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4 LARGE SUPPLY WILLIAM FULL

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LITERATURE,

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Literature, and

Kdward Island, Monday, January 11, 1864.

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On the 5th of April, 1833, he presided | prisoner’s guilt, or that he was influenced | After a prolonged administration of this at the meeting of his co-religionists, and at! by the geveral desire to avenge the death of stimulant, other eymptoms of a return of should be doue

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Orleans, to consult him as to what he wished

He did not appear at ail interested, and left it to me to dv what IJ

A RETURN FROM THE THRESH-HOLD.

* Doctor Dampier’s compliments, and he will be obliged if you wil! send him word whether you will give hiw what he has

its conclusion received a pressing invitation | a man so deservedly esteemed as Exton, but | life were exhibited, the relation of which ' . to drive to a farm belonging toa man oamed he certainly suwmed up the case in a/ can only be interesting to medical men ; let | thought proper. As one instance duces not ie ' acme ; alg tb oh I at 3 oe gg : establish a rule, I have not mentioned the |: oynson, about three miles from the town, | manner which I could not think impartial ; | it suffice to say, that I had no longer any restoration of Culeratt to anybody besid

and remain there till the morviug; there) l was not therefore surprised, knowing | doubt of the ultimate recovery of wy patient. | and wy brother, and I ioe tf dela being a party there to celebrate the birth of what I did of the public feeling respeeting ‘My first questions, when he bad slept poriunity of repeating the experiment ; bat the farmer’s first son. Refusing the invi- the case, when the jucy returned a verdict and eaten, had reference to his bodily sen-| #8 there have been several cases of horso-

or } AVING completed per “ THERESA” NEW GOODS, comp per

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ay THE

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I and ** PRIORSSS,”’ his Stock of BRITISH § FOREIGN MERCHANDIZE,

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written to ask you for.” tation, Exton shook hands with those about In the dal! light which was reflected from | him, and walked away iv the dircotion of the stairease on the landing at the entrance | ae a This wae the last time he was to my chambers it was not possible for me) oe cere by them. Karly the following to see the speaker’s face; but there was |0T7'"e & rumour Sow through the ee with the speed of electricity that Isaiah

lot Guilty.

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‘sutions at the instant of and after his Sentence of death having been pronounced, suspension. He describes them a8 merely a ‘the prisoner was carried out of court) sharp pricking over his body from bead to | senseless. | foot, which was the last thing of which he It was in conducting this case that I first WaS Couscious ; his return to life was like a long oightmare. But beyond this, 1 am

. *RICES FOR CASH i Gand furmeriy Dempsey's, opposite {pothe- PRI 2 cary s Hall, Upper Qui

au Street ons ~ . neat rhe GOODS having been purchased on the

ad best Tetms, are confidently offered to compare H yi ASZA KK > with any in the market. His Steck includes, in

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ie” The abore Gonds are offered at Whole sale and Retail, at THOMAS’S OLD STAND, GREAT GEORGE STREET. WILLIAM FULL.

Charlottetown, Nov. 16, 1863.

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something in the sound of his voice which struck me with a kind of terror; it was as ‘though [ was listening to a voice from the other world. So foreible was the shock ‘that I drew back with a kind of fear from the speaker, and even hesitated for a moment to take the lerter from his hand, although the person he named was one weli known to me. Thinking that this feeling could only arise from the excited sta‘e of my mind, | took the letier from bis hand, and, unlocking the dvor, told him to come in. There was a fire burning in the grate, which lighted the room a littie, and as a heavy rain was falling, and had been failing for some time,

Are you wet ?’

