Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-27

his recovery were abandoned.
ExGov. C. S. Page has furnished the
BANNER Office with one of his 1896 calen-
dars. Its size 1Sx26 inches makes 10 a
particularly convenient article. Until
the supply is exhausted Mr.. Page will
send one of them to any one sending six
cents for postage.
THE children's Christmas party at the
Young Woman's Club on Thursday
afternoon, had an attendance of eighty
three. The entertainment consisted of
marches and games conducted by Miss
Clara Hyde, story told by Mrs. Hoyt,
refreshments and Christmas tree from
which every child received presents.
ALMoN WALKER, of the Soldiers
Home, late Company A, 9th Vermont,
has received notice that a pension has
been granted of $12 per month and ar
rears since September, 1890, amounting
to $73G. He has been an inmate of the
Home over five years, admitted from
Hyde Park.
N. P. LEACH, of Sheldon, chairman of
the committee on new game, has received
a consignment of West Virginia quail for
distribution throughout the State.
These birds, besides being one of the
finest of game birds, are great destroyers
of the farmers pest-the potato bug
which should make their introduction
here doubly welcome.
JOHN S. FAKE died suddenly Tuesday
afternoon in the store of DR.. Herman
Gnadendorff, on Second street, Troy.
He entered the place about o'clock and
died about 5 o'clock. Recently he had
been travelling salesman for II. S. Bing
ham and was expecting to start on the
road the first of January. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bingham and Loring Bingham attended
the funeral which was held in Troy this
afternoon.
The fund which the town of Benning-
ton is authorized to receive in trust for
the benefit of cemeteries and burial lots
grows slowly. The latest additions are
500 from John S. Lyman and 5000 from
DIN G. Walbridge of New York, admin
istrator and trustee under the will of the
late Mrs. julius Norton. Only the in
come from these moneys can be used for
the care and improvement of the town
cemeteries or of private lots within such
cemeteries.
WHEN Governor Woodbury. made the
Soldiers Home visit Wednesday, the
18th, 65 members of the Home met in
the chapel and shook hands with the
Governor after which he made short
and excellent speech to the comrades,
The Governor was invited to the smok-
ing room where he had further visit
with the members of the Home, some
of which served in the same companies
and regiments with the Governor.
The Soldiers Home has received dur
ing the past two weeks, liberal dona-
lions of fruit, jellies, quilts, linens and a
variety of other things from Bradford,
Essex Junction, Albany and Putney, and
Brandon. Among the donations from
Brandon is "a very nice drawn rug made
by Mrs. Carr, 81 years old, the mother of
Maj c. w. Carr. In addition to the
above there have Eeen received this week
from Posts and Women's Relief Corps in
Brattleboro, Montpelier, Burlington and
Londonville, over 200 jars of preserved
fruits, besides other articles for the ia
BILE and hospital and for the decoration
of the rooms and the comfort of the in
mates.
U. S. MARSHAL EMORY s. HARRIS ar
rived here Tuesday night, having in GUS
tody one Wong Yew Dark, Chlnaman
who is to be deported to his native coun-
try. Wong was before U. S. Commits
siOner Crane at Newport for violation of
the Chinese exclusion act. He was
found guilty and sentenced to one
months imprisonment in Jail and then to
be deported. He appealed and his case
came before Judge Wheeler at Brattle.
boro Tuesday. The opinion of the com
missioner was upheld and Wong was
placed in charge of the Marshal to be
taken to China, as soon as possible with
out the 80 days sentence. He will be
started for the fowery kingdom as soon
as arrangements can be perfected.
Col. FREDERICK D. GRANT writes to
The Burlington Free Press den ying a re-
Gently published statement that his
mother, Mrs. U. S. Grant, was born in
Vermont. "My mother" he says" was
born in st. Louis, Mo-; her father was
born in Cumberland, Md, and her mother
came from Pittsburg, Penn. Whoever
gave her birthplace as Vermont was mis-
taken. My fathers family, however,
came from New England, Matthew Grant
having settled in Windsor, Conn, in 1885
and the family remained there until my
great grandfather, soon after the Revo-
lutionary War, went to Western Pennsyl-
vania, where my grandfather was born"
SIN the inquest into the death of W.P.
Edwards of Bennington, the jury found
that he came to his death by fracture
of the skull, but was unable to deter
mine whether the horse ran away be-
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