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Lightning Strikes.

During the severe thunder storm Mon
day evening, lightning struck a butter
nut tree on the grounds of Justin KEEL
logg, at Bennington Centre. Near it was
a summer house, around which was a
chain that also went around the tree.
The lightning followed the chain to the
corner of the house, going down one of
the supports, splitting it completely,
tearing out the iron rail TO the winding
stairs that lead up to the floor above the
ground, and doing considerable other
damage to the house. The tree was also
somewhat shattered. The bolt entered
the ground not far from the summer
house, tearing up the ground consider
ably. The shock was quite plainly felt
by the people in the house and also for
some distance from the house.
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The Electric Railroad.

The stockholders of the Bennington
Electric Railway Company met at the
office of A. B. Valentine, Wednesday
evening, and elected the following direc
tors: A. B. Valentine, E. E. Larrabee,
l. E. Gibson, j. A. Powers, E. L. Sibley.
The directors will elect officers at a
subsequent meeting. The stockholders,
with the amount of stock taken, are as
follows: A. b. Valentine, $1,000; j. A.
Powers, $4,000; II. E. Bradford e Com
pany, $4,000; n. M. Puffer, 81, 900; VIM.
E. Hawks, 81 900; II. c. Lindloff, 81 800;
Tiffany Brothers, $1,000; E. II. Putnam,
$1,000; E. L. Sibley $1,000; Olin Scott,
81 900; A. p. Childs, 81 ,OOO:. R. w. Rob
erts, $1,000 and the following, $500
each: l. E. Gibson, Edward L. Bates,
E. A. Booth, H. T. Cushman, I'd, Clarence
p. Niles, F. S. Pratt, W. r. Morgan,
John V. Carney, R. j. Coffey, A. Buel
Sibley, F. NJ. Tiffany, H. S. Bingham,
Russell & March, H. D. Fillmore, Geo.
F. Graves, L. P. Norton, W. c. Bull
Last evening a special meeting of the
Village Trustees was held, to consider
the application of the Directors of the
road for permission to lay tracks in the
village. A. B. Valentine, chairman of
the Board of Directors, presented the
Directors report and detailed the plans
of the company. He stated that 1t was
its intention to push the matter until
the road was in operation, and that work
would probably be commenced early in
the spring, if not during this fall. He
also stated that the company owned fran.
chises in POwnal and SALISBURY, and
that eventually, he hoped, the North
Adams electric road would connect with
a road through here from Pownal to the
HOosac railway at WallOmsac. The fol.
lowing resolutions were then passed:
Voted, That permission be granted
the Bennington Electric Railroad Com
pany to build its railway on Main, West
Main, South, Depot, Washington, Elm,
Mill, Dewey Avenue, Harrison Avenue,
Gage, Stafford and Bradford streets, and,
the Bennington and Woodford Electric
Railway Company, not having on or be-
fore July LIST, 1895, constructed its road
thereon, also along North and River
streets.
Voted, To grant the Bennington Elec-
| trio Railroad Company permission to
construct and operate its railroad over
Hunt street, in said village of Benning-
ton, under similar provisions and re-
strictions to those required for It's con-
struction and operation upon the streets
of said village, defined by the charter of
said railroad company.
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WASH GOODS,

