The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-02
PROVINCE NOTES.
NOVA SCOTIA.

Inc receipts of the town of Yarmouth
last year were $76,34224, and the ex-
penditure $71,926.44, leaving a balance
on the right side of $4,415.SO. Scott act
receipts Qiquor cases) were 81 1924. 90.
and expenses $2,O92. IS.
MI VIII Perry of Yarmouth is ac-
kinoWledged to be the best bass singer
Church N7ioh
The Yarmouth steamers are CARVING
large lots of live Holsters to Boston ev-
cry trip eE
The Midland Railway Company has
purchased from the Carnegie Steel
company rails for the road now he
ing constructed between Windsor and
t iruro, the quantity necessary to lay
the sixty miles is about 500 tons
The Dominion Atlantic Railway Com
pany, as well as the local police. are
lnuch exercised over the Whereabouts
Oh David j. White, the cashier of the
railway company at their wharf office
IN Boston, who, it is claimed, left the
city Jan. Is with his accounts showing
shortage of nearly $4,000.
Inc Prince Arthur, the latest addi-
ton to the Dominion Atlantic fleet
is receiving a few finishing touches at
Hull, and is expected at Yarmouth
ABOUT March IL. The three princes
the Arthur, George and Edward-will
make two round trips each between
Yarmouth and Boston during the sum
mer months Mr.. Law, the local agent
says the run between ports will be
made in u hours.
The Yarmouth Band serenaded Mr.
ana Mrs. Lonergan at their new res
loence on Cliff street. The couple were
recently married at Worcester. Mass
Inc butter and cheese made by the
Acadia creamery, Wolfville, last year
from iOO tons of milk, realized $14.S21
SIX thousand barrels of apples will
oe carried over the D. A. R. this week
to Halifax for shipment to England
Ezekiel S. Ogilvie of Truro, who has
Deen in Alaska six years, has a min
ing claim for which he paid 100000
and a train of st. Bernard dogs each
valued az $780,
1t is stated that London firm will
erect apple warehouses at different
points along the D. A. r. in the An
napolis valley.
Peter Campbell of Scotsville, Lake
A1nslie who is now at Dawson City,
has been fortunate enough to make
handsome fortune in Alaska
A diamond drill will shortly be put
TO work at Whycocomagh to be en-
ployed in a search for tungsten. the
metal which is said to be worth $500
per ton.
At the Napier property, at Wine Har-
Dor, large belt Of ore has recently
been found, which Is averaging 81 per
ton. The clean Up for the last month
was 81 ozs.
A very rich lead has been discovered
on the "Old Plow" property at Wine
Harbor
The Glasgow Gold Mining Company
have new modern 10 stamp mill in
operation The two leads known as
the Eureka" and Charlotte" have
about 200 tons of ore on their decks,
which, it is estimated, will yield from
two to three ounces Of gold to the
ton.
For more than 100 years the search
for hidden treasure at Oak Island has
gone on. With unchecked enthusiasm
capt. yelling keeps IA men at work
day and night, with two steam boilers.
hoisting engine, five steam pumps
and steel drill to help the work
along. He Is grimly determined to get
the rest of that parchment the auger
brought up
Mrs. Huff, nee Miss Dewitt, of New
York, formerly of Peraux, is to have
mansion built in the spring in Corn
wallis. Mrs. Huff is the lady who has
made so many liberal donations toward
the new Peraux Baptist Church
Samuel Chase, formerly of Church
street, now Of FL Dorado, California,
is on visit to his brother. John Chase
of Kentville Mr.. Chase. who owns q
fruit farm consisting of four hundred
acres in Ell Dorado, raised four tons
of prunes last year.
The oldest resident in CORVALLIS
passed away on Wednesday night, Jan,
20, at the age of ninety-one years This
was Levi Woodwork, deacon of the
Baptist Church. He had been i'll with
pneumonia a
The Nova Scotia Carriage Co. are
erecting a large factory at Kentville.
When Mrs. Leonard Penney, Newell
ton, lately received a letter from her
husband, one of the crew of schooner
Sea Fox, which had been given up for
lost, she wished to convey the tidngs
at once to Mr.. Penney's parents, at
South Side, five miles away. The read
lest carrier at hand was a small dog.
With note tied to his neck he was
| finally made to understand what was
wanted, and at once started off, de-
liVering the message to the right par
| es.--Coast-Guard.
A minister who has Just resigned his
charge Of a church IN Nova Scotia
gives as his reason for doing so, This
| church is one where money and Chris
| tianlty do not mix"
+. Gifkins, superintendent of the Do
minion Atlantic Railway, will probab-
ly be called to fiji the office of general
| manager, made vocant by the death
| of w. r. Campbell. Headquarters at
kentville will be more convenient than
at London, Eng.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
T. d. Adams intends to erect
100000 pulp mill at Bathurst.
The death of Hon F. e. Morton took
place at his residence, in Roachville,
near Sussex, on the GATH His ances-
tors We're Puritans who settled at Corn
wallis, N. s.. shortly after the expul-
sion Of the French.
! The new Y. NJ. c. A. building of
Fredericton was formally opened on
the 24th. The dedioatory exercises were