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one third 500, and one fourth of SIS;
New Bedford 5000, one second of 500,
and two fourths of $50.
Other engines winning two prizes were:
Essex, 3, of Essex, 5000; Fire King, Paw.
tucket, r. l., 5000; G. f. Burgess, Rock
port, Me-, $50; Nashua veterans, $3.50:
Niagara, Brunswick, Me-, 500, and
Union, 2, of Pepperell, 500.
The other 10 prize winners took one
prize each.
The first prize winners, with their rec
ords and prizes, are: Milford, Quinsiga.
m0nd, No. l, Hopkinton, 1S9 TT 6 in, 5000;
Providence Central Falls, 1872 fit in,
$50; Fire King of Pawtucket, 176 fit s
in, 500; Rockland, Me-, G. F. Burgess,
5, Rockport, Me-, 1873 fit in, SIS; Massa-
soft, l, Damariscotta, 176 fit l in, $50;
Peabody, July 10th, NJ. A. Pickett, Mar
blehead, 157 it 10t in, 5000; Essex, July
18th, Peabody Union, 1856 fit II in, 1925;
Bennington, Gen, Schuyler, 221 fit Sin.
$500; Waltham, Baw Beese, Veterans of
Gardner, 100 it 28 in, 1925; Essex, Sep.
TENDER Sd, Salem Veterans, 1S9 fit 10 in,
$3.50; River Point, Fire King, l, of Paw
tucket, r. l., 1876 fit in, 500; Pawtuck-
ct. Red Jackets. 1876 fit 10 in, 5000; Mar
blehead, Salem Veterans, ISL fit 1O4 in,
100; Attleboro, Red Jacket, 179 fit in,
5000; Nashua, Baw Beese, 1913 fit " In,
$3.50; Pepperell, Nashua Veteran, 1851
fit, 500; Peabody, Oct. 18th, Roxbury
Veteran, 219 fit OF in.
OF these six are Button engines, five
Zimmerman, two LETTERS, and one Smith.
OF the leading prize winners, the Red
Jackets attended musters, lost at 1 :;
Peabody Veterans 5, lost 1; Newton Vet
NJ bod, T., 4
trial Falls Veteran and Fire King, l, Paw
tucket 4, lost 2; Nashua and Essex 3,
lost /; Pawtucket Veteran 3, lOst2; Baw
champion, with 230 it 81 in, made at
birmingham, Oct. End, 1881.
Thus the best record belongs to Gen.
Schuyler; best percentage to Baw Beese !;
largest amount taken in prizes to Red
Jackets; most prizes, Red Jackets and
Salems; and largest single prize, ROx-
bury.
The leather medal, for poorest record,
belongs to the Boston Veterans, who at
tended one muster, Pawtucket, and came
out last.
There is dispute as to who is entitled
to the first prize at River Point. The
Natick, r. l., No. l, claims it.
If these musteTs are to continue sew
eral important things must be remedied,
and the New England Veteran Firemen's
League should accomplish this. Some of
the things that have been asked for are
better, more appropriate and more COM
plete rules, which will positively prevent
any sort of crooked business; none but
rubber hose to be used, an entrance fee
from those companies wishing to contest
and probably shed TO protect the stream
from the wind. Firemen's musters are
growing in interest and numbers each
year.
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somber Clad Corsicans.

Nearly all of the peasant men and wom-
en- of Corsica that saw were clad in the
most somber manner. The men wore dark
brown or black corduroy or velveteen
suits, with heavy hobnail boots and black
broad brimmeI sombreros. Not satisfied
apparently with this heavy coat and trou-
sers, each wore heavy vest of the same
material. Around the waist each wore a
broad red sash with ends hanging down at
the side, which set off the black or brown
suit The women were dressed mostly in
black from head to foot with black shawls
ON their heads. and pretty face was very
rare among them. They will not compare
with the Italians for beauty Of person.
Charles H. Adams in Century.
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IT WORKED TOO WELL.
But 1t Is Hardly Likely That He Will Try
That Scheme Again.

