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PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY. .

TIME TABLE NO. 8.

SieTER ARRANGEMERT,

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A. McNEILL, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant

NO. A QUEEN STRET.,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P, f. ISLAND

MRA AUCTION SALES, of al) descrip- tions, attended to in city and country at

‘moderate rates.

May 21, 1877.

“MORTGAGE SALE,

T be Sold, by PUBLIC AU !TION, on B TUESDAY, the 12th day of FEBRUARY, 1878 atthe Court House ia Charlottetown, at thehour of 12 o’clock, noon, of the same day, under aud by virtue of a Power of Sale con- tained in a certain Indenture of Mortgage, dated the 3rd day of January, 1860, and made betweea Peter McInnis and Mary bis wife, of the one part, and Joun Kwyicut, now deceased, of the other part —All that Piece and Parcel ofLand being partof Towaship No. 45, and situtuated wear the head of Sours River, bounded on the west and north by land then n occupation ot Donald McCormack, and oa the east by land then ia the possession of Angus McDonald, and on the south by Souris River—containing fifty- one acres oflaad, being the farm then and until lately in occupation of the said Peter McInnis, together with all the Buildings and Appurten- ances connected therewith. For terms aod conditions of sale, apply to Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod. Dated 9th day of November 1877. JAMES McFARLANE, EDWARD J. HODGSON, vERNON H. KNIGHT; Trustees and Devisees under the will of thela’ John Knight. Nor. 10—t sale

There never has been # time when the heal- ing of so many different diseases has been

ennsed by outward as the present. It is gee arter dnere half of the entire population of the globe resort to the use

of ordinary plasters.

Dr. MELVIN’S CAPsicem Poros PLASTERS are acknowledged by all who have used them, to act quicker than any other plaster they ever before tried, and that one of these plasters will do more real service than a hundred of the ordinary kind. All other plasters are slow of action, and require to be worn continually to effect acure; but with these it is entirely dif- ferent: the instant one is applied the patient will feel its effect.

Physiciansin all ages have thoroughly tested and well know the effect of Capsicum; and it has always been more or less used as a medical agent for an outward application ; but it is only of very recent date that its advan- tages in a porous plaster have been discovered. Being, however, convinced of the wonderful eures effected by Dr. MELVIN’s CAPSICUM Porous PLASTERS, and their superiority over all other plasters, they now actually prescribe them, in their practice, for such diseases as rheumatism, pain in the side and back, and all such cases aa hare required the use of plasters or liniment. After you have tried other plas- ters and liniments, and they have failed, and you want acertain cure, ask your druggist for

YR. MELVIN’s CAPSICUM PoROUS PLASTER. You can hardly believe es own convictions of its wonderful effects. Although powerful and

uick in its action, you can rely on its safety for the most delicate person to wear, as it is free from lead and other poisonous material commonly used in the manufacture ef ordin- ary plasters. One trial is a sufficient guarantee of its merits, and one plaster will sell hundreds to your friends. ‘

Ask your druggist for Dr. MELVIN’s CAPSI- cum Porous PLAstTer, and take no other; or, on receipt of 25 cents for one, $1 for five, or $2 for a dozen, they will be mailed, post paid, to any address in the United States or Canadas.

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W. R. WATSON, Agent.

December 7, 1877.

HAY! HAY!

For SALE AT W. W. CLARKE’S. Water St., Ch’town, Dec. l—eod ty

THE LATEST YEP!

HE new Patent CLOTHES-HORSE, the most complete ever invented, selling cheap. Also WANTED—a first-class Carriage

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Dec. 5, 1877.

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Coarse Salt for Packing, IFTY TONS Coarse Salt, three hundre Bags do,

For sale by

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Fancy Woods for Fretwork.:

UST RECEIVED,a consignment of Boards, od consisting of the following varieties:—

Walnut, Birds’s Eye Ash, White Poplar, Mahogany, Cherry, Rosewood, Red Cedar, Poplar, Spanish Cedar, White Wood, Oak, Satinwood, Cocubola, White Holly.

Also, a quantity of Walnut Boards, 4, 2 and I inch thick.

