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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20
VERMONT MATTERS.
Attempted Murder at Barton Landin

Attempted Murder at Barton Landing
Last Friday evening as Mrs. George D.
Barstow, wife of the Waterman of the
round house at Barton Landing, was
sitting at the table reading, she heard
footsteps outside followed by a knock al
the door which she answered by opening
the door. She was met by a stranger
who put a revolver in her face and fired,
telling her to the floor, followed by an
other shot which passed over her Re-
covering herself she rushed from the
house screaming for help which brought
Mr.. Barstowe, who upon discovering
her condition, called physician who
discovered that the ball had entered the
face near the cheek bone passing around
under her ear outside the jugular vein
and lodging under the scalp behind the
ear, from which place it was readily re-
moved the following morning. Mrs.
Barstowe will recover unless blood
poisoning sets in. Search was immediately
made for the assassin suspicion resting
on Will Lathe, d disreputable person,
who had been hanging about the round
house all day Friday, but was not to be
found after the shooting. kilograms
were sent out in different directions and
the person sought was captured near
Coventry station. On his person was
found heavy revolver. Whoever the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20
AS SEEN IN THE SANCTUM.

1t is a matter of regret that more
of our townspeople are not attend
ing the entertainments in the Y.
M. c. A. course. In point of
excellence and quality the course has
never been excelled, yet the patron
age is less than it has been for many
wears past. Ofcourse it is useless to
keep up the standard OF excellence if
the people are not going to patron
ize the course. If the attendance
keeps falling off each year it is only e
question of time when the course
which now has a national reputa-
ton will have to be given up. This
is a free country and if our people
prefer the comic opera to lectures by
the greatest orators in the country
and concerts by great artists, then
the Y. M. c. A. course will have to
give way to an entirely different
class of entertainments We hope,
however, that the patronage of our
course will warrant it's continuance
for long time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

In the death of Robert Louis Ste
venson another of the noted writers
of this generation passes away. Mr..
Stevenson had been living for the
past few years in Samoa and very
pleasant friendship had sprung up
between him and Chief Justice Ide
Our readers will also recall that it
was Mr.. Stevenson that willed his
birthday to Miss Annie H. Ide be-
cause her own birthday came on
Christ mas day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20
Annual Village Meeting.

The inhabitants of the Village of St. Johuss
bury, who are legal voters in said village,
are hereby notified and warned to meet at
the Town Hall in said village
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

Frank Harrigan of Dorset was arrest
ed on the charge of assaulting man
with pitchfork one day last week, tried
before Justice Buffum of Bennington and
is to be held TO await the action of the
grand jury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

Early Sunday morning fire broke out
IN the Weldon House at St. Adams. The
damage was slight.
Mrs. Fournier and Mrs. Whalen were
found guilty of manslaughter by the jury
last Friday, in the Fournier poisoning
case. The punishment provided by law
for manslaughter is not less than seven
years. The women are completely pros
trated, and the sentence will not be
pronounced today.
Gasca Rich, one of the best known
residents of Addison county died at his
home in Middlebury Friday morning
from oeode.na of the lungs, caused by
heart disease.
The Fair Haven Era has been sued for
$4,000 libel, being claimed by o. A.
Proctor, one of the village trustees. The
suit grows out of the recent hanging
efhgy of Fair Haven citizen, it being al
legged that the Era credited Mr.. Proctor
with statements about the affair which
he never made.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

Bell Telephone Company beaten.
Stock takes tulnble.-England and
Russia stand ready to take hand in the
Chinese and Japanese war provided Nank-
ing is attacked or any place in the
Yangtsekiang valley.-Reportc comes that
Queen Victoria S eyesight is failing.-Six
students suspended from Dickinson Col
lege, Pennsylvania, for recent hazing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

would-be murderer may be, it would
seem that his intentions were to shoot
Mrs. Barstowe, ransack the house, ard
escape. The examination has been post
poned to await the recovery of Mrs.
BarStOwe
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

