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THE CAMPAIGN. Queen’s County—The Liberal-Con- servative Candidates.

\ Hon. J. C. Pore, 1 ) Hon. F. De St. Croix BreckeN, }

Prince County—The Liberal-Con servative Candidates.

Cornetius Howart, Esq. | Epwarp Hackett, Esq. }

King’s County—The Candidates

( Ausrrx C. McDoxatp, Esq. / ) Dr. Murrart. )

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THE DAILY EXAMINER,

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“An Absurd Falsehood.”

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Tue St. John Telegraph, a few days ago, published the ridiculous report that Sir Joon Macdonald advocated at Strathroy a general tariff of thirty-five per cent. Yesterday morning the following letter ap- peared in its columns; but we look in vain fcr it in the Patriot of this morning :—

Sr. Jouy, July 19, 1878.

Srr—In your issue of the 16th inst. it is stated that at a meeting in London, Ont., held the other day, Sir John A. Macdonald said, ‘that he thought a general tariff of 35 per cent. would serve to meet the requirements of the people of Canada;” and you comment on it thus: “He does not propose a 50, 80 or 100 per cent. tariff, but merely a tariff of 35 per cent.” In every issue since, this has been re- peated and commented on. In justice to Sir John, and fearing that some ignorant people might really believe the absurd statement, | telegraphed him last night as follows:—

Rreur How. Str Joun A, MAcDONALD—

The Government press here state that you propose to raise the tariff generally to 35 per e2nt. Can I contradict this?

Joun Boyp.

The reply came promptly this morning, as

follows: — Toronto, July 19. T Jounx Boyp, St. John—

It is an absurd falsehood ; neither at Lon- don or elsewhere have I gone beyond my mo- tion in Parliament, and have never proposed an ingrease, but only a readjustment of tariff.

Joun A, MACDONALD.

{ hope that you will in all fairness give the direct statement of Sir John as prominent a place‘as the original statement of which it is such an unequivocal denial. For, in all these mattérs, there is nothing like the truth ; that only

will prevail in the end.

Until Mr. Tilley makes his public statement as to the policy of the next government of the Dominion, of which he will be a distinguished member, it is only waste of time to discuss the matter, and it is not quite fair to charge the leaders with holding or giving expression to views wholly opposite to the past, present and fature policy of the Liberal-Conservative party

of this Dominion. Joun Boyp.

The Patriot, Halifax Chronicle and other Grit organs which gave currency to the “absurd falsehood” will, of course, follow the good example set by the Telegraph. And perhaps some lover of truth will take a copy of the letter quoted above to the “‘gen- eral meeting” to be held at the Athenzeum this evening and have it read by the chair- man or secretary! The St. John Telegraph says :—

Sir John’s statement is quite conclusive thai he has in some way been misreported. We need hardly say that we regret much copying an in- correct paragraph and that we are only too glad ta give the denial all possible publicity. We will search the matter to the bottom and see how the error originated.

We hope to see some such admission in the Patriot when it contradicts the ‘‘absurd falsehood” to which it gave editorial prom- inence and importance.

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“FREE TRADE.”

Ir is announced that a ‘‘General Meeting of the Reform Party” will, this evening, be held in the Atheneum. We assume that the audience will be large; and, therefore, we hope an explanation (which is required at the very outset of the campaign) will be made. ‘The heading of hand-bills calling the meeting is ‘“‘Free Trade.” The pro- moters of the meeting are followers of Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Thomas W. Dodd, whose name is appended to the hand-bills, is known to be staunch Grit.

Mr. Peter Sinclair has laid it down asa fixed fact that in Party politics the views of the Leader of the Party are necessarily the views of the followers of the Party.

The Hon. Alexander McKenzie is Leader of the Grits; and he has said:—

“fam in favor of it’”—-viz: ‘‘Incidental Protection.”

‘‘As long as duties are levied upon im- ported articles, they should be levied upon articles produced by our own people.”