Clan tartan ginghams, very fine,
10c, worth 15c.
Pongees and satins, fall color
ings, 93c, were 123c and 15c.
Swivel ginghams and taffetas,
124c, were 1Sc.
Crepons and ducks, SC, were 129.
3G-inch percales, fast colors, 94c,
were 15c.
Corded organdies, 1O!, were 16!.
Jaconets, SIC, were 123c.
Batistes, SIC, were Sc.
l case best dark prints, new, &c,
worth 7c.
1 case good apron ginghams, sc,
worth &c.
l case heavy outing skirtings, &c,
worth &c.
1 case cheviot shifting, nc,
worth Zoe.
case superior Shaker flannel,
4@c, worth Sc.
l case heavy canton flannel, &c,
worth &c.
36-inch silkolines, SIC, were 129.
White P. X. weltS or figures,
- 1-2c, worth 1Sc.
Moreen skirtings, new, 15c,worth
25 cents.
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Miss LEONARD of Gloversville, n. Y,
is visiting Miss Lizzie Abbott.
Miss CYNTHIA GARDNER Is visiting
her mother in Burlington, this week
A COUNTY convention of the Good
Templars will be held here Sept. 9th.
E. L. SHELLEY, assignee, paid to day the
privileged claims on the estate of James
S. Lindley, bankrupt
THE Bennington and Rutland railroad
sold 1870 tickets from this station to the
Manchester fair this year.
Miss MARGARET COREY, of South
street, is spending few days vacation
with her parents in Dorset.
THE Lebanon Springs railroad carried
five hundred excursionsists from various
points on the line to the Chatham fair
this week
MRS. A. G. SHERRY and son Ralph,
who have been passing the summer with
her mother, Mrs. S. S. Scott, have re-
turned to their home in Troy.
On Wednesday night the special work
in which the churches are to engage for
nearly two months was inaugurated.
The plan is very simple one and con-
slsts in large number of simultaneous
meetings. On the evening mentioned
fifty cottage meetings were held led by
as many men. 1t is estimated that at
the least 400 people attended these sim
pie services, and the prospect is that of a
much larger atten lance next week.
Some doubtless hesitated not knowing
what would be expected of them.
Other engagements detained many and
the darkness and threatening aspect of
the night was deterrent. But as it was
the meetings were successful and in
many cases uplifting. The subject was
Prayer, and many prayed whose voices
have not been heard before in this ca
pacity. A great help in these meetings
is little book called pocket Sword" of
which Mr.. Giel, the evangelist is the
compiler. Subjects are arranged in
careful order and numerous passages are
in each case appended. Next week
meetings will be held at the same places
unless otherwise announced and the
same leaders will preside. The subject
will be. Work Commanded" These
meetings will be held until the coming
OF the evangelist, Mr.. VIM. E. Cell DC.
tOber 18th
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Another PownaI Accldent.

Another accident occurred this morn
ing in the sgme place where the three
young men from this town were lately
killed. A large party of gypsies were
camped along the line and as they wer
leaving their camp one of their horses
was struck by an engine and killed.
Another horse was so frightened the
same night that he ran into wire fence
and was so badly mangled that he will
probably die. A Fitchburg detective is
in town looking for the band. No fur
Their accidents are at present known to
have occurred.
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New York EXCURSION.

The first New York excursion from
stations on FiCchburg Railroad, Green.
field, Mass, and west, will take place on
Tuesday, September oath. Low rate ex.
cursion tickets will be placed on sale and
good returning to and including steamer
leaving New York at 6 p M, Monday,
September 30th. ask nearest Fitchburg
railroad ticket agent for full information.
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Knitting Mill for Sale at Bennington
Vermont.

For the manufacture of all kinds of
ladies' and gentlemen's underwear. Ca
pacity u frames with all other machin-
cry to correspond. Price extremely low.
Terms reasonable. Immediate posses
sion given. For particulars, address w.
B. Sheldon, Bennington, Vt, or j. NJ,
Lock Box 317, Peace Dale. r. 1. 53tf
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Men S Furnishings.

Balbriggan, normal and Jersey
underwear, 39c, were SOC.
Cotton sweaters, 1Sc, were 29c.
Cotton sweaters, extra heavy, 800
were soc.
Wool sweaters, 75c, were 81.
Laundered negligee shirts 75c,
were 81.
Laundered negligee shirts, 35c,
were SOC.
Laundered negligee shirts 95c,.
were S1.39.
Seamless socks, &c, were Sc.
&c, were 1Oc.
Boys cotton sweaters, 29c, were.
40c.
Boys shirt waists, 1Sc, were 25c.
Soc, were Soc.
Mems neckwear, 35c, were SOC.
1Sc, were 25d.
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Notice to Churches and Societies.

NOTICE to Churches and SOCIeIIeS'
Hereafter patrons of the BANNER job
Office will receive notices in the locals,
proper, free as heretofore. All others
will be charged ten &c nts line in the
Business notices. This rule applies to
obituary Resolutions of Societies or
lodges, and to all entertainments o.
whatever name or nature where there is
a fee asked for admittance, and the OBJ
,ect is to make money, whether adver-
tsed in the name of an organization,
committee or individual.
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Lost:

On Saturday, ball stick pin, circled
with diamonds. Finder will be rewarded
by leaving same with G. f. Leonard.
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SPECIAL BUSINESS LOCALS.
10 DAYS, Sale.

