Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-30

MISS MORGAN's annual ribbon sale
commences on Monday, December Sd.
DYER A. MARSH returned yesterday
Thursday, to Cleveland, Ohio, to re-
sumo his duty on the L. S. S NJ. S. Rail
road. He has been home for the past
few weeks, occasioned by the amputa-
ton of two fingers.
THE choir of St. Francis de Sales
church has begun practising their Christ
mas music, E. c. and Charles H. Ben
nett will be present and assist the choir
on that occasion. One of the selections
for the day will be recent composition
of E. C. Benefits, which will be pro-
duced then for the first time.
THE recital of Miss Ethelynd Gould of
West Randolph, to which reference was
made in two recent issues of the BANNER,
will be given under the auspices of Ben
ningtOn Lodge of Good Templars in Odd
Fellows Hall, Opera House block, on
Friday evening" December 14th, the time
having been changed from the 18th.
Miss Gould is highly recommended and
the entertainment will be one Of the best
of the season.
HERE is a pointer for the Christian
Endeavor of the First Baptist church.
The Wilmington Times says: "The Rev.
Chas. H. Parkhurst, the great New York
reformer, is to lecture over at Benning-
ton very soon. 1t would be very nice if
it could be so arranged that the people
of Wilmington could conveniently at
tend" There was an excursion to Will
mington from here last fall, and why not
from that town to this? Hire the Opera
House and fill it at good price for each
of the one thousand seats.
WE find in the closing report of the
Legislature, the following paragraph:
"Mr. Bingham of Bennington has moved
to make August 10Th State holiday, as
this is the anniversary of the Battle of
Bennington, and sustained his motion in
a short patriotic speech that brought an
| immediate response from the members
that manifested itself in unanimous
vote. The resolution has been sent by
message to the Senate, and they have
adopted it in concurrence with large
majority vote" This is very satisfac-
tory to Mr.. Bingham's constituents.
Our Masonic readers will appreciate
the following, which we find in an ex-
change: "Richard Vaux, who danced
with Queen Victoria when he was a boy
and who succeeded the late Congress-
man Randall in the House of Represen-
tatives, was met the other day in Phila-
delphia by an old acquaintance who con-
graduated him on being so full of life.
Life, lifer exclaimed Vaux. why,
don't you know Pm the only living Dem
ocrat left in Philadelphia. All the others
are dead, deadr" There never has
been but one Richard Vaux, and the ex-
preston is good enough to be true.
HERE is John Burroughs description
of the American bobolink. 1t is the best
thing said about him in prose, as Low
ellis tribute is the finest in verse. He
is a bird that has no European prototype,
and no near relations anywhere, stand
ing alone, unique, and in the qualities of
hiarty and tintinam bul2tion, with song
unequalled. He is beau of the first
pattern, and unlike any other bird of my
acquaintance pushes his galantry to the
point of wheeling gaily into the train Of
every female that comes along, even af-
ter the season of courtship is over, and
the matches all settled, and when she
leads him to a wild chase, he turns light
ly about and breaks out into a song, that
is precisely analogous to burst of joy,
and self-satiStied laughter, as much as to
say: 'Ha! ha! ha! l must have my fun,
miss. Silver thimble, thimble, thimble;
if break every heart in the meadow
see, see, see "
THOSE who were present at the lecture
given in the Baptist church, Tuesday
evening, were mere than pleased. The
speaker was in fine voice and his manner
perfect. His description of Ivan the
Terrible and peter the Great were
exceedingly instructive The audience
was not so large as had been expected.
They were delighted and listened very
attentively for an hour and half to
what the speaker had to say, Not for a
long time has anything so exceedingly
instructive been beard in our village. If
pubic sentiment could be educated in
the direction of higher literary art, there
would be a decided reaction from the de-
grading productions so often offered to
the public. The time has been when a
lecture like that of DR.. Macarthur
called out a great audience. We hope
to see that time return.
AN attractive new book, entitled: "a
Domino in Bible Lands" by the Rev.
Edward Griffin Read, pastor of the Sec
ond Reformed Church, of Some vile, N.
j., is for sale at the BANNER Stationery
store. The adventures and experiences
in Egypt and Palestine of the large party
of which Mr.. Read was member, form
the basis of this charming told narrative.
The trip of GO miles up the Nile and
nearly 400 miles on horseback through