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MARCH 10, 1884.

Remedy for Fires.

Tue following practical tests recently published in a Philadelphia journal, will afford food for thought just pow, when public attention is centred on this im- portant subject :

} ; . =3h)) ‘“‘Make property owners first responsidie | their pre- |

(as in France) for fires occurring in mises, unless proven to have been uvavoidable

or accidental and not attributed to criminal | ; ; jon the Panama

COPCICSINESS. : ‘Have enacted more rigid and practical

: ¢ j building laws, and have them enforced for the

protection of life and property.” ‘“‘Trans*orm our Fire Departments 1.to non- partisan org inizstions,

them political hospitals for broken down wire- | There

pullers, and thas elevat and improve the standing of our national tire service.

‘Labor witheut ceasing until the water in all large cities (and small ones too) is fully equal to all reasonable demands.”

“Practice common sense for self protection.’

The advice is worthy of consideration.

In respect to the Fire Department the |

remarks are uot applicable to our case, as our volunteer brigade is composed of brave and self-sacrificing men who would be a credit to any city. It only requires improved appliances to make it one of the most efficieut Fire Departments in the Dominior.

Water is, without doubt, the most im- portant element to the solution of the question; but as the matter has already been discussed at a public meeting and referred to a committee of influential citizens for consideration, we shall defer further comments on the subject until they make their report and formulate some scheme.

The enactment of proper building laws should receive the immediate attention of the City Council, and we urge upon them the necessity of moving in the matter while the Legislature is in session, so as to obtain power to enforce such by-laws.

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Provincial Legislature—House of Assembly.

Tue first division took place on Satur- day on the motion to adopt the report of the Committee on tenders for pricting the Jourvals. The Opposition moved ne ameudment, but they divided agaitet the original motion. If the vote had been carried against the adoption of the report, the cousequence would be no Journal of the proveedings. It surely must be some of the ignoramuses ot the Opposition that cried ont“ No.” But it is a wonder that such old Parliameutaries 4s Messrs. Perry and Sinclair did not know better than to go forth. it appears that éhere are so manyof theOpposition aspiring to be leaders, that they do not pay any attention to their constitutional leader, Mr. Perry. However the report was adopted 15 to 10, and the Journal will be printed.

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The Poet Laureate.

Iwo or three months ago Alfred Teanyseon published a poem in America for which he received the handsome little sum of $1,000. His theme was “Spring.” It contained only eight short and _ silly verses. ‘The poem was the veriest rub- bish—it did not contain one originai idea. Better poems have been writtea by school boys, who were never heard of outside their own settlements. If received anonymously in any newspaper or magazine office, it would be thrown audiguantly into the waste basket. ‘This shows the value of a reputation.

Tennyson's place in literature was gained early in his career by reason of two or three charming poems, which were so unlike everything that preceeded or that has followed them, that it is hard to realize that the same hand had penned them all. Tennyson’s produetions, for the last ten years, have been failures. He has writien nothing since 1870 which justifies his claim to poetic greatuess. Longfellow and Bryant both lived 40 a good old age aud they rounded out their literary ‘labors majestically. The nearer they approached the unseen world, the grander and sweeter became their songs. Some of their latest poems were the richest in imagery, and the most radiant in description. In their late years, they wrote with

productions it was at the beginning and not at the close of their lives. They died without a corenet, but they left a prouder title to distinction—one that will] Shine with increasing lustre as the years that are yet unborn continue to roll by.

Tennyson has been recently elevated to the peerage. This honor, if it may be called an honor, comes at «@ time when his greatness as a poet exists only in the recollections of men who ~efuse to permit the rhymes of his later years to obliterate their appreciation of his more praiseworthy work of a generation ago. Tennyson belongs to the peerage of Britain by the act of human hands. Bat if he belongs to the ‘peerage of the immortals,” it will be by right of his “*Idylls of the Kioz,’ Exoch **Mund,” sley Hall—the productions of his earliest years. Ile will be remembered kindly as the sweet singer of Victoria’s earlier reign. long afer the honor conferred on him by the British peerage shall have been forgotten. How trifling and! evanescent are all merely human honors compared with the far grander ones of the mind andthe heart. It is better to go to the grave as Longfellow and Bryant went, wearing the crown of their

art, than to pays thither as Tenny-

the haud of amaster. if) Wednesday. there was wickedness in any of their|

Arden,” | '

DAILY Kx AMINER. | aoe seems doomed to do, tricked with the

trumpery of an earthly peerage, but | bearing no fiuiiilment of the bright pro- /mises of his arly manhood. Tennyson, ‘therefore, wes a far grander man in his ‘youth and his power, than he is now in his age and his seat among the peers ol England. lu other words, ‘Tennyson the | Poet is a far greater man than Tennyson ithe lord.— Com,

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Editorial Notes.