1t will pay hotels, boarding house
keepers and others to stock up their ia
bes with knives, forks, spoons, etc., at
Heath's Jewelry Store, North street.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-13

Room and board wanted in private
family. Call at Post Office for particu.
lars. Gifts
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-13

CIV. H. S. Whitcomb, Burlington,
Vt, paid his old policyholders during
the month of August $40, 42O.09 for the
Equitable.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-13

Four wood finishers. None but COM
petent men need apply. T. A. Carpen-
ter. 67t3*
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For Sale.

Apple barrels in car lots, or large
quantities. T. S. Plumb, Bennington,
Vermont 6St4
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Bicycle For Sale.

STERLING" 1895 pattern, has not been
ridden fifty miles-practically as good as
new. Cost 500, will sell for $75. APP.
ply at Drysdale's store. 64t4*
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Notice.

Two or three ladies or gentlemen can
obtain good accommodations at reason
able prices by inquiring at POS School
street. Location central. 66t3
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Piano For Sale.

Knabe square, in good condition. In
quire at Mrs. Tarrant Slbley's, Benning-
ton Centre. 66t6*
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For Sale or to Rent ,

Stewart Block, Main street. The stores
and tenements will rent separately. In
quire of A. d. Stewart. 56tf
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House Furnishings.

Paper hangings, new, &c double
roll, worth II l-2c.
Gilt, double roll, 1Sc, were 25c.
Tapestry BRUSSELS carpet, soc,
were 65c.
Cotton chain ingram, 39c, were
45c.
Bamboo portieres, 75c, were 1.25.
Bamboo Portieries, 81 .25, were
1.75.
Framed pictures, large pastel,
$1.25, were 2.25.
Framed pictures, large etching,
$1.75, were 800.
Window shades with spring roll
ers, 15c, were zoe.
Window shades, fringed, spring
rollers, SOC, were soc.
Large clean blanket, gray or
white, Acc, worth Soc.
Generously large blankets, fine
and fleecy, 1875, worth L.75.
Bed comfortables, full size and
weight, 69c, worth SOC.
Bed comfortables, fine sateen,
1.39, worth LIS.
Brussels, ADMINISTER Iat 75c to Sl:le, Remnant
nants and short lengths of Dress Foods at econ
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LINENS

Bleached damask tabling, 59c.
were 75c.
Half-bleached, ditto, 4Oc, were
soc.
Fast color red, ditto, 19c, were
28c.
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a~ Watch the date opposite yoor
name on this paper. 1t ShOlOS that your
subscription is credited on our books to
hat date. 1.-THE date is not changed With
a fe,v days from the time a remittance is
made, notify the publishers.
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single copies of the Banner, in
Wrappers for Mailing II Desired
TWO cents.
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Store to Rem

Inquire of H. N. Williams.
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BOOTS & SHOES,

200 pairs ladies fine kid boots,
new, all style toes, $1.25, worth
It's.
Mems russets, S1.9S, were 300
l.59, were 2.25
liz, were LIS
Ladies' patent leather oxfords, $3.50
were $50.
Ladies' vici kid oxfords, 1925,
were 800.
Ladies' oxfords, black or russell,
$1.S9, were $50.
Ladies' oxfords, black or russell,
$1.19, were 1.69.
Ladies' oxfords, black or russell,
CSC, were 1925.
Ladies' oxfords, black or russell,
79c, were LOO.
Misses russets, lace or button,
CSC, were 1876.
Misses russets, lace or button,
79c, were 1875.
so pair of misses kid boots with
heels, sizes II to 2, were $1.25 to
200, your choice for SOC.
REPRESENTATION Rug Lengths,
Mattings, l TO yards, at about half price. Rel
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CLAM cHowDER at the Stark Hose
rooms tomorrow evening.
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MISS ALICE RoARKE of Lansingburgh,
n. Y, has been the guest of Miss Chris
tina Daley, for the past week.
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Dresden waist silks, new, Soc
were SOC.
Gaufre, ditto, 35c, were 49c.
Taffeta, ditto, 45c, were 75c.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15

''Old Glory is really a meritorious
play, which abounds with thrilling cpl
sodes of the recent trouble between
America and Chilli. John Coleman and
Louise Montrose have scored a distinct
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15
WHO DEMoNETIzED SILVER

