THE CONTRIBUTOR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue 889, 23 October 1886, Page 3

THE CONTRIBUTOR.

NOTES FROM ST. B4THA>fS. Tho moralist may extraot much satiofaction from the truism that Waea there is no ikjws there ii sothing going wrong; bnt there is little satisfaction in the truism for the editor, who mast eervo up a week y least of intellectual matter, if spiced with bo much tcaniul as will a;ake >t rea mble, so tnarh the better. 3t. Bathans is a busy community, but there is little happening that would interest tho general reader.

The weather ii Terr much moderating its severity, nights it i« still very cold, aud the snow occasionally descends from the mount.ins, as if lo assure us thut its friendship for us Is still warm. The cloud which thehydrabeaded monster disease spread over us with the beginaing of winter has hardly yet withdrawn itself eo far as to shew a silver lining. An itilaeuza oold oi an epideinio nature Is us a, pre.tni, and quite half the young people in the place are i.l with it. Silver-Wired pitera may be beard expostulating with tl.eir boys, and mothers with their girls when they see them don their bonnets, previous lo going ont at night, hut They only answer with a cough And—shut the door.

A very old resident has passed away In tho perjou of Thomas Bwmney, said to be the first man to arrive at Welshman's Gully. Although Mr Swinney had attaiued a ripe old age, he iras apparently good for many years; but huving caugat a cold about a month ago it developed into pluerisy, to which he succumbed at his residence at Cambrian on Wednesday, 13ih inst. Professor A. E. Rica shewed before modera'e houses here on the eveniugaof Thursday and Friday, 14th and isth inst. Like Dick Dendeye, tho " elements were agin him," for ou Thursday it raineu torrents. Nevertheless the programme was gone through, and the correctness with which the prsfessor told the thoughts oi his subjects caused much wonder and Hinuscnent.

Just after the conclusion of the Friday's perform-ince, while Frank Nicol was turning away from the bar of the Vulcan Hotel to go home for the night, ho stumbled and fell very heavily against a step leading to a suite of bedrooms. By the fall Nid. received so serious a cu. over the =eft eye that it was necessary to telegraph for Dr Hyde. Dr Hyde arrived du.ing the uighl and dressed the wound, but could not say whether it might not be attended with serious cuusequtntes. Baring the following day Dr Wanton arrived, and the two doctors held a consultation, concluding that Nicol ought to &o to thu Nißeby HosoitiL At the lime of writiug, however, Nicol has su far progressed favorably* and docs not think it will be necessary for him to go the hospital