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Che Daily Examiner

NOVEMBER 28,

LSs4. Hiditorial Notes. Duaiferin | cunping

—W hile

Griers, the

is praising M de Russian diplomat, hoodwinkiug is alter Gordou

and while Giadstove is Salisbury, apd W olsele

and Gordon after he Mehdi, and Queen | Vietoria ling vew snuuff-boxes to Bismarck and the E nperor William it is nuderstood tiat the Russiav Bear down Turkestan, with one or two paws already | | is just making for tbian Sea as if to|

Is seu

himself is just tramping over

u Atghabisian, an

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the Ludius ard

mee! Staniey’s advance guard as it gets |

" ot Eastera Africa by way of

Zan cuebar, This is the story briefly | by a Philadelphia editor. — ,

- The London correspondent of the Philadelphia Zelegraph gives the follow g amusing incident in Sir Johy Max En¢cland—— ve other

OD Aid § Visli {to ‘Quite al

WAS caused evening |

sensation -known leader of politieal society in London. She had gathered around her! is crowd of shining lighis of the Conser-|

vat ve world, when just upon midnigh’, | Loa the hum of eonversation was at its | st, there was a sudden and mys- |

us sileuce. All looked up to see ihe |

e, when they beheld near the door |

i oid gentleman with wrinkled face. |

iviag One grey curl over the forehead. » class in haod ogling the crowd.

00%, the gait, the curl, the aititude, the | Bf ST ee ee ee —- | the promotion of civilization for the Congo ‘toop, the eye-glass—all spoke of} ®*s'er pues one Sones. ene Valley. jamio Disraeli, first and last Earl of Phe correspondent sends the following : i os ae : W. C. Lester, a prominence attorney of | The Madrid students’ troubles still con- Beve usticld. The awe-struck — sileuce this pl has just arrived from Mount! tiuue, and hundreds of arresta have been

continued for several seconds, and many thought tor the moment that the shade (the departed Premier had come back

ee ‘tC matters right im the Conservative ean But ven the old gentleman mized with the crowd, and was intro-| duced to one and ancther, it was fourd that he was no wraith, but the real flesh

aud blood of Sir John Maedonald, the Canadian premier, who is the counterpart of the late Earl, and by his manceer, 3, etc., loses no opportunity of enforcing the likeness,

dres

~The Grit press is engaged at attack ing the Cavadian Pacific Railway Com pauuy tor building their road so fast. We fiud the following candid testimony which is a good avawer to the atcacks in ‘Bystauder”: *‘Nothiug could be more vurensouoble than to blame the company for shortening the time of construction ter which parliament is responsible. Thiat the work has been well done is the testimony of compeient judges who are in a position to express an opinion. The motive to do good work is strovger in the case of the Canadian Pacific Company than with contractors who have no interest in the work beyond the pay it brings, aud that this motive has had its effect can easily be seen in the character of the road tiat has beea built. The beat steel rails have been used, and the bridges are good and substantial ; and if’ there was any doubt as to the characte: vl the road which the contract bound tbe company to build, there is none as to how the road that has been built is to be

Sy ‘* James Shand, Commissien Mer | branch store in Stevenson’s Buiiding, where

‘ ’ Uo, at greatiy

‘from '

)say, the whole steck has been bonght for

i brilliantly lighted dr:wing-room of aj‘ ithe notice of Mr. Shand’s advertisement

; i

The | sent a staff correspondent to investigate the

exact |

SURRENT NOTES.

Japan is placing her army on a war foot- ing.

There are 2,500 ch'p laborers out of work in Philadelphia.

A cyclone la: Coae much damage in the Madras presidency.

John Bright is said to be epposed to I operial Federation,

I) is asserted that Mr. Gladstone w:ll accept a peerage.

LETTERS 16 THE EDITOR.

