Summerside Journal -- 1869-03-25 -- Page 1

Summerside Bournal,
AND WESLBRN PIONSBER.

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LITERATURE,

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Vol. 4,

Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, March 25, 1869.

No. 26.

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Summerside Markets.
March 25, 1869.
ef perlb Sd a 4d
rice 8d a 4d

Mutton per lb
Oats per bush
Potatoes per bush

2s Gd a 2s 7d
1s 5d a Is Gd

‘Turnips per bush 10d a Is
Butter per lb by Tub 18d a 14d
Lard per lb 9d a 10d
Tallow per lb. 9d a 10d
Eggs per doz 9d a 10d
Hides per lb 44d

2s a 3s

Mackerel per doz

Jodfish per qt 18s a 19s
Pork per lb by carcass _ Ada 6d
Flour per bbl 458 a 47s
Island Flour per cwt 208 to 21s
Oatmeal per cwt. lisa 18s
Hay per Ton 50s a 60s
Pine Boards 10s

4s ads

Spruce Boards

Charlottetown Markets.
Ch. ‘Town, March 25, 1869.

Beef per lb 44d a 8d
ean per lb 34d a 7d
Pork per Ib., by carcass, bd a 64d
Ham per lb 6d a 7d
Geese 8s a 3 6d
Fowels Isa 1s 6d

1s 3d a 1s 6d

Ducks each
20s a 218

Flour per 100 lbs

Oatmeal per 100 18s a 198
Buckwheat Flour, per lb 2d a 24d
Codfish per quintal 183 a 208

1s 8d a ls 6d

Butter per 1b

Do. by the tub, Is 3d a 1s 4d

Cheese 3d a bd
‘Tallow 9d a 10d
Eggs per dozen 1s 3d als 4d
Potatoes per bushel Isédals .

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ria A 289d a 2s 10d
Hay per ton 70s a 753
Hides per lb 4d
Sheepskins each 4s a ds Gd
Spruce Boards per 100 ft, 4s a 4s 6d
Hemlock “* We 3s 6d a 4s

iness Qurds,

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BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Corner of Great George § King Streets,
Charlottetown.
President—How. Daniet Brenan.
Uashier—Witiiam CunpDat, Esquire.
Discount Days—Mondays & Thursdays.
Hours of Business—Fom 10a,m. tol p.m.

from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

UNION BANK.

Graften St., Queen's Square, Charlotietown
President—Cnaries Parmer, Esquire.
Cashier—James Anpenson, Esquire.

Discount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays,
Hours of Business—From 10 aym to 1p m.,

from 2 p.mto 4pm.

SUMMERSIDE BANK.

Central Street, Summerside, P. HB. Island
President—James L. Hotman, Esq.
Cashier—E. L. Lyptarp, Esquire
Discount Days—Tuesdays and vigees ts
Notes for Discount must bein before 11

o'clock on Discount days,

tours of Business—10 a. m., to 1 p.m.
from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m.

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FEW COPIES of this celebrated work
have been received by the Agent for P.B.
Island, the Rev. ALBERT S. DesBRISAY.
Library Edition $4; Cloth Extra $3.50, N.S.
Carrrency .
Dee 3, '68.

Business Gards.

CARVELL BROTHERS,
AUCTIONEERS,

Commission Merchants,
AND GENERAL AGENTS.
BANK BUILDING, - - QUEEN STREET,

OHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I,
R. & W. T. HUNT,
Gommission Merchants,

GENERAL AGENTS AND

AUCTIONEERS.

SALESROOM AND OFFICE

Head Queen's Wharf, Summerside, P. E. I-
(opposite the Store of W. T. Hunt & Co.)
April 2, 1868. ly

J. H. ALLEN,
Commission Merchant,

AND DEALER IN
PROVISIONS, Xc.,
MRRKET STREET, - ST. JOHN, N. B.

a Gives personal attention to the Sale
and Purchase of every description of Goods.
May 9, 1868.

