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EX AMINER.

‘VOL. 4:

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLA

ND, TUESDA Y DECEMBER

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[878 NO, 462,

Tur Dairy Examiner is Published every Evening. | OFFICE : INGS’ BULLDING, CORNER OF WATER | AND GREAT GEORGE STRERTS, Charlottetown, P. E. 1.

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e® Advertising at most moderate rates, Contracts may be made for monthly, quar- terly, or half yearly advertisements, on appli- Cael rail. L. COTTON, Manager.

PL RAILWAY. © Spesial Running Arrangement.

N AND AFTER MONDAY, NOVEM BER 4th a SPECIAL STEAMBOAT MAiL TRAIN will run as follows:—

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Going West.

Going East.

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i A. M. |} Ch'town Dp. 6.25) Summerside Dp. 6.05 Royalty Juc | ** 6.40,//Kensington * 6.33 N. Wiltshire} ‘‘ 7.20}/County Line; ‘* 6.58 Huntér River} ‘‘ 7.32/|Breadalbane | “ 7.05 Ellietts | ** 7.52)) Elliotts “7.13 Breatlalbane| ** 8.00}/HunterRiver; ‘‘ 7.33 County Line} ‘* 8.07!'N. Wiltshire} ‘‘ 7.45 Kensington | ‘. 8.32||Royalty Jne} “ 8.25 Summerside] ar 9.00)/Ch’town ar 8.40

C. J. BRYDGES, WM. McKECHNIE, (yen. Sup. Gov't Railways. Supt. P. BE. I. R. Oh’ town Oct. 30.—p ne ar h pres kca sp sj 3i

PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 10.

Fall and Winter Arrangement,

~ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, 1878,

; ‘trains Geing West.

| Nov. 30. 1878

ROBERT HARRI ARTST, FULL'S BRICK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET,

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PortTRAITS Painted from Life, the next six months.

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BROADWAY HOUSE,

BY MACKENZIE,

NHE = former **City Hotel,” now the Broadway House, Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is now open for Permanent and Transient Boarders.

The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished.

Lhe tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable.

A Suite of Rooms convenient for a small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House.

Nov. 23, 1878—tf

FRANK COX, M.D. 6.M.,

Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheur.

OFFICE APOTHECARIES Hatt.

Residence : Capt. Mutch’s, Water Street, next door to St. Lawrence Hotel.

N. B.—Particular attention paid to diseases of the chest and stomach.

Ch’town, Novy. 16, 1878—3m

E. G. HUNTER, —

Italian and American Marble, Monuments, Tablets, Headstones,

Cenrre Tasie Tors, BuREAU aND ComMmopE Tors, Was Bow. Siass, &c., &c.

Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. ga Designs furnished on application. ea Corner Hillsborough aud Kent Streets, Char- lottetown.

November 6, 1878.

JAMES HOBBS, —

CA BINET-MAKER, UPHOLSTERER, ETC,

; oe REMOVED from MecPhail’s Corner

to the premises just vacated by Mr.

Joun Srumpies, Prince Street, where, with

increased facilities, he is prepared to attend to

the wauts of his customers with punctuality and despatch, and on reasonable terms,

PainTine and Repairing neatly done. Picture Frames and Mouldings constantly

All kinds of Household Furniture made to

New Pattern School Desks made at short

war Don’t forget the place: PRINCE STREET f

(near the new Baptist Church in course o

DR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Jonnson’s).

