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Sales Agents of the Daily Examiner,

Tae Datty Examiner is for sale every day on the trains erst and west, and at the follow- ing places! —

H. A. Harvis, Charlottetown.

A. D. Haszarp, " T. O'CONNELL, “ T. L. CHarre LR, “s S. T. Ne _mes ‘6

P. N. Pare, cor. Pownal and Euston streets.

G. A. ATrK EN, Georgetown.

D. SUTHERLAND, Souris East.

A. McAvtay, Head st. Peter's Bay.

D. Eaan, Mount Stewart.

H. Beer, Southport.

Gro. U'NeILt, Halfway House.

Morvroy S. Hugues, County Line Station.

Eomunp Campre.yt, Prince County Book- etore, Summerside.

W. D. MeNerir, Alberton.

Joun J. Arnsngaux, Tignish.

Tue DatLy KXAMINER,

FEBRUARY 20, 1879.

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The Local Situation.

Tue time is nigh at hand when the Pro- vincial Executive Councillors who backed up McKenzie and Cartwright in the Do- minion elections and brow-beat Liberal- Conservatives while demanding a fair hear- ing, who condoned and approved of sus- picious public contracts made in defiance of the law, who lately filled the land with copper of depreciated value and drove out of circulation a large quantity of good silver and notes, who are popularly known as the meet the people.

‘Rump Government,” must representatives of an outraged These representatives, it may be remarked, were elected for the special purpose of estab- lishing the Secular School System. The werk the people sent them to du is done ; for the sectarian minority has, as in duty bound, bowed to the will of the secular majority, constitutionally expressed at the polls. The Secular School System has been established; and there is, there- fore, nut the shadow of a reason why the representatives of the people should con- tinue to support a Government notoriously obnoxious to the entire mass vf the electorate of Prince Edward Island. What follows? A vote of want of confidence, and ax. appeal tothe people for further instructions and new men.

Nuw, ve do trust that the people will not lightly regard the appeal. Their bitter ex- perience of the past two years has surely taught them the folly of neglecting to care- fully choose the men they send to the Lucal Legislature, and the necessity of solicitously weighing the questions and matters, calling for legislative action.

Regarding the men, there can be no question that they should be distinguished for thrift and economy—thrift to see that the public roads, bridges and schools are kept in good order,—economy to see that the public money is not heedlessly and recklessly expended, as heretofore. It re- quires no very great learning, no very great art, no very yreat statesmanship to perform well the simple duties remaining to mem- bers of the Local Legislature. Every diffi- cult and intricate question has been settled. Even the Public Lands and the Public Schools now require little else than effect- ive official action. They have practically, and to all intents and purposes, passed from the ken of the Legislature. For the prudent and economical expenditure of the Provincial revenues upon our roads and schools (which is about all that remains to be done), honest, shrifty, economical men, who can express their opinions clearly, are rather required than great political strat- agists or fine speakers. The country is full of such men ; and itis to be hoped that they will be preferred by the electors to selfish, forward, gabby political charlatans, such as have (we know to our cost), by the mere force of cheek, pressed themselves into positions in which they do the Province in- finite harm.

The policy to be pursued by the new} We think it a pity that a discussion |, Section XXVIII contains the

Legislature is, in our opinion, one of Economical Reform in the Provincial Legis- lature and Civil Service. No side issue —should, we think, for one moment divert the attention of the electors from the vital subject of Economical Reform. If we are to conserve our Provincial independence ; if we are not to be eventually forced into Maritime Union on adverse terms, we must curtail our excessive Legislature and readjust our overcrowded, but not over- elicient, Civil Service. The political ship of the Province must be lightened, or (do what we will) she will, sooner or later, sink. we shall be obliged to sue for terms on which to enter the soon-to-be united Prov’ inces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Should there, now, be any doubt, any ord of the proceedings of the Halifax Fish- |

wavering, any diversity of opinion as to the proper course to pursue? Emphatically, no. A reform in the direction of fewer legis-

ators and officials and greater efficiency, |

a@ reiorm for the conservation of our inde- pendence and for the relief of the labor of the Province from oppressive taxation—

