Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-01-29

returned home this evening after visit
ing friends in town for few days:
THE attention of our readers is called
to the advertisement of Miners extracts,
in another column. These extracts have
been used by many of our people for
years, and everybody says they are nice
and just what they are represented to be.
They are sold throughout the county as
we'll as in this town.
THE bids for the sewer bonds were
opened Saturday, and the whole S31, 900
were awarded to VIM. j. Hayes & Son of
Boston, Mass. The bonus paid was $780,
so. which reduces the interest fraction,
the bonds being four per cent, payable
semi. annually. One party wanted the
lot and one per cent, or 1910 discount.
for taking the lot. This disposition o
the sewer debt is quite satisfactory to the
people, and shows that our credit is first
class.
CHARLES JEPsoN, and Mrs. Ella (Ste-
vensJ, Russell were arrested Saturday af-
ternoon, under the provisions of what is
known as the Vermont blanket act. They
have been living together for some time,
and their actions were the gossip of the
entire neighborhood in which they have
been living. She has husband, who it
is said, resides in Hoosick Falls, N Y.
Jepson was married to vey respectable
woman, who only lived with him short
time, and at the last term of the county
court, she procured a divorce from him.
The evidence against the two introduced
at that time, was of such nature that
Judge Rowell ordered the arrest of both
parties. OF late they have been board
ing at Jepson's fathers, but were not al
lowed to stay there nights, they going to
the woman's mothers at night. They
were taken before the Municipal court
who bound them up in the sum of $500,
to appear to-day for trial. In default of
bail they were committed to Jail.
The new postoffice money order seems
to be a poser to nearly everyone and
about as popular as the Columbian
stamp. So says the West Randolph Her
aid and News. Even business men have
been detected by watchful officials in the
act of tearing off the ragged edge to give
it a more tidy appearance before send
ing it away, remarking with round-eyed
surprise, as they did so, the unaccount-
able agitation displayed by the postoffice
clerks. One offender, on being ques-
toned as to what he was trying to do
with the money order, testify replied
that he thought it was torn off in rather
a slovenly fashion and he was trying to
make it look little more respectable if
possible. OF course then, the misguided
sender had to be instructed with regard
to the idiosyncrasies of the order and a
new one made out, while the exasperated
official confided to mself that it takes
all kinds of people to make world and
he was mighty glad that he wasn't one
of them.
A RESIDENT of the village and Grand
Army man, has compiled from the diff
ferent reports of the Adjutant General of
the State, the following synopsis of the
volunteers that enlisted during the Re-
bellion and were credited to the town of
Bennington. Considerable time and at
tention have been paid to the work and
it is believed that it is accurate as it pos
sibly could be. From it, it will be seen
that the town was not represented in ),
II, IL, 10 and Is regiments, nor the Sd
battery. The division is as follows: lst
regiment 3 mos, privates B, 3 years regl-
ments; 2nd regiment commissioned Of
ficers 6, non commissioned and privates
49, band 20; fourth regiment commits.
stoned officers 6, non commissioned and
privates 6l; fifth regiment commissioned
officers 6, privates 1; sixth regiment pri-
vate 1, LIST cavalry commissioned officers
GERS 4, non com. and prvates 40; seventh
regiment, privates; eight regiment, l
private; ninth regiment, 2 privates
tenth regiment, commissioned officers 2,
non com. and privates "a, nine months
regiments fourteenth, commissioned
officers 4, non com. and priyates 6l Sew
enteenth, years, commissioned officers
1, non com. and privates s; first Yer
mont battery, non com. and privates IS;
second battery, non com. and privates 2;
a grand total of 335. In addition to the
above there were a few enlistments in
the regular army, the Massachusetts col
ored troops, and in the navy. In the
summer of 1861, Lieut.. George Conklin
came to Bennington to recruit for Col
Ramsey's regime mt U. S. V. He enlisted
% men: 10 from Bennington, s from
Pownal, the balance from SALISBURY
and Hoosick. These men were after.
ward assigned to the 9th New York vol
unteers. OF these there are now resid
ing in town viz: George JepsOn, H
Benjamin, A. NJ. Downs. The casualties
among those credited to the town were
wounded com. officers, B.; non com. anC
privates, AZ. Killed and died from
wounds, com. officers a, non com. Off err
and private S, ID; died in rebel prisons moi
com. officers and privates, 10; died from
disease 10.