> “

Correction,

sae ee

Sir,—In your paper of yesterday you chant, of Halifax, N. S., has opened a

he will sell the Bankrupt Stock of Dutfes & } reduced prices.” This is a grievous ¢rror on y.@r pari, reyul ing instant contradiction. ‘The fac's are thece: Consequent on the death of the sentor vart- Germany is proposing to ner OL che late firm of Doffis X& Co., the Pae' fie Ocean Islands.

ate lamented Mr. J. B Dutfus, who died last suinmer, wealthy, estermed, his loss | deeply regretted by the entire cowmunity, the surviving partners decided to retire The Prince of Wates’ eldest son has been business. They invited tenders for | entered as « law student.

veir stock en bloc. Mr. Shand tenderec ind vot it at his own tivures, This is the whole secret of the transfer. i may further

agaiti annex some The Prince of Wales has been entertain-

ing advanced Liberals,

‘lenry George’s touria Great Britain is said to bea great success.

Bosmarck rays the government does not eash, as all Messrs. Luftus’ purchases were, | propose to impose new taxes. they being amply able to do so, and at first hands and the best first hands in their | several lines—sources only open to a wealthy, first-class, strictly wholesale house A Conservative has been elected Pre- : Yours truly, sident of the German Reichstag. Joun Macbdonaip.

vegrel to learn that the word was inadvertently inserted in

The New York Post says the railroad rate war isa stock-jobbing scheme.

The Paris journals oppose further media-

[We tion between France and China. Bankrupt ’ : aa i , :

Germany is said to bein great enthusi It was an injustice to the late firm of | 45™ about her colonizing projects.

Duffus & Co. | The British expedition to Bechuanaland

will be larger than at first intended.

None to Make Coffins.

A series of remarkable caves have been discovered near Kingwood, W., Va, PROSTRATED IN VIRGINIA THAT MYSTERIOUS

WHOLE VILLAGES AND KENTUCKY BY

DISEASE,

By the treaty with Spain the United States will lose $40,000,000 of revenue.

The Louisville Courier Journal recently

The most stringent prehibitory liquor law yet known has been passed in Switzerland.

‘

There is to be a policy of free trade and

| Pleasant, the county seat of Harlan, where | made. | he has been for two weeks past. Mr. | Wester has information of the prevailing

principally from Harlan, Letcher,

The iron pipe manufacturers of the

| plague } Uuited States are suffering from over-

Perry, Leslie and Bell counties. He | Production, says that in UHarlan it appears the The British navy isto have £5,000,000 worst. [t is the most fatal and! spent on it more than the usual sum in the

Estimates.

While Blodensburg, O., prohibitionists were wrecking a saloon, the proprietor was fatelly wjured.

prevails to the greatest extent up about ithe head waters of the Pvor Fork ani i Clover Creek in the mountains. about 25 miles from Mount Pleasant. Tis large | territory is being terribly afflicted, the peo- ple dying very rapidly. In one neighber- Meissonier’s wonderful little picture hood twelve persons died in a single day,in; ‘ine Vedetie” sold lately for 4,500 guinea the latter part of last week, and there were | —avout 100 guineas the square mich, scate’Jy well people enough to m ke them coffins and bury them. On Brown’s Creek, which rises in the Harlan and empties into the Cumberland river, in Ball county, the disease is raging with frightful fatality and there is no means Of keeping the record of death. All along the bauwks of the stream | the people are sick, and physicians and medicines, outside of berbs and roots, with

The Bout woman rec*ived information of the commutation of her sentence to Imprison- meut tor bfe on the 26.h, with great demon- strations of joy.

The Hungarian General Gorgie has been presenied with a manifesto signed by many of his old comrades, justifying Mis con- duct at the surrendor ot the national army in 154%.

acquainted, are uaknown and unobtainable.

‘The epedemic is rapidly spreading in Harlan county. In a district covering the Southern portion of Letcher and Perry, the whole of Leshie and north and east portion of Bell counties, the plague haa obtained a foothold bat reports as to its violence are very conflicting. Lester thinks that the deaths run up into the hundreds, while the number of those attacked cannot be esti- mated. Lester further says that noone seems to know the exact nature of the pestilence. Most of the people called it ‘flux,’ and it is probably avery aggravated form of that disease. If not fatal in three or four days, the patient, as a rule, re- covers, Aj] reports agree as io the cause of the epedemic, it being attributed to the

The international commission on the claiius of Brittsh subjects for losses during the Chili-Peruvian waris very one-sidec, and the appeliants’ demands are generally rejected,

At Hong Kong the reported successes of the French in Tonquin and Formosa are asserted to be fabrications, end in both regions the Chinese are said to be assuming the oifensive,

The appointment of the French delegate to the presidency of the Congo conference committee on England’s claim to the Niger is considered as evidence of a hostile com- dination against Eugland.