‘mother of Kelly whom everyone must pity,

Then, like shipwrecked mariners, |

'this is what is wanted. To obtain it the ‘electors must stand firmly--shonlder to ‘shoulder. Let them not be misled by the | false ery which will go forth, that the incm- ‘bers of the present Government have ‘turned over a new leaf and have inaugur- vated the required reform. It is true they ‘took the Queen’s Printing from Mr. | Fletcher. Butwhy? Because Mr. Fletcher was active in opposition to them during the Dominion elections. Their favorite organ, ithe Patriot, has not, on account of the | « new policy,” suffered to the extent of an liota. No. Mr. Louis H. Davies, Mr. lw. D. Stewart and their friends are not the men to carry out an economical re- dtc their past acts are any index at all 'to their future conduct. If the people want their wishes attended to, they must put jmen of a different stamp into the Executive | Government ; and they will, we doubt not, \rejoice when their present representatives yive them an opportunity of doing so.

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The Kelly Murder.

We fail to see what good the articles of the Herald and Argus can do the bereaved

or how they can promote the justice which everyone would like to see done in the

premises. Millner and Johnston have been pronounced ‘*‘ Not Guilty” by a jury of twelve men, sworn on the Evangelists to render a true verdict according to the evi- dence. And even though it be true, as the Argus says, that ‘‘that the verdict is not endorsed by one man in fifty,” or even though it be true that there is ‘‘ intense dissatisfaction,” no man is justified in de- claring that they are ‘‘ guilty” unless he is prepared to adduce such evidence as wil] reverse the verdict. The taste of those who would gibbet or banish men who have after a fair trial, been pronounced innocent of the crimes charged against them, must be exceedingly bad.

The Argus says that ‘if Johnston had a particle of decency or shame in his composition he would now be making tracks to some far-distant land”—in other words that he would be acting like a condemned felon and not like a man proclaimed “ not guilty”? in open Court.

The Argus adverts to the fact that “ all Catholics were excluded from the jury,” and is ‘‘surprised at their moderation under such an aggravation.” But the Argus fails to see that the exclusion of Catholics from the jary may be directly traced tu the work- ing of that Principle of Discord which the Argus and the Proscripticnist Party have unhappily introduced. The community is, as we predicted, reaping the bitter fruits of the seed suwn by the Argus and its cunfreres. In their selection for public duties men are not judged by their personal character or merit, but by their Protestantism or Roman Catholicism. Men do not now meet in public places upon the level to which, by reason of their merits or their rights as citizens, they belong. There is a class proscribed through the labors of the Argus and its fellows. The father of one of the prisoners is a prominent member of the. Proscriptionist Party ; and what so natural for him to suppose as that men who had received repeated aggrava- tions from his party should be biassed sumewhat against hisson. In the exclusion

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Amondmants of City Laws.

ating of the City Council port was agreed to ; and ndments will be sub:nitted

Ar the iast me the following re

the proposed ame to the Local Legislature for its sanction +—

The Committee appointed to revise the Act ef Incorporation would respectfully re- port that, in conjunct ; the Mayor and the City Recorder, we have carefully read the original Act of Incorpora- tion of the year 1855 and amending Acts of the years 1866, 1876 and 1877. Your Com- mittee suggest that the draft of a Bill be made, containing the following proposed amendments to the several Acts men- tioned, and that said Bill be submitted to the Council and House of Asse:ubly of this Island for enactment

In order to save the time which would otherwise be taken up-in referring to each of the sections in the several Acts requiring amendments, the law as it now exists Is copied into this report, and the proposed amendment immediately follows :—

EXISTING LAW.

Section VIII. of the original Act states that no person can be a Councillor daring such time as he shall have, directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with or on be- half of the Council. Provided that no person shall be disqualified from being a Councillor as aforesaid, by reason of his being a proprietor or shareholder of any company which shall contract with the Council for lighting or sup- plying with water or insuring against fire any part of the said city.

AMENDMENT. Any Incorporated Company.

EXISTING LAW. Section X of same Act states that ‘‘On the first Tuesday in August, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and onthe same day in every succeeding year, the inhabitants and persons qualified to vote shall assemble and elect a Mayor and five Councillors.” AMENDMENT.

Strike out the words first Tuesday in

tion with His Worship.

EXISTING LAW.

Section XLV. gives power to the City Coun. cil to issue debentures made payable within ten years, with interest thereon, to be paid half yearly at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annul,

AMENDMENT.