The Rutland Herald suggests that
the newspapers in the country that
are over 100 years old form a News
paper Century Club. Among the
New England papers besides the
Herald that have reached this age
are the Northampton, Mass,
Gazette, the Hartford Courant, the
Salem Gazette and the Greenfield,
Mass, Gazette. There are only 10
papers eligible to membership in this
unique club which we trust will be-
come one of the most useful organ
izations in the craft.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20
WHEELOCK,

There will be a hulled corn supper at
the Free Baptist parsonage Saturday
evening, Dec. %. All are cordially in
vited.
Tom Aldrich has moved onto Harry
Blodgett's place, Mrs. w. c. Smelling will
move into the home vacated by Mr.
Aldrich.
The Wheelock Dramatic Club will
present the great war drama, THE Spy
of Gettysburg" at the town hall Thurs
day and Friday evenings, Dec. 27-2S
Play to conclude with a promenade
Come one, come ALL
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

Herbert L. Bridgman of the Brook
Ign Standardization recently lectured
in Brooklyn on his experiences as
member of the Peary auxiliary expe-
dition. The lecture was given for
the benefit of the widows and or
phans of the sailors lost on the Pearv
Arctic expedition and netted over
$500. Mr.. Bridgman is brother of
Mrs. c. NJ. Lamson of Hartford,
Conn, so pleasantly remembered in
st. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20
Wednesday, January 2, 1895,

at O'Clock in the forenoon, to act on the
following articles:
Article Ito elect all necessary officers
for the year ensuing, to wit. a president
clerk, treasurer, collector of taxes two trus-
tees to serve for three years, three auditors.
and seven fire wardcnS.
Article 2.-To see if the village will vote to
raise money on the grand list of said village
to defray the current expenses and pay the
instalment and interest the funded debt
coming due in 1895; also to make provis-
ions for the floating debt.
Article 3.-To see what action, if any, the
village will take with reference to macad-
aInizing the streets.
Article 4--To see if the village will vote to
use the Australian ballot system at the next
annual meeting, January i, 1896.
Article 5.-To transact any other business
that can be legally done at said meeting.
ARTHUR F. STONE,
Clerk of the Village.
St. Johnsbury, VT, Dec. 10, 1894.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-12-20

Owing to lack of room at the
Home for Destitute Children at Bur-
ington many cannot be properly &C.
commodated, and an appeal is being
made to the friends and people for
money, SO that two additional build
ings may be erected costing $4,000.
AS long as rum and its allies are al
lowed to rampage our land, just so
long will the children of its victims
suffer unless cared for by kind hearts
and willing hands. We sincerely
hope this institution will receive the
aid desired
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-31
QUEER HONEY GATHERERS.
Tiny Ants Which Are Living Storehouses
For Honey Brought by Others,

Tiny Ants Which Are Living Storehouses
For Honey Brought by Others.
Gas sat in my Office in Santa Fe one
New Mexico, 'my next door neighbor,
deputy land surveyor, came in.
g. Did you ever see honey ants?' he said,
and held out for my inspection round
tin backing box, the bottom of which
was we'll covered with translucent yellow
spheres about the size of large peas. Fast
to each of these orbs as if in emerging it
had become stuck by its tail, was tiny
ant Of a light brown color. The pealike
sphere perceived at second glance to be
a membranous sac expanding from the
posterior end of the ant and hundred
times the size of the rest of the insects
body and filled with clear honey. By these
honey balls the little creatures, kicking
and clawing feebly in the unaccustomed
light of day, were anchored, SO to speak,
beyond all power Of moving about.
s'These ants, / then learned, are found
In colonies, the workers of which gather
the honey from the gals of the oak tree
and bring it to those whose function it is
thus to store it. The honey, which is both
bitter and sweet, the MeXicans regard as
'dulce' and cat eagerly. Used as an
ointment, it is regarded by them as rem
edy for soreness of the eyes.
1.-TWO or three days afterward, happen
ing to be in the land surveyors office, I
glanced into the tin box again. Most of
the globules had broken, and afloat in tho
liquid honey at the bottom were the tinv
insects, drowned in their own sweetness. !"
New York Sun.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-31
CITY OF PORTLAND.
To the Electors of the
City of Portland

NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of
~ Registration Of Voters OF said City will be
in open session at Room Number Eleven (11)
City Building upon each of the nine secular
days prior to the State Election, to be held on
the tenth day of September next; being August
9th to September 9th inclusive, from nine in
the forenoon. to one O'Clock in the afternoon,
and from three till five o'clock in the afternoon,
and from seven till nine O'Clock in the evening,
eTeeptng on the last day Of sd Ss
session after five O'Clock in the afternoon, to
receive evidence touching the qualification OF
voters in said city and to revise and correct the
voting lists-eXcept that the sessions of Sep
TENDER 4th and 9th will be held in the Council
room. There will also be sessions on Sept 9Th,
18th and 8th to enable the Board to verify the
correctness of said lists and for closing up the
records of said sessions only.
Chapter 304 Public Laws of Maine, approved
March 20, 1898, provides
Sect. g. Every person whose name has not
been entered upon the Voting Lists in any city.
in accordance with the provisions of this act,
must If he desires to vote. appear In person at
place provided for registration and prove that
he possesses all the qualifications of a voter.
Every person qualified to vote as hereinbefore
provided, shall vote only in the ward of the
city, and voting precinct thereof, If any, i'll
which he had his residence on the first day of
April preceding, or OF his becoming all inhabi-
tant after said day.
All Registered Voters who changed their
residence from one Ward to another previous
to April 1, 1874, and have not had their resi-
dence properly corrected on the voting list OF
( the WarQ Wnef6 Cney resided on SAID nrSI Qay
of April, should notify the City Clerk in person
or in writing OF such change, who will receive
and record evidence of the same, which must
embrace the name OF the voter, the ward,
street and number FROM and the ward, street,
and number to which such removals have been
made. A copy of which record shall at all
times be open to public inspection. Or appli-
cation for the above purpose may be made to
the Board of Registration, Room No. ] 1, City
Building, on each of the nine secular days. Au-
gust 18th to September 9Th, 1894. inclusive,
set apart as above indicated, for the revision
and correction of the Voting Lists.
During said time, said Board will revise and
correct the Voting Lists; and the Wardens of
said city shall be governed by said revised and
corrected list, and no name shall be added to
or stricken from said list on said day of cleo
ton, and no person shall vote at any election
whose nameis not on said lists, but the Board
of Registration will be in session on the day
OF election for the correction of errors that may
have occurred during said revision.
A AoSRoE GfKhsH BGs6a ct
MICHAEL c. MCCAIN. } of Voters.
Portland, Aug. 20, 1894. aug20dtd
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we ducked, and some of US gave yell as
the shell struck, yell like that you
hear when a home-run hit is made at a
baseball ground.
when the shell exploded the water it
tossed up completely hid the launch
from our sight, and we supposed she had
been struck and sunk. But in mo-
ment she emerged from the fountain of
foam, and still standing impassively in
the stern was Da Cana, his left arm
hung i'll a sling, for be had been wound
ed few days before. He saw US lean
Ing over the side anxiously watching
him, and then he smiled pleasantly,
raised his right arm and waved his
hand. or rather two fingers of his hand,
as IT he were signaling us ooh, that is
all right We afterward learned that a
piece of the exploding shell had wound
ed the other two fingers of that hand, or
| suppose he would have given us full
handsha&e. am certain that if disci-
pline had allowed it, the cool, smiling
courage of the man would have been
recognized by a cheer from the New
York.
He went on to the Mendello, where
he had long talk with her commander,
anc then, after transferring some refu-
gees to her, returned to shore in the
launch, facing the shots of every land
battery within range, as cool and indiff-
erent as before. That was the last time
we saw Da Cana, for it was dark when
he came out and boarded the Portuguese.
That same morning I saw another
plucky little performance. Da CANA
had despatch boat, 100-ton schooner
rugged steamer yacht, much resembling
Mr.. Bnedict's Oneida. She had two one
inch Nordenfeldt machine guns, one
mounted forward, one aft. When she
steamed away from the shore the hill
batteries, as soon as she was in range,
directed the liveliest kind of fusilade
at her. Instead of getting out of range
as fast as posi- BILE she slowed up and
answered the shore fire with her own
guns in very smart fashion, and directed
her fire go well that she drove the crew
away from one shore gun. Then she
steamed on, but kept peppering away at
the enemy as long as she was in sight.
Nothing can truthfully be said
against the personal courage of the
Brazilians. I only hope that when it
comes my turn to stand fire will do as
we'll as l saw them do. That will satisfy
my pride"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-31
ILLITERAcY IN AMERICA.
1t is Confined Almost Wholly to the For
eign-Born Population.

