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MOON & CHANGEA,

First Quacter, 6th day, 1th. 42m. a. m., EL

Full \ i4th ay, 7b. 37m. a om, N (below horizon. )

Bast Quarter, -ist day, Sh. Bim. a

m., 8. New Moen, 23th day, Gh. 12m. a. m., B,

i oy or weex Sam [Sun (Moon! High Days eagles rises sets./ rives watr' lea. mih. hp mera] h. m hi ’ > 446 24] 6 Fimernil2 4 2} saturday, 42, 274 71 OS, 4 8. Siaday e, Titmi4 4 4) Mouday 33, 28:8 481 8 asi of Tu sy 36' 29) 9 361 2 as! 6&2 6 Veinesday M4) «430110 48) 3 25) 36 7 Tanreday az; 32,11 46 43413 @ 8 Friday 3 Stats WO 546) 8 2, ‘a a | ae i 1 33 6 6&3) 7 Lia ‘y 2 a6' 2 57' 7 49] 9 i} ‘ g 37 4 3) 838 12 12 ay 3 38°65 Play 16 13 wlay | 23) 49 6 19119 53! I» 4! { ; io 41° 7 3 30} 22 1} i 17 ie a: 8 due } 2a 14) «aterday 16 44) 9521147 @ 17] Sanday 14 45110 56 aitv9! = 31 13} Mond -y 12 aeitnoe 245) 34 ig { av 10, “48imera' 2 7 ce 2 Wedinesia 9 4:038,3 & ae $i: Thursday 7} &O) 1 16) 419 43 # Fri BS sziisz, aah 4 23 Sa 4 53/215; 6 So} 49 TH so ¥ 7 6MIS41i 6 Hh. & | Monday @ e's $8 & @\ Tresday 459} 57! 33019 32) 5&3 2) Wednesday 57| 5S; 3 57:10 12,14 Ol at Thursday | 55 59) 423810 52 4 2? Friday 67.418 GUSh. 7 $0! Saturday 4 52 2\6 aS meemn le ' '

“Prince Edward Island

RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 15.

Winter Arrangement.

To take effect on the 6th Dec,, 1866 RAINS GOING WiST.

STATINS.

Georgetown . Up 6.158. m1 Cardigan........ 8.40 * Moaat Stewart... Ar i¢. 0 « | Garis... Vp 7.Waim.

Bear River 7.49 *

Ck Pelee ccc Oe

Mcrell 1 916 |

Mt. Stewart. ‘Ar 10.4) ** i ane Mt Stewart. Dp 10.05 a. m. |

Bed ‘or. wit een tf

York . i i .

nook aes * Royalty Junction) ‘‘ 11.22 ‘* Grarlottetow a... Ar 11.45 He ale Oharlattetown Dp 8.15a.m. Vp 3 ae * “- 3 2$ a

yalty Junction! ** 5.35 Recth Wiitshire.' “* 9.50 “ “aa Hinnter Kiver - 9.46 “ . @@0 * Brads iban« = ae * County Line. * 30.22 * ' 5.18 ” KReasingt a......'° 11.10 * | “* 556 * Se P yiAr 41.48 * | Ar 630 “

Mine! site. .. i Dp i 45 m. | Weilington......) °° 224° RP ee | as 0 Leary a Ae

loertiai ‘ * an Tignisi an oe

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oe 2 <= TRAINS GwHuirce EAST.

STATION MIXED. i MIXED. Tignis ii’p 6 45a. m lhe: at 7 . 6 ina 5.40 Port 9.t6 * Welling or **. 36.25 *

Ar i1.2 ;

Hemmer { Dp 2.60pm. Dp 7.45 a.m, Ee “ 225% a2 * 4o1 0 ¢ ? $ is " ' 8.558 i Praia ”" an” Sag * Banier Miveti...j 256 * 9.45 “ Reri:, siesbire., ** 415 ** lol * Reyaliy Junction a7 1 Mme” Charivttctowa iAr 4230“ ‘A 1.16 wr

Garintetown ..\Dp 2 40 p.1m.

