Local news: Our citizens were treated to an outdoor entertainment on Saturday evening, the performance being of an acrobatic nature in which the artist executed some rather perilous feats from a ladder held vertically with guy-lines.

The fortieth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. A. Bruet, P.P. of Portage du Fort, was celebrated on the 11th inst. by the holding of a picnic at the rev. gentleman’s camp near the village and the presentation to him on the part of parishioners and friends of a handsome gold-headed cane, accompanied with a well-worded and appropriate address.

About 400 people took advantage of the P.P.J.R. excursion to the Experimental Farm on Thursday last. A goodly percentage of that number, however, had other fish to fry than agricultural sightseeing and thought little of the farm once the Capital hove in sight.

Messrs. J.G. Elliott and Josh Farrell relate an experience they had last week taking a crib of lumber down the Ottawa River from Elliott’s saw mill at the Schneaux to Sand Point. It seems they got along pretty well till they got down near the vicinity of Blackwell’s Island, when the current shifted their crib off into a corner which it would have required considerable labour to get out of, when Captain Ricard came along with his tug boat and took them in tow for the remainder of the trip. John and Josh speak in high terms of the Captain’s thoughtfulness and kindness in helping them out.

The farmers in Otter Lake and Leslie see now, since the rains have ceased, some prospect of saving their hay, which after all the gloomy looks of things, seems on the whole to be going to turn out well.

A grand reception was tendered to Mrs. Richard Doherty of Bristol, on the occasion of her release from jail on June 23rd, after serving a 45 days’ sentence for common assault on the person of Mrs. Thos. Gallagher.

A number of Mrs. Doherty’s friends drove to Bryson and were on hand to receive her at the jail door. On the way to her home at Bristol, the party was met by teams which turned out and fell in behind so that by the time Mrs. Doherty’s home was reached, the number had swelled to 35 rigs and about 200 people had congregated at the house to extend her a welcome home, demonstrating the belief that she was not considered guilty of the grave charge that was laid against her.

Thomas Marks, hotel keeper of Kazabazua, was shot at by an unknown party while he and several others were returning from a fishing trip on the night of the 14th inst. The shot was fired from a revolver, and the ball struck Marks in the left hand, injuring two of his fingers and causing a flesh wound in his thigh. The affair has caused considerable excitement around Kazubazua.

The first raft of the season reached the head of Calumet slides on Tuesday, a small one off Crow River belonging to Gillies Bros.

Returned gold seekers say lawlessness, suffering, disease and death are features of life at Cape Nome.

Recent floods in Texas are reported to have caused great loss of life and property.

The Dominion parliament was prorogued on Wednesday last with the usual ceremonies. The session was the longest on record save one, that of 1885 and will be remembered chiefly for the great things it did not accomplish.