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JANUARY 5, 1834

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Editorial Notes.

—Llere is the 7elegraph’s statement of th: tonnage registered in St. John in} the following years:

1s70 214,514 | of his remarks the work we have to do is a noble one, LSet sawed re He began by stating that at the last coni- | viz, the suppression of intemperance, and es —_— vention of the Provincial Education Asso-|the miserable dens which are the cause of cane 63 410 | ciation, a committee composed of represen- it. :

18" 970.762 | tative teachers from all parts of the Island | To-day we had quite a good time of it. 127¢ _ 230,073 | had been appointed to consider the whole Sturdy sons of temperance and oflicers of 1877 979.617 | Subject and report at the next meeting ¢f | the law put inan appearance about noon. 1878 276.016 | the Association. That committee had not | Arme d with legal documents, and backed tava 4 251,173} yet met, and any snggestions or informa up by the presence and sympathy of many }S80 275,879 | tion from the teachers present in regard tu |, ipporters-—who were duly called upon to 188] 270,186 |the working of the existing plan would | assist the officers—we proceeded to work. 1882 245,118lbe of great service to the members of} 4 peaceable entrance was made to the 1383 253,689 |the committee. The teachers were premises of John Keays, a thorough search

—The Hoo. Wm. Ross, Collector of! the port of Halifax, and at one a Cabinet Minister (in Hon. | Mr. Mackenzie’s Government, which | appointed his), said to a Halifax Herald reporter :—** The country is really pros- perous, and trade on the whole through

out the provioce is as sound asl have ever known it to be. The farmers fiod a ready market for all they produce at good The actoal amount of money in general circulation among the | people to-day is greater than ever before in our history. Consequently people are able to buy freely and pay promptly for what they get. ”

Customs at

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price ie

—During the past few weeks, a num- ber of Islanders who, during the

g summer, sold their farms and went to the Westera States in search of better | ones, have returned home. There

experience is valuable, not ouly to them- selves, bat to the young men who have | had the good sense—or good luck—to hold their farms until they found better oves elsewher>. These men have travelled over the richest farmiog lands | withia Uncle Sam's borders, they have | inguired iuto the working of farms in the west, and they have, at considerable | cost, foued that a filiy acre farm well | worked oa lithe Prince Edward Islaud | affords a livelihood with greater comforts | than the broadest farms of the western | wilds.

—The Winuipeg Commercial remarks) that freight rates on the C. P. R. were freely denounced as extortionate by the Convention lately held in that city, ‘although the through rate from western points to a lake port, the only rate which ean practically affect the price of a farmer's grain seeking an eastero market, was scarcely brought under consideration. No delegate mentioned that one hundred | pouuds of grain would be carried from a nob-eowpeting point on the banks of the Saskatchewan River to a Lake Superior port, a distuoce of over 1,000 miles for | 58 cents. C. P. R., and it bas o0 parallel in the western portion of this continent.” On the other hand, the Commercial agrees | with the Convention that the high duties, | levied upon agricultural implements, an. inimical to the interest of the North-| west.

Yet such is the case on the!

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The Charlottetown Hospital. |

We publish below a short report of the number of patients healed in the Char- lottetown Hospital during the past year. | Tais noble institution has been doing a | good work ever since its establishment in | our ity, some four years ago. During the | last year the number of patients received | has very much increased. Many a sick and | wretched outcast found shelter and relief within its doors, when affliction was heavy, | and death near at hand. The large number of eutdoor patients who received medicine and medical attendance, bear grateful testi- | mony to the benefits of a free dipsensary for the poor. The generosity of the public | haa enabled the hospital to afford every convenience for the relief of the sick, and | although on « small scale it is as well! applied as any hospital need be in a small | city like ours. The medical skill in con- | nection with the institution is of the highest order, and the medical gentlemen assiduous in their attendance. The most formidable surgical and medical cases have been treated with great success, as the small number of deaths will show. The good Sisters in charge of the hospital deserve the | commendation and sympathy of the whole community

We learn from the hospital register that, |

einee the Ist of January, 1883, there have | «fforts of Mies M. Meteod and Mise Crabbe | jation, and the means by which the rate- |

been received into the hospital 120 patiente. Of these seventy-eight were Catholics and | forty-two Protestants. Sixty-two were | discharged, cured; twenty-seven imvroved; | eleven imeurable; three died. There are | seventeen remaining.

