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The daily witness
Ce quotidien montréalais est marqué par la personnalité de son fondateur, John Dougall, convaincu que les peuples anglo-saxons sont investis d'une mission divine.
Éditeur :
  • Montreal :John Dougall,1860-1913
Contenu spécifique :
jeudi 8 juin 1893
Genre spécifique :
  • Journaux
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  • Daily telegraph and daily witness
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[" Ten Pages.Last Edition.Vol.XXXIV.No.! iMONTUKAI,, TlllUSDAY, .IINK S.IS'.l.'l 1'iarr.Onk Ckst.\u2018THE riRn iT RIliKIV VILLA MAIilA (IN FIRE.THE (\u2019.E.CONVENTION.FACTS ABOI T THK C.UKAV STOKY NOW OPHNI.V'I IN THK \u2022WIT.NKSS.* The storv of tin* \u2018Circuit lUder \u2019 opens , In the We»t some eighty years ago.The opening paragraphs which appeared in the \u2018Witness' yesterday gives a character sketch of Captain l.umsUon who had come from Old Virginia and had sctteld there mot e than a score of years ¦ go.He had grown to lie the great man of the neighborhood, a land owner and money lender, avaricious, ambitious and anxious for public honors.The story opens with a corn shucking bee at the Captain\u2019s, and the story continues to-day with the choosing of the captains who are to lead to victory or defeat the sides which each should select to shuck two great heaps of corn supposed to be equal in size, which was the occasion of th** great gathering.Inasmuch as this story is one which has achieved fame and is of special interest at this time we publish the author\u2019s preface, giving some facts ¦which will give a greater zest to it.j und which will help to render it all the ! more intelligible to the readers.Whatever is incredible in tills story J is true.The tale I have to tell will I seem strange to those who know little j of the social life of the West at the I beginning of this century.These sharp contrasts of corn-shuckings and camp-meetings, of wild revels followed by wild revivals; these contacts of highwayman and preacher; this melange of j picturesque simplicity, grotesque humor i and savage ferocity, of abandoned tvickedness and austere piety, can hardly seem real to those who know the country now.But the books of biography nnd reminiscence which preserve the memory of that time more than justify what is marvellous in these pages.Living, in early boyhood, on the very ground where my grandfather -brave oM Indian lighter! had defended bis danokk ok pkstkktion.THK FAMOl S OONVKNT IN K.BKAT WHAT THK
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