Boy alty Junction 2 53

Fork toe. oa ted. csccnd ae “ Mt tenart.. lar ia” an. we " Mtew art i oe Dp 4. 15p.m. Mor » - eee 3 POW ees’ eae : Bear River......, °° &2 “* i Souris... ; .. ar 7.15 ** x Mt. Stewart..... Dp 4.15pm.! Cantipan . 2 é&a ° Geurgetown..... Ar 600 ** ie

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AND ISLAND ARGUS.

APRIL 15. 1881.

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Waat Might Have Besn!!

oe

eutive Council Act been agreed to by the

ing Saving :—

Cost of Council (based on ave rage of

four years $>. 641,11 Cost of elections for Council, ave rage, £09 00

Difference between cost of present Assembly, with 39 members at $168 and Speaker at $4) ani the New Assembly with 22 mem hers at $160, each, and speaker $200. 2

This is the unnecessary expenditure

which the taxpayers will have to bear every year until the useiess Levislative Council is reoted ont

There is no reasen why the cost of legia- lation in this Provisces, should be more than 34,000 per aonun, and this retrenchment the Government weuld have carried ont, were it net fer the seltish obstructionists of the Legislative Couneil.

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Some Comparisons.

Tur following statement shows the re- |

cvipts and expeuditures of this Prgvinee for tae first six years after Cor federation :

Hap the L gislitive Asse ubly and Exe- |

Couneil, as finally passed by the Honee of | Assembly, it would have led to the folluw-

2,740.90 Saving in reducing Ne of Execu- tive Council tu five, 500. 00 | $?,331.11

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Receipta Expenditures isv4, $403. 013 4% $435,207 56 | is75, 31,160.19 395,277.45 1376, 3 «3, STALL 353,327.54 is77, 526.274 84 831,652.14 | 1378, 312.654. 34 $34,153!) 29 1379, 250,062.05 313,845 oo

The average receipts as above beiry $537,004.08, and the average expenditure $560 570 20.

fue expenditure of 1830 has

heen only

| $257 303.38 — he ng $103,261.70 tess than |

tve average «xpend ime of the six preceding years!

fnis extraordinary reanlt has been achieved notwithstanding that the enst of education has advanced trom $65 836.54 (that being the average for the first “tive vears after Confederation) to $96 213 8b in 1880) =—- The increased expendlitare of $30.- 377.32 under this head being due to the working of the *‘ Publie Sehools Act,” the people have to thank the econo si¢al policy of the present Government fer sparing them from a doubling of the assessment on real estate.

If the late Government had to raise $38. - 334 OF by direct taxstion in 1878, viien they only spent 365.55) 18 on Edavation, how mach would thei direct taxation be ua 1880 when they would have te pay $90.- 213.81 for education! This is a sum im simple proportion which auy schoul buy can work out for hiuself.

Education is not the only branch of the services for which the present Goverument have had to make nuch more liberal prow sion than was made by their predecessurs The Lunatic Asylum, which is another legacy of the Davies administration, cust for maintenance $10,157.24 in 1878, and $id 030 96 in 1880.

The Government have also voted during the late seasion the handsome sum ot $14,209 for Exhibitions and the encour agement of Agricul:ure, being four times larger than the average expeaditure of former years.

On the other hand there has beena falling off in the princ pal receipts, over which the Government possessed ne con- trol. We have only space to notice two items, and cempare the amounts received

; i 1878 with those received in 1880 :—

1878. 1890. From Land Office Sab. from Dominion 16.,737.55 155,424 32 The cost of legislation was as fellows :—

ere epee Sis, 115.12 in 138v. : - 13,240.74

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HBasy Political Virtue. Tue Opposition orgsn, discassing the resuiutions of Goverument aud Opposition, aubmitted during the. late session, in re- fereuce to the Fishery Award, says :—

i !

| decision was the Supreme Uourt of the Domi- ak. FF *

ment sail that a suit ia the supreme Court would be too expensive. We should not be

| sfraid of an expense of $1,090 or $2,000 in «|

case of that kind.” Yet this same Mr. Perry, on the Oth of

April 1881, moved a resolution condemning ithe Government for zppealing to the | Supreme Court! Comment is needJess Uu the same day that Mr. Perry aade | the Sueeeh, from which we have just

Mr. D. Farquharson delivered himself after the following nmanner.

