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CAUGHT IN THE GALE.
This Young California Woman Has Prob
ably Had an Interesting Letter.


ably Had an Interesting Letter.
A young woman, Judging by her. picture,
whose first name is Agnes, and who has
an uncle living in New York has received
at her home in California u letter that will
probably surprise her
The dry hurricane that swept over New
York at the rate of IS miles an hour made
this California girls name, face and adj
dress known to the man who has written
the letter.
1t came about in this way. When the
windstorm was at its height, young man
walked around the corner of The Times
building toward restaurant. The air
was full of dust and flying paper. He felt
a light blow on his hat, and taking it off
found, stuck in the rim, II photograph of II
good looking young woman. 1t was past
ed on a round card. Written on the back
of it was, "From your loving niece, Agnes
-" and the name of IA town in Califor-
mia. Apparently it had been blown from
an Office in one Of the tall buildings on
either side.
The young man believes in fate. AS he
showed the photograph to a reporter he
said:
"NOw, there were II hundred men on
that street, and yet this photograph select
ed my hat for "A landing place. The girl
looks interesting, and l am going to write
to her tonight, telling her of the incident
Who knows? They say that the climate of
California is fine, and | shouldn't object
to IL trip out there. New York Sun.
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Mascarni,s New Onern.

Some details have been received concern
ing Signor Mascagni's new opera, "Sil
vano, ;" which has just been produced in
Milan According to the Italian critics.
the music is written on so called popular
lines and is full of melody, although the
orchcstration is more or less conventional.
The plot, which the composer drew up,
deals with the smuggler, Silvano, who,
compelled by an accident of his calling to
absent himself FOR three years. returns to
find himself supplanted in the affections
of his ladylove by n peasant. He chal-
lenges the man, fights, and as the curtain
falls kills him. The story to n certain OK
tent resembles "Cavalleria Rusticana.
both us to its characters and it's situations.
New York Sun.
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Another Perpetual Motion Machine.

Isaac Brennan of Triton, Ind, has just
completed a mechanical device t lat solves
the problem of perpetual motion. After
30 years of hard study and continued ex-
periments, backed by capital, he has com
pleted machine that furnishes its own
power. The principle is system of com
pound leverage with reciprocal action,
which propels roller placed on tracks,
from which he gets an oscillating motion.
He claims that he can get one pound of
power from one pound of the weight of
the roller. He has secured letters patent
and will soon place the machine on exhi-
bition. He has been offered Il large sum
for his invention. -Indianapolis Journal.
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speculation; hence it is not strange that
the alleged supernatural powers of these
wizards have lately been invoked by the
country residents, including officers of the
law, in solving the CORY East Thompson
puzzle.
A famous Rhode Island trance medium,
Wright Porter, went to East Thompson
and was dcfercntially escorted to the scene
of the double crime. Arrived at the desolate
home, the spiritual magician seated him.
self in the Giving room" and promptly
fell into profound trance. Then vision
of the tragedy, exactly as it was enacted,
he alIirms, materialized and foatcd, a
gloomy phantasmagoria before his inspired
soul
AS the scenes in the tragedy were thus
reproduced he related in monOtonous
singsong tones to the awestruck knot OF
Villagers about him the facts as they were
unfoldcd to him. After describing the
murderer he rambled on with predictions
of events to come in the development OF
the drama Of crime.
"The missing bodies" said he, twill be
found in the next II days. They are in
water They are near the spot or opposite
to it, where not long ago n rock was dis
covered that had been disturbed The
bodies will not be found together, but u
little way apart"
Most of the villagers implicitly believe
that Porter has fOrotold coming events in
connection with the crime and positively
affirm that by means Of a similar vision,
not long ago he discovered the body of n
young man who had committed suicide in
the woods near Masonville, r.. I.
1t is the prevailing opinion in East
Thompson that the Pole sunk the bodic,
of his Victims with heavy weights attached
to them, in the black waters of Long
pond. A few, though, argue no less sin
ccrcly that he buried them in the mold OF
a dreary cranberry bog not far away from
his home. Meantime II bevy of East Thomp.
son residents have scanccs nightly in THEN
houses, at which trance mediums preside
and speculate about the burial places of
the bodies. New York Herald
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LEADERS IN CUBA.
Some Account of Those Who Are Heading
the Revolt Against Spain.