—Every little while we hear through the press of great activity in the work Canal. It is probable, |however, that what has already been accomplished has not entirely met the expectations of those who are interested

and no longer make|iu the completion of this great work

are many natural obstacles to be overcome, some of them no doubt very perplexing ones to the engineers incharge. The liability to freshets in Chagres River is of this kind, but it is thought that this difficulty has been surmounted and that the work will now move forward more rapidly. The apvouncement that the Canal will be opened for traflic by 1888, although some- what premature, may serve to awaken greater interest in the scheme generally as well asa bait to attract capital to the undertaking.

Items from Souris.

The first genuine winter snowstorms, have paid us a visit at last. They were fully expected as a necessary accompani- ment to this time of the year. Old residents say that the winter has been, on the whole, one of the very finest, roads generally good, storms of short duration, aud many really pleasant days, Ths changes of temperature have certainly been quick and sudden, resulting to many in a plentiful crop of toothaches, neuralgia, and severe colds: the natural consequence of ons day being ever so far away down helow zero, and the next smilingly warm like genia! spring—such is this world in all things—ever changing.

One of the pleasant ways to pass the winter evenings is in enjoying the ‘“gociables,” gotten up to pass away an hour or two in merry greetings, and happy intercourse. They are enjoyable alike to both old and young, good for both body and mind. Every fortnight some good lady opens’ her jhouse for this meeting of friends, and they meet and part, only to long to meet again. Our Methodist friends intend che erection of a parsonage in conuection with their work here, and the ‘‘sociable” is one very good way of helping them to accomplish their desires. Parsons, as a rule, are just duilt about the same as other mortals—at least thaé js the notion Christian people have— and congregations honor themselves in making their Parsons ez comfortable as possible. Indeed Souris gaaintains a creditable position in ihis respect; every congregation loves and respects their own minister, and everybody jikes every other bodies minister, and everybody jikes their own minister the best—a touch of human nature, agreeable alike to both Priests and Parsons, and quite in accordance with true Christian sentiment. We wish our Methedist friends true success in every j respect in their labors to erect a suitable dwetligg for their clergymen.

The Baptist denomination are progress- ing favorably in their e@ortg to raise for themselves a suitable house of worship

plan of the building indicates quite an im- provement in our local architecture.

Some of us are much amused at the pro- ductions signed ‘“‘Guy de Montgomerie.” Tho ast arrival from the ‘‘metwopolis”’ of the world declares them to be ‘‘veway stwange! deoced cetwange! incompwehen- sibly stwange!” Your covrespondent ranks among the ‘‘ignorant, indeed,’ ag to the pedigree of the gentleman—whoever ke may be, His ‘‘lineage” is an interesting item. We should pey eyery respect to the scion of a noble house, which dates ita existence ‘‘beyond the days of the Holy Wars.” yond. Afriendly son of Erin gives it as his opinion that, no doubt, the ‘‘lineage”’ is a very ancient one; and says, ‘‘I weuldn’t wonder a bit but he is some relation to Howly Moses, or a lineal descendant of Balaam’s Ass.” Of course the idea is pre- posterous; but we await further develop- ments, ‘“P. B. P.” “is a ‘*veway gweer” cuss, too,

about them. Quet },omines, tot sententic.

Th: beautifal snow postponed the meet- ing of our local Court,’ The appototmentg of Llospector and sub-Inspegtoer under the

comment. A meeting of the King’s County Branch of the Dominion Temperance Alliance took place at St. Peter's last Spirited addresses were de- livered, good rerolutions passed, and not the least doubt of it, good results will follow. We all know that King’s County temperance workers, bot priests and peopie, are thoroughly ja earnect,

Your Parliamentary correspondence from the pen of the much esteemed and able editor of Tap Examiner, attracts con- siderable attention, and meets with much favorable comment hers. over 2,000 rebels ‘“‘licked the dust” in Egypt at the bidding of the English soldiers, created quite a sensation. Some enthusiastig goula felt like lighting bonfires.

