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Apour six months ago we commenced Que Wan

making ready for the publi eation, in Char- a Daily Paper. The enter-

regarded as

lottetown, of prise was rightly a very diffi- eult one. Many of our best friends feared that it would fiilat the outset; and our

oppone ents g) leefully fi yr etok i failure within | | Great Part

4 month fut. satisfied there was room Ip

the Island for one daily paper, and that it

would prove a boon to the county, we

i ‘Another Terribie

; 7 ehinlks persevered. The promptitude with which

we were enabled to furnish news was ap preciated from the first; and now ou

merchants and traders are beginning to

see that a paper issued every day and read everywhere, is the proper paper to adver

tize in. and inspires us with hope. sut we want

money, and that continually: To earn

some more than we are now earning, we

have now propose | to with

= > 9 ‘ : rf united with Mr.) Mitchell, anu we

“run” a Job Office in

the daly paper advertsement in

connection Our

friends will see the

another column.

INDIGNATION MEETING AUGUSTUS. ThE FRANCHISE DEPRIVATION AND ASSESSMENT OUTRAGE DISCUSSED PASSAGE OF

— UNANIMOUS 4 STRONG RESOLUTION DEMANDLN! OF THE LEGIS

AN BARLY CALL LATURE

A 7 fk ORG

\ prBLiC MEBTING of the inhabitants o

Fort Augustus and vicinity was held on Saturday Tne day was ine for potato Gigs

put a large ntrmber of farmers were

wing: They had little to say agains'

present.

the prince iple that the wes lthiest should bear the most taxation; but their c ponden nation of the details of the Assessment

Act and the unjust, bungled valuations of che Assessors— from whose award the law sHlows no appeal—was heavy and uncom: They also evinced a feeling of

promising. the young men who

deep sympathy with ~ though taxed to the tune of a dollar a

head—bave been deprived of them in»

alienable right to vote at elections; and the »pinion that there should be an immedi ate session of the Legislature for the pur pose of res storing to the young men the bly-prized privilege of which they were ed, wos unanimous.

hig nniustly deprives

ternard Call lagifan, chair, and Mr, James The speakers McQuaid, E-q., [lon. F. Kelly, Hon. H. Beer, Hon. William McGill, Hon. W. W. Suilivan, Senator Haythorne, P, R Bowers, Esq., and Donald Ferguson, Eq.

Beer, McGill and [laythorne all admitted that the Assessment stands, i very defective, and the valuitions—if made The latte

*

E q:, “occupied the E. Lafferty acted :

secretary. were Francis

law, as it

as stated—exceedingly unjust. admitted the advisability of an early call o! she Legislature. Our report, weare obliged ao hold over till to morrow.

time we publish the resobution uninimous-

In the mean-

dy passed by the meeting : --

Wuenrkas, Several of the Acts caused to be pis: zed by the present Government ai the last session of the Provincial Legis lature are crude, imperfeet and illxadap a to our requirements ,and one of them de- ptives thousands of the eleciors of thei 17 anchise, and

Wwuere.s, Ih» Assessment Act is entirely 400 cumbersome and is especially obnox gous to the people ; therefore—

Resolved, Yanut our Representatives in both branches of the Legislature, namely Messrs. McGill and Munn Beer and Kelly be and are hereby requested to uze every eonstitutiosd means in their power to i immediate meeting ot the Legis- for the purpose of enfranchising tix enfranehised electors, sid amending the| Assessment Act so a3 to render it in ac eordance within the means of and the requirements of the Province.

Mr. Francis McQuaid was called to th ehair, eet a vote of thanks Mr. B. for his impartial conduct 2” saan over the meeting.

eatiise jadiure

was

‘'allaghen,

After cheers being proposed, and g to Messrs. Sullivan,

the peop

ziven to

|

Of course this gives us pleasure | ;in Piatt's house, on

a 4

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nn ete iVIC §

a . . isha 8 def burve | lo Heath—Two Phousand Hive | the aaeabe hood of

A special despatch to the ** Globe, ’

ira. J “* trom lgdyr, lated October 17th, states that |

s information of Mukhtar Pas Pasba withdrew from

[smail Iudyr to the heights

Huadred Persons Homeless lof Zer, near ‘ho frontier and it is believed cpperu eta oor he isonthe oint of complete y evacuating ' . , ie » our terntor

PERTY $309 007.

ae) | |

af Portland, St. John. in Ashes

DabADFUL &

‘A Vian and Four Boys Buried| in the Ruins of a Vaclé.