* Nearly an hour,’ was the reply; * but | don't mind the wet,’

It was the slow, even voice, which seemed to come to me from the darkness of

L said, * How long bave you been waiting ?

became acquainted with Dr. Dampier. We

Exton had been found murdered on the floor | spent the evening together after the trial at, convinced he was conscious of something

of bis bedroom. The houses were soon! his house, and I was very deeply interested ‘emptied of their inhabitants, all of whom) in his discourse, especially in some of his proceeded towards Extou’s store to sutisfy| theories touching life and death, | themselves of the trath of the rumour, and |

|to gratify that mysterious inclination of bu- | /Manity to look upon a place which has been the scene ou which a human soul bas been | violently expelled from its earthly sanciuary. | ‘The rumour proved true enough; the uo-| fortunate Exton bad po doubt been killed, | aod that, too, only after a struggle of more than ordinary persistency, as Was shown by | circumstances refuse to go with him, I found | the state of the body and the condition of! that all he wanted of me was to beseech me | the room, ito save his life. 1 told him I had no power | | There was no proof that the unfortunate | Whatever in the matter, that it was not to. wau had been robbed, though his wife as- |e he should appeal. He declared, in}

cserted that a bag containing a large sum in| language which made those who heard it |

On the morning of bis execution he seat for ine, and though | would have made any, reasonable sacrifice to have avoided comply- | ing with his request, I could not ander the |

gold had been taken trom a drawer in his| Shudder, that he was innocent; and when | ‘bedroom. The regavd in which he was, they began urging him towards the scaffold, |

which has no earthly connection. I am not influenced in this opinion by anything he

criminal trials and civil causes were so un- bit, he is as silent as @ statue; it is from lowing passage. usually vuwerous, that [ bad not left the that unearthly, never-changing look of his, ary, 1852, town when the day arrived for the execution | 4¢companied by an absence of animation, | jeou's seizure of the crowa became kaowa of the convicted murderer of Mr. Exton, | #4 apparently utter inseosibility to every- | in this country.

thing we regard.as paivful or annoying.

‘ Ilis execution took place eleven months ago, which you no doubt remember. Far several weeks afterward he remained locked up iv my laboratory, till I thought it safe to send him here, to New Orleans, to my brother, who is as thoroughly satisfied of his innocence of the marder as [ am; for I am convinced that be would not have denied his guilt to me on his restoration to life, if he had con,mwitted the deed.’

I did not see the doctor again after this,

‘the grave, and | felt the same creeping sen- ‘held by bis fellow-citizens made them positive | he turned towards me, and with a counten-| but | presume he retarned to the place

sation of hovror which had attacked me | that he had no enemy among them, and the | ce stern in its exoression and deadly pale, whence be bad come. | person generally suspected of having a share | Said: ‘ You are my wurderer, aud if a! whose time is fully occupied go on year ; simplicity of republicanism ; and along in- !

when he spoke to me outside my duvor.

You know how men

Snatehing up a piece of paper from my |" his destruction was bis wife; from suys-| murdered man can haunt you, | will.’ And/ after year without sceing an acquaintance |table, 1 took the lamp from the mantel piece | picion they very soon passed to an assump. | 8 he passed away to his death, and I into living im the same city, unless they meet by

and hastily lighted it, keeping my buck to- }tion of her guilt; but as they could not be- the official apartments to hear a case and accident.

wards the speaker that he might uot per- ceive my agitation. With a sudden de- termination | turned and held the lamp at arm's length, so that it threw its light full on the messenger’s face. Apart from the

eXpression of the countenance, which was |

‘stern, and ws firmly set as though it were ‘carved in gtone, and of itself calculated to j}make a profoued impression on all who ‘looked at it, there was that in the eyes ‘which no human being could fathom. ‘They mght belong to a min who had at one time committed a murder, aud who was ‘vontinually on the watch (o see if any person who spoke to him suspected the crime of whieh he had been guiity. Such 1 have ‘seen; but these to me shove from the deep

GREAT GEORGE STREET. | hollows of the bloodless countemtinee with a

| far more appalling intelligeuce. There was

DELANY & WILSON, ‘in them an expression of recognition of my-

AVING cowpleted their FALL/self; and in my own mind 1 recognized | great that*the diseovery of a knife belong-| IMPORTATIONS, per Prtorness from | him, but always as One who had pacsed into tug to him with rust, assumed to be caused

another stage of existence. effort 1 said:

* You say you brirg this from Doctor Dampier. Do you know we? Where have [ seen you before ?”