The solemn seasca of Lent is upon us, and the Catholic world towg to lessons of holy penitence. Itis a “holy o€ jiglies”

draw nearer to a “‘tried and tempted Redeemer,” as the Christian werid has ever done since the @awa of Gospel truth. ‘ould all the Lenten seasons of the Chris-

“the May Queew,” and ‘ Lock. | tian centuries p2ss before us, how they would thrili us with their holy joys, and}

subdue us with their sagreg sorrows. all the world,

/ O'er in every jand, and every

penitential prayer and song.

**) bountiful Creator,

Hear the prayers, which with an humble

fear,

Before thy throne, this Sacred Lent,

We pour from hearts with sorrow reut.”

And the prayers cease not, and the spirit of the song dies not. off victorious after forty days of trial, and becanté mors than conyuerer over death

The contract will soon be given, and the’

We are not just told how far be-'

Yet people differ in opinion |

new License Law, have occasioned much |

é djreviors act?

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The news that |

is the lives of avy, when men and women) eiculd raise their voices against this act,

clime, all peoples of the earth, join in| with the directors, and helped to shield ;them, and frowned with indifference upon |the efforts of poge people who ha¥e bgen

| goes to prove that they deliberately prepared He who came | to place obstacles in the way of the ordinary depesitors. The heavy depositors remain.

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aud the grave, hears the faintest whisper, and the Angels and Saints rejoice, for there is great joy in their presence. During our Lent ‘‘the prayers cease not, and the spint of the song dies not,’ again it ascends on high :—

“Whilst we by fast our flesh restrain,

Permit us not to sin again;

Oh, may our hearts, from vices free,

For ever live and burn for Thee!’

And millions and tens of millions of Christians sing it, and thousands and tens of thousands of altars pray it, and all’! Heaven hears it, and the eterna! mansions pour forth their myriad throng, and from Throne to portal, a pcean of matchless glory—heaven's music rolls along the golden streets, echoes o’er the crystal seas, reverberates fromthe jasper walls, pea’s from ‘the towers of glory,” and bursts through the gates of pearl, on its way to earth. There is ‘‘a communion of saints”; we join in praise, The Resurrection Morn brings triumphant hallelujahs! All is Glory; Glory for the sinner, Glory for the Chareh, Glory in Heaven; thea Lent is over, the forty day’s Lent, but its work is stamped “ Errrna.”

The next meeting of the local branch of the Dominion Temperance Alliance takes place on Wednesday evening, the 12th inst., in the Agricultural Hall. Speakers, and many friends from a distance, are expected. A large audience is requested. See adver- tisement.

LANCASTER.

Souris, March 7th, 1884.

ae ~@ LETTERS TO THE EITOR, on >———

The Bank of P. EH. Island.

Dear Str,—The unfortunate depositors are doomed to further disappointment, by the recent injunction placed upon the as:e's of the Old Bank. It appears that the Crown is ashield for Governments—General and Provincial. The definition of Dr. Johnson that patriotism js the last refuge of a scoundrel, can be medified; and now we find the Crown is the last refuge tg shield Governments against all wrongs, This refuge, or, as it is commonly termed, the prerogatives of the Crown, are of various kinds. Let us see in what respect by right the Government should now take prece- dence of other creditors. The King’s pre- rogatives are cither direct or incidental. The direct have reference io the King’s political persop, considered merely by itself, without referenea to any other ex-

dors, creating peers, making war, and peage. Henco the direct prerogatives are of. three kjnds; (1) his royal character; (2) his royal authority; (3) his royel income. His incidental prerogatives bear always relation to something elce digtingt from the King’s person, and are indeed oniy exceptions in favor of the Crown to those general rules that are established for the rest of the community. The law ascribes to the King: Ist, the attribute of sover- eignty or pre-eminience; 20d, in his political capacity the attribute of perfection; 3rd, his perpetuity. The zubjecis of the Crown re not destitnte of a remedy in case he Crown should invade their rights. Thel. w

