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Fire. Life. Marine, HORACE HASZARD, — General Insurance Agent,
REPRESENTING :
Commercial Union Fire Assurance Company, of London, England, Capital,
£2,500,000 stg. British-American
Company, of Toronto,
(paid up in full), $500,000 00. Sun Mutual Life and Accident In-
surance Company, o! Montreal.
MARINE INSURANCE ALSO EFFECTED. Office, south side Queen Square. Sept. 16--lw eod
Fire Assurance Ont., Capital
DR. P. W.G, CANNING, —
Licentiate Royal Colleges Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh. LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY. RESIDENCE :
Upper Hillsborough St., corner Hillsborough and Easton Streets, Charlottetown. OFFICE HOURS : 8:30 to ll a.m ; 7 to 9 p.m.
Charlottetown, June 24, 1879.—eod
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QUEEN INSURANCE CO’Y.
OF ENGLAND. CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIGNS STERLING
NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Buiic ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, ov Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences, Losses scttled promptly. GEORGE MACLEOD (Unien Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1S77—
TEA PARTY.
PIG-NIC SUPPLIES | BEER & GOFF'S
Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon.
Plain and Fancy Biscuits Sold in boxes & Bbls. and by the pound.
Iceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Pastry Flour, Essence of Coffee, Confectionery, Nuts, Oranges, Potted Ham, Drivelled Ham, Potted Tongue, &c
BEER & GOFF
June 23, 1879.
BRITISH AMERICA
Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE.
Cash Capital & Assets . $1,176 491,45,
INCORPORATED 1535.
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Head Office, - Toronto, Ont:
Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.
Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879.
No. 35 Water St.,
Charlottetown.
Prince Edward Island Branch
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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE Fiz= AND LIFE.
INSURANGE GO.
Subscribed Capital, $9,733,352.00 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,666.00
CHIE? OFFICES—Edin h, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Thscadasaiie Street.
Nine-’!'enths of the Profits of the Life Assur- a@ice Business are divided every Five Years. The Tabies of Rates are moderate.
Fire Insurances effected on nearly every
description of Property, at the Lowxsr RATES|
of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk. Losses settled with promptitude and liber.
G. W. DEBLOISs,
Deg, M4, Seen Ae
P,P. GILLIS,
UNION HOUSE,
Queen Street, Charlottetown. PROPRIETOR.
CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER. YABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. FRESH OYSTERS received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. COACHES from this House meet all lrains and Steam boats. First Class BARBER SHop. July 4, 1879—3m
NOTICE
N and after MONDAY, the 30th Sep- tember, | intend adopting the strictly CASH SYSTEM
in my business, ALBERT SIMPSON, Sept. 25, 1879—-1m
MACLEAN & MARTIN,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Newson’s Building, Opp. Post Office,
E. f. BD. ©. MARTIN,
Charlottetown, P. A, A. McLEAN,
June 18, 1879..—ex2aw
FURTHER REDUCTION
IN PRICE OF
Albion Hines (Pictou, N. 8.) SLACK COAL.
{LACK and ROUND COAL can now be b_) obtained at the above mentioned Mines.
Slack Coal, only $1.30 per tons: Round Coal, $2.00.
For orders, apply te
G. W. DreBLOIS, Sole Agent for P. E. Island.
OrFrice : No. 35 Water street.
Ch’town, June 23, 1879—patsj kca h sp2m
“P, MARGARET'S HALL,
HALIFAX, N. S.
SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES.
the Lond Bishop of ova Scotia
PRINCIPAL ;
~The Rev, John Padfield.
FENHIS SCHOOL offers at very moderate
cost. the advantages of a comfortable and pleasant home together with a thorough and refined education.
The course of Instruction is the same as that of the best Schools in England and is founded upon the University Examinations for Women. Eight young. ladies from this School passed the Local Examination of the University of King’s College in June last. This is the only School in Canada that has passed pupils at a University Examination.
The number of pupils is limited, rendering the School select, and while it possesses all the educational advantages of a large public school, each pupil is enabled to receive that individual care and oversight which is so important, and which cannot be given in a large establish. ment,
Mr. and Mrs. Padfield are assisted by a staff of four resident governesses, besides visit- ing masters.
Parisienne French is taught conversation- ally. There are two resident French Gov- ernesses.
References given to parents of pupils.
For further particulars address the Prin cipal.
