THE DAILY EXAMINER. |
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The Local Situation.
far fact that four seats in the House ol
\asembly are empty, and that the member }
fora fifth ia abroad, m akea it worth while
fo conawe#r whether, under ali the circum: |
; stances, it might not be expedient to have, instead of the partial elections which marl
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necessary, a general election | wi Provinee. oom {t will be admitted that the adminis-
tration of the Hon. Neil McLeod is in har
mony with the administration of Sir John
NIacdonalad. It will slso be admitted that the tunnel
ssheme is more likely to be advanced by
vir. Mcleod and his colleagues than it can
. . (Cel y possibly tye by men who were but rece ntly as : } mt (den sbusiny the Premier of Canada aba ue
Ae nouncing his policy and his acts.
be ae Further, it will, we think, be admitted
that an administration drawn from the Up- position cannot possibly—-whatever may be its virtuea—manage the public affsirs of the M’rovince more economically than the iuderal-Conservative 4 lministration row in ‘ 6i ve
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audi oportaat that the Mel.
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tion should be suataiued and atrenenheued, { Bat the majority supporting thia admin
iateation bas bean avery narrow one. The
Ciovernment cannot possibly carry out the
refoewns which are necessary in the interests of the Province, cannot pOSsitny huimimister affaiss with such strong would like! to exert, if the electorate ui che | Province dontinue to give it but a
a han] as they bare majority in the popular branch of the Legislature.
Besides, there are proposed constitutional changes which it is proper that an appeal should b the people. Everyone knows aud feels that the financial
upon made to peoblem is to ba solved by the Government Rither the Legislature must bs reduced and other economic reforms be
ot the future.
introduced, or resort must inevitably be had t«» direct taxation The question of a re- cuction of the Legislature has been put oll tauch too long. of dollars might rovince, had the the
Thousands upon thousands have been saved to the Legislature —according Liberal-Conservative years That question ought, in our opinion, to be sub
to the pohey of i’asiy—been cul down ago. mitted squarely to the people and a vote taken upon it ** yea” or ** nay.”
Then there is a question concerning the eost of public education. Must the cost of education continue to mount up from to year and never atop’ If the smount paid by the Government for education hid not been materially enlarged since 1878 the Provincial revenue would have been found sutlicient,---economically expended as it has That our people should all be educated is a pro- position which no one will dispute. Bat there is « point at which the expenditures of the Government, onaccount of education, should stop ; or at least there is a point at which the parents of pupils in attendance
year
been by the Liberal Conservatives.
at the schools should be asked to recoup to the (Government its outlay in respect to It not right that the public exchequer should be at a heavy annual loss om accourst pupils—the sons and daughters of comparatively wealthy parents
who engage in the study of Latin, Greek aid the mathematics, There is paid out of the treasury of P. E. Island for the pur- pose of education more money per head than there is paid out of anyother Province of Canada, or, indeed, we believe,any State in America or Europe.
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Can the Province alfurd to be thus generous! This is also » question upon which the opinion of the people might, im our opinion, be asked ence,
Perhaps « better opportunity than the present could hardly be afforded. constituencies are unrepresented. We can- i «reason, expect that Local Adiainistration will be materially strength- ened as a result of four partial elec- tions. Unless strengthened it cannot do yood for the country. Unless it can do yvod for the country it might as well be out ot oflize, If by adopting this course it should fail, it will fall honorably. Lf, on the other hand, it should triumph, it will, without doubt, be enabled to act with vigor + well as with economy and prudence.
la the fuller light under which the mem. ners the Government are enabled to view the situation, a different course may, perhaps, be deemed advisable. But from the point of view of the public a: large the policy here indicated seems to be be best for the Province and best for the Conservative Party.
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The Patriot says :—“ Not a prominent Liberal, except Mr. Jones of Halifax, has heen defeated.” This is hard on Mr. Wel- (on, of St. John, rough on the Hon. Peter
Mitchell, and rather too bad in respect to Annexationist Elis.