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avy person hes in point of property‘a just dematid upon {ho King, he must petition him in his Court of Chanse¢y where his Chancellor will administer right as a mattey of grace. It iaa maxim of the law thatthe King can do no wrong, and this is the shield of Governments under the Crown. The next saint to be looked at is the King’s fiscal prerogatives. These are define? to be ‘either ordinary or extraordinary. His | ordinary revenue has either subsisted time out of mind; or alse has been granted by Parliament by way of purchase, or exchange foe guch of the King’s revenues as were! found ineonveasgnt to the subject. The most of the Jaws for assertappjing, limiting and restraining the royal prerogative jaye | been made within the compass of littie more than a century past, from the Petition of Right 3, car, 1, to be present, so that the powers of the Crown are, to all appear- \ance, greatly curtailed and Ciminished since reign of King James the First, particularly by the abolition of

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Coyrts in the reign of Charlés the First,, jand singe the revolution by the strong and emphatical words in whieh opr liberties are asserted in the Bill of Righig end Ast of Settlement. The Dominion Government's deposits must be among the Crown's extra- ordinary fisca] prerogatives—extraordinary because the amount is more than unusually large,and extraordinary because the Govern- ment should have ascertained the solvency of the Bank of P. E. Island before they

allowed their money to be placed upon

|had to make returns to the Government, jand if they made fraudulent returns it wag the g@suty of the Dominion Government to project phe property and persons of gather gepositors as well as their owa. Pay this been done} Not if the Government now means to act big dog and pounce upon the remains of this rotten old bank and not leave a solitary rib of the stinking carcase for the poor | old widows, maidens and orphans who had ‘their all in this “‘Old Bank.” How do the They appear to be the most high-tsne@d apd elevated Christians in the land, They occupy’ posibions of irasi and | power, and from what we see in the Regis!ry} | Office they appear to be flush with money and quite unconcerned about the spfferers injured by their gross negligence and mis- management. The Government of this Dominion ehould uot take or claim any advantage over the other créditors, because they are to blame in not watching and | looking into the financial aspect of the | Bank. Our representatives in Parliament

| and as the Cyown is said to be the fountain | of honor, privilege and justice, sureiy they | will consider the clainys of the othey un- | fortunate creditors end refrain from taking} | their money to make up for past negligence. | The depositors should have acted unitedly |frou: the frst and puli together—instead of

| doing ao, the heavy depositors rather sided

lendeavoring to obtain justice and jredress for their grievances. The very fact that the directors have retained

nearly all the lewyers in Charlottetown

ing aloof amd lowiwing that @ vigbrous

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irinsic circumstances, ag sending ambgssa- |

has provided a femédy' ia cases gf boil! private injury and publid oppressitn. ‘Af

the Star Chamber and High Comusipajon |

deposit there. ‘The‘Direvtors of this Bank i

prosecution required more money than was

at the disposal of the poorer depositors, they felt secure; and no doubt they now feel secure and glad to see the Dominion Government take all. But a day of retri- bution will come, and justice, though slow, will surely coms, aud tyrants and oppressors will yet nest theirdoom So the deposit- ors should yet put their shoulders to the wheel and propare for the coming action against the directors. Yours truly, A Depositor. ’, E. Island, March 6, 1884. A Public Nuisance !

Sir,—None other community than ours wonld, for so longa time, have tolerated the nuisance that is to be met with at our church doors on Sabbath days. A half- witted individual, apparently as much of a knave as he is a fool, is al!owed to stand on the sidewalk as the congregation retire and abuse and denounce them in the strongest terms, and in the most vociferous manner. The Svipendiary Magistrate, it is understood, advised Ministers, who:e churches were annoyed in this way, to have recourse to the police, Will the City Marsliall be good enough to have his force so distributed at twelve o'clock on each Lord's day as to take the creature into casiody on a repetition of the offence, and, ifa fit subject for the asylum, let him be sent to Faleonwood. Otherwise let him learn in durance vile, that there is a law to preserve the sanctity of the Sabbath, and the peace of chureh-going citizens.

W oRSHIPPER.

IceHummock Again Heard From,

AN AWFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS. By Telegraph. ]

Care TorMENTINE, March 10, One hundred and thirty-four bags mails and twenty-five passengers, and a large lot of luggage there; and a big number of mail bags and ten passengers at Cape Traverse. With the assistance of a steamer all this delay would have been obviated. With these winds there is nothing to hinder the “Northern Light” from ‘running’ up and lending a hand, which she cogld very effec-

tually do. .

Jor Hummocs.

COME ONE! GOME ALL! Souris Temperance Alliance, A PUBLIG MEETING

will be held in the

Agricultqral fall, Chapel Street,

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Weduesday Next, 12th March.