‘Situated as we are. it is absolutely im- possible to carry out a Free Trade Policy.”

‘*We have in this country at the present moment No IDEA of having a system of Free

Trade.”

And Mr. McKenzie’s Ottawa organ— perhaps by Mr. McKenzie’s personal and special desire—interprets Mr. McKenzie’s views as follows :—

‘“‘The fact is, the cry of ‘Free Trade’

'ship, and that he had intimated his willing-

controlled public affairs, and so adjusted as to afford incidental protection to home industries without unduly pressing upou the consumer.” Now we want the Hon. L. H. Davies to explain to the electors assembled at the Atheneum how the followers of Mr. Mc- Kenzie can possibly come together in the name of ‘* Free Trade,” or properly rejoice in the self-assumed title of ‘‘ Free Traders.” We call upon Mr. L. H. Davies, because he is Mr. McKenzie’s confidante in this Island and is, no doubt, cognizant of his most secret political thoughts. But if Mr. L. H. Davies be not present, Mr. Sinclair or any other follower of Mr. McKenzie may make the exn!anation—which must be made before a ‘‘ true and fair statement” of Do- minion issues can possibly be laid before the people. The explanation must be made, or the followers and their leaders will certainly all be classed together as arrant humbugs. sid sill iets aimee

“The Candidate.”

Tus ‘‘ Patriot” says its announcement that the ‘‘ Candidate” would address the meeting to be held this evening is a typo- graphical error. Strange that the error has not been corrected.

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Mr. King, of New Brunswick, on the McKenzie Government.

Aran enthusiastic meeting of Liberal- Conservatives, Mr. King, one of the ablest and imost influential men in New Brunswick and one of the candidates for the represen- tation of St. John, said that:—

“With the press, and all the influence which a Government knew how to bring to bear against them, it was a wonder that the constituency was not out of their hands, but he felt that the majority was theirs. It was true that he had been offered a judge-

ness to accept it, feeling himself at liberty to accept any promotion in the line of his profession. But they had escaped getting an indifferent judge and had a passable candi- date instead. DeVeber, Burpee and Wel- don were respectable men, but not states- men. He had no quarrel with them, but with the policy they pursued. They were the supporters of a Government that turned its back on every principle and every meas- ure its members had advocated in Opposi- tion—except one—-the ‘‘fly-on-the-wheel” volicy. The Government stood with its hands behind its back, in the midst of misery, and resolutely abstained from trying to help the suffering. This was the Reform doctrine in Opposition, and this was Re- form practice in power. Their doctrines on the Independence of Parliament, on coali- tions, on parliamentary control of pub- lic expenditures, and on leaving consti- tuencies free from corrupt influencies had been abandoned, and this one doc- trine clung to. They came into power under favorable auspices, as the re presentatives of an aroused public con- sciencé,; With an unprecedented majority, as the exponents of public virtue, and in five years there there had been more ad- ministrative scandals than in the twenty years of Sir John A. McDonald’s rule. The people were justly disappointed. In two years this Government had lost its charac- ter. In three years it could not opena constituency with safety. The country was tired of the party. It could not live ona dead name. There was nota sign of Liber-} alism in the party. We are not afraid of a name; it was the thing we were after. We were opposed toa party that lives on old memories and broken promises—a party of no policy—a party that simply says to de- pressed industries, ‘‘ We can do nothing.” In Rome once, Cicero says, two augurs could not meet without laughing at each other; and it was not possible that two supporters of the Government could meet now and call each other Reformers without laughing in their sleeves. They came in to reforin, and soon declared that there was nothing to reform, except the administration of affairs, and they set about this by paying $50,009 for 100 acres of wilderness land, several thou- sands for theJboard shanty known as the Neebing Hotel, $30,000 for Mvore’s support of Blake, $250,000 to a defeated candidate for useless works at Fort Francis, which Parliament had not authorized ; $68,000 to Foster in payment for his dirty work, $10,- 000a mile subsidy to the CanadaCentral,by placing steel rails on the Pictou Railway, previous to giving it away to their political friends, and by calling for $3,000,000 worth of steel rails, which were not wanted, which were not to be delivered for a year, by advertisement in two or three papers, giving six days’ notice. The time was ex- tended to one month, when Work- man, a Government supporter, pro- tested. Was that the kind of Reform administration which the country would support? He hoped McKenzie, Cartwright and Huntington would come here, so that he might extract from them an explanation of this transaction. He would have to meet McKenzie in Ottawa (laughter and applause) and would like to meet him here first. Par- liament had said all right to the Govern- ment’s corrupt acts, and it was now the peo- ple’s time for passing judgment. ‘The country was sick of the concern. The Goy- ernment was on a lee shore, and soon would | be on the rocks, the sport of the waves. All the Reformers could say, when charged with corcuption, was “You did as bad.” They had inveighed against the expenditures and not only failed to cut them down, but launched into new extravagances. ‘The time | for a change hadcome. (Cheers.)