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In Switzerland a Sunday law has been euacted applying to all railroad, steamboat, and tramway companies and post oflices Working time must not be more than 12 hours & day, even on occasions of increased traffic. Engine and train men must have at feast 10 hours unbroken rest, and other employes 9 hours. They must also have 52 days off yearly, and ‘7 of these must be —— No reduction in wages is to be wade for such rest days, All freight traffic on
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Sunday Is prohibite, except live stock,
“<) i zXA 7 ‘7 BS * AV £h l A. 3 SX AML The Cities. \LMcST every trade centre ib Canada |
ronounced against the trade policy of the
: . . . How emphatic this decision
following returns of
Giovernment majorities
220 Victor... 1» as W innipe : = Hamilton rt Loronto. Wine h.ings*ton 1+» 469 Ne kak scan eae’ 1070 eas uni ee Three Rivers : _ Moneton : : i St John with Portland.... 115 Fredericton :..... iS = Halifax with Dartmouth 1000
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Charlottetown . Phat is to say, those who are engaged in
and can best judge of the tendencies
trade,
and results of a trade policy, have most decisively rejected Unrestricted Reci- pe in ity
St. Patrick's Entertainment at
Emeraid.
The St Patrick’s Day celebration at emerald this year promises to eclipse any- tning of the kind ever held there before, and this is saying o great deal, as Emerald has the reputation of having tirst-class entertainments on St. Patrick’s Day. The ommittes having the matter in hand this year are untiring in their efforts to make it 3 «interesting amusing a8 possible. Th ‘ have secured some of the beat talent on the Island, and all the guarantee anyone wants » get hold of the programme, which is now out, and if it does not assure them that there will be lots of fan they certainly iguat be hard to please. We would advise all to attend the entertain- ment at Emerald this year. Judging frou their past Concerts, we would say, that no one will be sorry for attending.
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What They Say at Home.
IOHN'S VICTORY A SOURCE OF PRIDE AND PLEASCRE IN ENGLAND,
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The London Globe says the Canadiin Covernment now his a feee hand and can conclude the negotiations with the United States which were pending befere the elee tions. The Cilobe adds that the most erati fying feature of its significance tion.
The St, James's Caz stte “it ia source of pride anit pleasure to Eugishmen to note the response mide to the annexa- tion cry,” adding, ‘‘theugh Lagland may sometimes be proud of the progresa ol Anglo-Saxon America, stie has nie fond- ness for the fair youny daughter ot the hm pire adhering the tiag.”’ mp0? Gee
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PRANCISCAN FATHERS WOUNDED AND ROBBED #Y THIEVES AT MANILIA,
According to a receat despatch from San Francisco private advices from Manilla give idietai's of a bold attack by a band of robbers on the convent there. While five of the Franciscans were engaged in conversation in one of the rooins a strange man was seen in the doorway, who, on being asked what he wanted, returned no anawer and ran away, On going out into the passage they were met by a crowd of men armed with knives.
A severe etruggle ensued, the padres de- wnding themselves with the furniture, but at such Ja disadvantege that they had little chance, The thieves took the procurator’ skeys from him and feompe'led him to go with them to his cell, where they obtained #900. Mean. time two of the padres had succeeded in escaping to their cells, from the windows of which they called for assistance, and the course of time the police appeared on the scene. Most of the robbers succeeded in getting away. but four of them were caught in the grounds and a number of men were arrested later on s"apicion.
Father Jininez, the procurator, was fatally wounded, Tie porter of the convent
Was
also dangerous!y woladed, and the last sacrament was administered to him Fathes Eusbio Gomez Vlatero and Brother Andrey
Del Val., as well as the infant son of the porter, were also wounded. When the police arrived the convent presented a scene of great contusion, with blood aud other traces of the conflict scattered in all directions. A number of doctors were speedily summoued to attend the wounded. e affulr has caused intense excitement in Manilia.
