The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-03
NOVA SCOTIA ECHOES.
Annapolis Valley and Land
of Acadia Resound With
Pleasing Notes..

COTu DFedheTs ana one Trip IN ten Gays
supplied necessary accommodation.
When Hon. L. E. Baker put the steam
er Yarmouth on the Boston Y armouth
route and cut the time to II hours the
old timers predicted dire disaster and
ruin for his company. When the feet
Boston was added everybody said that
he was crazy. But the world do move
even the Nova Scotia end-and rapid
ly, too, for the Plant line and the
Dominion Atlantic line have put on
boats that cannot be beaten by any
thing out of Boston, and it takes a
daily service now to meet the demands
of the trade.
Schooner Beaver, Capt Huntley, is
at Yarmouth, from Baltimore, with a
cargo of rails for the Coast railway,
sufficient to lay the track from East
Pubnico to the county line, A second
cargo is expected soon. Thirty-five
thousand ties have been delivered at
the station in East Pubnico, and 1000
more at points along the line from
Belleville to Tusl<et.
Award L. Dodge of Middleton, a gra-
duate of Acadia in the class of '99, has
been awarded a scholarship at Harvard
valued at $3.50.
A valuable deposit of nickel is re-
ported to have been discovered in the
mountains north of st. AIMS, C. b.
and the nickel is of a very rich quail
ity.
Already the iron works are getting
In readiness for the erection of their
vast plant, says the North Sydney
Herald. The Maritime Clay Works of
Oxford have the contract for between
five and six million bricks. The brick
works to turn out 10000 bricks per
day.
1|brea o,reS,Io+oe Of Acadia ,,oi,-areit,y
were graduated at Newton Theological
Institute last week. They are William
Byron Bezanson of English Corner, N.
s.; Selden Rufus McCurdy of Lynn,
Mass. William Freeman Spideil of
Lunenburg, N. S.
Halifax Herald: The first pelican ev-
er shot in Nova Scotia was killed Sat-
urday on the shore at Three Fathom
Harbor by William Graham with a
rifle. The birds wings have spread of
6 feet 6 inches. The bill is IA inches
long. The distance from the front of
the bill to the tip Of the tail is IS
inches. The fish pouch, which hangs
from the bill, contained S5 small her
ring when the bird was shot.
The officers of Prince Arthur, Do
minion Atlantic line, are; Captain,
Ernest Kinney; first officer, Mr..
Churchill; second officer, Mr.. Surtees;
purser, Mr.. Fred Pheasant: assistant
purser, Mr.. Frank Ross chief engineer,
MIR. Patten; chief steward, Mr.. Gold
smith.
Manager Wilson of the Grand Hotel
at Yarmouth is now very busy be-
tween times answering inquiries about
rates, etc. The house is having a good
run already.
Digby's new hotel, the Manhattan, is
oven to the public.
In dUa dave fchiDn with OnIu folIr
dories, the schooner Emerald, Captain
William Sims, arrived at Digby from
the bay with $4,000 pounds of mixed
fish, which is being landed today for
Syda & Cousins. This is considered
good work. The schooner Wellman
Hall, with 100000 feet of lumber put in
here yesterday for a harbor. Che is
from Annapolis, bound for New York.
Fish receipts from Bay of Fundy:
Schooners Lloyd, $500 live Holsters;
Gazelle, 1900 live Holsters; Malapert,
10940 hake and paddock, $50 cod.
Martha D. McClain, $4,000 hake, $4,000
paddock, 5000 cod; Electric Light 13,
900 hake and haddoek, 1000 cod; sloop
Eagle, 1900 hake, 1900 paddock, $50 cod.
There is no pleasanter place in the
province than Kipgsport, and the little
hotel (Boyden's) is good enough for a
king.
There are 80 Baptist churches in the
Central Baptist association, which en-
braces Halifax, Hants, Lunenburg and
Kings counties, with total member
ship of 10,441. Nonresident members,
2400, Berwick having 200, the largest
number
The Hantsport church reported the
adoption of Individual communion
cups, the first Baptist church in the
province, except Yarmouth, to adopt
the custom. The association has just
been in session in Pereau.
Allan Mcdonald who died in Cali
fornia some time ago, left about $780,
600. to be divided among his sisters,
Mrs. R. Ainsley and Mrs. William
Num- Of Halifax, and Mrs. Boutilier,
Margarets Bay Road. Deceased sis
ters' children get their share.
The Rhodes-Curry company of Am
herst have received an order for 20
refrigerator cars of the latest design
for the I. c. r., 20 S0-ton cars for the
Dominion Coal company and 20 fiat
cars for the Midland railway
Search for the treasure at Oak island,
which has been followed actively for
the past four years by company of
Amherst and other capitalists, has
been abandoned.
1t is said the BURBERRY crop promises
to be very good. The frost did no in
jury to the blossoms, which are we'll
set. The harvest probably means not
less than 100000 to the counties of
Yarmouth and Shelburne
The ship Stalwart, which finished
loading on Monday at Yarmouth, car
ries 247,712 feet on deck, 1,130, 1902 feet
below, a total of 1,378,0l4, which is TO-
900 more than she took from Montreal
on her last voyage, and probably the
largest cargo of lumber ever shipped
from this province.
The Colonial Gold Mining company
of Moose river secured IL ounces of
gold from 200 tons of quartz at their
last cleanup.
The old Bonanza lead at Oldham Is
being opened up again and a test
crushing made yielded Fl ounces from
10 tons.
w. H. Cahon, Leipsigate, has made
returns at the mines office. showing S71h
ounces of gold and 1917 ounces of silver
from 260 tons of quartz.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
st. John is as good a place as its
name would seem to imply. Why the
native insists on calling 1t "Sinjon" is
a mystery hard to fathom.
The New Brunswick Tourist Asso-
citation have just issued a neatly print
ed and profusely Illustrated booklet,
entitled 1.-THE City of the Loyalists and
Gateway to the Pleasure and Health
Resorts of the Maritime Provinces"
The book does not supply any exact
information, but deals in rather q
breezy way with the delightful attrac-
lions that portions of the province e.
fer to the tourist and sportsman, aid
the desirability of entering this happy
hunting ground through the port of st.
John "Therefore let us be thankful
that there are thousands Of cool. green
hooks beside crystal springs. where the
weary soul may bide for time away
from debts, duns and deviltries. and a
while commune with nature in her I'M
dress" Healy and Rawson have 1t.