BY SIDE DOOR. “éa Oct. 15-—-3m

STATIONS. No. No. 3 | Express. | Mixed. — Georgetown Dp 9.10 am) Cardigan Lalas " CARPETS cut and laid. M.Stew’t Jun all 05 « Royalty Jun. | *12.20 ~— on hand, or made up to order. Ch’town Oo Royal} Jun. ‘ Bop i Dp a P™ | order, cheap and good. N. Wiltshire “10.12 ** 1 $4465.49 Saad : Hanter River “10.28 5.03 « | notice. A first-class article. Breadalbane ce * sé “ee d, “é County Line | ‘11.18 7 7 5.51 . exedtian). Kensington 12.00 6.30 Charlottetown, Oct. 26, 1878— Summerside eS. bee. ° dp 2.40 ** W n ‘ec 3.32 sé Poke Win ” : re " Ol eary se " se ar 6.35 ‘ Alberton dp 6.40 * * . OK 66 Te ~~ _ | sa LNTRANCE Trains Going East. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 4 Express. | Mixed. Tignish | Dp 7.50am Ak ‘ ar 8.33 ‘* dp ae _ J. J, DAVIES O’ Leary ee Li ‘é Port Hill ee Wellington vy. Ba s id ar 12.50 pm op dp 2.30 * |Dp 9.45 am Kensi * 300 | "1015 County Line 3.40 ** *} $910, 56 *€ Breadalbane ‘3.3 T PTO} * i z Hunter River ‘6 4.28 ** | 911,46 “ Oct. 15, 1878—Sm N. Wiltshire m br - aaa pm Reyalt Jun. se 5. ee ce a sé cidade ar 6.00 ‘* jar 1.15 “ ; dp 2.55 “ Royalty Jun. " an : THREE PRIZES J Mt. Stewart } op 4.40 « G. MUGFORD, Cardigan ** 6.00 * Georgetown ar 6.25 *

SOURIS- BRANCH.

Going West. Geing East. 7 | Nob eo No.5 STATIONS. Mixed. ||STATIONS.| Mixed. '

| A.M. f P.M. Souris Dp 8.00|/|MtStw’tJnc/Dp 4.40, Harmony ** $.25}| Morell “ 62 St. Peters ** 9,40'|St. Peters “‘. £GS Morell ** 10,13)| Harmony *: 7.12 MtS’tw’tJne 10.55} | Souris ar 7.35

WM. McKECHNIE,

C. J. BRYDGES, Supt. P. H. I. R.

Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways Ch’town, Oct 30, 1878. p ne arh pres kea sp sj Gi _

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RANKIN HOUSE, GHABLOPIETOWN, PE 1

Proprictor (Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou).

HiS well-known Hotel is now open under the present management ; and, having been newly furnished throughout, - it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen.

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sole Licensee for - City and Queen’s County, for Lam. bert’s Patents for Permanent Photographs Being composed of Indian Ink and Parchment, they CANNOT FADE. ook Ist Prize at Previncial Exhi- bition last Fall at Georgetown; Diploma for Excellency of Work at New York, Jan. Ist, 1878—contesting with the United States and Dominion of Canada,—and

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Davip Witson’s Otp Sranp, Cu’rown. Oct. 5, 1878—3m-law

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THE RANKIN HOUSE,

to any address]

Tourists and others will receive eve tion-at the Wagstaff’s Hotel.

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THe Dairy EXAMINER.

- DECEMBER 10. 1878.

A year and a half have rolled away ; and the Dairy Examiner still lives.

Indeed it may now be truly said that the Dairy Examiner is one of the ‘ institu- tions” of the Province.

An appetite for a daily paper has been turmed; and, judging by the inereasing sales of the Dairy Examiner in the city, along

the line of railway, and in the various towns throughout the Province, it is doubtful if the people could live without their daily paper.

Hard though the times and dark the pros- pect of the coming winter, it is our inten- tion to continue the publication of the Dairy Examiner, so that the popular de- mand may be supplied.

Throughout the winter we intend to sup- ply to the public. by means of the Darmy EXAMINER, a daily telegratn containing news of all the notable events which shall tran- spire throughout the world in this great crisis of its history.

Through the Darry Examiner the people of the Island shall—from day to day—and, independently of the Northern Light or Muttart and Irving—be informed of what is transpiring in Afghanistan, in Russia, in Germany, tn the neighboring Republic, and most important of all—in the mother country.

We shall, if possible, send a special cor- respondent to report for the Darty Examr- NER the Parliamentary proceedings at Ottawa, with special reference to those which most directly and most deeply inter- est the people of this Island.

The local news shall be given through the Dairy Examiner promptly, truly and as full as possible.

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The War in Afghanistan.

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may help to an understanding of tle work which lies before the British troops in Af- |

ghanistan. It is apparently from the pen

of a military inan, who has made a study of | the ground, and whose previous comments

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World, on the operations of the British forces marching against the Afghans, exhibited much shrewdness and were borne out by subsequent facts ;—

THE ADVANCE ‘to THE SHUTAR-GARDAN.