A short biography of the Cuban revolu-
tiOnary leaders is quite interesting at the
present time. Jose Marti, the "Conader, "
or general delegate of the rebels has taken
an important part in the revolution of
1S6S7S. He was consul of the Argentine
Republic in the United States in 1890 and
took an important part in the congress of
South American republics. He reorgan-
lied thoroughly on that occasion the Gu
ban revolutionary party. He is assisted by
Generals Maxine Gomez, Jose Antonio
Macceo, Brigadcr General Guillermont,
Commandant Enriquez Collazo and other
chiefs of the former rebellion.
Gonzalo dc Qucsada, secretary of the
committee of the revolution, is a publcst.
He wrote three books on the independence
Of Cuba, with the motto, "TO conquer oul
country is our first duty"
Enriquez Collazo was born at Santiago
de Cuba. He was educated at the Military
School of Artillery of Toledo (Spain), but
declined to serve in the Spanish army. His
book on the revolution of 1S6S-7S is very
much appreciated by historians. He is the
brother of the celebrated painter, CUTLER.
mo CollaZo.
Guillcrmo Collazo, better known by
the name of GuillermOnt, is negro. He
took an important part in the last rebel.
lion, but after the "pact of Hanjon" was
appointed inspector of agriculture at San.
tiago dc Cuba. He is the leader who de.
fcatcd General Jose Lachambre at Guam.
tanamO.
Juan Gualbcrto is u mulatto journalist.
He has been sent to Spain in exile by Ra.
mon Blanco, and since his return is devot,
ing his time to the concentration of the
people of his color in the neighborhood OF
YtananZas.
The father of General Julio Sanguinily
was Frcnchman. The general is very
popular on account Of his bravery. In DC
tober 1871, he WIS wounded to such an cx
tent that he could not escape and fell int
the hands of the Spaniards General Igna.
clio AgramOnte, at the head of 80 cavalry
men, routed the Spanish troops and res.
cued him. 1t is this glorious affair which
is called by the Cubans eel rcscOtc"
(the rescuc), and which has been repro,
duccd in numerous celebrated paintings
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A HOUSE FOR STAMPS.

The Owner of the House Says He Would
Rather Have Stamps Than Cash.
An advertisement in the current issue of
a publication devoted to the interest of
stamp collectors offers house and lot in
Brooklyn, valued at $4,000, in exchange
for postage stamps of equal value. The adj
vcrtiser said that the offer was made in
good faith, and that he would rather have
rare postage stamps than gold or diamonds.
Postage stamps are certain to become
rarer and rarcr as the years go by" nc
said. 1.-The scarce ones actually double in
value in the course of a few years and are
positively the best investment know Of.
would rather get stamps for the house |
have advertised than cash. New York
Sup
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EITCHBURG RAILROAD-Hoosac Tunnel
l. Route. On and after Jan. 3lst 1885, trains
will run as follows:
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA BENNINGTON.& RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington 25 arrive Troy at S 5S a m.
New York 20 p m, HOosick Falls 81, North
Adams So, Greenfield II ~ a m, Fitchburg "a,
Boston 10 p m, MechanicYille 8 03 Saratoga
so am.
Leave Bennington IL 10 p m, arrive in Troy 20
New York 90. Hoosick Falls So, North Adams
46, Greenfield 81. Fitchburg "a, Boston 10 II
pm.
Leave Bennington 5 Is, arrive Troy So. Hoo
sick Falls IA, North Adams co. Mechanicville
46, Saratoga 80 pm.
Leave Bennington y 10 m, arrive Troy co.
New York IS m. Leave Bennington for the
north ~ OF nd 10 m. 35, 8 10pm.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
Via. Bennington and Rutland Railway:
| 20 m, f, ON New York Albany and Troy.
90 m, from New York, Albany, Troy Hoo
sick Falls, North Adams Saratoga and Mechan-
icvile.
3OSp m. from New York, Albany and Troy.
3S p m from Albany Troy, Hoosick Falls, No
Adams Boston and Saratoga. Arrive from
the north 20, so m. 10 and 20 IN.
j. Il. WATSON, GenI Pass Ag't.
G. A. NIMMO, Boston.
Gen1 Western Passenger Agen', Troy.
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G. W. Harkins and $50 men under di-
rection of the government land Office have
gone into camp near South McAlester, L.
L. The purpose is the surveying of Indian
lands and laying off the country into cOun-
ties, townships and sections. The day of
the blanket Indian is fixed. Tribal organ
ization is doomed and the division of tho
common lands into farms and homesteads
a certainty. Chicago Times Herald.
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Proposed Statue of William the Silent.

