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Tne Coming of Better ‘Times. Last Thursday eveniag, Mr. Wm, Schur-

ISLAND CROWN, ALDEXNMAN RANGE, FARMERS’ COOK, MAGICIAN COOK,

Stove Pipe (Riveted) Stoves, for W ood.

STOVES FITTED UP BY COMPETENT

SIX Cents per Ib. Shop Sioves, for Coal,

SE BURNER, Russia Tron Pipe.

WORKMEN. CHARGES MODERATE.

TWEATVY Exira Boilers, Pets. Kettles and Spiders.

STANDARD FRANKLIN, WOODBINE PARLOR, ADVANCE PARLOR, WAVERLY PARLOR,

Call and Examine.) ‘

Cents per Ib. Cook and Parlor

SIMON W.CRABBE,

Charlottetown, Oct. 21, 1SSO0—12 in eod Sign of the Stove, Walker's Corner. —_—_—_— --———— ~ — ditsdet nal - pce 2 encom gy ARE NOW SHOWING A SUPERIOR STOCK OF 2

New Millinery and

DIRECT FROM BEST LONDON HOUS

PLUSH, FREIZE, _Bilks and Satins,

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in rompadour,

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VELVET,

ALL THE NEWEST

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Velvets and Velveteens, in Plain Colas,

New Laces, Ribbons; ézc.,

Flowers and Heathers, Hat and Bonnet Ornaments.

A FULL STOCK 0

UNSURPASSED

Charlottetown, ‘Octabat 4, 1880. w—_—_ —

PACIFIC Mutual Insuranes (0,

MARINE.

Assets 3)st Dec., 1879, -

Insurance effected on CARGOES and FREIGHTS, covering $15,000 and upwards en first-class risks.

Certificates issued payable in London at the office of Morron Ross & Co., Bankers, or in New York.

Risks taken and rates fixed without set referrel to Head Uffice.

FENTON T. NEWBERY, J Agent for P. E. Island. May 11, 1550.

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TRY If, TRY

IVE ALBION MINE NUT COAL @ fair trial’ and you will not be disap- pointed in the result; i¢ is COAL, not fre | cley and slate. For orders apply to G. W. DeBLOISs, Sole Agent for P. E. Island. Office—No, 35 Water Street.

Chariettetown, Jnly8, 1850—pat ti

BARRELS BAIT AND SALT, QUEEN’S WHARF.

() BAGS SALT, 200 Barrels "Herring and Mackerel

_ BATT, 200 MACK EREL BARRELS.

100 barrels eon Lokal {rar HERRING.

100 Quintals CODFISH and HAKE. Juxt Eanded—a choice lot New Labrador

Herr: aul? SMALL.

$744,149.00,

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STAPLE AND

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FUR AND

SHAPES, Ln Bi i mpadour a

illinery Materials |

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STRAW HATS,

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Plain nd Embossed.

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all Colors

TA Ar 'y

TANGY GOODS,

AND VARIETY.

PERKINS

& STERNS.

OC1LOP + EG:

J. B. WiAGD

NALD'S,

QUEER STREET.

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For For Custom-made. | For , vor

lor For For Kor For For

Hats and Caps

Go TO

Readymade Clothing, Clothing,

Shirts and Drawers, White and Colored

Shirts,

Worsted Coatings, Tweed Suitings, Searfs, Ties and Collars,

Silk and Liffen Handkerchiefs, New, Stylish and Cheap Goods,

Pits J. B. MACDONALD'S,

| Oct. 11, 1839.

Srcenies ae Se

Nat Coal,

REE from Slate and Fire Clay. Also

Round and Silack, at Albion Mines, Pictou, Nova Scotia. For orders apply to G. W. DEBLOIS,

aaa ag Agent for P. E. Island,

Gld Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Lingan Mines, Caps Breton,

RDERS for Round Coal can be obtained

on application to Terms as usual. G. W. DeBLOIs, Sole Ayent for P. E. Island. |

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June 17, 1880—pat her sj kea tf

pai Street.

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Tt ut Coal, Valuable ‘Property for Sale,

r@ XO BE SOLD, all that part of Town Lot No, 74, in the first hundred of Town Lots in Charlottetown; having a front of 67 feet, Dor- chester Street, and running back 80 feet, to} gether with the buildings thereon erected,

For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hopeson & McLrop Charlottetown.

MUSIC AND SINGING.

N and after AUGUST Ist, Mrs. James Brown will give instruction in Music and Singing at her residence, King Square.