Sa” WHOLESALE OR RETAIL VERY CHEAP.

F. 8S. HANFORD & CO., Opposite Rankin House. Ch’town, Dec. 10, 1877.—6in eod

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT

BOYS’ DRUMSII

all sizes, from 75 cts. to $2.50, and Toy musi- CAL INSTRUMENTS, suitable for Christmas and New Years’ Presents, at

C. P. FLETCHER’S Music Store. Queen St., Dec. 8—eod

RJYAL HOTEL,

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King Square,

I HAVE much pleasure in informing my nu merous friends and the public generally, that

have leased the Hotel formerly known as the CONTINENTAL, and thoroughly renovated the same,making it, asthe RUYAL always had he reputation of being, one of the best Hotels in be Provinces.

Excellent Bill of Frre, First-class Wines Liquors and Cigars, aod superior accommoda sion.

Blackhall’s Livery Stable attached.

THOS, F. RAYMOND. July 3, 1877—6m

American & Foreign Patents.

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Certificates of Adjutant Geueral U. S. A. showing service and honorable discharge there- trom, in place of discharge lost, procured for a small fee.

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wounded, ruptured, or injured, in the line aifduty in the late war, and disabled thereby, an obtain a pension.

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Increased rates for pensioners obtained. Bounty Land Warrants procured for service in wars prior to March 3,1855. There are no war- rants granted for service in the Jate rebellion.

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July24 1877.

HERRING! HERRING!

FoR SALE AT

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GROCERIES.

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SEE HERE MEN t

7 you want SLEIGHS or CARRIAGES made of best American Wood, in latest style, or your Horse Shod in FIRST-CLASS STYLE, call on the undersigned. All work warranted or no pay.

J. C. KEEFE, North side Queen’s Square,

ISLAND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21,

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AMINER.

‘1877, NO 188,

Ch’town, Deo, 5, 1877.

’rince Imperial. The young Prince Imperial of France has ap- parently protited by his father’s errors, and ves promise of a noble future—a future main- y due to his English training. In a letter to a Bonapartist friend in Paris, outlining his

policy, should he ever reign over the French |

peop e, he is reported to have said: ‘*My ather yielded too much to those who sur- rounded him. He favored the bourgeoisie at the exponse of the workmen. In a democratic society the State should constantly heap the heavier burdens on the rich, always solace the poor with the most abundant succour, and con- tinually level down fortunes by the rights of succession. The wages, especially of women, are insufficient; they shall augmented; the hours of labor shall be shortened; the right to strike shall be sacred. I wish entire amnesty for those among the people who have been mis- led, but I will purge France of factions, noble and bourgeoisie, which dishonor her.” This is to strike the right chord,

In Venice.

Fearful and wonderful is the receptive ca- pacity of the Venetians, They will eat any- thing, whether it be snails, stingarees, horn- pout, dog-fish, or any other creature that ever wore a shell, ora scale, oraskin, and even that which is too gelatinous to be clothed with either, The multitudinous cries of the vend- ors of these and other articles, which we do not know how to classify, are appalling. In the marketplace—a dull, dingy square filled with vegetable and animal rubbish—men and women rush frantically about with strings of onions or a little bunch of carrots, or the seg- ment of cabbage, which they thrust into your face and importune every passerby to pur- chase; geese, turkeys and chickens are ex- posed for sale by the single joint, a neck and head, a liver, a gizzard, or any other fraction of a bird may be had_ separ- ately—copper cauldrons bubble and_ boil,

from which cooked vegetables are served, all hot and smoking—immense baked pumpkins, also hot and

smoking, are sold in lots to suit purchasers. We saw a man dealing out a huge boiled rice pudding—they call it polentia—which he sliced otf 9 eet with a piece of twine, and ac- companied by a small handful of cooked fish, all of which, we were told, sufliced for a family dinner, and could be had for the moderate sum of five peace. Nothing is thrown away here which is capable of being eaten. And this is romantic Venice.

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Moral Progress of England.