WILLIAM BEAIRSTO,
Commission Merchant,

Auctioneer & General Agent,

WATER STREET,
---- P. EF. Island

BARRISTER - AT- LAW

AND

NOTARY PUBLIC, &o.
SUMMERSIDE, - - P. KE. ISLAND,

WILLIAM DODD,

Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,

QUEEN SQUARE,
OJHARLOTTETOWN--- P.E. ISLAND

Summerside, -----

NEW

Marble and Freestone
ESTABLISHMENT,
(NEXT DOOR TO BEER AND SONS’)
KING SQUARE,
CHARLOTTETOWN, P, E, ISLAND.

All orders punctually attended to.

Call and See!
Jan 7, '69 ly

JAMES GREENOUGH,
FLOUR

COMMISSION MERCHANT,

No 47 Commercial Street
Corner of Clinton Street ---------BOSTON
Jany. 1, 1869. ly

HANFORD BROTHERS,

Successors to Thomas Hanford,

Gommission Merrhants,
And General Agents,

11 NORTH MARKET WHARF,

SAINT JOHN, NB.

Cuas, U. Hanrorp. Frep. S. Hanrorp.

Has Kiemoved His Residence to the House
(lately occupied by Mr McKinlay)

next to Thomas Hunt's, Esq., St Eleanor's.
He may be consulted every forenoon at the
Drug Store of W.T. HUNT & Co. , Sumaier-

side.
St. Bleanor’s, May 18, 1868.

DR. J. 1. JAMESON,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR

OFFICE at the residence ofthe Rev. W.W.
Colpitts, Margate.
December 3, 1868.

DR. J. N. FULLER,
Graduate ol Bellevue Hospital,

Medical Gollege, D.V.

Office in the residence of Rey. Mr. DesBrisay, on
Water Street—directly opposite the Establishment

of J. L. Holuan, Exq.,
*,* All calls promptly attended to.
Summerside. October 15, 1868.

DR. J. PRICEZ,
Physician & Surgeon,

Orricr—At the Sumairsips Drue Store,

next door to Bank, Central Street

SUMMERSIDE, .... P. B. ISLAND.
October 12, 1868,

OUNTAIN HOUSE.

North side King Square, (next to Park Hotel)
Sr. Joun, N. B,

JAMES W. THOMPSON, Proprietor.

HP Proprietor of the above HOTEL takes
this opportunity to return thanks for the
liberal patronage hitherto received, and most
respectfully solicits a continuance of the
same.

This HOTEL is very pleasantly situated,
and commands a view of King Square, and
other parts of the City.

In connection with the Hotel, is GOOD
STABLING, and a careful Hostler in atteund-
ance. Parties coming from Prince Edward
Island with horses will find this establishment
the most comfortable in the City, and a per-
son a'ways at the Cars on their arrival,

Bt, John, Sept. 10, 1868, ly

ROCKLIN HOUSE,
KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN,

SIMON D. FRASER, PROPRIETOR.

Permanent and Transient Boarders wil
find the above House to give satisfaction.
Clrtown, June 13, 1868,

North British and Mercantile

Ausurance Gompany,

FIRE AND LIFE.
CAPITAL: TWO MILLIONS, Sterling.

CHIEF OFFICES:
64 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
61 Threadneedle Street, London,

Risks taken daily, in Townand Conntry, at
the office of the Agent, Reading room
Building, Dorchester street.

G. W. DeBLOIS,
General Agent for P E Island.
Charlottetown, June 20, 1868.—ly*

CRAWFORDS HOTEL.

No, 9, King Square,
ST. JOHMIN, N. B.
HE subscriber having thoroughly reiitted
and enlarged his HOTEL and STORE, is
now prepared to accommodate Permanent and
Transient Boarders on the most reasonable
terms.

ALS9,in connection,sa GROCERY STORE,
where every article required for house use

may be had,
J. CRAWFORD & SON.
Sept. 10, 1868. ly

A. W. ANDRES,
Marble Worker,

Point Du Chene, Shediac N. B.

MONUMENTS, TOMBS, GRAVE-
STONES, &c., &c.

AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE con-
stantly on hand.