Office, No. 35 Water Street, Charlottetown. | Terms on application

Ch’town, July 29, 1880—3m 3taw tu th s

’ , reve (from the Monetary 4 41/168 )

The period of depression, if not over, is fast pssing away, and signs of awakening prosperty are on everPhand. The great increase in the revenue, for the last three wonths, is the best proof of the revival of commerce. The increase in bank circula- tion and discounts, during the last month, is not lesa striking. The railways are doing a greatly increased business, and the re- venue of some of ilhem, notably the Grand Trunk, shows a very large augmentation. Sharing in the prosperity of the railways, the express companies are busier than at any previous tame. The lwnubor trade is active and healthy, aud probably more lumber will be ont this winter than ever before. Domestic manufactures are thriving, and as a conseqtience new veu-

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tures are being every day engaged in. There is one deplorable exception to this renewed activity. Our shipbuilding inter

est continues depressed : and for it there is, in any only a moderate revival pos- sible. Bankruptcies have fallen to third what they were a yes ar ago, and suits for the recovery of debts are less frequent,

case,

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Lb Wor ld } _ very difficult to accoun t fully for this welcome change in the conditien of commerce and manufactures. The hat-

vest of 1879 wes not exceptionaliy good. But the revival of the lamber trade stands out great fact, which has had much to do with Se improvement that has taken place. Stocks of lmporte d : goods had run - Ws ip the

as a

deficiency had to be made

ood. The hopefal fesiing which had inally come to be entertained has been iach 5 sened by the announcement that the government has relieved the coun try of the burthen of a direct construction of the ten: And the convic that leficits in the revenue of the Dominion is at au_end, has an inspirit- ing effect. Itis noso much the changed condition of things that has actually oc- curred, asjthe future prospect that tends to inake things pleasant.

When we see the in} pors mestic manufaciures thriving it is im possib le not to be tbat, while manufactures have received en- couragement,. the revenue producing fea- ture of the tariff has been retained. Cer- tainly, the tari is not without blemishes of a serions nature, but as a means of pro- ducivg revenue it is not ineffective. Mr. Tilley” is now pretty well assured of a. sity: plus at the end of the current year. That surplus may go far towards covering the deficit of last year. There seems to be no

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good reason for doubting that, under the present tariil, several new inanufac- tures have got a start which they wou es

and the resn! the experi-

have made, held to justify

not otherwise may, so far, be ment,

Mir. Sparrow as @ Farmer.

One of the delegates, Mr. Sparrow, is, as most of our readers already know, a prac- tical farmer. The St. John Telegraph s correspondent took an opportunity of in- terviewing him on the subject of his farm, and on the relations between English and Canadian farming, feeling that such infer- mation would be of general interest. Mr. Sparrow heartily re sponded to all i inquiries on the subject. His farm is situated in Gloucestershire and comprises about 140 acres. For this he pays an annual rental of £2 an acre or £280 sterling in all. The tithes that he has to contribute amount to 4s. 6d. per acre and he has also t® pay a poor tax of about £25 a year, in addition to a small tax on income. About 130 acres of his farm are pel rmanent meadow laud and 10 acres permanent arable iand. About half of the 130 acres is mewn every year and the remaining part is used asa} for from 40 to 50 head of cattle, of young about 40) year.

ises it all |

pé wsc.cure Which about 20 and 15 this land sheep are aiso grazed ev ony never sells any of his hay, but for feeding his stock,

about a ton to the acre. arable land are used for the wheat and on the rer mainder oats

rs : are cows, 12 stock calves. On

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The yiel: { of hay is | the! ; uitivation of | :

cu ALION O | Oct 15. at ; potatoes,

barley, etc., are grown. Off his farm he} selis frora ten to fifteen COWS and calves |

each year, and the beef briags from 65s. to 80s. per hundred weight. from 10s. to 123. per

The pork brings} twenty pounds, and |

he sells about £60 worth reach year, equal |

to $300 of our money. The food for the

pigs, including barley, meal and Indian} corn, comes nearly altogether. froin this!

side of the water. Very iittle of has been sold by him of late years, as the yield has not been iarge. The sales form- erly amounted to about £100 every year, but lately this has been reduced about one half. The yield of wheat is from 20 to 30 bushels peracre and it generally selis for

about 5s. or 6s. a bushel], though last year a

tne crop | | bro: whi t £723 19s. 6. (18s. da

| September last.

man, of spring farm, pearly opposite Sum- merside, showed us a pac kage of- sixteen letters which a boy had that day picked up on the shore under Mr. Schurman’s resi- dence. The letters when found appears to have been in a box of stout paper and tied to a thin strip of hemlock board or deal. When shown us they were partially dried and appeared to be little the worse of being in the water, evey the stamps adhering to nearly all of ‘them. The post marks showed them to have been mailed in Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Thurles, Edinburgh, Greenock, &c., the dateson which they were stamped vary- ing from the 2nd to the 7th inst. About half the number were addressed to ‘promi- nent ladies and gentlemen in Charlotte- town: the remainder to parties in varions sections of the Island. We understsnd that the P. O. Inspector was up for several days endeavoring to trace out the mystery, but so farjwithont success.

