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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

The Canada Pacific Railway.

(nue fatuous shortsightedness of the poli- ticians who pre licted the total failure of the Canada Pacilic Railway is now appar- ent in the fact that every avaiable ergine and crew on the line has been pressed into the service of removing the glut of freight. It seems that the communities of the far- ther west, as far south as Nebraska, now avow that their most direct communica- tion with the markets of the east is by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the water routes in connection therewith. Referring to this fact the §St. Paul, and Minneapolis

Press says

‘It was a matter of some difficulty to win ymmerce to the line of greatest economy and advantage when the line was wholly by water, and therefore necessari'y closed to the ship per for several months of the year. The

building of Soo road has made all seasons equally available, and is turning the tide of commerce between Eaat and West rapidly but surely into the Northern channel. A little while ago the fact that Omaha is 1 earet to Duluth than to Chicago was merely a curious item of information not generally ap- preciated by the public. The time has come when it is to be the determining factor in the trade of the Northwest. The rapid diversion of traffic to the northern route, confessed by those to whose iuterests it is most detrimental, ought to be an’ must be decisive of the ques tion of our trade relations with Canada, It is no | nger only Minnesota and Dakota, with some portions of New England, that are most interested in taking advantage of the competi- tives lines furnished by Canadian railway con- nections. To-day itis the whole Northwest, so far south as Missouri, that is finding cheap exit for its products and cheap ingress for its imports by way of Canadian lines. —_—_—__—____-@-e—

Notes and Comments. ~The statement of imports entered for consumption in Canada during the month of December, 1889, shows the total amount to be $7,547,662, and the duty collected thereon $1,618,906.71. The amount of goods exported from Canada in Dacember, 18389, was $7,568,218; of these $4,439,396 was the produce of Canada and the remain-

der the produce of other countries.

-Comte Von Taafe, on the Austrian Prime Minister, in an interview on the 29th ult., said: **The peace of Europe never seemed more assured. Both Kaiser and people desire ardently the continuance of that peace which is so needful to our indus- trial and political development. I feel hope- ful of peace, but I cannot say that I feel| assured of it, for history shows that war comes when least expected.

~Our correspondent’s prediction that the unscrupulous use of foul means by the Op- positionists, in the late election, may prove to be a ** boomerang,” will, we have no doubt, be verified in 1894, in respect to other districts throughout the Province, as well as Cardigan. Liberals, (so called) cannot intimi- date and debauch electors with impunity. They may be successful once, but their tactics will certainly react upon themselves.

—Loud as is the outery in Portugal against England, the former is largely de- pendent on Britain as a market for her wines and fruits. Last year this trade umcunted to $20,000,000. If Lord Salis- bury should raise the duty on Portuguese wines it would cause widespread ruin in Portugal, and might prove quite as eftica- cious as sending a fleet to the Tagus. It would also be a cheaper method of con- quering 4 peace.

—Misery loves company. It may con- sole some of our merchants, whose letters have been delayed fur over a week to know that there has been, owing to snow block- ades, a great accumulation of mail matter at San Francisco, and that matters were made worse by the steamer from Portland, Oregon, refusing to carry the bags, the United States Post Office Department only offering fifty cents per bag, while tbe steamers management demanded $1.

the London Times is authority for the statement that the Salisbury Government will givea free school system to England and Wales. The surplus this year of £3,- 500,000 will make the way easy for the great change. A surplns of £4,500,000 is expected next year, and then it is proposed in addition to reduce the income tax by a penny, thus reducing the national burden of taxation by $10,000,000. The example of England shows that it is easy and prac- ticable to have an overflowing treasury in a free trade country.

~~ Portugal in her trouble with England re- ceives scant sympathy from Eurepe. True, the Freach, Russian and Spanish newapa- pers abuse England roundly, but their re- # pec*ive governments are quite Platonic in their affection for the little kingdom. In fact, so far as Spain is concerned, a leading Lisbon journal hints that her tears are of crocodile variety, behind which lurks the intention to annex Portugal. Now, as in the days of the first Napoleon, the Portu- guese are not unwilling to become Spanish. Even in the depth of their trouble and hu- miliation they have not come to that !

