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CONTINENTAL, and _ thoroughly renovated |

the sambe, making it, asthe ROYAL always had |

he reputation of being, one of the best Hotels in | » Provinces. £

yeh Bill of Fare, Pirst-class Wines

Liquors and Cigars, and superior accommoda |

“100. . lag ’'s Livery Stable attached. Blackhall’s Livery THOS, F RAYMOND.

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Capital -- [wo Millions Sterling,

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NSURANCE effected on all kinds o Buildings, Merchandise, and Produce Aiso, on Vessels on the stocks.

Specialfrates for isolated residences. Losses settied promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union*Bank), | Ageat*for Prince Edward{{sland Juue ~—

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H. VINNICOMBE,

PIANO FORTE REGULATOR

LL parties leaving their orders for Tuning 4\ at Bremner Bros. will receive the best attention. wal who have Pianos in Charlottetown would do wellto have them tuned by the year, keeping their instruments in perfect order all the time.

A visit once a year at least will be madet ull parts of the Island. or oftner if required |

Ch’town, July 18, 1877.

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American & Foreign Patents.

Gilmore, Smith & Co, Successors to Chipman, Hosmer & Ov.

JATENTS procured in all countnes. No fers } ia advance. No charge for services until the patent is granted. Preliminary examinations ree. Our valuable pamphlet sent free upon re vipt of stamp

GILMORE, SMITH & CO., Washington, D. C.

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ARREARS OF PAY, BOUNTY, ETC.

EDERAL Officers, Soldiers and Sailors ot {the late war, or their beirs, are in maay caes entitled to money trom the Gover 9 ment, which has been found to be due since final pay- meat. Write full history of service and state amount of pay and bouuty received.

Certificates of Adjutant General U. 8. A. showiog service and honorable discharge there- trom, in place of discharge lost, procured tor a small fee.

Enclose stamp to Gilmore & Co., and full re- ply, with blanks, will be sent free.

PENSIONS. PENSIONS.

LL Federal Officers, Soldiers and Sailors, | wounded, ruptured, or injured, in the line | vitduty in the late war,-aed disabled thereby, aa Obtain a pension. . : Widows, and minor children of Officers, Sol- ‘lers and Sailors, who have died since discharge of disease contracted or wounds and injuries re eived in the service and iu the line of duty, can procure pensious by addressing Gilmore & Co. {ncreased rates for pensioners obtained. | Bouaty Land Warrants procured for service in wars prior to March 3,1855. There @re 0 war rants eae for service in the late revellion.

Send stamp to Gilmore & Co., Washiugton D.C, full instructions.. J uy2t 1877.

COAL VASES, Handsome and Cheap !

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BEER & SONS

Oct 25, 1877. }

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eVharlottetown for Pictou _every Monpay, Wegpnespay, Tuurspay, & SATURDAY mornivgs, at 5 o'clock, con- necting there at 10 a. m., with train for Haiifax. Fare to Halifax. $4.10. Picnic Parties of Twenty and upwards can obtain Return Tickets at Charlotte- town Office to Pictou and back same day $1.00 each.

Returning to Charlottet own.

Leave Pictou every T'usspay, Wepnesp.y Fapay and Saturpay, about 2.30 p.m. on arrival of evening train from Hali- fax.

CAPE BRETON.

ave Pictou for Hawkesbury every Mon- pay and THURSDAY, on arrival of morning train from Halifax, connecting both ways with stage and Steamer ‘*Neptane,” to and from Sydney and Bras d’Or Lake.

Returning to Pictou same nights, connect- i.g with 10 a.m. Train TugsDay and Fri- DAY tor Halifax.

New Brenswick, Canada and United Siates,

Leaves SUMMERSIDE every day (Sunday :xcepted) on arrival of morning train from Sharlottetown, connecting at Sxepiac with trains for each of above named places, sod at St. John with Steamers of INreRN«-~ "mONAL Co. for PORTLAND and Boston. Also, leave Charlottetown for Summerside every Monday morning, about 3 o'clock.

Returning, leaves Sueptac every day (Sundays excepted) on arrival of day train trom St. Jowy, for Summerside; connect there, without delay, with train for Char- lottetown. Also, leaves Summerside for Charlottetown every Saturday evening, about 6 o'clock.