Without ausweriog my question, he pointed to the note L held in my hand. | felt that T eould net read the note with any |

By a strong

jlieve her capable of committing the deed! give 4 gratuitous opinion concerning it. }with her owno hand, they supposed she bad) When I left about three quarters of an hour az accomplice ; and who this could be was @fterwards I looked up and saw the body & mystery they were never tired of diseugs- | Still hanging.

‘ing. Ln due course an inquest was held on | The man who brought me the note from the body, at which Jane Burton, ove of the) Dr. Dampier wus Samuel Calcraft. servants, stated that she had for some time | Having written for Dr. Dampier the jaw ot a es vealed between her | statement for which he asked, L sent it to Pere s 1 porter Bamed Samuel Cal. ‘bis house, and in return requested he would craft eeapreyee the wae that on several | oy) upon me and give me the explanation | CocashneR she had seen bim coming from the} he had promised. Lt was not long before room in which bis mistress was, and where | he did so, aod having received from me a

be had no business to be ; and that on these | promise that I would not divulge what he

occasions be had always been much confused | told me, | reeeived from him the following

(on seeing ber, aud bad induced her to: pro-| .arement:—

mise that she would say nothing about it, | 7 : :

promising that he seth 4 tell her some day | ‘You will, perhaps, remember that in the woy be went there, which he vever had done, | “°4"*® of the Conversation we had, — the | Suspicion having been thus directed towards | “YEUME YOU dined at ot house, I mentioned the porter, the desire for a victim was s0 joes See eee the length of time during which vitality might still remain in | the human body after it bad ceased to givy by blood, was considered sufficient snidesnat *2 outward sign of a aren end the jou which to comumt aim to take his trial | Fesult of Soars Caper I made with | for the uturder of his master. In the inter. | Stimals which had to ull appearance been

. : ot Ne : sated, As the ity of maki val between his committal and his trial other suffocated As the opportunity of making,

‘suspicious circumstances were discovered each nd enn eee } e e spare bO pains to |

affecting bim. namely, a purse which was | HCUErs, nt C the ‘bode of & | Ca! fuund im his chest, and identified as his| 8°! Possessiom Of the Dody of Samue Vale master’s, in Wheeli Was a considerabie suin | craft, and by meee © ae ape? I

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describe, his body came to me, and his)

This was my case and that of Mr. Dampier, the doctor’s brother. five or six years ago he called ou me, to ask | me to take proceedings to enforce payment |

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of ao insurance ou his brother’s life; not |

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the doctor's, but asother brother who was a | travelling preacher, or something of tha) kind. ‘The mention of bis brother’s name | caused me to ask if Samuel Calcraft was with bim stil, when he told me that his | innocence had been established years before ; | ‘but,’ he added, ‘ it was such an eens nary business altogether, that I will, if you wish it, write to my brother, and ask bim to send you a full account of the affair !'| Here is the letter I received ; you can read | it. It relates one of those remarkable cases | which have given rise to the saying that murder will out; one of the greatest fallacies ever uttered, as 1 can testify from my own experience. ** My peak Mr. Hensman, ‘* At my brother’s desire I send you an/| account of my discovery of the actual mur- | derer of poor Exton. Indeed, I should bave | done so at the time, if 1 bad nut supposed | that you would see an accouat of it in the | newspapers. i ** Shortly after I gaw you last, I had oc- | easion to yisita friend named Penton, who,

stealing about here lately, and Judge Lynch hae been using threatening lan wage, there is a possibility that IT may be able to renew it, und t have no doubt with equal success. — | Yours, &., ‘J. Damrrer.’ | Such was the narrative which vecuyied ; an evenibg on board the Great Eastern. bint icomiaies Wastinoton Luvine on Frexcn Luperta- | Lism —Lo one of his letters, publisved in