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An instance of the way Delegatesto the Grit

inst the Government is a piece of farrant humbuggery. Free Trade is an impossibility in this country. The policy of the Government is not Free Trade, but a revenue tariff, more

Convention were appointed is given by our correspondent ‘‘ Wheatley River.” We hear that the Delegates from Pownal were ap-

protective than Sir John put in force while he) pointed by a meeting of four,

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(THE McCARTHY MURDER.

/on the night of the 12th.

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(From the Daily News.) DoxcuEstTER, July 20.

Long before the court opened this morn- ing every avenue was thronged with an im- patient ‘crowd, among whom were many ladies. Every available space was filled. Shortly after the court opened the sherifi ordered the crowd in the rear of the room out of fear of the floor falling. The south- east corner of the room had actually bulged out two or three inches, and had not the pressure from above been quickly removed serious consequences might have resulted. The supports were shored and the wall re- turned to its original position, when the crowd was again admitted. There was no excitement in the court room over the oc- currence.

Annie Parker’s direct examination was resumed and finished. She described the stone, rope, and clothing of the murdered man; swore positively that she saw McCar- thy’s rubber and overcoat in the hall the morning after the murder. Mrs. Osborne carried the coat upstairs and put it in the clothes press of her bedroom, Osborne at- tempted to put the coat on eight or nine days afterwards, but was took weak. About a fortnight after the murder Osborne was prevented by his wife from putting on the coat to go to Moncton. She described the last time she saw the coat, four or five days after this when it was bound with a piece of figured tape, covering the button at the cuff. She never saw thie rubber in the house after the morning the body was taken away tillshe saw it in Court at Shediac. She never saw any of the money afterwards to know it. She saw Harry count forty dollars in payment for a piano. She heard Osborne talk of paying for carpets of the Kirk Hotel, Moncton. She described her visits to the Scadouc river, and at the sug- gestion of the jury drew a plan showing tracks down to the river, and her visits to Osborne House, and pointing out blood spots on the floor and counter.

The cross-examination by Mr. Palmer was commenced at a quarter to tweive. She said: [know what truth means; I might tell a lie about myself but not one to injure any person. I told some persons I had a child, but it was to get them to tell that they had children before they were married. I never had achild. I never told such a story at Bathurst. My mother was not able to manage me very well. I left home when about seven. I have keen on my own hook ever since that. I can swear pretty well if anyone makes me mad. J] never swore much till 1 went to Osbornes. They were great swearers, A man named Ward tended bar at Osbornes’ a fortnight before I left. Was very frightened the night of the murder. I never went with Fraser to a dance. He was coming to Os- bornes on the night of the 12th to tell me how they got along at a dance. I undress- ed and went to bed, but expected to get up when he came to see him. I thought Mc- Carthy was he and was disappointed, but determined to stay up. I was frightened to tell of the murder for fear they would kill me. Donald White told aman they would kill me. I can’t say whether or not I told to several persons McCarthy was not there after ten o'clock on the night of the murder. I have always sworn to the same statement. Inever swore that the wagon seat had rounds; I had always said it was a light wagon up tothe time of examination at Moncton. I did not know what an ex- press wagon was; I said there were rounds in the back seat of Osborne’s own wagon. I don’t see much differance in saying whether I turned the wagon seat up or down. I did not say I saw the sleeves cut; I said Eliza was going to cut it. McCarthy had ona hat when he was struck. [Witness showed by Mr. Palmer’s head how the blow was struck.] I did not say that blood was under McCarthy’s head as he lay on the floor. I saw no blood on the hair. I told the story first as if I had _ heard it; afterwards as if [had seen it. I did not want to get myself in a murder serape.

