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2 vod trie city at five o’ek ck 3 evening Pease [SPECIAL Desparones vo THe PXAMINER, | _ Mose Svea ty shined ie al Yhe Supplementary Estimates. | sagat to Coronto, and ” barrels t> Amherst. "lela April 14 | Mapreet cach piles’ ‘gikk Malena The Supplementary Estimates were |

Wheat'evy & Sons corner Prince and Kent | Oronght down this evening. The total

amount estimated for is $822 618, of which |

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: ; , | Sloners appointed = ta enguire into | re Necottish-American Journal gives . | alate POR ;

Tus ath “ aves & pro-| Claims, $385,200; C. P. R.—to pay amount | — " te pe A mame . —e _feopold, | awarded to contractors, section 8, $395, - ce MM os Sein Mel : sd. » & Short time ago, | 000; Salaries and expenses of inspecting } engineers, land aud other contingencies,

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MoxsrgNor Caret has been obliged to | $21,000; - pay Bextog & Co., $175.00; cancel nis lecture engagements on account of | Csnals— -Welland Canal, to pay John Page, the injurv done his voice by constant usage. $507; Welland Canal, construction of a He will remain in New York for the present. | wash wier ate Danville, $25,000: Boular-

o— | derie wharf, Nova Scotia, $2,000; Owen

Tur City Coune'l met last evening. After) Sound, $10,000; Collingwood Harbor,

passing a number of small aceounts and author. | $9,000.

ve clerk to call tenders for thirty | . thousand feet of plank for sidewalks, it ad- |

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Mail Steamer Lost.

Tuts evening, before the Literary and New Yor, April 14. Scientific Association, in the Y. M. ©. A | It is reported that the United States and lower parior, Mr. J. H. Good will read his | Brazil Mail Steamship Company’s steamer es al epeare. — P ay of Hamlet | Reliance,” running between New York Will De parbicalariy consider ; F

‘ iy ¢ se dered, pand Rio De Janeiro, has been lost off

os Bolivia, with her cargo, which contai

Fire —A house at Southport owned by among other thir - - OOD — nea

> : > 7 } ‘ ‘ ‘ , i acs * Mrs. Patrick Breea was this morning destroy-}m, . «op oe ee ’ | The ‘*Reliance” is a new boat, having been

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ed by tire. lt was occupied by a tulor named | built in 1883 i. abet a: aenaie McDonald. The tire originated from a defece | fr : — eta ee —e tive fuse. The hence was het tececed. | from Rio De Janeiro at the time. The

| report received at the Coffee Exchange says

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We understand that Mr. Gaudet intends starting an egg business and b!ueberry canning establishment at DeBlois Station. Another Riot in Newtoundland. and for that purpose is having his plans drawn | for a large building, the exact size of which | we have not heard,

Sr. Jonny's, Neiv., April 14. nt eee | Another Roman Catholic and Orange Tuk ‘Northern Light” arrived at George- | collision has occurred in Conception Bay. town this evening. The ice ia Georgetown | A despatch from Carbonear says that while harbor is unsafe for horses. The steamer will | the Protestant congregation were deploying therefore be unable to iand her frei,ht unt: | from the Episcopal Church last night, they she breaks the ice into the wharf. the will| were furiously attacked with a volley of not leave for Pictou until Thursday: stones and other missiles. The extent of —_->-— the affair is not known, as no detailed in- Tee Boss Poxker.—Last week Mr. L.| formation has been obtainable by wire Silliphant showed a carcass of pork weighi: g | to-day. 702 ibs., raised by Mr. Arch. McCalium, Bedeqne. It was less than 18 months old when butchered. Mr S. had also in his stalls a heifer raised by Mr D. Campbell, Lot 16, and a cow raisel by Mr. M. Wright, of Bedeque, both fiue animals and weighivg close on 1,30). — Pioneer.

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A Pailure. Suakry, April 14.