Sept. 19, 1878.
ACARD.
S certain individuals in this community are circulating false stories for the pur- pose of injuring my business, I issue this card, thanking the ladies and gentlemen of this city for their very handsome patronage bestowed on me during the past fifteen years; and also informing them that I attend the residence of the pupils ; that 1 pay special attention to be- ginners as well as advanced pupils ; that my charges are no higher than other teachers ; and that I undertake to give as much, and more, satisfaction to my patrons the coming year as in the past one. Punctuality and regularity guaranteed. Pianos and Organs ordered at the shortest notice. Orders for Sheet Music, Books, &c., &c., to be left at Bremner Bro’s. ge” Class opens on Wednesday next. S. N. EARLE, Ch’town, Sept. 11, 1879.—1m eod
ANTHRAGITE GOAL.
of the best Lehigh, Chestnut and Ege Coal. Parties wanting to be supplied will please send in their orders at once, as the first in will be first supplied. There will be no two prices. Orders left at the Post Office or at the subscriber’s will be attended to. THOMAS CASELEY,
Oct. 1, 1879-—w sti
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“ISLAND. FALL TRIP, 1879.
THE FIRST-CLASS TRON SCREW STEAMSHIP
PRINCE EDWARD
1354 tons register,classed 100 Al which is the highest class at Lloyds,
ROBERT FRASER, COMMANDER,
BE ON THE BERTH AT
Liverpool, to Receive Cargo,
-- ABOUT THE—
25th October,
AND WILL SAIL FROM
Liverpool! for Charlottetown About the Ist November,
Carying Freight at through rates from Lon- don and Glasgow, deliverable at Char- lottetown, Georgetown, Summerside, Alberton, Souris and Pictou.
For Freight, apply in “London to JoxHn Prrcearrn & Sons, 16 Great Winchester Street; in Glasgow, to JamMEs Keiso, 134 St. Vincent Street; in Liverpool to Prrcamrn Broruers, 51 South John Street; in Pictou, N. 8., to Noonan & Davigs, or here to
PEAKE Bro’s & Co.
Managers.
WILL
Charlottetown, 23rd Sept., 1879.
EALED TENDERS addréssed to the Sec- retary of State, Ottawa, and endorsed respectively * TENDERS POR Printinc Paper ‘*TENDERS FOR PRINTING,’ AND ‘* TENDERS FOR BINDING,”
will be received until THURSDAY, the 9th day of OCTOBER next, inclusive, for the per- formance, during a term of five years, from the first day of December next, of the following services, Viz :
1, Furnishing Printing Paper for the Print- ing of the Canada Gazette, the Statutes and Orders in Council and for Pamphlets,and other work required by the several Departments of the Government.
2. Printing the Canada*Gazette, the Statutes and Orders in Council, and other Books, Pamphlets, Blank Books, forms, Blanks. and such other printing as may be required of the Contractor by the several Departments of the Government.
3. Binding the Statutes and Orders in Coun- cil and such other Books or Blank Books, and such other Binding, Map Mounting, etc., as may be required by the tseveral Departments of the Government.
Blank forms of Tender and Specifications will be furnished on application to the Queen’s Printer on and after Wednesday, the 24th inst.
Good and aufficient security in the sum of five thousand dollars, approved by the Gov- ernment, will be required from the Contractor for the due fulfilment of his Contract. The Secretary of State will not bind himself to accept the lowest or any tender.
EDOUARD J. LANGEVIN, Under Secretary of State. DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, Ottawa, 22nd Sept. 1879.
73,620 MORE
SINCER SEWING MACHINES
' SOLD IN 1878 ic THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.
In 1870 we sold 127,833 Sewing Machines. ©1878 ** ‘* 356,432 as “
Our sales have increased enormously every year, through the whole period of ‘* hard times.”’
We now Sell Three-Quarters of all the Sewing Machines Sold in the World.
s 27, 4is-w
Counterfeits.
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r¥W ARRIVE in a few days, 150 tons|
Oct 4, 1879, —2i
| ga” Send for handsome Illustrated Price List.
ROBERT YOUNG, South Side Queen Square, Sele Agent for P. E. Island. Ch’town, March 18, 1878—2aw ti
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SCHOOL BOOKS
N USE, IN STOCK,
opened two more Cases.
