The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-01-12


baggageman on the Bennington and Rut-
land railway.
Mrs. CHAs. r. SEYMOUR has been
quite i'll for few days with la Grippe,
but is recovering.
Mrs. CARRIE SUMNIERsTILL of Brook
lyn, N Y, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
John II. Ayres of this village.
WEDNESDAY the mills of the Vermont
Marble Company, at Centre Rutland, re-
sumed operations after being idle for
some time.
JOHN A. ROBINSON & Company of
Troy, N. Y, have filed certificate show
ing that all of the capital stock of $780,
600 has been paid in.
MISS NINA A. MORGAN presided at
the meeting of the Fortnightly, Mrs.
Seymour being ill. Mr.. Hawkins read a
paper on the History of Money, by re-
quest, before that body Saturday.
ChAs. Hicks, lad of ten years, son of
Eris. Hicks of East Pownal, had the mis-
fortune to break one of his legs in the
woods few days since. The boy was
out with the men who were cutting wood
at the time.
THE new engines of the Bennington
and Rutland railway are expected next
week. The officials of the road state
that while the freight business is not as
good as usual, passenger travel remains
about the same.
THE Rev. j. Isham Bliss, D. d., presi-
dent of the Standing Committee of the
Diocese of Vermont, announces TINT the
Presiding Bishop has appointed Febru
airy 2nd, for the conservation of Bishop
elect Hall at st. Paurs church, Burling-
ton.
THE Methodist church has engaged
Merritt B. Morgan to take his old place
as leader of the choir and musical di-
rector Of that church. The choir will he
reorganized, and rehearsals had until the
choir-end will keep up the standard in
harmony with the improved surround
ings.
VIM. CAMPBELL expects to stop his
mill in week or ten days to put in a
new fifty horsepower Corliss engine
made by Knowlson and Kelly of Troy,
N. Y. This will necessitate stopping his
mill for two or three weeks but he eX-
poets to get started on or before Febru-
airy 1st
ROBERT w. HASTINGS, for several
years station agent of the Bennington
and Rutland railway at South Salisbury.
died Sunday of pneumonia. He was 81
years of age. He was member of
Tucker lodge, F. and A. NJ, of North
funeral was held. Several members of
Mount Anthony lodge attended.
The arguments before the supreme
court, now in session at Montpelier, in
support of the Bennington county causes,
will be made principally by Judge Oar
ling, James K. Batchelder, VIM. B. Shell
don and o. NJ Barber. With these gen.
tlemen, in some of the cases, are associ-
ated attorneys, from Rutland and Wind
ham counties, who will appear in argu-
ment.
AMONG those in Vermont who have
passed the civil service examination and
are eligible to appointment in the rail
way mail service and the departmental
service are the following from Benning-
ton county. Frank P. Nolan, whose
grade at examination was so 6S per cent;
Robert E. L. Gentleman, 76.45 per cent.
Frank j. Barber, 72.9S per cent.
A DESPATCH from Noroton, Conn,
dated the 10th, says: IF. L. Albee,
aged 81, an inmate of the soldiers home,
was found dead near the railroad station
at I o'clock this morning. His body was
frozen stiff The medical examiner
found no marks of violence, but suspic-
ions of foul play were entertained and,
Coroner Doten was summoned. Albee
was native of Bennington, and had a
family there. He disappeared from the
home yesterday"
THE Vermont Slate Company at meet
ing last week, held in Granville, voted to
dissolve the organization. The concern
had been in business six years, employed
a large number of men and included
nearly all the quarries in western Rut-
land county, Vermont, and Washington
county, New York. The trust included
most of the quarries in Poultney and
Pawlet. The present outlook is depres-
sin for that section.
A REPORT resembling that of distant
thunder was heard distinctly at MancheS.
ter, Saturday morning at o'clock. Rev.
j. G. Flanders of the Episcopal church
noted carefully the quality and the di
rection of the sound, and does not doubt
that it was the explosion of the powder
mill in Ulster County, New York. The
distance by rail is 100 miles, but by air
line, as measured by the map, it is about
ninety miles.-Troy Times.
AT the winter meeting of the Dairy
mems Association of Vermont held at
Burlington this week, the sensation of
the hour was the discovery that the herd
of cattle at the Experiment Station farm
were affected with tuberculosis. 1t
might be well for the State Board of
Health to take tour of the comm n
wealth and examine the cattle, especially
those that supply the milk to villages
like ours.
THOs. j. HALLoRAN, early last Sunday
morning, saw large buck deer quietly
feeding in the lots back of his house.
The animal appeared to be tame, and it
was not long after dog started for him,
that he jumbed the fence and disap-
peared up the side of Mount Anthony.
This is one of the herd, or its offspring,
that was let loose on the Green Noun
tains some year. since. They have null
tiplied so that deer are often seen in
Vermont nowadays.
A. A. CAMPBELL, the Chicago plumb
er, who bought the Vermont building for
tool chest, writes friend in Swan ton
that he bid $1.40O on the construction of
the Vermont building, all complete. in
Guiding plumbing. Another party got it
for an even $4,000, and paid Campbell
1925 for plumbing. Mr. Compbell writes
that the contractor told him that he
cleared 81, 1000 on the job The published