The total number of out-door patiente, of all classes, was 210.

We hope that the hospital may continue | possible the most excellent gift with which | course an interfeyenge with commerce, and

to do its good work, and receive the support | thas such an institution deserves.

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The editor of the Moncton Transcript paila viet, afew days ago, to the line of | the ““Pemece Edward Isiand and Cape! Torme Raliway,” and says:—‘*The| interest ia the project is paramount at Biie | Verte, and especially at Point Livin. Taere is on the one hand no small degree of impatience at the slow progress made in construction, while on the other hand the hove is expressed that the Company may have « happy tssee out of all thetr diffieu)- tios aod (be trains be ruaning to Port Elgia if net to Cape Tormentine during the pre- sect year. Some say the Dominion Guvern- men: should aid the work, and would do so | wore it not for the fivaley between Adiherst | and Sackville as points of junction with the litereolonmial. There can be no doubt that in parsuance of the plan to give Prince Edward Island @ winter outlet by the C»pes route this railway is ao matter of | interprevineial interest, and hence of Downuiwn euacern. Doubtless in some | way or other the road will be completed | bedore very long, «-

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The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess

‘laid down for the first three grades was

| carefully considered, and any desirable change

ling to se | working together again in perfect Agrmony; | the power to legislate. | and we hope the next benefit concert will be! we have seen published vive any adequate

‘TEE Hducational Institute.

The regular fortnightly meeting of the| REPORTED BY ONE WHO TOOK PART IN THE In the |

was held last evening. of Mr. Gaul, Mr. T. A. Lepage acted as secretary, pro tem

The president, J. T. Mellish, Esh., M. 4., inan address of some length, intro-| duced the subject of discussion for the} evening, viz: ‘The Course of Study in| the Publie Schools, We give an outline |

Institute

invited to express their opinions freely and give what information they could |

as to their personal experience in their res | pleased to find that at least one liquor shoy pective grades in teaching the subjects laid| had no supply of

down in the course. A_ curriculum of study extending over a number of years Is at present the guide of teachers in instruct- ing their pupile. Certain work has been

assigned to each of eight grades,—is too | behavior. for some grades, and | to be settled.

moch work assigned two little for others !—too sahject and too little of another |

much of one Assum-

ing that there is a proper apportionment of cecupied by the late Wm. Stone, the work and sn’ jects all throngh the erib we are sorry to say the law had to take

course, are there too many subjects? If an attempt be made to carry out the re-

quirements of the course strictly, would the

strain be too great for texchers and pupils, and the very object sought to be defeated / Could some assigned subjects be advantage eusly omitted altegether, or in part! At the last meeting of the Provincial Associa tion, the opinion was somewhat freely expressed, that too much time was given to Latin especially, and that other branches should receive greater attention.

Acain, might not some subjects, now scarcely if at all glanced at, in the schools, be taken up with advantage even if others are excluded; as for instance Practical Mathematics, Surveying, Navigation, and the Elements of Agricaitaral Chemistry’? Further, in the tendency to measure the teacher's efficiency and the pupil's progress aimost solely by written examinations, are not physical and moral training pressed too far out-of sight? On nearly all of these points practical teachers are the best judges, end an expression of their opinion 1s cor- dially invited.

After the president's address, the work

then taken upin order. The studies in) these grades which elicited the greatest discussion were reading, arithmetic, and a knowledge of the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Among those who took part were Mr. L. Miller, Dr. Leeming, Miss Maria Lawson, Miss McKinnon, Miss

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The “Salvation Army” in Souris.