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What they Say in the States. JOHN'S VICTORY MAKES THEM FEEL GLUM,
A Washington despatch reports ;
“The Tory triumph in Canada seems not to have created much surprise in administration cirelee. All that Secretary Blaine vouchsafed was this: ‘The administration is utterly in- different as to the result. None of the mem- bers of the Cabinet took any interest in the matter, and cared less about it than Canadians usually do about our elections.’ ”’
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The New York Press (Blaine’s organ) says :
“Canada’s connection with the United States is nota matter that can be settled by Canadian voters. There are 5,000,000 inhab.
itants of the Dominion. There are 65,000,000 inhabitants of the United States. On the broad principle of
the greatest good for the greatest num- ber, the 65,000,000 will eventually deter- mine the fatare of Canada, and the Canadians may be absolutely certain that they will get no trade concessions from the Unitca States while Canada discriminates against us in favor of England. We say this with due rogard to the fact that to discrimineste in cu, favor igainst England means annexation.”
‘i NS ID recreate ete
Personal.
Hon. James Clow, Murray Harbor, ie at the Osborne.
Hon. George W. Howlan arrived in Char- lottetown last evening.
Hon. William Richards, Bideford, is among the guests at the Hotel Davies.
Hon. A. J. Macdonald, Georgetown, is in the city to-day. He is at the Hotel Davies.
General Booth, according to a recent dea- patch from London, is quite ill, sufficiently 20 to be contined to his bed for the past few days. The illness is in consequense of an exhausting tour through the north of Europe, during which the General caught a severe cold,
Tennyson's last poem contains 64 words, for which he received $10 a word. In this short poem he repeats the expression “to sleep!" eight times, and gets $160 for doing it. And yet there are people who say poetry does
not pay,
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LETTER FROM AN OLD FRIEND.
News From
} Sirn,—Perhaps amid all the interest of
election times, you may still find a place
for a line or two from an old correspondent.
You do not know how sorry we are out
here to hear of the long, hard cold winter
that you are having in P. BR. Island, and
then the Stanley ice-bound, and no tunael
get, whilst out here we have not had snow
enough for sleighing this winter, just a
little on the grass, but the trails are black
and bare. The rattle of the farmers wagons
bringing in the wheat to the elevators,
make the music instead of sleigh bells.
This has been a fine winter for railroading
across these plains. ‘The trains arrive and
depart on time when not delayed by eastern
suow drifts, and now when the sun has
begun to give uslonger days and greater, warmth, indications of spring are about us. | Quite anumber of ovr people here have availed themselves this winter of the oppor- tunity given them by the various railroads to go east on rewarkably cheap excursion fares. Having had good crops many of} them feel that they can aiford to spend | three months among old friends in Ontario | and Quebec. This is especially convenient | for some of our bachelors. Young men
come out here to try their fortune, got | land, goto work, and in three or four, years are comfortably off. But so lonely ;; tinding by experience that ‘it is not good
for man to be slone.” But what is to be
done. No previousengagement like a golden
thread reaches out to them which they have
only to pull and the fair one appears. To
employ some matrimonial agent would, in
many cases defeat the end in view. The
railway companys very wisely siy ‘here
take a trip east and see your old friends,’
and often I observe there are two to come
back instead of one, and so homes are made
and the country the better off,
There is a stir in political circles here just now. In this particalar riding the former member, Daly, is being opposed by | Martin, formerly Attorney-Geuveral of this; Province. Daly, it is said, will lose many votes this election, he having offended the Orangemen by his vote on the Jesuit Estates’ Bill and his anti-temperance votes having estranged the temperance party. Whether the “‘party” will be able to carry him throush with both thase influences against him remains to be seem. There cau be no doubt, however, but that, though Manitoba, desiring as she does some mea- sare of fair reciprocity, is yet too loyal to se!) herself for any mess of pottage that Unele Sam has to offer. Many are looking for the railaay sv long projected to Hudson Bay. and Manitoha becomes almost & mardime provinee. Wich direct communication will England, and that by a northern ant consequently a cool route, our prairie fed beef would go in the very hast. into the Mnglish market. And where ean beef be raised as easily and