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ROYAL HOTEL, |HERRING! HERRINGIIPHEAPEST YET || SelecteD porTay. | senitie mepccion

Satine Sohia.

Att OGUuUEPE, HAVE mueb pleasure in informisg my ou | merous friguds and the public generally, that have | f the Hotel formerly known as the CONTINENTAL, and thoroughly renovated the same,making it, asthe ROYAL always had he r tation of being, one of the best Hotels io he Provinces.

Excellent Bill of Frere, First-class Wines Liquors and Cigars, aad superior accommoda tion.

Blackhall’s Livery Stable attached.

THOS, ¥. RAYMOND. July 3, 1877—6m

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American & Foreign Patents.

" 9° “ -— Gilmore, Smith & Co., Successors to Chipman,

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Hosmer & Co. No fees

in advance. No charge for services until the

patent is granted. Preliminary examinations ree. Uur valuable pampilet seat free upou re} eipt of stamp. GILMORE, SMITH & CO.,

Washington, D. C.

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ARREARS GF PAY, BOUNTY, ETC. SREDERAL Officers, Soldiers and Sailors of KF the late war, or their heirs, are in mauay caes entitled to money from the Goverment, which has been found to be due siace final pay- ment. Write full history of service and state amount of pay and bouaty received.

Certificates of Adjutant Geueral U. S. A. showiog service and honorable discharge there- from, in place of discharge lost, procured for a small tee.

Enclose stamp to Gilmore & Co., and full re- ply, with blanks, will be seat-.free.

PENSIONS. PENSIONS.

LL Federal Officers, Soldiers and Sailors,

wounded, ruptured, or injured, in the line oifduty in the late war, and disabled thereby, ‘an obtain a pension.

Widows, and minor children of Officers, Sol- ders and Sailors, who have died since discharge of disease contracted or wounds and injuries re

eived in the service aud in the lire of duty, can procure pensions by addressing Gilmore & Co,

Increased rates for pensioners obtained. Bounty Land Warrants procured for service in wars prior to March 3,1855. There are no war- rants granted for service in the late rebellion.

Send stamp to Gilmore & Co., Washington D.C., full instrucheons Jaly24 1277.

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wits taking this opportunity of thank® ing our Nimerons customers for the jibera: mann r in which they have patron-

zed SCURNE STUDIO,

we would inform them that we have now increased facilities for the prodaction of first-class work, and are prepared to make Puorocrapus of @ Slyle and Qualily thal has never been before atiempled in this Cily.

We have on exhibition, at our Roots, a large number of Photograps :f every variety, including the BEAUTIZUL PAT) - SNA MEL he most beautifni style of Photograph known, possessing a softness and delicacy of coloring that has never been equalled. This elegant picture has become deservedly popu'ar elst where, and cannot fail to be- come so here.

Though the finish of our Photographs cannot be excelled, we would direct alten- tion to the beaniiful

itlace’

which we make. They possess a highly enamelled surface, and are practica!ly indes- tructible, sad will retain their freshness snd beauty for any length of time. If they become soiled they can eusily be cleaned, as they will not lose any of their beauty by being wet, ‘This valuadle quality, com-

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bined with their remarkable elegance, Make them very suitable for presents;

While the difficuity of their production will prevent thei ever becoming so common as to lessen their value. Our patrons cap have one or all of their Photos tinished ina this style~an advantage which cannot be obtain: d elsewhere.

We give special attention to making Groups of Famblies, Societies, Schoois, &

Qur pictures of children are sufficient evidence of our success in this diflicult branch of our art.

Qur *NLARGEMENTS, finished in India Ink, Pastel, Cr¢yon, Oil and Water Colors, have made a tavorubie reputation for them selves throughout the Lower Provinces.

Parties intending to have Photographs made will tind it to their advantage to sit early, as the number of our cu ctomers makes some delay iu the delivery of the Photos unavoidable. We prefer to have our sitters come by appointment.

