The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-02


THE Fortnightly meets on Saturday,
February 3D. Subject: LITERATURE"
The committee in charge is Misses j.
A. Valentine, L. G. Robinson, G. S.
White.
ELMER b. BAILEY, special agent OF
the Home Insurance company of New
York, is making an inspection of all the
property insured by the company in Ben
nington.
The Chandler adjustable chair and
desk company of Boston, which desired
to locate last summer in Bennington, has
just received an order from the Brazilian
government for 10000 desks.
A DAILY paper at a cost of little
more than one-half cent per day is indeed
phenominally cheap. We offer the New
York Daily Press one year for only 50,
or Daily Press and BANNER one year for
$3.50.
NOTICE has been received from Ashe-
vile, N. c., where Ernest H. Swift of
Bennington Centre is wintering for his
health, of an aRgravation of the pulmon-
airy trouble with which he has been af-
fected
THE town officers closed up the fiscal
year February LIST, and the auditors will
soon be at work. 1t is intended to have
tho town reports out a week or ten days
prior to March meeting. We believe
the "town fathers" will make satisfac-
tory exhibit.
THE United States postal authorities
rule that every PostOffice ending in
'burgh" must drop the final letter of its
name, but Plattsburgh will never give
| up that ''h,' never, never-join Canada
-Plattsburgh Republican. How
about Searsburgh?
AMONG the IS fourth-class postmasters
| appointed last week were these for Yer
mont: l.. L. Wolcott of Colchester, vice
Ii. j. White, removed; F. A. Matteson
of SALISBURY, vice W. B. Randall, re-
moved; c. F. Farnham of Tunbridge,
vice M. T. King, removed.
AN item of interest to some of our
readers, says: Mrs. Mary d. Walker,
widow of Lemuel Walker, died at her
home in Pittsburgh on Sunday, at the
advanced age of 80 years. She was the
mother of the wife of Rev. II. l.. Grant
of the Troy Conference"
Miss E. JOSEPHINE MOORE, daughter
of David E. Moore of this village, whose
graduation we noted last week, took a
high rank in the Albany Business Col
lege, and was recommended by the prin-
cipal to the good position she now holds
with w. u. Hawkins, in Granville, N. Y.
WHILE the Rev. Mr.. Macgeorge, State
Baptist missionary, is booked to go to
Poultney from here, yet there is talk of
his being retained as pastor of the First
Baptist church, where his ministra-
ton during the past few weeks has al
ready added nineteen to the member
ship with several more to follow.
Work is already well advanced on the
new Odd Fellows hall, in the Opera
House block. and which was described
at length in our columns two weeks ago.
same floor will soon be ready for occu-
pancy, and the suite of four rooms for
the Rifles will be ready early in the
spring.
JAMES KAvENEY, of Hoosick Falls,
N. Y, the 110-pound lightweight
champion of New England, and his
trainer, Jack Williams of Boston, are
expected to arrive in that place this week,
where Kaveney will undergo thorough
training previous to a meeting with
"Charley'' Kelley before the Charles
Bank Athletic club at Boston for purse
of $500, 500 to 90 to the loser, to take
place February II. The fight will con-
sist of twenty rounds or more.
WHEN Ex-Governor Dillingham; fin
ished last November taking testimony in
the Bennington Battle Monument suit,
Major Valentine, whom the defense
wished to recall, was out of town. 1t
was agreed that he might give his depo-
sition subject to the acceptance or re-
lection by Governor Dillingham;. This
was done Saturday, Mr.. Chase, the court
reporter, taking the minutes. This
closes the testimony, except few ex-
plantations by Charles NJ. Bliss, subject
to the same conditions. The testimony
is all in and the arguments of counsel
will be made as soon as practicable.
AT meeting of the board of trustees
of the Soldiers Home held in Burlington,
Tuesday evening, it was informally de-
cided to build an additional wing on the
hospital connected with lthe Home, as,
with the passing years and growing in.
trinity of the old soldier inmates, the
hospital accommodations are more Sc
verely taxed, and the necessity for more
room was only TOO apparent to the trus-
tees. The probable expense of the adj
dition will be about 500. and, although
the trustees have no funds, they decided
to 60 ahead with the work, and appeal to
the patriotic people of the State to see
them through the matter.
THE Fair Haven Era wants a fu-
ture legislature to make some move in
favor of economy and reform in state ex-
penses-some day. "Some day. never
comes, and if anything of the kind needs
to be done-and there is no doubt it
the reform cannot begin too soon. Let
the next Legislature begin, too, with that
utterly useless and very costly piece of
timber, the board of railroad commits
sioners.- Hardwick Gazette. We are
not quite so much clown, on the Rail
road Commissioners as our contempt
raries, but the expense of deciding
three months afterwards, officially, what
all the papers state at the time is money
largely thrown away.
A hornets's nest that could easily
draw first prize for hugeness, was exhib-
tied few days ago in town. The mouse
colored cone, which had been somewhat
whipped and torn by the winds, was
found the other day by woodchopper
on Bald mountain. The nest was at
tached to the slender limb of a beech
tree, and hung within five feet of the
ground. The nest measured forty-one
inches in length and was about thirty.
five inches in circumference. Within
the nest were few dead specimens of
the savage tribe that ruled despotically
the vicinity of the beech tree during the