“if we failed in Domiaioa Goverament for justice ia this matter We should take our case to the Sa | preme Court of -anada. We went to that | Voart for a decision ou our Land Question aud } obtained a verdiet in our javer, and Why ) should we not go te it in the present case.’

qu ted.

But this same Mr. Farquharson seconded Mr Perry’s resoluiion disapproving of the

appeal to the the Supreme Court ! ! in 1580 Mr. Robert Shaw declared —

* We should stand on eur legal rights and

The members of the Govern- |

our application to the |

| A Stubborn Pact.

'

Yue Grit editors, in their endeavor to | make cspital ayainst the National Policy,

and bold them up | their readers At ne time a coarse horse | blanket is held up to show how our taxes j are increased ; at another the shoddy pea-

One would suppose, by reading their articles, that these editors had a vested interest in the shoddy pedlars who go through the country forcing their trash on unsuspecting people. Although they rail at the Government for inereasing the duty on the shoddy blanket and pea jacket, they entirely ignore the fact that the Govern- ment reduced the duty om molasses, tea and other articles. As far as this Island is concerned, the taxes of the people have, on the whole, been reduced irstead of in- creased by the Tilley tariff, as will be seen by the following table, taken from the Trade and Navigation Returns for 1830 : -

select a few articles that pay a high cuty, | as scarecrows befere |

| }

i

| to know that the Rev. Herbert Foshay, now poe An | situated in the beautiful vale of Sussex, is en

| joving goo bealth, likes the place, and the j

| aud the Church 13 sincerely attached to him.

, of live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool from

> eek, the totals being 753 eattle, 349 sheep, | ton, and 1,347 pigs.

| gaging the attention of capitalists in England | is copper ore, which is mined successfully by

i the Canadian Copper and Sulphar Company. | The first consignment of ore was sold last

| hailing from Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia,

| have the jastice of our claim tested in the | ik ee | | Mipreme Court of Canada,” | 2 a mo+opon} | Mr. Robert Shaw, aforesaid, is one and | aH 3 oe Se "Y } the same person who voted with Messrs £ ee .. Pr ene OG Cee | Perry and Farquharson for the resolution | 2 F ikinieciaakeee condemning an appeal to the Supreme | 3 | Court. = |i38% | Smaeoa- j itis not mac’ wonder that Mr, John | é di bes rene Yeo should go to Eogiand to escape such | -" = | Assuciations, aud that Mir. Richards should | 2 icaielt sain: sahamasieaoa vac 9 } | shake the dust off his feet as a testimony = 8 } against the Opposition. Men of easy poll | & Se ferteyae| | teal virtue are Stantsiaus FO Perry, Donald | ct) eg ae ae eee i } Farquharse 1 Robert Shaw. © So ee (eee ere | aiqgubaroson ane | a j 5 | | ae ea ile. : | “OF | aero | Some Predictions. Te Se ee | ann 5 | 3 |ssesezz! | When the Badget for 18380 was submitted | s = see ean | (to the House of Assembly, the O,position | uss é a | ewphatically declared that the estimates of | 4 ~~ es els | receipts aud expenditure were all wrong. + ye | Uoe by one they rose in their places and i SEU Ee 1 S2Se3! gave their opinion that ihere would be a! awis o “00 meee! deficit of frouw $50,0C0 to $60,000 for the 3 j x | year We now reproduce 8ume Of these } = 1 i rmeesnganeepseone. ssuntearstenenerr. vredictions, and compare them with the | = oT e | | resulta as shewa by tue Public Accounts. | = > S Syvetest eri vir, Richsrds said :— 2 los | de toda eben os | ‘He could not see how the hon the Leader < | it | f the Goverumeut could he e to receive the | i} Pe ene ene sum of 350 “0 frem the Laud Uffive during | 2 r% tee present year. Lhe eum oi $40,090 would = ; 3 +? 3 252 ei be much wearer the mark. Tiere would pro- SoH 2 1 eee! bably be @ large deficit at the end of the year, oo 1 So | | Which, aided to that of the previons year, 3 : ebbnaitllbaastt would make a very consi lerable sum.” ee The Government received ia 1830 3s || © 'Ssx5ssr $14,009 more money froin the Laud Ottice ue ee eses than ikl thau Mr. Richards predicted, and instead gs | ° of ‘a Jarge deficit,” there was a surplus of s || | $12,275. i S if : \ Mr. Shaw, after pointing out that receipts | Ra gent 4 from Assessment Were in his opinion over- | 5 s ' : , eal rated, said :— = >» lescercac! ** Other items of the estimates will in all od [Siok eee |

i

probability fall short; and I do net sve how it ia poastble to make the revenue mect the neces- sary expenditure of the year.”