BREMNER BROS.
we having just
NEWS
Waste no Money on ‘cheap’;
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD [SLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 1879. OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
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BY TELEGRAPH.
CANADIAN, MonrTrReAL, Ost. 6.
Montreal Telegraph stock fell 8 per cent. since Saturday up to to-day at noon on the strength of the reduction of the Dominion telegraph rates, which are now twenty cents instead of twenty-tive.
Not since 1865 has there been experi- enced such activity and excitement in the tea trade of Montreal as has taken place during the past few days, in which time it is estimated that 10,000 packages have changed hands. On Saturday the market was very excited and prices bounded up three cents to five cents per pound, which is considered an extraordinary advance for a single day. Green teas under thirty cents per pound have all been picked up, and teas which three weeks ago cost 26 to 28 cents per pound are now selling at 34 to 354 cents,
BowMANVILLE, Ont., Oct. 6.
While a vessel was being loaded with barley at this port to-day some boys went up to the third story of the elevator and amused themselves by jumping into tram, from which the grain was running, by means of a spout, down to the ground floor. One boy about eleven years of age, named Terry, jumped into the hoilow formed over the hole of the spout, and being unable to climb out was drawn under the grain and smothered. Attempts were made to rescue him, but this was found to be impossible and several hundred bushels had to be run out on the floor before he could be reached, taking about two hours andahalf. The bin is twenty-five feet deep, and the boy was about ten feet under the grain and standing straight up when found. Life was quite extinct.
Orrawa, Oct. 6.
An Order-in-Council declares that the provisions of the Act respecting tlie coast- ing trade of Canada shall not apply to the ships or vessels of Belgium, but that coun- try’s ships shall be admitted to the coasting trade of Canada; it appearing that British subjects and vessels enjoy the same privil- eges, and are treated in all respects on the same feoting in Belgium as national sub- jects and vessels.
MaGpALEN ISLANDS, via Pictou. Oct. 4.
We have had a week of tine, dry weather which has enabled the farmers to finish their harvest. The hay crop, although large, has suffered much from the continual rains of the past month. The grain crop has been saved in good conditions, and is the finest known here for many years. The root crops look promising.
Our fishermen have also been enabled to save a large quantity of codfish, which was in danger of being lost for want of dry weather to cure it.
There has been pretty good fishing at both the east and west ends of the Islands, during the past week, and some large fat mackerel have been taken.
The Dominion steam dredge Canada, which has been lying in House Harbor dur- ing the past fortnight, has been ordered to proceed to Amherst Harbor and commence operations there.
Arrivals during the week : Schrs. Merit, from Chatham; Matilda, from Pictou; Lydia Adele, from Quebec; Cora May, from Souris. Sailed : Schrs. Matilda, for Pic- tou; Merit, for Chatham.
UNITED STATES, Rawiines, Wyomine, Oct. 6. Nothing has been heard yet from Colonel Merritt's command. Expecting a courier any moment, informatien from citizen sources, which is perfectly reliable, states that Price’s command was seen three days since. Up to that date he had seen no In- dians, also that Captain Dodge’s wagon train, escorted by a detachment of colored soldiers, reached Price’s command, but the citizen did not learn where Dodge's com- pany was. New Yor, Oct. 6.
Geo. Gage, of Wooster street, attempted to hang himself yesterday, having lost $2,- 000, all his savings, by the failure of the Security Life Insurance Company. He was cut down just in time to save him.
Wm. McCrath, arrested in Yonkers, and claiming to be a wealthy San Francisco citizen, who swindled Watertown and other cities, has confessed that his name is Michael Minion ; he says for two years he was an Alderman of Bosten ; he has a wife and eight children in South Boston, he has served two years in the Massachusetts State Prison.
Isaiah Stephensons, a negro, cut his wife’s throat at Hampstead, L. L., yester- day, with a razor, and subsequently cut his own throat. Both will probably die.
A despatch from White Wright, Texas, states that unknown white men, on Thurs- day night, eight imles from Galveston, called a negro woman named Watson to the door, shot her and her son dead, and mortally wounded her nine year old daughter.
FRANCE. Paris, Oct. 6.
Leon Say has requested hia colleagues in the Cabinet to hasten their estimates for the budget of 1880. He intends to continue a reducing action and consequently asks his
colleagues not to propose any fresh expense
lexcept for objects of urgent necessity.