Photographs can be Obtained for less Money elsewhere ; but in this case We ask that quality be given the preference; as- suring the public that they will flad cur charges very moderate.

KOSS BROS,. Cor. Queen and Dorchester Streets, opposite Consolly's Bank. Sept. 19, 1877—3m eod , Coarse Sait for Packing. siF TY TONS Coarse Salt, three hundre Bags do. For sale by

HASZARD BROS. Dec, 8, 1877—~1m eod

For SALE AT

W. W. CLARKE’S. Water St., Ch’iown, Dec, 1—eod tf

GROCERII Gare EALES. ol Hhds. SUGAR,

25 Bblis. do,,

235 Packages TEA,

135 Boxes RAISINS,

10 Bbis. CORRANTS, All of Finest quality and at lowest figure

BEER & SONS.

Ch’town, Nov. 30, 1877.

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F you want SLEIGHS or CARRIAGES

made of best American Wood, in latest style, or your Horse Shod in FIRST-CLASS STYLE, call on the undersigned. All work warranted or no pay.

J. C. KEEFE, North side Queen’s Square. Ch’town, Dec. 5; 1877.

HAY! 4AY!

FOR SALE AT W. W. CLARKE’S. Water St., Ch’town, Dec. 1—eod ty

CHRISTMAS

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IN EW YBARS

Ce STMAS

AND NEW YEAR'S are

coming. We begin to think about our presents. LEWIS has a large stock of splen- did Chromos, Steel Engravings, and Litho- graphs, large and small. They are a choice collection—something new. Prices to suit the times.

Mouldings

He has Ten Thousand feet of Mouldings, thirty different patterns, ali new, suitable for all kinds of pictures. Frames will be made and sold for 25 per cent. lower than any other place in the city.

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Frames.

Fancy Frames, all sizes anil kinds, from 1 upwards,

’ aA Albums. fottces. Brackets, Wall Pockets, Cards, and Transfer Pictures in great variety.

Photographs

and GLACE PICTURES. If yon want a good Photogragh, go to LEWIS’ and you will get it. He has the best facilities in the city for making Pictures ; besides, he knows how to make them. His specimens are all his own work, as you will see b calling and looking at them. You will know them all.

Special attention given to Children’s Pictures anc. Family Groups.

Old Pictures copied and enlarged, finished in india ink, water colors, oil, or crayon. Also, the Photo-Enamei Picture. Persons wishing to learn to make the Photo-Enamel Picture can be taught in

one lesson, for $2. No art required.

For Sale, pictures of MR. & MRS. D. BANKS McKENZIE, large or small.

s@ Don’t forget the place — Upper Great George steet (Thomas’ Old Stand). CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

NEW YEAR'S GIFTS!

IN GREAT ABUNDANCE, AT HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE.

Ch’town, Dec. 20, 1877,

Labrader Herring ! JUST RECEIVED, BBLS. LABRADOR and Boone Bay

HERRING.

24 Hf. Bbls. do. B. WILSON HIGGS.

Ch’town, Dec. 19, 1877.

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FRESH DIGBIES,’

DIGBIES ! For sale CHEAP

100 BBLS. F. S. HANFORD & CO.

Ch’town, Dec. 21—2i

House to Let.

“SF eight rooms, in good repair, lately oceu- pied by Mr. A. McDougall. Immediate —— given. Apply to Mrs. A. Mc. ougall, or the undersigned. None but a careful and good tenant need apply. RICHARD WEEKS.

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oe to reduce our Large Stock, we will

mos 2 oS eran reduction on’ for- We will Sell—

Good Gray Cotton, from 41-2 ots,

Cool White Cotton, from 8 cts.

Gool Print Cotton, from 8 sts,

Good Heavy Winceys, from 8 1-2 cts,

Good Tweed Dress Goods, 7 1-2 cts,

Bay's Winter Tweed, 25 sts,

Heavy Winter Shawls, $1.25,

All Wool Flannel, 20 cts,

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SCARFS, CLOUDS, GLOVES VERY CHEAP. All other goods at proportionately low prices.