Tae answer to these predictions may be! 1875, and 35 cents per head less than in

Tound In $12,275 00.

Mr. Perry said :—

** if the late Government ran the ceantry deepiy iu debt, as aleged, in lo75, that was Ho treason why the preseat Government should iailpw their exiumple ia 1850 Unless they were very careiul tuey would have a c: ficrt at the end of the year not of $14,006 but of $50,000. ‘i . " " We are told that $30,000 are to be raised by Assessment. ‘This will avt, | believe, relicve the G verament of their tivstucial dilBeculsics, ani the Leader of the Government does not show howit will, The hon, gentleman has certaiuly over-estimated the receipts. It is net probabie that more than $10,000 will be paid into the Land Otfice, and yet the Leader of the Government estimates 330.000.”

Instead of «, deficit of £50,009, as pro

the pudlic accounts,—surplus

phested by Mr. Perry, there tad been a}

surplus of £12,275, and that gentleman uncerestimated tie receipts from the Land

| office, $24,000

}

**The Island's case Las been, shamefully | buncled in the House of Commors. By the | treachery ot some of its represedtatives and

: : he segiect and stupidity of others the claim of the isiznd wa share of the com sensation for the fishe:ies has uot been enforced.”

This charge is of a piece with the usual | ©¥!

reckleas statemonuts of the Putriot.

The real ca'prit io this Fishery matter is Mir. LH. Davies, who, while Premier and Attorney General of this Province, accept ed @ retainer from the Dominion and neglected to press our claim until after the morey had been paid over to the Domin- bela.

fial our claim been presented separately before the presented to the British Goverment be- fors the money was paid over, the result might have been very different.

Halifax Commission, or even |

| | j

Every person knows that our chances for | an equitable distribation of the money were |

weakened a3 soon as the a:aount awarded was paid into the Domiaion Treasucy. Since then we have had to contend with the powerful sectional influences of the west and central portions of the Dominion, We do not aecuse Mr. Davies of treachery in this matter, but we dv say that he shenld vot, while Attoruey Generai of this Pro- vinee, have accepted a retainer from the Dominion, unless on the distinct under- standing that he should keep the Prinve Kdward Island claim separate, just as Mr. Whiteway did in the ease of Newfound: land. :

The Patriot finds fault with the course pursued by the Govecament tn proposing to have the question tested in the Sopr me Court of the Dominion, and approves of the following resolution «oved by Mr Parry and seconded by Mr. Farqubarsen :—

Resolved, In the opinion of this House, thas it is highly impred nt on the part of the Government of this island toe resurt to any Court of Luw to enforce the claim of the Island to a portion of the Fishery Award, until the question of our right to receive such portion has been fairly submitted to the House of Commons of Uarada, apart from the claims of the other Provinces, aud decided adversely to the Province.

It is, no doubt, quite superflous for us to say that the men ¢ «wpostng the Opposition in the House of Assembly have no prin- ciples. It is only necessary to quote aa their speeches on diflerent questions 1D 187 and 1880 and compare them with their declarations in 1881 to show that they vats not even any respect for themselves. i v for instance this Fishery question, Mr. Perry said, on the 23rd of April, _

Why not appeal to the Supreme Court 0 the Siokten Zz this matter? hat was — Court establ shed for, if pot to ttle -— cises as this? He bad yet to learn that i

vine icier t determination and | tate PANES Suation: i claims for its) city, ld pot obtain | anew A

i ; ts earnestness in prosecuting } tair portion of the awaré, it cou

justice in mio °° * He believed

that the proper place to take our clam for

In Mr Yeo's speech we find the follow-} $ 73,5) .20 $ 54.351.09 | PS > —

“He wound up his remarks by saying ‘at | the Government hoped to have a surples of | evenue over expendi ure at the end of the r. Yeo) hoped f r the sake |

year Well, he ( of the Province tuat sucn woud be the case, bat unless there would be some windfall the balance would be the other way “ * *

With doe reference t» the opinion ef the Hon.

member for Atberton, he believed that even |

if $30,000 were raised by the assessment. as propos d, it would take trom $5v,000 to $6y, - 00 to square the accounts at the end cf the year.”

