Tue Darty EXAMINER.

OCTOBER 16, 1883

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The *‘victorv”’ referred to was won in |

the County of Westmoreland, Brunswick. The election was

filla vacancy in the Local Legislature. The Local Government of New Bruns- wick is made up of both Liberals and | Conservatives. Mr trovernment candidate, was elected ; Mr.

Wells, the Local Opposition caudidate, |

was defeated. Mr. Killam is a Liberal (so-called) and as a citizen of Canada, supports the Opposition led by Mr. Blake; Mr. Wells is a Conservative. Hence the election of Mr. Killam is counted “a Liberal Victory.”

The rarity of ‘a Liberal victory” makes this ‘‘victory” something to wouder at. How was it accomplished? What influences produced it? Well, it seems that Conservative votes did the business! But how could Conservatives have been induced to vote for a Liberal? The answer is simple.. Conservatives who support the mixed Goveroment ot New Brunswick voted for Mr. Killam because he was the candidate in support ef the mixed Government. That is one

reason. Then, again, many didn't like Mr. Wells. He knew, as everyoue

knows, that Conservatives are largely ip the majority in the County of Westmor- land; he was (like some Conservatives we have here) ambitious; and (‘ike some Conservatives we have here) he thought he could gratify his ambition by means of the Conservative majority, whether the Conservatives liked him or not. He came out as a candidate on his own motion; aud his motion was disliked, resented and rejected,

These are the facts about the Great Liberal Victory. We hope the result will be a lesson to presumptuous Con- servatives here andelsewhere. We have had enough to do with men who force themselves into the field as candidates of the Liberal-Conservative Party. The fact of a man offering himselt as a candi- date, and intriguicg to obtain a seat in the Legislature, may be taken as prima facie evidence that he is not fit for a representative position.

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A Few Suggestions.

Since we have had a permanent Secretary whose heart is in the work,

Commissioners who understand § the matter, a Government whose leading

members take au active personal iaterest in the welfare of the country, the im provement io the management of our anoual exhibitions bas been marked. But improvements may still be made; and we offer a few suggestious iu the hope tha they mey be favorably considered ere another exhibitton is held.

1. Let no movey prizes be givea for articles maoutactured for sale; but let space be allotted in which such articles may be exhibited and advertised to the public.

Shou!d this suggestion be adopted, the prizes offered for other products may be made higher,for there will be more money ia the hands of the Commissiou- ers; and the main object of the mannfac- turer wil! be obtained as well as it has been in past years. Indeed the exhibit of manufactured articles may be larger than it has been; for if a man can show visitors to the exhibition his goods, and advertise them as his, he will natur- ally be more inclined to exhibit them than if his goods are placed on. a long table, without any indication as to who owns them, in order that he may com- pete for an insignificant prize —which he may not get.

2. Let competent judges of horses, cattle and sheep be obtained, if possible, in the neighboring Provivces. By doing this the suspicion of favoritism and ivter- ested motives, from which. io this small community, scarcely any mau—no maiter how impartial and independent he may be—is entirely free, aud which takes away a great deal of the satisfaction of exhibitors—will not find a place ; and besides men will come here who will be able, when they go home again, to tell dealers in the other provinces where they can buy good stock. This latter consid- eration would be a very strong induce- ment to persons who have good stock to bring them to the show.

3. Let the animals be judged, in their respective classes, by their ‘points.’ There are now on the Island a large number of well bred animals; and it this suggestion were adopted there would be yet another inducement to care and skill in breeding. In too many cases, heretofore, has the owner of an ill-bred inferior animal carried off the prize, because sufficieut attention has vot beeu paid by the judges to the points.

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Domiuion Goveroment for a eraut in aid of a general exhibition to be held in Charlottetown. All the other Proviuces receive Dominion Exhibition grants in sucepssion ; so should we. We have! sent exhibits to Dominion Exhibitions in Montreal, Halifax aud St Juhu; they | Cab come to us as well as we io them, and would vo doubt have pleasure in | doiug so. |

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to be properly shown and judged in it; and the sheds ar not numerous enough tor the accomme.!/ation of the animals eutered for exhibi: ion. At the last exhi- tion apumber had to be sent away on

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Postal Telegraphy.