LOSS OF PKS

mrernwize | GCIDENT. -}

| Special Dispatch to Daily Meaminei St. Jonn, N. B., Oct. A tire broke out at three this Main Street, Portland |

; pi me. morning F

|—between Portland and Acadia Streets. |

} Wiggins’

lhe whole of the block was speedily des- arrived it was the progress of

troyed. When the engines found the flames,

The fire spread rapidly to the othe: vloeks—destroying everything from Fast Portland Street right down to the water, except the front of the block cn Main of Acadia Street. It crossed and destroyed the block between Highiand and

the Portland Temper blocks were des with the rear of the Strget east of Acadia}

impossible to stay

Sireet, east Port Street

mi iis west side

apa

Camden, in whieh uice Elall . together

Main

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|

was. Seven e

croyed

agbth on Street.

The Methodist Church is destroyed, also | ihe Mission House and about two hundred | iwellings occupied by 450 families. About thousand five hundred people are aomeless. Half of them are people who were burned out before by the great St John fire

the total loss of property is estimated at $300 0O0O—of which $90,000 is covered by insurance,

two

A min named George Bunster was burned to death while trying to save properiy. His charred remains are found.

accident occurred at 11 o'clock to-dsy. By the falling in of vault, on Princess Street, four boys and a man were buried in the ruins. (he man, whose name is unknown, was caken out dead. A boy named Alexander Gillis is still under, and is certainly dead Another boy named Charles Day is so ter- that he cannot live. The Cochrane and

A terrible

nibly injured

two remaining boys ~ James

George Dalton, of Indiantown, are much | bruised, but they will not die.

j , * + Ln az. Fut - + & A i Latest ifgm oii eal.

Commercial &

A Fatal Attempt to

Wreck a Railway Train.

Dispateh to Daily Examine

MONTREAL, Oct. 20

’ % spect ti

}

City Bags, delivered,

| Oatmeal 4 40 to 4 5 rT There is a demand here for potate rr | gee siliaieias iit oath Lh ing h in IrKet. j

!

| |

i \thabeska to day.

| si | ;

given | Ferguson and Row ers. |

for their atiendance, the meeting ad-} pourned,

San Puaners Uixcxs is shortly to lecture @m the Politieal Liistory of Canada from

th 5 Union °

Capnace, por: toes and turnips are being exported in large quantities fiom Island ports to Halifax and other places,

Hay. imported from New Brunswick, i this city for 80 cents per hundred weight,

<p P-

Tur Sé. says Dr. mill go to England to seek a change of «'iaiite cure for the affection of * the! ti:out, from which he is now suffering

’ a : ° Croix Courier

as a

Pentand Siow.

$6 16 to 6 15; 595 to 6 00}

Fiour quict avd easier

Superior Extra, uX'ra Supertine,

Fancy, 5 74 to 6 00 Spring Extra, 5 50 to 5 65

Supertineg, 5 3)to § 65 Strong Bakerz, 6 55 to 6 65 Fine, 5 90 to 5 95 ‘iddlings, 3.75 to 4 30 va 9 40 to 5 50}

. C. Bogs per 100 Ibs,, 265 to 3 20}

3 10 to 3 40}

rye

Pie fir a to Euro

at shipment 6f grain from Manito- | pe was made yesler@ay, Laurier and Bourd

. ala 3 bp were nominated in} The Conservatives have !

ne Hopes of beating the new Minister. An ditempt was made last night lo wreck | Ltrais onthe North Shore Railway. One} Killed.

uan Wis

Sr, Pererspore. Oet, 19. [he Czarowitch bas removed his head- ‘quarters from Doimamonastye tu Bristoveo turthber north between the Lom and the |

| Jantra.

The aseult upon Plevna recommenced

‘last nigh.

;

"Ty . . On ‘ The Russian eoutractor has informed the |

Grand Duke Nicholas tiaab the materisl ordered in England for the cous'rucgion of

i the ivon huts for the troops has been con

Nova Scotia and | ij. cated by

Tupper: |

the British [?] Government «s |

3 selling at the wharves of! | Comte aband of war,

Loxweow, Oct. 19. Che storming of Plevna wil! probably be | attempted on Friday or Saturday. Vienna, Oct. 18. |

&ksakofl, chief of the has been ars

it is stated that Mosedw Panslavist - Society,

Cu tte © Vow 20eG

cls ofc dain nication iSimmnitzs almost

|sentry.

;inag rouch,

i Scotia, Lloyd,

}CONNOLLY S

A Russia: semii-official jourmal reports het "* assian troops yave been kill. up to October IIth.

Lonpon, Oct. 19. reports the Russian irom Giurgevo to impassable. The sides of | the roads are lined with skeletons of borses and cattle. ‘The mud }walking impossible, and half of nabitants and a lar ge portion of the milit

‘ary have the Danube fever, typus, or dy~ jhe bridge across the Danube is The Giurgevo and Simnitz: Work

correspon dent

very shaky. | Rai way is progressing very slowly.

fon tbe barracks and hos pitals also moves i's owly. a

Bucwanest, Oct. 19 The Rouraanians have approsched with in twenty metres of the second Griviiza re- doubt, which, however, is believed to have been evacuated by the Turks during the

iast five days,

The Russians before Plevna have re- ceived reinforcements of ten thousand in-« fantry.