Can furnish Grayestones and Monuments ata
Jess price than any other establishment in

the Provinces, and pay a duty besides,

i Onrvers can be left at Berrram's Book
Store and at D, Enman’s, Esq., Summerside,

or sent to
A. W. ANDRES.
Point Du Chene, June 11th, 1868.

Established 1845.
NEW YORK
LIFE INSURANGE
COMPANY.

Over Ten Million Dollars }
PRESIDENT:
MORRIS FRANKLIN, ESQ.,
Vice President and Actuary:
WILLIAM H. BEERS, Jr.
HEAD OFFICE 112 & 114 Broadway, N.Y.
General Agent for the Dominion of Canada:
WALTER BURKE, Esq.,
Herald Buildings, Montreal,

The New. York
Life Insurance Company),

Is ONE
OLDEST
Of the kind in America, baying been chartered in
the year 18di,and menced business in Muy,1846,
During he twe -three years of its existence.
it has issued policies upon the lives of more than

o iy 4 ore
Kitty Thousand Persons,
and has paid in losses $5,000,000 to the families and
Fepreseitatives of those who have deceased while
members of the Company.
Annual Income

EXCEEDS

Four Million Dollars.

A SAFE INVESTMENT.

The instances are many Within the experience o
every Life Lusurance Company, in which the pro-
ceeds of a Policy las saved from poverty the sur-
vivore of those who have thus made provision for
their wants in times of prosperity and health. A
wife may insure the life of her husband for her
own benetit, and should she survive him, the
amount of the insurance will be payable to her free
from any claims against his estate; and in cuse of
the death of the wife before that of the busband,
the amount of the msurance may be made payable
to her children, :

THE COMPANY DECLARES
ANNUAL CASH DIVIDENDS,

which are available in payment of each Annual
Premium. All the insured in this Company receive
dividends which can be used in part of the second
and euch subsequent Annual Premium thereafter;
or the dividend may be allowed to accumulate, and
subsequently used in whole or in part inthe pay-
ment of Premiums. The business of the Company
being PURELY MUTUAL, euch monber pays
only the average cost of imeurance, all ne
being annually returned to the Policy holders.
Jompanies having a Stock Capital usually retain
a lurge portion for the Stockholders.) The Divi-
dends paid to Policy holders exceed

$3,000,000,

Endowment Assurance Policies.

These Policies are coming into general request
As a sure and profitable investment for one's de-
clining years, they deserve the attention of all.
The sum secured by an ordinary life polley becomes
available upon the death of the assured; on the
Endowment plav the amount is received by the
assured bimself upen his attaining a specitied age,
while full provision is made for death occurring
prior thereto,

THE NON-FORFEITURE PLAN,

This company originated and introduced the val
nable feature known as the Non-Forfeitaure Plan
which is rapidly superseding the old system of life
lony payments, and has revolutionized the system
of Life Insurance in the United States, and which
has been adopted (generally in a less favorable
form) by all Life Companies, A party, by this
table, after the second year, cannot forfert any
part of what has been paid ine

tw Tables of Rates, Circulara, Examples of
Divdiends, Forms, &e., cau be bad by applying to
the Agent, at Charlottetown,

MEDICAL EXAMIMERS:
Dr. MACKIESON, Dr, R, JOILNSON,
Agent for P. E. Island:

HENRY A, HARVIE,
Ch’town Nov 19, 1868,

Hews Summary,

THE CONVENT CASE,

From the European Mail.

In the Court of Queen’s Bench, on
Thursday, February 26, the Solicitor-Gen-
eral resumed and concluded his address
for the plaintiff’, in the action brought by
Miss Laurin against the late and the pre-
sent superior of the Hull convent, He
minutely examined the basis on which the
defence was founded, that the plaintiff was
hot suited for a Conventional life, and, in
arguing against it, quoted portions of the
evidence to prove that, under proper man-
agement, she would have become an ex-
cellent nun, The Lord Chief Justice en
the following day proceeded to sum up the
ease to the jury.

Friday was the 20th and last day of the
hearing of this extraordinary case. ‘The
interest was intense. ‘The crowds around
the entrances were greater than on any
former occasion, and the court was well
filled before hall-past nine o'clock, and as
soon as the court was filled the Coors were
fastened to prevent any disturbance during
the summing up.

