February 15, 1888
At St. Jones, Trinity Bay, on January 18, after a week’s illness, Bartholomew, eldest son of Samuel King.
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April 23, 1888
SHEEP PRESERVATION
Proclamations appear in the Royal Gazette notifying the inhabitants of the undermentioned places that the Sheep Preservation Act will be enforced therein from May next, the request of one-third the electors resident in these places, which is tantamount to a large majority of the electorate, having been duly forwarded to the Executive, to that intent. In Trinity Bay, upon one requisition, the keep of dogs is prohibited in the following settlements, namely: Dildo, South Dildo and Old Shop, and upon a second requisition iv the following villages: Norman’s Cove, Chapel, Lodges, Little Bridge and Long Cove; and upon a third requisition in Heart’s Ease, Gooseberry Cove, Butter Cove, Ganny Cove Arm, Fox Harbor and Clay Pits; in Fortune Bay the act applies to the following settlements: Hermitage, Grale, Seal Cove and Dawson’s Cove; in Ferryland district to Bay of Bulls; in the electoral district of St. George’s it wi!l apply to “the whole of the Bay of Islands inside the North and South Heads, with all the islands therein and reaching to the heads of the Humber Sound, the Goose Arm and the North Arm, respectively;” and in St. John’s East to the villages of Flat Rock and Pouch Cove.
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June 22, 1888
FOUND DROWNED.
Body of a Man Picked up at Cochrane Pond.
REMAINS READILY IDENTIFIED.
Amongst the numerous parties of anglers who went to the distant lakes yesterday were Joseph Snow, a stable-keeper of the Sanitary Department; John Bussey, porter with Mr. G. S. Milligan, and Benjamin Keeping, of the Assembly staff of assistants; and fate directed their steps in a direction which led to their excursion having an important result. In the course of it they came upon the remains of a lost man floating in a gully where they were trouting. Cochrane Pond was their objective point; they reached it at 4.30 o’clock yesterday morning, and, having filled their baskets, employed the afternoon in a search for a “black” species of trout. To obtain them they left the lake mentioned and walked across a dry “reef” to a creek or gully. Their way took them over “Dixie’s line” a cutting through the primitive wilderness, which joins the Old Placentia Road. When they cast their lines in this particular gully they perceived an object a little distance from the bank, which one of them supposed to be a dead horse, and another a rock. Moved by curiosity to identify it closely, Snow cast his hook out to it and drew it to the shore. Then they discovered that it was the body of a human being. The head, the hair and the arms were visible; but they didn’t lift the remains ashore fearing that they could not do so and keep them intact. The pool was a still one, and was so formed that there was little possibility of the body drifting out of it. They accordingly left it in the position described, the hour being about 4.30 p.m., and soon after left for town, where they arrived at 10.15 p.m. They lodged information at the police office and, after midnight, a posse of constables, bearing a box, left for the fatal spot, to which they were guided by Joseph Snow, and at 11 o’clock this morning they returned and deposited the coffined remains in the morgue.
In the course of the day the body was identified by two men belonging to Portugal Cove, named Miller and Churchill, as being that of John Churchill, of Random, Trinity Bay, but formerly of Portugal Cove. He left his schooner, the Sunflower, John Peddle, master, lying at Messrs. Tessier’s wharf, on the 3rd instant, since which time all trace of him was lost till the present.
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June 25, 1888
The body of the late John Churchill, who met so untimely an end near Cochrane Pond, was interred in the Methodist Cemetery, western district of this city, at seven o’clock on Saturday evening.
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Transcribed by Wanda Garrett and Lester Green, September 2014; Last update March 2021
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