From the statistics of illiteracy in the
United States in 1890 it appears that, of
the total population ten years of age
and over in 1890, 10 per cent, or one
eighth, were illiterate. Ten years earlier
similar proportion was II per cent, or
about one-sixth, showing an immense
reduction in the proportion of illiterates.
This reduction has taken place in the
ranks of the native-born whites and OF
the colored, while among the foreign
born the proportion has increased. Thus,
the proportion of illlterates among the
native whites was in 1890 60 per cent,
and in 1880 81 per cent Among the
colored the corresponding proportions
were SOL per cent, and 10 per cent.
Among the foreign born, on the other
hand, the proportion of illiterates IN lo9U
was 1871 per cent, and in 1880 IL per
cent, an increase to be accounted Tor py
the excessive immigration OF the decade
and by the character of much OF That
immigration, which consisted or the
lower classes of southern and eastern
Europe-Italians, Huns, Poles and Bone
mians
The ilIiteracy of the country, is there
fore. mainly represented by the foreign
born and the colored elements, and by
the latter in much greater degree than
the former. Considering the entire pop
ulation, the States in which illiteracy is
most prevalent ale those of the South.
Mason and Dixon's line, the Ohio river
and the thirty-seventh parallel OF lati-
tude separate the literate from the illit-
crate States. North of that line the pro-
portion of illiteracy ranges from 81 in
Nabro chs nm tn 10 g in Navada S0uth
of that line it ranges form 14.6 in the
District of Columbia to Ask in Louisi-
ana if we except Oklahoma which was
largely settled from Kansas and carried
Kansas education with it. Indeed
throughout the cotton States the proper
tion rangdes high being 40 per cen5. in
Mississippi, Al in Alabama nearly 40 in
Georgia and As in South Carolina. In
the Northern States throughout New
England and the upper Mississippi VAL
ley the average is between and per
cent,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-31
DA CANVAS PERSONAL COURAGE.
An American Officers Story of the Bra
lillian Rebels Goodness and Pluck,

II saw an exhi bition of the personal
bravery of Da Cana which was alone
worth the trip to Rio," says Lient. Robert
B. Dashiel of the United States ship New
York.
ait was on the morning of March 10,
when we 1.-THE New York; had just re-
turned from our outside airing to let the
ocean breezes sweep.the microbes out of
us, and when we, with the San Fran
cisco, Detroit and Chicago, moved to the
upper Rio Bay and anchored there. We
did this as word had been sent around
to us and all the foreign fleets that the
government would that day bonn bard
Da Canals feet, and we moved to where
we would not interrupt free scope for
the Smelling. AS we moved up we could
see that Da Canals feet was all broken
up, his despatch boats, torpedo boats,
scattered and scurrying up the harbor
for safety under a lively fire from the
land forts as they passed. / was on deck
making notes for the log when l saw a
launch shoot out from the city and head
for the Portuguese man-of-war Mendello.
The launch in making the trip, had to
run the gauntlet of all the forts. and OBJ
ScEfluk buO luGCSSdut anu
hot fire dire cted at her. began to sus-
pect that she carried a person of great
Importance. In her run for the Men
dello, which lay abut fifty yards from
us. the launch passed close under our
bow and ran down our port side. Just
then big shell from one of the hill
batteries passed over our forecastle with
a terrific Shrek and struck about thirty
feet astern of the lanuch, drenching its
inmates with the water it threw up.
was used to that shrek of a passing
shell because of my experience at the In
dian Head proving grounds. but the
effect of it on the nerves ! found to be
quite a different thing when it is not ac-
companied by the certainty that you are
free from danger OF being hit. But OBJ
served. even as was thinking of that
difference, that the man standing in the
stern of the launch did not finch as the
shell struck, and just then l recognized
him as Da Cana, whom 1 had known
personally at Washington. I called to
Capt. Philip that Da CANA was in the
launch, and be and all our officers
rushed to the rail to see him. AS we did
so another shell struck and exploded, APP
parnetly right under the stern of the
launch. AS the shell passed over US
admit that we ducked. 1t was instinc-
tive, involuntary, but it is fact that
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HORSE TENDERLOlM.