Strike out the word ten and insert twenty. Also strike out word five relating to interest and insert six,

EXISTING LAW.

Section XLIX. It shall be the duty of the City Assessors, once in each year at least, or oftener if required so to do, to make, under the direction of the City Council, and upon the requisition of the City Clerk, an assess- ment of the value of the property in each Ward. and shall return such assessment to the City Council in thirty days after receipt of the said requisition.

AMENDMENT.

Strike out the words ‘‘and upon the requisi- tion of the City Clerk.” Also strike out ‘* thirty” and insert ** sixty.”

EXISTING LAW.

Section LIIT. It shall be lawful for any per- son holding the office of Councillor to resign his said office at any time by a declaration to that effect, under his hand, and on payment of a fine of five pounds.

AMENDMENT, :

Strike out the words ‘ five pounds ” and in- sert the words ‘‘ twenty dollars.”

EXISTING LAW.

Section LV. If any person shall be guilty of ill-using, &c., any apprentice which he or she shall accept, such person shall, on oath being made, &c., before any two Justices of the Peace, &c., of such ill-usage or neglect, such person shall forfeit, &c., a sum not exceeding ten pounds, &c., and paid into the hands of the City ‘l'reasurer.

AMENDMENT.

Strike out the words ‘‘ ten pounds ” and in- sert the words ‘‘forty dollars’ ; also, strike out the word ‘* Treasurer” and insert the word ** Clerk,”

AMENDING AcT OF 1860.

Section IY. The City Collector shall receive all rates, taxes and assessmerts which shall be lev-ed and imposed upon, or payable by the inhabitants of the said City, and shall pay the

Auzust, and insert second Tuesday in February, and so in all subsequent sectious where the

elections, occur. EXISTING LAW.

Section XII provides ‘‘ that no vote shall be scrutinized but those marked as having been been sworn, and that such scrutiny or scru- tinies shalt be proceeded in on the day next after the close of said elections,”’

AMENDMENT.

Add the word ‘‘objected” after sworn, so as to read ‘‘objected.”” After the words ‘‘pro- ceeded in” strike out the words ‘‘on the day next after the close of said elections,’’ and fol- lowing words, to ‘‘determined” and insert withia seven days after the close of said elec- tion ;” so as to read, ‘‘and that such scrutiny or scrutivies shall be proceeded in withia seven days after the close of said elections.”

EXISTING LAW. Section XLV states that ‘‘Persons entitled to vote at the elections of Mayor and Councillors shall, and may, vote in any and every ward in Wuich they may be respectively qualified.”

AMENDMENT.

Any ‘‘person entitled to vote at the elections of Mayor and Councillors shall have no inore than vue yote for the Mayor of the City—that inthe Wardin which he resides—and may vote tor each Councillor in any and every Ward in which he may be qualified. Pro- vided that any person qualified to vote for Mayor, and residing out of the city, he shali vote in the Ward m which his property or other qualification is. EXISTING LAW. Section XXIV provides that ‘there shall

be paid to the Mayor a salary not exceeding one hundred pouuds currency per annum,

AMENDMENT.

A salary not exceediag three hundred and twenty-four dollars.

EXISTING LAW. Section XXV provides for the appointment of a fic avd proper person, not being a member of the City Council, and not being City Clerk, to be Treasurer of the said City.

MENDMENT.

of the Catholics from the Jury which tried Millner, we see the natural and unhappy results of the religious | conflict in which the Argus was, a year or; two ago, so vigorously and valiantly en-| gaged.

The Herald has a communication which | is not werth noticing, but for this quotation | which it contains : ‘* Leave judgment to’ whom it belongeth. This 1s just the view we take upon Kelly murder case.

** Judgment” does not, in this case, be- | long to the newspapers.

which cannot possibly do any good, and which is merely cruel to two highly respect-

and Johnsten undoubtedly are—should have been opened; and, we hope, it will not be coutinued.

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about 6 o’clock in the morning, the dwell- ing house of Mr. Malcolm McDonald, Col- ville Station, was consumed by fire. The family had just time to get out of the ‘house, and did not save anything. The fire

‘is suppus d to have caught ina lug that was, ‘in the chimney, and had been burning all |

‘night. We sympathise with Mr. McDon- ald in his loss.