Mr. Yeo’s dismal forebedings have not been verificd, and instead of the Govern- ment requiring $50 000 or $60,000 to

2 orFr i

| square the acseunts, a bulance of $12,275 |

appears in favor « f the Colony.

One ef two conclusivns appears to be in- |

able from the tailue of the predictions of the wpposition, viz., the Gosernment must

| have wanaged affairs with great afality and

economy, or the members of the Opposition must have spoken in 1839, without any proper appreciation of the financial situa ion.

The gratifying fact remains however un-

challenged that the tinaucial affairs of the | Province are restored toa healthy condi |

ion. sialic nahesisteleimhibij-oietien Changes in tie Cabinet. Tar memorable facility with which changes were ma ein the McKeozie Cabi

net has had the «ffect of causing seme per- |

sons to be constantly on the ivok-out—for chavyes in the Cabinet of Sir Joan Mac- donald. These persons are constrained to accept a8 true one of these canards which London Truth (1) delights to utter, and which is jast now going the rownds of the press. Truth says that Si- Alexander 1’. Galt will return to Canada this spring and will probably enter the Cabinet when Sir John A. Macdonald retires, as ia expected, on account of his health, The treth of this report is very questionable. Sir John may be forced to retire, though we believe he will prefer to die in harness. Bat im any case there will certainly be no particolar weed of the services of Sir A. T. Gait, while Sic Charles Tupper, Sic Leenard Tilley, and Mr. Langevin, are in the country. As practical statesmen, all these gentlemen are superior to any in the Opposition —even to the brilhant Biake— and are qvite espable of leading in the Governwent of Canada, should the age and infirmities of Sir Joha Macdonald unfcr tunately force him to give ap the reins.

Hard On Its Friends.

Fuay’s Patriot says :— ‘‘The poor Kingston biatherskite who attempted to cut out bis tongue knew what was the matter with him, aud tried in a rough aud ready way to cure himself. We have men among us laboring under the same disease why are under the the impression that their blather is eloquence and that they are the only wise mev in the com- munity.” :

This is, no doubt, intended as a dig” at Messrs. Perry and Farquharson.

ae

sly

Is Moscron a fows on Crry?—The all

; rtaut question—is Moncton a town or a ae. the meaning of tbe Canada femper- ot— is te be argued at Fredericton next | week, having been referred te the full Bench

by Judge Kimy, iu February last.

By the above it will be seen that we | pay $126 per head less in 1880 than in

1878.

ee om +

Hospita' for the Insane.

We de not see any reason why the dis- missal of two or three of the employees at the Horpital for the [nsane should be made the ground for insinuations against tbe management of that institution. Dismissals of ewployees for violation of the rules of the institntien have frequently been made beth inthe new asylum and im the old. Where so twany persons are employed | difficulties are sure to arise. Weare glad | to learn that there is no reason to believe | that any immorality is chargeable to any of | the employees dismissed by Dr. Blanchard 'in the present case. But the Dvetor has | certainly done right to punish with dis missal any serious violation ef the rules j which are necessary to prevent even a sns- |} picion of anything being wrong. It is ; swall basiness, however, for a newspaper to make tndiscriminate charges against a | } pubhe institution.