A meeting of the friendly Sheikh Nor- ghari, with the followers of Osman Digna, failed to accomplish the desired object,

Two ivformations have been laid against| owing to the rumors that the rebels had Sheriff Doue-tt, of Gloucester, N. B., before | captured the Egyp‘ian station at the fifth Stipendiary Magistrate McLaughlin. One is| cataract, and that Khartoum had fallen for opening a mail bag at Shippegan and tak- | into their hands. ing three letters therefrom sodressed to P. J. Leslie. ‘Ihe other is for keeping and detain- ing a registered letter at Little Shippegan, addressed to Leslie Theophilus Desbrisay, Q.C., and L. R. Harrison, agent for the | Cairo, April 14. Minister of Justice, appearing — for the; Itis stated here that England has sub- Crown. | mitted proposals to the powers for settling za the financial troubles of Egypt. The pro- _ A shor? time ogo, a boat belonging to Mr. | posed scheme contemplates the disbanding “. Gay was wantonly destroyed by some van- of Sir Evelyn Wood’s Egyptian army.

'.ls at Stargeon Bay. It was valued at $25, | aud was use: for shooting purposes, We are} ep Pie at a loss to knw way such vandalism should | Plunde-ing Arabs. exist at Sturgeon. Mr, Gay is a man who —: would not injure the property of anyone. He Was not trespassing on private property, and) = Bishareen Arabs are plundering in the The net oe the people of naan |? cinity of Berber, and the Government a -9gar “woagy Oy pyr weg vasenngt 'a ka that English troops be sent to the as- nown. They should, as they deserve, be 5 severely punished. sist.nce of the town.

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Lonpox, April 14.

Mr. Cuaries Morrisen, in company with Messrs, Luplin and McCabe, oe serie a successful shooting season at Gull Island, nea: . Cascumpec. Mr. Siervinas built a snayz littie , ; Loxpon, April 14. cottage on the sandhili, where he resides dur- Advices from Berber make no mention ing the goose ard brant shooting season it! of the fall of Khartoum, is nicely furnished, and rustic in Ls nego H ‘i ja-t the place were a spell shooting can be , . enjoyed. a This is one of the best places on! Weather Bulletin. the Island for goose shooting. Every year Mr. Morrison sh ots from fifty to one hun- dred geese, aud the same of brant.—Com.

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Tar Methodist Choir and Orchestral Club Toxonro, April 15--10 a. m. concert in Y. M. ©. A. Hall! last evening was| Winds mostly east and south; fine weather; fairly well atteuded, Under the direction of stationary or slightly higher temperature, Professor Friese, the choruses were admirably rendered; and the overture and selections by the O-chestral Clab were splendidly played.

The Fall of Khartoum.

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Probabilities for the next 24 hours for the Maritime Provinces.

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METECROLOGICAL OFFICE, Charlottetown, 15th April, 1884.

Mr. Vianicombe charmed the audience with a Highest temperature yesterday . ........33.9 splendid violin solo, and Miss Knight sang Lowest temperature (read at midnight), ..21.0 “Qaeen of Night” exquisitely. Both Miss | | ,west temperature this morning ........ 19.2

Kuight aad Mr. Vinnicombe received well) pomperature this morning, at 8 o'clock. .27.1 merited encores. Other parts of the pro-| pempcrature this afternoon, at 1 o’clock...38.0 gramme were pleasing; and, on the whole, the | eit eae concert was a grand suceess. Suor Turovern THe Heart.—Police Officer wert Buck: ridge and J.-J. Britton had an encounter Sons oy Tempzeance at Vicrorta.— The} jn front of the City Hall, Port Huron, on the following officers were installed in the; g¢h inst, Britton drew a revolver and fired ‘Oaward” Division of Victoria :— two shots at Buckeridge without wounding W. P.—Colin McPhail. him. Buckeridge then drew a revolver ond W. A.—-Wm. MeQuarrie. fired several shots. One went through Britton’s RK. 8.—Misa Debbie Brien. heart; another lodged in his body two inches A. R. S.—Miss Lilla Clarke. | below it. Britton ran across the avenue and F, s5.—Russell Palmer. ' dropped, expiring in two minutes, The affair Trea.-—J. 3. McQuarrie. grew out of Britton trying to steal away a Chap.—Chas. MelIotosh. female witness who had to testify against his Coa. —Miss Emma Clarke. disorderly house. Britton undertook to keep the witness, and without provocation com-

A. U.——Oliver Smith. ' ; I. 8.—Joha A. McDonald, meneed firing before Buckeridge drew his 0, 8 —Richard Nelson. pistol. Buckeridge’s action 18 sustained by

the citizens, as Britton had ee to ors

him. The dead man was one of the worst anc Soe most desperate crooks in the city.— Toronto Gil ye

hanes Tus Pactrrc Stops.—Mr.

son of Hoary Beer, Esq., M. P. P., who is

situated at Lathrope, California, writes re- |

garding that place, on 3)lst of March last: ” .

