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PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE NO. I.
Winter Arrangement.
ON AND AFTER
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1873.
pe. Trains Going West. oS
STATIONS. No. 1. | No.3 ae _| Express. , Mixed Georgetown Dp 8.10 am} Cardigan ” a . M.Stew’t Jun | 5p10.08 * toyalty Jun. ae - | Ch'town dp 8.00 amjDp 3.30 pm Royalty Jun. “-a90 * ** 3.50 * N. Wiltshire ao. } “6 4.45 “ Hunter River “i “1% bop “* Breadalbane | «10.08 « | « 5.41 « County Line ack to _ - Kensin nm ‘sé . ee sé 7” ai - j lar11.30 “* Jar 7.00 “ Summerside ) \dp 2.40 pm Wellington “208 * Port Hill “ine * O’ Leary se os “6 ar . “e Alberton aad * Tignish jar 7.25 ‘* Trains Going East. STATION}. No. 2 No. 4 Express. | Mixed. ‘Tignish | Dp 7.00 am Alberton ‘* 7.45 O’ Leary ” 8.47 cs Port Hill **10.05 e Wellington **10.48 : ar 11.40 ‘ Summerside dp 2.30pm! Dp 8.45am Kensington “ae 1 ee Gresditlane 350 « | £10.08 « Br e se bs ae sc“ i ee Hunter River “4.23 * | °10.47 * N. Wiltshire ” a " at ie = R alt Jun, “ec ‘ «é sé a sé oe P ‘ar 6.00 ‘* jarl2.15 pm Ch town \ jap 255 « Royalty Jun. — . ar 4.30 ‘ Mt. Stewart dp 4.40 Cardigan ** 6.00 Georgetown ar 6.25
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WM. McKECHNIE,
©. J. BRYDGES, Supt. P. E. 1. 2.
Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways
Ch’town, Dec. 27,1878. p ne arh pres kea sp sj ap 6i
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EDWARD ISLAND,
ELECTORS |
| | Do you approve of falsely dating public | | accounts ?
Do you approve of deliberate violations of the law ?
Do you approve of sneaking arts to hide illegal practices ? '
Do you approve of members of the Legis- | lature selling goods to, and otherwise con- tracting with, the Government ?
Dv you approve of members of the Gov- ernment furnishing supplies to the Govern- ment at their own prices ?
Do you approve of having public supplies paid for by the Government, if the Govern- ment does not know that the goods are of the quantity, quality, and value required ?
Do you, in short, approve of a Govern ment which pays the uncertified accounts of its friends and middlemen ?
Do you approve of goods being furnished the Government and paid for though they were never ordered !
Do you approve of supplies being furnish- ed for any department of the Government without a requisition signed by the author- ized officer !
Do you approve of the extravagant Luna- tic Asylum ?
Do you approve of Act?
Do you approve of pimps and spies going about to inspect your property ?
Do you approve of unfair valuations and unequal taxes ?
Do you approve of over-taxing the in- dustrious and the enterprising ana under- taxing the lazy and thriftless ?
Do you approve ef paying valuators and tax-gatherers ONE DOLLAR for every six dollars they collect ?
If you do approve, vote for Louis H.
the Assessment
Davies and his followers ! If you do NOT approve, vote for the new Government and its supporters.
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UNDERTAKING, &6.
AMES M. BUTCHER is now prepared to give close personal attention to all funerals that may be entrusted to him.
COFFINS, CASKETS, &C., of various sizes, styles and quality, always on hand, ready-made.
“PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.”
Ch’town, February, 24, 1379.
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November 6, 1878.
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T'o the Editor of the Examiner.
Sir,—In last night’s Examiner Mr. Walsh comes to the rescue of his master, Thomas Jobber Dodd, and admits that goods were sup- plied to the Government after Mr. Dodd be- came a member; but states that it was con- trary to orders given the clerks in the employ of Dodd & Rogers.
This statement of Mr. Walsh is rather too thin to pass current just now. Every one acquainted with Mr. Dodd’s strict business habits is well aware that the amount of goods
paid for by the Government could not go out|P
of his store without his knowledge. I would ask, where was Mr. Rogers? Was it con- venient for him to be ont of the way also? Truly it must be a model establishment ac- cording to Mr. Walsh's statement.
L wish Mr. Walsh would throw a little light on the mantle and register grate swindle, and inform the public how he arranged the dates (as he seems to be an expert in that business) in making out that account against the Gov- ernment.