Mr. Palmer read her statement made be- fore Justice Wortman, Moncton, showing that she had heard and witnessed events of the murder and the carrying away of the body from her room, and saying she did not go down stairs till morning. Witness said she never took oath to this statement. In answer to Mr. Palmer’s question, she appeared to think it strange that no word of the Scadouc River was mentioned in her first statement.

Annie Parker’s answers this morning produced laughter in Court sometimes, which was promptly suppressed. Witnses seemed more sober as cross-examination proceeded, and “when her first statement was read this afternoon, Mr. Palmer re- sumed. The first statement was made at Mr. Blair’s, Moncton, in the presence of Sheriff Botsford, Edward McCarthy and others.

Mr. Palmer read over her first statement

Alexander Low, of a son.

George Irving Wright, Esq., of Montville,

McCarthy who came in when I got out of ped.

While Mr. Palmer was reading over the statements of the Wortman declaration, and asserting their accuracy, witness manifested considerable levity, which seemed to convey the impression that she put little stress on this declaration. She said : I told this story of mixed truth and falsehood to get rid of those who were continually asking me about the murder, as it was in everybody’s mouth that McCarthy had been killed in Osborne’s horse, and I was cotinually asked questions about it. Osbornenever discharged me ; I left of my own accord; I was sick; Dr. Wilson at- tended me ; did not tell the story of Mrs. Osborne refusing Harry a revolver to make people believe that McCarthy’s revolver was in the Osborne House ; did not think it necessary yesterday to speak of finding roll of bills on the kitchen cupboard ; I swear positively that Osborne was not down stairs on the 12th October ; ieft Osborne’s on account of my health ; it is not true that [ left because they stole chickens and killed them, although I stated so. [This finished examination on the Wortman declaration. | Could not say whether it was before or after L made the declaration before Wort- man that I heard the rumor of the French boy seeing McCarthy’s body in the Scadonc River last fall ; did not swear the body bled after being put in the wagon; body was put in a little on the left side of the wagon ; 1 did not see whether the tail of the wagon was down or not when the body was put in ; I swore that the clock struck 10 as Me- Carthy came in ; I now swear that I came down stairs abeut sixteen, seventeen or eighteen minutes after McCarthy came in ; the cord from which Harry cut a piece on that night was in the room, but not in bed. stead. It was putin the bedstead about three weeks after.

John Osborne who was sitting beside Mr Holstead here handed a small piece of cord to Mr. Palmer.] That is not like it. The piece cut was softer than this. [Piece of rope picked up was shown.| I think that knot (pointing to one not the largest in the rope) would pass through holes in bedstead.,

On motion of Dr. Tuck the Court ad- journed at half past five. It will pro- bably take all day on Monday for Palmer to finish Parker’s cross-examination.

Some amusement was created in Court his p. m., by some of Annie’s sharp re- joinders to counsel. Chief Justice told her at last that she talked too much.

The line of cross-examination to-day seems to try to establish that Pasker has framed her statements according as the case developed and reports concerning McCar thy came out.

Those Steel Rails.

