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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

FEBRUARY 11, 1888.

Another Subway Proposed,

Ir is recorded that the first submarine telegraph cable was laid between Cape Tormentine and Cape Traverse. But we may missthe distinction to be gained by having the firat subway between those in teresting points. The Sun states that it is proposed to construct a subway between St. John and Carleton on the principle of that projec ted between Prince Edward Is- land and the mainland. Che friends of the subway. says the Sen, contend that it can be operated and maintained more cheaply than a bridge, with an overwhelming ad- vantage in the matter of location. It could be located on the present ferry route, that is with one entrance at the head of Rodney wharf aud the other at or near the Princess street floats. Its extreme length would be about three-quarters of a mile, or say 4,000 feet, of which 1,500 feet would be under the harbor. The subway could be built, say its advocates, with a grade of not over five per cent.—a grade that would be easily workable for train cars. As to the cost, it is asserted that the extreme annual outlay would be less than that now sunk in the maintenance of the ferry. A subway would possess this advantage over a ferry : it could be Kept out liability to or floating loys. subway system, it is sufficient, say t has the English authority, who is consulting en-

open night and d y, with nterruption by fog, storm As to the prine ple of the its ad- vocates, to note that endorse- ment of that eminent Sir Jehn Fowler, gineer of the City of London and South- wark subway, which is designed to provide an easy and rapid means of communication from the city proper to the Swan at Stock-

well, a distance of three and one-sixth

miles. This tunnel is ten feet in diameter} inside. The Sun remarks that,

**The ‘acts in connection with the con- templated P. E. Isiand subway have been fully laid before the public by Senator How lau and others interested in that scheme, and its practicability endorsed by some of the best engineers in the world. And the advocates of a subway in St. John harbor ask why cannot one be built as easily in this harbor as under the Straits of North- umberland ? It is probable that the pro- ject will come before the public in a tangible form within a very short time,”

The Fish Trade.

It is a curious fact that Canadians are consuming American-caught fish in increas- ing quantities. Last year the value of dutiable fish imported into Canada was $532,716, compared with $489,273 in 1886, and $107,746 in 1885, while the value of free fish imported from Newfoundland in 1887 was only $273,085. The amount of duty paid on fish in 1887 was $86,098, com- pared with $77,128 in the preceding year. Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick im- ported fromthe United States. last year, fresh cod, haddock. ling and pollock to the value of $47,993. Of the same kinds of fish salted, $28,575 worth was imported from the United States and $82,096 from St. Pierre. The value of the oysters im- ported into Canada from the United States last year was no less than $276,959. Can't we, in these Maritime Provinces, make an effort to capture the Upper Canadian mar- ket for salt water fish / The Americans first catch the fish off the Canadian coasts, and then, in the face of a heavy duty, sell them in the Canadian markets. Surely we can stop this game—if we try.

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Peopling our Prairies.

THE prospectus of a new Northwest Settlement Compa.y, to be called the Canadian Agricultvral, Coal and Coloniza- tion Company, with acapital of £210,000, di- vided intu 20,000 seven per cent. preference shares at £10 each, which are offered to the public, and 10,000 deferred shares at £1 each, which wil! be allotted to Sir John Kaye in part payment of 100,000 acres of land on either side of the Canadian Pacific, westward from Rush Luke st»tion, of which he kas obtained the concession from the Dominion Government and the Canadian Pacitic Railway. Sir John Kaye

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receives £105,000 cash, out of which he!

defrays the chief expense of the formation of the company.

the Process of Disintegration. Some of the Cartwright wing of the much divided Liberal party have been in-

1 dulying in reflections and proposals so un- |

flattering to Mr. Laurier that La Minerve ' ; . . .

has deemed it the duty both of a journalist and a Lower Canadian tu defend the leader

of the Oppusition against their insidious at- |

tacks. ‘The whole business, according tuo our contemporary, has an air of intrigue which it is almost impossible to mistake. First of all, Mr. Edgar raises the question of the Leadership in a general way in the

columus of the Globe; then Mr. Echtin tries |

his hand, and shows without any attempt at disguise, that he wants to get Mr. Laurier out of the way; then comes the third act in the play, and Mr. A. Pringle, in

A Scottish American Poet.