Buying our goods for (ash, we are in a position to sel all goodsiat our bottom prices.

J. B.- MACDONALD, QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN. Dec. 7—ne Put

A. BACNEILL, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant

NO~”. .1 QUEEN STRET.,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. B. ISLAND

RERAUCTION SALES, of all descrip- tions, attended to in city and country at moderate rates.

May 21, 1877.

THE OLD FOGEY.

The old fogy sits in the chimney nook croan- ing,

As he thinks o’ the days tha’s awa’;

He shakes his auld pow at the laughin’ and spooning

O the youngsters who joodly do craw ;

Vor weel does he ken a’ the warld’s queer changes, —

He ta was a youngster langsyne,—

An’ into the past his auld noodle whiles ranges,

Au’ thinks o’ the days o’ his prime.

He — o’ the days when he laughed at the ogies,

Wi’ their white powdered hair and their quene,

Knee-breeches and buckles. an’ monie queer toggies,

That looks funny in his youthful view.

But weel does he ken that the hearts were aye true then

An’ may be less sham in thae days,

For the auld warld fogies to them wha best knew them,

Proved honest and true in their ways.

Ere the ‘‘ iron horse’ yet had astonished the warld,

Sereaming wildly o’er river and lea,

The fogey in business ne’er cheated and quar-

‘ elied,

But turned an honest bawbee.

Yet the warld went roun’ e’en as happy and gay then,

Perhaps wi’ a less pompous air.

For the fogies together they aft took their way then,

An’ merrily danced at the fair,

Kor the fogey was fond o’ a hearty guid laugh- ing,

An’ rich honest shake o’ the hand,

Could crack a guid joke, an’ was proof o’ sma, chatling,

Spoke the tongue o’ his ain native land.

As ne'er was afraid whare’er fortue micht place him,

Whatever micht fa’ ta his lot.

Though riches and hovours wi’ favours micht grace him,

Tae proclaim himself proudly a Scor-

MORTGAGE SALE,

r be Sold, by PUSLI? AU 'TION, on TUESDAY, the 12th day of FEBRUARY, 1878 atthe Court House in Charlottetown, at thehour of 12 o’clock, acon, of the same day, under and by virtue of a Eames ¢f Sale con- tained in a certain Todenture of Mortgage, dated the 3rd day of January, 1860, and made between Peter McInnis and Mary his wife, of the one part, and Joun Kyient, now deceased, of the other part —All that Piece and Parcel ofLand being partof Township No, 45, and situtuated near the bead of Souris River, bounded on the west and north by land then n occupation ot Donald McCormack, and on the east by land then ia the possession of Angus McDonald, and on the south by Souris River—containing fifty- one acres oflaad, being the farm then and until lately in occupation of the said Peter McIunis, together with all the Buildings aud Apparten- ances connected therewith. For terms and conditions of sale, apply to Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod. Dated 9th day of November 1877. JAMES McPARLANE, EDWARD J. HODGSON, VERNON H. KNIGHT; Trustees and Devisees under the will of thelas Jobn Kuight. Nov. 10—t sale

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BERERAL AGEACT HOTHEE.

I BEG to announce to the Traps of this

City, and the Island generally, that on the 2nd of JANUARY I wiil have a com- plete

SSORTHENT QF SARPLES

AS; ae LEY d i '

of the following lines of Goods for Spring and Summer:

English & Canadian

TWEEDS & WOOLLENS, BOOTS & SHOES, AMERICAN COTTONS,

AMERICAT

RUBSER GUDDS,

IN GREAT VARIETY.