Iut 1t Is Hardly Likely That He VIII Try
That Scheme Again.
A doctor On tho West Side was called to
tie residence of a man in great haste. Ar
irving there, he found the mans head bat
tered and torn to such a degree that sew
ing it up reminded him of an old fashion
ed quilting bee When the patient was
able to give an account of the accident
that disabled him, he related this sad tale:
II am behind three months with my
rent. That's one-half the secret of my
misery; the other half is that some boys in
my neighborhood have lately been ringing
my doorbell at all hours of the night,
greatly to my annoyance. Time after time
1 was called to the door, only to find no
body there. Finally ran wire from a
battery to the doorbell, so that the next
boy who played the trick on me would DO
held there until could reach him and rend
him limb from limb.
about an hour ago heard ring at
the door and went there exulting. open
ed the door, and there was my landlord
standing ON his head and hanging on to
the handle of the doorbell. About 1000
volts of electricity were chasing each other
through his system, and the way he kicked
at the door casing and clawed around
with his free hand was a sight to be seen.
l was scared worse than he was, though,
and turned off the current and went to
carry him into the house."
ibid you carry hint"
''I don't think did. Everything that
happened after 1 returned to the door is
vague and indistinct. l have n confused
recollection that he grabbed a passing
street car and knocked me on the head
with it, and that he tore off the doorbell
and made me swallow it, wires and all,
but cannot say positively what occurred.
expect him to return at any hour, and
think the next time you come you had bet
ter bring along a sewing machine The
old plan of stitching by hand is too slow
and tedious. Chicago Tribune.
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UP IN A BALLOON.
What MIR. Glaisher Experienced When Sew
eral Miles High.

What MIR. Glaisher Experienced When Sew
eral Miles High.
When the balloon had attained height
of $4,000 feet, or about 81 miles, Mr.
Glaisher suddenly grew aware that one of
his arms was completely powerless. He
tried to move the other, but from that
too, all strength had gone. BY this time,
thoroughly alarmed he tried to shake
himself; but strange to say, the result
was but feeling that he had no limbs at
all. His head dropped upon his left Shout
der, and when he struggled to lift it erect
it toppled over to his right. He reeled
back and sank against the side of the car,
and there lay, his arm hanging nerveless-
ly over the SIDE A moment or two passed,
and he found that all the muscular pow
ers that had still remained in his neck
were gone also He tried to speak, to call
his comrade, but no words came. The
balloon meanwhile was steadily mount
ing, and to put finishing touch to the
terrors of his plight his eyesight was fail
ing him rapidly. Soon this, too, vanish
ed, and pitchy darkness settled down upon
him.
Consciousness remained. Hearing also
might have remained, but there was no
sound to break the solitude of tho sky.
He felt only that he was still ascending
ascending, so to speak, into mere nothing
ness. The mind worked, but all partner
ship with the body had failed. The reins
of the senses had slipped from his grasp.
He could just think. "Was this the way
in which men died? And did one faculty
after another desert the soul in its extrem-
ity, as servile courtiers may steal away
from the presence Of royalty when its last
hour had arrived" And then the dark
ness of his senses settled also on his mind
and consciousness faded from him. He
was reused by voice calling him, but at
first could give no guess as to it's origin.
'Try, try'' it was saying. He tried to
answer it, but could not He opened his
eyes. All was dim yet, but through the
dimness he could just make out a figure
kneeling over him. Very slowly the OBJ
security faded and he felt his senses ebbing
back. The figure had left him now, but
he could see Mr.. Coxwell sitting at the
other side of the car. He lay, looking at
him for some moments, unable to speak
or move. After awhile, however, he man.
aged to pull himself to his feet and found
his voice.-World of Adventure.
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remember when Tom Florence, suDso-
quently the popular member of congress
from the First district, kept hat store
on Sixth street below Chestnut, now the
site of The Ledger building. Richard
Vaux had his law Office over Florence's
hat store One day the late Daniel Dough-
erty met Vaux on the street corner and
said to him, "Mr. Vaux, you know I
have graduated as lawyer and want to
find an office in this vicinity to hang out
my sign" In those days lawyers offices
were in great demand so close to the state
house. Mr.. Vaux replied, "Yes, Dan, 1
know of just the place for you-right up
in my rooms-but you can only have it
on one condition, and that is you shall
not pay any rent for it." Dougherty es.
tablishcd his Office there, and the two men
wero intimate friends until the breaking
out of the war, when its unhappy differ
ences separated them. - Philadelphia
TTimnG
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Lincoln and Stanton.

