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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE NO. Ii.
Winter Arrangement.
HONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1878.
Ppains Goinz West.
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STATIONS. No. 1. | No.3 isi _| Express. | Mixed. — Georgetown Dp 8.10 am; Cardigan “tae. > ‘ QAS <¢é M.Stew’t Jun tp10.03 ot. Royalty Jun. ao oe | Uh'town dp 8.00 am! Dp 3.30 pm Royalty Jun. “3.20 «| “© 3.50 * N. Wiltshire “e188 94608.“ Hunter River * O20: 3° B.GR.f Breadalbane | “onee 4 oan Retington | «tic00 «| « 630 = eusington ; wd _ F : lar 11.30 “* jar 7.00 “ Summerside dp 2.40 pm Wellington — oa Port Hill =a5 “ O’ Leary “im * ar 6.35 ‘* Alberton dp $40 Tignish jar 7.25 * ——=_ _ LL Trains Going East. i STATIONS. No. 2 No. 4 Express. } Mixed. Tignish Dp 7.00 am} Alberton “7.45 ce 0’ Leary “* 8.47 Fs Port Hill | **10.05 Wellington 1048 " Summerside dp 2.30pm) Dp 8.45am Kensington “23.60 * | Soe “ a - a ’ a . Bread. ne 66 ¢ .o sé se ‘ se Hunter Kiver ** 4.23 “ | *10.47 : N. voee “ = ‘é a ‘ Ro t un. oe i ee ee * sé _— ar 6.00 “* jarl12.15 pm Ch town } dp 2.55 « Royalty Jun. v act e an +s 6.00 se Georgetown lar 6.25 “| SOURIS BRANCH. Going West. Going East. ar No STATIONS. | Mixed. (STATIONS. Mixed. cea Da gyn = bili ' i ‘ A. M. | P.M Souris Dp 7.00\|MtS tw’tJnc|Dp 4.40 Harmony ** 7,23'| Morell - 2
St. Peters ** 8,42'|St. Peters “ 5.54 Morell ‘* 9,13|| Harmony “fas Mt S’tw’tJnc} ar 9.55||Souris ar 7.35
©. J. BRYDGES, WM. McKECHNIE, Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways Supt. P. E. 1. 2. “h’town, Dec. 27, 1878. - p ne arh pres kca sp sj ap 6i
rrape Marx. fhe Great RADE MARK.
ae English iicm- = Y, an uniail- # ing cure for Sem- inal Weakness, Spermatorrahe a, Impotency, and sie
SSN * all diseases that “= Before Takingfollow as a se- After quence of selt-abuse; as loss of -Memory, Um. versal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other Diseases that lead to Insanity or Con- sumption, a Full particulars in our pam phlet, which we desire to send free by mail to every one. te. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggfsts at $! per package, or six pack- ages for $5, or will be seut free, by mail, on receipt of the money, by addressing The Gray Medicine Co., Windsor, Unt., Canada.
s@ Sold in Charlottetown by all Drugists, and by all wholesale and retail Druggists in the United States and Canada.
January 24, 1879.
MPLOYMENT.—in every village and L4 township of P. E. Island not yet ocdu- pied, ONE acrive, intelligent Lady or Geutle- man cau obtain a most respectable and ver protitable engagement. Address, with f pétticulars, D, DOWNIE & OU., emere Box 1964, Montreal.
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A LL kinds of Household Furniture made to order, of the latest styies, CHEAP and GOOD. :
School Desks made, the CHEAPEST and BES? in the City.
The strictest attention given to the UNDER- TAKING DEPARTMENT at very low charges.
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UNDERTAKING, &6.
FPAMES M. BUTCHER is now prepared to @F sive close personal attention to all funerals that may be entrusted to him.
COFFINS, CASKETS, &C., of various sizes, styles and quality, always on hand, ready-made,
“PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.”
Ch’town, February, 24, 1879.
-E. G. HUNTER,
jan and American Marbl Italian and American Marble, Monuments, Tablets, Headstones, MANTLES, CenrreE TasLe Tops, Bursavu AND ComMove Tops, Wasu Bow. SiaBs, &e., &e.
Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. ga Designs furnished on application. @ Corner Hillsborough ani Kent Streets, Char lottetowa.
November 6, 18758.
COMMERCIAL
Union Assurances Company, OF LONDON, ENGLAND,
CAPITAL - - $12,599,000.
NSURANCE effected against Fire on all
descriptions of Property throughout the Island.
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ee HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. E. Island. Cb 'town, Dec, 20, 1878— . No. 35 Water St., ‘harlottetown. Prince Hdward Island Branch
NORTH BHHTISH & McaGANTILE FIRE AND LIFé.