cheaply as here { Pasture for a thousand iniles. Cattle and horses, are to-day feed- ing on tie prairie and many of them have not had a} mouthful this winter from the hand of man, anit they are doing weil. Of cfurse this is fn un- usvally favorable winter, but I am told that at Lake Dauphin (some 60 miles north of Neepawa) thatin the sheltered and wooded ravines toward Duck Mountain that any wister-stock can be brought through all right without being housed or foddered, and all that.country lies aloog where the Hudson Bay railway must go, much of theland is not yet suveyed and of conise not yet homesteaded, And then.our wheat. It is a long baul-to the sea by any route pow opened to us. Give us more British conuection,—connection by the shortest, cheapest, quickest route and,— well we can wait and see what the United States has to offer, and we can take plenty of time to see what the McKinley kind of reciprocity, and what the duty on the fish ae etc., efe., will produee. Pair,
siness-like dealing would be all right and would be hailed with pleasure, but if we are to getdown on our knees and cras] under the barbed wire fence, which the United States haa been at s9 great pains to put up, and to keep up, with th: MeKinley jagged wire on the top, there are soms of us that are not made that way,
Hoping, Mr. Mditor, that P. E. Isiand will won get her tuonel or aubway, and thus get access to the markets at al! seasons, and Manitoba will get the Hudson Bay road, and all the live questions of the hour be fairly debated and settled for the best, and kindest regards to many oid friends, your readers, I am yeurs truly
o> » % Give us that
condition
W. W. Cotpirts,
The Ambitious Kaiser. OPPOSITION TO HIS SCHEME TO MAKE THE BALTIC A GERMAN SEA,
A Berlin despatch states that the Govern- ment is much annoyed by the opposition in the Reichstag to the imperial plans for building up a navy. The Kaiser is at pro- sent more concerned about the navy than the army, and is even willing that econom- ies should be instituted in the military ex- penditure in order to increase the naval allowance.
His plans, according to a usually well- informed authority, are to make the Baltic a German sea and leave no chance for Rus- sia in those waters jn the event of war. He believes that Italy, with Austria, and per- haps England, would block the Mediter- ranean, and Russia would be closed in, on the navigable maritime side, from the rest of the world.
In this grand scheme he has met with unexpected opposition from political leaders like Windthorst, whom he had done much to conciliate. The oppositien is neither vexatious nor hostile, but simply arises from a widespread conviction in Germany that military and naval expenditures have yone far enough, and that the people can bear no more.
Notwithstanding the ill-feeling resulting from the treatment of the Empress Freder- ick, a member of the ataff of the German embassy in Paris has suggested that it would not be surprising if the Emperor himself should visit Paris in the strictest incognito and see the city for himself, as he has long been anxious to do.
_ Late advices from Spokane Falls, Wash- ington, state that reservation settlement has created a stampede nearly equal tu the Oklahama craze. Thousands of people have camped on the borders of the reservation, and every train brings additional arrivals. They are waiting for the President to issue & proclamation, and then trouble is feared 43 some of the Indians will object to giving up their lands.
News Notes.
Gen. Sherman did not leave behind hig inore than $2500. over and above hia house in New York and his residence in St. Louis.
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At an auction of old books and manuscripts | in New York on Friday last, J. W. Ellsworth | of Chicago gave $14,890 for the Gutenburg |
Bible.
The damage in the vicinity of Clifton, Arizona, from the recent flood is said to be $100,000. The loss is principally on the homes of laborers.
The steamer Ohester arrived at New York from Rotterdam on the 2nd. She had on board the entire crew and cattlemen of the steamer Iowa, which ran into a field of ice and was cut through - The men were taken off by the Chester on February 22nd. The Lowa had a miscellaneous cargo valued at $350,000,
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Election.—Now the election is over,drop in
‘and keep your head cool with one of Prowse
They are nobby, good and mar] 3i
Bros. new hats. cheap,
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fMFXWVE BENEVOLENT IRISH SOCIETY of Charlottetown will celebrate the Anniversary of Ireland’s Patron Saint, on
Tuesday, March 17th,
by a Procession from their Hall, Piinse Street, headed by the Artillery Band, to St. Dunstan’s Cathedral, ot 9.45 a. m, where High Mass will be celebrated. After Mass the procession will reform and parade ths principal streets.