Agents: Atmon & MacinTosu, Halifax ; Noonan & Davirs, Pictou; A Grant «& Uo Uawkesbury’ HaNFRDABros., St. John.

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steamers Carroll and Woreester.

Bota Steamers are fitted with new Boij

€rs, and their Passenger accomodation arranged for every convenience and com- fort, and fitted up in elegant style. FREIGHT carried at moderate rates and as low as by any other route.

EGGS in boxes and barrels handledjwith the greatest care.

SAVING TIME, only one business day used@in reaching Boston, by leaving here Saturday Morning and catching steamer at Hal.fax, and arriving at Boston Monday morning.

LEAVE CHARLOTTETOWN E.ivery

‘Thursday,

punctually at 5 p.m.

LEAVE BOSTON

Every Saturday,

unctually at noon.

CARVELL 4ROS.,Agent.

Ch’town, June 7.11877

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Cotton Yarns.

WARDED the only Medal. given to COTTON YARNS of Canadian Manu factura at the

CEN.ENNIAL EXHIBITION. Nos. 5’s to 10's, White Blue, Red, Orange. an Groen

~ Warranted full lengUmand weight.

Stroager and betler than anyother Yarn n the market. —

Cotton Carpet Warp. No.§12's 4jery iy aLtjCotors. fast.

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The Perfection of Mechanism. So Light and Simple that a Child can Work them,

So Durable that they last

A Lifetime,

Kight Thousand Machines now Manufactured every Week.

To be had only from the Authorized Agent,

Robert Youns, South Side Queen Square. Ch’town, Sept. 13, 1877.

STADACONA Fire and Life Insurance Company,

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NVEiCE is hereby given that the Board ~* of Directors of this Company have made a further call of

Four instalments, ot Five per

Cenl. each,

on the Subscribéd Capital of the Company,

payable at its Office, No. 93 St. Peter Street,

Quebec, as follows :—

Five per Cent. on or before the Tenth d>y of August, 1877;

Five per Cent. on or before the Tenth day of November, 1877 ;

Vive per Cent. on or before the Kleventh day of February, 1878 ;

Vive per Cent. on or before the Kleventh day of May, 1878.

By order of the Board. 7 CRAWFORD LIN DSAY,

Secretary

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DR. WILLIAM GRAYS SPECIFIC MEDICINE.

The Great Euglish Rem- edy is an unfailing cure

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aking. Premature A many other diseases that lead - aang ote sumption anda Premature Grave. &@ Price, $1 per pac , or Six packages for $5, by mail free of postage. Full particulars in our pamphlet, which wedesire to send free by mail to everyone. Address WM. GRAY & CO., Windsor, Outario, Canada.

ka Sold in Charlotietown by W. R Watson, P. Fraser, C. D. Rankin, Dr Dodd, and a Apothecaries’ Hall, and by ail druggistsany where

ROBERT YOUNG

HAS*JUST RECEIVED,

Per S. S. PrincegEdward,

A MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT

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NEW GOODS,

Which he is offering at

EXTRAORDINARY LOW PRICES

October 1, 1877.

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Schooner For Sale.

* MARY LOUISE,”

133 tone, chiefly built of Oax, and is well found, is bow due at Charlottetown. and can be purchased at a VERY REASONABLE FIGURE.

Full particulars and terms at

Ch’town, Oct. 24—2w eod pat 2w

sTEAM MILL MOUNT STEWART.

HE Subscribers are prepared to take

orders fur dimension Lamber of al kinds, in Oak, Elm, White Piue, Pitch Pine Spruce or Birch; also, Spruce Knees Trenails, Wedges, Deck Plugs, and Ship’s Blocks of every description—all delivered: /at short notice.

LONGWORTH & CoO.,

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| oN. B.—Spruce and Fir Shingles very ‘low.

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| UUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Wasuineton, D. C., Nov. 3, 1877.

