Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-01-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

1t looks as though there would have
to be a draft ordered in order to get a
man to run for Governor of Kentucky on
the Democratic ticket.
The climate of California does not
seem to be beneficial to some people.
The lady librarian at Los Angeles has be-
come so sensitive that she will sue To-
cal preacher for $4,000 for praying for her
in public. 1t was all on account of some
books he did not like.
If man is known by the blunders
he has made Secretary Gresham can lay
claim to being the best known man in
the country.
1t is a sorry plight the Treasury of
the Blue Grass State is IN when it does
salaries of the State officials. Kentucky
tinanciering seems to be about as bad at
home as it is in Washington.
The Chinese have now given up con-
fidence in their generals and are pinning
Mr.. Gresham might better have taken
that Populist nomination for Presidency.
"A decrease of more than 20 per cent.
in the number of sheep in Texas is a
rather paralyziug answer to Roger Mills's
eloquent prediction of the glorious boom
which was going to follow the advent of
free wool.
Lord Rosebury is afflicted with ner-
vousness that affects his public speaking.
A weary public would be glad to buy a
few germs of this disease from him at
any price for use upon certain Mr..
Breckenridge of Kentucky.
When President Martin of the New
York Police Board complains that poll
ticians run the force" he touches one of
the chief causes of the scandal The
New York police mas been one of the
biggest and the last strongholds of the
spoils system in America.
If thin houses have compelled Col.
Breckenridge TO abandon his contem-
plated lecture tour, it is a notable tri-
butte to the sturdy good sense of the
American people.
The city of Atlanta is enjoying a
period of unusual growth, and, strangely
enough. the Improvement seems to date
from the time that Hoke Smith left the
city for Washington.
John Burnss remark that he has
found the American labor movement to
be practically an inciplent civil war nat
urally prompts the query what kind of
American workmen he has been training
with during his visit to this country?
What are the characteristics upon
which Tammany prides Itself? The fact
that Bourke Cochran has brains and uses
them is the basis for sarcastic remarks
by Boss Croker. Are men with brains
out of place in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Telegram.
President Cleveland went to the the
ater in Washington, Friday night, for the
first time since his last Inauguration.
This would seem to show that he intend
ed to enjoy the holidays while his wild
horses were out to pasture in various
sectors of the cOuntry.-Lowell Mail.
The whole country hopes that the
President is indeed genuinely refreshed
by his Southern outing. He will need a
clear eye and steady nerve to steer his
wild team for the remainder of the ses-
sion.
That Manchester wreck shows that
the short English railroads have by no
means purchased absolute immunity
with their elaborate equipment. A list
of 80 injured and Is dead would be &C
counted an extraordinary catastrophe in
America.
of course Gov. Flower contempt
uouslv diSmisses the charges of neglect OF
duty against District attorney Fellows.
That is what he is there for. The. New
York refprmers should have waited until
they could lay their case before Repuo-
lican Executive.