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By the kindness of the minister of Marine and Fisheries. we have received a ‘‘ Rec ery Cowtission.” it contains an invalu- ‘able amount of information for our fisher- men.

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Four boats with 67 bags of mails left Cape ‘ormentiue at 10.20 this worning, bat had to return again, as the ice was too

‘soft to carry.

i ‘Creasurer.

: | Strike out the word Treasurer from Secti able men—such as the elder Messrs. Millner Twenty-eight and from all shhinneai he.

Frre. -On Tuesday morning, the 11th, |

Strike out words relating to appointment of Treasurer, also proviso of same Section which relates to qualification and bonds of ‘Treasurer, so as to avolish entirely the office of City

EXISTING LAW.

Section XXVI requires the Treasurer of the said city to receive an order in writing from the City Council for payment of any moneys, the order to be countersigned by City Clerk.

AMENDMENT.

Strike out the word Treasurer and substi-

tute City Clerk. EXISTING LAW. word

AMENDMENT.

tions. EXISTING LAW.

Section XXIX requires the Treasurer to keep account books, the same to be open to the ‘inspection of the Mayor and Councilors; and |'}'reasurer’s accounts, vouchers, &c., semi-an- nually iu January and July, to be submitted to City Auditor. AMENDMENT.

Strike.out the word Treasurer, and insert Clerk, EXISTING LAW.

Section XXIX states that ‘‘ The City shall appvint a Kecorder for the City,” and that the said Recorder shall receive a salary not ex- ceeding one hundred pounds from the City funds, in lieu of all fees.

AMES DMENT.

Strike out the word Recorder and substitute City solicitor. Also. strixe out word one hun- dred pouuds, and insert words three hundred and twenty-four dollars.

SHOULD BE REPEALED.

_ Section XLIV. relates to payment of money in heu of statute Laber. Section should be

repealed, as the Government exacts a Poll Tax of one dollar from every male inhabitant be-

same over to the City ‘lreasurer; and the

words first ‘Tuesday in August, relating to/to receive such compensation, by way of sal- lary or commission, as the Coanvil of the City

said Collector and Treasurer shall be entitled

shall, from time to time, allow. AMENDMENT.

Repeal the whole section, and enact the following in lieu thereof :—

Section 49--Strike out the word ‘‘at amount of annual rent which such real estate produces at the time of such assessment.” Insert the words ‘‘fair market value.” The City Receiver of 'l'axes shail reeeive all rates and pay the same at such time and when directed by the City Council. EXISTING LAW. Section XI relating to penalty for refusing office of Special Coustable. AMENDMENT. Strike out the words five pounds and insert the words ‘‘ twenty dollars.’ EXPIRING LAWS. Section XIT. Relating to penalty for resist- ing Special Constables. AMENDMENT. Strike out words ‘ ten pounds” ‘forty dollars.” Section XV already repealed. AMENDING AcTs oY 1877. EXISTING LAW,

Section I. All the male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, &c., each of whom shall be entitled to vote if he shail have been actually, and in his own right, the bone-fide owner ot the freehold of one Town Lot, Common Lc. &e., of the yearly value ot thirty doliars, or the bona-thde owner of a freehold uf a dwelling house. &c., of the value of thirty dollars, or who shall be in the tenaucy or occupency of a Town Lot, &c., of the value of thirty dollars, payable quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly, &c., Provided that every partuer whose shure of the rent amounts tv thirty dollars annually, shall be entitled to vote.

and insert

AMENDMENT.

Strike out the words thirty dollars and in- sert twenty dollars; also, strike out words pay- able quarterly, hali-yearly or yearly.

Section [i, strike out ** thirty dollars” and insert ‘‘ twenty dollars.”

Section V. strike out the word ‘ Treasurer” } ani insert ‘*Clerk.”

NORTHERN LICHT.

” the present state of the Straits, no parti- cular days of crossing cau be given. The sVorthern Light will cross whenever there is a fair chance of success. Intending passengers had better be at Georgetown. in order to avail themselves of the first opportunity. WILLIAM MITCHELL,

Agent of Department.

Feb. 17, 1879—+tf

MAIL NOTICE:

. AILS to be forwarded via Cape Traverse M wiil be closed at this Office daily—Sun- days excepted-—at 8 o’clock p. m.