During the late session of the ‘ United States Senate, Senator Platt said that the time is hastening rapidly on when the people of this country will demand that the telegraph shall be no longer the rich man's mail, as now, but shall be within the reach and ability of every individual in the land. Senator Sherman said if we wish to confer upon the people an enormous benefit we should assume as a part of the postal service of this country the trans- mission of intelligence by electricity, and, 'y an expenditure of $15,000,000 or $20,- 000,000 save to the people of the United States $10,000,000 a year and increase our revenue. Senator Edmunds spoke as follows :—

‘*What the United States, in regard to ils postal affairs and the welfare of {its peo- ple, needs to do more than anything else is the construction of a postal telegraph, beginning moderately between great points in the country and all intermediate points, and then extending it just as we have the mail system, as the needs of the com- munity and fair economy would require, until every post oftice in the country should have, or be within immediate reach of, a posial telegraph. Thisis what onght to be done and will be done in avery fuw years

beyond ail question. But I beg the stock operators in New York not

to suppose that 1, for one, am in favor of the United States buying out any telegraph company anywhere. I am in favor of the United States building its own postal tele- graph and managing it in its own way, and leaving the the gentlemen who are engaged in private pursuits to pursue their opera- tions in their own way as private pursuits, We introduced into the postal system not long age a provision for carrying merchan- dise, but we did not think it necessary to buy out the operations of the Adams Ex- press Company, or the Southern Express Company, or the Union Express Company, or the United States Express Company, and so on, although what we did very seri- ously diminished their profits and impaired their business. Therefore, I do not wish anybody to take up the idea when (as { hope I shall be able to do if some- body else does not), at the first session of the next Congress, I propose the initiation of a postal telegraph, that it involves in any way dealing with any existing or to exist telegraph companies. Electricity is just as much a part of the forces of nature and of this world for the transmission of intelli- gence as a locomotive is, or as the old post horse was; and it is too late at this day to say that, because the world has advanced in the means of disseminating intelligence, the telegraph, under the constitution of the United States, is not an appropriate means of the postal system just as much as it is to transmit letters.”

Of course the primary idea of postal tele- graphy is to give the publican opportunity for rapid and cheap transmission of intelli- gence. Onthat ground only can its estab- lishment rest. But itis not necessary to close the eyes to the fact that this is also the only true way to deal with the giant telegraph monopoly that has grown up in this country. Laws made to regulate it would be evaded; but just let the govern- meat build its own lines and operate them in cornection with post offices, charging enough for messages to defray the actual cost, and the telegraph monopoly would be settled easily and permanently.

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Stray Notes from Souris.

Farmers are busily engaged digging pota- toes. The crop promises to be an average one, although potatoes are somewhat smaller than last year.

The fishing season is about at an end, and fishermen never had better reason to he satistied. The catch of mackerel along the So.th Side has been unprecedently large. Messrs. Ching Bros., Basin Head, for instance, shipped 121 barrels, at an average price of ten dollars per barrel ; Kennedy Bros., 80 barrels; McDonald Bros. ,86 barrels; Capt. James Young, some- thing over 100 barrels; Stewart Bros., Red Point, secured about 116, and on ali along the shore—some fifty fish houses taking from thirty to one hundred barrels. The prin- cipal buyers were Messrs. Macdonald, Madonald & Co., Matthew, McLean & Co., aud Doyle & McBride. The total ship- ment of mackerel by those gentlemen is about 4,500 barrels.

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Some of our citizens have lately returned from a trip to St. John, Boston, and New York. All speak in high terms of the St. John Exhibition, and equally so of the places of interest and amusement across the border.

The Jocal branch of the Dominion Tem- perance Alliance meets next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock.

The question of the hour in Souris is; “Who is E. Lt” VERITAS. Souris, Oct. 15, 1883.

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Exhibition Notes.

The prize won by Miss Lawson, of Little York, fo. the best knit socks on exhibition, was inadvertently omitted from the list. Miss Lawson sold the prize socks at fifty cents per pair.