The Archbishop of York has no very high opinion of modern civilization nor does he in- dorse the popular boast that we are so much better than our forefathers. In a recent ser- mon he said that there was no doubt it was safer to walk along the streets and roads than it was 100 years ago. ‘There was better order all through the sucial system. There was a great zeal for education, which had become part of the law of the land. The rights of all classes were more fairly dealt with and more fully recognized. They had made rapid strides in wealth and civilization, but bad passions and evil motives were perhaps only driven into the background, and slander, de- traction and hatred might still be lurking there. External observance of virtue might only be deference to an efficient police. His. tory forbade them to think of social regener- ation and perfection without God. Then the question arose, were they doing, in proportion to their means, more good than their fore- fathers did? The income of the nation that could be reached by taxation was 300,000,000, and the untaxed wealth must necessarily be much larger. Compared with this, their charities, however splendid, were only like a few of the gold threads from the fringe of our national luxuries, What was there to justify the assumption that as a nation they were passing on to moral perfection? Their pros- perity contained the seeds of their degrada- tion. They gave way to that passion for com- fort which was the parent of slavery. True progress would consist in a greater simplicity of living, in a greater capacity for endurance. He would that they were either cold or hot. Darker ages, with what they regarded as nar- row views, did strong battle for the truth, as they knew it, and strove for it, and died for it. To a generation which regarded religion as an interesting field of speculation, which was disposed to believe that, perhaps, there might be a limited heaven and a limited hell— which, having proved all things, will not hold fast by any—to such a generation true moral progress must needs be wanting.

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A Baltimore tramp has attained great dis- tinction in his profession, Here is his story: ** At Perryville I went to a house with a brick in my hand, and asked the lady if she would please be so kind as to put some butter on it. The request excited her curi- osity, and she asked: ‘‘ Why do you want to put butter ona brick?” I told her I was go- ing to eatit. ‘Surely,’ she said, ‘ you are not so hungry as to eat a buttered brick ? Come into the house and I will give you food.’ I bagged a square meal, for which I had set so slick atrap. In the western section of the State I asked for something to eat at a house and was refused. I then begged for a looking- glass, which aroused curiosity to know what | would do with the mirror. to see myself starving to death.’ gave me what I wanted.”

Gale, the English pedestrian who has lately completed the task of walking 4,000 quarter- miles in 4,000 consecutive periods of ten min- utes each, has obtained such complete mastery over his physical powers that he sleeps oc- casionally while walking. Medical evidence has been taken on this point, and the fact is beyond a doubt.

They then

A patent is now registered for the lighting of street lamps by electricity. Aline of lamps in a street is connected by an nnderground wire, and an electric battery attsched to a pole being applied to one lamp, the whole are |

ighted instantaneously. The same simple con-

I replied, ‘I want |

A Boston Medium Exposed.

Another spiritualistic medium has come to git. Two firm believers in spiritualism, Mr. *rescott Robinson and Mr. William H. Mann, were attending the seances of Mrs. Nicholls, in Boston, when their suspicions were aroused that all was not right. They said nothing, however, aud continued to attend once a week. The medium had promised Mr. Robinson, on more than one occasion that his little daugnter Klia, who had been dead for some time, would appear to him, and bring a rosebud from the Spirit Land. A time was appointed for the —— appearance, and in the meantime lessrs. Robinson and Mann had im their suspicions to some of their friends, who were induced to co-operate, and it was re. solved to test the genuineness of the appeare ance. On the day fixed, the party were as- sembled in the rooms, which consisted of a front and back parlor, connected by folding doors. When everything was in readiness the gas was entirely extinguished, and after a few moments of profound silence, a spirit purport- ing to be that of an Indian Princess appeared. She retired, and then the medium again came forth, leading by the hand a form which was represented to be the spirii of Mr. Robinson’s dead daughter. That gentleman thought the figure rather large for a child of the age of his daughter, but pretended tc recognize the shade of the departed, and step»ing forward took a rosebud from her hand, at the same time addressing her in affectionate terms. While thus aapages he gently patted the hand of the spirit, and gradually slipped his own hand up until he reached the spirit’s wrist, which he suddenly seized in a vice-like grip. The ‘spirit ” pulled stoutly, bracing herself against the folding doors, but Mr. Robinson con- trived to get his arm around her waist, and found the pretended child to be a robust female, weight at least 160 pounds, who had entered the room on her knees. A friend of the medium came to her assistance, and a general scrimmage ensued, but with the aid of his friends Mr. Robinson was enabled to get the better of the spiritualistic crowd, and a complete expose of the imposture was made. The medium acknowledged the trick, but begged not to be exposed to the public, as she said it would kill her mother, whom she had promised not to engage in the business any more. The gentlemen who detected the im- posture were, it may be remarked, sincere be- lievers in spiritualism, though the deception in