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{ | Reconstruction of the Garfield

Cabinet. The Baltimore Sun of the 4th inst., has | the following despatch from its Washington |

| correspondent :— i | |

;

**Itis freely stated that there are strong | probabilities of a reconstruction of the Cabi- | uet, soaa te bring its entire membership | more iu accord wth the President and with | each other. tis certain that the Cabinet. as | at present made up. was retthe personal | choice of the President himself. In fact it is | somewhat questicnabie whether, if le't to | himself, be would have selected more than | one man outof tie whole list. Mr. Biaine |

The others represent ne less than four distinct | | dense of the Republican party, and were | | accepted by the President at the suggestion | Lof others in the hope that a compromise |

Cabinet would restore aud promote harmony |

lin the party. It does not seem to have had | | tha’ eset, and the President is reported to be | | about reaching the concivsion that it would | | bave been b-tter had he pleased himself, and | not undertaken to please others.” This is untersteod to refer particularly | to Messrs. M:Veagh and James. Except | as to these two gentlemen it is known that | no Girsatisfaction has been expressed at | the White House with anything said or | done by any of the Cabinet members. Re- | cent talk on this subject has breught out a ' staternent that the President elect offered | Senator Conkling the position of Attorney General, while the latter was at Mentor. It is hardiy conceivable that he should have done so, while it was generally known that Blaine was to be Secretary of State ; but the stery comes from Conkliag’s triends.

SK Pe EP 9S Cee

A Starch Factory for Red Point.

A series of meetings was called at Red Point, Let 46, and adjoining settlements, viz: West River, Little Harbor and East Baltic, within the last three weeks, for the purpose of considering the feasibility of hav- inga Starch Factory established in some central place within the area of the above mentioned districts. At those meetings comtmitiees Were appointed to canvass tlie respectite Cistricts in order to ebtain the names of parties willing to subseribe and guarantee the produee of a certain nutwber of acres of potatoes to encourage capitalists to undertake the establishment of the same. At the final meeting, held at Red Point Sshool:oom, on the 30th ult., to ex- amiue the report of the several committees the following conclusions were arrived at :—

That a sufficient number of acres can easily be obtained for aterm of five years at 14 cents per bushel; that a site to build on can be had ou easy terms, to suit all parties concerned; that on account of the ! contemplated site being remote from ship- ping, all parties supplying potatoes, do guarantee to haul a share of the stareh to the nearest shipping place, as an induce- tment to any party or parties undertaking to start such Factory.

Intending ecapiialists can procure any further information by applying to either of the following gentlemen : T. 8. Robert sen, Red Point; Wm. MeLean, West River; | A. Mooney, Little Harbor.

: A. J. MoPuex,

| jacket is made to do duty as s baghear | for breach of the rules of the iustitution.

| inst., commencing at half-past 11 o'clock, a.

fecal and Other items,

— “Milano. napnbannnanectllinagmambiecdenteammnipascneearanatzeanannaeeneaiagpabaad

Rowsit, the pedestrian, has gone to Eng-

Tus barque John F. Robertson arrived at Philadelphia, from Rouen, en the ist inst.

Turke of the cmpleyes at the Hospital for the insane have, it is reported, been dismissed

‘Tue editor of the Montreal Pest has chal- lenged Mr. Bray, ef the Spectator, te duel fer publishing certain reflections on the Irish people. 2

A Custom House Orricrr, on the Sth inst., seized $26,000 werth of smuggled goods at Chaudtere Bridge, Ottawa. He will get ome third of the amount,

Wittiam Weusu, Esq, and lady, arrived ‘ast evering, per Cunard Steamship Sythia, at New York, en route for Ontario.. It is probable that they will arrive home about the 25th inst,

Tu next quarterly session of the Grand Division, 8. of T., of this Province will be held at Margate, on Wedneday, the 27th

m. The usual facilities for delegates and visitors have been secnred,

Tr will be gratifying te many of our citizens

people

fie his had @ fair measure of success,

Tre Pall Mall Gazette says :—‘* The arrival the United States and Canada last week show a large inerease on those of the preceeding

»,938 quarters of beef, 2,275 carcasses of mut-

AmonG the products of Canada now en-

month at an exceptionally good price. The parcel, @u assay, realized 25 per cent. of cop per. The £4 shares are now quoted at £2 5s.

AN Ottawa despatch says: Five new clerks,

New Brunswick and P. E. island, have been appointed te the Post Odice Department. This is a new innovation on the rule es- tablished by the late Government, that no Canadians need apply for situations in the Civil Service, until all sojourners from Eng- land had selected their positions.

