Local news: Hugh McCredie, eldest son of Andrew McCredie, of Bristol, a promising young man of nineteen years, passed away on Thursday last, a victim to consumption, which laid hold upon him as the result of a cold, contracted last winter. Cut off on the very threshold of manhood, the young man’s death has cast the shadow of gloom over the neighborhood which has known him since childhood, and in which he was universally admired. The remains were interred at Norway Bay cemetery on Friday.

Doc. Mulligan, while in Bryson a few days ago, met with a peculiar incident in his professional experience. It was the removal of a piece of wood from the mouth of a horse belonging to Mr. Daniel Ryan, of Calumet Island. The wood in some unaccountable way had become firmly wedged between the teeth of the upper jaw directly across the palate, and had been there about five weeks when the doctor discovered it and took it out.

The obstruction prevented the animal from eating any kind of solid food, and the owner was completely at a loss to know the nature of the affliction, although he and others made what they thought a careful examination of the horse’s mouth; meanwhile the animal continued to fail in flesh to an extent that alarmed the owner, who valued it highly. When the doctor removed the piece of wood, which was worn smooth by the animal’s tongue, Mr. Ryan was delighted, and he carefully rolled it up and took it home as a memento of a rather unusual occurrence.