The Holland society of New York pro-
poses to erect u statue of William the ST.
lent and has invited number of sculp-
tors to prepare models for such purpose.
The site upon which the society will ask
leave to erect the monument is on the Riv-
erside drive at One Hundredth street, on
knoll overlooking the Hudson, an ideal
place for a fine monument.-NewY York
Sun
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THE PRACTICAL DAIRYMAN !

Published in Chatham, N. Y A monthly
journal devoted to the Farm and Dairy interests.
A strong corps of contributors spicy, varied and
valuable articles of interest to every farmer and
butter-maker.
The Practical Dairyman and BANNER. only $3.50
Practical Daryman, BANNER and Tribune. S1.75
Add ess, THE BANNER.
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Radam's Mlcrobe KIIIer.

Are you suffering with any disease
which will make your life miserable. Do
you know that Radam's Microbe Killer
will cure yOu, sold by
MRS. MARY GIBSON Agent,
CYL 500 Main street.
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A Floating Theater.

A rival to the sea serpent will visit the
principal Atlantic coast resorts this sum
mer in the shape of the floating theater,
now building at East Boston. She will
open her season in June off City point,
and then start on her cruise, reaching
Florida by next winter.-Boston journal.
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Novel Grounds For Divorce.

A St. Louis woman has applied for a di-
vorce on the novel ground that her hus-
band is addicted to the suicide habit. 1"
1t is evident that it takes more than Ham
let's bare bodkin to get the breath out in
that neighborhood.-New York Sun.
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Not Conducive to Longevity.

We seem to have reached an age where
train robbing is not conducive to longevi-
ty.-Washington Post.
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Weapons For Two.

England and France seem to be in doubt
as to which one has been first insulted and
can demand the choice Of weapons. 1t is
likely they will agree on tongues-or pens
New York Mail and Express.
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Must Be q Loving Cnn.

Mr.. Havemeyer's offer of 81, 200 cup
for the national amateur golf champion
ship is just too sweet for anything. -Bos-
ton Herald,
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The marvel of the Cuban business is
that the insurgents who spend so much
time insurging should be able to keep tho
American market as well supplied as usual
with Havana cigars.-Philadelphia Rec
ord
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The flowers are not blooming yet, but
lovely woman on her wheel is-New York
Recorder
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60. BENNINGTON So
SPRING, 1895
ESTABROOK'S
Granite and Marble
WORKS.
MAIN STREET, DOOR WEST OF EXPIRES
AND TOWN CLERKS nFFICES

To THE CITIZENS OF BENNINGTON
AND NICINITY-I am prepared 10 furnish any
thing wanted in the line of cemetery work at at
least 10 per cent less than you can buy the same
quality of stock or work of any agent or outside
party, as that is the agents commission, or it
will cost party from away if they come them
selves to sell and set the work at least 40 per
cent more than it will me- as l live here and sell
and set my own work, and receive my granite in
the rough state direct from the quarries in car
load lots at low rates have force of cOmpe-
tent workmen to cut. polish and letter The work
here in my shop; have had four car loads of
rougi granite In the past two months; am fur
nishing 10 monuments and number of markers
and tablets from Landgons best dark Barre
granite which are to be set before Decoration
Day Call and see my stock and how do my
work. and if YOU have work to buy give me a
chance to figure on it. have nearly fifteen hun
dred dollars worth of marble monuments and
tablets on hand and will sell you any of these at
a very low figure, as l want the room for granite
work. TIE above facts which will prove to
you if you will call and see me
Soliciting your patronage, | am very respect
fully yours,
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WHERE GRANT MET LEE
Plans to Make AppOmattox Court House
Va, Military Park.