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Our Advertisers. Johnson Bros. have opened an establish- menton the North Side of Qv-een Square, for the cleansing and renovating of feather

beds.

A. McNei!l publishes his card as a Com- mission Merchant and Auctioneer. Sales of stocks, household furniture, etc. , prompt- ly attended to.

John Maceachern has been appointed

| agent for P. E. Island for the Norwich and

London Accident Association of England. tates moderate and prompt settienient of claims guaranteed.

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LETTERS TO

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Anothe: Letter from Mr. James.

Sir,—Allow me to correct one or two slight errors, which have found their way inadvertently, | presame, into your article of Saturday last. You say that the Anglo- American Co. having invested £30,000 in P. E. L., and their cable being valued at £10,000, the difference must be taken to represent the land lines. The inference is not correct. You leave out of account the lines of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Co., and their ‘‘suitable” cable, of which they had about fifteen miles. These lines, with a trifling exception, have been rebuilt by the Anglo—the suitable cable, perfectly suitable for the transmis-

sion of bnsiness, but perfectly un- suitahle to maintain uninterrupted com- munication (much like the. Magdalen

Islands cable system which has already failed to do the same) has been replaced by one which has amply proved that it is ade- quate to the task You also omit the value of the charter which, among other privi- leges, grants an annual subsidy of £400 sterling. But all this is beside the quee- tion. I did not use the amount of our in- vestment as a ‘“‘bugbear.” I referred to it sitaply to disprove the statement that we were making enormous dividends out of the P. E. Island lines, and to show that the reverse was the case.

Further on you state that the manager of the Angio-American Co. states that our people enable that company to pay a divi- dend of 25 per cent. on its large capital. I beg to deny it, and inasmuch as I have already called your attention to this mis- statement, its repetition is inexcusable. The telegraphic earnings of the P. E. IL line would only pay one percent on the capital mentioned. The other £400 ster- | ling, is, as [ have before stated, Govern- | ment subsidy. The excess of telegraphic receipts over expenditure is £300; not £700. Taking tho figures as given by ‘‘competent telegraph builders,” (evidently gentlemen who understand how to get up the prospec- tus of a new company) $35,000, this

£300 wonld give a dividend of less than 4} per cent. It is interesting to note that figures are gradually rising. Ina previous article the Island system could be duplicated for one-fifth of the amount we have expended, now it is one-fourth—it may possibly reach a somewhat larger figure before it is completed. The problem, however, to be answered is somewhat like this. If the present business of P. E. Island when centred in the hands of one Comyany, would pay a dividend of 44 per cent. on $35,000, (which amount it may be taken for yranted is a minimum estimate,) what would be the dividend if the same business was cut up by an active

competition between two companies. In connection therewith there is another problem upon which the answer to the

foregoing largely depends. If a reduction of rates 43 ver cent. shows a net decrease in ten years at the rate of $3,000 for eight months, in spite of an increase of offices from 12 to 36, what will bethe probable loss of traftie from a proposed reduction of nearly 69 per cent, on existing rates with- out such an increase of offices !

You make a few statements with regard to the Dominion Telegraph Co., whieh go a long way to prove my estimate: of the amount to be made by carrying~ business between the Upper and Lower Provinces at a 25 cent rate. These I hope to deal with again.

T. C. James.

Srr,—l beg leave to call the immediate attention of the City Council to the filthy state of the spring at Spring Park. Also, tothe stream being blocked up by the woollen factory for the purpose of washing woo), This filthy water returns to the tank where the pumps are placed. This water, of course, pure as it is, is daily pumped up and distributed through the city. I have heard of diseases been cured by a liquid known as sheep dung tea. The water drawn from Spring Park at the present time comes nearer to the above named bev- erage than anything I can think of. To remedy this let the City Council compel the company owning the wooilen factory to build a tank for their washing purposes and a sewer to carry off this filthy wash- ing and dye water, the outlet not to be nearer the spring than the south side of the lower spring park road. This will pre- vent the poisoning of the water on the lower spring park road, which has hitherto been a convenient place for country people to water their horses.