Yours respectfully, ELEcTor. Ch’town, April 3, 1879. > «> <m -e 2
To the Editor of the Hxaminer.
Str,—Until you published in your val uable Daily, on the Ist April, inst., the amounts of Messrs. Dewar & McIntosh’s and Mr. Corbett’s tenders for the new Asylum contract, | was not aware that the difference was so small. But I, with many others, was led to believe that there were $11,000 to $13,000 between the contractors and the next lowest tender. Now,we find that the differ- ence is $2,058 of a saving to the country, supposing all things considered were equal, which is not the case. Take, for instance, Mr. Corbett’s career as a contractor since he came to the Island. He has been engaged in erecting some of our best buildings; and, as far as [ know, generally gave satisfaction, both to the Government and private parties. Not only this, but Mr. Corbett hired Island men and always paid them the highest, wages. Now, then, ifthe Davies Government had not been ‘‘ penny wise and pound foolish,” they would have immediately called on Mr. Cor- bett to take the contract; and what would we have gained by the transaction? We would have had Island men furnishing brick, {sland masons and bricklayers, Island carpen- ters, Island laborers, [sland piasterers and Island horses at work. No fraudalent French drains, no sandy foundations, no hollow walls, lacking bonds, and cedar shingles put on the roofs in place of inspected No. i St. John pine shingles ; no Government Con:missioners to pay for inspecting jobbery ; no W. D. Stewart’s expenses to pay to and from Halifax, to hunt up contractors; no $3 per day for a tomb- stone cutter to look after masons, carpenters and bricklayers ; no patehed up walls, and no doors trimmed with heavy architraves, while the windows of the same apartments are fin- ished without any architraves; and per. haps we would not have No. 2 giass, marble mantles, or a top price to pay for registered grates, besides a commission, Then if the country would have been clear of paying for discrepancy, inferior material, workmanship, etc., surely Mr. Corbett’s tender would have been the lowest or most profitable tothe country at large, if it was $6,000 or $7,000 higher than the tender that took the contract. For the mopey would be spent amongst us, besides the other benefits enumerated. Yet Messrs. Davies & Stewart would try and make the mechanics and work- ing people believe that they are the friends of those people; but the mechanics can’t see the point. Why, it is little short of mockery for those men to pretend friendship to the mechanics and laborers. I know itis said by some that Mr. DeBlois was equally guilty with Messrs. Davies and Stewart about this asylum. But J, for one, can't see it in that way. I think the Leader of the Government and the Connmissioner of Public Works are the most to blame in the matter, one as the Leader, the other as the Commissioner of Public Works and the head of that department. And in conclusion all I have to say is that it is very little use in Mr. Davies coming out in his long speeches and, with throbbing heart for the bleeding mechanics, to wheedie them into supporting him as they are very shy of that decoy ‘‘duck and drake.” Hoping that you may long be able to expoge trickery and deception, J remain your,
OnE OF THE UNEMPLOYED MPFcHANICs.
Ch’town, April 2, 1879.
To the Editor of the Examiner :
Dear Str—Nomination day is passed and the work progresses well. The grate philoso- pher smiled «ce more on the electors and told them that whea he obtained the appointment ef Commissioner of Public Works he deter- mined ‘‘to doin that office as any other man would do for himself.” Ishould like to know who doubts that now.
The Hon. L. H. Davies blew his trumpet again, but can only play one tune, that of self praise (which is said to be no recommendation) and defamation of others. He sometime ago called the new Government ‘‘blatant advocates of retrenchment,” and, much needed as re- trenchment was and is, may I ask when would Davies and party have advocated it had they not felt power and its emoluments slipping swiftly from their grasp. Then they were willing to do anytl.ing to retain office— lower their salaries, reduce their staff, and if nothing else would do, adopt in toto the Op- position policy. In fact, put into His Honor the Governor's mouth as their policy the very measures the Liberal-Conservative Party, backed by the whole country, have long been calling for. And, then, with the greatest effrontery, ask what the policy of the new Government is. When boasting of the saving effected by letting the public printing, Mr. Davies said « eee sonra. the we
rt of a press, seme pap must be given the newspapers. As there is no pap left, why
so cruelly resuscitate the Grit organ from its
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1879.