Pretty Good Eating, According to a Man
Who Has Had Experience.
Ibid ever eat any horse meat? Well,
I would ever have been here said Lieu
tective force.
when was that, lieuenant?"
During the Big Horn and Yellowstone
expedition of 1876 against Sitting Bull.
The whole story of the expedition has been
recounted by Captain Charles King. He
was the adjutant of my regiment and has
written things just about as they occur
red, though many people believe that such
things are exaggerated. / had some ex-
periences which, when I come to think
them over, seem more like fairy stories,
but at the same time they were hard facts,
tell you.
''But what about eating horse meat?"
was asked as the lieutenant evinced indi-
cations of dropping the subject. Is it
good, lieutenant?'
YES. If you had q fine horse tender
loin in one hand aud one of beef in the
other and didn't know one of them was
horse meat, I'll bet you would choose in
favor of horse tenderloin. Take a nice
horse steak, and it is sweeter than beef
and more tender. The meat is coarser
grained. lived for 10 days on that and
buffalo berries
What are buffalo berries?"
'sThey are little red berry that grows
In the Bad Lands of Dakota. If it hadn't
been for those berries, we would all have
had the scurVy upon that expedition. We
left with 10 days rations and got about 10
days rations after meeting General Frey S
command. We got into the Bad Lands
after Sitting Bull and found ourselves 10
days from nowhere without rations
They began cutting down upon the army
biscuits until they ran out and then we
commenced to kill the horses as they
would drop from fatigue. The first horse
meat ate was piece of kidney, and
was pretty hungry or wouldn It have eaten
that. After tasting nice steak enjoyed
it as much as beef. '-Cincinnati En-
Quirer.
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WILD FLOWERS OF AMERICA.

This series consists of colored plates and de-
scriptions with proper botanical nomenclature
of the wild Flowers Of America each part
containing at least sixteen plates, and to
embrace two to three hundred beautiful
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to free presentation at the end of the work of
of the elaborate index and chapters
entitled, Curious Facts about Wild Flowers
to bind with the volume, These wild Flowers.
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coupons aud 10 cents any OF the other parts as
issued. Parts 1 to IA now ready.
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POTTER BRADLEY-LIBRARY ATLAS
OF THE WORLD.

This is the latest revised edition. copyright
1894. The maps are printed from engraved cop
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art. Each part will contain from four to
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Maine CENTRAL
Railroad Co.

To Holders of Portland g. Kennebec Rail
road Bonds due April LIST, 1895.
FTHE Maine Central Railroad Company will
Il purchase for cancellation such bonds
of the above described class as may be offered
between this date and the first day of Septem-
Der next to the amount at par of $500, 900 pay
ing therefor 1O1 and accrued interest.
offers will be accepted in the order received
at the office of GEORGE w. YORK, Treasurer.
Transportation of bonds purchased will be
assumed by this company.
FRANKLIN A. WILSON,
President.
Portland, Me-, July %, 1884.
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