The Lord Chief Justice, in commencing
his summing up, congratulated the jury
most heartily at their having arrived at the
closing day of this monster case. He re-
gretted that so much valuable time bad
been lost by them, and on public grounds
that so many cases of importance had to
be postponed in order Lo investigate the
miserable jealousies of conyent lite, which
he thought might have been better and
ought to have been investigated by the
visitorial powers of the convent; but the
case wis here, and they must put aside all
religious feeling, and recollect that that
question was not at all mixed up in it.
The parties were all members of the sime
religious body, and they had bound them-
selves by certain yows, 1ules, and regula-
tions, ‘he question was whether in car-
rying out those rules the defendants had
acted wrongly. ‘The trial, he thought,nad

acquired a tactitious importance, and they

must take care that neither party derived

any undue advantage from the religious

element that was mixed up in it, The

plaintiff complained first of an assault in

the stripping in May, 1865; then that she

had been illegally imprisoned; that the

defendant had converted several articles ol

hers to her own use; fourthly of a libel;

and lastly of a conspiracy, whicly was the

most important of the whole—first to force

her from the convent by ill-usage; and,

secondly, having so fuiled, have her ex-

pelled. ‘To assist them in coming to a

Just conclusion it would be his business to
give them a history of the case, which ex-

tended overaperiod of 15 years. He should

commence with her entry into Bagot street,

in 1850, dividing the period from that time

to her leaving the convent into several

¢

1861 to 1864, when she was translerred
from Clifford to Ilull, when, as the plain-
uff alleged, the conspiracy and the acts
complained of commenced ; from 1864 to
the time of the commission; the next,
what took place under the commission ;
and then the last closing chapter in the
history of this painful case—vyiz., the mat-
ters of which she complained during the
period which interyened between the bish-
op’s sentence of expulsion and her final

gone through in detail the main features of

jury the points to which they would have
U

he told them that there had been strong
evidence with reference to the plaintill
being imprisoned within the convent, and
that if they believed that portion of the
evidence he would ask them to award her
damages in respect to her imprisonment,
irrespective of their verdict upon the other
charges. In dismissing the jury, he said
with regard to the popular feeling (the
echoes of which ma been heard within
those walls) of an unthinking populace,
cheering and hooting withouy any know-
ledge of the real merits or demerits ol the
case, ought to find and would find a pro-
per reply in the breasts of twelve honest,
intelligent men, who had come to dis-
charge, and would discharge, the most
solemn duties min could be called upon
to discharge.

The jury retired at twenty-five minutes
past five, the Judge haying taken over
seven hours in summing up.

Verdict for plaintiff, Damages, £500,

The proceedings in Parliament from its
very commencement have been unu ually
tame, The grave question which is soon
to occupy the attention of the House, and
the contlict so close at hand, seem to have
stiiled all minor differences, and quieted
smnaller dissensions: only

. . « “Creeping murmer, and the poring dusk,
Fills the wide vessel of the universe:

From camp tocamp, « . . «

The hum of either army stilly sounds.’’

In a very short time Mr. Gladstone will
make his first motion towards the dises-
tablishment of the Irish Chureh, by pro-
posing the appointment of a Committee of
enquiry. It is not likely that this will be
seriously opposed, ‘The public decision
upon the question has been so plainly de-
clared, that itis hardly probable the op-
position will court the certainty of defeat
by a direct motion on the main question,
pure and simple, as to the expediency of
disestablishing the Irish Church; they are
much more likely to set up a guerilla war-
fare, which may prove harassing to their
adversaries, and perhaps may enable them
to obtain some slight advantage at an un-
guarded point; but, as the 7imes has said,
the Irish Establishment may even now be
almost reckoned among the things that
have been,

The proposal to entrust Marshal Serrano
with the formation of the new Cabinet in
Spain, alter an animated debate, hus been
carried in the Cortes by a large majority.
Serrano’s speech, announcing his assump.
tion of the Executive power, and appealing
to the consideration of the Republican
party, has been well, some say enthusias-
tically, reeeived by the Opposition, He
expressed his desire “to walk hand in hand
with the Cortes,” and seemed to have our

spoke of the Opposition, the minority,
acting as the legitimate censor of the
Ministry.” Lelegrams of February 25 an-
nounce it as probable that the contemplat-
ed modifications of the Cabinet will intro-
duce politicians ‘of more Radical opin-
ions than the public have been led to sup-
pose,” but our latest information is to the
effect that all the lute Ministers are to re-
tain their posts.