FRAY,

The boys have commenced to call tem- perance workers, the ‘Salvation Army. Of course the new title is given in a spirit of ridicule, but it is quite a respectabl: title, and we can work under that or any other name, feeling perfectly satisfied that

was wade, and there was no liquor found. So far, very good, The cfticers were

hqu T This was triamph No. 1 for temperance work in Sonris, and the officers intend to make an other visit to the premises and hope to be able to note acontinuance of such good In the meantime old cases have The law says s:, and the officers are in earnest about it.

Next we visited the premises formerly At «this

ics full course. A forcible entrance had to be made. The crowd outside evidently eyimpathized with the work, with the +xcep- tion of two or three who can be sett'ed with ‘legally pretty quick'y. Here some four or | tive bottles of liquor were taken; quite as good for purposes of law as if we had taken as many puncheons. James Foley and Albert Stone must answer in connection with this house. ‘*The law says so, and the officers are in earnest about it.”

Still another. Next we visited the pre- wises of Boysner& McKinnon. Here again a forcible entrance. A shower of botrles grected us, and a plentiful supply of foul language, just such language as might be «expected to proceed from a rumshop, or the supporters of a traftic capable of everything low, and mean, and brutal. Here we gained quite enough for our case, even inelading the barrels containing water, etc. We are quite satisfied with the work done here,too, as it is only one step in intended proceed ings. We will keep at the work, which we have only commenced. “The law says 80, and the officers are in earnest about it.”

Evening was coming on us, and this part of the work must be accomplished ‘‘in the day time,” so that some others were left unattended to for the present, We will look after them bye-and-by. We aré glad to know that our local clergymen, both Priests and Parsons sympathize with our efforts to suppress ‘‘the evil,”’ We have also many good friends among the

Kliza Lawson, and Mr. J. M. Donecan.

The Chief Superintendent of Edeecation, | to Souris, or miles from Souris, are neither

being then called on by the president to offer | some remarks the evening's discuasior, | said that he i. glad that the teachers were interesting themselves in this matter. Any suggestions they might make wonld be

in the course readily made. If the several subjects as laid down in some of the grades be looked at collectively, it might appear desir able from the numb rof subjects, that some be struck out; but looking at them individ- ually, it would be a different matter to deter- mine which were to be retained and which left out He expressed himself much pleased with the manner in which the President had opened the subject for the consideration of the meeting.

It was decided to continue the discussion at the next meeting of the Institute. The teachers present were much inteseated in the evening's proceedings

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Barle’s Benefit Concert.

Tue crowded hall, last evening, may be accepted as proof of the spread, im the city, of a taste for music; and the smvoth Way in which the Concert proceeded, shows the value of the hints lately thrown out by Tue Fx- AMINKR. There was no Chairmga to mar the harmony with iutermittent announce- ments; and the audience were quite satisfied with the cheap copies of the programme placed in their hands, The concert opened, at eight o'clock, with a very fine overture, and eoded about ten with a yrand solo and chorus, All the choruses, even the most difficult, were, without the aid of the baton, exceedirgly well sunc, aod their effect was greatly heightened Ly the accompaniment with

piano, violia and cornet, Mr. Vinni- combe’s performances on the violin were exquisite; and the insfrumental

music was rendered excellent by the additional aid given Mr. Earle by Mrs. M. MeLeod and Messra Fletcher and Watson. ‘Ihe vocal solos too, wore v ry good, especially those of Mrs. M. Mcleod and Miss Koight. Mr.

respectable laymen of the community, men who, if need be, whether they belong

afraid nor ashamed to keep in the good work when called upon by the proper authority. All honor to the Rev. Mr. Kinlay, for his presence and countenance to-day. We have even the thanks of some poor dravkards, who “wish to God we would put the stuff where they couldn’t get ioe”

Informations have been received against parties who are storing liquors for the ben- efit of rumsellers. We will oblige them by attending to their case shortly. Those who in any way aid or abet law-breakers, must only take the consequences.

We all considered that we dida good day’s work for law and temperance, 80 we bade onr friends good-bye, and left some work for another day.

Yours ete., One or rae “Army.” East Point, Jan. 4, 1884, sntotntlittacchcstill heap ie? Giewinatnintactind License Legislation.

