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VOL. 5, — _—— — - . Cracked Corn and Brai. FOR SALE LOW: 15 BAGS COARSE CORNMEAL, ( 130 “ BRAN. Owen Connolly & Co. Ch’town, April 18, ’78—6w 3aw PAINTING, &c. “OUSE and SIGN PAINTING, WHITE. WASHING, PAPER HANGING, &c., at Moderate rates. PARKER & POWER.

Corner Dorchester and Weymouth Sts. Charlottetown, May 5, 1879—2w

FURNITURE REPAIRED ND RE-PAINTED- Chairs Re-Caned— Looking-Glass Frames Refitted, and all

kinds of Machine Work done with satisfaction and promptness, at

JOHN NEWSON’S. April 1, 1879--3m

[RON BEDSTEADS.

ae & DOUBLE —Best kinds—Cheap.

JOHN NEWSON. April }, 1879—3m

ween nlinne —

UPHOLSTERY WORK. ©

ODERN ST YLES—Best Finish—Cheap- est—Promptly delivered. JOHN NEWSON. April, 1, 1879-~3m

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Looking Glasses and Mirrors, _ STV LES—Cheap.

JOHN NEWSON,. April 1, 1879—-3m

, PARLOR & DRAWING-ROOM L100 SUITES, in raw Silk Poil, Silk Cota- line, Silk Repp and Hair Cloth—Styles un- rivitled—Stack large—Prices at cost.

50 BEDROOM or CHAMBER SUITES 1 ~Hvery variety of design and price— Never before so cheap.

e+ ‘Aprii’1, 1879--3m

FURNITURE.

LAncrst STOCK—Greatest Variety — Best Quality—Cheapest in every grade. Call and examine.

JOHN NEWSON.

JOHN NEWSON. April 1, 1879-——3m

PO ee te tt re Se

Bedding, Matrasses & Pillows

Bie MATERIAL—Hair, Flock, Excel- sior, Straw. : VO JOHN NEWSON.

April 1, 1879—3m

Property: for Sale.

E-BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTY, ) situate on Great George street, will shortly be-vaecated, and is now offered for sale by

Prapplgeto efter of the undersigned HOUN SCOTT, Rent st.) on,

JAMES DESBRISAY, Trustees.

April 14, 1879—eod tf FLOUR.

FLOUR.

IN ST@RE AND FOR SALE ; BBLS BAIN’S CHOICE, 6 100 ** TROPICAL — Celebrated and Choice Brands. BAKERS’ CHOICE, EXTRA and SUPERFINE, Kiln Dried CORNMEAL.

Owen Connolly & Co. Ch’town, April 18, ’"79—6w 3aw

‘eu 2-82. NEW BOOKS

JUST FROM LONDON.

HYMNS FOR ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, HYMNS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, (Also with Prayer Book in Morocco Case.) METHODIST HYMNS Reference and Gelic Bibles, Prayer Books, ‘lracts, Church Services, Catechisms, ete.

Books, Cards, Papers for Sunday Schools, Lett’s Diaries.

A FEW SCHOOL BOOKS,

Can now be had at

68 GREAT GEORGE STREET Opposite Lewis’ Photograph Gallery. Ch’town, April 26, 1879.

COMMERCIAL Union Assurance Company,

OF LONDON, ENGLAND. | CAPITAL - a _ $12,500,000.

NSURANCE effected against Fire on all

descriptions of Property throughout the Island.

a@ Low rates and prompr settlement of

] HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P, E. Island.

Ch’town, Dee, 20, 1878—

300 sé 200° *

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NEW GOODS

EX “PRINCE EDWARD,”

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Our ‘Stock for

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this Season

anything we have yet shown, in

VALUE, STYLE and VARIETY !

