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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
SATURDAYS RACE.

Fully 1000 people were at the Fair
Grounds Saturday to see the matched
race between w. S. Bailey's Lambert
B. and H. A. Folsom's Nellie F. 1t
was hot day, but the track was in
good shape and everybody expected
a fast race. 1t proved to be the
three fastest heats ever trotted on
half-mile course in Vermont. The
judges were Horace Peck, J. E.
Lynch and E. H. Hoffman. DR.. T.
R. Stiles was the starter and Charles
S. Hastings clerk. Mr.. Folsom's
horse was driven by Homer E.
Brewster and Lambert B. was driven
by John Moulton.
Lambert B. had the pole at the
start, but Nellie F. soon took the
lead and kept it throughout the en-
tire race. Lambert B. was close
second in the first two heats, but
broke III the third heat and lost all
chance of winning the third heat or
the race. The time was 225A,
2.2412, 2.25. Nellie F. lowered her
record from 2.25A to 22412, which
is the record Lambert B. made here
last fall.
Lambert B. is fast trotter and
son of Vermont's famous stallion,
Daniel Lambert. Nellie F. is by Rex
Patchen and two years ago was be-
ing driven around St. Johnshury by
MIR. Folsom. One day she trotted
an exhibition mile in $50 and Mr..
Folsom has recently refused $25OO
for her.
The green race resulted in an easy
victory for Romulus, and c. E. Kirk
won the suit of clothes. The score:
Romulus, $. g., c. E. Kirk l
Daisy c., by M, NJ. V. B. Greenb anks, 2
Dick A., CHI. g., E. F. Aver, 8
Fred F., bl g. F. Guyer' ,o,l dr.
Between the heats Raymond,
2.27A, was driven around the track
by H. E. Brewster, Raymond made
a mile in about 2 40.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
REGIAIENTAL REUNION.

Secretary w. H. Ward of the
Seventh Vermont regiment will issue
a call this week for a reunion at
Burlington, Oct. IT, On the after
noon and evening of that day there
will be an informal reception. On
Wednesday, Oct. IS, the regiment
will take a trip to Ausable Chasm
and in the evening there will be a
camp fire at City Hall, Burlington.
Among those expected at the re-
union is Gov. c. H. Sheldon of South
Dakota. Mr.. Ward has the address
es of over 400 of the Seventh regi-
ment and a notable reunion is ex-
pected.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.

The exhibition of the Vermont
Horse Breeders Association, an an
nal event looked forward to by all
lovers of the horse in Vermont, is to
be held at Billings Park, White River
Junction, Aug. 20 to 31st. From
the present outlook it is bound to be
the most successful meeting the as
sociation has ever held. The best
horses in the state are already book
ed to compete for the $4,000 offered
in stakes, purses and premiums.
Final payment in stakes, purses and
entries to premium classes close
Aug. 10th. Railroads will run extra
trains at excursion rates. Horses en-
tered will be transported for freight
one way. Entry blank may be OBJ
tained of the secretary at Brandon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
FROM ST. JOHNSBURY CENTER.

Mrs. c. H. Mason of Chillicothe,
Mo-, is visiting at 7. B. Willey's
Mrs. D. w. Jenness is very i'll.
Miss Maude R. Sargent is visiting
friends in Littleton and Franconia.
Miss Hattie Rogers has gone to
Concord, n. H., to visit her brother.
w. L. Bunker and wife returned
this week and are stopping at T. E.
Harrimans.
Miss Augusta Brockway is visit
ing friends at West Derby.
S. p Stickney, wife and daughter
of Woodsville, n. H., and the Misses
Goss of Olcott are visiting at W. G.
Goss's.
Arthur Hoyt of Lebanon, n. H., is
visiting his sister, Mrs. H. M. Scott.
Mrs. L. D. Stiles had two buds on
a night blooming cereus open Tues
day evening, the largest measuring
ten inches across. Many people
went in to see them open.
Mrs. Fred Wescott of Boston is
visiting at E. H. Stones.
Young peoples night was observed
by Green Mountain Grange in their
hall at St. Johnsbury Center on Sat.
urday evening, Aug, 5, at which
about 60 were present, including
visiting members from Wide Awake
Grange. All the offices were filled
by the young members of the grange
and initiation in the first degree was
carried through, after which the
following programme was given
Instrumental music by Matte
Hosmer, E. H. Campbell, B. A
Farnham, and Frank Edwards
reading by Mary Allen instrument
al music by Flora Aver; reading by
Bertha Sargent instrumental music
by quartette; dialogue by Jennie
Whitney, Matte Hosmer, Carrie
Mclaughlin, Charlie Mclaughlin
George Wiley; instrumental music
by quartette. After the meeting
cake and ice cream were served and
some of the young folks enjoyed &
promenade. Many thanks are due
the committee who made the ar
rangements.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
THE SHERBROOKE FAIR.

