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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

WEDNESDAY,

MAY 81. 1898.

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More Information Wanted.

AILY EXAMINER,

~ MAY 31, 1893.

A.LrHoven the time for receiving tenders for building the hull of the new steamer of the Southport ferry expired on Thursday last, the 25th May, no public announce ment concerning the result has been made The Patriot is as silent as the grave on the subject. It is stated, however, that the contract has been awarded to Sol. Clarke, of Mount Stewart, for a snug sum.

We ask the Patriot to publish the names of the tenderers, the amuunt of each tender and the date and time each was received and opened at the Pubiic Works office. The Commissioner of Public Works will hardly refuse our contemporary this infor- mation.

it is more than hinted that the man who made the tender for Sol Clarke did not see the specification at the Public Works Depart- ment until the 25th May—the day on which the tenders were to have been opened and considered. If this be so, the tenderer must be an unusually clever man, and 4 lightning calculator. How a man could take a necessarily hurried look over the specification for an important contract such as the construction of the hull of anew steamer and figure out the most minute details and get in a tender cn time is beyond the conception of ordinary mortals. Perhaps the Patriot's explanation will make the matter clear.

It wiil be remembered in this connection that during the late session of the Legisla- ture Hon. Mr. Peters stated that it was the intention of the Government to have this steamer built on the Island, at Mount Stewart if possible. It would seem from this that it had been decided beforehand where the steamer was to be built. Whether it was decided who should get the contract for the building of the steamer is, ef course, not known.

In view of the Leader's statement in the House of Assembly that the hull was to be built on the Island, it seems absurd to advertise for tenders ix the Halifax and St. John papers—to expend the people's money in advertising in provinces where the con- tract was not to be carried out.

When the Patriot makes the explanation asked for we may have something more to aay on the subject.

Notes and Comments.

—It is announced that Hon. Mr. Bowell has received a letter from the High Commis- sioner stating that owing to the drought ip the south of England thera is likely to be a

ood market there for Canadian hay and rley of good quality; also that all boards of trade in Canada hare been supplied with copies ef the precis of tariffs of Australia, in view of the commencement of a direct steamship line.

—From a late issue of the New York World we learn that the shrinkage in the rice of industrial stocks since January aa amounted to more than $105,000,000. The shrinkags in the value of twenty-nine leading railroad and other stocks has amounted to about $300,000,000. The total shrinkage in the value of stock traded in on ‘Change is estimated there at about $500,000,000 The total loss to all persons directly and indirectly affected has probably been nearly or quite double that amount.

—It is pleasing to learn from the Oxford, Ont., Tribune that the Mount Elgin Dairy Station, which previous to his coming here was in charge of Mr. T. J. Dilion, makes a highly satisfactory report of its winter butter making. The station was in oper. ation from November 25th to April Ist Milk was furnished by 95 patrons. The quantity of milk soosieall at the station was 497,274 lbs, The quantity of butter manu factured was 23,798 lbs. The quantity of milk required to make # pound of butter was 20.89 lbs. The average net price real- ized for butter was 22 84 cents per lb. The net value to the patrons was 94.66 cents per 100 Ibs. of milk.

PROCEEDS FOR SALE OF BUTTER. Sold to sundry persons as

CES WER .000 cuss 5,200 lbs. $1215 53

Bold to sundry persons as tJ W Robertson.... 100 24 00

Shipped to Montreal as per Thos Shaw........ 3,050 663 21

Shipped to Great Britain as per J W Robertson. 2,808 547 56

Sold to Fitzgerald, Sera- oe ere 8,492 2038 00 Sold to patrons........ -+4,148 947 56 23,798 $5436 44

Charge for mfg 23,798 lbs butter

OR DOE Ts o.nhne 000 <2 ener $ 713 94 Divided among patrons....... 4722 56 $5436 44

These returns are very gratifying, and should be a strong incentive to this Pro- vince to try winter butter making.

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Forest Frres —There are several heavy fires in the woods in Westmorland county, N. B., and considerable anxiety is felt for the sefety of large lots of logs and lumber in seme sections. On the road from Sackville to Dorchester fires r all day Saturday, and it was only with difficulty that teams coald = In the vicinity of Midgic, on the Cape

ormentine line, the fire on Saturday was nearing a point where J. L. Black has about $5,000 worth of sawn lumber piled and where Harvey Copp bas a brow of logs of nearly the same value. The rain of Sunday kept the fire down, but was not sufficient to kill it out. The of these fires is supposed to be fishing parties on the 24th, who neglected to put out their camp fires. — Presa.

