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FOGO NOTES.HAT came very near beinga serious mishap took placehere oil Saturday last. Acannon, which is placed onthe north side of Fogo, near the premisesof II. G. Earle, Esq., which has been lying there for some time, suddenly collapsed and went off in terrific blasts, at intervals 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 eannou 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 grand 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 collins have now been dug up there during the last week. It seems a remarkable thing that none of tlie oldest people in Fogo can remember anything about anybody being buried there at anytime. One of the collins con-tained, besides the bones, a feather pillow, and another a spotted silk handkerchief, both very much decayed.THERE 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 oil on the drift ice and brought up 20 and 30 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 “ new-fangled*’ mail system. According to the old style, a person could answer a letter by return mail, but now we have to wait a wh»1c week.THE Clyde 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 oil* again as soon as the mail was landed, not giving us a chance at all.MR. EDITOR, could you inform w how a p;»rson could go to the French Shore? Would we have to go to JSt. John's and take the Glencoe from there. If so, all wc can say is, “ Give us those good old days of fifty years ago.’’FOGOITE.Vmrn M;i v 9.1 1000
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St Johns Evening Telegram
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Thu, May 24, 1900
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Benson H.
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