The bas said, for whevever I have questioned | tae last voiume of his Life, occurs the folle

The letter is dated Janu- immediately after Louis Napo-

“I should not be surprised if there were a long spell of tranquility in Paris under his absulute sway. Had his coup d'etat bees im- perfectly effected, or his election been bat moderately successful, France might have been thrown into a terrible turmoil ; but now he will hold ber down with a strong hand until she has kicked ont the last spasm and / convulsion of Freneh libefty, and is quiet. You will then most probably bave ail the | splendours of the imperial court, with the spectacles and public improvements by which Napoleon used tc dazzle the capitol and keep the Parisians in good humour. All this, f presume, will be more to the taste of tempo. rary residents like yourself than the stern

terval of quiet would be @ prosperous inter- val for the commercial world; so both you and Storrow may find yourselves comfurtabie under the absulute sway of Napoleon the Se-

About | eyng.””

Herein there was manifested no small amouat of political sugacity, But Wash- ington Irving, in common with many of his countrymen aud ours, soon came to doubt whether the pageamt would not flit away before his eyes. In March, 1853, he thus wrote :

**Louis Napoleon and Eugenie Montijo,

| Emperor and Empress of France !—one ‘of

whom I have had # guest at my cot

the Hadson ; the sham whom, awe a ohild, I have had on wy knee at Granada! ly seems tu cap the climax of the strange dramas of whieh Paris has been the theatre during my lifetime.

**I] have repeatedly thought thet each grand coup de theatre would be the last that would oceur in wy time; but each has been succeeded by another equally striking ; and what will be the next whe can conjecture ?

‘* The last I saw of Eugenie Montijo, she was one of the reigning cin ef Madrid ; and she aud her g ddy circle had swept away my charming young friend, the beautiful and accomplished , into their career of fashionable dissipation. Now Eugenie is upon a throne, aud & voluntary recluse in & convent of one of the most rigorous or- ders! Poor ! Perhaps, bowever, her fate may ultimately be the happiest of the t

it turned out, occupied @ considerable extent |».

of land joining that belonging wo the old Sangster, Mary Exton’s father, though I was

5000 Pieces Paper - Hangings, Exuglish make, very cheap and good

—— COMPRISING Ladies’ Dress Materials in all the

understanding o! its contents; so, motion.ng for aman io his position; also a wateh

‘rowards the door, I told him to tel] Dr, | whiehohad been seen in Exton’s possession

Dampier | felt too unwell to answer bis note 00 the eve of his dearh by several persons,

cofliu with its substitute went the ordinary not aware of it till afterwards. One day, course, 80 that within two hours after his/ while strolling about, 1 got on this man’s being strangled, his inanimate bod = was | estate at no great distance from his houre.

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BEER & SONS, wa SQvaarz, Il

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MuBers, scare Des, 66 FRanfrew blouse.”

Collars, Gloves,

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‘spirits, and taking out the letter, read as | say was that she had oace or twice spoken

|at your leisure, with a full report of the case of subject, though he knew from the womeo-| ai montacal g2s, of which I had several in ; Samuel Caleraft, in which you were engayed. |

that evening, but that 1 would seud an und a miniature porerait of bis mother ex- answer the following day. I beld the door closed in a silver case curiously chased, open, and listened to him as be descended which tbe deceastd was known to value very the staircase with a step which sounded slow, | highly. People being thus satisfied that he even, and solemn as his voice. I waited , Was the actual murderer, were uuremitting two or three minutes till L thought he had ‘in their endeavours to get him to criminate reached a distance waich would prevent me | his mistress, Every inducement it was in| from overtaking hiri; then, thrusting the their power to offer him they offered. Pro- letier into my pocket. | turned out the lamp, | mises to exert the influence of the whole shat the door, aud lett for a friend's house, ‘own in saving his life op the ground that resolved aot to enter my chimbers agaia | by reason of his youth he had fallen a victim that night, to her wiles were made, but all were of no) t

As soon as [ found myself seated beside avail in bringing about the result they meter Ou being plunged into it marked 80 9. my friend at his fireside, I recovered my ‘desired ; the most he could be induced to There was not the slightest sign of life, the skin was cold, and the members already rigid. As soon as I had thus prepared the body, L inserted two small tubes in the pos- | trils connected with a large bladder of

drawa from a sack which had been placed amoug a wagzonload of faggots, driven by | wyself from the vicinity of the prison, while} the owuer of the vehicle was gone to get me | change for @ note with which to pay fur the | wood.

