Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-14

or 20 years, and some say that since
the great Saxby gale the wind has not
attained such a velocity. 1t destroyed
great amount Of nets and other fish
ing gear for the fishermen at North
Head, and II or Is dories were lost. The
schooner Mizpah broke from her fasten-
ings at the steamboat wharf and went
ashore on Stanley's Beach. At South
West Head light during the storm
Keeper Mclaughlin said he had not ex-
perlenced such gale since he had been
keeper of that light. A terrible sea was
breaking on the rock-bound coast under
the gulf cliffs.
The ship Marlborough, Capt. Cochran,
arrived at st. John last week from
Gloucester, England. On coming out OF
the channel she lost her rudder, and
Capt. Cochran was forced to bear up
for Barbados in order to get a new one.
She sailed from Barbados December 10,
and had fine weather until three weeks
ago, when Seal Island was made. Then
boisterous weather set in and gales were
met continuously. Three times the ship
was blown off. At one time she was
within 40 miles of Cape Cod. She passed
through a terrible experience, as she be-
came badly iced up. Last Tuesday a
regular blizzard was encountered. Sew
eral of the crew were slightly frost-bit-
ten. The vessel reached port just in the
nick of time, for the provisions were
down to a low ebb.
At Fredericton AZ inches of snow fell,
and 80 inches was tine depth Of snow on
the ground at the close of January. At
st. John 26 inches fell, and 3 inches was
the depth Of snow on the ground. Re-
ports received from the lumbermen in
this province are that the weather dur
80 To-,
able for cutting, yarding and numbering
generally Since the heavy snow storm
of the 2Sd and oath there has been too
much snow for successful work, and it
is now impossible to haul from the
stump. One feature Of the present win
ter reported from some sections of this
province is the complete absence of
frost in the ground when the first snow
fall occurred. This fall did not melt; in
consequence of this some anticipate
poor stream driving, as the ground will
absorb the greater part of the snow as
it melts. The average depth of snow in
open woods throughout New Brunswick
is so inches.
They know a good thing in st. John
when they see it. The Sun published
Rev. DIR. Merriman's Worcester, Mass)
sermon on Modern charity" entire.
They are bound to be in the swim music
ally. Williams has been re-engaged and
Rieger will sing on the 10th.
P. E. ISLAND.
In Charlottetown, in the civic election,
DR.. Warburton, brother of Premier War
burton, was elected mayor with 652 ma
jority over George E. Hughes, druggist
and ex-councilor. The councillors re-
elected were Alex. Horne, D. L. Hoop
er, T. S. Taylor and D. Nicholson, and
the new councillors are Geo. Wheatley,
s. w. Crabbe, August Mcdonald and
Charles Lyons.
OF the so inmates of the poorhouse
three, viz, Mrs. Ann MeNaily, Char
lottetown; Jane Steele, Rustico, and
George Cannon of St. Eleanor's, are
over 100 years of age: Elizabeth Peake
of Cape Travers is 95. Seven are over
80 and nine over 10 years of age.
On the I'd inst, at the home of John
Robertson, Long Creek, P. E. Island, a
large number of guests assembled to
witness the marriage of Miss Christy A.
Robertson to Hector MacLean. The
bride carried lily hand bouquet.
The annual meeting of the Crapaud
Dairying Company on the 18th showed
by the secretary's report that 1906, PIG
Tbs of milk were taken, and the output
of butter was 66,S22 lbs, which realized
$12, ,4S720. The butter was sold in Eng
land as we'll as in Halifax, st. John
and Montreal
There are four ordinary routes by
which the island may be reached from
the mainland, two in summer and two
in winter. The summer routes are well
known-from Point du Chene to Sum-
merside and from Pietou to Charlotte
town by steamers. There is also the
1a=s traxTa1aa hSy % II
iceboats, propelled by oars, or dragged
| across the ice by man power from Cape
Tormentine to Cape Traverse and vice
versa, furnish means of ingress and
| egress during the winter months. The
ice boats furnish the most reliable
means of transit for the mails in mid
winter
The mean temperature OF the month
of JANUARY was below the average by 8
degrees; the thermometer registered
above 80 degrees on seven days, below
zero on eleven days, and did not rise
higher than zero on three days. The
weather generally was cold and stormy,
with much snow.
GENERAL DOMINION NOTES.
So far this winter Montreal has paid
$4,000 for removing snow from its
streets The street railway company
pay $3.50 per mile for cleaning the
snow from the streets where there are
car tracks. There are 32h miles of
streets in Montreal where tracks are
laid.
The death is announced of DR.. Jean
H. GARNER, one of the leading natural
lists of Canada.
The construction of one or perhaps
two steel steamers will be begun at Van
couver at once for Col. Domville's COM
pany, the Yukon and Stewart River
Pioneers.
The remittance of $8OoOO was re-
ceived from Gold Commissioner Faw-
cett today; also $4,000 to be sent a Nor
wegian named Karlson, whose two sons
have died at Dawson From t,r,hnid