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Pes Se ee oR a teas Sy eae ee ay nina == sane we ne roe a £ A “4 NI = & . 5. . o tocal and Other item LERETERS TO THE EDITOR, | respect, but in none other. It is, in great . part our own fau't. If trade is to be = 7 — broug!t back to Halifex,—-if Cape Breton is Gry. Earnie was to make an attack on Berti ' a" to have railv ay accommodstion,--if theie aot The Ice Boat Disaster end its}: ee an ha techie us _ at 4 ce ls to be mi provea— if st, John Pug veteran Oiptaius he Capes, Messrs. Lesson. | is to imerease, instead of decreasing, in ving acd Muttart, were in town to-day, - pop lation, the repre entatives of these o : : Srr.—I trust that the question of the Provinces, torgettin: party, must unite im cinent : tonk fire on Wednesday winter mail service between the Island and demending that oue birthrivht and onr ast, but tl v “tinguished before much | 4), pass Othe wenld iso ee aan s 4 we patrimony receive seme, at Lr ant, of the care page W - rotten, now that a rude shock has beon that 1s s0 laviehly bestowed on the Upper wah the Cassiee’ name the | sivas be the secant Gemstar. “‘Seente-cne Provine There are times when ailence _ ut ie Diamond Bookstor« it | of out bell “ citizens were free ty and on the part al _ {ree citizens equal 60 as fort starving on the ice, within viow of land on| easep. 1 think the present is such a -—- each side, but too fatigued to make the time, therefore I speak and sign myoell hur i Coal Mining Company o! necessary exertion to reach it, Fifteen of , : C. O'BRIEN, ne B ’ p © oe the 7 mployees these men were engaged in performing an Halifax, Jan. slst, L885. ¥ : ry aU VOIUMES Of STARCAIU | indispensable public service, viz , carrying - _ ia Her Majesty’s mails. How faithfully they , , i : h at Picton forthe Pro-}Sought to fulfill their duty is told in the in Defence of the Crews. ial troph the 29th ult., between the| words of the telegram—‘'The mails are H 5 ee Pist and Halitax 4 urlers, Pictou won by safe.’’ Does the k ublic realize what heroism . Sir,—After the vere ow letter of His tive points. [these words impor ‘hey import that Grace the Archbishop, slong with a _— _ a shese men, although fre: sing 484. net bern editorial thereon, I do not think ove word Wes H. Crt x, of Halifax, N.S., has)ipe mails for fuel, aud although epent} ™°Pe 's called for on the imperative need received ¢ i watch, being the first prize} ,ng scarcely able to walk “a rn | Of improved means of communication be- offered for a short story by a Toronto paper sidaee tek on ” ie ne Pia Vehion their tween P. E. Island and the mainland. — Cece. |load ; either of which, under the sleone- Indeed, the appalling oven of last week rug WEEKLY EXAMINER, issued to-morrow, | **nces, they would have been perfectly siti to me se powerfully charged with ue Wr oe ee nasamah af tha Camm, | justified in doing. But no; they continue | @omiem fee the future that I shall only Sl qattain 0 compete SNES el a: Of . yy) conmmue task they be allowed to speak for them- i They will be for sale at the|on their dreary and apparently hopeless — ’ — ver ' wee Diamond Bool we and at this office tramp, dragging if soit be, until death, selves. = however, desire . ie . - |} the matls confided to their care. 1 confess make a mment on the report which e. K, Brace has sent bi Almanacs by post lmy heart swelled with pride, and tears a errs ” rrespendent telegraphs s number customers. Those receiv- | came to my eyes, when I read, * The mails from Charloitetown. The report consists ing two will please give the extra copy to| are