And, notwithstanding the increased

duties, we can (with a few

sell, at

LESS THAN OLD PRICES

exceptions)

| Millinery,

Dress Goods,

Straw Hats & Bonnets, Lace Goods, Silk Scarfs,

Grey & White Cottons,

PRINTED COTTONS, CLOTHS

—AND--

LW BEDS

Trimmings,

,

—AND—

EVERY NOVELTY

OF THE SEASON J

We Goods very low FoR

have marked

CASH.

PPKIMS &c RT

Ch tow , May 8, 1879.

THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.

AN INTERESTING SUMMARY OF THE LEADING FEATURES OF DR. TUPPER’S SCHEME.

(From the Toronto Mail.)

Nothing can be more important than the placing before the public the correct view of the Pacific railway, its history as a national work, and the relation to it of the past and present Governments. The ex- penditure of so much national money, the disposal of so much national land, demands the fullest consideration and requires the fullest information.

First, British Columbia came, into the Confederation as a natural and a necessary part of the scheme of confederating the North American colonies and rearing a broad bulwark of British power on this northern continent. The Pacific railway became by law, as it had become by nation- al desire, a portion of the scheme of Union, as much a part of it as the Intercolonial

Railway. There were few voices raised in protest against the propriety of building it. All travellers had urged it; all explorers liad pointed out the possibility of it; all engineers had assented to its feasibility. The Government adopted the scheme ; the Parliament ratified it; the people accepted it : both parties became pledged to it; and

the national faith was involved in the undertaking. Secondly, the Government

of Sir John McDonald proposed a plan by which for $3,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land, in alternate blocks, the scheme could be carried out by a private company. Parliament adopted that plan. So con- vinced ‘were business. men that it was feasible, that two companies became rivals for the contract for building it. The people were convinced that the plan could be car- ried out; and our neighbors on the other side of the line saw with some dismay that the Canadian railway would prove a for- midable rival to their own great national work. Thirdly, the Government of Mr. McKenzie, on coming into power, altered the scheme of the former Government, and proposed to construct the road as a national work, thus more completely involving the country in the cost of the undertaking; and so convinced was he that the railway was likely to prove successful, that he gave as

plain failed, or was not prosecuted with

‘}suceess ; and

OTHER PLANS FOLLOWED

in due order, more or less approaching the first plan of Sir John Macdonald’s Govern- ment; but there also. were not carried out successfully, except so far as to enter into certain contracts and canstruct. certain dis- connected sections of the line. Owing to the plans of the late Government, so far as they were carried out, the country is now pledged to an expenditure of $28,456,000, as follows :—

Fort William to Selkirk,...... $18,000,000 Canada Uoentral. ... . 64 vices oy 1,500,000 Georgian Bay Branch and land. 1,900,000 Pembina Branch.............. 1,750,000 Pacific Telegraph............. 1,100,000 Rails in British Columbia... ... 345,000 Exploration and Surveys...... 3,861,000

$28,456,000 Fourthly, itis to be confessed that this expenditure, extravagant as some of it has notoriously proved to be, has still had the effect of aiding in the profitable and neces- sary opening upof the fertile prairie regions which are to be the fountains of future prosperity, and to supply the motive powers for the eventual completion of the work. The prospects of completing the road to British Columbia are all the greater for the expenditure, thongh we may hold the opinion that the same expenditure more wisely made might have produced more beneticial results. Fuifthly, the plan of the present Government reverts, as was said in the Mail on the first appearance of the resolutions, to the original plan of the Lib- eral-Conservative Government of 1873. But = SEVERAL NECESSARY ALTERATIONS

have had to be made. Two may be men-

tioned :—

(a) The original proposition as to lands gave 50,000,000 acres of land in alternate blocks to the company building the road, the Government reserving. for its own dis- posal the alternate sections of 50,000,000 acres more. The present plan, therefore, does not increase the quantity of land ; but gives it all to the commissioners in trust for the fulfilment of the purposes of Gov- ernment.

(b) The present plan proposes a diverg- ence, in view of the altered circumstances, to the south of Lake Manitoba, as the best means of making railway construction fol- low the track and subserve the purposes of colonization.

