The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-07-27
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VERMONT QUARTERLY GAzETTEEK Embracing
Digest of the History of each Town. Literary
Specimens. &c Edited by Abby Maria Hem
inwav. No. l, for Addison county. l2O pa
ges. Published by Miss Heminway at Lud-
low. Vt.
We have received from the author No.
of this great undertaking. 1t is work Civ
ing, as the head to this indicates, a history of
each town in the state beginning with Addi
son county. Miss Hemiaway presents in
this the first numbers of her work sketch
of the history of every town of Addison Co.,
condensed of course, furnished upon the
spot, embracing statistics and notices cf in
stitutions and prominent individuals and lit
erarv specimens from natives and residents
of each place, in addition in curious yet Sc
Icct variety The same thing she proposes
to do for the other counties in the state, pro-
ceedins in alphabetical order. y cotempo-
rary Justly says that this work is produced at
great expense of labor and energy no effort
has been spared on the part Of its protector
to fulfill the plan she proposed. 1t coml'ri-
ses much that is curious and interesting, and
if the work is sustained on the part Of the
public, will difuse and interchange familiar
knowledge of the state such as has never
been supplied in our community. The sub
scription is still deficient, but ought not to
continue so.
The subscription price is % cents num-
Der, or !l.0O per year, marveousy low
price for the amount of labor and the limited
subscription list which the work will neces-
sarily receive In order to give Caledonia
county more time to collect statistics and in
cidents, the number for Bennington county
will not be issued till January. After that
the numbers will appear regularly. We no.
tice by the first number that it has not sin
gle patron in Caledonia county. We hope
this state of things will not continue long.
y
Mountaincer and Grizzly Bear Hunter Of Cali
fornia. BY Theodore II. Hittel. Boston
Crosby, Nichols, Lee < Co.
In this book we have the plain, unvarmsh
ed statement of a man whose adventures as
trapper and hunter exceed all those of
whom we have heretofore read Nor is the
book valuable alone for the accounts which
it contains of the taking of wild animals anC
the hair breadth escapes of the hunter, bu
in it you get much valuable information il
regard to natural history and the country ly
ing between the Rocky mountains and th'
Sierra Nevada, inhabited only by sayag
beasts and savage tribes. And all the wa.
through the book one cannot help noticing
with how few of the comforts of life, ant
how amid dangers the most terrible ant
hardships the most severe one can be con
tented and happy. Adams sleep was
sweet and refreshing when he nestled up t
his pet grizzly, with nothing over him bu
the blue heavens, and lulled 70 rest by tn
bowling of wolves and the scream of the par
!, ther, as it ever was i: the well-furnished ;
partments of the Astor House, New Iorl
where he has since spent many nights. At
ans was native of Massachusetts, and wer
to California in the first of the gold excite
, ment, but experiencing i'll fortune in takin
the yellow dust, he pushed up into the Sic
ra Nevada mountains, hundreds of miles
way from any other white man, and began
career of hunting and trapping which ende
in collection of wild animals the most raj
az we'll as the most ferocious, and though
hitherto unconquerable. The history of II
taking of the largest sized grizzly, "Samson
has already been been published in our &C
umns. The old hunter is now in New iol
exhibiting his collection, but dying, it
thought of the injuries he has received
:, his encounters with wild beasts.
5 Howard has the book for sale.
S LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, with condens
view of his most important speeches; also
sketch of the life of Hannibal Hamn by
H. Barrett. Cincinnati Moore. "ilstae
n Keyes Co.
Iy An mo. volume and work which seer
: Just the thing wanted at the present time
S is classified to be the most accurate and re
Of able of any of the several works on the saf
K subject which have already been got OUT al
= so far as We are able to judge we should
t. that it is all that is claimed for it. The ~o
=" is we'll and clearly written, and presents