Under the heading * A Seottish-Ameri-

ican Poet,” the Home Journal contains an

extended and appreciative poetical writings of Dr. John M. Harper, (formerly Head Master School in literary edit Quebec, as well as Inspector of Superior Schools for the Province, Secretary of the Board of Examiners for teachers’ diplomas, Secretary-Treasurer of the Protestant Board of School Commiss oners, and Super- intendent of the Q 1ebeec city schools.

lowing is an extract from the article in the / ate.

Home Journal, giving some samples from Dr. Harper's poems which may whet the appetite of the reader for more, The article is by John D. Ross:

‘*Glancing over the smaller poems in the group, ‘ To a Sprig o’ Heather’ comes peeping forth, sweet in its simple beauty, and charming us with its fragrance of other days.”

HEATHER;

TO A SPRIG Oo’

My bonnie spray o’ pink and green, That breathes the bloow o’ Scotia's braes, Your tiny blossoms blink their e’en, lo gie me g.impse o’ ither days The days when youth o’er-ran the hills, A-dattin’ wi’ the life that’s free, Mid muirland music, and the rills That sing their song 0’ liberty.

Your wee bit threads o' crimpit fringe Ance shed their fragrance in the glen, W haar silence hears the burnie bringe, And o'er the scaur it, prattle sen’; And now your bonnie flow’rets blink, | ‘Lo mind me o’ the burnie’s sanz, Io move my heart perchance to think |} O' mirth that thro’ the byegane rang.

' Erewhile the hillside breezes kiss'd The dewdrops frae your coronet,

Or made you smile as thro’ the mist The peep o' day dispe lled the wet; And now your bioom’s the token sweet QO’ frieuship in a brither’s heart, | That smile’s to see our care’s retreat,

|} When frienship acts a brither's part.

this Provinee), who is now the | horrible crime. tor of the Educational Record of | suppose ever will be.

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Varia.

Varia has not appeared for several weeks,

| crowded out by the absorbing interest in review of the! the criminal trial which bas just concluded.

il never could understand why people take

of the Normal | an interest in details which all lead up to 4

But it always is so, and I The demand upon the resources of THe EXAMINER has, as everyone could see, been enormous. It is all over now. The jury have gone home to itheir different avocations ; the counsel are | engaged in other duties: the judges hearing

Fol- | other cases, and the Court House is desul-

He who so lately was the central figure of it all, is now solitary, in his lonely cell. Less than two months of life

‘remainto him. Surely there is not one

| who will not ask that there niay be given

i him the gift of true contrition, and that, at

‘the last, God may call the wanderer to Himself,

* 4 I had occasion before to call attention to the cruel treatment by the French govern- ment of those truly Christian women whose whole lives are devoted to caring for the sick and destitute. 1 regret to have to record that this work still goes on. The

Sisters of Mercy have been expelled from

(the Hospital of Charity at Paris. Before

ithe end of the year they will, probably, be

}also driven out of the Hospitals of St. Louis

and the Hotel Dieu, over which the Muni-

‘cipal Council has jurisdiction. Nothing is

‘more likely to do the Church good in the

} Jong run thaa this gross attack of an infidel

| pubiie upon the comfort ,and well-being

iof the sick and suffering.

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| It is a curious fact, in this age of centen- ‘aries and public celebrations of all sorts, lthat the hundreth anniversary of the birth lof one who was the widely known poet of our century should have passed un- observed, or at least should have been observed in a manner which makes the want of other commemorations all the more Byron’s centenary has been function at the Greek

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conspicuous. kept by & special

Nor must we overlook another little poem { Church in London, and nowhere else. This

1 : . , }which is hid behind the ther.” It is entitle a ** Woo a and W on, so brief ond yet so poetical language :

The east wind blustered in her ear. Phe daisy shuddering drooped her head, Such wooing pinched her heart with fear, She closed her eye and said ; ‘* No lover true would think to harm A wee bit thing like modest me; I'll crouch me down and keep me warm Till summer sets me free.”