Dr. A. M. Rudach, of Philadelphia, died

classed. A first ciass road is undoubt-! edly being seenred.

ow “Orn 1S not

Scamping railway | usknown in Canada; ii would be easy to point out instances! vlere, in consequence of badiron being | +], the rails had to be renewed long! Lefore the time had expired by which | i@ life of good rails is measured. A com-| peny which does its work well is not fairly | open to attack ou the ground of ‘elerity in construction i(s own, rightly or wropgly—and i:

haete. ior reasons oi | is the | supieme judge of the matter—Parliament | demanded. If that was a mistake, poli- tically or ecovuemically, it is not a mis-

take for which the company can be called to account. If dilatoriaess had | Leen shown, if the requisite energy for so |

‘as ea nudertaking had been wanting. | there would have been good ground for) € criticism, and fierce indeed the |

cism would have been. The aston-|

} by the company

c ‘ | ' Z results achieved

|

eaudid commendation from the jus-| 4

Mr. Mackeuzie: and we regret to|

ee ‘here is a total want of similar frank-|

s and fairness ig quarters where, at

ne time, Mr. Maekenzie’s influence would have been felt.”

Tue Patriot has kindly caled our attention

‘owing letter which : ppeared in the St. i f Graph ; (Q,--la your issue of the 17th inot., | sppeared a letter from a rather facetious | correspondent, giving a description of men | and things as he found them ia this primitive town of Charlottetown duiing a flying visit. | Lis writer is good-natured im most of his} reinarks, but a paragraph describing what he calls the session of the County

Court is §6caleculated = ta give a very ;

rroneous idea of the manner business is | tra:.sacted in that cours, | of the character of tte jadge t is generilly couceded that| Judge Alley is ao able and upright jadge, and | when he presides in his court he takes care |

that all the business is transacted d cently | and inorder. A provision in the law directs | the judge, im case he is interested in any case, | aud i8 cisqualified from trying it, toremut it to one or More justices of peace, who hear and | determine the dispute. The court scene} described by your correspondent took place before one of the ad hoc judges to whom a} case had been remitted by the country judge

1 and while your correspondent’s deseription of aT

th . ; + 4ul ‘ 1) i ii Yat lonah!] mistake, dogs a great injustice to an je Conant jutige vy leaving the 1k p» sium that then presided, By makin this explanation you will nach oblige a Pt. 1. Barre i me > 7 eye

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2 v justice burgiars who wey rob

mn age om bas been formet by the 2wele v atonto, Montreal, tlamil and ower plated in Canada. " =

| crop in all the counties named is good, and

. | Woeks.

itresistiblie shaking of her bedy and arms

} to think of it.

on Saturday last, leaving his estate worth $2.0,000 to his wife, whom he married pri- vately two days befere his death. The relatives threaten to contest the will.

use of impure water by natives. The corn

starvation and want only exist because the people can spaze no time from the sick to gather it. France, it is understood, demands from China the strict enforcement of the Tien Tsin tceaty, the occupation of Formosa for five years and an apéiogy for the Langson affair, and these terms China utterly re- fuses.

As an evidence of a bear’s intelligence, it is stated that one that had been shot in the shoulder, an hour before it was finally des- patched, was found to have forced a tuft of hair into the buliet hole, and thas effect- ually stopped the flow af blood.

She Ate Last in March.