Sixthly, the present Government do not make any rash promises of completing the road at any time. The late Government pledged themselves unconditional?y to build the 2,000 miles of road from Lake Superior té the Pacific, by the year 1890; and al- though Mr. Cartwright sets up a late claim that such promise was made subject to the proviso that the taxes were not to be in- creased, this claim is not tenable for the following reasons : (a) Lord Carnarvon cer- tainly did not have that limitation in view ; (») British Columbia did not consider the arrangement ; (c) Mr. Blake did not so in- terpret the arrangement when he proposed that that condition should be made a per-

tion of the Canadian legislation ; (d) the

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one of his reasons for making it a Govern- ment work that the country should have | ae . retieoe + profit of it as a portion ofits Se have alréatly-pointed ont that no more |

land is appropriated now than was appro }-

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time so consider it, since they so readily pledged themselves to carry out the terms, and greedily claimed them as the result of their own system. Seventhly, AS TO THE ROUTE, The route is still an unsettled question. It is not true that the present Government have adopted the Bate Inlet terminus. The present Government have left that matter open, pending the explorations in the Peace and Pine river districts. The present Government have not even repealed the Order-in-Council of the late Government by which the Burrard inlet terminus was adopted. But it has beed declared in the resolutions ef Dr. Tupper that the adoption of the Burrard Inlet terminus was ‘‘ prema- ture.” The points in favor of the Burrard Inlet terminus are as follows : (a) It is 57 miles shocter on the Pacitic mainland side ; from Bort Moody at Burrard Inlet to Esquimalt or Victoria, being 57 miles short- er than from Waddington Harbour at Bute Inlet to the same points ; (b) The gradients on this route are easier, whatever may be said as to the curvature ; the points against it are as follews : (a) That it involves the passage of San Juan now belonging to the Americans, and forming a formidable point of concentration for them ; (b) That it would be very easy on this route for the Americans to tap our line and transfer the trade of the line in great part to Holmes’ Harbour, making that the practical Pacific terminus. As Dr. Tupper pointed out, it would be a most unfortunate thing for Canada, if as the result of our national expense and national aspirations, one terminus of our trans-con- tinental railway system should be at Holmes’ Harbour and the other at Port- land. Eighthly, so far as British Columbia is concerned the length of 125 miles is pro- posed to be built, construction to be begun this season, as soen as the reports from the Peace and Pine districts have been received and the Government have made up their minds definitely as to the terminus. And in case Bute Inlet should after all be adopt- ed, the Government will lose no time in ar- ranging for construction, and the Depart- ment is now engaged in preparing the necessary data for contracts. Ninthly, as to THE LAND.

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priated |in 1873. The Government then were convinced that there were 100,000,000 acres of good land in the North-West, The surveys and examinations and reports since that date have convinced them that there are at least 180,000,000 acres of good land, most of it the fmest grain land in the world. This land must be made available. In order to render it ayailable it must be made valuable. It will become more valu- able with each new influx of settlers. The Government's plan of colonization railway building will speedily bring about the de- sired result. ‘he Commissioners will be men of honor and standing. The parties to whom they sell must pay for their lands, and then there is the money for the road. The parties who purchase

cannot afford to held much of their land}

for speculative purposes. It is their interest to settle the lands as quickly as possible, And the moment the railway is opened through and affords a market, those will buy the land who can afford to purchase it at even more than $2 per acre. All this nonsense about the Commissioners being ‘‘lords of the soil” and Canadians as their ‘‘ serfs” provokes enly a smile at the foolish attempt to impose upon the credulity of the people. The people have too good a sense of humor to be deceived by such atrocious nonsense. Tenthly, as to

ENGLISH AID.

We assume that the Government would not make such a proposition as that which has been made for English aid by means of a guarantee, without the best grounds for be- lieving that the preposition would be enter- tained inafriendly and helpful manner. The security which Canada offers is cer- tainly the best. She offers her 100,000,000 acres of magnificent land.