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Crean Ur.—Citizens will kindly remem- bet that this isthe season of the year for cleaning up their premises. Already Marrhal Cameron, Acting Sanitary Officer, has made s circuit of the city in connection with this matter, and is now on his second visitation. To-day he had three summonses issued for persons who neglected to act vpon notice given upon his previous call.

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The World's Exposition

A Glance Through the State

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(Special correspondence of The Exam-ner.) Eacu of tha states of the great North American Republic has a ** State Bul ling here. The state buildings collectively foru a large community by themselves Ever) style of architecture of every age of th world isin some degree represented |

them; and;there aresome sty'es represente: which are entirely new andoriginal Gener ally the Jolder states—those which are is noneed of advertisement—hav ny build ny: principally for the comfort and convenience of visitors, resting-places for their sons an

daughters, headquarters where they may give and receive ivformation, chat wit! their friends, writs their letters or read

their newspapers from home. It is need- less to say that each of them is typical of the highest standard of taste and refine- ment held by those on whose behalf they have been constructed. Massachusetts, for instance, has given to the visiting world a stately mansion in the stylejof Queen Anne, with furniture to match. There is a fire in the open hearth which is grateful to visitors tothe ‘** Windy City” even on this 27th day of May. The rooms and the furniture are square and stiff and quaint. Yet there isin them such elegance and beauty as makes one doubt that the standards of the latter days are higher than those of the pre-revoluticnary period. Here we see some of the very old chairs, tables, beds, writing-desks, used by the fathers of the Commonwealth, and yet the Declaration of Independence has been signed. We see, too, examples of the old time household treasures of art, and many things of great historic interest, including autograph letters of Gevernor Hancock and other political celebrities, and poems as written by their authors. From one of the latter | quote—

“« What is beauty, but God as he comes to the

eye, And Hope but God present in sorrow ?”

‘Virginia building” isa fac-simile ot the ** Mount Vernon Mansion ””—the home of George Washington. The small rooms, with their low ceilings, are in striking con- trast with the largeness and highness of the grand mansions of these latter days. Here we see several of the articles of furniture used in Washington's house, besides a num- ber of other interesting and rare antiques. The chair upon which the *‘ Father of his Country ” sat, the table at which he dined, a fac-simile of the bed upon which he laid, —these things make the Virginia building exceedingly interesting to all visitors.

New Jersey, Maine, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, Rhode Island, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and others of the older States have admirable buildings elegantly furnished. There are in all these, as well as in those of Massachusetts and Virginia, evidences of a desire to re- tain artistic standards in the construction and decoration of American homes.

Deeidedly the largest state building upon the exposition grounds is that of Illinois. The various productions of the state are here pourtrayed— not forgetting the greatest of them all—Abraham Lincoln’s coat worn, at the time he was assassinated, and many other mementoes of the great pres:dent are here shown. Here also are exh bited, in large glass cases, the various flags borne by the Iliinois regiments at the time of the rebellion of the South. Some of these dags are 80 tattered and torn that a patriotic sight-seer was moved to say : *‘You bet — they've been out in the storms. ‘‘Specimens of the agricultural implements used by the aborigines of the stone age are curious and interesting So are the fishjwhich swim in artificial lakelets in the midst of this building. The school and coilege exhibits also aiford object lessons of great value, and the stuffed animals and birds of the state are worthy a passing notice.

A splendid exhibition of taxidermy is the chief attraction of the Kansas building. All the wild animals of the state are here shown —as natures] as in lbfe. The Kansas build- ing is worthy of a visit for the special pur- pose of seeing this exhibit, though the tamer productions of the country are also wellshown init. There are, indeed, no people on earth who can ‘“‘show up” the attractions and advantages of their country to better advantage than American citizens This is evident, particularly in the State of Washington building. Every part of this building is made to tell of the wealth of this territory in the forest and the mine, in the field and in the sea. Its walls—about a hundred and fifty feet long—are made up of log", every one of which extends its whole length. Some of these logs are four or five feet in diameter, and where cut off, at a distance of one hundred and fifty feet from the bise, are still two feet in diameter. Here we have given at once a better idea of the great fertility of the soil than could be given by any written or printed state- ment, In the interior of the building there are arranged magnificent exhibits of fruit, grains and grasses, and of gold, iron, coal and fish. There are exhibits, too, showing that Washington is already well advanced in respect to its schools.

