Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-14
WORCESTER DAILY SPY, MONDAY. MARCH IA, 1898.

cured the lot adjoining, He has had it
all cleared and on it has two thousand
fruit trees, consisting of apple, pear,
plum and peach.
At a meeting of the Dominion Atlantic
Railway Company, in London, Janury
IA, the directors were authorized to is
sue an additional f150000 of 4 per cent
second debenture Stock making the to-
tai amount outstanding f250,000 out of
the f440000 authorized March 18th.
1896. The additional capital is to be
used to provide for the development OF
the through business between Halifax,
Boston and st, John.
The Coast Railway (between Var
mouth and HalifaX) received a decided
boom last week, when it was announced
that the entire line had been financed
Arrangements have been made with the
local and federal governments for sub
sidies Other lines proposed are left out
in the cold. Two large forces are at
work rushing the surveys and section
contracts will be sub-let as soon as
plans are completed. Chief Engineer
Wheaton Is a very busy man.
The railway committee at Halifax
suggests an amendment to the Coast
Railway charter for a branch from
Liverpool to Caledonia.
The salmon is about early this season.
Many fishermen are content to wait
little longer before seeking the gamey
fish.
James Giles, 2S, single, of Halifax, was
killed by an explosion at Kemptville
gold mines, on the 10th instant. The
blast hung fire and Giles went back
down the shaft to find the cause of the
trouble, when it went off.
NEW BRUNSWICK,
From the opening of the season in
December until the end of February,
80 steamships, exclusive of the Furness
liners, which have not carried much
western goods this winter, have sailed
from st. John with FUN cargoes for
British ports. The value of these car
goes was in round numbers, almost
$3,120,000 including United States pro-
ducts to the value of a little over
$556,000. OF the total, the Beaver line
carried to the value Of 81, 4S6, 900 to Liver
pool, the Allan Thomson line $4,000 to
London, the Donaldson line $597 900 to
Glasgow and the Head line $326,O00 to
Belfast and Dublin.
Only a single species of crayfish is
known to occur in New Brunswick
cambarus (astacus) bartonii Fabr.)
gir 1t has been found abundantly in
the valley of the st. John, into which it
has no doubt spread from Penobscot
waters in the Restigouche, Upsalquitch
and Miramichi.
B. A. Charters will represent the st.
John Tourist Association at the sports
man exhibition in Boston, opening on
Monday next. At the close of the eX-
hibition, Mr. CHARTERS will go to New
York in the interests of the association.
The New Brunswick government is
spending $1,000 on an exhibit from that
province. Two Indians, a live moose
and many other characteristic exhibits
adorn a New Brunswick booth at the
sportsmans fair Boston, now in ses-
sion
The Canadian Pacific Railway an
nounces that commencing on the 11th
instant, rates from st. John will be: To
St Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, via
Sault Ste. Marie, $22 first-class $40. SO
second; to Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle
and Tacoma, via Port Arthur, $35 first,
$25 second; to Portland, Ore, via Port
Arthur, and to San Francisco, via Vic
toria and steamer, $40 first, $50 second
and these rates are not to be exceeded
in selling to any intermediate points on
the direct main lines. Rates to points
on branch lines in Canadian northwest,
Kootenay etc, are quany low.
GENERAL DOMINION NOTES.
w. -. AtDbldluJ lie uitlnOudlIE LO-
bacco manufacturer who has already
given in the neighborhood of $4,000, 900
to McGill University has given another
$3.50 as an endowment fund to the de-
partment of architecture for the pur-
chase of supplies and material.
Col. Denison, president of the British
Empire League. was highly delighted
with the success of the annual meeting
held at ottawa on the 10Th instant. He
was fianked with five members of the
government and as many members of
! the former government. Sir Louis
Davies, Hon. Mr.. Tarte, Messrs. Fitz-
patrick, Dobell and Mullock were there,
as well as Sir Charles Tupper, Sir Mac
| kenzie Bowel, Sir John CARING, Sir
Charles HILBERT Upper, Senator Fergu-
son, Hon. Mr. Casgrain and other lead
! ing conservatives. The whole number
of senators and members was about 70.
Principal Grant and Sir Sanford Flem-
ing were among the delegates. not in
politics. The naval reserve resolution
was proposed by Sir Charles HILBERT
Tupper and supported by Mr.. Fitz-
patrick. Col. Denison and the old ex-
ecutive were reelected, with some adj
ditions to the council