The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-03-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

Bishop Newman and wife sailed last
Saturday, on the steamer Etruria, for
Liverpool. The bishop has gone abroad
to attend the conferences of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church.
If Admiral Benham had made his
record at Rio under Republican admin
would have amiably alluded to him as a
"swaggering buccaneer."
The number of government liquor
licenses in the TIL lee prohibition states of
Maine, New Hamshire and Vermont are:
Retail liquor. 4,227; wholesale liquor,
30; brewers, 10; retail malt, 654; whole
sale malt, 1l2: Total number of licenses
SOL.
The Chicago Herald Democratic, is
not surprised that Pennsylvania does
not take kindly to free trade. That Or
gan confesses substantially that the Will
son bill was designed purposely to wipe
out the prosperity of the Keystone State.
When Republican president uses
government vessel as transport on Off
clal business. the Democratic organs
howl with indignation. When Demo
cratic president uses government YES
sci to take him on a hunting junket, the
Democratic organs are as mum as mice.
Ten thousand unemployed poor are
fed daily in New York by the Business
Mems Relief Committee. When some
Of these same business men marched in
procession year and half ago through
the streets of the metropolis carrying
banners inscribed, "Cleveland and re-
FORM" they little dreamed of the ex-
pensive contract they were undertaking.
When ex-Mayor Hewitt says that
his New Jersey mills are being run with
out profit at reduced wages, simply to
give employment to the men, he makes
statement that could be echoed by
nearly all the manufacturers in the
country whose mills are running to-day.
Labor i'll these times is finding out its
real friends.
1t is said, that Bishop Potter of New
York is considering the name of Rev.
Prescott Evarts of Wappinger's Falls to
fill the vacancy in the office of Archdea-
con of Duchess county, caused by the
death of Henry L. Ziegefuss, d. D. Rev.
Mr.. Evarts is son of ex. United States
Senator William NJ. Evarts.
-Rt. Rev. A. c. A. Hall, bishop of
Vermont, will be the guest of the Epis-
copalian Club in Boston, Mass, at its
dinner on April 23d, and on the evening
of April oath, will preach the annual SER
mon before the Free Church Association
in st. Pauls church, that city, in mem
DRY of the late DR.. George g. Shattuck,
who was the president of the associa-
ton.
The winter of 1880 was one of great
hardship to the Puritans of Boston-and
in their distress and anxiety, while wait
ing the delay of ship from England
with supplies, they had appointed a
Fast Day, but upon the arrival just
then of the ship Lyon, February 18th,
Thanksgiving to God for relief. This
wife to Boston. COincidence-Now
264 years after, on February 18th, 1894,
an astonndingly large vote was passed at
the State House, in old Puritan Boston
to abolish Fast Day."
The Christian Leader of Boston con-
fesses to "feeling of entire reconcilia-
ton with that way of Providence which
consigns DR.. Talmage ard his taber-
nacle to simultaneous collapse" Con-
tinuing it says: We believe the effect of
the bursting OF this overblown bubble
will be wholly saluatary. DR.. Talmsge's
methods have violated every principle
of professional propriety and every
sound maxim of religious usefulness.
The secular press, of some of the cOun-
try districts particularly, has entered
into co-partnership with DR.. Talmage
in this crusade of sensation and hum
bug. That the whole fabric has dis
solved, leaving melancholy mass of
wreckage behind, is an instance of re-
tributive equity. Now let DR.. Talmage
retrieve misspent years by devoting his
unquestioned talents in a sober and
honest fashion to the regular work of
the church, seeking to build it and him
self in the durable elements of Christian
character. The time past of his life
should suffice him for experiments in
Pinafore religion.