The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04

will come later.
The steam trawler Harbinger sold her
last catch at Westport.
Postmaster William McCully, the old
est postmaster in Nova Scotia passed
away last week. in the 10Th year of his
age Last time the deceased appeared on
the streets was election day.
The Shelburne Budget reports that
about 20 moose have been killed since the
opening of the season in that vicinity.
The open hearth steel furnace is being
heated, preliminary to being put In opera
ton. 1t is expected that the steel manu-
facture will commence in three weeks
The steel will be made from pig iron OBJ
tanned from the iron ore of Bell Island.
! An ocean race which no doubt caused
a lot of cash to exchange hands termln-
ated Sept l. when the barquentine Golden
Rod Capt. Mcbride, arrived at Buenos
Ayres followed by the barques N. b.
Morris, Capt Stewart, and Africa, Capt
Fielding, the latter two vessels arriving
Sept 3. When all We're loading with lum-
Der at Bear River and Digby, Capt. Nc
Bride of the Golden Rod said he was will
ing to bet any money that his vessel
would arrive in Buenos Ayres first The
Africa and n. B. Morris sailed from Dig
by June q, but the Golden Rod did not
get away until 10 days later; but she ar
rived there two days ahead
A very artistic booklet, entitled 'Trib-
J uleS OIL Loyalty anu Love rum Calleie,le
Hearts in Memory of Queen Victoria,
has just been published by Miss L.. A, Ed
wards of Truro. 1t consists mainly OF
verses written by Canadians at the time
of the queens death and publshed IN va
rious parts of Canada.
Recently King Edward VII made a re-
quest of the Canadian government that in
future all state papers should bear the
Tudor crown as adopted by Henry VII
The Halifax Club, taking up the idea, mas
embodied in its decorations Tudor
crown, which is fixed in electric hghts
above the doorway.
There are now 10 stores in process of
construction in the district recently de-
stroyed by fire at Sydney.
Mayor Hamilton today received by
mail from Newfoundland photograph of
: the Duke and Duchess of York, with their
autographs.
Joseph Cannon, from North Shore,
Victoria County, has succeeded in locat-
ing a siX-foot seam of coal there. The
development of these areas, which is GER
tain to take place, will prove of immense
advantage to Victoria County.
The gold reef that was discovered by
Howard Richardson of Goldboro and his
associates is a large reef, showing about
20 feet of gold bearing ore exceedingly
rich in parts of the belt. The pals full of
decomposed quartz and rusty ore contain
ing ounces of sights of gold and gold dust
are now on exhibition at the mine. The
last blasts put in the bottom of the mine
on Saturday last threw out so much gold
that a watch had to be placed at the
dump on Sunday to take care OF 1t. me
miners gun that was used for cleansing
the holes when boring the last holes with
drills brought up a number of large sights
of gold. The fortunate finders OF this
bonanza formed themselves into a gold
mining company on the 18th instant, and
named their mine the "Goldnnch. RutuS
- ffRxr al. tod don
and Norman Mcmillan of Isaac's Harbor
secretary The mine is about mile and
half south, across the metals from the
Richardson mine on the Seal Harbor
slope, and about half mile east of the
( Goldboro shore, near the mouth of the
harbor.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
The big steamer Mineola, 1929 tons, has
been chartered to load hay at St. John for
Cape Town in November. Steamer Corin-
ga will load deals at st. John for w. c.
Il. at 40s.
The customs receipts at ST. John for
October were $780, 6l9 O6, an increase of
50, So. 81 over those of october, 1900
In St. John Gravenstens are selling
at from 81 IS to 50 per barrel. Early ship
ments of Bishop Pippins are selling from
$2.75 to SO .25.
Alfred Ogden of the fishery hatchery
at Bedford, N S. will take from the
! Carleton Pond, where experts are strip
ping the salmon, about 1,O0O,000 eggs. They
will be taken to the Bedford hatchery,
and next June will be distributed at New
castle, CampbelltOn Grand Falls, Gaspe
Albert and Westmoreland counties and in
Prince Edward Island. There are in the
Carleton Pond over 1900 salmon.
Reports from the weir fisheries of
Charlotte County say the season has been
I a remarkably good one for the weir fish
ermen of the county, and the sardine fac
tories have been unable some days to
/ handle the immense quantities of fish Of
! fered.
/ Solomon Hamm, for the last ten years
! a popular policeman of St. John, is liable
/ to leave the force. He got a letter re-
Gently from a Scotch solicitor that his
mothers uncle, Solomon Cochrane of
/ Scotland, had left him $4,000 by will
Hamms only child is a young man now
! serving in Baden-Powells police.
Mrs. Mary Frese, who has been spend
| ing the summer with her mother, Mrs.
| Fisher of Somerset, has returned to Bos-
ton, where she will spend the winter. She
was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Su-
! sic Thomas.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
Arrangements have been completed to
dispatch another contingent of 80 naval
! reseryists in the British cruiser Charyb-
dis next week for a six months cruise in
West Indian waters, following the pre-
cedent adopted last year.
THE DOMINION.
Pierre Lepine, for many years city
editor of lie Soleil, who disappeared few
months ago, has just been heard from.
/ He is at Springfontein, South Africa, in
! Baden-POwen's police.
James Henry Lewis has been indicted
l at the Criminal Assizes on the charge OF
manslaughter Lewis, who is a Christian
! Scientist called in a faith healer of that
a., tsfr If N n
when his child fell i'll with diphtheria.
/ The crown alleges the childs death was
due to the lack of proper medical aid.
The customs receipts of the Dominion
I for October were s., 6S4, $50 an increase of
4. S200S79 over October 1900. For the four
months of the current fiscal year there
was an increase in customs duty collected
/ of $3.50, 500 over the same period last year.
Before the Ophir sailed from Halifax
! Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Corn
wall and York showed her interest in the
I Cottage Hospital scheme by taking one of
/ her eXcellency's collecting cards, which
she duly filled up, thereby adding SIS to
THE Lady Mimic Fund" Her royal high
mess paid her excellency a pretty compli-
ment by allowing her own children to
participate in the collection, thus identi-
flying them with the Cottage Hospitals.
The first page was considered cOntribu-
ton from her two eldest children, and
was signed Edward and George" Vic
/ toria and Henry" were responsible for
the second page, the 10 lines of which rep
resented 50, while for the remainder of
the card Victoria Mary was the sigma
ture.
! Lord Strathcona has donated a $4,000
central site to the city of Sherbrooke,
Que. to be used for the erection thereon
| of a City Hall and Court House.
/ DR. Peterson of NcGill University,
Montreal, has discovered the lost COdex
AIetallianus Of Cicero in a ninth century
manuscript of Lord Leicesters library at
/ HOlleham. A fac smile from this codex
annea red twelve or thirteen wears ago in