The zephyr whispered through her hair, } The daisy blushing, coyly smiled,

| She thought to say, ** How do you dare?”

His sighs her thoughts beguiled.

He kissed her crown, and crimson lips, Her tresses tremb!ed on his crest,°

But dewdrops stained her petal tips When ol drove him west.

| The bloom of autumn woo'd her heart, The daisy gave her hert away

Such love as their's true joys impart, Their life was golden day,

No thought how long such love couid last, ‘Twas bis upon her. breast to lie,

Her mation hopes no shadow cast That love would ever die.

Awong Dr. Harper's more serious pieces

‘The Old Graveyard.” There is thing of the quaintness and

tion.. We select a few stanzas :—

The summer's day is sinking fast, The gioaming weaves its pall,

As idddiee weird the willows cast Beyond the broken wali,

To guard the dust that neath them lies. The moon deciphering virtue’s claims To deeds of duty done, lilumes anew the graven names That time hath not o’ergrown, Though the deeds of all are in the book Where time hath never dared to look. . . . f . ce And oft 'tis here we learn to die, As sorrow sifts the soul, When love’s sweet longings seem to sigh And with our griefs condole, To make us feel what joy it is To know that death makes all things his.

For if tradition reads its lore In lines of dismal light, Our higher hopes the tints restore To dissipate the night, And courage us to think of death, A change beatified by faith.

Our New Governor General.

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j of the present War) of Derby. London in 1841, and received his education at Eton.

| in 1862, and retired in 1865. Preston in the house of commons, in the

;conservative interest, from July, 1865, till. 1868, when he was elected for’

| December,

| North Lancashire. He was a lord of the }admirality from August to December 1868, jand financial secretary for war from February | 1874, tili August, 1877, when he became jfinmancial secretary to the treasury On April 5, 1878, Col. Stanley was appointed

: . ) Re ys > . ’ . a . i so many words, culls for Sir R. Cartwright’s | secretary of state for war, in succession to

substitution for the present Minerve considers this pretty drama of | in- trigue, in which Mr. Edgar is Corypheus, insulting not only to Mr. Laurier, but to his admirers of both parties in Quebec. It #948 Much as to say that the man whom they regarded as the most gifted among the Liberal members of this Province is a greenborn compared with the reform poli- teians of Ontariv. La Minerve protests against a spirit of denegration which is enough to disgust men of character and tal- ent with public life in the Dominion. It looks upon the reproach, moreover, which is thus cast on Mr. Laurier as entirely un- deserved. His career has been as success- ful as that of Mr. Blake and, as for the Fiuancial Minister of the Mackenzie Cabinet if the Liberals prefer him to Mr. Laurier, they do ao to their cost.

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chief. Ja/ Mr. Hardy, now Lord Crapbrock, and was

sworn of the privy council. In the autumn recess of that year he and Mr. W. H Smith the first lord of the admiralty, with a numerous suite, visited the Island of Cyprus. He went out of office with his party in April 1880. In Lord Salisbury’s government he was secretary of state for the colonies from June, 1885 to February, 1886, and in the cabinet of 1886 wus appointed president of the board of trade and raised to the pecrage, with the title of Lord Stanley of Preston. He married in 1864, Lady Constance, eldest daughter of the fourth earl of Clarendon. (ol, Stanley is heir presumptive of the earldom of Derby,

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WueEN soft water is scarce Latherine is just the thing for the face or for the washtub—only 6 cts per pkt at R. K. Brave’s; also a fine lot boneless fish, 6 cts per Ib; onions 5 cta per Ib ; prunes, 8 cts per lb, and Island flour, 2 cts per lb, feb 1), 3i, eod