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| RUSSIA. | Lonpon, Oct. 6. :* ee ; | The Russian press makes a fresh out- | burst of hostility against England and Ger. ‘many. The St. Petersburg ‘* Novoe | Vramya” says: ‘‘Sooner or later there will (be a wer of life or death with England.” CABLE NOTES. Lonpon, Oct. 6.
Sir Anthony Cleasby, Baron of Court of Exchequer, is dead. Hone Kone, Oct. 6. It is expected a French protectorate will be establishel over Tonquin. Smita, Oct. 6.
Gen. Roberts is expected to be before Cabul early this Monday morning.
Maprip, Oct. 6.
lt is reported among the Deputies that the Government will proclaim a state of siege in Catalonia in the event of Repub- licaus or Carlists attempting to foment dis- turbances. City or Mexico, Oct. 6.
Articles of impeachment have been for- mally presented to Congress against the Governor of Vera Cruz for his part in the summary executions in July last.
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Thoroughbreds in Nova Scotia.
At the Nova Scotia Exhibition of 1854 there was not a single entry of thorough- bred stock. Even so late as five years ago the entries of thoroughbred cattle were but 49, while at the present exhibition they number 216. Then cattle were shown only in single specimens, for a herd numbered six, and no one manfhad so many. At the present exhibition there are eight herds among the entries, three of which are Shert- horns and three Ayrshires, and one each of Devons and Jerseys. Ayrshires and Shorthorns are evidently the favorites with the Nova Scotia farmers. The first register of pure bred cattle was commenced in Neva Scotia in 1868. The first entries consisted of eight Shorthorns, four Devons, six Ayrshires and two Herefords. Now the number on the register has been swollen to 592. Add to this the large number of grade cattle not adinitted tothe Herd Book and it will be seen how rapid has been the increase in the pure bred stock of cattle in Nova Scotia.
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THE division of the staff of the Public Works and Railway Departments is now engaging the attention of the Privy Council.
Prince Gortschakoff is to visit the German Emperor shortly.
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Goldenville, Nova Scotia is excited over a new gold discovery.
Now that the walking match is over, the New York papers venture te say that it was a brutal affair. The laws of the State, says one of them, prohibit cruelty to animals, and even vivisection for the most useful scientific purposes is not approved in many quarters. Yet the worst torture that can be inflicted on dumb brutes can scarcely equal that involved in a worse than useless six day’s walking match. Though self-im- posed, the task ceases to be voluntary when once entered upon. Trainers and backers will hear no complaints while phys- ical power holds out, but hustle their vict- ims from their tents and drive them about the track by a spur quite as effective and cruel as could be appplied to a horse. Itis brutality of the worst sort. Its result must be a lot of broken-down men, many of whom will doubtless find refuge ultimately in alms-houses.
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Ixpia ranks fourth among the countries of the world for the extent of coal deposits. She has 30,000 square miles of coal fields ; the United States, 500,000; China, 400,000; and Australia 240,000. Only 500,000 tons of Indian coal are now consumed annually, and this quantity is mined at Ranigunj, Kurhurbali,and Daltongunj in Bengal, and Mopani and Warora in the Central Pro- vinces. But there are 1,000,000 tons used every year for locomotives and factories; the other 500,000 being imported, mainly from Europe and Australia. Indian coal is almost all bituminous, and its structure is luminated, presenting alternately bright and dark layers. Its heating quality is in- ferior to English coal, but the native coal gives good results when mixed in equal proportions with the latter.
The customs receipts at Montreal for the first quarter of the fiseal year, July 1 to Sept. 30 are $1,299,301.93 as against $1,- 080,694.84 in the corresponding quarter of the previous year, an increase of $218,- 607,14. The exports from Montreal in August are valued at $3,903,827 against $3,- 717,636, the increase being altogether in goods not the produce of Canada and in bullion ; goods the produce of Canada are $500,000 below those of August iast year.
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Tue visit of the Czarewitch to the Swed- ish Court has been regarded by a portion of the Russian press—by the “Agence Russe in particular—as a very remarkable political event. The impressien sought to be con- veyed is that the journey was undertaken in order to secure Sweden’s neutrality, if not co-operation, in case of a war with Germany. Swedish papers have, on the contrary, confined their remarks on the presence of the Czarewitch in Stockholm to a few hearty words of welcome, quite ig- noring any political import in the circum- stances.
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