Mr.. Dana came up to Washington from
Richmond with Grant after the final VIC
tory of the Union army. He reached the
capital on April 10. On the afternoon Of
the 18th he received dispatch from Port
land, Me-, reporting that Jacob Thompson
was expected to pass through that town
in disguise, on his way from Canada to
England. Stanton was for arresting the
commissioner, but he sent Dana over to
the White House to see the president about
1t. nColn was in the little closet just
off office in his shirt sleeves, washing
his large hands.
"Hello, DANA" he said, "what is it
nowp"
Dana explained that Mr.. Stanton had
an opportunity to arrest Thompson and
thought it ought to be done.
"Well," drawled Lincoln, IT think not.
When you have an elephant on hand and
he wants to run away, better let him run. "
A few hours later Abraham Lincoln lay
unconscious in the little bedroom in the
Petersen house, opposite Ford's theater.
Dana was with Stanton until O'Clock in
the room adjoining the death chamber.
Then he went home to sleep. He was
awakened in the morning by knock at
his door. 1t WINS Colonel Pelouze, one of
the assistant adjutant generals.
'Mr. Dana, ;" said Colonel Pelouze, Mr.
Lincoln is dead, and Mr.. Stanton directs
you to arrest Jacob Thompson. Edward
p. Mitchell in McClure's Magazine.
Daniel Dougherty's Start In Life.
A few old citizens are still living who
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NEWS ANN NOTES

Perhaps after the smoke of the battle
has cleared away there will be some por-
tions of the Cleveland Administration
visible. None can be seen now.
Whenever band welcomes Mr.
William London Wilson by playing the
'Star Spaugled Banner" the West Vir-
ginian signs and longs to hear his favor
lite melody of "Rule, Britannia"
-HilPs great ambition now is to have
his party buried with him in November
so that he will not feel lonesome. In
this one case his ambition will be
achievd
Hill trying to answer Mckinley on the
tariff question is as effective as the whis-
tie on COney Island excursion boat try
ing to reply to peal of thunder
Gov. Mckinley is proving himself a
marvel of mental and physical endurance
When did ever another orator address so
many of his cOuntrymen of so many
States and sections in like period? And
Mckinley is vote getter every time.
-"How can we face the people if we
pass this bil?'' said President Cleveland,
and then he hired three detectives to
guard him so that he would not have to
face them.
Small time is left the Japanese for
active military operations. Winter with
its cold and its gales will soon as effec-
lively stop such things as they would in
North America.
1t is pity that the Fall River weavers
did not accept the disinterested advice of
the State Board of Arbitration and re-
turn to work. Even now it may not be
too late to do it.
With Democratic statisticans figuring
on majority of sixteen and Republicans
on a majority of four, it is clear that the
next House is likely to be close, and that
neither party has votes to spare.
"A man who applied for registration
liz San Francisco the other day was at
first refused because he said he was born
in New Hampshire. The clerk wanted
to see the applicants naturalization
papers, because New Hampshire is a
province of England" The San Fran
cisco Bulletin tells this story.-Spring-
field Republican.
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FitchbuTg Railroad,

l1JOSRC TUNNEL hOUlE.
On and after Sept 17th, 1894, trains viii run Al
follows
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA. BENNINGTON & RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington &c m, arrive Troy s S., a
IN, New York 20 p m, Hoosick Falls 8 81, North
Adams So. Greenfield II 20 m ,Fitchourg SO,
Boston 10 p II, Mechanicville o., Saratoga, 9 SO
Leave Bennington IL 40 p NJ arrive Troy 219
New York 05, Hoosck Falls 81, North Adams
A. 6, Greenfield 90, Fitchburg q, Bosom 10 Tsp
m.
Leave Bennington Is p. m, arrive at Troy
%, New York IS.
Leave Bennington Is p M, arrive Troy IS,
pm, Hcosick Falls Ia, No. Adams7 90 p N,
MechaniCville 46, p. M, Saratoga 33p.m.
Leave Bennington 70 II =. ". arrive Troy 10
New York Asa m. Leave bennington for the
north. 10 10, 90 ard o. a m, 2 IS. 10 p m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON
VIA. BENNINGTON 3. RUTLAND BY:
/ 20 In, from Nav YORK, Albany and Troy.
ga NJ, from New York. Albany, Troy. Hoo
sick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga and Mechanic.
vile.
800 pm, from New York. Albany,an Troy,
4 % from New York, Albany and Troy.
6 3S p m, from Albany, Troy .Hoosick Falls. No.
Adams Boston. and Saratoga. Arrive at Ben
hingtOn from the north 20 81 a N, 10, 40
and 40 p m.
c. A NIMMO Boston.
Cent Western Passenger Arsut. Troy.
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Paskola
A Flesh Forming Food
(ArtificiaIIy Digested.)