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_A chemist named Derby and his wife and Six children were roceutly found dead in their dwelling house at Manchester, Eng Their death was evidently caused by poison. They had been dead several days. The | belief is that the man, driven to d¢spera- | tion by his inability to support his family, |

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“Sprig of Hea-

and it is seldom that we come acrvuss a piece dainutly clothed in

we have « specia! liking for the oue entitled sume- pathos of Wordsworth embodied in each verse, and the poem altogether is a masterly produc-

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley, is | the younger son of the fourteenth and brother: He was born in:

i on. He entered the Grenadier guards ,in 1858, was appointed lieutenant and captain. He represented.

Dr* Mackenzie’s latest dictum on the:

case Of the Criwn Prince is that his disease

180ne in which recovery is the only good

evidence of the pussibility of recovery. Therefore when Fritz is well, his friends may begin to feel encouraged about him.

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means that, if public commemorations may be taken as an indication of public memory, Lord Byron is. remembered no longer as a poet, but asa man of action, the upholder of Greek liberty. This, however, cannot be true. So we may fall back on the comfort- iny reflection that centenaries have appar- eutly had their day, and that people can be content to enjoy a great man’s memory without proclaiming the fact at every op- portunity. > >

It has been apparent for some time that Spain is making gradual but distinctly perceptible advances in the estimation of Europe. Within the last few weeks all the legations of the great Powers have been converted into embassies. The recognition of Spain's new positi n must have’ been the more grateful because it coincided with the discovery uf a plot of some kind which has led to the virtual exile of Queen Isabella. The progress that Spain ha made under the present dynasty is so unmistakable that it seems unlikely that any ¢unspiracy directed against it cam succeed. Indeed it may be that Queen Isabella's designs on this occasien did net go beyond a change ef ministry, But even changes of ministry are dangerous when they are brought about by Palace intrigues and associated with an ex-Sovereign,

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I have often heard the question asked : ‘* Suppose a woman’s husband went away and was supposed to be lost, and the woman not having heard of him for seven or eight years, believing him to be dead, marnmed again, and then the missing man appeared—what would be done?” It would, of course, make work for the lawyers, that goes without saying ;

And the tombstones gray like sentinels rise}}4 who would be tried ? and what woud

they be tried for? Not being a lawyer I

cannot answer these questions ; but the other day i came across the following curious entry taken from the registerof St Mary’s Church, Bermundsey, England :

‘The forme of a solemne vowe made betwixt a man and his wife, having been long absent, through which occasion the woman‘ beinge married to another man, tooke her again as followeth :—

“Tue Man’s Speesen.—‘ Elizabeth, my | beloved wife, I am right sorie that I have so | long absented mysealfe from thee, whereby

thou. shouldst be occasioned to take another }man for thy husband. Therefore, I de now

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| vowe and promise in the sighte of God, and this companie, to take thee again as mine owne, and I will not only forgive thee, but also dwell with thee, and do all other duties unto thee, as I promised at our marriage.”

“Tug Wowsn’s SPEACHE.— ‘Ralphe, my beloved husband, 1 am right sorrie that I have in thy absence taken another man to be

‘my husband, but here before God and this

companie, I renounce and forsake him, and do

| promise to keepg mysealfe ouly unto thee

| during life, and to performe all duties which I tirst promised unto thee in our marriage.’”

The entry concludes thus :

‘The first day of August, 1604, Ralphe Goodchild, of the pore of Barkinge, in Thames street, znd Elizabeth, his wife, were agreed to live together; and thereupon gave their hands one to another, makinge either of them a solemn vow so to doe in the presence of us: William Stere, oarson ; Edward Coker and Richard Eires, clark.

Monsiguor Persico’s Report.

