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Prince Edward Island RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 13.

Winter Arrangement,

TO COM# INTO FORCE

FURSDAY, December And, 1879, ~~ TRAINS GOING WEST.

Se | Nos. 1 & 3, No. 5, =. | Mixed. Mixed. er — ————o—_- a ee

Georgétown .....' Dp 8.20 a, m.! Cardigan.........} aa vr

’ ; isur le is Mt Stew’t June... Up 10.15 “5 Royalty Juuction' * a a Charlottetown. ..|) 1}, SO a.m. 3

| Ip 8.00 a m Dp Royalty Junction, “ 8.22 sé “sé i

North Wiltshire..| ‘* 9.14 ‘‘ = Hunter River....| ‘* 9.30 “* | “ Breadalbane.....| ‘£10.07 “* ¥ County Line.....| “10.17 “ | ™

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Kensington......| ‘10.55 ** | “* 5.55 “

; Ar 11.30a m\Ar 6.30 pm Summerside... .. 1.30 p m Wellington.... :, “* 2.19 * ee Pee O'lAary. 2h. 5... | oly Albtensé, is... 6 te OT © Tiguish .........| ‘* (6.10

TRAINS GOING EAST. . Nos. 2 and 4, No. 6, ated Mixed, Mixed.

Tignish..........'Dp 6.30 am Alberton... .....| “* 7.25% | RARER TTS. ol Sea

Port Hill ........ a as i

Wellington ......| “10.22 “

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S’mm rside.. esee Dp 2.30 p m|Dp 7.30am Kensington......| “ 3.05 *% | ** 8.05 . County Line....| ‘* 3.43 “* | “8.44 © Breedaibane.....; ‘* 3.53 “* | ** 8.54 . Hunter River....| ‘* 430 “* |} * 9.30 is North Wialtshire..| ‘‘ 4.46 “* | ‘* 9.43 Royalty Junction! ** 5,37 “* | ‘10.38 “

il : Ar 6.00 p m)Ar 11,00 am

Charlottetown... a Dp 2.30 pm

Royalty Junction; ** ag vs

Mt.Stw't Junc . Dp. 415 Cardigan....... “+ §,35 * Georgctown.....j|Ar 6,00 pm

SOURIS BRANCH.

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~'Seains Going West. STATTONS. | No. 7, Mixed, Souris ........ Ae | Depart 7.15 a. m. Harmony ...... eo "2a = St. Peter’s....... ag | o 8.55 f ee a «. @2

Mt. Stewart Junction.| Arrive 10.10 a. m.

‘Trains Going Easi.

SLATIONS. | No. 8, Mixed. Mt. Stewart Juaction. | Depart 4.15 p. m. a ok aaa 2: MOOT Bc ce. bceces +... a

PNP eiiecs . Hei awl ” 6.48 * Souris... ... sd ne cae ae

ALEX. MAOMAB, Sup’t and Engineer.

Railway Office, Chtown, Nov. 28, 1879. —pat pres h ane sp sj kca pio 61

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NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL. THE RJSTICO BRANCH RAILWAY. MR. BRECKEN S SPEECH,

tL hope the Hon. Members of this House will not think the members from Prince Edward Island have contracted the Rail- way mania, but this is a matter L wish specially to bring before this House. Rustico sa settlement in Queen’s County, situated twelve or fourteen miles from Charlottotewn, and about eight or ten miles from the nearest station on the Prince Edward Island Railway. lt is an old, prospereus, and thickly settled district, chiefly sattled by a French speaking popu- lation. It has a bar harbor, and the people fish extensively, the annual catch of mack- erel alene being about fifteen thousand barrels. The country is densely populated, and besides affords many advantages as a c@aside The hotel accomodaiion at thit pleasant seaside resort is good, and aunually draws frem the hot and dusty cities of the Dominion and United States many visitors. it is rapidly becomitg a favorite resort, owing te its in vigorat ng and health restoring climate, aiiordir g also the luxury of surf bathing to an extent net surpassed by any ether place inthe Dominion. The branch that is askec’ for will be about nine miles in length, and will pasa through a level country. It is the opinion ef competent men, Who have examined the subject that this branch would be the best paying por- tion cf the Railroad in the Island. I suppose there are nearly a thousand far- mers who would be profited by it asa means of transporting their preduce to Charlottetown. Another eonsideration is that the Island is becoming denuded of wood, and this District will be obliged to resort to the use of coal as a fuel, for trans- portation of which this branch weuld be of great utility. I know that the present Railway engagements ef the Government are vey heavy, and, [dare say, they feel they have as much on their hands as can well be undertaken, but I trust this matter willergage the serious attention of the Minisier of Railways: The House must remenber that the Prince Edward [sland Railw ty is Dominion property, and if this brane): was built, it would add largely to the earnings ef the road. At present, and witho it this branch, a large portion of the fish crnght and produce raised has te be transported from Rustico to Charlottetown, a dist ince of about fifteen miles, on carts.