For years we have iterated and re-
iterated the cry of the ''surrepti-
tious decentralization Of the silver
dollar by congress in 1873" We have
been told that that act struck down
half of the money basis Of the cOun-
try" The silver miners started the
cry, the demagogues took it up, and
the uniformed, looking out into
their darkness for some cause for
the conditions whose depression they
keenly felt but could not see, were
caught by the delusion, and have
taken it seriously to heart as an in
diSputable fact. On this base fertile
imaginations have built their start
ling fancies of a ''rapacious money
power" with it's gold bugs" avari-
cious and cruel as Shylock, throng-
ing the halls of congress, dominating
it and compelling it ever to record in
it's laws their DEGREES.
AS a matter of fact the producers
of silver had demOnetized their prod
uct long before the act of 1873. There
is a legal and practical demonetiZa-
ton of metals. If a metal is denied
access to the minis by act of law,
that is a legal demonstration; if
it refuses to go to the mint when it
can, because it finds elsewhere a
more profitable market, that is a
practical and as effectuaI demone-
| tization as is the legal one If but
, a small proportion of the entire
product seeks mintage, it is a de-
monetization pro tanto by the own
! ers Of the bullion.
The report of the director OF the
/ mint gives in series of tables the
| silver product of the country from
the establishment of the mints; the
annual coinage OF all denominations.
and the commercial ratio of silver to
gold in each year. We have here the
/ data for ascertaining who demon
/ etized silver. From 1892 to 1884 the
! product of silver in this country is
| given as insignificant" AS a mat
| ter of fact the silver coinage in use
was of foreign mintage, Spanish and
Mexican for the greater part. Nc
Master, in his history, says of the
silver coins, they were the Spanish
milled dollar, the half, quarter,
eighth and sixteenth OF a dollar. the
English crown, the French crown,
the English shilling, the six-pence
and the pistareen." AS late as 1900.
he notes that travellers from
abroad were amazed, and smiled to
see tradesman, who wished to pay
three shillings four and half pence
4 to his customer, lay down on the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15
SMALLPOX ~ DETROIT.
Health Authorities Eefase "a
Recognize the Fact.

Health Authorities fefGSe TO
Recognize the Fact.
DETROIT. Mich, Feb. II. - Mayor
Pingree aud DR.. Mcleod, city health
commissioner, went to Lansing today
to lobby against the bill TO transfer the
appointment of the Detroit health board
officers from the mayor to the governor.
DR.. John p. Corcoran was acting health
officer in the absence of Dr.. Mcleod.
AS a result Of Dir. C0rcoran'S activities
| Of the day. five cases which had been
reported as chicken~poX by DR.. Nc
LPod although diagnosed as smallpox
| by others, were declared by Dr.. Cor
| coran 10 be smallpox, and were quar-
antined accordingly. When Dr.. Nc
| Leod heard of this action he wired Dr..
| C0rcoran from Lansing to raise the
! quarantine and suspend action, but the
| latter declined to do it.
DR.. RIopel, who has been examining
| physician for the health board, resigned
| today. He insists that the diagnosing
| of the alleged smallpox cases has been
correct. although at variance with the
| opinions OF other physicians, but says
| he is tired of DR.. McLe0d's methods.
| Among his charges he asserts that Nc
| Lead urged him to keep the smallpox
| cases quiet until after the Legislature
| had acted upon the pending bill. IL is
| believed tOday'S events will tend to
| convince the legislature that there is
necessity for taking DetrOips health
affairs out of the present hands, as is
advocated by the newspapers and physi-
clans
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15
CHANG is REINSTATED
D0Ns HIS YELLOW JACKET AND
PEACOCK FEATHER.
NAMED AS PEACE ENVOY.
He VIII Proceed Immediately to
JapaE-Chinese Naval Com
mRndor7s Suicide.

TIEN-TSIN, Feb. 14-The emperor
has reconferred upon Li-Hung-
Chang the yellow jacket, the peacock
feather and all the other hOnors Of
which he had been deprived. His
majesty has summoned him to pro-
coed Immediately to Pekin, where
he will be given an audience by the
emperor. Thence he will proceed
with al haste to Japan to arrange
terms of peace. Viceroy Wang-Wen-
Shao will take temporary charge of
affairs at Pei-Yang.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 14.-It is re-
ported that Admiral Ting, the Chi
nese naval commander, and the gen.
eral commanding the Chinese forces
on the island of Liu-Kung-Tao in
the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wei, have
committed suicide.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Berlin
correspondent of the Standard tele-
graphs that he is informed that ia
pan declines to formulate terms of
peace. She has invited the powers
to discover the amount Of indemnity
China is willing to pay and the ter
ritory she is willing to cede.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Times has
a dispatch from Kobe stating that
the Corean ministry has resigned.
A dispatch from Pekin to the Times
says that the foreign ministers were
given an audience by the emperor on
the occasion of the Chinese New
Year. In addition to other cere-
monial concessions, the ministers in
sisted upon being admitted to the
palace by the front gate. The dis
patch adds that the prospects of
peace are hopeless.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15
TENNYS0N's BROTHER.
They Might Have Been Famous
Had He Been Less So.