As one reads of the succession of severe storms in the Western States, the almost unprecedented depth of snow, blockading railroad trains, shutting up travellers in snow sheds, where they are in danger of starving and freezing; the blowing of pas- sengers off of trains, and of trains off the tracks, the freezing of travellers on the roads, and the dropping of the mercury to from 10to 36 degrees below zero, one can Dut rejvice at his good fortune in having his home in Prince Edward Island, where the winters are mild, the snow never buries anybody, and one is in no danger of having his house blown away and his family scat- tered by the wind.

es wrens wee enews

_ A recent hurricane did immense damage in Germany.

The Montreal Industrial Exhibition Com- pany, with $190,000 capital, has been in- c »rporated and will be given the use of tke government exhibition buildings.

A number of French priests have arrived at Malindi, Africa, and state they recently met Dr. Peters, the German explorer, con- cerning whose death many conflicting re-

THE DAILY EXAMINER, - ~~

A Very Suspicious Case.

are as follows : Mrs. James M. Sutherland, wife of J.

worse instead of better. The doctor, at

picions. The bott*e was found to contain,

slowly poisoned. The doctor at once informed Mr. Suther-

discovery. We assume that steps were instantly taken to trace the guilt to the per- petrator, though we have been unable to discover what these were.

The case has, to;the minds of many per- sons, been complicaced and rendered additionally suspicious by the sudden disappearance of Mrs. R. widow of the late Robert T. Weeks, Esq.. furmerly a law partner of Mr. Sutherland. During the recent political campaign THe EXAMINER was pressed repeatedly to ex- pose the relations which our correspon- dents asserted existed between Mr. Suther- and and Mrs. Weeks. But we disdained to take any improper advantage of a polli- tical opponent, and preferred ,to treat the rumors in this regard as common scandal, untrue and unfit for publication. It ap- pears that Mrs. Weeks left Charlottetown about two o’clock on Saturday morning last, and that a thickly veiled lady arrived at Cape Craverse a short time before the couriers started on that day, and insisted on being carried over, and was lifted from the sleigh and carried to one of the boats. A person who was present and heard the lady speak asserts that her voice was that of Mrs. Weeks.

The suspicion that Mrs. Week's depar- ture had any connection with the alleged slow poisoning of Mrs. Sutherland may be —and most likely is—entirely groundless. If it be true, as stated, that Mrs. Weeks has not visited Mrs, Sutherland for over a year, there cannot be anything in it.

In any case, it is due to Mr. Sutherland, to Mrs. Weeks and all others in any way concerned, as well as to public justice, that the case be inquired into by the authorities aud fully investigated as soon as possible.

LETTERS TO THE EBITOR.

eer ~ Cardigan eile

Srir,—The election in the Third District of King’s County was a grand triumph for Macdonald and Shaw. Notwithstanding the fact that the Oppositionists resorted to every possible device to defeat them, the members-elect have the setisfaction of knowing that they are elected by the great- est majority on the Island. The Opposi- tionists, knowing that ordinary fair means would have no effect on the intelligent electors of Cardigan, determined to try some of the tricks their friends use so suc- cessfully in other provinces, and induced Mr. E. H. Norton, of Charlottetown, to contest the election. Into his hands they placed unlimited. funds, and money was spent freely in order to assist their cause.

it is said that forty cases of whiskey were distributed by the Opposition party in the Cardigan District, and votes were actually bought at an expenditure of from $5 to $10 each. But the disgraceful tactics of the Opposition acted as a ** boomerang.” One of the stroygest supporters of the Op- position at Dundas happened to be at Cardigan Bridge a day or so before the election, and he, seeing the unblushing manner in which whiskey was used by his party, returned home, determined to have nothing to do with men who would act so disgracefully, and resolved to do all he could to defeat them. The consequence is that Dundes has given Macdonald and Shaw a sweeping majority. And so it has been all round. The Opposition wil) never recover from the disgrace that will follow their actions at this election.

Goop TEMPLAR. Dundas, Jan. 31, 1890.

Personal.

Mr. L. H. Davies and Mrs, Davies leit for O:tiwa last evening.

It is stated that Elizabeth Cochrane, ‘* Nellie Bly,” who has just completed a cir- cuitof the world in seventy-two days, is a Canadian and a native of the county of Fron- tenac, Ont. She was born at Packham, on the line of the R. and P. railway, in the year 1860. She afterwards went to the United States and lived at Pittsburg,

A. B. Warburton, Esq., and wife were among the passengers crossing at the Capes on Saturday forenoon. They arrived in the city same aiternoon.

