The Worcester spy., 1899-06-19

McGregor, Roxbury, 2471 names; Alice
S. Martel, Roxbury, 1850, and Harry r.
Simonson, East Boston, 2259, The COM
pany has decided to give consolation
prizes to the three persons named, oW
ing to excellent lists. Mrs. Ives comes
from Pictou, N. S. The aggregate num-
Der Of names received was 0,502
Down in Breezy Lockport on the
south shore Is a big rock called Spy
Rock from which loft eminence the
country for miles around can be scan
ned, The beautiful mica dust beach,
hard as pavement and a favorite re-
sort of wheelmen, is a sight to behold.
This is one of the landings of the Var
mouth Line steamer Monticello.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
Some 60 or 70 salmon captured in the
weirs in st. John harbor were placed
in the fish pond at Carleton, where
there are about 400 fish. 1t is intended
to put 500 salmon there.
The apple crop promises an abun-
dant yield The New Brunswicks are
blossoming and promise a good yield.
Crimson Beauties will be the biggest
crop ever had.
Sussex Mineral Spring water as
analyzed by the geological survey
department at ottawa is an alkaline
water, containing chloride of sodium,
chloride of potassium, sulphate of So
da, carbonate of soda, ferrous oxide,
magnesia. lime and silica. Flowing
through solid rock and iron pipe from
a depth of $50 feet, this water is abso-
lutely free from surface contamina-
tiOn.
A biological station for the study of
marine life for which a vote of seven
thousand dollars was taken last year,
will be organized at Passamaquoddy
bay, near St. Andrews. Professor
Prince will Immediately take prelimi-
nary steps towards the equipment of
the observation station.
There are 250 men employed in the
St. George granite mills and Quarries.
All the mills are running on full time.
Besides the granite works, so persons
are employed in the lumber mills which
will cut two or three million feet this
season.
The new dining hall Of the Royal Ho-
tel, st. John will seat 140 people COM
fortably, and when the tables are ar
ranged for a banquet, fully twice that
number can be accommodated. The
walls are done in robins egg blue and
the ceiling is elegantly decorated. All
the woodwork is finished in white.
The students brick residence at Mt.
Allison college was burnt to the ground
recently. Prof. Tweedie's $4,000 library
was destroyed.
P. E. ISLAND.
At the Charlottetown market on
Wednesday butter was quoted at 16 to
II cents per fb; eggs were sold at to
10 cents per doz There was little doing
in poultry, and chickens sold from As
to 80 cents per pair. Potatoes sold at
3S cents a bushel. Fish and Holsters
We're plentiful
Prince Edward Island rihemen won
the fourteenth maritime match last
week, defeating Nova Scotia by eleven
points and New Brunswick by twenty
six points. The competition was inaug-
urated in 1885, and since that year has
been won as follows: By Nova Scotia
in 1887, 'S9, 81, '92, '94, '95, '97, '9S; New
Brunswick, 1886, 49, 80, '93: P E. Is
land, '96, '99. The victory of the Island
men is only the second victory they
have to their credit The score in the
last match was: Island, 706; Nova SEQ
tia, 695; New Brunswick, $50.
At a meeting of those interested in
the new P. E. I. hospital, DR. Taylor,
who has already given $1,000, offered $500
more to assist the trustees in finishing
the building. The amount needed IS
$4,000.
GENERAL DOMINION NOTES.
Canadians are not worrying about the
! Alaskan boundary. Neither are they
troubled with big head over the yacht
| race just won.
1t is estimated that in the state of
Massachusetts there are 5000 persons
who were born in Canada. There are
more Canadians in Boston than any
other town. Boston has 5000 natives Of
New Brunswick, 14,712 natives of Nova
! Scotia, 315S natives of Prince Edward
Island, 16,2S7 natives of other Canadian
provinces, of which Il, 452 are English
| speaking and 1885 French. Fall River
| has 1909 French Canadians born in
Canada, exclusive of the maritime pro o
! vinces, and S46 speaking the English
| tongue. That city has only S4 natives of
| n. B., % Nova Scotians and 126 from
| P +. I. The natives of those provinces
| outside of n. B., n. S. and p. E. l., are
| largely French Canadians, most of
whom are employed in the cotton mills.
BY the regular service inaugurated
| by the c. p. R., Vancouver is brought
within 10 days reach of London, or at
] least three days nearer than it was ten
years ago.
! The receipts of the Toronto street rail
| way during May amounted to S1O5.313.
| OF this the percentage paid over to the
| city was SS425. This means that the city
| OF Toronto received during the month
| $3.50 per day from this source of reve-
nue..
NEWFOUNDLAND.
There are twenty-eight different
| Matching stations in the large bays of
! Newfoundland, at which the average
/ of 45O, 100000 per annUm of Holsters have
! been hatched and planted in the waters.
/ so that in seven years the enormous
4 number of 3.150 100000 of Holsters ova
| have been brought to life and placed in
I fha waters