The Eastern Townships fair will
be held at Sherbrooke, Sept. 5, 6 and
7 and will as heretofore attract
number of people from this section.
Ten thousand dollars are offered in
prizes and attractions. The stock
entries and agricultural exhibits at
this show are we'll worth seeing and
there are numerous other attrac-
tions, including athletes, trained
dogs and balloon races. Full partic-
ulars of Canada's greatest fair are
given in our advertising columns.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
AT THE EAST VILLAGE.

Parties from Chesterfield and
South Kirby are spending their
annual vacation camping at Will
loughby Lake.
James Milin, who has been living
at E. Bugbee's the past year, died
on Friday last; funeral Sunday,
conducted by G. W. Patterson. His
age was about so years.
Capt. A. w. Fisher and wife from
Washington, D. c., were the guests
of L. w. Fisher over Sunday.
Mrs. Comfort Carleton, widow Of
the late Willard Carleton, died in
. Burlington, at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. F. G. Fletcher, last
Friday. The remains were brought
here on Saturday for burial. On
Sunday impressive services were
conducted by Rev. Mr.. Smithers of
St. ohnsbury. A proiusion of
beautiful flowers covered the casket,
consisting of wreaths, bouquets
and sheai of wheat, a pillow OF
flowers resting at the head Of the
casket.
During the thunder shower last
Monday afternoon the electric fluid
entered the store of L. w. Fisher,
taking a splinter from each side Of
the stock of a shotgun, disabling
the telephone, and also the tele,
graph at the depot.
G. P. Cook and family of Newton
vile, Mass, have been passing q
few days with Rev. G. w. Patterson
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
NEWS ABOUT HOME.


base ball Yesterday. Score II to T.
About a dozen of our fishermen
start for Atean Lake in Maine to-
morrow evening.
Rev. DR.. c. W. Gushing of
Batavia, N. Y, will preach at the
North church next Sunday.
A delegation from Moose River
Encampment will go to Barton on
Saturday evening to confer the first
degree.
During the absence of Col.
Franklin Fairbanks hands ONE ad-
dition is being made to the library at
Underclyffe.
Carleton Felch has bought J. A.
Paddock's house on Cherry street
and sold his South Park house to
Mr.. Paddock.
The local lodge of the Order of
the Golden Cross have picnic at
Joe's Pond on Saturday and are in
for good time.
Rev. Mr.. McCubben of Pennsyl-
vania addressed the Y. NJ. c. A. meet
ing Sunday afternoon and spoke
very interestingly concerning DOR
cas-"
Mrs. E. NJ. Colby, who lives in
the Harvey block on Railroad street,
fell down stairs last Friday and
was quite badly bruised. No bones
were broken.
Some interesting personal chat
will be found in Rev. Mr.. Graves
article on Early St. Johnsbury,'
published on the second page OF this
weeks issue.
The annual meeting of the Yer
mont Branch of the Woman's Board
will be held at Morrisville, Wednes-
day, Sept. 81, and not at st. Johns
bury as announced in these columns
last week.
Extensive repairs are bring
made upon the house opposite the
Academy recently occupied by L. ".
Rowell. Before the Academy opens
DR.. c. F. O. Tinker will occupy it
and open boarding house.
Suits against two liverymen and
one butcher, for keeping hogs within
the village limits, which were to
have been tried yesterday, have been
put off till the 10th inst, so that the
porkers will have further taste of
village life.
H. E. and D. Q. Woodruff have
had great success this season in the
cultivation of raspberries and have
marketed some choice lots. They
brought into the CALEDoNIAN office
Saturday specimens of wild oats
which are over six feet tall.
A new and larger water main
has just been put down on Hastings
Hill. Considerable trouble has been
experienced from the freezing of water
IN the main there, and the new pipe
is located where it will probably be
tree from the frost's influence.
Arthur w. Chaffee, F. Lanctot,
Louis B. Heald, Maud Babcock, Ed
ma Lucas. Bertha E. Hovey and
Lizzie M. Harris have passed civil
service examinations for post office
positions, and two of them have
been recommended to the depart
inent for immediate employment.
The Boston and Maine road has
issued posters announcing reduced
rates to the Morrisville camp meet
ing Aug. 13 to %. The round trip
iare from St. Johnsbury is $3.50,
and from all other stations on the
line at. correspondingly low figures.
tickets good returning till Aug. %.
Sylvester & Gray will wind up
their meat business this week. This
hrm has been in business on Rail.
road street for over Is years and c.
A. Sylvester has followed this bust
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
VIEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