‘This 18 @ very nice country —such a country MARRIED.

I never saw before in my life. Every thivug) 4 the residence of As C. Bell, Feq., April

bere is now blooming, The potatoes are 12th by Rev. 1. Burwash, J. EB. Hanter, Esq ,

p ante d the fruit trees are all in full bloom, i - the P.E Island Railway, to Mrs. Margaret

aud thetarmers are now putting out their McFarlane, of this city.

grape vines, which are cultivated to a great 7

extent in this couot y. There are vineyards ra :

here from One acre to a thousand, and how you

would enjoy riding along the road looking at At Tryon, on the 6th inst., after a protract”

those Vineyards. hey are pat out as straght | ¢q illness of spinal disease, being contined to

as @ line, and no mat er which way one looks | her bed for two years and four months, Fanny

at them they are always inline. I put up at |. the beloved daughter of John and Elizabeth

an Inn alony the road the other day and went |

: Sh ee | Lang, aged 15 years. : out to have alvok at the garden. There I saw) Farewell, Mother ! tears are streaming

turnips as large as your fist, carrots, and every , shiag you c vald think of just as rae ahead pid Down thy pale and tender cheek; at home in July. I was told that the’ 1 in gems of glory beaming, ‘ land he had, had never had any mavare at all, Searce a sad farewell can speak. which will tt ote eae Ne of ee in| Farewell, Father | thou art yearning, this country. man with 100 acres here is Se ee ._ . i tion ich. Land wos toon, 08 ap to $1000 per} g = thy cheri eet _ pon i sre ‘ 1 im one of the! mary ee Weer acre, and any sort of lan : To inferior joys: below.

valleys cannot be bought for less than $200 | a 7 : per acre. A man here with a fair size 1 farm! At Kerytown, New London, April 4th,

. | 18 worth quite a lot of money. There are some Wilbert James, son of Daniel and Mary Jane very fine esttle here, mostly Durham. Where | Sallivan. aged one year and three months. ever you see a Dirham it is sure to bea good | Darling Wilbert thou hast left us, one. Cattle live out all the time, and now | And thy loss we deeply feel; grass looks fice, and we have every prospect | But ‘twas God who hath bereft ar, of a five crop. I have seen oats out in head And he ean all our sorrows heal.

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already, and the wheat looks fine, only it has . , :

hal little too much rain. The hay looks! At Vernon River, wag oe Oo a good and has every appearances ot a good beloved wife of Beuj. Shep ag : Urop.”’ years.

DATOY WXAMINER. APRIL 15.

A Double Tragedy. e329 MURDER OF A WEALTHY MiRCHANT AND) SUICIDE OF HIS BROTICBR-IN-LaW—A MID- NIGHT SEARCH FOR THE DEAD THE CORPSE OF THB MURDERED MAN FOUND ON LUNA ISLAND—THE SUSPECTED MURDPRER MISS- } ING~—HE IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE PLUNGED INTO THE RAPIDS—THE BODY NOT RE-! COVERED.

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A terrible tragedy occurred on the night of the 10th inst., on Luna Island, at the'| brink of the American Falls, Niagara, in) which two prominent citizens of Suspension | Bridge lost their lives. The event has, caused a feeling of horror to pervade the | whole community, and nothing else is | talked about in the streets. It appears, | circumstantially, that Thomas Vedder, a| wealthy merchant, has shot and killed his | brother-in-law, Van R. Peareon, cashier of | the New York Central Railroad Company. | Vedder then committed suicide by walking | right into the Falls where the water surges into the abyss. There are hundreds of | theories about the double tragedy, but it is | one of the most incomprehensible murder | mysteries that has ever occurred. No good | reason has yet been presented asa motive | for the crime, but probably family trouble! of some sort is the real cause Before the| fataily-ending drive Vedder and Pearsons | wife were seen driving together in the village. The Toronto Globe correspondent made careful investigation of the case. It appears that late on the afternoon of the 9th Vedder