‘I had a fire ready lighted beneath a| large sand bath | had contrived in my labo- | ratory, and having locked the door, L laid jthe to all appearance dead body in it, and carefully covered it with sand, the thermo-

follows : 'of her husband in a way which be had told “My prar Mr. Hensmay, | her was not right, and that for some time |

“Will you have the kindness to furnish me, she had vot uttered a word to him on the |

prefer making this request to you rather than to the | servants they lived apart. His assertions readiness, aud pre 8 gently upon the attorney who prepared the defence, because, as you | were disbelieved by all : but as there was! bladder, I gradually forced the gas it con- prosecuted him in your official capacity, no person | got @ tittle of evidence agaiust Mrs. Exton, | tained into the lungs from which I as gently | will be able or likely to throw doubt on your state ' & : ait d : : ini. ‘ she was allowed to remain at large, though expelled it. L had previously buried the +} do not require your statement for present use, | she might almost as wel! have been ip prison wires from a galvanic battery of moderate 1 by , y hi 080 1 » intere of Cas ° a . : j . : ° ; but eventually I shall do so in the intereats of hu in solitary confinement, seeing that nobody | power in the sand, the points lying beneath

linanity: | shall, however, have no objection to . ‘reveal the reason to you ou receiving your promise | Would associate with her, or even speak to) the base of the skull and the lower part ol For upwards of an hour I con-

that you will not divulge what I tell'von, tili the | her. Ags for the store, that had to be shut! the spine.

| occurrence of av event Which may be sill distant.— | . . : . i Very truly yours, : ““J. Dampise,” | UP, NOt a customer having entered it to make | tinued to force the gas into the lungs and

I had scarcely run my eye over this note | a purchase since the murder of its proprietor. | expel it by pressure without discovering any | before I understood the cause of my emotion| Un the day of the trial of Samuel Cal. Teturuing signs of life on which I could rely; ‘on hearing and seeing his messenger; and craft the town was thoroughly emptied of | the very slight warmth I could detect in che ‘to make this understood, L will relate the its inhabitants, The prisoner, wheo placed | forehead by laying my chock sgainet it being case of the Samuel Caleraft referred to in his | in the dock, became terribly agitated, and | likely to arise from the transmission ol

heat from the sand as from the returning

| letter. ‘looked as though he would fali to the ground, | ™ : , | In April of the year 1833, the town and | and whispers reached me which showed that | vital force; nevertheless, I determined to persevere til] there was no room left for

‘ neignbourhood of Hystos, U. S., was the | this was taken as further evidence of guilt, | ‘ei ane lad <ceue of one of the worst crimes which it is though it did not appear to me at ali sur-| hope. By and bye | imagin = ges in the power of a human being to perpetrate. | prising, considering his youth and the con-' tect a slight clamminess on the skin, the

The person murdered was aamed Exton, a sciousvess that most, if not all, of those | Saud no longer slipped away from it as from Hardly daring to hope

man well stricken in years, of a most esti- present knew him, and believed bin guilty he piece of os bos Be