'More than my brothers are to me-"
sang Lord Tennyson of Arthur Hal
lam, with a personal particularly
which one did not quite know how
these brothers would take The words
conveyed no slight to Frederick Ten
nyson at any rate. This brother of the
last of laureates is now in his eighty
seventh year, and lives with his son,
Capt. julius Tennyson, at st. Heliers,
Jersey. In a conversation with him,
reported in the current number of the
Bookman by W. B. Macleod, Frede-
rick Tennyson says: "'Others felt the
spell of Hallam as well as Alfred. We
all did. l did" And so it is that Fred
erick Tennyson confesses to a prefer
ence for I'm Memoriam,'' despite its
line OF disadvantageouS comparison
among all his brothers poems.
of these Tennyson brothers, Charles
Tennys fame as poet has
gone round the globe-'Letty' Globe
But Frederick Tennyson, too, did a
Greek ode at Cambridge, for which he
won a gold medal-not, by the way,
bronze e@e, as Sir Francis Doyle says
in his "reminiscences" and as DR..
JappI repeats in a more recent mono
graph-no doubt miSprint, originally,
1Or the Brown Ineudl. f1CTdllO Kenny
son remains the least known of the
brotherhood Of him a visitor to Far
ingford in 1889 wrote at the time in an
unpublished letter lying before US:
81 was talking to Lady Tennyson about
the Parnell commission, awaiting my
summons to the laureate's room, when
the door opened and a figure entered
that startled melt was so like Lord
Tennyson and yet so unlike him. At
first this likeness struck me most, but,
fortunately. before l committed myself,
Lady Tennyson introduced him. Hora-
ito Tennyson is a man of whom the
public knows nothing, and his friends
little except that he is a fervent ritu-
alist, a most unexpected thing, l as
sure you, in the household of the Ten
nysons" 1t was this brother of whom
Lady Taylor used to tell the story, that
once, when she came upon him unex-
pectedly, lying on a sofa at Faringford,
he introduced himself to her by the
confession or the boast: Il am the
most morbid of the Tennysons!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-15

counter quarter, an eighth and
sixteenth of Spanish milied dollar,
two half-pence of George II. and one
of George III.
The $1,439,517 that were coined be-
tween 1892 and 1906 were largely for
eign coins melted and recoined into
dollars. From 1906 to 1885 no dol
lars were coined. In that year LOCO
were minted, and then none until
1888, when 800 were coined Down
to 1914 the output of our mines was
$25O,000 and the coinage of dollars.
was 5S5, The silver production
from 1874 to 1872 inclusive of the lat
ter year, was $156, $780, 900, while the
total coinage of dollars was $7,725,-
$685. From this should be taken the
$1,439,517 made from foreign coins
from 1892 to 1906, leaving some $780,
900 coined from the $156, 100000 pro-
duced, or one dollar coined for each
twenty-five Of bullion product.
The same motive induced the sill
yer producers then to avoid the
minis that now makes them so solic-
itouS to break into them. There was
more profit in the market than at the
minis. They got more for it as
commodity than as coins. In 1854
the market value of an ounce of sill
yer was ST. 13, while for coinage pur-
poses the miner could get but S1.29
for it, In 1856 its market value was
-, CiIHrnI,
was undervalued in our coins, and,
obeying a natural law, it went where
the value was higher. In 1884 1876
ounces of silver would buy an ounce
of gold, while at the minis it re-
quired IS ounces.
In 1874 the tide had turned the
other way, and the mint became the
more profitable market if admission
to it were allowed, as it took then
1917 ounces of silver to buy an
ounce of gold, while 16 would prac-
tically buy it at the mint. From
this date we begin to find the silver
ties clamorous for access to the
minis they had refused to patroniZe
when they could get more for their
bullion elsewhere, and, as the price
of silver in the markets went down,
the clamor grew until it has reached
it's present frenzy.
This illustrates the silver question
and its motive. The miners demone-
tized silver by refusing to have
their bullion minted when it was
worth but two or three cents more
in the market than the minis, and
now want it remonetized because it
would be worth twice as much at
the minis as in the markets. This
is the case in a nutshell.