The English General Roberts has really won an important victory in the Peiwar Pass, the topography of which has already been described to the readers of the World, and is reported to be pushing on for the Shutar-Gardan or Camel’s Neck. For practical purposes the reader may set down Dakka, where Sir Samuel Browne is ; Thull, whence General Roberts set ont; Cabul and Ghuznee as the four corners of a square, Dakka being at the upper right hand angle and Cabul opposite it, and Thull at the lower right hand corner, straight across from Ghuznce and diagonally from Cabul, The route by which General Roberts is ad- vancing forks so that he may make either Ghuznee or the Ameer’s capital his objec tive point. The Quetta column, operating against Candahar, is away to the south.

The Peiwar Pass, it was thought, would be as far as the English would advance this year, though late nail advices told that na- tive merchants coming from Cabul to Kohat had found the Shutar-Gardan Pass almost undefended, and public opinion so swaying for and against the Ameer that a speedy and signal success might end the war at once, Tne descent from the Pass is very gradual along a glade in the midst of undu- lations densely wooded with pine to Zabar- dast Kala, ten miles out from the town of Peiwar. At this village there is plenty of open encamping ground close to the Keira stream, but forage and provisions are scarce.

Up the Keira it is ten miles to Ali Khel; along the high right bank of the streams are several Jaji villages, while on the left spurs right down and command the road at different peints. Ali Khel is a large village of some fifty inclosures, each in itself a small fort; the houses are of two stories high, the‘lower being the stable for the family cattle and horses; provisions and forage are scarce, ‘but fuel is abundant.

From Ali Kehl it is thirteen miles to Hazar Darakht, the néxt point on the road by which General Roberts is advancing. The valley narrows in the first four miles from a width of two ‘niiles to half a mile. Here is the village of Rokian, with precipi- tous com.nanding peaks on either hand, clad with pine forests. There will certainly bea fight here, where some wecks ago the Ameer had already placed five guns in posi- tion. Beyond Rokian the mountains con- tinue to close in on the valley, which nar- rows to 200 yards in the next four miles. The country here consists of lofty ranges of mountains, high spurs from which run down to the bank of the stream, entirely com- manding the road. Their sloops are gener- ally very steepand in many places com- posed of loose shingle, in which landslips have often occurred ; pines and deodars cover the whole. Guns would have great difficulty in this march, owing to the rocks and stones which have been rolled down by floods and have settled in the bed of the torrent. No proyisions nor forage of any kind can be had. Uazar-Darakht is an un- inhabited elevated ylen, where there is barely room for one regiment to encamp, so that an advancing force will have to be generally scattered, and the place, as Lums- den says, would be a nasty one to be ai- tacked in.”

To Hazra (or Ochamarcha) it is eight miles. Two miles out comes the small square port of Jaji Thane, with two fiank- ing towers, but it is commanded in all di- rections by the surrounding hills. For the next five miles the ascent is much easier, the beds of the torrent being of gravel, then the surkhae Pass, on the watershed between the Khurum and Surkhel streams, is reached. It is short but very steep; the soil is a stiff red clay tha. is very slippery after rain. It is commanded by knolls on each side, and at the summit is a tower garrisoned by the Ghilzaes Hazra, a little beyond, down a slight descent, is a post like that of Jaji Thana. The camping ground is good and water is plentiful, but no provisions are to be had, and as for for- age the natives feed their horses on worm- wood. Elevation above the sea, 13,458 feet. The road is generally blocked with snow from December to April. Lumsden camped here in April, and two of his nine- teen horses! were frozen to death in the night.

The distance to the summit of the Shu- tar-Gardefi pass is two miles, a gradual as- cent along a narrow gorge commanded by peaks on all sides. The descent is exceed- ingly steep, with sharp zigzags, and very long. For wheeled carriages Lumsden pro-

sage of an army, and it would be useless to attempt it (except as a diversion) with a rigade of the best light troops, with moun- iin train batteries and held howitzers on elephants, but for these animals even the procuring of forage would be no easy mat- ter.

