Local news: Hon. Geo. Bryson, Messrs. Jas. W. Bryson and J.W. Hennessy have embarked on the wholesale and general grocery and supply business at Fort Coulonge.

Miss Brown, daughter of Wm. Brown, Portage Road, was severely injured on Wednesday last in a runaway accident while on the way to Portage du Fort.

Monday morning was the coldest of the year so far experienced, the thermometer registering 26 below zero between 6 and 7 o’clock.

On Tuesday evening of last week, Master Robbie Moorhead of Bryson had the misfortune to have the index finger of his left hand completely severed by a blow of an axe. He and a little companion were scuffling over the possession of the axe and a stick and in some way the accident happened.

The little fellow bore up well under the dressing by the doctor and is doing nicely.

The original comedy drama entitled “The Deacon” was presented to a large and most appreciative audience in Elliott’s Hall on Thursday evening last by our local Amateur Drama Society in a manner decidedly creditable to the performers and those associated with its preparation.

Unfortunately, the weather was just the reverse of the kind everyone was hoping for, which no doubt deterred many from attending.

Mr. George McDowell is making preparations to build a large shop for storing machinery on his lot adjoining Mr. R.J. Black’s property which by the way, has recently been materially enlarged by the purchase of an additional plot which extends it back to Court Street.

A session of the Superior Court was held at Bryson last week, before Judge Lavergne. The most important case on the list was the action for damages taken by the Misses Macfarlane against Prof. Workman and arising out of the inundation of plaintiffs property from Mill dam. There are a number of witnesses in the case which is not yet decided.