From one year to the next we cin see but little change in the personal appears ance of the Congressmen who annually ap- pei among us; but thinking of how they looked five years ago and how they look now, We can see changes, and great ones. Blaine grows old ten years in every five. "he wrinkles in Mr. Sherman’s face have deepened visibly in the last half decade ,; and Conkling’s golden hair has faded to silver. General Garfield is growing larger and heavier, but not gray. He is a coun- try-built, country-bred man, the Saxon bluenass of his eyes showing his German descent, and a reddish light shines in his beard and in the locks that surround his bald head. Those of his friends who know him best—setting aside political differ. ences—calf him a good man. He is distinctive among Congressmen for the ex- tent of his information, derived from life as well as the library, and with it all is a certain verdancy as if he had just arrived at the Springs and was still drinking eagerly at the bucket. He has not been out of public life for eighteen years, and its wear and tear tells upon him, He said recently to a friend, “ / have bought my- seilfa farm near Painsville, Ohio, where [canrun into Cleveland and out every hourorso, There l have tried iast sum. mer to rid myself of the tremendous strain of nearly twenty years of publiciife, fifteen spent in Congress. [ went into the fields and worked like a farm boy, and now |] feel the good it did me,”

It is quite probable that the recently pubs lished book condemning round dances will have an immediate effect here. Mrs General Sherman has always been very pronounced in her disfavor of them and would never allow her daughter Minnie (now Mrs. Fitch) to dance them. On ac. count of her mother’s injunctions in this regard, Miss Minnie refused to dance a waltz with tha Prince of Wales when he was in this country. Mrs. Gen. Sherman is a devoted Catholic, and -is said to have received special favor from the Pope bex cause of her zeal.

I hear a movement is on foot to petition Congress for a sum of money for the pur- pose of erecting a monument in one of our city parks to the memory of General Cus- ter. A private subscription amounting al ready to upwards of $5 000, is working for the erection of a statue of him at West Point. General Custer’s widow is in one Departments here.

The Labor Exchange in this city is doing a good work here. Dozens of umemploy» ed laboring people are provided with work daily, and relief given thereby to many suffering families. But places cannot be provided as fast as applications are filed thus far, which is a proof that the city is too full. Many places on farms and in families in the country of the neighboring ‘States have been secured, and persons ap< plying at the Exchange have been sent to fillthem. Men and women among the applicants for employment, show by face and manner that they have seen better times, and have been used to the higher walks of life, but are now anxious for the opportunity to do any sort of wor: by which they may earn an honest living.

Quite an excitement was caused one day last week among the workmen employed in removing the debris about the burnt portion of the Patent Office, by the dis« covery of shining !umps of metal among the pieces of crushed marble that had fallen from the walls. The news that they bad found gold spread like wild-fire and all hands were at once busied in breaking up the pieces of marble. Mr. Bell, the Assistant Secretary of the Interier, went out to ascertain the cause of the hubbub and was offered a piece of the marbie sprinkled with the glistening ore for ten dollars, and the crowd, upon being inform. ed that their gold was only iron pyrites, returned to their sorting of old iron and charred papers with a chagrined and crest - fallen sense that * all’s not gold that glit. ters.”’

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The Southern States, counties and mu nicipalities, owe in round figures about five hundred millions of dollars, upon which, as a rule, no interest has been paid since the beginning of the war. A large portion of this vast indebtedness is owned in Europe and a considerable portion in New York. The gentlemen who hold it are naturally anxious to know what is going to be done about it, and have drawn up a plan looking to its ultimate payment. It remains to be seen what the South wiil have to say on the subject.

Tae Necro —It is noted as a curious fact by Sir Samuel Baker that a negro bas never been known to tame an elephant or any wild animal. The elephants em. ployed by the ancients aud Romans were trained by the Arabs or Carthagenians, never by negros. A person may travel all over Africa and never see 4 wild animal trained and petted. It had often struck Sir Samuel as very distressing that the little children never had a pet animai ; and though he often oftered rewards for young elephants, he had never succeeded in getting one alive.

A London policeman arrested two boys and used them somewhat roughly, thump~ ing their heads together, whereon a printer who was passing remonstrated with him and was told, witha shove, to mind his business. He complained to the Magis» trate, and the over zealous officer was | fined $4 59 and costs. In New York the compositor would not have lived to enter the complaint.

THE WAR.