Former old war comrades and enemies
will gather in May at Appomattox Court
House, Va, to talk over the project of max
ing the scene of Lees surrender IL national
military park like Chickamauga and Get
tysburg. Delegates from Grand Army
posts and from Union and Confederate
veterans corps and other organizations
will attend and will visit the battlefield
Committees will be appointed at this meet
ing to undertake congressional action.
The project of making the battlefield
park originated with r. +. Lee camp, No.
l, Confederate Veterans, of Richmond
From time to time efforts have been
made to preserve the historical points on
the field by rough iron tablets, which are
scattered here and there. The battlefield
is picturesque bit of rolling ground,
plcntifully covered with trees. The visitor
who leaves the little Appomattox station
finds half way to the field, up the old
Lynchburg turnpike, this tablet:
On this SPOT were established the head
quarters of Lieutenant General Ulysses $.
Grant ON the afternoon of April 9th, 1865. .
.......
Along the road "a short distance farther
on is another inscription. This is probably
the most interesting of all to the student
Of history, as it marks the site of the house
owned and occupied by Wilmer Mclean,
and in which General Grant and General
Lee met and agreed upon the terms Of sur
render of the Army of Northern Virginia
on the afternoon of Sunday, April g. 1863
The house was taken down and removed
to Washington in 1S93.-New York World
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Not Her Right Foot Either.

Spain is putting her foot in it.-Galves-
ton News.
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Deans Rheumatic lPIlIs absolutely cul

Rheumatism g. Neuralgia. Entirely vegetable.
Safe. 22y1
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Any one who has named the baby Tril,
" will please communicate that interest
ng fact, saying why.-Chicago Tribune.
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On this SPOT We're established the head
quarters of Lieutenant General Ulysses $.
Grant on the afternoon of April 9th 1865.
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VALUABLE LITERARY FINDS.

A HITHERTO unknown work by Less. ing on Hsop's fables was recently dis covered by Prof Richard Forester, of Breslau, in the university library of that place.
 AN English translation of "The Thibetan Life of Jesus" which M. Notovich, the Russian traveller, says he discovered in a Lamaist monastery in the Himalayas, will be published soon.
 Two FRAaMENTARY copies of hitherto unknown editions of "Tyndale's New Testament have come to light in Eng land; the British museam experts as sign them to the years 1534 and 1535, respectively.
 A MANUSCRIPT conclusion to Gogols "Dead Souls, is said to have been dis covered recently at Kaluga, in Russia Gogol burnt his own original himself in fit of disgust, but a copy remained in the possession of the man who copied for him, who is still alive, and has sent it to a Russian journal
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THE scuLPToR's ART.

FoR charity festival in Brussels re- gently, the seulptors got up novel ex- hibition of statues executed in snow in one of the parks.
 CUEIoUsLY enough q huge statue of Li Hung Chang, ordered and paid for in his most prosperous days, has just been finished in Germany.
 IT is but eight years since Leopold Won Ranke, the German historian, died, but the hundredth anniversary of his birth is already at hand. It is pro posed to celebrate it by erecting a mon- ument to him at Wiehe, in Prussian- Saxony, his birthplace.
 A BUST of John Couch Adams, who shares with Leverrier the honor of dis covering the planet Neptune, has been set up opposite the bust of Sir John Herschell, in the great hall of St. Johns college, Cambridge, the college of which both astronomers were fel- lows.
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SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.
Heirs Claim Mount Vernon Barracks.