DamaGep Canco.—Nearly all of the cargo of 9,000 busheis potatoes shipped last fall, at Summerside, in the bgt Louis Yontgemery, new at this port, is a total loas. Quantities have been picked on board and seld at 12 cents a load to farmers for stock-feeding. Some are apt to believe that merchants keep the price down, but they don’t always make a fortune in the shipping line. —Georgetown Ad- vertiser,

Finx.—On Thuraday night last at Bay Fortune Bridge, a house owned avd occupied by Murdock Nicholson as a tailoring shep, was completely’destroyed by fire. At about ten o'clock that evening ne sign of fire was visible. Abeut one o'cloek the alarm was sounded, but too late to save the building. Mr. Nicholeen succeeded im getting out a sewing machine and some clothing. A geod quantity of ready made cething was destreyed. Two womer were living in one end of the house and had only time te escape. The cause of the fire is supposed to be a defeetive tlue Ne insuranee. —Com to Advertiser.

Ara regular meeting of Head Light Divi- sion, No. i22,°S. of T., held at Southport on Wednesday evening, 6th inst., the following otlicers were duly installed fer the ensuing quarter, Robt. Pollard, Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch, and Brother Richard Burhce acting as Grand Conducter :—

W. P.—H. Herbert Beer.

W. A. —ope Stewart.

R, S.-—Charies H. Chandler.

A. R, 8. —Alex. Robinser.

F. 5.—Thomas Abbot.

T. —John Kennedy,

Ch.—Henry Bovyer.

Con. — Alfred Nicholson.

A. Con.-—Daniel Chandler (re-elected).

I. 8.—George Henry.

0.8. —Hugh MeNeill,

P. W. P.—Robert A. Andersen, Db. G. W. P.—Robert Pollard.

Wr regret te learn, and the travelling pub lic will regret to learn, that Conductor Kelly has severed his connection with the Island Railway. It is his intention, we understand, to leave in few days for New Mexico. There has cever been amore popular or efficient Conductor on our Railway than Mr. Kelly. While he was courteous and obliging to all with waoom he had to do, he was firm in the | discharge of his duty and faithful to the trust | reposed in him. He isa thorough master of | his business, and as it is his intention to go railroading eut West, we predict for him a | successful career. Mr. Kelly is going toa | part of the Republic which presents a goed | field far competent railroad men, and we have | no doubt that he will make his mark there. | While we ave sorry that our Railway is to | lose the services of so competent an official as Conductor Kelly has proved himself to be, we are pleased to learn that he has s

ecd prospect ef bettering his condition in | ite by making the contemplated change. He will be followed, on his departure from the} Province, by the best wishes of the whole community.

The Y. M, ©, A. Division Sous of Temper- ance, held its regular meeting ‘Thursday night | for the installation of efficers and transac- tion of osker business,

Grateful approval was expressed with the action of the Legislative bodies of this Proy- ince and Nova Scotia in their protests against | the Almou resolution in the Senate to defeat the Scott Act. as well as for the outepok- oo expression of the Examiner in reference to the recent infameus conduct in Summerside,

It was decided to hold an open air meetivg of the Division in their usual place of meeting on Thursday evening, 28th iust.

The following are the officers for the present terma:—

W. P.—-R. M. Barratt, W. A.—J. W. Morrisen, R. &.—John scots,

F. 8.—W. R. Boreham, T.—D. McRae,

Ca.—J. B. Cooper,

C.- Wm. Turner,

A. C.—5."A i; Geox,

1. S.—J. T. Leeming,

®. 8.—George F. Carter.?

The Divisien meets weekly on Thursday evening in the ladies’ parler, Y. M. 0. A, building.