COAXED PEARSON TO GO BUGGY-RIDING

with him, for what object is not, of course, known. ‘This fact leads some to believe Vedder had deliberately planned the mur- der. They came to Niagara Falls, and the gate keeper Hyland says they went into Goat Island about six p. m., after which they were never seen alive. Both were missed at supper, and their families, who live in adjacent houses, became alarmed as the night wore on, and James Vedder, a brother of the dead man, and Jas Howard Pearson, a brother of the murdered man, searched the two villages for tidings of the missing men. The last trace they could get led to Goat Island. After midnight the services of Policeman Burns and Mr. Rolland were secured and the Island’s darkness was penetrated. The officers lighted their dark lanterns and waded through the muddy roads on the DISMAL AND DESOLATE ISLAND, searched all over, and it was three o'clock before they reached the promontory on the northwest corner of the island, where the steps lead down to the bridge over the falls to Luna Island. There was found the horse and buggy. The animal was tied to a tree and was encased in a thin, but solid sheet of ice formed by the spray as the freezing mist fell on the poor brute. When he was released the ice had to be broken before he could move, Policeman Burns went down the steps and reached Luna Island. Its gurface was covered with snow aud ice, and was as slippery as could be. Turning the ray@of his lamp towards the fails Burns saw two dark objec!s at the brink where the terrific current drops over the abyss. Running eagerly forward he FOUND A BODY,

and shouted back to the others, ‘‘Here’s one of them; I’ve found Vedder.” Just then young Pearson came up. He gave an agonizing scream and cried, ‘‘No; that’s father’s.” Then he tried to throw himself on the half-frozen corpse, but the ofticers led him away and prevented Vedder's brother from looking at the body. When the rays of thc lamp were turned on the face it was hideously ghastly. There were two gaping bnilet wounds, blood was spat- tered over the face, and the whiskers were singed. There was a peaceful look on the face behind the mark of blood and the wounds, which rendered the sight more hideous. The arms were thrown back, the hands were open and not clenched, and Pearson s watch and money were undis- turbed. He had evidently been shot in his tracks, and physicians say death must have resulted instantaneously. A few feet away the officers found a neatly piled bundle of clothing, made up of Vedder's overcoat, undercoat, vest and scarf, and on top was his hat. There was some money in the vest. The revolver could not he found, and it is probable he put itin his pocket after firing the second shot, which must have been after Pearson was already slain. Leading from the clothing were footprints of a man who had walked right off the bank into the river where the cur- rent goes over the Fails. There were NO RETURN MARKS,

and in that dangerous place, with an icy bank, no man could even creep near the water's edge. Vedder's body is undoubt- edly in the Cave of the Winds, where others who have gone over at the same place were found, The cave is inaccessible on account of the ice, and the only way it can be reached is by using arope. No one cared to do that. Why Vedder committed suicide after he killed Pearson is even more of a mystery than why he mardered him, He may have been driven crazy by the weird, unearthly surroundings, the thunder of the waters, and horror at his crime. Pearson was married to Vedder's sister. His first wife was also Vedder's sister. He leaves a wife and four children. Thev live on Main street, next door to Vedder's house, which is one of the largest and finest in the place. Pearson was the local treasurer of the New York Central Ruilroad, a position he had held for twenty- six years (ever since the road was started.) He came here from Albany. He has been regarded as a sort of mild crank for two years past. Four weeks ago he was dis missed from his position, but be was rein- stated through the influence of his relatives. He refused to go to work again, however, end arrangements were being made to send him to an asylum for the insane, Thomes Vedder was unmarried, and was

wortsH $200,000.

He had been a partner of his brother James ascore of years in the wholesale and retail grocery business. His unmarried - sister Catherine and his mother all lived in the same house. Pearson is described as about forty-eight years old, of medium height, and wore a full black beard, Vedder was tali and as straight as an arrow, and of) dark complexion, He wore a full blegk | beard tinged wih grey. He was about! fifty-two yerr: <td,

J. A.B Bevye, a Montreal contractor, has His liabilities are $55,000, and

abseonded.

bis iss-ts nominally $20,009. A meeting @ his creditors has béen dalled.

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SPRING G88U5, SPRING GBELS

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Ask Special attention to their Stock of the following Goods, which are, beyond question, as good value as can be found :

6550 Pieces Crey Cottons,

280 Pieces White Cottons, 300 Pieces Frint Cottons.

English. Canadian and American Knitting Cotton,

A good Stock of Canadian and American Corsets.

Black French Merinees, Biack Cashbmeres,.

Biack Nun’s Veiting, Biaek

Persian Cord.