Spain is promised relief of her pecuniary
difliculties from a very extraordinary and
romantic source. A company has been
formed to recover the bullion and treasure
said to have been lost inthe Spanish gal-
leons which were sunk by the English in
the harbor of Vigo, in the year 1702. The
vessels are believed to have had on board,
when they sank, treasure to the value of
upwards of fourteen million pieces of eight,
According to a contemporary, the ‘* piece
ot eight” is the escudo of eight ochavas,
worth at that time ds. 54d. Colonel Gow-
en, who was so successlul in raising the
Russian fleet at Sebastapool, has examined
the vessels, and reports that he ‘is com-
pletely satisfied as to the practicability of
recovering the treasure.” The Spanish
Government is to receive 25 per cent. of
all treasures recovered,

The extraordinary case in which a Sister
of Mercy has claimed damages from the
Superiors of her convent for assault, im-
prisonment, libel, and conspiracy to drive
her trom the conyent by ill-treatment, has
at last, after a trial of twenty days, been
brought to a conclusion, Late on the
evening of February 26 the jury returned
a verdict for the detendants on the charges
of assault ond imprisonment, but for the
plaintifY on the accounts for libel and con-
spiracy, and they gave damages to the
amount of £500, including £300, which it
appears was the plaintiffs ‘ dowry” when
she entered the convent. No cause ever
occupied so many days in trial as this, and
though all concerned it—judge, jury, and
counsel—were heartily tired of it, the pub-
lic interest in the case was unflagging.
The verdict was received with loud cheer-
ing outside the Court.

The Consolidated Chambers of Commerce
held their annual meeting on February 23.
Sir Stafford Northcote, a member of the
late Government, was among the guests;
but the chief interest centred in the speech
of Mr. Bright. Among other matters he
referred hopefully to the question of Ocean
Penny Postage, and said that he had ‘*no
doubt whatever that as between here and
the Upited States, and probably between
this and almost every other country, it
wonld be possible for the Post Ollie to
negotiate a system by which letters should
cross the ocean fora penny,”

Mr, Gladstone and the Welshman,

The Liverpool Courier tells the following-

read so much of the great statesman, he be-
came very desirious to see—only to see—the
great man, One day last summer he set out

carefully a small basket with him, he walked
up to the house; for, having but an exceed-
nglvy small stock of English at his command,
ne feared it would) avail him but little with
he servants,
on asking to see Mr. Gladstone, he was in-
formed by the maid-servant first, and by the

withdrawal from the convent, Having} putler afterwards, that their master was then c

very busy and cold not be seen before night.

pressed his readiness to call again at night.

he more directly to turn their attention, | Just then another maidseryant, a country-

woman of his, came to his residence, and led
him to Mrs. Gladstone, ‘The kind lady was
much amused to see the Welshman’s determi-
nation to see—only to see—he s id—Mr,
Gladstone. ‘The object of his admiration was
old of this singular visitor, and coming to
him langhed heartily to hear the enthusiastic
Welshfian say that he only wished to see Mr.
Gladstone, of whom and of his great services
he had read so much; and, thereupon, he
begged Mr. Gladstone to accept the small
basket of eggs he had brought with him, and
which were placed together in a very artistic
style. Mr. Gladstone took them kindly from
the simple man, presented him with a book in
return, asking him to take some lunch, and
making kind enquiries after the Welshman’s
family, It was with great reluctance that the
visitor partook of food, for he frequently as-
sured them that he came there not to eat any-
thing, but to see Mr. Gladstone. However,
this warm-hearted son of Wales left highly
pleased with his successful visit, and bearing
with him the book he received, und a portrait
of the great liberal chief, which Mrs. Glad-
stone gave him, with kind assurances that he
would be always welzomed there,”