Journals opposed, for political reasons, to the License Act passed last session of Parliament, are trying to make some capital out of the decision given by the Privy | Gouncil of England in the Queen vs. Hodge, an Ontario case. Hodge, who is a prom- inent licensed victualler, to get up a test case to test the validity »f the License Act passed by the Outario Local Government, notified the License Inspector that he would violate the law by selling liquor to a minor and keeping his billiard saloon open, after hours. He was fined, and his case has ran its course in the courts. The Privy Concil decision, if we understand it, is to the effect that jt is vithin the jurisdiction of local legislaturra to regulate the sale of liquors, while it does not touch the more important point, its restriction. The license Act passed last session of Parliament clear-

Reid sang a epleadid song for which an encore was demanded; and Mr. F. H. Beer's solos were both highly appreciated. The

were very praise-worthy, beth yonnyg ladies giving evidence of marked improvement in titiging

In goneluding this brief and inadequate notice, we may be permitted to express the hope that Mies Koizht will take advantage, no. only of the best teaching she can obtain on

this side of the water, bat also of a Kuropeas

traiping, sothat she may improve as muc" as

nature bas endowed ber. [swas very pleas- Mesars. HKaria and Vinnicombe

for Mr. Vinn'‘combe,

Oddfellowship.

' The D DG. M. instelled the officors at | The London cablegram to the Sun says; Wildey Lodge, for the present term as | The smell of gunpowder has had the cus- under, on Friday evening, 4th January, | tomery effect upon France.

inst. :— N. G.—E. H. Norton. V. G.—W. H. Uaszari. RK S —Benjamin Bremner. P. &.—-R. D. Coffin. Treas-—A. D. White. Warden—Frank Harper, Uonductor—A, M, Coles, lL G—A. L. Bridges. 0. G.—Wm OG. Gillespie. R, S N. G.—R. Maynard,

L. 8 N. G.—William Taylor. R. 8S. V. G.—Edward Chandler. L. 8. V. G.—J. Wesley Peutz.

R. 8. 8.— Duncan Me Millan.

L. 8. 8.—E. W. Dawson.

Trustees, Past Grands—A. D. White, W. FP. Carter, E. W. Dawson.

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Louise will go to the Riviera, Switnerians,| Ber, Butler adviees women not to

the sc@evad week in January.

speculate in stucks.

ly restricts the sale of liquor, specifying the maximum number of saloons that may be |established in a district with a given popu-

| oayers of the district may still further limit | ior prohibit the sale of liquor,. This, we | take it, is the most impor'ant feature of the | License Act of last session, and it is where | the Ontario Grits, who are now seeking to | keep the license business in their own | honds, may be tripped up. The restriction

jor pyeyention of the sale of liquor is of

hence it is claimed that ‘ander our consti- tution the Dominion Parliament alone has If the despatches

fidea of the Privy Connecil decision, this point is not jouched on at all,—Moncton | Times,

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The capture of | Sontay has developed a thoronghly jingo ispirit. The mediation of England is re- jevted jm insolent phrases, and China is jinformed that her troops be proved to have fought against the brench fag at Sontay, she will have to pay a large war indennity. The project of seizing sine portion of Chinese territory as a guar- antee for this iytpre penalty has already

cent catt n sete lgttag ae ae

HxXAMINER,

} City are organiz ng a joint at ck company

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Prom ‘Lyrics of Love and Bravery.’ The Days of Old.

AIR-— The Harp of Tara's Hall.

Ob ! give to me the days of yore, The glorious times of old When Victory sat on Fingal’s shield, And Oceran’s crest of gold ; Who led the chiefs of Caledon, The Roman power defied, Aod drove them o’er their walls of stone, From Carrou’s streamy tide.

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Oh ! give to me the days of yore, W hen Patriots ruled the fray,

And with their swords of lightniog

gleam,

Decision prompt did pay ;

Who taught the base usurper Right, His destiny to yield,—

Aud with persuasive power of Might, To fly the conquered field!

Ill. High glory to those gallant Chiefs, Who oft *‘with Wallace bled,” And gained the prize, — fair Freedom's Crown, When Bruce, the dauntless led ! We, proud, uaroll their blazoned page, Imperishab'e Names, Ot Heroes, Patriots, Statesmen sage, Whom fame immortal! claims !