There is rare pathos, without sadness in the last words ot Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s autobiography just publisbed—words with which she closed a letter written more than two years ago:

I feel about all things now as I do about the things that happenin a hotei, after my trunk is packed to go home. I may be vexed or annoyed but what of it !1 am going home soon.

Sir William Gull, the noted physician is dead. Born in 1816. He was the first med- ical graduate ot London University nomin- ated on the Senate by the Crown. He was Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Roy al Institution of Great Britian, and for twenty years acted as physician and lectyrer to Guys Hospital. In 1872 he was created a barovet for treating the Prince of Wales duringa severe illness, and shortly after he was appointed oneof Her Majesty's physicians extraordinary. He was president of the Chemical Society and a Fellow of several well known societies. He published several books on medical subjects that received great attention.

George F. Gwen, Cardigan, is at the Os- borne House,

John G Scrimgeour, Cardigan Bridge, is at the Osborne House.

Mr. L. H. Davies, M. P., and Mrs, Davies, aa on Sunday evening last en route for Ot-

awa,

Mr. D. A. Bruce, merchant tailor, left ona business trip to Boston on Sunday night,

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ports have been redeived at Kuki. He wes

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RuMORS concerning a case of alleged poisoning have been afloat in this city for the month of December show that the value several days past. THe EXAMINER'S re- porter has been engaged in working up the case. ‘The particulars, as obtained by him, }cember, 1888. The increase of £327,409

last, became suspicious that his medi- cine was being tampered with, and had some of it analysed. The re- sult of the analyses contirmed his sus-

T. Weeks, |

Meeting by ae Secre

| British Trade.

The British Board of Trade returns for

of the imports for the month was £38,257,- 374, as compared with $37,940,625 in De-

| was principally due to the large increase in 'the import of manufactured articles, The

M. Sutherland, Esy., Barrister-at-law, has imports for the year ended 31st December been ill for some time past, and under the i medical care of Dr. Johnson. The case did | not improve as the doctor hoped it would ; on the contrary Mrs. Sutherland became | articles imported by parcel post, which

amounted to £427,210,830, as conmipared with $585,582,026 in the previous year. ‘These totals do not include the value of

| reached £374,612 in 1889, and £368,776 in /1888. The increase of $40,628,804 has been general, one department alone, metals, showing a decrease. The exports for the month (British and Irish produce) jreached $20,903,353, as compared with

besides the liquid he had prescribed, a por- | £18 814,209 in the previous December, an tion of arsenic. His patient was being

increase of £2,089,144. The exports of foreign and colonial produce is stated at £5,807 ,854, as against £5,138,752 in the

land and some other persons concerning his previous December, an increase of £669,-

1102. ‘The table for the year shows that |the exports (British and Irish produce( | were $248,091,959, as compared with £233, - 842,607 in the previous year, and increase ot £14,249,352. The figures exclude the }exports by parcel post, which shows an in- crease of £140,633. The value of the foreign ‘and colonial exports was £64,939,775, as | compared with £64,042,629, in the previous year, an increase of £897,146.

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A Rough Passage.

Exchanges at hand this morniug report that the Polynesian, which arrived at Hali- fax last week with mails and 140 passeng- ers, smongst whom were Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Warburton, of this city, had a very boisterous passage of eleven days. Captain Whyte reports that on the 23rd, in latitude 46 north, longtitude 47 west, the steamer | passed several large icebergs. About 7.50 'o’cluck Sunday morning last (yestesday | week) in lat. 43.10 north, lon. 52.48 west, a French vessel showing signals of distress was sighted. She proved to be the brigt. Mathilda, of Nantes, from Martinique, bound to St. Pierre, Miq., in ballast and in a sinking condition. The captain re- quested that the crew be taken off, seven in all. With difficulty they were taken off, and they were in an exhausted state, not having had sufficient food for 10 days, and the hands and feet of three of them were badly frozen. The captain of the lost vessel reports that he sailed from St. Pierre, Martinique, on the 5th of Decem- ber. On the 4th of January they reached the banks, but were prevented by ice from getting to St. Pierre. They then tried to get to St. John’s, Nild., but encountered heavy snow storms and were unable to see the coast. Two days later they ran into heavy field ice, which stove a hole in the vessel through which the water poured. | When abandoned, the Mathilda was full of water, threatening at any moment to keel *owex, and must have gone down shortly afterwards,

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Weuther Bulletin.

Toronto, Feb. 3.—10a m.

Winds increasing to gales; cloudy, followed by sleet or rain; higher temperature

MARRIED.