Academy.
Mileage Lost
Lyndon institute
Arction-L. w. Rowell.
canada's Great Exhibition.
House for Salem. Mccormick
House for Salem. Mccormick
Stock Capitalize. S. Hastings.
Great slaughter-W Wilson King.
w r. Holders Estate-Pres. Account.
A.P. Clifford's Estate-Pres Account
when in Doubt-Campbell & Blodgett.
struck by Lightning-L. w. Fisher.
sarah p. Rankin's Estate Probate of Will.
closing Out Sae-E. g. T. Fairbanks & Co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
weather Record.

AT Bingham's Drug Store, for the week
ending Aug s, 1898.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
Weed That Eats Fish.

Commander Alfred Carpenter, writing
from SualIin. Red sea country, contrib
urcs the following remarkable instance
of n plant prcying upon one of the YER
tcbrata- The instance noted was OBJ
served by MIN when surveying the Par
accI islands in the south China sea: "As
ncared pool cut OFF 10y the tide from
the sea. noticed among other subma-
rinc plants n very ordinary-looking
ficsh-colored weed. Bending to- inspect
il closer. | noticed numbers of small
fish lying helpless in its fronds. appar-
entity with little or no life in them
Putting my hand down to pick one of
them up found my fingers caught by
suckers on the weed, the fronds of which
had closed tightly upon them The fish
had been caught in every conceivable
way-by the head, the tail, sides etc
and some OF them had been held until
the skin was completely maccrated
Those of the fish that were still living
had evidently been caught at different
times. they appearing in all stages OF
exhaustion. l regret being unable 10
name either the plant or the fish, but
that the botanic cannibal really preyed
upon the finny denizens of the deep
there isn't the least doubt"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
DO YOU KNOW THESE7

ADNA c. TREAT. aged ninety-four, a
resident of Denver, is believed 10 be the
oldest mason in the world, having been
a member of the order for seventy-three
years.
IT is said that Mime. Patti and other
women of high standing on the stage
preserve most carefully the boots they
wore at their debut, which they con
slider lucky To have about on the first
nights of engagements forever after.
EX-CnIEF GERONIMO, who, with other
subjugated Apache Indians, is living
near Mobile, Ala, has been made a
gardener at the military station where
he is a captive, and is also justice OF
the peace for the tribe.
HENRY II. CLEAvEs, the new governor
of Maine, came out of the war a lieu
tenant and at once secured work as an
ordinary hand in n sash factory, but
after a two-years' trial of the job he
thought it wasn't promising one, so
he struck out in other lines.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
PERSONAL GATHERINGS.

REV. DIR. HOFFMAN, who owns the
Hoffman house, New York, is the
richest clergyman in the world
CHIEF INSPECTOR STEERE, of the New
York police department, retires on a
q, 800 pension after thirty-five years of
service. during which he never had a
charge preferred against him.
IL the family of Philip c. Drumel, of
Philadelphia. five generations are repre-
sented Mr. Drumel is ninety-four
wears old and was a drummer boy un-
der Napoleon, being present at the
burning of Moscow.
II. Il. MCCLELLAND. who has been
teaching school in Encinal county,
Tex, for $40 a month, has been notified
that he has fallen heir TO the title and
$1,000. 900 estate of his uncle, Lord
William Moore, Of England.
Mrs. MARTHA A. HOGAN, Mrs Mary
A Fassett and Mrs. Sarah A. Fassett,
triplets, were present at a celebration
at Waltham, Mass, the other day.
They are sixty-nine years old, and say
they worked when girls in cotton
mill in which Gen. Banks was bobbin
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
PICKED UP IN EUROPE.

