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Full text: NOVEMBER - DECEMBER, 1856 31 Wednesd. 19th,—This evening intelligence was received of the death of James Ross, son of Wm. Ross, Mercht., of this place, who died at Martin- ique of fever. December, 1856 Monday, 1st,—A roaring Cold day; freezing hard enough to take the buttons off of ones Coat. "Lunenburg packet" arrived with a cargo of potatoes, which they are selling at 3/3 per Bushel. Sunday, 7th,—After a number of years servitude in the St. John's Sunday School, as a Teacher, I retired about a year ago for a season; To day, at the solicitation of the Rector, I again entered the School in the capacity of Superintendent. Wednesd. 10th,—To day a child of Joseph Selig's was buried; another victim to the Scarlet fever. This disease, now that the cold weather has set in, is likely to remain with us all winter, and will no doubt before its departure put numberless families in mourning. Since its commencement, last summer, every household that it has visited, has been deprived of from one to three of the children. Friday, 19th,—The packet "Sylvia" arrived to day, having left Halifax on Wednesday; several persons on board were frostbitten, from the exces- sive cold yesterday, while beating from Sambro, where they had made a harbour on the previous evening, in consequence of which they were obliged to put into Prospect, which place they left this morning. Saturday, 20th,—Several casualties have taken place in this county, all within a very brief period; A young lad about 12 years of age, while skating on a lake above the Block house on Sunday, broke through the ice and was drowned. Two men of Conquerall, while crossing a lake from op- posite sides, fell through and came to an untimely end, each of them were only about 300 feet from their dwellings. Their names were Jacob Zwicker, and . . . Buchanan. Two little boys were engaged repairing a fence. One of the lads was holding a stake while the other was driving it with the pole of his axe. In one of his attempts to hit the stake he missed it, and the axe descended with increased force upon the head of the brother, killing him instantly. The survivor, on seeing the effects of the blow, fainted and was found by the father, beside the corpse of the killed, in that state. He soon after recovered his faculties and explained the circumstances of the sad cas- ualty as above given. They were sons of William Rembey42 at Petit Reviere. Year after year is gone, as follows wave on wave; And swiftly are we hastening on, towards the silent grave; The darkness of that narrow rest,