At the Methodist Parsonage, Tryon, on the 30th ult., by Rev. H. P. Cowperthwaite, William Archibald McQuarrie, of Victoria, to Miss Charlotte Mallett,of the same place.

DIED.

On the 3lst ult., Renaldo, dearly beloved infant son’of Daniel J. and Sara Macdonald, aged five months,

At Moncton, on January 29th, “John L. Vincent, in the 40th year of his age.

In this city, on Monday, 3rd inst., D’ Au. vergne Archer, darling son of Nicholas and Maud White, aged two years and five months. ‘Safe in the arms of Jesus.”

[Funeral to morrow (Tuesday) at 11 a. m. from the residence, Upper Prince Street, by sleighs to Sherwood. }

2h &

ST, JAMES CHURCH.

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The Fifth Annual Course of Lectures,

APTAIN W. A. WEEKS will lecture in ST. JAMES’ HALL, on

Tuesday Evening, Feb. 4th, AT EIGHT O'CLOCK.

Subject—* How We Fought in Days Gone By.”

CARNIVAL SOURIS

WEDNESDAY,

February | 12th.

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Sherwood Cemetery.

HE ANNUAL MEETING of the Share- holders of the Charlottetown Cemetery Company will be held inthe Parlor of the Y. M. C. A. Building, on TUESDAY NEXT, 4th February, prox., at 4 o'clock, p. m, Ail Shareholders are particularly requested to atiend.

By order, : HENRY SMITH, Cemetery Co,

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“MONDA Y,

Anasing Prices

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JAS. PATON & 00'S.,

Market Square.

3,000 yards White Embroid- ery, all new goods, wide and narrow, at the wonderful low price cf 6c. per yard.

360 yards English Prints, suitable for lining quilts, worth

2c., now 7 $c.

A big lot of Fancy Bordered Cambrie, suitable for Bedroom

Curtains or Quilt Linings, all fast colors, only 43c. per yard.

Beautiful White Linen Table Cloths, with border all round, clearing out at $1.75 and $1.59.

White and Colored Table Napkins, jin great variety.

Prices very low,

We have just opened three large bales of English Prints, new designs and fast colors. This big lot is now on our coun- ters at prices lower than ever.

4,000 yards English Prints, in lengths from 3} to 20 yards, clearing out at the wonderful low price of 10c. This is a de- cided bargain. Don’t miss this chance of securing a nice prece of Print for a little money.

Room Paper! Room Paper !

Our whole stock of Room Papers wust go, and in order to make a speedy sale, we are offering the whole stock at a little over cost price.

Stock-taking just being fin- ished, and as a consequence some very special lines are laid out.

Extraordinary value in Pil- low Cottons and Sheetings; also a nice lot of Seamless Pil- low Cotton.

Rare Bargains in the Dress Department! Don't pass Paton & Uo’s, door if you want to buy adi. $=

A few very handsome Dress Robes, suitable for brides.

CARPETS ! CARPETS !

Marvellous Bargains in Brus- sels, Tapestry and Scotch Carpets.

Reefers and Overcoats

At Execeedingly Lew Prices.

advise our friends to call early.

Jas. Patan & CO,

MARKET SQUARE.

We strongly

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Parlor, Dining Room and Bedroom Sets, Pig Giass Mirrors, Tea, &¢., perfectly new,

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Wednesday, the 12th day of F_bruary, 1g

COMMENCING AT il G’CLOCK, A, M., A‘ THE NEW WAREHOUSE OF W. B RORERTSON, ESQ., Kent

Charlottetown (opposite John Scott’s, Ksq ), the following Stuck belonsl the Estate of George M. Harris, consisting of HOUSEHOLD FURNIT MIRRORS, TEA, &c , ae. <a

For full particulars see large posters.

Intending purchasers may inspect the Furniture, etc., at any time before ag

Dated 27th January, 1890. E. R. BROW, Assi Le :

January 28, 1890—~dy 28th, 29th, 30th, 3lst Jan. mon wed sat tl sle wky

Lower than Auction Prices,

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An Immense Lot Bankrupt Furniture sale at Dazzling Dif counts. Must be sold once. I defy competition

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Charlottetown, Jan. 29, 1899.

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I have decided to sell AT COST for Cash the DB of FUR GOODS.

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Just Opened—40 pieces Tweeds and Worsteds, ex'S. 8. “ S.anley,” and will be sold away down.

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