safe,” for I know what my gallant coun- | @*"' ly of s conversation with Jas. A their neighbor tehé wkly trymen must have endured. But indigna- ee a sy rose! Se tg — the ill- eas &. Mcxro, has accepted the call to| #02 was the next emotion ~indignation oe a ae tlie Se seen bees co ie , ‘ Presbvterian church. | #8%!"8! the niggardly and beggarly way in oe oe shat Sir. — Seer the pastorate y : Pe eek eres i HRs ie, . that the accident, or at least the lamentable Antigonish. He is a native of P. E. L., and a} which that difficult postal service is remu- | ~ reg age “7 Agnes a : sandin-law of RB H. B. McKay, of River |nerated. 1 now delirerately assert that ee eee ue to mis manage John | there are no words too sr ng to condemn ——- : enero Wel Me ee fuel, oo jthe inhuman meanness of the authorities, oaly ae ma'ches, &c., &e. Now any one Tue plans ard speciiicaticne of the Domin- | or their ignorant flippancy in the Commons who hes ever er _ d the atratts by = ion building wilt be in tne eee of the — regarding that service. l am not boat knows: it is im p< seible to tects, Messra. Stirling & Harris, on Monday/ . oii this in a party spirit; the | C®"Y supplies, as the boat, which} ner", x i at. wih re they cam be seen by/7 + is were the same tae: dee power; has to be dragged by the men, must be | ee i j both parties are equally culpable in — and ight as : p anibie. a plan, | 1 O. O. F.—All resident and transcient| thst regard. Will be believed that 9 ee “ao bs that th ed Se ae Oddfellows are cordially invited to attend the | these —_ n,engaged in a perilous and labori-| ~ rg th. = 7" lies ee : ‘eaternal meeting of both city lodges, which | ous public service, do not receive as much | a wit ous supplies of any kind. : And wili be h at the New Hall, South side, asa broken-down « rporation laborer on | at no accident has cecurred for thirty Sueen Square, at 8 o'clock this evening streets? Will it be believed that those | Ye@rs shows the wonderful sagacity and ‘ pase yallant fifteen, who spent thirty-six hours | °®U*02 of Captain Irving and hismen. | “Tue Tele ne; why it works, how it is/ on the ice without food, and dragged the | T°8Te's therefore, that Mr. Mraser, ‘a made. and its uses,” is the subject of the| mails while their limbs were freezing, will whose safety I drew a breath of relief) paper t read to-morrow evening oenaee the | noc receive even one cent for their thirty- | should have been made so say that if the Literary_and Scientific Society, by Mr. A. I ‘six hours of toil? Yet soit is; they get boat had started early in the a Morrison, Esq., of the Anglo-American +€l€-| nothing unless they make a round trip “There would have been no difficulty in graph stat le | They may attempt to cross, and get nearly | “TOS*PS- fam contident that before the Bosrox has lost an eminent citizen by the|OVer, and be driven back, but not a brass amenar? ee ee force? death of Hon. Jos. M. Wightman, once Mayor | farthing will our paternal government allow of . a oe on | ine P ne : of Boston, and a man deeply interested im ail| them. They must take the mails from 1 f the : . _ hirty be the practical work of that city. Mr. Wight-|Charlottetown by team to the Capes, os * se event once im thirty years man was either a Prince Edward Islander by| near thirty miles, cross to Tormen- dd not accord | with his forecast, birth or descent itine, return with the mails, and surely no shadow of blame should be | - deliver them in Charlottetown. [f| t®toW on such mortal fallibility. For my Tas Rev. D. J. G. McDonald, of St. Mar- own part I feel contrained to attest that