Heirs Claim Mount Vernon BarrackA
 At the request of the Alabama legis- lature the congress which recently ad- journed granted to the state of Ala bama the handsome property near Mobile known as Mount Vernon bar racks, for use as a reformatory for youthful criminals. Until recently the barracks was the abiding place of the government troops and the Apache Indian prisoners of war, among them Geronimo. The government having no further present nor prospective use for the property, congress unanimously passed the grant to Ala bama. Now comes the Brues, an old and aristocratic creole family, who reside at Creola, in south Alabama, and lay claim to the property on the ground that when their ancestors deeded it to the government it was stipulated that it must be used for barracl purposes, and when it ceased to be so occupied it should revert, with all the improve ments that might be on it, to the heirs of the transferrers. The buildings alone are worth $250, 900, and there is some 2SO acres of good land about them. The Brues are said to have q strong case.
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Unhappily, many fair tall1er at the highest pitch of eloquence becomes standing comedy when her bonnet slides around to the left-hand corner of her 1head No woman could be queenly under such circumstances. The back hair of another always comes un- fastened to excite the anxiety of her listeners at the verE climax of her effu- sion. Not even a Mme. Demosthenes could keep every other woman from feeling to ascertain if her own hair is in the same unlovely shape. The New Woman who wins the companion title to Dr. Depew's must be sure of reliable bonnets and cultures.
 She must also learn not to begin: Mime. President and ladies, this is q pleasure which I had not anticipated, and am surprised that your presiding officer should break the promise she made not to call on me on this occasion" and then produce closely written twenty-fve-page manuscript speech.
 When asked if his judgment was the result of experience, Dr. Depew said:
 "Yes, I have heard women talk at Sorosis, at dinners political, charitable, reform dinners, dramatic dinners, din ners of every conceivable kind, and after them all my advice still is: Don't do it. Among themselves they are we'll enough, but in mixed dinner party they seem out of place.
 "They are not in touch with their audiences nor in accord with the spirit of the occasion. After-dinner speaking belongs to the hour of good-fellowship. A woman doesn't fit into the surround ings when seen through clouds of smoke. She doesn't catch the mood of her listeners. She is apt to be wet blanket and to induce sad and solemn formality in the room of light quips and jollity."
 "Did you ever hear one woman speak of whom you could approve?"
 "I remember ten or fifteen years ago dramatic dinner that began at one o'clock and lasted until six in the morn ing. It was when Fanny Davenport was in her prime, and at five o'clock in
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Col. Leroy G.Wenver.

Col. Leroy c. Weaver died at Chatta- nooga. He was born at Selma, Ala, in 1915, and was the son of Philip Weaver, the original settler of that city. Col. Weaver at one time was worth S2, 000,- 900, but the war and unfortunate spec ulation reduced him to poverty He was in the confederate service, but later became Q republican, and in 1878 was appointed governor of New Mexico by President Grant. He went to Chat. tanooga in 1878, where he lived quiet, unostentatious life. He was thorough type of the gentleman of the old school, and his death will be la- mented throughout the south
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Cool Work of n Rohber.

A nervy and successful robbery oc- cured near Francisco, Ala, the other night. ]. c. Bredon and his clerk, Mark Kennedy, had just closed the store doors and the former was reclin. ing on the bed in the rear of the store while Kennedy was standing at mir TOT near a window. A gruf voice at the window suddenly demanded that the safe be opened and its contents delivered over. The clerk turned and gazed into the muzzle of double-bar reled gun. Without any discussion he opened the safe and delivered the money, $20o. He then handed over his watch and his employers and the high wayman, after thanking him, departed. Breden witnessed it all from his couch, and says his clerk did the sensible thing.
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Little Men.
speakers.

There was little man, and he had a little sou1," sings the poet Moore. Nevertheless, little" is not synonymous with littIeness. Great deeds have been done by little men. and not a few of earth's heroes have exclaimed with Dr. Watts-he himself was only little over five feet in height:
 must be measured by my soul;
 The minds the standard of the man
 But human nature is not judicial; it is biased by the eye Perhaps there never was little man who, no matter what greatness he had achieved, did not wish that he had been tall and stalwart. Napoleon was often irritated bv the fact that he was the little corporal He could be guilty of little ness; but that did not annoy him, for his moral sense was weak. A former president of the court of sessions, the first law office in Scotland, at the age of eighty confessed to friend that the bane of his life had been the fact that he was of small stature. But, thank God" said he, II have got over itl A proof of this is that 1 can tell you of my unceasing regret at beings little man!Y The president was four times married, and each O. his wives was six feet high. Youth Companion.