Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-12

in this country for home consumption
that 100000 bushels are imported annu-
ally.
PAPER is now made into gloves and
stockings which are warm and service
able, being roughed by machinery so as
to feel like wool. The stockings retail
for about three cents pair.
A.P. CHILDs and E. L. Bates, who
have been in Dennison, Tex, i'll the in
terest of the stockholders of the Denni-
son Investment Company, wire that they
hope to leave for home Wednesday.
THE annual meeting of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Y. NJ. c. A., will be held
at the rooms, Thursday afternoon. March
14th, at o'clock. A cordial invitation
is extended to all interested, to he pres
ent.
Mrs. C. G. WILCOX of Hoosick Falls,
N. Y, sang in st. Peters church last
Sunday. In the afternoon the old quar-
tette sang part of the service. Mrs.
Wilcox's offertories, both morning and
evening, were very fine.
A BARN belonging to Herbert Hartman,
on the Austin Hartman place, was de-
stroyed by fire about o'clock Saturday
morning. There was quantity of hay
and grain and some farm tools in the
barn. The cause of the fire is mystery.
Loss 5000.
Miss VIRGINIA T. SCARBOROUGH, a
teacher in our Graded schools, received
a telegram Sunday of the critical condi-
ton of her father who resides in Milford,
NJ. Miss Scarborough started Sunday
night for home. Her place is filled by
Miss Daisy Morse, a graduate of the
school.
The ward nominations, as finally left,
are as follows: /, as stated last week; 2,
Martin Lyons, regular W. C. Hitchcock,
independent; 3, John Carrigan; 4, DIN
Scott; 5, DR.. F. S. Pratt; 6, s. Fl. Rock
wood, regular, Chas. N. Powers. indie
pendent 7, Fremont Gregg. There is no
opposition filed with the clerk, to the
union general ticket.
TIMOTHY MoYNIHAN of Hoosick Falls,
n. Y, who won an enviable reputation
last season as pitcher, has signed for
the latter position with the Springfield
team of the Eastern league. Daniel Lu-
cey of the same place, who has done ex-
cellent work in past seasons, has signed
with the Haverhill, Mass, baseball team
as catcher. The team is a member of
the New England league.
THE grand jury in the United States
court at Burlington, last week. returned
forty indictments at the close of their la
bors Saturday morning. Among them
was one against Joseph Drohart and Ezra
Hulett of Bennington and Hiram Potter
and James Griffin of Woodford, for vio-
lation of the internal revenue laws, in
selling liquor without government Ii.
cense. and for which they are now out
on bail.
THE Rev. Claude NJ. Severance, under
date of Feb. 9th, 1895, writes us from Hi
rOshima, Japan, enclosing the article
that appears in another column, adding
1.-THE second peace embassy has utterly
failed" Yesterdays New York papers
have translations of the documents and
credentials of these peace ENJOYS, and a
more diverse translation than the Chinese
and Japanese versions could hardly be
written, founded on the same documents.
If the commissioners differed as much
no wonder the overtures failed.
THE Commissioner of Pensions esti-
mates that the law providing that all
pensions under Sc a month shall be
raised to that figure will cost the Treas
ury about a million and half of dollars.
But that is not a large amount to pay for
the increased comfort of 10000 old sol
diers, and pensions of less than SO a
month are niggardly. But what does a
Democratic Congress care for that. They
passed the bill, but the allowance of the
proposed pensions is quite another mat
ter, as the veterans will find out, if they
do not already know it.
MRS. MARY H. WOODWARD of Sara
toga, N. Y, widow of Commander E. r.
Woodward, United States navy, has been
awarded by Commissioner Lockran a
pension of $50 a month. Commander
Woodward died at Saratoga Feb. 22nd,
1894, from disease incurred in the line of
duty while commanding the Adams at
A. ,ia, Samoa. Mrs. Woodward will APP
ply the pension to the support of her
husbands aged and invalid mother, who
resides at Castleton. Mrs. Woodward
will be remembered as daughter of the
Rev. BOstwick Hawley, D. D.
MRS. MARIA SNOW, aged 70, died at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. L.
i. Stevens, in this village, Sunday. She
had been sick long time. Mr. Snow
died several years ago, and two children
survive the mother, Mrs. Stevens and
Henry Snow, the latter of Glens Falls,
N. Y. The funeral was held this after.
noon at 4 o'clock, and tomorrow morn
ing the remains will be taken to Whining.
ton for burial. Mrs. Snow had al ways
lived in Wilmington with the exception
of few of the last years of her life. She
was horn in CanwaV Mass and came m