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New Style of Butter Packing.

The Montreal Gazette says that one of the Montreal exporting firms received late last week a shipment of very choice Canadian print butter neatly packed in the drawers of a compact refrigerator case about 35 feet in length, 24 feet in width, and 18 inches deep. The drawers which contained the prints were constructed so as to slide in and out, over the ice, thereby protecting them against the injurious effects of the hettest weather. The shipper in the country and the party receiving it have each a key to jack and unlock the case. It is thought this style of shipping butter will come into general use during the hot weather. The quality of the prints was really superb, and the shipment was quickly distributed among the lovers of the rosy product of the churn

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Tut Chicago ‘cattle ring” has beca broken, and competing railroads are strug- gling for the transportation of cattle, and rates have been cut down from 20 to 14

cents per hundred peunds. ———_—-<>>--—_—

Brzcuer baptized 28 infants on Sunday, and in his sermon said the people were to blame for anything objectionable in news papers, as the latter would not print matter that was questionable unless the people de- manded it.

ONDAY, MAY 26, 1879,

late Government themselves did not at any |

J. WILLIAMS, formerly of the firm of

- Williams & Crowley, Meridian Street,

Boston, and late CUTTER with Mr. C, E.

Robertson, begs leave to inform his friends and the public that he has opened a

Custom Tailoring

ESTABLISHMENT. At 24 QUEEN STREET, OPPOSITE THE ANCLO-AMERICAN TELE- GRAPH OFFICE,

Where he is prepared to Cut, Trim, and make Garments in the

LATEST FASHION,

AND AT

MODERATE PRICES.

Satisfaction Guaranteed. Ch'town, May 13, 1879.-—eod,

HOUSE TO LET.

Ory half of that double Tenement Brick House on Upper Queen Street, con- taining nine latge roooms, (with or without the stable,) at present occupied by F. L. McNutt, Esq. Possession given about the 7th June next. Apply to ALEXANDER HORNE. Ch’town, May 14, 1879. 3taw.

WHAT, NEVER ?

LYELL, ‘‘hardly ever” elaborate bargains in

Books, Stationery, and Fancy Goods,

AS) DAILY HAD) AT THE-

DIAMOND BOOKSTORE

85 North Side Queen Square. »

THEO. L. CHAPPELLE. P. S.—A. few Children’s Rubber 4‘ Piana- fores,” which may be seen by ‘‘our sisters, our cousins, and our aunts.” a. Ch town, May 13, 1879

do you see such

eod 7 _ WENHAWNM’S» Lite “JUICE SALINE, OR WEALTH SALT,

A LLAYS SICKNESS and Irritation of the i Stomach; strengthens the . stomach, assists the appetite and improves digestion,

8” Sold at

APOTHECARIES’ HALL,

DesBrisay’s Corner,

Ch.town, May 9, '79—2w Saw

APRIL 18th, 1879

SPRING REQUIREMENTS.

New Worsted Cloths, ~ NEW ScOTcH TWEEDS

—A PORTION OF OUR

SPRING Broce. received, which we are prepared to make up in our

Custom Tailoring Department

IN THE— VERY BEST STYLES, and at right figures.

BEER & SONS.

April 18, 1879.—3w

Canadian Need Wheat !

100 BUSHELS Seoteh Fife Wheat

—gave the very best@satisfaction last

year.

FLOUR AND CORNMEAL,

Wholesale and Retail.

50 BBLS. APPLES

expected in a few days. B. BALDERSTON. No. 11 Queen street,’ May 8—3w

HOUSEHOLD

Furniture Repaired.

Furniture Revainted.

Venctian Blinds Re-taped.

Venetian Blinds Repaired.

Carpets Cut and Laid,

Jobbing promptly attended to— all at Low Charges.

JAMES M. BuTcHer.

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