The mail for Great Britain, by Canadian Packet sailing from Hakfax on Saturdays, will be closed here on Wednesdays at 8 o’clock, p. m.

The mail for Great Britain ria New York will be closed on Thursdays at 8 o'clock, p. m,

Mails for all places West of Charlottetown receiving Mails by Railway Train or Postal Car, will be closed daily at 7 o'clock, a. m,

Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, also for all places on the ronte to those points, will be closed daily at 2 oe’ cloc k, p- ™.

Post Cibce open from &, a. m., till 8, p. m,

A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster, Post Office, Charlottetown, } 20th Keb., 1879. \

Babbit's Goncetrated Potash,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. A. A. BALDWIW & CO.

Chitown, Feb. 20, ’78.—lin

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BANK OF P. E, ISLAND.

fee Annual Meeting of the Share- holders of this Bank will be held at their Banking House, in Charlottetown, on Thes- day, the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of electing Directors for the ensuing year, and the trens- action of such other business as may be laid before them.

Proxies for voting must be left with the Cashier at least on day previous to the meet-

ing. ; J. I. BRECKEN, Cashier. Ch’town, Feb. 19, 1879—a rg p till meeting

FLOUR, Cornmeal & Tea, CHEAP FOR CASH,

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LONDON HOUSE.

Charlottetown, Feb. 18, 1879.

AUCTION. STEAMER ‘ALPHA,

fqXO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, where she now lies, near the Railway Wharf, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward

of March Next, (1879), at the hour of 12 o'clock, noon, under and by virtue of a certain mortgage dated the twenty-sixth day of Sep- tember, A. D. 1877, made between John Ram- say, of Summerside, in Prince Edward Island, shipbuilder, of the one part, and William Richards, of Bideford, in said Island, ship- owner, ot the other part, the Screw Steame er * Alpha,” of Charlottetown aforesaid, 149 tons per register, or thereabouts, built in the year 1874, together with all boats, an- chors, chains, sails, rigging, tackle and ap- purtenances to said Steamer belonging. For further particulars, apply at the office of Messrs. Longworth & Haszard, Solicitors, Charlottetown. Dated at Charlottetown this eighteenth day of February, A. D. 1879. . WM. RICHARDS, Mortgagee. Tax Notice. A LL PERSONS owing City Taxes are re- spectiully requested to pay the same turciwith, or payment will be enforced by law. By order ot the City Council. W. SHEPHERD, City Collector, 10in

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Ch'town, Feb. 18, 1879.

'SIX TONS MANILLA,

different sizes, at Factory Prices.

Wright & MacGowan,

Manufacturers Agents, Queen’s Wharf

February 8, 1878--taw for 2m

P() bbls. ‘‘GREENHOLM,”’ and 100 bbls. “‘ CAMLACHIE,” 100 bbls. ** NORVAL.”

A consignment for sale at_a bargain, for

cash. Wright & MacGowan,

Queen’s Wharf. February, 8, 1878—taw for 2m

COAL!

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Ocean Sieamship Company of; Prince Edward Island, HE ANNUAL MEETING of the Ocean’

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Bros. & Co., on WEDNESDAY, the 12th day | of March, 1579, at 7 o'clock p.m. GEO. PEAKE, Sec’y. Ch’town, Feb. 8. 1879.—4w 2iaw

To Inventors and Meshanics,

et of 60 pazes free upon receipt of stamps frpoostage. Address ; GILMORE, SMITH & (O.,

| tween the age of twenty-one years and sixty, 4

Solicitors of Patents, Washington, D.C,

ATENTS and how to obtain them. Pamph-.

10 Tons Round ‘“ ACADIA MINES,” y anda smaller lot of NUT, at our usual low prices.

Wright & MacGowan, "QUEEN’S WHARF.

Steamship Company of Prince Edward | Ch'town, Feb. 8, 1879—taw for 2m Island will be held in the office of Peake |

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FOR SALE, |

M4 bes HIOUSE and Premises occupied by

the Subscriber, at the head of Queen Street. For further particulars apply to the ,owner on the Premises, or to ALEXANDER Brows, Esq. ; DONALD McKENZI _ Ch'town, Feb. 3, 1879—2aw >

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