The steel rails that were stored at King- ston have been removed to the West, where they will not be likely to attract so much at- tention. The rails in the heaps were so rusted together that they have to be knocked loose by a large hammer; then when one layer is removed in this way, a spade is taken and the bed of accumulated rust be- tween the layers is shovelled off before the next layer is attempted to be moved. It is stated that scales of rust six to eight inches long fell off. The public can imagine what state the rails are iu from this description, and will not be surprised to learn that an emiuent engineer, who has inspected them, gives it as his opinion that the rails would be unsafe fora train torun over in cold weather, as the hardest and best part of the steel—the crust—is entirely destroyed by rust.—Oshawa Vindicator. :

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, THN DEHRERS._

EALED TENDERS will be received by the undersigned, until noon of

Monday, the 12th of August,

!for the Erection of a CHAPEL for the Baptist

Church, on the corner of Prince and Fitzroy Streets.

‘The Committee are prepared to_ consider propeses Pe hes a brick or wooden build. ing, and each tender should plainly speci which it is intended. go iad

Accompanying each tender must be the sig. natures of two solvent parties willing to become sureties for the due fultilment of the contract.

Tenders to be addressed to the undersigned, and marked ‘* Tender for Baptist Chapel.”

The Committee do not bind themselves te

accept any tender. M. G. McLEOD, Sec’y of Building Con-nittee. Ch’town, July 23, 1878—dy & sw p ar till 12

STRAYED OR STOLEN,

ROM the Subscriber’s Pasture, on Satur. day night or Sunday morning, a BAY MARE, with white spot in centre of f and a dent across her nose, weighing about 1,300 lbs., 7 years old. A suitable reward will be given for information that will lead te

her recovery. DANIEL GORDON. Fitzroy Street, July 23—

Mackerel & Herring Barrels | E can viele ‘aaah fitting ont for

\ Fishing Voyages in the Gulf or to Tab. rader, with Asu-Hoorpep Mackerel Barrels (sawed and split staves).

Goop Herring Barrets, Ash and Birch Hooped, delivered at the Straits of Canso op here, as convenient.

. F. T. NEWBERY & CO,

July 22—ne ar 2i sw pat 4i wkly pat 2i

HERRING, HERRING.

3 OO BARRELS PRIME Fortune Bay 6 FERRING for salecheap. Also, 30,000 feet Prime Bay of Island PIN) »LW

and 2 inch. GEORGE COOMBS, Lord’s Wharé. July 20, 1878.—4ins 2aw wky lin

PUBLIC MEETING

AT HEAD ST. PETER’S BAY.

PUBLIC MEETING wiil be held in the Court House at the above mentioned hee on MONDAY. THE 29TH.

INSTANT, at the hour of 2 o’clock, p.m, for the purpose of discussing the ical

questions of the day in connection with Do- minion Politics, and of choosing Candidates te represent the County in the Dominion Parlia-

ment. ‘ JOIIN JARDIN. J. P. JAMES HOGAN, J. P;- - DAVID ANDERSON, J. P. WILLIAM HOOPER, J, P.

St. Peter’s Bay, July 20, 1878.

A Bye-Law for Levying an Assess- ment on Real Property in. the City of Charlottetown.

(Passed by the City Council 19th July, 1878.)

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Convention of Catholic Total Ab-! stinence Union.

‘THe Delegates will meet at St. Patrick’s Hall at 9a. m., on Wednesday (to-morrow). They will proceed to St. Dunstan’s Cathe- dral to attend a Solemn Pontificial High Massat10a.m. Rev. R. B. McDonald, President of the Union, will deliver the Temperance Sermon. At 2, p. m., a business meeting will be held in St. Patrick’s Hall. At 6.30, p. m., a luncheon will be given the Delegates in St. Dunstan’s Reading Room. At 8, p. m., an afternoon session of the Convention will be held in St. Patrick’s Hall. About 100 Delegates, representing forty Societies and 6,000 members, are expected to be in attendance.

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Birth.

At Invergordon, Scotland, on 7th inst., Mrs.