THE Germans at last take kindly 70
American hoe-calles.
THE largest barometer yet made has
been put in working order at the St
Jacques tower in Paris. 1t is forty-one
feet five inches high.
TESDER-HEARTED residents of Helen
burgh, Scotland, mercifully killed q
centcnarian last month"; donkey said
TO be one hundred and two years old.
THE popularity OF Norway as sum
mer resort is indicated by the fact that
during the months of May, June and
July 5,l62 travellers touched at Bergen.
A BAND of women-robbers has been
discovered in Paymago, Spain. They
met once a month in a cave on the out
skirts of the town, TO plan burglaries,
and here they had full stock of bur
glars tools and about fifteen thousand
francs worth of plunder. They usual
IL worked in mems attire.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
a SOLDIERS CORNER.

THE oldest British soldier is Sir
Patrick Grant, aged lightweight years.
GUN caps were first used in 1922 in
the British army.
THE armies of the civilized nations of
the world number 3,60O,OO Besides
the loss of their time and labor. they
cost at least sl 900 year for each sol
dicr, and that amounts to g., 900, 000, 900.
HENRY PACKARD. of Rockland. Sui
livan county, n. Y, a veteran of the
war of 1912, in which he served as a
drummer boy, has just received from
the General Society of the War of 1912
a bronze medal Mr.. Packard is lame
To this day from wound received in a
szirmish.
A MAINE veteran who marched in the
procession at Washington has forty
eight scars, an empty sleeve and an
artificial eye TO prove that he was in
the late unpleasantness. His name is
J. +. Chase, a member of the old Fifth
battery of the Pine Tree state.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
A Congressional Count

The four-year-old and seven-year-old
sons of western congressman were
PLAYING with a set of numeral blocks
and their mother was watching their
innocent sport
'aOh, mammal! exclaimed the
younger one, Il can count; hsten;" and
he rat tied off: zone, two, three, four,
five. six, seven, eight, nine. ten, jack,
queen, king"
The mother was inexpressibly
shocked, but before she had time to
say anything the older boy put in:
''Why, Harry" he said, that's
wrong"
VERY wrong; very wrong" sighed
the mother.
Cert went on the older boy. This
is the right way" and as the mother
waited for the correction by her older
child he dashed into this; "Duece, tray,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
jack, queen, king, ace"
That night the mother had confer
ence with the congressman
Free Press
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
NEGRO SONGS DYING OUT.
Education Among the Colored Race Re-
suits In Neglect of Minstrelsy.

The younger negroes, born in free
dom, have a loathing for everything
that pertains to slavery. They regard
the old slaves with contempt. and be-
cause the younger ones can read and
write they set the older ones down as
being too ignorant to be considered,
forgetting that they We're once efficient
workers and averaged superior in NOR
ais and manners to their descendants.
One of the results OF this is the dying
out of the rich, melodious negro songs
not the songs of the negro minstrel
type, which were totally unlike the real
article. This the Boston Transcript re-
CARDS as very great pity, as these
songs were wild and charming beyond
comparison.
In slavery times the negroes We're en-
couraged to sing. The wheat was
reaped to the singing of the reapers, and
the best singer generally headed the
row. The ores who could pick the ban
jo or scrapc the fiddle were peculiarly
privileged. Here is a strange piece of
folk lore: For many years, even long
before the war, the fiddle playing and
banjo playing had been dying ont
among the negroes, owing to super
stition that de devil is a fiddler" The
very old people have noticed this. The
master of the mansion says: lin my
fathers time. and when / was n boy,
there were very few regular musicians.
and at parties, unless it was a grand
affair, Il lady played the piano, accom-
panied by gentleman on the violin,
and mOnstrous jigs and reels they
played, too But when it got too much
like work almost anybody's carriage
driver could be sent for ont of the
kitchen who could fiddle enough to
dance the Virginia reel by. But when
/ grew up negro fiddlcrs We're scarce
among the plantation hands, except the
professionals, who were free negroes.
They have been growing scarcer owing
To this superstition about old Pluto
Among the city negroes the piano is
the favorite instrument. as II is so much
easier To acquire n certain proficiency
on it than on the violin. In the coun-
try, though. it is generally thought un-
becoming. at least for church mem
ber,' to play the violin, if not actually
an audacious communication with Sa-
tan himself. But il involves neither
deadly sin nor any spiritual risk what
ever to play the accordion or the lap
organ rs they call it. The 'cor'jon,
consequently, is very popular instru-
ment."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
1BENSBURG. PA. FRIDAY. JANUARY E. Is
GAMBLING CLUBS IN BELGIUM.
In Defiance of Law High Play Is Carried
On to an Unlimited Extent

