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FOGO NOTES.IIAT came very near beinga serious mishap took placehere 011 Saturday last. Acannon, which is placed onthe north side of Fogo, near the premisesof II. G. Earle, Esq., which has beeu lying there for some time, suddenly collapsed and went off* in terrific blasts, atintervals of a few seconds for over an hour; but, thank goodness, no harm was done, excepting some of the “ fair sex” have hardly got over the fright yet.IT seems that this cannou must have been loaded all the time and on Saturday, in some inexplicable manner, went oil; but as it happened to be the day on which the news of the relief of Mafeking reached us and the harbor was decorated with bunting, a great many imagined the gun was tired on purpose, to celebrate the graud event; so it was really a “lucky accident.”TWO of our Fogo men went off on Barnes’ Island and unearthed two more coffins,containing the bones of some persons. Thus four coffins have now been dug up there during the last week. It seems a remarkable thing that none of the oldest people in Fogo can remember anything about anybody being buried there at anytime. One of the coffins con-tained, besides the bones, a feather pillow, and another a spotted silk handkerchief, both very much decayed.TnEKE has been a grand sign of fish here lately; some of the traps at Joe Batts’ Arm last week got a quintal each of line fish, and some of the men here went off on the drift ice and brought up 20 and JO each.THE lobster packers are getting to work; some have their traps out and have got a few; everything seems to indicate a good lobster fishery for Fogo.EVERYBODY is complaining about the u new-fangled*’ mail system. According to the old style, a person could answer a letter by return mail, but uow we have to wait a whale week.THE Ch/de ought to be made to stay here six hours, as this is the last port. Last week she (the Clyde) stayed a whole night in Twillingate and came down here in the morning, and tore off' again as soon as the mail was landed, not giving us a chance at all.MIL EDITOR, could you inform us how a person could go to the French Shore? Would we have to go to St. .John's and take I he Glencoe, from there. If so, all we can say is, “ Give us those good old days of fifty years ago.”FOGOITE.Fogo, May 21st, 1000.
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St Johns Evening Telegram
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Thu, May 24, 1900
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