The trade of medium appears to have fallen off greatly, and in the face of the exposures which are constantly taking place, the ranks of believers in spiritualism are probably thin- ning or, at all events, are not receiving many fresh recruits.

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Professor Goldwin Smith is hard at work in the English magazines denouncing the Turk and extulling the Russian. In a lecture he delivered in this city in 1871, Mr. Smith thought the Russian the bigyer ruflian of the two: ‘* Taking advantage ot the confusion in Europe, the Russian Bear has once more shown his teeth, and begun to draw himself towards his prey. It is needless to say that what he wants is not the free navigation of the Black Sea for honest purposes. which he has already, but liberty to collect the instruments of aggression. The Turk has done him no wrong; but as the Turk is a misbeliever and he is a Christian, he thinks himself entitled te rob the Turk of his land. I greatly prefer Christianity to Mahometanism, but [ doubt whether St. Paul would have thought a rob- ber better than the Mahometanism of an honest Turk.” Professor Smith is now revil- ing those Englishmen who regard Russia's victories with alarm and favor war upon her, In those days, however, he said ‘‘a giance at Russia on the map will show how serious the peril to civilization is; and railroads have now mobilized the mass which was immovable be- fore. 1 was against the Crimean war, etc., but now when an attempt is made, on pre- texts which can only be regarded as insolent irony, to trample the faith of treaties under foot, the high language of Lord Granville seems to me to be alone consistent with honor and worthy of the country.” Russia has doubtiess improved wonderfully in morals and Turkey sadly degenerated since 187]1,— Toronto Mail.

A Nevapa Sanp Srorm.—Quite a heavy sand-storm was in progress on the large desert forty miles east of Virginia City. Great clouds of sand were seen to rise and sweep along over the plain, gradually ascending, until the highest peaks of the Humboldt Mountaius were hidden. In ap ce the drifting sand much resembled the clouds of snow raised by winter storms on the prairies of the West. ‘The sand also form drifts or dunes as drifts are formed from snow. Every clump of greenwood has its surrounding hillock of sand, and in places long ridges of sand are seen as in many localities on the level alkali flats the mirages play their fantastic tricks upon weary and thirsty travellers. Bunches of bushes become forest trees, crows look like giraffes, and broad, sedge-boarded lakes lie simmering in the sun, all to recede or vanish when approached.

Shelley had the strange lack of practicality proverbialy aseribed to the poet-nature. A curious story illustrating this_has lately been related to him. All who have ever read ‘* Epipsychidion” must be familiar with the name of Emilia Viviani, the beautiful Italian lady who was immured by her father in the ‘Convent of St. Anne, at Pisa, where the | Shelleys lived at the time, and whose hard

+fate inspired the poet with such burning in-

dignation. With his usual ardour in the cause of the depressed, heat last bethought himself of a most singular scheme for liberat. | ing the unfortunate girl Lady Mountcashel, ‘a friend of the Goldwins, who was residing at | the time near the Shelleys, seems occasionally ‘to have dressed herself as aman, and to have 'thoroughly looked the part. Now Shelle urged y Mountcashel to introduce herse into the convent in her masculine character, te woo and wed Mary Emilia, and thus rescue her from the prison in which she was languishing,

One Kentucky farmer appro riates the yearly product of one acre of his farm to the

trivance will also extinguish all the connected | ca of reading matter for himself ang

lights by one shock.

this ease was too gross to impose upon them. ~