A YOUNG WOMAN'S FAST OF 258 DAYS—HER DOCTOR'S OPINION,

Kate Smulsey, of Fi. Plain, N. Y., who up to the 25rd inst. has fasted 258 days. as not materially changed in the last few Ww She is but siightly weaker, the

still continuing. The appearance of her flesh is not such as would be exrected of Joseph Cook will deliver another course one who has endured such a protracted fast, | of lectures in Halifax this winter. What but it is rather bloated and abnormal in| little he dida’t know about this universe semblance. She receives the best of care} last year he has learned during the sum- from her mother, who continually watches | mer vacation, and he will probably twist by her side. Miss Smulsey last tasted food | the English language all out of shape in on the Lith of March. Her mother testified | telling it. to this, and adds that she earnestly wishes that her daughter would eat somethiny. Kate herself talks little, and in a scarcely audible voice, She says she has no appetite for anything, even were she in a condition toeat. She is firm in the belief that she will eventually be restored to health, Dr. Zoller, the family physician, says that ahe takes no medicine now, and has not for some time

‘It is a very strange case,’ said the doctor to a reporter to-day. ‘I do not know what To exist without nourish ment for this length of time is contrary to ali medical science. and yet duriog eli my attendance on her | have aever seen her eat anything, nor have IL discovered any indi- cation that she has done so. I have fre- quently advised her to eat anything her stomach could stand, and have teken deli- cate yruels to her, but she always abso-

Mrs. Bishop, sister of gir Stafford North- cote, has written a letter in which she says: ‘Miss Coleridge managed her father’s house as working househeeper for six years, receiving £80 yearly. Since she left her father’s house she has lived in a small lodg- ing house and received no regular allowance frm her father, only occasional cheeks. She has nothing except what she has saved from her earnings as a music mistress.”

A private letter to the Montreal Guzette from a gentleman in Scotland, whose experience in trade matters covers more than a generation and who has exceptional means for obtaining information, in dis- cussing the business situation says:— ‘Indeed, almost everything in the manu- facturing line is in a state of overpro- dustion, Some years ago, when the tide | of trace ran high, machinery was increased

lutely refused to partake of them. How | ‘aryely, aud now when demand has siacken- mueh longer she cap live in this condition, | ed they cannot weil s'op the wheels, but go I can say nothing abort.’ on hoping agaist hope for a better day to

There is no question in this community | come. teduction in wages is likely as to the veracity of the Smuls:y family.]to be tned, and I am_ told one

which is highly respected. Tacy were very relnctant in allowing the case to reach p-ub- lic notice, and are extremely diffident now

large linen manufacturer in whose waves bill is scme year wants @ reduction of 10 per cent.,

Fife

R, NOVEMBER

“ . . . on cash prices, has, with a view of closing up the matter during the winter, commissioned the Subscribers to offer te the

people of the Island rome $20,000 worth of these goods,

produce to Halifax,

whore curative properties the natives are ; . Pree Ch’town, Nov. 26, 1884—1mo eod

FATLI sSsTock,

| ht A ¢ Sent Value in ha'f-chests

£30 000 a Charlottetown, Nov. 2l—Ilw eod wkly ti

28. 1884

en ee a ee

JAMES SHAND, MISSION MERCHANT & AUCTION

HALIFAX, WN. S.

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A,

1 TR, SHAND, having bought the lsrge Wholesale Dry Goods \I Stock of DUFFUS & CO., of Halitax, at a large discount

We have taken the store in Stevenron’s Building, on West

> saiuaaa ‘ > side of Queen’s street, formerly known as “ Dempsy’s Corner, ° ° > on, “ and immediately opposite Dorsey Goff & Co.s’ Shoe Store, and will open early in December.

The Goods are all Sound and of the First Quality, bought

at first hands and in the best markets in this country and in Europe, Messrs. Duffus reputation is a guarantee of this, and the Stock will be sold at prices that will advantage the buyer.

Yes Liberal advances made on consignments of Island Island produce bought.

J. A. CAMERON, JOHN MACDONALD.

Charlottetown, Nov. 27, 1884 1mo

LOOK HHRE!

enna. 120

G. H. HASZARD

Has the Largest and Rest-selected Steck of CHRISTHAS

CARDS ever shewa. All New Designs. Will net shew aby old Cards th’s year.

Novelties this Sexson:—-INLAID W6GD, MOTHER OF PEARL, &, Carn.yal Set of Canadian Winier Sports

eee ae () ne wre

COME AND SEE MY STOCK BEFORE PURCHASING,

— 9

G H. HASZARD.

TO THE TRADE.

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1884.