they do this they are entitled to the magni- ficent sum of, | think, thirty dollars—pos- sibly it may be a trifle more. From this it

deliver a lecture Wednesday, the es of the Young

garet s, King’s County, will in Mount Stewart liall, on

llth inst., under the auspik : 7. Men's Debating and Literary Institute. Sub- can be seen that the men do not average a ‘ect ‘‘ Marshal McMahon. dollar a day from the government; and i that the fifteen of whom we speak receive

Gueru, Oxt., was formerly noted fer being | nothing for their time, and have their toil the residence of the gentleman who drinks; and suffering as a reward for fidelity to hot Irieh whickey in July. It is now noted|the public. Success is the modern test of

for being the first Ontario city that has deci-

l-| merit; they did net succeed in crossing, ded that that gentleman shall not have his

they only succeeded in getting bad'y frost-

hot Imesh, in July or any other month bitten, and in sacredly guarding Her : . ae I al Majesty's mails. Hence not even the

Tue Cannas pn , race ‘ i AY : of, Y . . i snadian voyageurs Wli eave ex beggarly allowance for a round trip is

andria for Canada on ihe 6th inst., and will land at Halifax about March Ist. Seventy- five of these Canadians have accepted a three months engagement with the Imperial service, and will remain in the Nile army. >

Tue Halifax //erald says a mail arrived jrom P. E. Island last night. It includes the mails s* long missing on the ice. The papers were all soaked through, and smelled strongly of smoke—the emoke of the fire made of tre third boat, burnt to keep the crews and pas- sengers from freezing

theirs. So wills the government that can spend thousands in inducing Huns and Goths, and Tartars, to come to Canada, but cannot spend hundreds to remunerate Canadians for necessary public service. The question of winter communication in- terests all the Maritime Provinces. It was the hope of improvement, in this regard, that gave the strongest impetus to confeder- ation on the Island. The Dominion agreed to keep up ‘‘ continuous steam commaunica- ion with the mainland.” ‘True, the Northern Light has done some good ; but no attempt has been made to improve on

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Tue sugar market continues to manifest decided strength, and refiners have advanced

27 ammnt i -hic ] . 7 their prices another jc.. being now firm at 7c. wi = —" ta _ couid — = for granulated, bet no transactions have | “on At ae apes, where the been made at that figure yet. Sales were! ™ails must cross for, at least, two

or three months every winter, no attempt at improvement has been made. Things are as they were thirty years ago. The most fertile Province of the Dominicn is less cared for than the Hudson Bay Territory, or the wilds of the North-west. Captain Irving, who has grown gray in ice- boat ser- vice, made an offer a few years ago to pro- vide, at a very small cost, what his ex- perience had suggested as useful. The post office authorities offered him three hundred dollars—he had asked, I think, five or six. Is not this outrageous! This contemptible haggling, unworthy of a huckster woman, was solemnly indulged in by ministers, for I suppose it must have gine before the min- isters of the crown, and mails and pas- sengers were left to cross as of yore. What is the remedy you have to offer / some one may ask. Finish the railway at once to Cape Tormentine; build suitable piers and boat houses on each side; provide two small but powerful steam tugs, one at each side, which would go out, at times, to meet the ice boats, or cross instead of them when there is only ‘lolly’ ice, or when the Straits are open, as they often are. Put Captain Irving, who has the unlimited confidence of | understood to be members of the Bligs family, | every one who has ever crossed, in com- | offered to contribute £10,000 stg. towards the| mand of the whole and there will be fifty | erection of a cathedral in Halifax, provided an| per cent less toil and danger, and much | equal sum was raised in Hajfax. This seems | more regularity than at present. How are to be a grand opportunity for getting | these improvements to be obtained! Only $100,000 cathedral in Ialifax.—Halifax)in one way. Let the representatives of Herald the Maritime Provinces, all of whom have Tne Charlottetown Herald howls with in-|®@ %aterest in this matter forget dignation, when its less fortunate brethern | 10F once that they are party men and be, filches from its columns a few items of ‘news’ | if for once, only this once, patriots When- but this week without a word of acknowledge- | ever this question has come up in the ment, it takes column after column of news|Commons, whether MacKenzie or Mac-} from Tue Examiner, and parades it before its | Donald were Premier, it was made a party readers, doubt. as a sample of Jerald | affair. A government supporter mildly | We have in the past, allowed our | hoped something would be done; an op-| th Il use of our local | ponent wildly denounced the goverpment | taking « “ea pt pec to for not doing something ; and a wily minis- | out acknowied as ee eee | ter encouraged the fighting between the . i imei lopposing parties When they had ex-