Assimilated without any digestive
effort. If you want to grow fat
strong, robust and plump, use this
food. 1t will stop the wasting and
add new, healthy tissue to the
emaciated form. PaSkOIa is far
superior to Cod Liver Oil in con-
sumptive cases, without its repul-
sive taste. Thin, pale people gain
from five to ten pounds month.
You can buy it at any drug store.
Send your name to The Pre-Di-
gested Food Co., 80 Reade St., New
and get their interesting pamphlet.
Sold by j. T. shurtleff, Bennington, Vt.
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The pIsoovery Saved His Life.

Mr.. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beavers
vile, ILL.,, says: "To Dr.. Kings New
Discovery l owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the physi-
clans for miles about, but of no avail and
was given up and told could not live.
Having DR.. Kings New Discovery in my
store / sent for bottle and began its use
and from the first dose began to get
better, and after using three bottles was
up and about again. tits worth its weigt
in gold. We won't keep store or house
without it." Get free trial at c. D,
Gibson's Drug Store.
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Cure for Headache.

As remedy for all forms of headache
Electric Bitters has proved to be the
very best 1t effects permanent cure
and the most dreaded habitual sick head
aches yield to its influence. We urge all
who are afflicted to procure bottle, and
give this remedy fair trial. In cases of
habitual constipation Electric Bitters
cures by giving the needed tone to the
bowels, and few cases long resist the use
of this medicine. Try it once. Large
bottles only Fifty cents at G. D. Gibson's
Drug Store.
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Beaconsfield's Answer.

Lord Dufferin met Beaconsfleld on the
afternoon of one Of his elections and stop
ped to offer his compliments on his sue
cess. This was the great Disraeli's rather
complacent reply: Il said pretty good
thing on the platform. --Aere was fell
low in the crow who kept calling me a
man of straw without any stake in the
county and asking what l stood upon,
30 1 said, We'll, it is true that 1 don't
possess the broad acres Of Lord So-and-so
or the vast estates of the Duke of A.,
but if the gentleman wants to know upon
what stand will tell him-I stand upon
my head. San Francisco Argonaut.
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CURES DISEASE.

DR.. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
has been wonderfully successful in curing
persons suffering from Inflammation of
the kidneys, catarrh Of the bladder, en-
largement of the prostate gland, and in
fact, every ailment of urinary nature,
has yielded to this great medicine.
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Are you Ever Annoyed

by buzzing or roaring sound in your
head? Have you difficulty in hearing
distinctly? Are you troubled with a
continual dropping of mucous, irritating
the throat and causing you to cough? Is
your breath unpleasantly affected and
accompanied with bad taste? Is your
hearing less acute? If so, you have
catarrh and should at once procure a
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, the best
known remedy. The Balm will give in
slant relief.
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1.-THE fat is acceptable every way" said
Mrs Downtown to the janitor of the Har-
lem flats "I'll take them. By the way,
we have six children"
Janitor-AIl right, ma'am. No objcc-
ton to children.
Mrs. Downtown-Oh, indeed Well,
this must be a dreadfully questionable
neighborhood as-er-I don't think I'll
take the fiat, after all.-New York Sun.
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The registration in New York City
has fallen off enormously in the Tam
many strongholds,, while it has increased
heavily in the more reputable wards.
Sixteen Tammany Assembly Districts
show decrease of IL, 900 in the registra-
Uion. Evidently Tammany heelers have
learned that bogus registration is dan
gerous pastime.
Mr.. Cleveland is now man without
a party, without ballot and without a
country.
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BENNINGTON,
SPRING, 1894
ESTABROOK'S
Granite and Marble
WORKS.
MAIN STREET, DOOR WEST OF EXPIRES
AND TOWN CLERKS OFFICES.