Ina short conversation with the Indian Superintendent (Mr. Jehn O. Arsenault) a day or two ago we learn the following {facta respecting the aborigines: -There are over | twenty families on Lennox Island, all living in houses ef some kind, Only two ef these

are divided into reoms and plastered. Most of the houses have stoves, bedsteads and tables, yet true te the camp life, the

Indians in most cases prefer squatting en the floor while eating. Their farms are from fifteen to twenty acres in extent, from 4 to 6 acres each of whieh are under cultiva- tion. Mr. Arsenault informs us that one of them raised over twenty bushels of wheat last season, There are two horses en the Island and afew keepa pig; but with this exception there is ne attempt at keeping stock of any kind. Mr. Arsenault is also a teacher onthe Isiand; the attendanee he says is smaler this winter than usual. There is a KR. ©. chapel on the Island where the neighboring Priest visits eccasien- ally. The Indiaws attend Chapel once or twice each Sunday to say-their prayers when the Chief delivers a ehort address. A good many of them formed themselves into a tem- perance society some time ago, and Mr. Arse- neault informs us that very few have ‘vielated their pledge.’ On the Indian reserve at Mor-

succeeded in her object.

safely in Colorado, contain complimeatary notices regarding the

Main, of the Western Union Telegraph Co, has accepted the position in the Anglo-

stone Government for its course an the Trans-

orations ever heard in the House of Lords.

advertising, if we may judge from ‘‘ Mer- ehant’s”’

The fact is, there was used at the dinuer champage and other wines in abundance.

ning their cart ou the public streets without a license but we do most emphatically object to them taking the sidewalk and compelling

there is as little foundation for this other statements of the Globe coneerning the

the bottom ef a gulch, a distance of one hun- dred feet, receiving fatal injuries. His train hed a narrow escape from tetal destruction.

On the alarm being sounded, the firemen | were proinptly on the spot, and the fire was

Local and Other ltems.

Tur Oxfords won the University race,

Tex “hum” is on the increase in Hali fax.

One hundred and eighty emigrants have settled in Utiawa district this seasen.

Smiru has not as yet accepted the chal- lenge of Ross to a single scull contest.

GLADSTONE is one of the most anxious en- quirers regarding Beaconstield’s health.

Ox® hundred new houses are to be com- pleted in Winnipeg for the Ist of May.

THREE buildings were destroyed by fire at Hillsboro, Albert Co., N. B., on the 4th iust.

We regret to observe by a late exchar ge the death of Dr. Shreve, formerly of Summer- side. ie

The schooner ‘‘Mary Buehanan ” frem Gloucester for P. E. Island, passed Canso, 6 the 6th. oy

Nine million feet of square timber are ex- pected to reach Quebec from the Ottawa dis- trict this season.

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Tur total number of deaths in St. John, Portland and Carleton, during the month of March, was eighty.

Skvenry-eraaut American women teek out patents last year, and not one of them was lor kitchen utenstls,

Evicrions of tenants im Ireland are on the increase. During the past month two hun- dred and fifteen took plaee.

Mr. ©. Prescorr, of the Anglo-American Telegraph Co., is now at Cape Termentine, where he will ran a new lobster factory.

Wark, who recently stabbed Mr. Lawson in St. John, has been committed for trial in the Supreme Court for stabbing with inteat to kill.

A Picrov man, named Teter MeDonald, on hia way to California, called at St. John, N B. ‘*Hesawthe Elephant” there, and was robbed of 290,

A Matra paper states that, of fifty-five young ladies who had come out there from England in search of husbands, only one had

J. H. Frercusr, Esg., and son have errived

Denver papers received

Professor's return to his adopted country. Tue St. John Telegraph says that Mr. G. L.

American Telegraph Uo., Charlottetown.

Lorn Cairns’ speech avraigning the Glad-

vaal question is said to be one of the greatest

AvvertTisiInc Exrraorprnary. — Messrs, Carvell Bros. have adopted a novel mode of

letter in Saturday's issae of the Patriot. |

Tuk Montreal Witness, representing the ‘Organized Hypocrisy,” reported that the “Blake Dinner” was a colil water affair.

We do net object to hand-cart-men ran-

pedestrians to walk in the gutter.

Tne Teronto Globe says Sir John Macdonald has Bright’s Disease. We sincerely hope as for

Right Hon. gentleman.

Coxpucron Barry, ef the Intercolonial was, on the 7th inst., near Truro, thrown to

Firn.—The fire on Saturday was at the house of Mr. John Kelly, carnenter, Fitzroy Street. It broke out in the kitchen