{poe -

Received and to Arrive Shortty :

1.200 Barrels FLOUR (choice ) 3000 «6 do”) «Ontario APPLES, 160 do Nova Scotia APPLES, 506 Boxes and half boxes RAESENS, 00 ds Choice FIGS, 100 Casks KEROSENE O€L, 123 Boxes CHEESE, 175 do Bonelss FISH, 1,000 Pounds JAMS and MARMALADE.

~——

Large stock Sugar, Molasses, Biscuits, Confectionery, &e,

0

and five-pound air-tight Tins,

a

WHOLESALE PRICES VERY LOW.

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BEER & GOFF.

- LADIES’

November 20, 1884.

ae

SELL

NEW FELT HATS,| Potatoes,

*piling, Bark, R. R. Ties, Lumber,

—AND—

NEW PLUSHES

Op il i va 28 , Tas? . oe ‘ L pening to-day at MRS. YOUNGS’, up-stairs Laths, é enned Lebsiers, Mue-

at Messrs W. & A. Brown & Co’s.

Kerel, Berries, Eggs,

on being approached with inquiries con- cerning the girl’s condition. Miss Smulsey was 20 years old on the 2tth of last month.

which would -be something like £3,000 a year difference to him. Trade a'l over the country is done under such keen competi- tion, which rans prices so extremely iow, that itis quite disheartening for business with large working capital, as the returns are so veryemall Ja this neighborhood (Mdinburgh) it is said one large concern, dealing im water-proof goods, generally /

A FRATERNAL ser'es of meetings for the quickening of spiritual life are being heid at Bridge-of- Weir in ecnnection with the Estab- ished ead Wree Church congregations ,there.

; ices are conducted by the ministers evs. T, Duncan and F

. . ’ a } ~ af the two churches,

Carruthers, A, M

‘the above is a clipping from a Scotch paper. y friends of the Kev. Mr. Duncan or the island, will be pleased to hear that he is working both Zeal usly and aesiduously, as he

love continue.” —

20,000 BAGS (assorted sizes)

The one, relieving | Qucen Street will be promptly attended to,

GRAIN BAGS. | Fish Kee.

{ | Best Prices for all Shipments,

Write fully for Quotatious,

OR SALE BY | HORACE HASZARD. HATHEWAY & OO.,

Ch’town, Nov. 92, 1834, : : picceaee, General Commission Merchants,

very successful ard lucrative, has this last! Asem a aren Ee 2 Tt 9 |

year, even with increased output, fallea | CRAG K D BED 22 Ce wi

afay some thousands of poneds in profit 3. | ete ox “ a nee — renee, ATS and Barley mixed, fresh

0

| 1 » ground, | $ Members of Board of Trade, Corn and | Mechanics Exchang-. Ch’town, Nov. 19, 1884,

USCRIBE for ths WEEKLY EXAMIN Only ONK POEL AR « peer.

and kept constantly on hand. Aili orders left at ths Giaszow Hcuse,

HENRY fF. LaPabe ¢

~~ . , a . qty, Coltcwas, Nov. 9, 1884— Tims daw 1 BR

APPLES a B* Auction, to-moirow, turday, Noy 29th, at 11.30 o'clock, xt my Ay, i Room :— f

100 Brle choice winter-ke: pley Bishoy Pirs pins, pot up in full-size. hard-wood bary ls

50 Bris. other choice kinds, Baldwins, Kussctts,; &e.

Sale pesitive. No reserve,

A. MeNEILI,

Anctione er,

. Py soe i 7 m &Y. 1a,

Ch’town, Nov, 28. 1884

No. 1 Winter-Keeping AMERICAN BALDWINS,

B. Auction, Saturday next, November 29th, at 11 o’clock, in front of my « flice 13 Queen Street: 75 bris. Choice American Baldwin Apples, 5 boxes Florida Oranges, 5 barrela Onions,

A. H. B McGOWAN,

Ch’town, Nov. 27, 1°St— 2j

804. - FALL. - {B84 ENGLISH COAL VASES, FANCY COAL HODS, GAL. IRON COAL Hops, FIRE IRONS AND STANDS, BLOWER STANDS, CARPET SWEEPERS, HEARTH BRUSHES

SERMON W. CLA BBE, Sign of the Stove. Walker's Co: ner, Ch’towa, Nov. 26—3w twice a w

