ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 87, 14 October 1870, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.

Miners, both here and at Welchmans, ! continue to pursue the " even tenor of 1 their way " with average prospects of ' Success. - Water-" bosses "* seem -quite, exuberant, and if report says have every right to feel so. Farming is being conducted with vigdr,- -kndg in* fact, will be soon finished about here ;., but the season, so far, has not been, favorable -to a rapid or healthy growth of early vegetables,- Cold, dry, w-indv-weat'ner prevails up to the presenttime. .. , .... A lecture* on " Self Improvement" will be delivered in the school-rodmt-on the 12th instant, by the Rev. Father, Royer, the proceeds of which will be? laid out on the purchase of school' prizes!; ; to IjeH^ven*jthel^^bildren.--who 1 may distinguish themselves at the nexttleman delivered a lecture on education , sqm'aiiiiojiths .ago; the,j school, and now has kindly .consented; to its iif I the present month. Copies will be sold ""at Is. each, and the profits will go to . augmeiiti school funds. 3 very able is - ing the Committee in the cause of edu- f cation, Father" thanks of every individual. member of the community, and of parents in particular. - ■. , .\:r ~ .

A correspondent of yours, writing from here last week under • -th# nom de - of f'SSluice-Box," .complains af my silence in ... Mellon; - brought Hobinsqnthe week previous, and deli'-' cately if sought to be violated by^.Mellon and.. neighbors was vested m other'property u the'op,rl posite of land," I would not,be equally silent. In a matter of rights, Ido not" pretend to be -differently constituted to other people. If I saw "Sluice-Box," for fa ke,, 'ors att em pt to take, anything lawfully mine, without first obtaining mv

tell him tp " drop it like a hot tater„'\, but it does that I should in- ; terferc in other men's quarrels. If " Sluice-Box ; waa but half,,as convert san.t. with my habits as helprefends to, be with tbe current of my sympathies, would have-jknown.' that linetver dip my peri iir-iQdurt . be would..have declined to express sujv , erie taken up rIII