. . @ Tobacco & Cigars, Confectionery,

Coffse & Spices, Naval Stores,

Teas, Sugars:

I am also Sou Acent for the Lower

Provinces for Wyatr & Co’s (London)

CELEBRATZD Pickles, Sauces, Jeliies, Ete,, —aND— E. James & Sou’s (Piymouth) celebrated

STARCH, BLUE & DOME LAD.

This Notice is only to the Trade—no Re-

tail orders being solicited or accepied,

Sample Rooms at No. 9 Queen St., over the Ofiice of Messrs. Hyndman Brothers.

JOHN H, CATHRAE, Ch'town, Noy. 23, 187/—w &lweo

Readymade Clothing:

the polls.

which I did not commit.

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Maritime Union.

The Halifax Chronicle reports “that the Nova Scotia delegates were cordially re- ceived at Fredericton by the New Bruns- wick Government, all the members of which were present to discuss the important ques- tien. —fhe New Brunswick ex. pigined'at the outset that as they had no authority from their Legislature to move in the matter, the present discussion must ne- cessarily be of an informal character. They were, however, glad to meet the Nova Sco- tians, and felt that the visit of the delega- tion to Fredericton—especially as it repre- sented both parties in Nova Scotia-—gave an impetus to the union movement which brought it within the sphere of prattical polities. The financial posiion of of the two Provinces were fully discussed and the con- ference satisfied that there were no financial difficulties in the way of union, the two Provinces standing on about equal terms in this respect. In regard to Prince Edward Island, there was a general desire that that Province should join in the movement, but the opinion prevailed that if P. E. Island was unwilling to dg so, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick might unite and trust to the Island coming in. The question of the capital of the united Provinces was sug- gested as one that might be difficult to deal with. The New Brunswickers, perhaps not very seriously, said that if the Nova Sco- tians would consent to the. selection of Fredericton the matter might be considered as settled. The Nova Scotians, of course, were unable to comply with the wishes of their New Brunswick friends in this respect. They intimated that the question might be let to be determined at the first session of the united Parliament. Thfs was consider- ed to be objectionable by the New Bruns- wickers, who thought that, as Nova Scotia would have the largest number of members, Halifax would certainly be chosen as the capital. ‘The suggestion was then made by tlle Nova Scotians that the matter be left to | Her Majesty the Queen. Again the New | Brunswickers objected, on the ground that as the Imperial authorities were better ac- 'quainted with Halifax than with the other | cities, Halifax would certainly be chosen by ‘Her Majesty. The Governor-General was inext mentioned as an arbitrator, but this lalso failed to meet with favor among the |New Brunswickers. On this question no | progress was made. There was some con- | versation respecting a plan of union—the |Houses of Parliament, number and pay of 'members, salaries of officials, &c. ,—but of course nothing like a definite scheme was | drawn up. ae | ‘The conference was merely a preliminary ‘one, designed to bring the public men of the Provinces together and initiate a practical discussion of the question. Further con- ferences will probably be authorized by the Legislatures of the two Provinces, and the question will then assume a shape in which the people can be invited to pass uponadt at

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A traveller, going to bed, was surpris@d to see a ghost, which—or who—in a sepulchral tone, began, ‘‘ I am the spirit of one who was foully murdered here.” ‘‘That’s no business of mine,” said the traveller, turning round on his pillow. “Apply to the proper quarter. Good night.”

Age makes us tolerant; I never see a fault

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There was a terrible explosion in New York, on the 10th, in Greenfield .and Ste- ven’s five story candy manufactory, Barclay street. A boiler burst tearing away the en- tire front, and scattering the wreck. The firm employed ahout 300 hands, mostly girls and boys. Many of 2

buried among the ruins. Thirty-six wound- ed and one dead were secured up to 1.35 last evening and lodged in the Chambers St. Hospital. Others were sent to Belleyue and other hospitals. A total of fully 125 will he reached. Few escaped uninjured. Until the wreck is cleared it chnnot be stated how many are dead.

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FACTS“AND SORAPS. °

If you think yon are too tall marry an extravagant woman, and you will soon find yourself short enough.