McALByYn. Charlottetown, Jan. 2, 1854.

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Foreign News Notes.

The following isa list of pedésons killed by a snow-slide at the Mondota mine, Co!- orado, on the 24th ult: J. H. Bond, C. 8. Herrick, Thomas Danegan, Wm. Taylor, Jono. Davis, Wm. Applewhite, T. Slater, aud Lewis Huckins

P. ‘ft. Barnum, the veteran showman, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, recently executed a codicil to his will. To meet a pvussible claim of insanity, directed against his will, he called in his family physician and two other well known doctors, one a homee- pathist and the other a regular, all of whom witnessed his signature and made oath that they believed the testator to be of sound and disposing mind and memory. He divides some $10,000,000 among twenty-

seven direct heirs. )

During the past year 6,608 miles of track were bwilt by railway companies in the United Sates, against 11,591) miles in 1882, 9,784 miles in 1881, and 7,174 miles in 1880; but, with the exeepiion of these years, the mileage «f 1883 has been previ- ously exceeded only in 1871. The total railway mileage in the United States now foots up to 120,000 miles, In reepect to mileage of track Jaid during the year, Mon- ‘ana leads. with 413 miles (all Northern Pacific), followed by Dakota with 409 1 jiles, Michigan with 406, New York with 375, Pennsyivania with 339, Ohio with 326, Mississippi with 305, ete. Penn- sylvania shows the greatest nomber of new lines, twenty-three followed by Michigan and Wisconsia with fifteen each, Ohio with fourteen, Dakota with twelve, Lilinois with

ten, and so down. The only states and territories in which no new mileage is reported are New Hampshire, Rhode

Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada

W yoming—6 in a total of 47.

British News Notege. Gladstone was seventy-four years old on Saturday last.

Queen Yictoria will leave England for Baden-Baden at the end of February. —

The Queen evidently belives im encour- aging home industry. A despatch says she has sent further orders to Irish firms for a supply of poplins. A court train of white figured poplin has been designed for

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Princess Beatrice, and poplin curtains are being made for Marlborongh House, Win- | sor Castle and Osborne House.

Four failures, with liabilities smounting to £1,650,000,- or about eight inillion | dollars. are reported in the English iron | trade, in addition to a large number of | other fuilures in which the | ailities are not given. If this had occurred in any country with a protective policy what a! how! there would have been from the free traders.

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Home News Items. The banks in Winnipeg now open and close by standard time.

Farmers in the neighborhood of Rapid

With a capital of $50,000 to build flouring mills,

Gladstone (Northwes!) merchants have agreed that, after the Ist of January, they will seli only on a cash basis, or faria pro- duce equivalent.

In Winnipeg oats sell at from eiyvhteen to twenty cents per bushel; and in Prince Albert wheat is worth seventy-five cents to one dollar; oats, sixty-five cents; and pota- toes, seventy-five cents per bushel.

The Montreal Gazettee has the following: United States returns claim an in- | migration from Canada in the eleven months ending with November, of 68,046 persons, against 79,375 in the correspond | ing period last year, These figures the Liberal press affect to believe well-founded, No one, however, is foolish enough to regard this emigration from Canada as a) movement of Canadian people to the | United States, or so ill-inform d 9s not to| know that the figures relate to the Euro: pean emigrants passing through the Dc- winion to the Western States. he British returns, for example, show that 247.370)

so far seized upon the Prench jmagina- | persons left Great Britain forthe United tion that the projected oceypation of the ; States in the eleven months of this year,

wife at his home on the cliffs near Polke. | 90,000 persons unaccounted for. But some stone, looking across the channel towards | 60,000 of those eytered the United States Boulogne, and conjecture is divided as to | ria Canada, and appear in the American whether the Ministerial Council, whose de- | returns as emigrapts from this country, ,cision he awaits, will openly proclaim war | The other 30.000 have probably settled im jor prefer the continuance of the present Canada, although leaving Great Britain plan of peace in public and active hostili- ostensibly to take up their residence in the tues in secret, United States.