Yours respectfully, BUuSINESs. Oct. 16, 1883.

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Summerside Exports. SUMMERSIDE, Oct. 15.

Shipped per steamer ‘‘St. Lawrence,” Evans, master, for Point du Chene :

153 brls oysters, . . - §$ 227.00 11 horses, j - - 1,281.00 61 cases eggs, - , : 366.00 80 lbs cheese, - 10.00

280 yds Island cloth, - 2124.90 |

1400 ibs oatmeal, - 42.06 40 bris potatoes, 20.00 20 lbs butter, : : 4.00

8 brls mackerel, . “ 96.00 3 bushels wheat, - - - 3.00

1130 bush oats, - - - - 441.00

$2,714.00

QE Horsford’s 4c;¢ Phosphate

DRANK WITH SODA WATER

All druggists have it. It is re-

‘Try it often!

is delicious. freshing and cooling.

KORWICH AND LONDON ACCIDENT Insurance Association,

OF HNGLAND,

[osures against accidents of all kinds. Rates moderate. Prompt settlement of claims.

JOHN MACEACHERN,

Agent for P. E. Island. Ch'town, Oct. 16, 1883.

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Oo R 16

EXHIBITIGN WEEK !

E invite the Citizens and those who may be visiting the Town. during the week of Exhibition, to the inspection of our immense stock of

FALL AND WINTER GOODS |

JUST PLACED UPON OUR SHELVES THE CONTENTS OF

Two Hundred and Sixty Bales and Cases,

OF

ENGLISH, AMERICAN, AND CANADIAN,

Comprising everything necessary for Hous¢hold and General use.

WE HAVE

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20: Varieties complete in every Department at the

Prices for Cash.

20;

Very Lowest

UPWARDS OF

Fifteen Thousand Grain Bags,

And a Large Stock of Very Choice

CHINESE AND INDIAN TEAS,

Wholesale and Retail.

AUCTION SALES,

MARKET DAYs,

Stevensous Building, Queen Street

(NEAR THE MARE ET).

UCTION SALES of Furniture Implements, Carriager, Sleighs "a

prow ptly attended to on market days at the

above central stand for market-day gales

Auctioneer, 11 Queen Street, Ch’town,Oct. 15, 23 .— 00d tf

Interesting to Housekeepers, Tike Right Thing k Has Arrived, . JOHNSON BROS,

NEW STEAM

Feather Renovator!

(BONNEY S Pal'eNi.)

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Pon't let it Pass without a Trial

PRESERVE YOUR HXALTS,

Save Veur Beds.

The subseriber cffers to the inhabitants a rare Chance to avail themselves of the bene. fits of this

Unparalleled Machine,

which has proved itself a great succese, and to be exactly what al) conditiong and

ties of Feathers, from entirely new td and badly mitted, need to render them ¢ perfect as age, quality and condition wil admit of their being made,

This process ig totally unji*eany eyer used here.

Tre most important features aye ;

First—No fire coming near the feathers, thereby obviating all possibility of injuripg them in the slightest degree.

Sxconp—It thorougbiy cleanses and puri. fies the Feathers from all impurities and giutenous matter which adhere tothe stem and; which are the prime cause of Feathers matting; also the prime egent in the gener- ation Of moths, and totally annihilates both moths and parasites, from which not one feather bed in a hundred jg free,

Twirno—It renders the Feathers fresh and healthy, and gives to old Frathers the ap. pearance and essential qualities of new oneg,

GEO. DAVIES & CO.

Charlottetown, Qc’. 6, 1883

[00K OUT FOR. BARGAINS |

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WwW. & A. BROWN & CO.,

AVE now opened 140 Cases and Bales of New and Fashionable Dry Goods.

100 pieces Ulster Cloths, bought at half price.

100 pieces Mantle Cloth, bought at half price. 1,000 Wool Squares, very cheap.

200 pieces Winceys, 50 boxes Silk Fringe, 30 * Shirtings, 2% ‘; Silk Plushes, 500 ** Prints, BO fF Velyoteens, 100 ** Scotch Tweeds, 30 “ Silk Velvets, 50 * Worsted Coatings, 50 ‘ Frillings, 50, ‘* Scarlet Flannels, 300 Jackets and Dolmans.