As the campaign 8easop draws to

the fortune sciose,

of war favors the Russians both in Europe, and one of the latest

consternation ip Constanti ciosely besieged, and interrupted tor a Lrief tions, is recommenced. the taking of this impo announced in a lying di beginning of the war, m season closes. {In Bulgaria the Turks are ever

the defensive merely, apparently’ elt + be able to keep the ground they are on if so much bein their power todo. We may say that the Russians, too, are every- where doing no more than keeping their positions, except around Pleyna which is the theatre of other tactics, There they are acting on the offensive, not indeed by attacking those formidable entrenchments where already so many of the Czar’s sol- diers have left their bones; but by for. ward movements to both right and left made with the design of isolating the gar- rson and cutting off supplies. General Ghourko, one of the few Russian Generals who have enhanced their reputation in the present war, is in command of tha cavalry and the boast is made that now Osman Pasha’s supplies will certainly be cut off [t is said that the Russian plan is to sur- round Plevna witb a series of works, as the Germans did Paris, They will sit down around Plevna, and stay there all winter if need be, making themselves as comfort~ able as circumstances will admit of and wait until Osman Pasha jis starved "out, Should his supplies fail, and should he be obliged to attempt to cut his way out by a coup de main, he will do so under tremen - dous disadvantages. Pleyna is still, as it has been these three months past, the key of the whole position in Bulgaria—-the spot where in all probability the fortune of thi; years campaign will be decided —but within a few weeks the situation has greatly changed. Not long ago Plevna Was the scene of terrible disaster to the Russians,

but present prospects there in their favor, . eee

nople. the bombardment, period for negotias It is possible that

spatch about the ay be a fact ere the

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THE FEARFUL WORK OF 4 AURRIs CANE_AT CURACOA.

WASHINGTON, D. C » Oct. 29.—The Dex partment of State has received from the United States Counsel at Curacoa, West Indies, an account of a terrible hurricane which swept over that Island on the 23d ot Septembar. The loss of property is esti. mated at $2 000,000. [Che joss of iife could not be estimated at the date of the Coungel’s writing, but it was undoubtedly large. In the city of Curacoa many of the most solid structures were crushed as though they had been thin as paper by the wave, which rolled up mountains high, and many persons pere buried in the ruins. People who were rich were made paupers ‘nan hour. Planters lost largely, also, most of the plantations being strewn with upcooted trees and wreck of all sorts, Tbe American schooner Rosewell, of Eastport, Me., J. D. Catharine, master, was driven, ashore and wrecked at Little Curacoa. The master and crew escaped and reached the United States Consulate, where they were received and taken care of. The American brig Theties arrived in Curacoa on the 25th, three days after the burricane, in a damaged condition, and was urders going repairs at the date of the Consul’s writing. The English brig Curacoa, of Windsor, N. S., was driven to Arruba, where she now lies dismantied, The Dutch man-of.waf Cornelis was caught in the hurricane and severely handled, losing masts, boats, &c. She had to throw sev. eral of her guns overboard.

Mr. GLADSTONE IN IRELAYD.—Mr. Glad- stone is going to Ireland, and all England seems to be anxious as to what he may say or dothere. The distinguished statesman himself gives it to be understood that bis journey is to be merely for ihe parpese of visiting friends and making himself mre familiar with the actual state of the coun- try. But Mr. Gladstone has been a great benefactor to Erin; he is, to say the least of it, somewhat liable to be carried away by emotion, and he is going to a people who are quite as excitable as he is. So, while it is unlikely that he will propound anything new in the way of an irish policy, it 18 by no means impossible that he may make speeches that will engage general at» tention.

Tae Lost Expiorer, ~If it be really true, as the telegrams state, that the silver spoon found among the Esquimaux be- longed to Sir John Franklin, it affords some ground for belief in the native’s story, that the perishing white men ot Franklin's expedition left behind them manuscripts, which are buried at Engle- field. If 80, the recovery of these docu- ments would be a sufficient reason for sending another expedition to the North, provided that no great risk to life wou'd be incurred ; but, as a rule, the achievements of Arctic expeditions are ludicrously smi! in comparison with the dangers which at- tend them.

A new district telegraph instrument has been introduced in Chicago which was eleven ‘‘calls,” turned in by moving the indicator toas many points as the dial. Eight of the e are for ‘messenger,’ * cars riage,’ ‘ coupe,’ ‘ express wagon,’ ‘ laborer’ (as for putting in coal), * doctor,’ ‘fire’ and ‘ police ;’ the other three are vacant’ and intended to be used for special sign ls

agreed upon between the sender aud tlie company.

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