‘mable character, the principal leader, aud | of the mucder. | that this in ae that er tvcry a yot ex- ‘most frequently the pasror, of the religious) It was my duty to put the case before the | tinct, and yet almost trembling with excites | ‘ment, 1 controlled myseif, aud continued my

| destined to lead to, I picked up one piece,

You are aware of my habit of studying every wanistestation of life. Well, on this day, I was looking for objects near a ditch, when | chanced to see sume pieces of charred bone lying about among the grass. Without the most distant idea of the discovery this was

thee another, and another ; in short, L be- came satisfied that the bones were frag- | menta of a human being. 1 now got! interested in the matter, and jum; ed into the | ditch, which happened to be dry just the», | and stirring up the dirty dirt at the bottom, | with my heel, l found other things which | had passed through the fire, yiz: teeth, | buttons, and, most important of all, a belt

clasp of a very peculiar desigu, which said | wore for the maker’s mythulogi al knowlege | than for the delicacy or purity of his taste. Putting the latter in my pocket, with as| many of the teeth, and buttons, and charred

bones as 1 thought necessary to establish the | fact of their having formed part of a buiman | being, I returned to my friend Penton, Un | showing him the buckle, aud asking bim it) he had ever seen it before, he immediately | said: ‘To be sure Ihave. It belonged to | Joel Singleton.’ * And who was Jvel Single- | ton?’ 1 asked. — Joel Singletoa,’ he replied, | ‘was a fellow of no very good repute. He | was @ horse-dealer on bis ownaccourt some-_ times, besides working for the worthy Mr.Sang- | s erasa woodman, an occupstion which some said he engaged in tor the sake of being with

Mary Sangster, the young woman poor Exton marricd.'—* Thes, | suppose, when

she married Exton he went away? —* Not) at all, he was with Exton, for atleast a year | afterwards ; and there were rumours ubout, that it Mary could have had her way, she would bave preferred him to Exton ‘or her

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you know where be went to when he did | leave ??—t No, he went away very suddenly, and Sangster said he had gone to—to Cali-

| greatest dainty of the Western world.”

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Freneh Merisiwes, | Gente’ Fur, Cloth and’ Great George Street, / . Wool Caps, Silk, Charlottetown, Dee. 7, 1863. v rw iel p Stee and Fancy | Cloth aad Felt Hate, | —<—i—_ —<__—_____________—- Desa Goods, | --itte. dee. de. Dr. W. G, Sutherland, *, | Gloves, &e, in variety.

Fall and Winter Mantles and

J’ returning thanks for the very liberal

patronage bestowed since commeneing business,

congregation to which he belonged. Jes-| jury in the strongest light which the evi-| bones are human bones, they have been m_

After

‘“‘Am I to live to see the catastrophe of her career, and the end of thissuddenly con- jured-up empire, which seems to be of ‘such stuff as dreaws are made of ?’

‘+ ] confess my persona) acquaintance with the individuais who figure im this bieturical romance gives me uncommon interest in it ; but | consider it stamped with danger and instability, and as liable to extravagant vi- cissitudes as one of Damas’s novele. You do right to witness the grand features of this passing pageant. You are probably reading one of the most peculiar and eventtul of history, and may live to look buck upon it as 4 romantic tale.’’

nT ener reeste

EricversN Disues.—Ante are eaten in many countries. In Brazil the largest epecies are prepared with a sauce of resin. In Africa they stew them with butter. In the East Tudies they are caught in pits, carefully roasted like coffee, and eaten by mouthfale afterwards. Mr, Smeathman says: «1 have eaten them several times, dressed in this way, and [ think them delicate, nvurishing, and wholesome. They are something sweeter, though not sv fet aad clogging as the caterpillar and maggot of the

| palm-tree snout-beetle, which is served up at

the luxurious tables of the West Indian epicures, particularly the French, aa the A eurry of ant’s eggs is a very costly laxury ia Siam ; and in Mexico the people have, from time immemorial, eaten the eggs of water insects, which prevail in tie laganes of that city. The Ceylocese, ungrateful wretches! eat the bees alter robbing them of their honey. The African busbmen eat all the caterpillars they can find. A bushman would be # valuable acquisition for a market gerdener’s cabbage field. The Australians are noturious 48 maggot waters; and the Chinese, who waste nothing, eat the ehry-

| salia the silk-worm aiter they have wound ey ; f hi 4° 1+ yp, the silk from its covoon. husband, in spite of his loose habits D+ | Nor:h Awericen Iodians used to eat locuste.