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Our Shipping Industry.

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The ‘* Monetary ‘*The

compuratively stagnant condition of wooden

rr 9) “ iimes” says: —

ship |-uilding of late years, and especially the

declire in the value of P. E, Island shipping in 1879 compared with 1878, appears to have force:| on the attention of the people of that proviice the consideration of industries which shall take the place of this declining one. A rema‘kable number of ships and schooners have beew turned ont there in past years, it is true, and the activity with which they were produeedhas gone far toward exhausting the timber supply. The value of shipping sold abrond by Prince Edward Island in 1879 was $175 200, asum which forms less than ten per cent. of tre total exports and which we believe has been frequentiy exceeded in other

years. In “other directions, however, the offic: al figares show well for the Island. Her

tota’ exports last year were of the value of $1,- $31,359. Of these the fisheries furnished $21¢,431 ; animal and their products $75,545 ; man ufactures, $256,592 ; products of the forest, $40,258; and agreiultural preducts, over a million and a quarter dollars ($1,234,685.) The exports of oats, the principal crop, were about ene fourth greater than the previous yea), larger indeed than any year, reaching 2,414,900 bushels. The potatoes exported reached 463,870 bushels, and 445,007 dozens of e gs are included in the returns. There is, as lias already been stated by local journals, an important field, and an advantageous ene, for « provines having-the climate and physical con ‘ormation ef Prince Edward Island, in the raising of farm stock for exportation. We are clad tolearn that attention is being direct- ed to it by persons in authority, and in some degree by the farming class themselves, If eur Island Provinee chooses to engage in the

‘business of assisting to supply England with

met, she has the advantage of being nearer the old land than any other exporting district. Oe

A gentleman in New York was recently Giscauting to a friend on the soft notes of alnnet which he had heard a few days be‘cre. ‘“‘Why,” said he, ‘“‘it sang se softly at times that you couldn’t hear it at all.” ‘Sh-h-h-h” said the ether, placing his hand to his ear, ‘‘perhaps there is one

| es ) sit ging now.

Li ickciaite—aptadboke

A German newspaper contains an obituary with this touching and pathctic passage :_‘‘Our dear son Gustav lost his lifs by falling from the spire of the Luth- eran church. Only these who knew the height of the steeple can measure the depth

of our grief.”

There is something passing strange about himan nature. If a man had to suppert his family by playing billiard at two dol- per day, he’d complain he had to work a'vful hard fora living,

trix, she described herself as being thirty-two years of age, whereas in reality she was close on seventy. PROPHECYING, on political grounds, is now all the rage. The following is the latest: ‘Turkey is unwilling to reform; Russia is disappointed at not reaping # more substantial reward for her victories. I'yanve is pained at the loss of Alsace and Lor raine. Now England, Austria and Germany have rushed against the foregoing, so that the prophets. predict a general war with Russia, Italy, Turkey, France and the United States on one side; and England, Germany ard Aus- tria on the other. The smaller eountries vould go inas interest demanded. <A bold stroke of general prophecying. EDUCATIONAL,

We alinded in our last jottings to the un- exampled success of the Girten College, Can- Last year, a Miss Jessie 8S. Gills, of the same place, passed as Senior Optune in Mathematics, being the first female whe has ever reached that position. At the London University, about 25 ladies passed the Matri-. culation examination last year. The weaker sex are now beginning to exert their power in a strong way, and our college-bred young gailants must begin to brush away some of their slowness. Why cannot Canada have a University fer Women ?

ANCESTRAL.