Mer. Persico has rendered his preliminary report a3 Papal envoy to Ireland. He asserts that the Ivish cause is an intrinsi- cally just and sacred one, and he recognizis that England fur t*e last half century has resolutely endeavored to make every re- paration for the past. While setting forth the justice of the cause of Ireland, he strongly disapproves of the means employed by agitators to ferment civil war and to substitute the policy of violence for that of coustitutional action. The ‘plan of campaign’ he treats as a strike of the farmers, who seek to impoge upon their Landlords a lowering of the value of their property. Astothe main question, that of Home Rule, the envoy declares that for this the country is not ripe, and that, morevver, no measure of any kind hitherto put forward merits a serious discussion. On the cther hand, Monsignor Persigy frankly disapprovesof the policy of coercion. | The rep rt congludes by insisting upon the; necessity for the formation of a moderate party in Ireland on lines of cuwnciliation:

} thin les,

By this means some. precise result may, he be arrived at, and the Irish cause not be delivered’ yp to agents ofa revolu-| Ge cami. oink ; paganda ang “socialist agitators.

' tionary pty Phosicttrhs a yurst of

| while in Ireland; hence the tone of his re- |

port is somewhat surprising ia ite non- partisan quality. —

Monsignor Peesico’s career, it may be re- marked, is a strik ng illustration of the marvellous opportunities afforded by the Roman church for the training of men,

He belongs tothe Capuchins, and is a)

perfect English scholar. A great traveller, he has heen in Tartary, Thibet and Afghanistan. At Darjeeling he founded and directed a college and was the Roman Catholic chaplain of the British treops. He ‘succeeded in healing the Indu-Portuguese ‘schism in 1853, and obtained considerable concessions from the English government. During the Indian mutiny he was made pri- soner and confined to the Fortress of Agra. He returned to Europe and collected large sums to repair the losses the missions in India had sustained. In 1859 he was ayain sent on a mission to London connected with Catholic interests. Pius LX sent him to South Carolina in 1863 to pacify the people, who were excited by the war of secession. He took part in the Ecamenical Council, going afterwards to Malabar to settle a serious dispute. His mission to Ireland is regarded asthe most difficult and delicate of his undertakings since he finished his studies in Rome at the age of twenty three. =

A Freight Rush on the L. C. BR.

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AN IMMENSE BUSINESS OVER THE LINE AT

PRESENT,

The Intercolonial is doing an immense freight business this winter and the available rolling stock is not sufficient no meet the pressing demands. Orders given some time ago by the railway department for cars and engines are being tilled with al! possible speed but uot fast enough to suit the present unexaimpled rush, and extra locomotives have been pro- cured from the United, States and in fact every available source,

In addition to the big coal business from the Nova Scotia mines, which is growing all the time, every new feeder or branch line adds to the volume of traffic to be handled, in the way of tish, lumber, potatoes, etc. Though the Moncton and fuctouche road is noc yet in running order, the I, C. R. has received between 2°) and 300 car loads of freight from it since late in the summer,

On top of all this is piled an immense through freight business trom Halifax to the upper province, consequent, in a great measure, upon the Al'an and Dominion lines adopting Halifax as th-ir terminal port for Canadian goods in preference to Portland, Maine. On Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday vf this week, 6000 tons of inward freight were landed at Halifax, for all of which the Intercolonial has to provide speedy trans- portation. Then the importation of sugar tor Montreal via Halifax is no mean item. One vessel recently brough 2,000 tons, and three other large cargoes are at that port awaiting cars. “Phe recent heavy snow storms have added materially to the strain upon the carrying capacity of the road delaying

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cones 20) 5 emmemmeneen

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ANOTHER LIST.

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We are to the front with a Choice Stock of HAMBURG EMBRO''ERIES and INSERTIONS, CASH’s FRILLINGS, EDGINGS of all kinds, and a Stock of WHILE COTTONS — the best value we have ever offered.

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The Managers of the CITIZENS’ SKATING RINK intend holding a

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TENDERS,

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