It is said that the

‘The Afrivan basiimen and the sayages of | New Caledonia are fond of spiders roasted.

| pps > : ° : fornia or Texas, 1 dun’t exactly remember | his singular taste is pot unknowa even in

which.’—* Well,’ said 1, ‘ it strikes me that | | he went to neither place. Look here ! these |

Europe. Reaumur tells of @ young lady who, when walking in her garden, used tu

eatall the spiders slie could cateh. Lalande,

‘pecied be all, whether members of the same | dence appeared to me capable of sustaining. seet or not, on account of bis thorough con- | bad no personal feeling against the pri- | scientiousness, bis store was the source from |soner, of course, and it was rather from

efforts with the same steadincss, " \the fire, and so bas this buckle, and as | wany minutes of thas intense anxiety which | fond them all togecher, itis only reasovable ‘few beside the experimenta! chemist ever |i) imagine that the bones belunged to the experience, | had no lounger auy doubt—a | owner of tue buckle, rather than to anybody

trusts that the same may still be continued towards him. He wishes fafther to state bis present large letock of DRUGS and CHEMICALS, choice Perfimery, Teilet Articles, &e. &c. The hest des- cription of every thing convected with the trade, selected in LONDON from the best establishments by those competent of doing justice to the business The Dispensary Departusent will be under his own immediate superintendence. Dr. Sutherland begs also to observe that he trusts the fact of having practised in Seetland several | years. and nearly twenty years of extensive colonial practice in every braneli of Lis profession, combined with unremitting assiduity and personal attendance, will not fail to obtain confidence and ensure satis faction. {3} Advice to the poor gratis. Queen-sireet, Ch'town, P. E. Island, t December 7, 1863.

Mantle Cloths, Fitch, Oppossum and other FURS, RIBBONS,

in the New Shades and Styles; Fall and Winter Shawls,

together with a large variety of useful DRY GOODS. Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Boots & Shoes, | & large assortment ;

Mens’ and Boys’ heavy

MINNIE COCHRANE, M.D. BOOTS Allopathic Physician and BROGANE, rPAkes van pleasure ip sanboneing to

Ladies’, Gents’, Misses’, Youths’ and Children’s. the Citizens of Charlottetown that she has just

RUBBER BOOTS & SHOES, | arrived in the City, and is prepared to attend to the

of | sick at all hours. She would say to those who are

the wae manufacture. Ladies’ RUBBER | mhatiing under the ye we —— ot = day,

a A S -o ie -h ax Kheumatism, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Cancers,

Ee, BOOTS, Bs. A6. Grasp, Doone. Catarrh, Asthma, Consumption,

Our usual assortment of Nenralyia, Eplipeey, give ber # cull, aud before

H . von /undertaking your case, she will tell you if your , ARDWARE,

AINTS, GLASS, PUTTY, Ke.

dimeuse can be cured. N Paint, Olive, Seal, Cod, and Kerosene

B. Ladies desirons of having teeth extracted | would do well to give Dr. C. a call, as she baa studied with the best Dentists in New York. P.S. Dr. Cochrane will be ever ready to attend Obstetric Practice.

OILS, Residence—Mansion House Office— Pavilion House. GROCERIES, | o— Pavilion Hoe Seomplete | Charlottetown, Oc tober 12, 1863. pete assortment, aud all of first-class quality. cE ner r

~ DEMERARA RUM.

Sur "TEAS are very superior. 1 PUNS. OLD RUM, excellent flavor, j

x The abo Stock of Goods having been earefully

Po aap are confidently offered tu the West Paying prices

Charlottetows, Nov 16, 1962

ast received, ex “ Transit,” and will be sold

public at at us low figure as any in the City.

N. RANKIN, Queen-strect. dig

De ec. 14, 186%.

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