Island of Hainan is confidently discnesed. | while the American returns claim an in- | The Marquis Tseng ia meantime with hig, migration of ouly 157,948, leaving about

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Our Store Closes Every Evewng at Six clock (Satmday Excepte. ).

1884. For the Winter Months. 1884.

SL & A. BROWN & CO. are selling the following |imes of

» Dry Goods, at very low prices, to clear before stock- taking Ist April :

Jackets, Dolmans and Ulsters, Promenade Scarfs, Wool Jackets and Ulsters, Mantle and Ulster Cloths, Overcoatings, Seotch and Canadian Tweeds, Colored and White Shirts,

Also a special line of Dress Goods, of excellent value, and suitable for the season, reduced to twenty-two cents.

A large stock of Carpets, Oilcloths, Hearth Rugs, Mats, White and Grey Cottons, Sheetings, Pillow Cottons and Linens, Fancy Shirtings, ete, bought very low, and now opened, ready for the early Spring Trade. |

WHEOLESALE & RETAIL. W. & A. BROWN & CO,

Ch’town, Jan.5, 1884.—dy wkly

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FLOUR, FEED-AND PROVISION,

S'TOR EH,

South Side Queen Square, near Queen Street,

AVE to announce that they have on hand the following goods, which they are pre- pared to sell at reasonabls prices and in quantities to suit purchasers:

Flour (Superior Extra, Strovg Bakers’ and Patent)

OATMEAL, CORNMEAL, BRAN, SHORTS, O \TS,

CRUSHED FEED, either Oxts and Barley or Oats, Barley and Corn. APPLES, which will be sold by the barrel or by the pound, at rates very little over barrel prices.

Ch’town, Dec, 18, 1883.

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Just Received, a Large Assortment of

JHwW hOoRY,

CONSISTING OF Cold and Silver Waltham and Geneva Watches, Colored, Gold and Plated Sets, Ladies Chains and Lockets,

GENTS’ GOLD, GOLD-PLATED, SILVER AND NICKEL LOCKE 8 AND CHAINS,

Silver-Plated Ware, Eight-Day and. Thirty-fou Clocks (American styles), Spectacles and Eyeylasses. pes Call and be convinced that my Stock is the Chespest and Best io Char- lottetown. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc., cleaned andrepnived. All work warranted.

G. G. JURY, Nurth Side Queen Square, Opposit» Post Office

Charlottetown, Dec, 18, 1883.—-2aw mo th wkly Im

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FOR THE HOLIDAYS,

MENS & BOYS’ CLOTHING,

J. B. MACDONALD'S.

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Men’s Warm Reeicrs,

$3.00 Meu’s Kieavy Warm Kecfers,

4.00

Men’s Reavy Warm Recfers, 3,00 Men’s Exira Heavy Reefers, 6.00

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OVIERCOATS. Men’s Warm Overcoa s, Men's Bieavy Warm Overcoats, . Men’s Extra Warm @verconts, 6.75 Men’s Extra Warm Overceats, s.00 Men’sS Superior Custom Made overcoats, 10,00

; OO Mn's Heavy Warm Ulster Coats, $8.00 $8.00, $9.00, $10.00

Men’s Extra Heavy Ulster Coats, Men’s Very Heavy, Boys’ Clothing, in great variety and at reduced prices, during the Holidays. Men's and Boys’ Warm Underclothing, very cheap. Fur and Cloth Caps, the cheapest to be had. Come one and all to the popular cheap store.

J. B. MACDONALD'S,

Queen Street.

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OVERCOATS.

$4.00

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NEw FRUIT.

Wholesale and Retail, Cheap. ON HAND:

230 boxes very choice Valencia and Layer RAISINS, 30 half-boxes choice LAYERS, 3,000 pounds CURBAN'TS, 200 boxes prime FIGS, h cases choice PRUNES, 200 barrels hard WINTER APPLES, No, 1, 20 kegs GRAPES,

AND MORE TO ARRIVE. BEER & GOFF.

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