REWS.

Lonpon, Oct. 19. A Paris correspondent telegraphs that on the part of the Lett there is a determi- nation to be more self-restrained than ever.

(SERA,

Romg, Oct. 19,

Cardinal Copalti died here toxday, aged

seventy-six years, Paris, Oct 19.

Tie Left intend to lay down the pricci-» ‘ple binding on themseives as well as op- | ponents, and to inflict solemn condemna- ition on official candidacy backed by un i bus hing coercion. They also announce ‘that ifa Cabinet is not formed from the

| majority, they will pass at the very first

sitting a vote of want of confidence, and after inswping payment of interest on the National debt and supplies for the army aud public works and purely administra-~ live purposes, they wili refuse all votes necessary fur the working of the Cabinet, such as secret service money and salaries of functionaries ; do everything, in short, which can oblige a Cabinet acting within the Jaw to abandon the struggle. The sondition on which members of the Left who might be summoned would agree to form a Cabinet are also spoken of. Rumors relative to the intentions of the ministry vary continually. It is not sur- prising, considering the dangerous counsel. oftered to McMahon, that vague rumors of aceup d’ etat circulate, and for two days business, instead of improving, seems bes coming more gloomy and en

Cmmree

eet

shippiag inteltige cence.

PORT OF CHAI {LOTTELOWN

ENTERED. let. 20. —Str. M. A. Starr, Smith, Halifax, sundry mdse. Schr. Farewell, Sampson, Pictou, produce; Diead Not, Langille, Tat-

Lively, Hingley, do., do; Wright, Richibucto, boards: Nova Souris, ballast; Alert, Hob De lancy, Richards, Magdalen Atma, Rothesay, Summer

Qaward, Seett, Wallace,

lumber;

Leonora i

(lis do; herring;

epison, islands,

vite : a; roary I yds : RU y i

stone,

sida Ssiae,

CLEARED.

(ei 2—Str. M.A. Starr, Smith, Halifax,

produce, Schr. Ellen, Cousins, Pugwash, salt: Crafisman, Boyd, Bathurst, molasses:

Alert, Bridges, Pie ‘Lou, batiast; Catherine, McLean, © Bay, produce; Lady Speed- well, Tleckinan, Tialifax, preduce; Glide, MekKiniav, Lescombie, do; Stalia, Lescomb, i ', Hingley, Tatinagouche, bal- Me®eil!], Shediac, do: Ou

Jo; LiVedy min last; Alexander, iliace, do.

Seott, Wi

in Simnitze renders | the ims

5

Ti

CHESTS of au EXTRA NICE QUATITY

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CARVELL BROS. Oct. 22—4in

meee Ne. 200) |

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mourty expec. ted | MH.” BE BOSTON OIL.

bias e CARVELL BROS.

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Cir town, Oct 22—2

VINEGAR,

50 Casks xxx 20. Casks

Due here

w e@od

CARVELL BROS.

ah town, Oct. —lin

JOB PRINTING OFFICE

FOR. SADE.

health, is induced to offer his First- Ciass PrintinG Opricer at private saie. It consists, in part, of 1 Tuft’s 28 x 3; 1 Berry Jobber, 1 Half-Mediam Iniversal, 1 5 horse Steam Engine and Boiler; together with a large and varied assortment of Jobbing Type. ete., in the latest styles. For further particulars ad -

dress HENRY COOPER, Box 230, Charlottetown. Oct. 22, 1877—3in ecd

CARD.

TNNHE Subscriber, having associated himself 1 with THe Examiner Pristine & PuBLISH- ING ComMPANy, would take this opportunity of returning thanks to his f ‘iends, and the public generally, for the patronage extended to him in the past, and would solicit a continuance of their favors in connection with the above Company. All orders for Printing, as heretofore, will receive prompt and personal attention. J. W. MITCHELL.

Oct. 20, 1877.

C ‘harlottetown,

BY §.5. “HOA

From Liverpool lo

W* have received the Eine Family & Church Servi Hymi- ‘tl

Testaments, isaims, Ete. J

“CUA”

Halifaa

i Poe

BINDINGS

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eyer exhibited in Chairlottetown, and at prices to suit the times, BREMNER BROS. Oct. 20 — } Hee : - i "4 4 e , E al, ar ‘ 9 34) 7 COLLINS’ LIBS ARY.