Don’t go too far hack when looking up your ancesters. Remember Darwin’s theory. A Jewish gentleman has discovered the following in the Calendar of Home Office Papers under date Mav 26th, 1767 :—‘‘ Invention— Petition of Benjamin D’Israeli for a patent in England, &e., for his invention ef the art of making woman's chip hats and bonnets, and the materials called platt or plating. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor General, May 29th.” Phe descendant of Benjamin D’Israeli is ina higher department of the same busmess. He deals not in chip hats, but in coronets and imperial crowns,

WARTMANN,

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The pressure put upon the French Govern- ment to give up Hartmann, the political refa- gee, to Russia, is rather severe, and it is cer- tainly most unfortunate that the difficulty should have arisen just at this moment. If he is not given up, good-bye to the Russian alli- ance, which is such a consoling will-o’-the- wisp for French statesmen; While if he is sur rendered, the present Ministry may pack up their belongings and make official residences clean for their successors. It is impossible to believe that an independent Power, so many leading citizens of which Shave at one time or another been in exile, should thus truckle to the outery of despOtism.

THAT MEMORIAL AGAIN!

Some surprise has been expressed at the tenacity with which the Dean of Westminster clings to the proposal to erect a statue of the late Prince Louis Napoleen_in Westminster

Abbey. Thetruth is that the Dean is not entirely a free ageut in the matter. Both the

Queen and the Prince of Wales insist that the monument should be placed in the Abbey, and the Dean, as a good courtier, is beund to obey the royal wishes. The oppesition to the pro- posal has excited much resentment in the highest quarter. Itis perhaps natural that the interference of ‘*meddling Radicals’ should not be much appreciated; but, en the other haad, it is equally unfortunate that the idea of placing the monument in Westminster Abbey was ever mooted. NAUTICAL.

On Monday morning, at two o'clock, a gailor named John Fitzgerald was washed ashore near \V eymouthon a raft not much larger than a medium sized table, he having deserted from the barque ‘‘Largs,” of Glasgow. He was four hours on the raft, and when blown ashore was so exhausted as te be unable to stand. Orders were given te detain the ship at Port- land.

‘The first cargo of American cattle arrived at Barrow, on Monday, per the Anchor Line steamer Assyria, from New York. The cap- tain reports experiencing very severe woather and two violent hurricanes. Out of the 200 head of cattle shipped only ninety-five were alive, but they were in fine condition. Ar- rangements have been made at Barrow for doing a large trade in foreign cattle. The ‘‘Agsyria’”’ picked up the crew, nine in num ber, of Bermuda barqnue ‘*Modesta,”’ which was found in a sinking condition on the 12th ult. The erew landed at Barrow.

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DARKY ANNEXATION,

Annexation having rather spread lately as a fashion, if is net surprising that the little Republic of Liberia, which is a model, in black, of ali the temperate and manly virtues, should have yielded to the centagion. With a proud dignity becoming the importance of the occasion, the Liberian consul-general informs us that the Republic has annexed, ‘‘on mutual and peaceful terms,” the country known as the kingdom of Medina, a State which ‘“tabounds in the riehest of African productions,” forests cf ebony, gum, palm and rubber trees, coffee trees forty feet high, and ‘‘thousands upon thousands of acres of gold and iron fields.” The Medina country is sup- posed to have a population of 700,000 souls, and as Liberia cannot have a quarter so many, the acquisition can hardly be considered an aggressive act on the part of the Monrovia Executive, but is rather, as the Council very properly puts it, an amalgamation on terms mutually agreeable. Vith such news all who take an interest in the free negro Republic ou the West Coast of Africa will only be dis- posed to express perfect satisfaction. After all, the little State represents a very curious experiment, and we are not aware that either President Monroe, whose influence called it inte being, or Lord Bexley, after whom one of its towns is named, ever thought or wished that it would continue a mere strip of land, ‘and not expand among its uncultivated neigh- ‘bours, The farther it spreads the farther will ‘recede the blighting influence of slavery, ) polygamy, fetiehism, and human sacrifices,

aud the more will develop the cultivation of cotton and the weaving of Manchester calieoes. WITCHCRAFT,

Belief in witchcraft appears te be so deeply rooted in the Bussian moujik’s mind that even the teachings of Nihilism prove inadequate te ita eradication, Jt wiil be remembered that a few months ago several peasants were tried at Nevgorod for burning alive a woman, whose only crimes were extreme old age and tineom- mou ugliness, upon the pretext that abe had bewitched their cattle and cast spella upon their children, ‘These murderons ruffians, who set fireto their victim’s house, having fast- ened her up in it, and stood reund it while it was consumed by the flames in order to pre- vent her escape, were acquitted on the ground that they had acted conscientiously and in accordance with the Scriptural ordinance, ‘*Thou shalg not suffer a witch tolive”! The tribunal of Ustjush has recently, how- ever, taken a somewhat more enlightened viewof a witchcraftcasebrought beforeit. [van Alexeieti and six women of his village prose- cuted a peasant’s wife named Charlamoff for having, as they alleged upen oath, injured their health by the practice of sorcery. To their surprise and diseomfiture, the Court ac- quitted Charlamoff, and trounced the prose- cutors severely, sentencing the women to four months’ imprizonment apiece, and Alexeieff to fifty blows with a rod. Unfortunately for Aussian civilisation, this salutary Cecisien has been stultitied by the decree of a superior tri- bunal, to which Alexeieff and Co. appealed, and which promptly quashed the Unstjush Court’s sentence,