The meeting will be addressed by promin- ent temperance workers from a distance.

Hour of meeting—7 8° p. m.

By order of the Committee,

D. F, McDONALD, P. P., President,

Souris, March jv.

VALUABLE |

REAL ESTATE.

rypo be sold by AUCTION, on the premises, = on

Friday, the 4th of April next,

AT iWHLVE O'CLOCK RS | dg © j if not previously disposed of by firivate sale, all that plot of land sitdated’on Kent * treet, the former site of the ‘North American Hotel,” teagurigg jorty-two feet on Kent Street and extending back 190 feet, poysiper with all the stone, etc., in the cellars therec{ This affords a good opportunity for any per- son wishing to jpvest in a hotel, it having been used a such for the last forty ears. Terms easy and made known at ode WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer. Ch'towa, Maren 10.—si wkly i eaje

‘ AHMPORTED ~ af SHED WHEAT 4h 4

A LREADY RECEIVED, 500 bushels

L White Russian, and to arrive by ‘*North- ern Light,” 1,000 bushels White Russian and 100 wshels White and Red Fife. Vell ‘ my “‘CULTIvArORS: (FCjDE AND Sere Cava LOGUE tor 1884 (ready 20th” March), whicli is a book of thirty-two large pages, with forty- five illustrations of the ec sie FLOWERS ang VEGETABLES, and directions for cul- ture of nearly 250 yarigties of FLow:R, Vage- TABLE and AGRIGULPURAL SKEDg.

i have the largestand best Steck ef Secds ever offered for sale in Prince Edward Island. My “Culti- vators’ Guide” tells how to get and grow them, Send on your name and post office

address, and I will send you a copy, free. Address,

George Carter,

Seecman,

Chitown, March 1.

LOBSIER F/CTORY

FOR SALE,

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T South Side East Puint, Good fishing

ground, plenty room and good fisher. men, Fished only two years. Will eel! or reat very low. Good plant. Enquire of

JAMES McGREGOR, Bothwell P.O. March 10-—}i pd ,

FOR SALE.

50 loads Kindljing Wood 200 cords Hardwood, 300 cords Softwood, 6 000 Longers,

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Apply to JOSEPH MAHAR,

Cumberland Street, Ch'town, March 8—=i

particylars and prices are given in !

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FIRE ILNSURANCE OH BN CLA I 2. ESTABLISHED A. DB. 18386.

COMPANY

Invested Funds, $30,632,000 ; of which OVS 111 1ON DOLLARS is invested im ¢anmada. —— (

General Reserve and Fire RKe-imsuracce Fund, SUVEN MEILLIGW BPFWO FUWERE DD Bet Ate DOLLARS.

0 ‘; This Company will now do a general bustness in the City ang

Province, Risks taken daily by

R. R. FITZGERALD,

W.& A. BROWN & £9,

—HAVE— a SUM Orr Og mE RE IED Byuoivid ’ FOR THE PRESENT, IN THE c

store formerly occupicd by HA. Harvie, QUEEN STREET, NEARLY OPPOSITE WATSON’S DRUG STORE,

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Jh’towa, March 6,

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DESBRISAY & ANGUS,

AGENTS OF Li:

QUEEN AND AGRICULTURML VKSUBAKCE COMPANIES

\ 7 HILE thanking the Citizens of Charlottetown for their, : past patronage, and assistance during the late fire, have to — announce that the-- have taken the office in fh

wtevenson’s Building, CORNER QUEEN AND SYDNEY STREET

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Where they are prepared to do business Ch'town, Feb. 24, 1884,

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GREAT SALE OF Vottons,

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We have just opened a large Stock of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PRINTS, NEW SPRING STYLES, Received Before the Advance in Duty.

Cece conte) ()5 me

We have on immense stock of

GREY AND WHITE coTTons,

Purebased when the Cotton market was at the lowest point of depression.

Kieecy Cottens. sheeting Cettens,

Pillow Cottons,

TABLE LINEN AND NAPKINS, ‘Powels and ‘Vewelling,

TAPCSTRY, SCOTCH AND BRUSSELS CARPETS,

And other House® Furnishing- Goods,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

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CHOICE TEAS, VERY CHEAP!

By the Chest, Half-Chest, and Quarter-Chest, Also, in Packages of 5, 10, 15 and 20 pounds, |

GEO. DAVIES & CO.

UOh’town, Peb. 11, 1884,