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The residence of Sir Charles Stuart, at Quebec, has been robbed of jewelry, valued at $800. ~Eleon, the pedestrian, completed at Ham ilton, on Saturday week, the feat of walking 300 miles, in six consecutive days. —A workman died in Quebec lately, after living for thirteen days upon nothing but whiskey, drinking from eight to thirteen glasses daily. — The body of a female infant, in a state of putrefaction, was discovered on Sunday week in one of the pews of the French Cathe dral, Quebec. — Consul General Potter, whose annexation escapade at the Detroit convention made him odious to British America, is to be recalled by President Johnson at the end of the year. — On Saturday night week the barn and stables of Mr. Carberry, at La Canardierre, Quebec, were set on fire, and destroyed with their contents. Mrs. Carberry became insane through fright. To men, one of them a son in-law of Mr. Carberry, have been arrested on auspicion. — Barreau, the Lapreirie murderer is to be hanged in Montreal on the 17th of next month. A brother of his has just been sen tenced to the penitentiary for two years, for robbing the murderer's wife of money and jewels while she was absent to visit her hus band in jail. Pretty lot! Hosoz ro Hoxor is Due.—The Halifax papers are bestowing all the credit on the Crown officers and Policeman Huts for un ravelling the Zero mystery. Neither of whom are entitled to the least credit whatever. The men never would have been brought to jus tice had it not been for M. B. DesBrisay, and James Starratt, Esq’s of Bridgewater. These persons had the three men arrested in Lunenburg, and owing to some informalities in the proceedings, they were discharged, but on information furnished by these gen tlemen to the Crown officers the seamen were arrested on their arrival in Malifax. Meaning that part of the crew were on their way to Liverpool they were pursued and after much difficulty and expense had them arrested and lodged in jail where they made a confession that they murdered the captain. Since then Policeman Hutt has been sent to this place to escort the prisoners to Halifax. The pub lic will see from this who is entitled to the credit for promptness in preventing the guilty parties from escaping unpunished.—Liverpool Transcript. Supsumpina.—A new ship, owned by Bennet Smith, Eeq., was launched at Windsor last week. She is to be towed to St. John, where she will be rigged and receive her first cargo. Three new vessels are building at Newport Landing—one of them nearly ready for launching. Ezra Churchill, Eyq., M. P. P., has a new ship of about 1400 tons on the stocks at Hantsport, but she will not be ready to launch before next summer. The Liver pool Transcript reports on the Sihinst., there was launched from Capt. Thomas Day's ship yard, at Bristol, a very substantially built and beautifully modelled bark called the Orona, of the burden of 220 tons register, coppered and copper fastened, and built under Lloyd's inspection for classification. The length of keel is 98 feet; breadth of beam 27 feet; depth of hold 12 feet. The Orona is owned by Capt. Thomas Day and Dr. James Forbes. About the same time a very hand some brigantine named the Lettie, was launch ed from Messrs. Tupper Sponngle's yard at Bristol, built under the inspection of Lloyd's agent, by Mr. Samuel Dolliver, for Capt. L. A. Sponngle. A fine brig, about 150 tons N. M., named the Fred Clarke, was launched at Canning Inst Thursday from the shipyard of Ebenezer Bigelow Esq., and another substan tially built vessel, the Grace Darling, 250 tons, N.M., built by Benjamin Bigelow, Esq., was launched at Oak Point, Inst, Satur day. Both these vessels are a credit to the thriving, enterprise and progressive commu nity of Canning. A Brigantine, named, after her builder, Edward Everitt, was launched at St. Mary's Bay on the 20th September. The Yarmouth Tribune says: She registers 112 tons; measures 230 tons O. M.; is copper fastened, has an elliptic stern, and is probab ly the most beautifully-modelled vessel that ever entered our harbor. A Barque, called the George Henry, was launched at Shelburne on the 13th ult. She is owned by Messrs. Lyman Cann, son., and Lyman Cann, se. of Yarmouth, and was built under the super intendence of Mr. James Muir, Jr. The George Henry was built under survey to class at Lloyd's, hur materials are principally oak, and she in iis] respects superior vessel.
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Halifax Citizen
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA
Tue, Oct 10, 1865
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