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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1891
Page
2
A late 19th century reader explains germ theory noting tiny organisms cause disease and enter the body via food air or skin. German Syrup is claimed to loosen kill expel and heal damaged lungs aiding recovery from consumption.
A Sale of Work will be held at Herring Neck toward the end of October to raise funds for the new church furnishing. Contributions in money or fancy articles will be received by Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs B Day, Miss Chamberlain, and Miss Puror.
The Labrador mail steamer will depart St Johns around July 15 for Harbor Grace and many coastal ports including Flower's Cove Nameless Cove Lance au Loup Blanc Sablon Forteau and Nain with limited trips to certain ports. A return voyage will call at Cape Harrigan Fanny's Harbor Hopedale Double Islands Sloop Cove Emily Harbor and more before reaching St Johns on a later date. Conscript steamer to depart July 1 from St Johns linking with Battle Harbor.
In the past week road and bridge repairs have occurred on Lingate islands with several dilapidated bridges replaced. The local board, despite limited funds, has kept roads well maintained, opened new lines, and warns against misappropriation of road monies while hoping for full grants to the intended transportation needs.
The 8.8, Neptune, Captain Blandford, arrived from the Straits of Belle Isle at 8 last evening with over four hundred crewmen from summer fishing operations. The herring fishery is reported as a failure and the gale on the 15th brought a high tide that damaged property but caused no reported deaths. Penney Bros. of Conception Bay suffered losses as boats and gear were lost during the storm, while the Ryvingen was driven ashore and weather remained bad.
The steamer Nova Scotian arrived yesterday morning after a rough voyage. Passengers include Wm. Clapp Esquire who has spent the past three months in England. He appears well after his long holiday. In his absence Master Herbert Stirling, a pupil of Prof. Peters, filled his St Thomas Church organ role. Congratulations to both teacher and pupil. Stirling, sixteen, is the eldest son of W. R. Stirling Fag.plus of Twillingate, and his future as organist and musician is warmly anticipated.
Last evening Harbor Grace elder Mark Parsons Esq aged eighty died peacefully. He was a leading businessman of the town and his loss will be deeply regretted by all. He was father of James Parsons Esq of the firm J. W. Pitts Herald.
A nineteenth century traveler describes transport in China from Tientsin inland travel by boat to Paoting Fu, mentioning limited telegraphs and rails, crowded inns, and modes like litter, pack mules, and stage donkeys. He notes hostile crowds and the practicalities of provisioning, cleanliness, and Chinese customs.
The account describes native inns with brick beds, security, and low rates. It notes travel dangers, palace officials in sedan chairs, funeral processions, Buddhist rites, wedding processions, and the wealth-driven display at ceremonies during a ten to twelve day journey through the orient.
A special meeting of the Ruri Deaconal Chapter was held at the Rectory to present an address and souvenir to the Rev Ambrose Heygate on his retirement from the Diocese. The Rev gentleman thanked the Chapter for the amicable relations and noted the health-driven severance.
Rural Deanery of Avalon clergy express regret at separation from Rev. Astprose Heycare due to health and workload. They wish him lighter duties and future restoration, praising duty and friendship, and bless his path as Bishop Llewellyn Jones hosts a supper for Heygate and the Chapter.
A period note extols a mythical race with wolves on Russia’s frozen steppes and shifts to a booster pitch for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for consumption and other illnesses, claiming vast success and strength restoration.
Captain Stavenson arrived in port early this morning bound south. A lost pin finder may claim it at the office by proving ownership. Samuel Baird Esq Stipendiary Magistrate for Fogo visits town briefly. Rev Dr Milligan Superintendent of Methodist day schools arrived from Fogo and visited schools. Sermons were preached at North Side Methodist Church in the morning and South Side in the evening yesterday.
F. Br. Burgess arrives in town by the Revenue Cruiser to visit constituents. A Sunday collection at St. James church, Charge Islands, for the Church of England orphanage St. John's yields a satisfactory result. The Curlew, Capt. A. Kane, arrives from Labrador bound south with fifteen hundred quintals of fist for J. B. Tobin and two thousand quintals for EH. Duder.
A purse with one hundred guineas and a farewell address were presented to the Rev Ambrose Meygate on his departure from the parish according to the Evening Telegram. The same issue notes a large fall cabbage import forecast due to partial crop failure and reports Sir Jane Winterberry’s recent trip to the Northward praising Notre Dame Bay and homeland.
The schooner Mystical Mose brought in the body of a man found floating in the harbor waters. A purse contained seventy francs and a receipt reading Reca du Boulin dated 1891, plus a book with the names Hubert Louis Hubert Joseph Marie and others. The body was buried in the Catholic Cemetery.
A forthcoming Methodist Conference in Washington will showcase a wide relic collection. Items include documents from church fathers, locks of hair from bishops, spectacles of early Methodism pioneers, Bishop Asbury’s tea canister, and Wood from the Orphan Home related to Whitefield.
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