South Dakota also needs immigrants; and its exhibit is, also, a great advertise- ment. Among the things shown in this building are a number of highly polished and very beautiful specimens of petrified wood. California, too, makes a show which is designed and is not unlikely to produce the fever which impels our young men to go West. Thore is no resisting the arguments here set forth in the carefully selected and magnificent products of the fields, orchards, forests and mines of Cali- tornia. The owner of a certain Californian ranch made oath before « certain A. P. Bentley that alfalfa specimens of which he has on exhibition, averaged ten tons to the acre ‘or several years consecutively; and the sftidavit is put up in « conspicuous place.

At the door of the North Dakota build- ing is a stuffed ox attached to a cart, repre- sented as the only means of transpor ation West and North of St. Paul previous to 1871. In view of this representation, the wonderful progress of the West and North, made appsrent at the Exhibition, is the more striking Even in the e’ezanzies of de- corative handicraft these West r. St .:e3 and Provinces seem to be not one whit behind

constructed entirely of rough stones and unhewn logs; yet it is a thing of beauty, showing what good taste can do with rude materials.

Court of Chancery.

The Trinity Term of the Court of Chan- cery opened this morning. The first case is one brought by William Dodd and ninety-five othar complainants, represent: ing $12,000 odd in amounts, against Wil: ‘tam Heard, R:chard Johnson, LL. Beer, F. 8S. Moore snd others, trustees of the late Methodis': School and others, repre- eating a small amount over $3,000 in subscriptions The suit is beiag heard »-fore Vice Chancellor Hensley, anda very arge degree of interest in manifested in he proceedings. The following com-

iasinants were present in Cvurt : Judge ilky, Hon. T. W. Dodd, William Dodd, Viliiam Weeks, Hon. L. C. Owen, Wil-

sm E. Dawson, John Ings, Simon Davies, Chomas Morris, Charles MHeartz, John stumbles, S. W. MeMurray, Frederick LePage, and others whuse names we did ivt learn, The complainants are subscrib- ers to the fund for the erection and main- tenance of the above School, and claim a return of their subscriptions on the ground that the purposes for which they were con- tributed have ceased to exist—the School having become detunct and the building sold by the Trustees to the City School Board. The above-named Trustees resist the re- turn of the subscriptions, claiming the right te ro‘ain the principal and apply the interest to other objects, such as Women’s Christian Temperance Union, gymnasium in connection with the Y. M C., A., lectures on botany by Mr. Biin in extension of Sackville College, training of nurses in the Protestant Hospital, and the education of children in the Bog school, &c,, &c.

Mr. Stewart represents the complainants and has been engaged all the morning read- ing the pleading and opening the case. Mr. Dawson, one of the complainants, is now being examined. Mr. Davies, Q.C., and F. Peters tor the defendant Trustees.

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Important te Horse Owners.

Srr,—The managers of the Dominion Horse Directory, of Toronto, offer an ex- cellent opportenity to owners and breeders of horses for sale to have their horses enter ed in their catslogue, which will be distrib- uted at the World’s Fair next autumn. The following extract from an important letter written to me by the Registrar of the Directory shows that breeders anil owners of first-class horses in this Province should take advantage of the means thus placed within their reach for direct communica- tion with intending purchasers of superior horses :

“We would respectfully suggest that your Association and breeders and horse owners of your Provinces generally cannot be too active in securing the great advan- tages that are now cffered through the Directory, to enable youc Province as a whcle to set forth and publish to the world information relating to the high quality and excellence of its horses.”

The managers of the Dominion Horse Direetory have arranged for the publication of their catalogue in time for distribution at Chicago by the first of September next, while Canadian horses are being shown there.

It will, therefore, be necessary that all entries from this Province be made by the 15th of August next.

For entry forms and other particulars

apply to A. MacN«rii1, Sec’y. P. E I. Stock Breeders’ Ass'n. Ch’town, May 29, 1893. —— ~~ em e— - USE SKODA’S DISCOVERY, the great

blood and nerve remedy.

F. W. Hears, of Toronto, was cured of a cough that followed la grippe, by using Hawker’s Telu He wrote Mr. Bawker a grateful letter of acknowledgment.