The *‘ bounds” of propriety. —Dancing in a long dress.

Unkindness in a woman’s heart ought to be a thing unknown.

Although a woman’s age is undeniably her own, she never owns it.

It takes all the enjoyment out of a game of croquet to hear it called ‘‘an amusement within the reach of the feeblest intellects.”

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, it generally happening that there is nothing there the second time to hit,

“In the sentence ‘John strikes” Will- iam,’”’ remarked a school teacher, ‘‘ what is the object of strikes?” ‘Higher wages and jess work,” promptly replied the intelli- gent youth. “ .

‘“* Thought Pd leave my measure on your floor,” said a man who fell down in a bar- room. ‘* No necessity for that,” said the barmaid, ‘we know exactly how much you hold.”

‘“‘A soft answer turneth away wrath,” yet a man caught by his wife Yealing soft answers to a pretty widow next door says he can show sears to prove that the proverb didn’t work well in his case.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults

ship with honesty.

Three things principally determine the quality of a man—the leading object which he proposes to himself in life, the manner in witch he sets “about “accomplishifig it, and the effect which success or failure has upon him.

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A clergyman in Washington, being about to baptize a child, asked the father, ‘‘ What is your name?” ‘Thomas Maeguire, sir,” replied the man. ‘‘ Well, Thomas, do you spell your name with a big ‘G’ or a litile ‘g’?” inquired the minister. ‘‘I’d like it middling large, if you please sir,” answered the devoted parent.

A noted miser who felt obliged to make a present toa lady, entered a-crockery store for the purpose of making a purchase. See- ing a statuette broken into a dozen pieces, he asked the price. The salesman said it was worthless, but he could have it for the cost of packing it intoa box. The miser directed it to be sent with his card to the lady, congratulating himself that she would imagine that it was broken while on its way to her. He dropped in to see the effect. The tradesmen had carefully wrapped each piece in a separate piece of paper—tableau.

Aw Irtso Buit.—At the Middlesex Ses- sions recently the Judge asked an Irish policeman named O’Connell.s‘* When did you last see your sister!” The policeman replied, ‘‘ The last time I saw her, my lord, was about eight months ago, when she called at my house and I was out.” Here the Court broke into a roar of laughter. The Judge rallied to the charge by asking, ‘*Then you did not see her on that occa- sion?” Breathless pause till the Irishman answered, ‘‘ No, my lord, I was not there,” at which everybody roared again.

THE Quaker’s ADDRuSS TO HIS WateH- MAKER.—I hereby send thee my pocket clock, which standeth in need of thy friendly correction. The last time it was at thy friendly school it was in no way benefited or profited thereby, for I perceive by the index of its mind that it is a liar, and the truth is not in it. Purge it, therefore, I beseech thee, and correct it from the error of ita ways, and show it the path wherein it should go; and when thou layest thy cor- recting hand upon it, see that it be without passion, lest thou shouldst drive it to de- struction; and when thou seest it conform- able to the above-mentioned rules send it home to me with a just and true bill, drawn out in the spirit of moderation, and I will remit it thee in the root of all evil.

The increase of fraud in high places in England, writes M. D. Conway, “is. start- ‘ling. On Sunday last the son of an ent | banker, the nephew of a baronet, the ‘near relative of a duke, were conmtaitted for ‘trial on a charge of fraud im thie presence of ‘their weeping wives and families. Dr. Bax- ‘ter Langley, who was expected~to go into ‘the next Parliament, is picking oakwm in- ‘stead, for having swindled a Workingman’s

Building Company, of which he was Chair- man, and he is accompanied to jail by a ‘gentleman who rejoices in the name of Swindlehurst. But the long catalogue of those whom the law has managed to draw out of fine houses, is still, [ am sorry to say, 'short, as compared with the list of more clever rogues who manage to have their of- nces hushed up or escape,

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