A FULL LINE OF MOURNING COODS. Table Linens, Towels, Sheetings, Pillow Cottons. Room Paper.

) R Ups,

es, Mats, Carpets, Oil Cloths, ete., all standard Goods, and prices low.

PERKINS & STERNS.

Ch’town, Feb, 26, 1884,

GREAT SALE OF few Gottons.

ome amas ee ee CE eee

We have just opened a large Stock of

ENCLISH AND AMERICAN PRINTS, NEW SPRING STYLES, Received Before the Advance in Duty.

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We have an immense stock of

GREY AND WHITE COITONS,

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

| of Vak, out of a | Mare. Heart of Oak, when exhibited by the

NOTICE 'TO

| Farmers & Horse Breeders

| “JAVING purchased in England @ Shire

Horse, named OAK’S HEART, who is

| bow cn the passage out, I hereby notify the | above that they will do well to wait until he | arrives before they engage any otber horse,

OAK’S HEART is by the celebrated Heart rand Montgomeryshire

| Stand Stud Company at the Shropshire and

| West Midland Show, at Ludlow, in 1878,

| won the special £100 prize for the best Cart Stallion to travel the district, Heartof Oak was undoubtedly one of the best Stallions ever exhibited, and his stock are now very valuable, the more especially as be himsely is now dead,

OAK 8 HEART is arich brown in color, [nearly 17 bands, and from his immerse | power and substance, is bound to get valu- | able big-bened borses.

OAKS HEART is half-brother to Enter- | Prise, who “on the champion end other |

prizes at the late Cart Horse Show at Isling- top, and was afterwards sold jor 1,000 Guineas to Sir H. Allsopp. being the largest sum ever | paid for a cart horse. G. TWEEDY, Charlottetown, April 4, 1884--1w wkly li

Ground Bones.

rs undersigned will be prepared to sup- ply pure ground bones, of all sizes, and in large or small quantities, to farmers and others about {st April,

Highest Cash Price paid for

Fieecy Cottons, sheeting Cottens, | Pillow Cottons, |

TABLE LINEN AND NAPKINS, and Towelling,

TAPESTRY, SCOTCH ARD BRUSSELS CAHPEIS,

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 & CQ.

Ch’town, Feb. 11, 1884. /

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF BNGLAN D.

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Invested Funds, $30,632,°00; of which OWE MILLION BOLLARS is tuvested in Canada.

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General Weserve and Fir» Re-Bnsurance Fund, SEVEN MILLAON GWO HUNDRED TROUSAND DULLAR.

Qo This Company will now do a general business in the City and Province. Risks taken daily by

R. R. FITZGERALD,

AGENT.

1836.

Gid Bones.

J. W. MeGILy. Ch’town, March 14—~od°2m pat eod 2m sj 2m

SALT! SALT! FOR SALE ex WAREHOUSE,

5.000 bags Liverpool! Salt, 1,260 bags Coarse Fishery Salt,

PFAKE BROS, & CO, Ch’town Feb. 14, 1884.—-tf

WHITE RUSSIAN SEED WdEAT.

/YNHE best producer yet tried on the Island. Call and examine and see testimenials

;at my Furniture Store, J. D. McLeod’s

corner, JOHN NEWSON, Ch’town, March 8.

_ BARGAINS.

AM selling the balance of my Furniture

saved from the fire of the 20th ult., at J. D McLeod’a corner, Queen Btreet, at a reduction of from twenty-five to fifty per cent. below usual prices,

JOHN NEWBORN,

Ch’town, March 8,

IMPORTED SEED WHEAT

LREADY RECEIVED, 5v0 bushels White Russian, and to arrive by ‘*North- ern Light,” 1,000 bushels White Russian and 400 bishels White and Red Fife. | Fuil particulars and prices are given in :my “‘CuLTiIvaTORS’ GuIpE AND Seep Cata- LOGUE’ tor 1854 (ready 20th March), which is a book of thirty-two large pages, with forty- five illustrations of the choicest FLOWERS and VEGETABLES, and directions for cule ture of nearly 250 varieties of FLowir, Vrar- TABL? and AGRICULTUPAL SEEDS. i have the largestand best Steck of Seeds ever offered for sale in Prince tdward Island. My “Culti-

/vators’ Guide” telis 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, Seedsman,

Ch'town, March 10. ,