At twenty per cent less than prices of former years. Also, One Hundred Cases and Bales Canadian Manufactured Goods, Very Cheap,

All Goods we are selling very cheap this Season. Wholesale anit Retall, é0 PIECES CARPET DAILY EXPECTED.

W. & A. BROWN & CO.

Ch'town, Oct. 6, 1889.—dy wkly,

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“CHEAPSIDE”

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Groceries, Hardware, Glassware, Earthenware, Woodenware, &c,

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i OO Bea FLOOR, MEAL, TRA. SUGAR, MO‘ASSES AND OTHER GOOD

Are Giving General Satisfaction.

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ney..Goods expressed to Steamers, Railroad Depot and other parts of the.

Cheapest and Newsiest paper in the

Our facilities are shch thet,’ on eh | notice, we can (ake and return beds thorough. ly cleaned and ready for immediate use for

$2.00 PER BED,

We guarentee satis/a'tiog oy no pharge,

JOHNSON BROS,,

Neri: Side Queen Square, Ch’town, Oct 16. ‘83

NOTICE . FE have appsin-ed Mr Wm. E. Hicke

T W ‘pur Gepeya, S,ent ‘Gr P. E. Islan 1. All arders coming throtgh iitia to us: Will By promptly attended te.

JOHNSTON BROS., North Side Queen Square, Ch’town, Uct. 15, 1883,

WANTS, LOST, FOUND, ée.

OUN D—At Canoe Cove, Lot 65, a BOAT,

abou} fifteen feet kerl, with one‘ imast

and sails. ‘The owner can have her by paying

expenses and proving prop erty.—NxiL Mc-

Krnwnon, Canoe Cove. [ocl6 oe

NTRAYED OR STOLEN—From Morris’

pasture, Malpeque Road, pn the at instant, a dark red HORSE, with blac legs, about ten ycars old Information re: garding the above may be left at Tue Exam- INER Ovyice, or at Pues. Green’s CHAIR Factory, Great Ge rge Street.

foctl6 wkly \ ANT&ED— OLD SILVER COINS— Small ones preferred. Persons cap

leave specimens, stating prices, at this office, Only a few required. [oct 15 4i

V TA RY Pine Kindling Wood for sale at McMiiian’s Coat Divot. footl] 6+ pd

7 0UNG MAN WANTED for ordinary

yard work. Must understand care of horse and cow. Apply at this office, [oct9 tf

NTED to purchase,a ten guage central or pin-fire eon. Apply at this Office,

W ANTED.—A ycung Protestant Girl for general housew«rk to go to Mass- achusetts, U. 8. Guod reference required. Appiy to Gro. P. Tanron, Great George St. Leg 8 foct6 tf.

ANTED.—A Nursemaid ‘References required. For information vPly a the EXAMINER Office. oct8

ANTED IMMEDIATELY.—A good smart Boy with a fair education, for

the Printing business. Brimver Bros. {oct tf

. LET and possession given immediately

the two story Jwelling House, corner of Prince and Fitvroy streets. Apply on the premises to J. Fraser or W. B. Lawes. joey

NLOTHES cleaced and repaired. ra © class work guaranteed, Shop, — fire , door west: Presbyterian newspaper office, Grafton St. A good tresser wanted, 7 4

once. R. MoUcvsBrey.

Preece LESSONS—A Lady wishes to form a French class, for young girls. For

particulars apply at EXAMINER CFFICE. [sup24

FEW GENTLEMEN can be accom- 4 modated with board on reasonable terms, in the houSe, cormer of Great George and King streets, lately Occupied by Mf. “w" Hickey. Mrs. Saunperson, [sept. 6 1588.

LET—A Dwellin House on Orlebar myo LET—A ing ome

Street, containing nine rovms,

City FREE OF CHARGE. HENRY BEER.

Charhottetown, July 28, 1833,—taw aad wky.

jow. Apply to Heury Blatoh.

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