tHE NEW MEMBER FOR SOUTHWARK.

Mr, Ciarke, the new member for Southwark, did not owe his-election altogether to reasons of Imperial politics, whatever the newspapers may think of it. His personal abilities, and his knack of making a clever speech pitched in just the right key to catch the popular ear, had not a little to do withit. No one has had a better experience than Mr, Clark of political warfare, and xo one enters into it with more undisguised enjoyment. I fancy he has been connected with the Press, and I know that at one time he stumped the country as a party lecturer. During the contest in Bath in 1873 he went down tothe city for the fun of the thing, and turned up in his usual careless at- tire at a working men’s meeting. Here he modestly asked to be allowed to second a resolution in support of the Censervative can- didate, and was granted permission by the chairman, who made a condescending reference to the ‘‘apparently intelligent” workingman who was abont to address the meeting. Mr, Clarke quietly assumed the character thua allotted him, and mounting the platform de- hvered, with his accustemed fluency, what was afterwards admitted to be the yery best speech made in Bath throughout the contest, Then, when he had finished and his hearers had left off applauding, he had the satisfac- tiou of being pointed to by several succceding speakers as a touching instance of the spread of education combined with uncompromising Conservative principles among the masses. He bore it with ail proper gravity, and it was not untila day or two after that his identity was discovered.

TEE CONDUCT OF THE TROOPS IN SOUTH

AFRICA,

‘There was issued on Friday with the par- hamentary papers a copy of Sir Garnet Wolse- ley’s report in answer to the inquiries from the War Office as to the conduct of the troops in South Africa, owing to statements made in a letter in the ‘‘ Daily Telegraph ” of Novem. ber 2)st, on ‘*'The British Army in the Trans- vaal,” in which general and specific charges were made against her Majesty’s troeps of houscbreaking, burglary, assault and robbery, murder, &c. The report is dated Transvaal, January 16th, Having dealt with the specific allegations as to the conduct of the troops, and shown that they contain ‘‘ gross exagger- ations and transparent untruths,’ Sir Garnet Wolseley proceeds :—

li is scarcely necessary for me to take any notice of the accusation against the military authorities of “treating in an easy way” seri- ous evils which are proved by the official re- cords never to have existed. Bat the letter of the special cerrespondent points more espe- cially to Heidelberg as a sceme of gross dis- order and crime, and says, ‘If the command- ants at the varieus stations would only adopt well-known means of coercion and preventien, there would be far less military crime than there is at present.” I therefore quote, as the best denial of this wholesale charge, the voluntary statement of the landdrost of Heid- elberg: ‘Considering the large number of men stationed here at several times, the con- duct of the troeps has been very good, and I have to thank the several commanding officers here during the time mentioned for aasistance given by them at all times whenever re- quired,”

Sir Garnet aids :-—

Her Majesty’s soldiers in the Transvaal are neither better nor worse than their comrades in other quarters of the glebe, eshly re-

Jeased from along campaign in a savage coun-

try, where for many months no drop of liquor, ether than the rare ration of rum served out on occasions of special fatigue, had ever passed their lips, seme of them were doubtless temp- ted to drink more than was good for them. It is to me matter of satisfaction that so little crime resulted from this great temptation. The enclosed official reports of the landdrosts bear the best testimony to the behaviour of the treops . . . I cannet bunt deeply re- gret that so grave a slander upon the officers and menof her Majesty’s army shorld have been penned and pubbshed by one who has lived much amongst soldiers, without having referred to any one competent authority te

nable him to prove or disprove the truth of the information. Itseems to me inconceiv- able that he should have thus acted unless, as { stated in my telegram to the Adjutant- General, he was the victim of a hoax, or al lowed his imagination to be worked upon by someone who had the deliberate design of cir- culating false reports against the honour of her Majesty’s army.

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