INSURANCE G0.
Subscribed Capital, $9.735,332.00 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,666.00
CHIEF OFFICES-—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; Londen, 61 Threadneedle Street.
Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divide every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.
Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LOWEST RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.
Losses settled with promptitude and liber-
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CAPITAL,. . TWO MILLIGNS STERLING.
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To the Editors of the Island Press:—
GENTLEMEN—Some weeks since, through your columns, the undersigned broached a
munerative markets for our farm produce, i propose now dealing with the prices that can be obtained in the Unglish markets for our farm products, if facilities were afforded by regular steam communication. Beef, in the great market of London, sells from fourteen to twenty cents per pound, and from personal observation, I can say that some of itis poor enough, mutten being about the same price. Our sheep may be ginaller than those of Enyvland, but yeu can see as nice a lot of meat in our little wooden market about Easter time as can be found anywhere. Horses in that market sell for trom $50 up to $590, and we could ship a few hundred and not miss them, Eggs ccarcely sell for less than twelve cents a dozen, and in New York last spring they sold as.low as nine cents adozen. There is a steady demand for all the preduce we grow, and ina comparatively short time a line of steamers would be self-sustaining, besides the direct gain to the country in disposing of surplus stock which is now but . burden to the country. Last year we sold about 1,500,000 bushels of potatoes and a trade by steam with England would add, at least, an average of 10 cents per bushel to the price here, and the gain would be $150,009. Jf oats were shipped in good condition, properly cleaned, and of a better sample, the prices would be mucly better ; hut as it is new, the goods are bad, mixed in ships’ holds, and making a poor average. By steamer it would be possible to grade and bag oats, and the improved quality would at least command from 5 to 10 cents per bushel extra; and on 400,000 bushels at only 5 cents per bushel, $20,000 ; on 500 horses at an average (improved prices) of $20 each, there would be $10,000, besides the advantage of selling the animals, we could well do without. The sales of 1000 head of cattle at an advanced value of $10, wou'd be $10,000 ; sales of 3000 sheep at au average increase in value of $1 each, $3000 ; and the sales of 2000 hogs, live or dead, at an increased value of $2 each, $4000. To say nothing of the extra of egys, poultry, and the expert of fresh and vickled fish, for which there is an en- ormous demand. I believe that, with a subsidy of steamboats line from Charlotte town via Halifax to the West Indies and South America on the other, our ex- ports can be increased in volume to the extent of at least $200,000 per annum. It don’t seem as though we are going to get any direct payments on account of our share of the award, and consequently we should agitate for some assistance to strengthen and encourage our export trade. {f a petition generally signed was forwarded to Ottawa, asking for a subsidy for a line, aud the case fairly put that we are not venefitted to any considerable extent by the National Policy, and besides at any time the United States Congress, by a sliglitly nereased duty on potatoes and a very light duty on eggs, deprives us of our principal vavket for those and other articles ; for, be
great benefit to the other Provinces, may from the fact of our being confined to the shipment of agricultural produce and fish, prove ruinous to us. Yours respectfuily, Henry Coomas. April 19, 1879.
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A V7oman on the “Situation.”
GOES TO THE TEMPERANCE MEETING.
JANE SMITH
To the Editor of the Heaminer :
Sir,—I went up town to do some shop- ping the other evening. I had left Hattie home with the baby, and Mrs. Jones said 'she would look in and see that the child- jren were all safe. ‘Well, as 1 was passing Mr. Dodd’s shop, I saw a handbill in the window. I thought, perhaps, there was go-. ing to bea sale, and that I might be able to get a couple of cheap dresses for my little girls with the meney I would get for the work.1 “+3 taking home so I just stopped to reau it. [found that it was not a sale at all, but an advertisement of a pub. lic temperance ineeting in the Market FlalL I was going home after | did my shoping, but I thought [ would like to hear what was going to be said. 1 saw some women. going in, and, aftera while, 1 summoned up courage to follow them. When I got to the door, some boys sung out to me that I had no vote; and, I suppose, because I was not dressed very fine, they said a good many impudent things to me. However I went up stairs. But when I saw the crowd that was there, I felt sorry I had come. Bui somehow I never li’:e to turn back,and a gentleman came along and showed me to aseat. Ii was very warm, and everybody was whispering and every now and then when somo one would come in, they would set up a great stamping, and I wondered what in the world made them do that. By- and-by a nice looking gentleman got up and said that the meeting wascalled for the pur- ‘pose of talking to the electors about the Canada. Temperance Act which they
would be called upon to vote upon next week. _ Now, sir, J was a good bit surprised at that,
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1879.
