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MISCELLANEOUS

As a notable incident of the great fire at Saguenay, the Quebec Uhronich mentions that a farmer named Protais Guay* whose property Was providentially saved at the recent fire, had in his barns 1500 bushels Of wheat, which, on the next Sunday after the conflagration, he caused to be announced that he would distribute to all whose grain had been destroyed, in the quantities required by them. He fixed no conditions to his grant, but told the farmers that should the Government or the public aid them, they should have to pay what was fair for the wheat j but should they not receive any immediate assistance, then they might pay for it when they could and as best they Gould. Fifteen years ago this farmer came to the Saguenay a poor man — so poor that his friends had to step in and assist him : today he is the wealthiest farmer in the neighbourhood, and in a position to return, out of gratitude, the favors received by him at his setting out in life. If any one, says the Montreal News, is specially deserving of the thanks of the country, where all the Volunteers showed such zeal, that man is Capt. Westover. It was his good fortune to be in. the right place, and he was equal to the occasion. He knew perfectly well that he was opposed to twice his number, but he was ! confident that his men would contest every inch of ground, and could only be forced back under a heavy sacrifice. He . was called on to test the merits of the new rifle and exemplify its value. Had he been armed with the old smooth bore Brown Bess, the enemy could have closed in on him, and walked him down, but he made them feel that at half a mile ho could reach them, and, unless they had equally skilful marksmen, and were better armed, they could not cope with him. The first shot, fired at 900 yards, told. He did his work in a masterly manner/ and contributed far more to check the invaders than General Grant's proclamation. • - ' Our special correspondent to the North West Territory, now at St. Cloud, telegraphs that Eielle, dissatisfied with the Manitoba Bill, as it does not provide for a general amnesty, intends to resist the Eed Eiver expedition, and for that purpose has some 200 armed men at Fort Garry, and 800 hunters on the adjacent prairie, awaiting orders. The battle is expected to take place near the Lake of the Woods; and the "President" has taken the precaution to send a large band of half-breed scouts to watch.^ the progress of the expedition. The Fenians, who are not, it is said, on the best of terms with the half-breeds, are to come to the assistance of Eielle, and 40 of them are now in Wmnipeg, and the arrival of more is expected. All this, however, comes from a Frenchman and a friend of Eielle. Another report is that Eielle has been robbing the Winnipeg mail baga in order to have plenty of money when he runs away to the United States. — Toronto Globe. The Coal Fields of British Ameeica. — The remarkable distribution and vast extent of the coal fields of British America, and their great importance to the empire, are carefully described in a highly interesting communication from Mr John Campbell, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is stated that there are 900,000 square miles in the centre, 18,000 square miles on the Atlantic, and 10,000 square miles on the Pacific. He argues that the time must soon come when Great Britain will be dependent for her very existence as a first-class power on her great possessioDß in the North American continent.— Mining Journal.

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Southland Times, Issue 1318, 7 October 1870, Page 3

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626

MISCELLANEOUS Southland Times, Issue 1318, 7 October 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS Southland Times, Issue 1318, 7 October 1870, Page 3

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