democrats that they
will lose Pennsylvania if they keep on
fooling.
General CoIey" exultingly declares
that he wouldn't exchange places with
Grover Cleveland to-day" thus showing
that the spectacular campaigner from
Ohio is considerably smarter than he
looks. One thing that can be said for
Coxey and cannot be said for Cleveland
is that he has lots of true friends among
his own followers.
OF late, Castleton has suffered severely
from fires. The last two were the Eli
Park hotel, the largest summer hotel in
the state, and the carriage works of 7.
E. Mascot and Company. For several
weeks the insurance companies have had
detectives at work, and Friday an inves-
tigation, conducted by States Attorney
Jones was begun. Several witnesses
were examined, and Saturday afternoon
the investigation WAS adjourned until
Thursday of next week. The investiga-
ton covers only the fires at the Ellis
Park hotel and the Mascot building.
Colonel Breckinridge's indicator"
speech at Lexington KY, on Saturday,
consisted mainly of fulsome laudation
of himself and Of his services in Congress
Apparently he omitted no detail that
might serve to rehabilitate his broken
reputation among his constituents, even
mentioning trivial appropriations he had
engineered through Congress for the
benefit of his district and Boosting of his
faithful services in the Confederate army.
On Sunday the Presbyterian Church re-
stored him to membership, believing him
to be penitent.
-Thos. Street Of New York, writes to
the Press: Free wool will NOT only lead
to the impoverisbment of many new en-
gagged in sheep raising, but the reduced
supply of sheep will make mutton very
much higher in price, and thereby affect
the price of beef as well. There seems
to have been no point made of this
question. 1t seems to me that it is an
argument that should be fully consid-
cred and generally known, for it affects
every Individual"
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