With referene to the above, from the ‘‘Pionger,” we may state that the postal authorities are in possession of all informa- tion regarding the loss of the letters. The matter is how under investigation and the facts will, doubtless, shortly be laid before the publie.

Tue Vatre or Mavp 8.—Mr. Vander- bilt takes pride in owning the fastest trotter in the world, and as long as Maud Ss. helds

that position in his and the pu site estima- tion, and by the record, he would, probably no soover sejl for $1,000,090 than for $100- 000. Yet as ‘a pure business speculation, for aman who conld afford the risk and silane trot her solely for cain, this young mare may be considered worth “$100.000, She is but six years old, has at least ten ears of active service before her, in the ordinary course of things, and with good. inanagement, she could clear $40,000 or $50,600 a year as long as she maintains her pre-eminence. Goldsmith Maid was twelve years upon the turf, and did dot leave until her twenty-first year, and. her earnings were about $350,000. In the matter of speed, Mand 8. bégan a trifle in advance of where Goldsmith Maid left off, but we can see no reasen in that fact for her net con- tinning to improve, as the Maid did. How- ever, it is not our iatention te elaborate, this point, but simply to indicaté that the price which a man to whom money is liter- ally no object refuses fora favorite animal, cannot be accepted as a criterion for its market valug.-Spiritof the Times, . <i> + « Dr. Leremic.— it will be seen advertising columns, that the Rev. Dr. Leeming has been requested to deliver that soul-stirring recitation ‘‘Shamus O’Brien” at the close of his lec- ture to-night, on Shakspeare. His emin- ent gifts will enable him to do iull justice tuthis rare poem. A-rieh treat may be anticipated. He lectured on Friday night at Summerside on ** Mary Queen of Scots.” fhe Boston dlerald has the subjoined :— “He is a ger itleman of remarkably fine presence on the platform, has a rich voice, and his de ‘livery is especially graceful; in- deed, it is very seldom our citizens have an opportunity of listening to so eloquent alecturer * * * * Dr, Leeming spoke for more than two hours in a most eloquent manner, the whole of the leeture being a panegyric of the unfortunate Queen, whose sufferings were depicted in most beautiful language, with all the force that masterly elocution could give it.’ —— <a @iae-

Sr. Junren’s Campaton.—A brief sum- mary of St. Julien’s brilliant campaign will be interesting. June 10, against time, at Detroit, best time, 2.17}, June 24, against

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from: our

bina at fonia, Mich., best tune, 2.185; July 5, againgt tir nie, at Detroit, best time, 2. LG?; Ji iy 22, at c hieaygo, free for all, best time, 2.162; July %, at Cleveland, free for

ali, best time, 2. oh August 5, at Buffalo, free for a li, be me, 2. 15}; August 12, at Rechester, against time, 2.114;* August 19, etd, free f best time. 2.15; August 27, at Hartford, against time, 2.11}

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at Spring or all,

| Sept. 11, at Minneapolis, against time, 2.13} Sex P ». 25, at Boston, against time, 2.13);

8, at Washington, against time, 2.133%;

Prospect Park, agaiDst time,

| 2,133. This far surpasses any trotting campaign ever made by another horse. Sate or SHorrHokrns.—The entire herd

belonging to Mr. auction at the l4th of A summary of the sale ‘brought a ye al of or an average of £25 Os. Twenty-five cows end heifers , or an average of '£28 Nine heifer calves realized £132

of pure bred Shorthorns, John Drummond, was sold by Blackruthven, near Perth, on shows that 42 head £1,039 103. Gd..

od. per head.

‘15s. Od., being an average of 414 15s. 2d,

per head; while eight bulls and bull-calves brought £193 15s. Gd., or an average of

£24 4s. 4d. -

sack of four bushels only brought 183, Gd. |

The yield of potatoes is 160 bushels to the acre, each bushel weighing sixty pounds, and they bring about 103. a sack of three bushels. Barley yields about 25 bushels to the acre. Of late years the prices of the crops and surplus cattle have not come up to the demanes of the rent tithesand taxes,

has been made on a tenant farm in the old country during the last year or two. It may be here stated that there are one or two errors of transmission in the prices formerly quoted in regard to English prices of produee. A well informed correspoud- ent states that turnips ought to be quoted by the ton, the price being from 12s. 6d., to 20s., regarding to the season.

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A young lady of of Laurinburg, N. C.,

was engaged to be married to a young

clergymen, who recently determined to go to China as a missionary. The young lady said she would not ge with him, bat finally he decided that he would go without her, and told her so. She is now a raving

maniac. so that it would seem that but little money”

a> It is said that, owing to the failure of the fishing season, and a bad harvest, the people of Gaspe are in a very destitute con. dition, and if help is not organized before the close of navigation a great number of fatnilies will have to perish.

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The testimonial famd to Hon. Mr. Lan- gevin now amounts to $18,000.

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