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

Two trips per week by the steamer
Boston of the D. A. Railway line between
Yarmouth and Boston Is the limit me
week before Christmas the capacity or
the boat will be strained, as many pro
vincialists visit the "old home" during the
week of festivities.
Partridge are reported very scarce at
Digby and throughout Digby and An
napolis counties. They are said to be
quite plentiful through Shelburne, Queens,
Kings and other counties to the eastward.
Last week was a big week for the
gunners Howard Smith of Clark's Har-
Dor made a new record for himself by
killing 22S ducks during the week.
The daily output of the three furnaces
of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company
now is over $50 tons. No. Is about ready
to be blown in.
Il. Leon Smith of Yarmouth was the
owner of a rare old copy of Homer's Had,
in Greek and Latin, which he recently
sold TO the Parliament Library at Ottawa.
The book was printed in Amsterdam in
1850.
"A meeting of the directors Of the Tou-
quay gold mine last week was most sat-
isfactory. Manager Kaulbachs report
showed 216 tons of ore, milled in October,
yielding 142 ounces The report pleased
the directors, and a suggestion for future
extensive operations was recommended.
The Port Hood Coal Company is
booming. 1t has pow an equipment FOR
raising and loading into vessels 1000 tons
of coal daily. Its output is meeting with
a ready sale, more than 10000 tons having
been shipped this season.
THE pulp mill being built at North
River, Victoria County, G. b., is being
pushed forward very rapidly. The COM
pany has 100 men employed.
About 1900. men are now engaged at
the construction work of the railway to
Port Hawkesbury. Seven sub-contractors
have charge of the work. The manage
ment expect to have the work completed
before Christmas.
There are now Is stores in process of
construction in the district recently de-
stroyed by fire at Sydney.
The fruit growers and dealers in west
ern Nova Scotia expect they will have
100000 barrels of apples for export. The
40 cent duty keeps them out of the United
States.
George A. Huestis of the Atlantic
Grindstone Company, which Is operating
the old Seaman quarries at Minudle, n.
s., says that the Nicholson File Company
of Providence, r. l., gave the Atlantic
Company an order for 1000 tons of grind
stone, an order which could be only par
TALLY filled, and 400 or 500 tons We're sold
to the American Axe and Tool Company,
one of the largest concerns in the world.
The company proposes in the future TO
pay increased attention to scythe stones
and Whet stones generally.
The steamer Mystic, at Louisburg,
made the round trip to Boston, loading
and discharging in five days and three
hours. This establishes record.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
Reports from up St. John River state
there are thousands Of wild duck to be
seen along the main stream every day,
but gunners are very few.
The cargo of hard pine brought to ST
John by the Norwegian steamer Hugin,
from Apalachicola, Fla, is for ]: A.
employed in the construction of the New
Brunswick Coal and Railway Company's
Railway.
Some passengers from Digby on the
steamer Prince Rupert recently amused
themselves betting on the number of flaps
of their wings per minute made by the
four seagulls which followed the steamer
more than half the way over the bay to
st. John. II was found that the gulls
could easily keep pace with the steamer
at an 1S-knot gait, with about $50 flaps
per minute, and if they Jagged behind for
a rest they would speedily overtake her
with $50 to 200 flaps per minute.
The carcass of an sOO-pound moose
was brought down river on the steamer
May Queen Monday from Newcastle,
Grand Lake, where it was shot by John
Kelly. The dead animal was indeed a
forest king.
The visit of w r. Chapman to st.
John resulted in the formation of the
New Brunswick Festival Association and
the organization of a permanent chorus
for St. John to take part in annual musi-
cal festivals given under Mr.. Chapman's
direction. The first rehearsal will be on
Monday, the 18th. Copies of Mendels-
sohn's S5th Psalm win be sent here by Mr..
Chapman next week for the first rehear-
sal. Already the guarantee for future
festival is over S1700
Mr.. and Mrs. George Nixon Of 191
Queen Street, St. John. have just cele-
brated the 50th anniversary of their mar
riage. which took place on Sept. %. 1851,
at Centenary Church The family circle
still unbroken numbers eight children, II
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
The Mining Society Of McGill Univer-
sity has decided to affiliate with the Ca
madam Mining Institute. a representative
and powerful Canadian society. the men,
bers of which are scattered all over the
Dominion.
AT the annual meeting OF the Montreal
Street Railway it was decided to appro-
pirate $4,000 to fund to do the com
pany's fire insurance, to which win be
added from $4,000 to $1,000 annually.