FAWAL NOTICE TO DEBTORS

ee

‘sae is to notify all persons indebted to

the late tirm of HORNE, PIERCE & CU., for Book Account, Notes of Hand, Judg- ment or otherwise, that 1 have appcinted sernard Higgins, of Lot 30, as Agent, to col- lect for said firm, and grant receipts for thg same; therefore imm< diate payment is re quested,

ALEXANDER HORNE, Ch’town, Nov. 26—1i wkly 4i

‘iiss Lucy Caven, G4 FION STREET (Yast), is desirous of getting afew pupils for Music, Terms can be agrecd on, : is Cl’town, Oct, 28. lesa,

ee a nescence

A DVERTISE in THE DAILY EXAMI NER, if you want to reach the most people for the least money.

WAATS, LUST, POUND, de.

BS Advcitisements uncles spice not excecding three {i for ten cents per day.

igis luadting, ty nes, will be inaerted

OsT—Op St. Peier’s Rod, near Roper’s Hill, on Priday last, a Kaiinay Wr: pper.

‘Lhe finder will be rewarded hy icaving it at

this cilice, nove

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(§ O LET—The “Riverside Cottage,” at the east ond of Kent street, next to Mr. Lowe’s garden. It is wel finished, with frost proct cellar. The prisent occupant is about leaving the Jslend, and there is coal in thé cellar that can be hed if required. Kent moderate ; possession itnmediatety, Apply to James Beales. nov2y

ones ee small, rel Cow with a white face. Auy information respectung her will be thankfully rewarded by Henry FarquuArson, King street, bov?7

>

& by Horace Harvard, Eso , at the foot of (Queen s street. Posses-ion given on the Ist day of January next, A. D, 1885. For fur- ther particulars apply to R. R. Fitzgerald, nov?7g

‘j 0 LET The prenuses St present oecupied

W ANTED to Borrow, for a term of irom three to five years, $2,800, on land and buildings, situated on principal stret, city ; a good stand and ihe buildirgs are nearly new ; cosh ner $6,000; annual rental £300, Address by ktter AB, City P. O., care Editor of XaMINER, stating rate of interest asked. Fall intormatiou furnished ia reply fe letter. nov26—2 wkly li

tae ee

NOR SALE. —3,000 bushels choice ‘Turnips.

4 Address orders to A. L. BRIDGES & CO., Charlottetown, bov26 ~2wks

fRXO LET, —At a very iow rent for the win: ter mouths, a house in 2 ceptial part of

the city ; can be pretty weil jurpished if re-

quired, LKuquive at this ctlice, nov20 lw

‘F.O LET—A Cottage on Picacant street,

containing eight rooms, with stable and

coachouse attached, Apply to Jehn Kelly, nev'!7 eod

FEW BOARDERS can be comfortably

accommodated in a central part of the

Teims reasonable. Apply at this nov!3 tf

city, otiice.

i O LET—A nice House in Pleasant Street, at present occupied by Mr. Crosskill ; een immediately, Also a house in lng Street, near Railway.—William Dodd. uovll

W ANihD—To rest, with power to per case, trom 50 to 100 acres goed land, with or without butidings, Apply at THE EXAM. NER Olfice. novll

—- od

10 CARS ary Cordwood for sale; vicely spit, suitable for eny purpose, Apply novlQ Fe SALE—A Fire-proof SAFE, Jatest im@provement.-- Cheap. Apply at Ta HXAMINER Ottice, hove-—wkly

YOO Loads of Hardwood and Kindling Wood iar Sale, Apply to

Wilhtam Gurboe, corner Fitzroy and Prince Streets. [oc 29 taw 4wk pd

immediately to McKianon & McLean.

bu L LINE of MeCormick’s celebrated BISCUIT! AND CONFECTIONERY, jseplO 3m

————

at R. K. Bracn’s.

5 A) © will give exciusive sale at aud near } \ Chariettetown, of our Hnatire W heat Fleur, to a dealer who wil! push it. Covered by patent. Masily sold. We guarantee 100 lbs, more bread to the barrel th in any other ilour. —FRaNKLIN Mists Co , 38 Clark Street, Chisago, 1, aug?