Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-03
PROVINCE NOTES.
NOVA SCOTIA.

Services at the north end of -
about ten o'clock a. M; and in the af-
! ternoon at four O'clock. Don't forget
the services. Babies will be also bap-
tiled at both ends."-New Glasgow
| Chronicle
Within a few weeks, Hon. l.. E. Ba-
ker president of the Yarmouth Steam
ship Company, will arrive from Var
mouth to take passage on one of the
ocean liners to Liverpool, where he will
meet Capt. Edgar o. Smith of Var
mouth They will go on tour of the
British Isles looking for large steel
steamer propeller, of about 1000 tons
and with suitable accommodations for
300 passengers. She must be capable OF
steaming Is knots per hour, and will be
and Halifax until the Coast Railroad is
finished, when she will be hauled off and
put into another service.
Mr.. J.. E. Starr of Starts Point, who
has been in England as a representa-
tive of the Dominion government, to
look into the apple export business
there returned home over a week ago.
News has been received that the lob
ster regulations proposed by the de-
partment of marine and fisheries,
whereby the size limit on the Bay of
inches, have been abandoned for the
present. The regulations will not be
changed this season.
Mr.. w. 7. Starrett, who is engaged
in the lumber business at st. Johns, N.
f., spent the holidays with his family
at Yarmouth. Mr.. Starrett was pas
senger on the new steamer Bruce which
makes semi-weekly trips between North
Sydney, C. b., and Placentia, N. F. He
-,
and, although they had very stormy
voyage, he arrived at Sydney on near
ly schedule time. Newfoundland ex-
poets great things of this new route as
means of opening up the country and
making it known as a popular resort
for tourists.
Bark N. B. Morris, 700 tons regis
ter, built in 1880, and schooner G. E.
Bentley $50 tons register, built in
1892, have been sold to New York par
ties. Both vessels were registered at
Parrsboro.
Three flyers are now at Glasgow,
Scotland, which, according to the New
York Journal of Commerce, will run
between New York, Yarmouth and
Boston. 1t is stated that syndicate
of New York capitalists have placed
an order with Philadelphia firm for
the construction of three fast propellers
to run between Montauk Point, Port
land, St. John and Halifax in the sum-
mer months, and southern points dur
ing the winter. A representative of a
Nova Scotia transportation company
had look through the steamer Month
cello, short time ago. This steamer
is offered for sale.
John Bew, an eccentric man who lived
alone near Arichat, died Wednesday
night In the Goth year Of his age. He
had considerable money, which he left
to the Baptist Church.
A Middleton letter of Dec, 2Sth says:
"Rev. R. G. Strathie, NJ A., Newport,
was married today in the Presbyterian
Church to Miss Elsie M. Stewart,
daughter of Rev. r. NJ Stewart, Will
mot. The ceremony was conducted by
Rev. A. Boyd, brother-in-law of the
bride. On Wednesday, January 9Th,
DR.. w. H. Macdonald, Rose Bay,
Lunenburg Co, and Miss Victoria,
daughter of Joseph Young of Middleton
will be married in the Methodist
Church, Middleton"
George S. Brown Esq, of 80 Upton
street, Boston, is engaged compiling and
publishing genealogies of the families of
the early settlers of Yarmouth. AS Var
mouth was settled by people from Mas
sachusetts these papers are of great in
terest to many families in the Old Bay
state. They are published weekly in the
Yarmouth Herald, which paper is on
file in the Worcester Public Library
reading room.
An artist in Halifax has discovered an
endless supply of persons willing to
pose for the benefit of the artist. The
applicants are invariably females from
Is to II years of age. They are paid for
their trouble and seem to delight in the
work OF course the sketching is all
carried on as the subject stands, and I'M
like the work in the great academies,
nothing is done from the nude. They
are splendid subjects and any artist can
find abundant material from which to
study.
Mr.. Wheaton, superintendent of the
Coast railway, was presented at Christ
mas with a handsome clock and gold
headed cane by the merchants of Var
mouth. The presentation was made on
behalf of the merchants, by Mr.. ]. M.
Lawson, editor of the Herald.
The Hants Journal was issued last
week again. Mr.. Anslow is arranging
to have new building erected for his
office Mr.. Anslow was burned out at
the great Windsor fire.
Chebogue Congregational Church cele-
brated their both anniversary last
week Sunday, an impressive and most
interesting sermon being preached by
Rev Mr.. Brathwaite of the Tabernacle,
Yarmouth
Rev. Jonathan Scott of Massachusetts
was the first pastor of the Shebogue
and Yarmouth churches, and resided
there many years. He kept careful rec
ord of passing events and his manu-
scripts have been a great help to the
local, historian.
H. B. Cams new steamer was
launched last week at Lockport. The
tug Wanda towed her to Yarmouth.
The machinery will be furnished by the
BurriH-Johnson Co.
The ship Vanloo of Yarmouth, which
put in at Bermuda on Sunday, the 18th
ut., with the loss of yards, brings news
of a tragedy at sea on the previous
Monday, by which six lives We're lost
and several men badly injured. On
that day the ships foreyard suddenly
parted from its sling and fell to the
deck with a crash. A number of the
crew were carried down by the heavy
falling yard or were caught underneath.
Three Of them were killed by the fall,
while three others who jumped into the
sea in the hope of saving themselves,
were drowned. In addition to these,
three of the crew were seriously hurt.
The day before the accident one of
the Vanloo's men was killed by falling
from aloft to the deck. The Vanloo is
on a voyage from Cardiff to st. John,
n. B., in ballast She is a ship of 1897
tons, commanded by Capt. Baker.
AS an expert in duck shooting and in
handling a small skiff in the widest
kind of weather Howard Smith of
Hawk Point probably has no equal
Some years ago he was awarded sill
yer watch by the dominion government
for rescuing Maurice Nickerson from
drowning at the risk of his own life, an
act which should have entitled him to
the Humane Society's medal, Last wear
his score was 2245. In four months of
this year he has killed 1900 ducks, which
with a ready sale, netted him about $120.
The new Sea View House at Clark $
harbor, just opened to the PUBLIC, is an
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