' hausted their strength, the Minister would

rise and make a stale pun about ‘ice- ; lation,” and possibly exhibit his ignorance — Capes : of the the question, and

Se os . cortainly show his contempt for the Island

nner in which that important | 8} ecifically, and the Maritime Provinces in rried ou Che Herald of Mon- general. The spirit of the party would moming contained a telegraphic ac- be evoked, and a docile majority, like co int ol the disaster which took up nearly | . flock of Scotch sheep following the bell two columns of its space, as well as the wether, would follow their leader in ignor- Oucien eo oa ee asia ing the just claims of these provinces by drien, which we republish to-day. the sea. In matters that effect the interest

made to-day at 63, and the market closed at 64 and 7 c.—Montrea/ Gazette. sisinneeitilcaaisived THe new Roman Catholic Church of St. Paul the Apostle, in New York, which is the largest church in the United States, except the Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, was consecra- ted on Sunday Jast with elaborate ceremonies, in which Archbishop Corrigan, Archbishop Ryan, and twelve bishops took part. The church was built by the Paulist Fathers at a cost of about $260,000. Ss iiiieasal ies A Mr. MarsHatt, a young lawyer lately | settied in Shelburne, and on whom several offices had been heaped, has absconded. He was secretary of trustees, and took away several hundreds of doliars of school money He was county treasurer, and belped himself to a nice little sum of county money. He was also county clerk. He was very unsteady and his whereabouts is now a matter of in- quiry among the rate-payers of Shelburne.— Presbyterian Witness oo St. Luke's congregation are discussing the propriety of erecting a new $55,000 church. The plans, prepared by an English architect, are now in the hands of the Rector. Some years ago some Nova Scotians in London,

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' lof these provinces our representatives wate A wi are uffering from | should e aa lie. It 18 the Huy way of ‘ youtn, ret Fy lly counterac tir g the » liey that ’ , i Co .| hes denied a mile of railway to Cape Breton, i i } p that will re y u, FRI a) a Ist 1a . . ir da of alias ‘7 the | FF CHARGE This great remedy was dis- | whilst Dulicding hunarecs ¢ inlies In 1

| Northwest. Both political partes forget these provinces, except in the matter of taxation We have equal rights in that

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F Inuan, Station D, New York.

though I have travelled a good deal in the old world and in the new, I never felt such confidence in any commander nor such ad- miration for any men, as I felt for the captain and crew of the iceboats, when, some Winters ago, under very inauspicious circumstances, [ was ebliged cross the Straits of Northumberland

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ScHURMAN, Halifax, February 2nd, 1885.

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Temperance at Springfield.

Sir,—l was present at a public meeting which took place at Spzingfield on Friday, the 30th ult., under the auspices of Union Division, Sons of Temperance. This Divi- sion is one of the oldest and best conducted on the Island, is doing and has done excel- lent work in the temperance cause. It is composed of the leading and influential men of the surrounding settlements, who are determined to carry out their temperance principle in its entirety. The programme at the meeting which I attended consisted of singing, speeches, reading, recitations, dialogues, etc. All were performed in a very creditable manner. Many of the young ladies and gentlemen deserve special mention, but, being a stranger, 1 cannot name them all. Most worthy of mention were the speeches of Messrs. Christopher Munroe, of Forest Home Division, and Archibald Ferguson, of Union Division. Mr. Munroe’s address was a powerful ap- peal to temperance workers to increase their endeavors in the cause. Mr. Fer- guson’s speech kept the attention of the house, while he proved the position of the advocates of the liquor sellers untenable aad absurd.

; Yours, ete., MaAacny.

DIED.

At Clyde River, Dec. 7th, 1884, Catherine, relict of the late John Darrach, aged 73 years.

Liverpool to 3 Charlottetown

1885.

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THE CLIPPER

“GULNAR

NOW ON BERTH, 500 Tons Register. Classed in English Lloys.