In 1871 the Belgian authorities
definitely and officially closed the Off
cially licensed public gambling estab-
hshment at Spa and Ostend, following,
in this respect, the example of the Ger
man government, which had few
months previously abolished the public
tables at Baden Baden, Wiesbaden,
Hamburg and AiX-la-Chapelle. Before
long, however, n number of clubs,
falsely described as private" sprang
up at Ostend, Spa, Blankedbergee, Ma
muir, Dinant and other places, where
gambling was carried on just the same
as before, with this difference, how
ever, that whereas the public gambling
tables had been subjected to the most
stringent government inspection, the
private clubs We're not. These clubs,
according to a correspondent of the
New York Tribune, are open to any
body and everybody. Thus, for in
stance, at OStend there are at least
dozen in the town besides the one
which located at the Casino. The
clubs in town have nothing sly or secret
about them. One is in the market place
with an open door and big brass plate
at the side of it informing all that So
cial reunion is held every night within
Anybody who likes can enter. a sec
rotary or clerk at the door makes a
prctense of inscribing whatever name
one may choose to give him on n regis
ter, and the visitor becomes forthwith n
member of the club for the space of
twelve months without any kind of in
PRODUCTION, fee or formality being re-
quired. Another club of the same kind
has been inscribed on the front of the
house which ii occupies in large gilt
words: THE Cercle Gudule." At the
latter the game is invariably ecarte.
The players sit at the middle of a long
table facing each other. At one end of
the table is seated one of the officials of
the club, who keeps the book with the
list of names of members desiring to
play. Directly "A game is over he calls
the names from the list. and the beaten
player who wishes to retire is replaced
by another; or, in the case of banque
ouvertc, the losing player is instantly
changed at the end of each game. BY
the side OF the two players, between
them and the official above mentioned,
sit two others of the club officials whose
duty il is To enter all bets, to receive
and pay the money in notes, gold and
five-franc pieces, To shuttle the cards, TO
hold the pack not in use and generally
To see fair play. Large crowds usually
stand behind each players chair bet
ting on the play.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
UNITED STATES VOLCANOES.
Alaska and the AlcutiIn Islands the Vol
cnnLc Eegion of the Wnrid.

Alaska and the Alcutian Islands the Vol
canic Region OF the World.
Prof. George Davidson, of the coast
and geodetic survey, who was one of
the pioneer explorers of Alaska, takes
n deep interest in the recent reports of
volcanic disturbances in the far north.
When seen by "a San Francisco Chron-
icle man he said:
There is really nothing remarkable
about the volcanic disturbances in
Alaska, although the event is of inter
est. The whole coast of Alaska out to
the east of the Aleutian islands is the
volcanic and glacial region of the
world. 1t is quite TO be expected al
most every week that some of the nu-
merous volcanoes along that rugged
coast will break forth, fill the air with
cinders, ashes and smoke and cover the
glaciers with nasty black sand and SCOT.
Chignilx bay, from which this last erup-
tion was seen, is in latitude Sc degrees
10 minutes 20 seconds north and longi-
tude I5S degrees - minutes - seconds
west of Greenwich, on the southeast
coast of the peninsula of Alaska, oppo-
site the Semidi islands and about 800
miles from the end of the peninsula
The observer could not have seen Black
peak as reported, for it is only "a
miles west-northwest from his position.
He saw Mount Pavlof, on the west side
of Pavlof bay, distant about las miles
south, AZ degrees west from Chignik
! bay The man who was at Wesnes-
senslIi island, lying off Pavlof bay, saw
Pavlof volcano, distant from him 20
miles north, IS degrees west.
''Pavlof is one of the fifty volcanoes
of the peninsula of Alaska and the
| Aleutian islands, of which twenty-five
are IN a state of activity, shown by
| smoking. Just west of Pavlof, about
| 10 miles, lies cluster of peaks called
| Aghilccn pinnaclcs, which are all
| marked by cratcrs. Pavlof is in lati-
tude 81 degrees % minutes north, longi-
! tudc 1G1 degrees ~ minutes west, and
| il has two craters. In 1894 and 1876,
| according To Russian authorities. Pavlof
! was active, in 1888 it was smoking and
| it was 1867 | saw it smoking myself.
| Pavlof is visible from all of the Shuma-
| Gin islands, of which Megas is the
| largest The view is particularly good
! from Sand Harbor. on Mcgas island.
/ shall not be surprised to learn of more
eruptions in that locality ut any time,
for. as / said before, il is the volcanic
| region of the whole world"