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On the 18th inst., at the residence of the

bride’s father, by the Rev. William Grant,

Montague (late of Westbury, Elliot River), to

seratim, the witness affirming and denying statements therein. She never said she! saw the wagon start from the door. She} saw it after it left the door. She did not | say it was the Osborne’s wagon. It was the} Osborne’s horse. I said at the end of that: statement that I knew more but would not! teil it. This was made eight or nine wecks | after the murder. Two days after that I! made a statement before Justice Wortman,

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in Edward McCarthy’s house. Mr. Palmer read the statement. Witne3s) said: I did not say MeCarthy took a drink before going out of Oshorne’s at 10 o'clock Ltold all this. I did not know what a solemn declaration was ; if [had I should not have told that. I was hired at Edward McCarthy’s ; he did not coax me to tell about the murder. Some of the story told before Justice Woriman is true and some isnot. The counsel again read the statement —asking the witness to tell what was true and what does not cor-. respond with the statement made at this trial. I always said it was a polonaise, and believed it was so, and never called ita dress. I did not know that I would have to

make a positive declaration whether it was

Amelia Matilda, eldest daughter of David

For Sale or to Let

Mctiwen, Esq., of Eltiot River. HOTEL ARRIVALS. RANKIN HOUSE.

July 22—E. Pelletier, Quebec ; A. MeMil- lan, Summerside; P. O. Hillbourn, Summer- side.

OSBORNE HOUSE. July 22—Daniel McDonald, Montreal.

REVERE HOUSE. July 22—D. G. McNutt, Malpeque.

A NEW COTTAGE, situated on Pleasant 4& Street, containing eight rooms, with Stable and Coach-house attached. For parti-

culars, apply to P, C. KELLY, _ 127 Upper Queen St. Ch’town, July 16—3i eod

GOB PRINTING Neatly and Promptly ey Executed at the EXAMINER Print

HEREAS, it is necessary and expedient ; W to pass a By-Law for the purpose of , ing an Assessment on the rental of and Leasehold Property in the City of Char.

lottetown, for City and School purposes, for the current yearending on the twenty sixth

sand eight hundred and seventy nine,— Be it therefore enacted by the City Council of the City of Charlottetown as follows :—

1. There shall be paid by the occupants or owners of Bembehd en Leasehold perty within the City of Charlottetown, for City and School purposes, the following sum, that is to say, the sum of Twelve Cents onevery Dollarof the rental for the current year ending on the

Lord one thousand eight hundred sevent nine, according to the valuations en against the names of each and every rson in the Valuation Book of Real roperty made by the Assessors of of the City of Charlottetown, and returned by the said Assessors to the said City Council om the twelfth day of July, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-eight.

2. In cases where the occupant named in the Assessment Book of real property, made by the said Assessors of the City of Cherlotte- town, shall have left the premises so assessed

ment required by law, such notice shall be served upon the person or persons actually in possession ; and, if the premises be vacant, then such notice shall be served upon the owner or owners thereof, or his or their agent ; and such owner or owners shall be deemed, for the purposes of this law, the occupant or 5 occupants ; and such occupant or occu owner or owners in the cases aforesaid, shall be severally liable for the payment of the sum entered against the name of the original oceu- pant or occupants in the Assessment Book of Real Property madeup bythe said Assessors of the said City, and deposited with the City Clerk, subject to the same right of ap as the person or persons originally assessed was or were entitled to. _ 3. In cases where tenement houses contain- ing two or more occupants, and where either e€ owner or one occupant was originally as- sessed, the City Collector shall have iene and authority to divide and apportion such as- sessment between the several occupants in proportion to their several or respective rents, in order that the notices for assessment may be served on such occupants in due form.

Mayor of the City of Charlottetown. W.'B. Morrison, City Clerk. Charlottetown, July 19, 1878.

UBSCRIBE for the DAI . SS UMINEI the Ghonpostagtnets uveuy

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ng Rooms, WaterStreet; Charlottetown

Paper published in the Province.

day of May, in the year of our Lord one thon-.

twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our ©

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