Pucrustic. —- Particulars of tiie Hall Slavin mill say that Hall got in a lucky blow early in the battle and Slavin was groggy afterwards. Slavin was the choice, but Hall completely outgenerallec. him at every point,

Stanton Abbott, the English lightweight, and Andy Bowen have been matched to fight at New Orleans shortly.

O. S. MerseReavu said he never received as mach benefit from all the other medicine - ever took as he did from Hawker’s

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A Boom in Business.

Last week Mark Wright & Co. loaded three schooners for Cape Breton ports, containing 100 dozen chairs, 18 dowan rock- ers, 200 bedsteads, 50 washstands, 100 tables, 13 bedroom suits, 26 lounges and 72 mattresses, besides a large quantity of miscellaneous furniture,

Tais week they are loading the uchr. R. W. Smith for the same ports, and shipping three car loads of furniture to Hotel Acadia, Lorne Beach. They report more orders on their books to-day than at any time in the past.

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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Srxorat Dasrafoues to THe Examiner.

Another Sensational Murder.

Fatt River, Mass, May 31.

This city is in a state of intense excitement due to the discovery of an atrocious murder, rivalling in many respects the Borden tragedy The victim is Miss Bertha Manchester, aged 22, wholived at a farmhouse four miles from the city Hall. She was lastseen alive ahout 7.30 yesterday morning, when her father lett for the city accompanied by his son and hired boy, to deliver milk. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon they returned and found the girl on the floor of the kitchen with her head frightfully mutilated, the skuli crushed to jelly, and the body covered with blood, A bloody axe was found in a wood pile. The girl’s room had been rane sacked and some money and a watch were gone. The neighbors across the road heard no unusual noise about the place. Manchester keeps several large dogs and,it is considered strange that tiey made no commotion. There is no elue to the assasin.

Seed Grain and the Free List.

MonTREAL, May 31.

It was stated at the Board of Trade meet- ing yesterday that a correspondent at P. EF. Island wrote advocating that grain imported for seeding purposes should be placed on the free list. The council favored the idea and decided to reply that if the local Board of Trade of P. K. Island would take the matter up they would support it.

Bishop Courtney Honored. QvuEBEC, May 31. At the convocation of Bishops College yesterday, the honary degree of D. D. was conferred upon Bishop Courtney, of Nova Scotia.

Cold Day for the Grits.

Sr. Jon, May 31. There were just eighteen persons at the grit convention at Hampton, King’s Co., yes- terday.

The Derby Won by Isinglass.

Lonpon, May 31.

The Derby, the great Eoglish race, was won by Isinglass,

Bishop Bond Not Dead.

MonTRzEAL, May 31.

The report of Bishop Bond’s death is un true. He is still alive.

The Deadly Electric Cars.

Orrawa, May 31. A little boy and girl were killed by the electric cars yesterday.

intial A Big Advantage.

It will be seen by advt. that a uniform discount of fifty per cenc. has been decided on all kinds of goods at the Diamond Book- store. This should warrant a rapid sale and should be taken advantage of by whole- sale and retail buyers alike. The prices are bound to convince you that this ws the grandest opportunity ever offered to pur- chasers. Bvoks, stationery, attists’ mater- ials, room paper, etc. Remember the place, Stamper’s corner.

_ New tomatoes, rhubarb and pineapples just received at Beer & Goff's. 2i

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Charlottetown, May 26, 18953.

} 8. POLINO is intended to leave Montres! on S. SATURDAY, 27th inst., for Charlottetowa, | Pictou and 8r, John’s. Nfid,

For Freight or Passage apply to

GOLUMBIAS.

| BEG \eave to inform the people of Chat- litre

wn and all creation gen that I m Scle Agent for the =| Biey . and that this cel brated w cen y be obtained through me a for as this Isiand is concerned. Il am continually

receiving letters and postal cards—sent wo the Pope Manutacturing Co. and return by them to me—from persons here, asking | for catalogues and rates, Oae young wan —a youth of 18 summers—signed hi ** Brigadier Colonel,” and anotner wanted |a special reduction as he was ** an orphaa with a large family.” It will be » shorter and easier way for brigadier colonels, orphans and other anfortunates to come to me direct for imformation, and thereby | save their postage stamps. Please remem | ber that there is only one price for Cvlam- | bias the world over, and that the purchese | of a cheaply constructed Bicycle is # most expensive experiment.

R. M. YOUNG, Agent for P. E. Island.

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