CABINET. and

War rt H . GLOBE DIGTIONARIES, Seile} from London on the 16th inst., tle jee ; ner Kihee Blanche, Grabeel master, for ATLANES, MEAP. &?., Ke.. thi ~ } rt. : , : i Trror ON > Sailed “from Liverpool on the 5th inst.. Just OPENED, 43 the ship dames Duneas for this port, | BREMNER BROS. cl. 20— Sailed from Liverpool on the 4th inst., the ve I. =U bary!. Fanny Murchison, for this port, Arrived al ‘ iverpool onthe 4t} } —_ WANTRD MMEDIATELY. barqu dean Anderson, Rict a vs, fr oe 3 K, ald AT THE

DESTINATION OF VE VESSELS IN| PORT. People’s 3 Clothing Store, A ae

\ wane:

Coanel, hein 4 Ilalifax,

Lucity Aan, aiawind. Richibucto ie : Margy: 1is, Chatham. VA HAKt—

Alert, Rob ‘rieon, Sours

P. - (5 . Ane Pie tou, wend t Se ott, Wallace.

lerson,

Crafisman, Boye, Bachaleur. John Tilton, Mec Lean, Pictou. voam Moran, Picton

Water Lily, Powley. Orwell. ising Dawn, tlughes, Picto

iPeake's No, | Woarr—

Simpson, Pictou

Farewell,

Chir} _. Wisters. Pictou. ‘

Lizzie, lreland, St. dohn -

Sniy Aylward, bradtpr

i i Wi : La Newfoundland. } vs Wranr—

Leon Wright, Richibueto

Shediac,

iibucto,

Nova Scotia. ‘onaway, doubtful,

A Seaman, Irwin,

Addie, King Ric! , liennessy,

Samie Mek cown, ¢

Akr’s No, 2 Wranr—

Barque Wellington,O Callaghan,London

Brig Zerlina, Rolant, Liverpool,

Sea Bird, Ciyde, Murray Harbor. Peake s N 3 W itanv—

Alice Ms ‘rick, McInnis Spring Bird, MeKay,

. Labrador. U ited State

4 PANY

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Merchaut Tailor. | Sami erside, Oct. 29—

First-class need

Hane dat

just received, and will be closed out |

per **Bon-

Agents.

by “ALITAMBRA” on Wednesday.

HE Subscriber, in consequence of failing

Hand Press,

~ 4 hese

THE: EXAMINER BOOK & JOB

Printing at ment

y y Pls +} . ‘ (Formerly of the ld wttenell

i i rt ‘ i eahs FONE IG28 rhii

| EXaminer Printine a | Printing and Publishing

Company,

.}and added to the Plant. bef Pee es 0 eS PO the {lompans '

Compleie New Stock of Job Printing Material, | We are now in a position to ex: all kin@s‘of Printing, such as LETTER HEADS. BILL HEADS. CIRCULARS, UARDS

ute Orderg for

PAMPHLETS DODGERS. HANDBILLS, POSTERS,

AND ALL KINDS GE

Bank and Lega! Printing!

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ae While announcing this inportant addi- sie’ to our business, we deem it bat right that we should tender to the public our sincere thanks for the encouragement and practical support our citerprise has hitherto received, fn view of lo mg expr rience of Mr. Js W. Mitchell, aa well-known attention to business, and the larve a € variel Stock of Material at our i solicit. the

command, we ¢ ie? uy patronage of Anctioueer chants, ‘Ship panies, Asso.

Owners, [arm Ronks,

ciations, and iad et rporations generally.

a@ Orders may, foi eur arrangements are

ouly, (until pe lett at the

' oe Mi aa 7% RP ere fo ‘ Company s Office, Wat r Sire cad also ag the office. of J. Wi Mitchell, 23 ¢ reat Ceorge Strect.

THe Examiner Pusnisuine Co,

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Oct. 22-

EMPRE FSS RANGE.

lw et af

EMPRESS RANGE

fFOR SOFT COAL}, [With Patent Adjustible Shelf,

| Superior

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7 oe 6% . Americana Mant ION W. CRABBE,

RIAL : ; ( 5 Wo ke RUE A

New Kid Gloves. New Buttons. ‘Mew Wool Goods.

SAVE. YOUR MONEY | New Black Lustres.

AND WAIT UNTIL OUR

STOGK OF FARCY GOODS, &€, SRRIVES.

E will opes, in 2 few dys, the Largeg! Variety and Han Selection of Goods, suitable for

Xutas and Ncw Fe § Presents,

that we have ever yet imported, from the hest markets in Great Britain and United States. We shall issue a list on arrival. BREMNER BROS, Oct. 20—pat 3in

SOMES?

44 Oneen St.,

New Dress Goods. | jaet receiyed per Nov and will be sold at bottom prices,

PeRaZR 2S & Ch’town, Oct. 19.—5i CHAMEERS’

~AND RRYCH’S FIRST S)LCOND Luntin inet

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