To THE CITIZENS OF BENNINGTON
AND VIorNITY-I am prepared to furnish any
thing wanted in the line Of cemetery work at at
least 10 per cent less than you can buy the same
quality of stock or work of any agent or outside
party, as that is the agents commission, or it
will cost a party from away if they come them
selves to sell and set the work at least 40 per
cent more than it will me, as live here and sell
and set my own work. and receive my granite in
the rough state direct from the quarries IN car
load lots at low rates. l have q force of compe'
tent workmen to cut, polish and letter the work
here in my shop have had -four car loads oil
rougi. granite in the past two months; am tur-
nishing 10 monuments and number Of markers
and tablets from Landgon's best DARK Barre
granite which are to be set before Decoratloh
Day. Call and see my stock and how DO my
work. and if YOU have work to buy give me a
chance to figure on it. have nearly fifteen nun,
dred dollars worth of marble monuments and
tablets on hand, and will sell you any OF these at
a very low figure as / want the room for granite
work. The above are facts which | Will prove TO
you if you will cali and see me.
Soliciting your patronage, 1 am very respect
fully yours,
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Three Wants.

Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys
of sense.
Live in three words, health, peace, and
competence" So says the poet. Com
petence counts for little when one is sick
and peace is disturbed when health is
upset, so that the poet rightly places
health first. To have good health you
must have pure blood. From the Flood
the system receives all its material of
growth and repair. The best blood-pu-
rifier is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, which is world-famed and sold
everywhere. 1t is a sovereign remedy
for all diseases due to impoverished or
impure blood, as consumption, bron-
chitis, weak lungs, scrofula. old sores,
skin diseases, and kindred ailments.
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The announcement that comes from
Berlin that the German Government pro-
poses to establish an embargo on Amer
lean beef and pork products is another
bitter fruit of the Bourbon overthrow of
reciprocity.
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Old and New.

Friend-You still employ DR.. Hard
head, see.
Mrs. de Style-He's just lovely. My
husband and both like him. When we
are ailing, he always recommends old port
for my husband and Newport for me-
New Haven Palladium.
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FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.

AN OLD AND WELL TRIED REMEBY.-Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over
fifty years by millions Of mothers for their chill
dren while teethng, with perfect success. 1t
soothes the child, sOftens the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind collie and is the best remedy for
Diarrhea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world Twenty.
five. ceuts bottle. Its value is iucaCulable. Be
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
and take no other.
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tits all right for the Universities of
Oxford aud Cambridge to bestOw degrees
upon Ambassador Baynard. What we
want to know is whether Chairman Will
son is to be overlooked when these
things are distributed.
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1t was reserved for Mr.. James P.
Pigott, Democratic Congressman from
Connecticut, to discover that the income
tax is the logical and inevitable deduc-
ton from the text: LAS the Lord has
prospered you, so give" But just where
is this text to be found, Mr.. Pigott?
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The Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture assures Germany that our beef is all
right. No doubt it Is; but what Ger
many wants is pretext for hitting back
ON account of the determinations against
her in the German law.
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When Others Fall.

Hoods Sarsaparilla builds up the
shattered system by giving vigorous ac-
ton to the digestive organs, creating an
appetite and purifying the blood 1t is
prepared by modern methods, possesses
the greatest curative powers, and has the
most wonderful record of actual cures of
any medicine in existence. Take only
Hoods.
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BucIlen's Arnica Salve.

The best Salve in the world for cuts.
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum,. fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25c per box,
For sale by G. d. Gibson.
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Gov. Waite said of the famous Sec
rotary Mccullough: Il don't know
where he is now, if he's living, but if he
is dead can very quickly tell you where
he is" Here is strange combination
of ignorance and execrable vulgarity.
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THE EYES OF LOVE.

Blind souls, who say that Love is blind
He only sees Alright.
His only are the eyes that find
The spirits central light.
He lifts, while others grope and pry,
His gaze serene and far,
And they but see waste of sky
Where Love can see the Star.
Mary A. Denison in Youths Companion.
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Delicate diseases of either sex, how
ever induced, promptly, thoroughly and
permanently cured. Send 10 cents in
stamps for illustrated treatise, sent Sc
curely sealed in plain envelope. Ad-
dress, Worlds Dispensary Medical AS
ISOLATION, 663 Main Street, Buffalo,
n Y
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When Baby was sick, we gave her CastorIa-
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria-
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Pure blood is absolutely necessary in
order to enjoy perfect health; Hoods
Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and
strengthens the system.