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| | because you see it just seemed as though they were going to make politics out of tem- jperance. i hear my Jim and Bob Smith talking politics sometimes. Well they com- /mence to argue first, and they seem so | clever that I think they ave both right, but ‘they soon get cross aud commence to abuse ‘each others party, and then they call one janother names, and Iam glad te get away |to the kitchen and let them fight it out. | But here was a man talking about voting and not abusing anybody. That made me listen at first. Then another gentleman that [have seen in church sometimes got up and said that he would move a resolu- tion (whatever that means), which stated that since the saie of liquor was a great cause of poverty and wickedness, it should be put astop to. Then I opened my ears wider thanever. Why, sir, who ever heard of suchathing. How can they stop any one from selling liquor? I have known woinen to go down on their knees to tavern keepers and beg them not to sell their husbands liquor. I have known men to tell a liquor dealer not to dare tu sell his son liquor. But it was no good te beg or threaten. ‘The tavern keeper had the law on his side, and he laughed at the man and put the woman off with soft words, but sold the brandy ail the same. Now, Mr. Edit- or, lam only a stupid woman. Did that gentleman—and he was a minister, too—did he mean to say that they were going to make a new law to keep people from selling liquor? I don’t see, if they could make such a law, why they didn’t do it long age, And then the gentleman went on to tell all the harm drinking did. But bless you, sir, he couldn’t tell me anything about that I didn’t know before. I couldn’t think cf anythiny for wondering if what he said at tirst was true. §Well, after a little, a gentle- man, [ heard some one say he was a very clever lawyer, got up and talked about the waste of money the habit of drinking caused. Well, he said so much about hun- dreds of thousands of dollars that somehow { didn’t understand. You see I’m no scholar, and I don’t know very well how much $100,009 is. But anyway he set me thinking, and I remembered how many times I had asked Jim for a dollar to get baby a dress or fer a new pair of shoes for Tommy, and he said he couldn't afford it, and perhaps next day he would bring home a bottle of brandy or go to a tavern and spend as much money in one week as would have got both. Well, at last I got tired of asking, and set to work to iry to earn a little myself. But it isn’t so easy to earn with six children and a house to look after. Then another minister (a girl alongside of me said it was Mr. George Hodgson) got up and talked a long time, and one of the things he said was that the women there should beg their husbands to vote for this law. Well, IL went home and I asked Jim how it was that he wasn’t at the meeting. He was real mad when he found I was there, and he wouldn’t listen much to what I said. He said I couldn’t understand aything about such things; that he sup- posed they had made me believe that he could’ut leave off the drink when he liked, and that the people who wanted to close the taverns were all like me. They thought men were weak fools, but they would see that they were’nt going to pass this law. And then he went off, and its no’ use for me to say any more to him about it. Now, I do believe that he just knows he ean’t do without the drink or he would’nt talk like that. Oh, Mr. Editor, if you only knew how badly it makes me feel to think such a
thing. Now, Iwill tell you why I write to you. Jim reads your paper. Can’t you
explain it all to him. Haven't men’s wives and mothers and children any right to be thought of. But then I don’t know much about such things. You tell them about this new Act. I hear lots of men say they ain’t going to vote at all. So I suppose I was right at first, and that no one can take away from the grogsellers the right to ruin our husbands and our boys. Iam sorry to trouble you so much, but try if you can say anything for Jane Smirn. Ch’town, April 16, 1879.
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Vennor on May and the Summer.
The irrepressible Vennor is again to the front. Under date of the 14th instant, he writes as follows :—
‘‘ A rainy period and somewhat warmer weather is now approaching, but this will again be followed on the closing days of April or beginning of May by another spell of very backward, cold and likely wintry weather. I expect snow-falls will be re- corded in many parts during the fore part of May, which will be cold and wet through- out. Many think that owing to the exten- sive snow-falls of the past winter we are likely to have a dry aie not summer sea- sou. I conclude the very opposite will be nearer to the actual state of things, The summer, at any rate up to the middle of July, will give abundance of rain, and with a temperature below the average. August, September and October will be the fairest months, but of this pertion of the year and the winter following I shall have further remarks to make in a bulletin I propose publishing about midsummer. - The,summer season in Great Britain this year, I think, will correspond with that with us, and will, on the whole, be cool and wet, and not hot, aa predicted by a Scotch meteorologist.”
Forty pedestrians started on a six days walk at Gilmore’s Garden, New York, on the 14th, for the six-day championship of the United States.
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