The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-10
MARITIME PROVINCES.
Cuttings of Interest From
Landof Evangeline and
Natural Beauty.

The steamer Monticello OF Inc al
mouth Steamship Company runs We
tween Halifax and st. John, n. b.
touching at Yarmouth both ways
The wreck Of the Castilian on Gan
net Rock. was sold by VIM. Law & Co.
agents for winding up the affairs @
the ship. The cargo and movables haoe
| been previously auctioned by Id"
| Co. -.,-s Loot
Nova Scotia assembly prorogued lasl
week after passing some TWO NUM- I, IlI. e.
and ninety bills. The Nova 9cotIS
! Steel Company was granted c-lai '0'
| to do business in the province.
! Steamer Prince George cook IVA crates
| of Holsters to Boston on the Sd. Iheg
| sold at S2S per crate. Last year - pei
| crate was the price,
Steamer Boston, Captain samuel
| Stanwood from Yarmouth, the ON
with 212 passengers and large freight
| including 600 crates of live Holsters, the
| largest consignment of Holsters re-
| ceived so far this season. A staten 7lt
| of the quantity and value of live lop-
| sters shipped from Yarmouth to Dos
! ton during the month of March, 1879;
1899 packages, value $349.21. For the
| three months ending S1st March: 6'-e
packages, value $l02,419
| The Yarmouth barque Madeleine
! Can't. David Ross, was run down and
sunk on the 18th inst, by Norwegian
/ barque, while lying at anchor off Chico
at the mouth of the Rio de la Platte.
R. A. Carter has been appointed
/ travelling passenger and freight agent
| of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Co.
with headquarters at 22S Washington
| street Boston. Mr. Carter was former
/ ly with the International S. S. co. as
| purser Of the steamer New Brunswick
and later as agent at Annapolis, ano
afterwards acted as travelling agent.
! The town council of Digby has de-
/ cided to tax Jewish traders $40 pei
week, payable in advance.
Tangier mines are booming, and
some fine specimens of gold are seen
almost every day. The Fox lead
never looked better than it does at the
present time, also the "nigger" lead.
The ice is still solid in the Annapolis
river for several miles below Bridge
town. Ice broke up in the river last
year on March IA.
Parrsboro parties have bonded about
! 70, 900 acres of timber land for the pulp
mill promoters.
Annapolis country farmers will
| largely increase the acreage of their
potato patches this spring to be ready
/ to supply cargoes for shipment to the
/ West Indies.
| The heaviest train that ever went
/ into Halifax was a special of ~ cars
under the care Of Conductor Nichols,
with over $4,000 tons of apples for the
| Halifax City, loading at Halifax fol
/ England.
| Upwards of a thousand people wit
messed the trotting on Sydney har-
/ Dor recently.
| William Goodwin of Bale Verte has
4 caught several red foxes this season
| in his traps. He was not a little sur
/ prised the other day to find a large
/ black fox caught by one of the fore
| legs.
Ernest tombstone of Kentville
/ has, during the present season, secured
| 50 skunk, 20 musNat, Il fox, 5 mink,
| racoon, 8 wild cat skins.
| The fishermen who helped save the
| cargo of the wrecked Castilian don't
/ like the title of pirate so freely be-
slowed by the newspapers. They have
always been as assiduous in saving
! life. even at the risk of losing theil
own. Then they were heroes and re.
I ceived gold medals from the humane
societies and. the plaudits of the
world.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
A piece of quartz quite thickly stud
ded with gold was found at Cros
Creek The specimen was a good one.
The will of the Chicago editor, 10
seph Medill a native of Queens county
| n. B, disposes of 100000 in bonds an(
realty, besides the editors stock in tn
| Tribune Publishing Company, valued a
81, 800, 00O
Miss Adelaide Jump, formerly o
Albert county, is making a name fol
herself in Boston as an elocutiOnist
| She recently gave readings at Berke.
! ley Temple.
! The Sussex Mineral Springs Company
! have begun the seasons operations. A
/ few days ago the company received 6
repeat order from one of the largest
| concerns in the West Indies. The
prospects are for an increased sale this
summer.
| The 18th annual bulletin of the Nat
! ural History Society has been issued
1 George ]. Trueman of Quaco has ar
article on the marsh region Of the
! Tantramar and vicinity.
| In Carleton county sugar making has
commenced. Perkins & Briggs tapped
400 trees one day last week, and will
| tap as many more this week They
have all the late appliances for carry,
| ing on successful business.