The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-20

MISS JULIA A. DAYof Rutland is visit
friends in town. She Is relative of @.
L. Hudson.
SUPT. e. d. BENNETT will leave Shreve-
port, La, on his way home, Tuesday,
about May 1st -
D. G. BURT has been appointed local
agent and correspondent for the Boston
Pilot, the oldest and best Catholic paper
published in the United States.
GEORGE II. BURcH, N. M. PIffer and
W. R. Hyde are delegates from Walloom-
sac Lodge, N. E. o. p, to the Grand
Lodge of the State, which meets the
25th.
HANNIBAL EDGERToN, who has been
in the South during the winter, for the
benefit of his health, has returned and
resumed his position on the Bennington
and Rutland railroad.
DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAL STEARNs OF
Rutland, was here, Tuesday, on business
connected with the suit of @. Fl. Mason
against W. W. Foster Jr., and VIM. V.
Reynolds, as receiver,
E. A. RICE has purchased of John P.
HARDWOOD his sixty acre farm in the
northern part of the town. Considera.
ton, $1,000. Mr.. Harwood is to remove
to California in the autumn.
THE memorial sermon, the Sunday
evening preceding Memorial Day, will
be preached by the Rev. Alexander Mac
george, in the First Baptist church. The
G. A. r. Posts will attend in body.
THE sermon on "Home Life and Poll
tics" by the Rev. Charles r. Seymour,
last Sunday evening, was enc of the best
in the series of political sermons that
the reverend gentlemen has been deliver
ing recently,
THE joint committee on the observance
of Memorial Day is: For Sixth Corps
Post, VIM. E. Murphy, VIM. II. Sears, T.
A. Hutchins, F. A. Gleason; Custer Post,
Dwight Rudd, j. l. Loomis, l. G. Burt,
George Marsh, M. V. B. Armstrong.
MANY of our people were pleased this
week to see Ed. G. Bruce, who formerly
resided here, but who for a number of
years has been located in Newport News,
Va. Mr.. Bruce contemplates making his
home in Lansingburgh, N. T., in the fu-
ture.
MRS, DIR. E. B. DALEY, Miss Mamie
Sullivan, Messrs. E. G. Bennett and Chas.
Fl. Bennett, were in attendance at the
grand concert given in Rutland last Sat
urday evening, by Miss Emma Juch and
other noted artists. They felt amply re-
paid for going
THE PRELIMINARY contest among the
students at Norwich University to de-
eide who should compete for the faculty
prize at the commencement exercises was
held last week. Among those selected
was VIM. G. Spafford of North Benning-
ton.
THE friends of the Rev. Thos. Rogers.
for the last two years stationed at South
SALISBURY, while c0ngratulating him on
his appointment to a larger charge, re-
greet his leaving this section. Since To-
eating in South Salisbury, his first as
signment in the Troy Conference,
Mr.. Rogers has made many warm friends
and their best wishes for his future sue
cess, will follow him to his new home.
AN eminent physician of st. Peters
burgh finds mass of evidence leading
to the conclusion that the form of in
huenza known as grip began to prevail
in epidemic form in or near the Kirghez
Steppes of Russia, in TIE autumn of 1889
and that it spread from there in all di-
rections, following the lines of human in
tercourse so closely as to point to the
conclusion that the disease spreads by
contagion.
THE great majority of American men
are morally upright, and few even of
those who are not so, add falsehood, de-
ceit and betrayal of friendship and limo
cence to the crime. of infidelity. The
books, the plays, the recreations which
obtain popularity with the great multi
tudes of Americans all reveal moral
soundness, above of truth and honor, to
which Colonel Breckenridge is stranger
and to which his scandalous defence was
an affront.
THE trial of Harvey Fl. Pitkin.
charged with being accessory to the OPP
GRAFTON which caused the death of Eva
Shaw of Fsirhaven, was held at Rutland
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri
day last. The court room was crowded
at every session and considerable excite
ment attended the examination. Judge
Munson charged the jury Friday after
noon and it was out all night. When
court reconvened Saturday morning a
verdict of not guilty was rendered and
Pitkin was discharged.
SIXTH CORPS Posi- No. 112, is flourish
ing since it got into its new quarters,
and has recently been the recipient of
several articles for the adornment of the
room. The most conspicuous gift, is a
large and handsomely bound copy of the
Holy Bible, which was presented to the
Post at its regular meeting by VIM. E.
Hawks. The cover is in turkey morocco
and on the front cover is this Inscription
in gilt letters: "Sixth Corps, Post, 112,
G. A. R., Remington, Vermont" The
gift was thankfully received by the Com
rades of the Post
THE Soldiers Home library has re-
Gently had an addition to its library of
the following new and nicely bound
books: Home, from Mrs. A. ]. Rey-
nolds; Three Guardsmen, Mrs. G. e.
Montgomery; Romola, Mary @. Boyle:
Soldiers Three, Mrs. l.. S. Benedict:
Mrs. A. J. Daniels; Cast up
by the Sea, Miss lisa A. Ellis; A Little
Turk, Cornelia Russell; Moses from an
old Marse, Cora B. Frances; Modern
Story Teller, Amy E. Putnam; Blue and
Gray, Miss Charlotte r. McGaffey. The
donors are members of the Ladies' Aux
iliary Iof Sons of Veterans Camp, No. 4,
of Burlington.
A GENTLEMAN residing in Northern
Vermont arrived in Boston on SATURDAY.
wearing light spring overcoat, and
otherwise dressed suitably for -"balmy
spring" A friend expressed surprise to
see him thus inappropriately dressed,
when the Vermonter remarked: ''It is