G. P. Saneton has written a long letter to
the St. Jolin papers, on the subject of the
Commercial Bank. He states that the Presi-
dents of the Bank were as ‘deep in the mud
as he was in the mire.” Overdrawing ac-
counts were, according to him, the order of
the day.” One man, afterwards a president,
owed, he states, at one time, the large sum of
$116,000, in the shape of an overdrawn ac-
count; another person owed $39,000, In
1855, the total of overdrawn accounts footed
up $300,000.

An Illinois clergyman on the way to fulfil
an ‘fexchange” appointment, made an ex-
change of carpet bags with some one, and in-
stead of two sermons found $8,000.

St. John N. B. purposes to starta company
for the purpose of manufacturing woolen
goods, machinery, and woodware.

A lady visiting London for the first time,
found a ragged, cold and hungry child gazing
wistfully at some cakes ina shop window.
She took the little forlorn on by the hand, led
her into the shop, bought her a cake, and
then took her elsewhere, supplying more
needed wants, The greateful little creature
looked the benevolent woman fallin the tace,
and, with artless simplicity, inquired, ** Are
you God's wife?” :
Of the 2.447,865 electors in Great Britain

during the recent elections.
Wales there voted 1,077,281 Liberals, anc

Liberals, and 28,959 Conservatives; and in
Ireland, 53,967 Liberals, and 41,863 Con-
servatives. The total number ot constitu

(counting the tie at Horsham) 887 Liberal
and 272 Conservatives are returned,

Richmond has a negro Colburn, who, thoug

English desire in his mind when be further

curacy.

and Ireland, 2,184,281 recorded their votes

$55,251 Conservatives; in Scotland, 126,819 |

RECIPROCITY,

One of the favorite arguments of the pro-
tectionists is that without a high tariff it
will be impossible to compcte in America
with the ** pauperJabor” of Europe. The
friends of freedom of trade have been
traduced and denounced as the enemies of
the laboring people. ‘They have been
cbarged with a purpose of reducing the
American workmin to a level with the * ill-
requited serls” of the old world. the very
moment they proposed to lesson the heavy
Lurthens which the protectionists are con-
stantly imposing on the people, But when
the protectionists and monoplists oppose a
peelpear ity treaty with Ounada they are
compelled for a little while to abandon
their refuge of fulsehood ond deception,
The object of the reciprocity treaty with
Canada is to exchange the products of the
two countries tree of duty, or at a very
low rate. The effect of such a measure
would be to quicken and develop a great
trade between the two countries which is
fettered by the present iniquitous protective
tui, In opposing reciprocity with Cana-
da, all the wash about ‘* pauper labor,”
**famished serts,” ** ten cents a day,” which
has served the radicalsso many good turns,
tails of application, The people ot Canada
who have valuable products to exchange,
are as intelligent, and well paid as those of
America, They are more free and better
governed, Their industry is net oppressed
by unjust restrictions. A-grinding tariff
does not levy tribute on all their industri-
ous coal miners and hardy lumbermen is
as well rewarded as that of the miners and
lumbermen of the United States,
But the monoplists clamor against the
reciprocity treaty because it will deprive
the coal and lumber interests of their share
of **protection.” In 1867, Nova Scotia
coal to the amount of 480,7394 tons was
imported, paying a duty of $1.25 cents per
ton, The value of the coal we 68 per
ton, and the duly more than forty-tive per
cent. of its value! It needs no arguments
to prove that the consumer pays this tariff,
and not this alone, but nearly that amount
on all the coal which enters into Competi-
tion with it. The price of the foreign coal
which is admitted subject to this enormous
tuiff, determines, to a great extent, the
price of all the rest. He who consumes
the Nova Scotia coal pays as little tavilf as
he who buys the article mined at home.
‘The only difference is that the latter pays
his duty to the coal speculation, and the
former pays itinto the coffers of the govern-
ment, Under a reciprocity treaty with
Canada, and this enormous duty taken off,
the price of coal would be materially dimi-
nished. What argument not founded in
the greed of the speculator can be urged
against it? Why should the laboring poor
ol this country be outrageously taxed for
one of the prime necessaries of life? The
advocates ol this iniquitous measure must
C
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rome out from their harbor of lies about
* puuper labor,” since the miners of Pictou