IN THE EVENING.
A Literary and Musical
ENTERTAINMENT
WILL BE GIVEN IN
THE LYCEUM.
Doors open at 7.15; Entertainment to com. mence at 8. Price as usual.
Return tickets at one first-class fare will be issued on the P. E. Island Railway to all attending the celebration, good to return on following day.
JOHN CONNOLLY,
meh} Secretary.
TRADE SALE
By Auction, at Our Office,
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THURSDAY, MARGH 19,
Commencing at 1) o'clock, a. m.;
PUNS. TRINIDAD MOLASSES, 150 barrels Patent Fiour (high grades), 50 half cheste Choice Tea, 10 cases Canned Salmon, 20 dozen Brooms, 10 * Waeh Boards, 16 boxes Tobacco 5 tone Barbed Wire, 60 coils Rope, 40 boxes Horse Nails, 25 kegs Horse Shoes, 100 kegs Cut Nails, 40 boxes Window Glass, 1 ton English White Lead, l0bris. “ Paint Oil, 1 ten Pig Lead, 2 sets Platform Scales,
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Besides small Groceries and many other goods,
Terms Cash, or discount added to satisfac- tory paper. Sale Positive. Ek. H. NORTON & CO., Auctioneer. == DING to leave the Island, we have
decided to sell, as early as possible, the following properties :— .
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Valuabls Farm of 84 acres on St. Peter's Road, 7 miles from Charlottetown, in good order aud fenced with spruce hedgerows
Two Building Lots in Judge Young's block, joining the residence of Mr. C. D,. Rankin, Size of each, 43x100 feet, and handsomest lots in the city.
One Lot on Strawberry Hill, directly oppo- site the residence of Mr, William McLean, on St. Peter’s R«ad.
5 shares Charlottetown Driving Park,
: ‘* Georgetown =. 2 Inland Steam Navigation Co., ] Cherry Mantle and Crate, | 1 Marble ‘ - ee 1 good second-hand Piano—will be sold
for $75.00, 1 do. do., will be sold for $25,
Also, all our stock of Stoves.
For Auction, if not sold by Private Sale.
E. H. NORTON & CO,
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Annual Meeting.
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HE ADJOURNED ANNUAL MERET. ING of the Young » en’s Christian As- sociation, for the ele sion of off cors and trans. action of other business, will be held in the Association Hall, on THURSDAY EVEN. ING NEXT, March 12, at 8 o'clock. A full attendance of all members is very specially requested.
CHARLES PALMER, President.
hk. M. BARRATT, Secretary.
Domiuion Winter Steamer ** Stanley.”
HE steamer ‘‘ Stanley,” weather and ice permittirg, will resume work between Georgetown and Pictou on Friday, the 13th inst., leaving Georgetown at 6.00 a. m. A. LORD, Agent.
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Sale Extraordinary
the lowest. yet offered by us. SPECIALTIES.
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300 PAIRS.
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Every year finds us with increased attractions in this Departament, Our designs
are the newest, our stock the largest, our variety the | st assorted, and our prices In addition to our usvel lines we have PIVP
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Nottingham, Scotch and Calais Makes,
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Job Lots in Lace Tidies, at Sc, 10c, 206,
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ROOM PAPE
(English, American and Canadian, ) a JUST OPENED, FROM 5 CENTS UPWARDS,
Lovely Bronzes, Rich Patterns, 15 ccuts per Roll} — Kx BEST VALUE IN THE CITY 6G
See our Patterns, compare our Prices and get your Bargains at the
DIAMOND <> BOOKSTORE,
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should cause a RUSH , for these goods. ;
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“I made a mistake” the o'd man said, “To spend moncy oun Shoes like those,’
And a trickling tear eseaped from his eye As he looked at the heles in the tees.
He will never make such a mistake again, for herealtet we will buy GOFF BROS’. Solid Leather Boots.
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