Williams McDonald. Commander, WILL SAIL FROM

Liverpool for Charlottetown,

On or about the Ist APRIL next, carry- ing Freight at through rates to

Pictou, Gsergetown, Summerside.

Winchester Street; or here to

Souris and

For Freight or Passage, apply in Liverpool to Pitcairn Brothers, 51 South John Street ; in London to J. Pitcairn & Sons, 16 Great

Gents’ UNDERCLOTHING,

SLIPPER PATTERNS, CUSHION

Cotien Goods of Every Description we Guarantee to be as Cheap as any to be found.

Ch’town, Dec. 17, 1884.

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RUARYT 5.

GOODS HOUSE in this Province.

Cioths,

Gents’ GLOVES and MITTS, Silk HANDKERCHIEFS,

3°54 oom £ —_ 1885.

eS, aaah eis seeelnesnsneSes/ataanete=naeaeensn/ ingens eee

Perkins & Sterns’

o their premises, they are now the Largest Exclusively DRY Giving their whole attention to this branch, they are

LARGE STUCK. GHEAP GOODS.

est Value.

Previous to *tock-taking they will Sell the balance of their Kur-lined CLOAKS ata big reduction,

MANTLES and JACKETS at a big reduction, Men’s Fur CAPS at a big reduction, Knitted Wool JACKETS at a big reduction.

Reliable, without doubt this is the place to buy your

rts, Counterpanes, Flanneis, Wincey, Linens, Ae... XC,

IN DRESS GOODS & VELVETEENS.

Ladies’ GLOVES and MITTS, Fur CAPS and MUFFS,

Real Lace SCARFS, HOSIERY and CORSETS, Newest CORSETS.

reduction, big reduction,

PATTERNS, BRACKET PATTERNS.

PERKINS & STERNS.

- LECTURE. REY. GREGORY MACDGNALD

Will deliver a Lecture on

“The Gharsh in Council,”

Under the auspices of the

CATHOLIC LITERARY UNION,

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| Benevolent (PRINCE STREET),

Doors open at 7.30. Lecture at § p. m. Admission 10 cents. A, EDMUNDs, Asst. Secretary. Ch'town, Jan. 31, 1885—tt

CHEESE, CHEESE.

100 Boxes—WHOLESALE & RETAIL. BEER & GOFF’s.

COAL.

IN STORE: 300 Tons ACADIA NUT,

L. ¢. OWERN. —t th sat

Ch’town, Feb. 3, !

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ROOM, sar Water o23 Gregt sa7g> “tr-ot

200 do do ROUND,

100 do INTER°OLONIAL ROUND, 150 do OLD MINE sYDNEY,

200 do SYDNEY SLACK,

For Sale Low.

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Irish Scciety’s Hall,’

On Monday, Feb. 9th, L8do.

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COAL.

NOTICE.

As we are about making a change in our business we re- quest an Immediate Payment of all accounts due up to this date.

W.& A. BROWN & CO.

Jan, Ist, 1885.—ja 6

EFTS:

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FANCY CHAIRS, CRADLES, SLEIGHS, &., CHEAPEST,

‘CHILDREN’S COTTS,

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‘Mirrors & Looking Glasses, English and German, very Low.

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Our stock of Gilt and Walnut Picture-frame Mouldings is the largest in the Lower Provinces, unrivalled in quality and d made to suit all kind of pictures—the Cheapest in

HAMBER SUITS.

'varicty, an ‘the city.

PARLOR & C

xamine our Magnificent Parlor and Chamber ‘uits, which

E we are Selling at Cost.

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CHAIRS-—Parlor, Chamber, Office, Children’s and Kitchen Chairs, cheap. All kinds of Upholstering Work, Painting, Varnishing and Gilding.

BEDDING AND MATTRESS-—Feather, Hair, Flock, Fibre, Excelsior, Wool, Straw—Cheapesi in the city.

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Bedsteads, Lounges, Tables, Sideboards, Bookcases, Scheffioneers, Washstands, &.—-Cheapest.

JOHN NEWSON.

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