spochs, ‘The first would embrace from | story of a Welshman’s visit to Mr. Glad-| coal are as well paid as any on the face of
1850 to 1860-61; the next would be from} stone:—'* The Welshman says that having|the earth.

On lumber imported from Canada in 1867
the duty amounted to overa million dollars,

for Mr. Gladstone’s house in Penmwnmawr. A just reciprocity would materkuly dimin-
It was with many misgivings that, carrying | ish this impost, Among the items in this

tax on lumber is one of $46,676,24, duties.
levied on fire wood! ‘The monopolists did
not stop at Jaths, shingles, boards and
staves, but actually laid a duty of 20 per =

In that fear he was right, for,| cent. ad valorem on Canada firewood, It

was not enough that a duty of more than
forty-five per cent is charged the people on
oal, but another duty was put on the wood
they consume. ‘The monopolists were de-

P evidence a i i a ‘§ j A » ve Fi aK. : :
the evidence adduced, pointing out to the| Nothing daunted, the sturdy Welshman ex- | torpyined to regulate the price of fuel, even

if it must be dragged from the forests of
Canada, But the advocates of this policy
will hardly contend that in this instance
they must have ‘ protection” from the
‘*illpaid Iubor of the serf.”

The opposition to a just reciprocity with
Canada is founded in greed and rapacity.
The present system rewards a favored
few at the expense of the great mass of the
people. It lays burthensome charges on
the neeessities of life under the pretence
of encouraging home industry, It tosters
monopoly, and discourages trade, and the
people who are oppressed by it should de-
mand its repeal in tones ot thunder,—
Harrisburg, (Venn.) Patriot.

A method of sewing boots and shoes*
with copper wire, instead of common
thread, has been patented, the advantage
being that at a very small increase in ex-
pense the strength and durability of the
work are much improved,

The New sacre has deve-
loped some latter day martyrs for religion's
sake. The natives captured by the Miori
rebels were offered their lives if they
would bow down to the Hannan god, but
they refused, and filty of them were put to
death, :

N

We (Mechanics’ Magazine) have already
mentioned the iavention of a sewing mua-
chine driven by electricity, Such a ma-
chine may pow be seen in actual tise in
Paris. ‘The footis now no longer needful;
the ‘* hand” has only to direct the work
of the needle. Theinvention, although the
machine can only be adapted for the light-
est work, may be worthy of attention here,
We do not know whether or not it is pro-
tected by a patent; but in any case the ar-
rangement for producing the movements.
will be familiar to every electrician,

A man named Ilolman, at Wine Har-
bor, engineer of the steam drill, fell down
the air shaft in a tunnel, 45 feet, and was
badly mangled. He is expected to re.
coves. , At Isane’s Harbor, on March Ist.,
aman named Wm. Harkness was blown,
up by the explosion of a blast, and very.
badly mangled. He is not expected to,
live —Lastern Chronicle.

Civilization is a plant of very slow
growth, and one that does not stand much
loreing. Th. re’s no use taking a wild crab,

In England and | nailing it scientifically against the wall,

land bidding it bear good fruit,

: It must
be grafted first and allowed time,

The preliminary business of Now York
-|Common Council Committee is to order a

encies in the United Kingdom is 420 for whom | bottle of whiskey and drink all round, and

| then the people's money is appropriated in «
spirited manner,

h} Alnnatic in Badlam was asked how he

blind, uneducated and only seventeen years | came there? Ho answered, * Ry adispute.*—
of age, solves the most intricate mathmatical | What dispute 2'-The Bedlamite replied,
problems with asionishing rapidity and ac- |The world said Lwas mad; I said the world

was mad, and they outwitted me,”

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