This is the evidence of one who has been over the ground, and a competent critic has pronounced the physical difficulties of the Khurum route greater than those of the Khyber. In November, 1856, General Chamberlain reconnoitered the ground thor- oughly to the summit of the Peiwar Pass. He records intensely cold weather (in the last week of the month), the thermometer going down to 22 degrees, or 10 below freezing, the sick list filling rapidly and sup- plies being scarce. The tracks beyond the Peiwar Pass are inhabited by the Jajis and Mangals, both fanatic clans, and the latter regarded as faithful to the Ameer’s cause. Looking at all the circumstances and con- tingencies a distinguished German military critic says that the Khurnum advance is a strategical move that may be attended with enormous results of success or of disaster. To send the army, which will have to act on its own resources, having no reserves be- hind it, into a little-known country — he de- clares dangerous in the highest degree, even against and unenterprising foe, and he as- serts that the Afghans, moving on the short interior line between the Khoordi, Cabul Pass and Peiwar could crush General Rob- ert’s force by itself and return to oppose General Browne's. Lieutenant-General Vaugban, however, ridicules the idea of such a junctien, which, he says, the Ger- manus have imagined possible because the maps show a road between the Khurum and Cabul valleys, which in reality is merely a track along which single travellers or small parties may make their way. In any case, unless the Ameer intends to let the cam- paign go by default, the advance to the Shutar-Gardan should be marked by severe jighting, and when General Roberts ad- vanees beyond the Peiwar Pass it can hardly be with any intention of wintering in the mountains.

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Naming the Baby.

‘* What shall we name the baby!” is an important question this year, for the.crop, like the wheat, was never better. It is rather soon to undertake to grade them as ‘* No. 1, No. 2, or rejected,” and your head and reputation are both safer to pronounce the entire lot No. 1 ; but the question as to names must be settled at once. One would think nothing was easier than naming the baby, for the world bas been full of names for 6,000 years, yet it is a subject that elicits the gravest discussion in the family, and reaches out to the ‘‘ advisory board” of the neighborhood, and often ends in open dissatisfaction, or a compromise by which the poor child goes through life carrying a prenomen crushing enough to break the con- stitution and make a life of the bearer mis- erable. A long name is always a disadvar- tage. For a boy who enters the marts of trade a double name is often a ‘safeguard, and especially so when the middle letter is one seldom used in proper names. The leading name should be short and easily spoken, as the fact is too apparent to every one that if such is not the case a nickname is sure to follow. The case of the girl is en- tirely different. No girl should be burden- ed with a double name no matter how many aunts and grandmothers are to be honored by so doing.. A girl should have a single name, and that should be pronoune- able and musical. Mehitabel or Jerusha, and like names, may be good and substan- tial enough, but a young lady sooner or later revolts. Every young lady, as a mat- ter of course expects to marry, and should not lose her family name by so doing, but simply add that of her husband. She should get her double name by this import- ant act of her life, and not before.

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Miscellaneous News.

The Ames Company of Chicopee have got have got on to the last 50,000 of the 200,000 Turkish sabres, and lack only 2,500 of having made 150,000 scabbards.

Mr. O. P. Patten, of Montreal, who is presey well known throughout all Canada, has

en commissioned by Governor Prescott, of New Hampshire, one of his A. D. C’s with the rank of Colonel.

A Parisian rumor says another couven- tion between England and Turkey cedes to England the port of Alexandrette, a seaport on the north of Syria, on the east coast of the Bay of Iskanderoon.

Gen. Banks has expressed his willingless to accept the position of United States Marshal of Massachusetts, now filled by Usher A. Butlerman. It is worth about $15,000.

Glasgow University has been bequeathed the magnificent legacy of £60,000 by a gentleman named Randolph. It is for building purposes, with the exception of £10,000, which is to remain intact for

nounces the pass impracticable, though

all time to come, and the interest of which

Mohammed Azim carried six-pounders over it cn stout camels. ‘‘ The rugged nature of the mountains overhanging both sides of this pass, with huge masses of naked lime- stone rock cropping out in every direction, offers cover to an enemyfrom which it would be difficult to dislodge him without great loss, and it would be difficult to withdraw cover- ing parties after the descent of the pass had been accomplished. In fact, supposing op- position to be offered here, it would be dif-

May 25, 1878,

May 18—2aw

is to be devoted to the repair of the build- ing. |

Mayor Beaudiy, of Montreal, wanted her Royal Highness the Princess to drive with him in Mrs. Tiffin’s carriage, which he. bor- rowed for the occasion, from the Bonaven- ture depot to the Windsor Hotel, but this was not exactly in accordance with the rules of etiquette, and his Worship was in- net that their Excellencies must drive alone.

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