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ctaatiindanhee yet far from convalescent con-
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dition, to struggle again for a short time in support of a party self-condemned ? The Hon. Mr. DeBlois’ character stands too high to be damaged by the insinuations of Davies and Party. ‘* Blood-sucker” and ‘traitor’ were fine words for educated and pure-air men to use. Mr. Davies was over- matched, when, after being challenged and taunted, Mr. Prowse actually dared produce and read copies of correspondence referred to (which were not damaging, they say). Oh! not in the least. Mr. Campbell, too, was a thorn in their side, and Mr. Davies would not see that his day had passed and that he was only a creature of circumstance, but acted the part of the blind horse, to which a nod is as good as a wink, and, with his followers, held cn to their stalls and their corn as long as ossible, until the ‘‘no confidence” lash was tabled and the nine tails dismissed the Leader and his team.
No wonder Davies and party find fault with their colleagues for leaving them, er with the present Government for going to the country. The exposures that have been made gall them ti. the quick. It is seen that facts and figures were strange to them; of squares and perpen- diculars they understood nothing; circles may have been more in their line; their policy was self first, the people must take Chance No, 2.
Gritism has had its full swing here for a wae time, as well as throughout the Dominion, an as Mr. Davies himself says, nothing but dyed- in-the-wool Tories will now do. Let the Liberal Conservatives, the merchants, me- chanics and traders, show that they are all wool and all dyed-in-the-wool ; that they can and will, on the 9th inst., place the Hon. G, W. DeBlois and the Hon. Neil McLeod at the head of the poll, and allow Davies and friends to retire to private life shaded by the matles ot their greatness. I am, sir,
Practica MECHANIC,
Ch’town, April 4, 1879.
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Meeting at Miscouche.
Tue large and respectable meeting of the electors of Lot 17, held at Miscouche on Tues-. day evening, the Ist inst., gave unmistakeable evidence of the fact that Gritism has few, if any, friends in that locality. Not all the dogmatical utterances of W. D. Stewart, nor the elaborate editorials of the Grit Press, nor the assurances of Mr. Angus McMillan that the Assessment Act is strictly in accordance with Scripture, have been able to convince the people of Miscouche that oppressive taxes should be wrung from them, and the money thus raised expended in princely salaries for Davies, Stewart and their camp followers.
The meeting was addressed by Mr, Le- furgey, who announced the policy of the new Government, and showed in what branches of the public service they prepose to retrench. He was followed by Mr. Kelly, who promised, if elected, to assist in carring out such reforms as would meet the wishes of his constituents ; and he assured the meeting that he would employ every legitimate means to have a Registry Office established in Summerside.
When the nomination of Messrs. Lefurgey and Kelly as candidates for the representation of Lot 17 was put to the meeting by the Chair- man, H. V. DesRoches, Esq., the motion was carried without a dissenting voice. The fol- lowing resolutions were also carried unani- mously :—
Whereas, It is necessary in the interests of the tax-payers of this country that such re- trenchment as is consistent with the good gov- ernment of this Province should be made in every branch of the public service; and,
Whereas, It has been clearly demonstrated in the case of tne Province of Ontario that a stable government and one affording ample se curity to property owners can be carried on by one House of Representatives ; therefore
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meet- ing the time has arrived when the Legislative Council of this Province should be abolished.
Whereas, The experience of the past two years has shown thatthe present Roads and Bridges’ Act is susceptible of a great amount of corruption, and that the money voted for any district is often distributed very unfairly; _ Resolved, That in the opinion of this meet ing the present Roads and Bridges Act should be repealed, and replaced by a new Act similar to the old Statute Labor Act, making it optional with the people either to perform statute labor or commute the same in money. --Com. :
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A Curious Judicial Decision.
The claimant, wife of a mechanic who had been killed in a railway accident, obtained judgment, ordering the railway company to pay her $5,000 damages, while the judge had accorded an indemnity of $15,000 to a man who had lost a leg at the same time. Not satisfied with the decision, which appeared to her to be unjust, she exclaimed :
‘‘What! $15,000 for a leg! A single leg valued at three times the price of a whole man.”
The judge responded: The decision is per fectly equitable. The man who has lost a leg could not for $15,000 procure another equal to it; but a woman in possession of $5,000 coula very easily get another husband equally as good as the first. — Ex.
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The Death-rate of
Our country is getting to be fearfully al- arming, the average of life being lessened every year, without any reasonable cause, death resulting generally from the most in- significant origin. At this season of the year, especially, a cold is such a common thing that in ~he hurry of every day life we are apt to overlook the dangers attending it and often find, too late, that a Fever or Lung trouble has already set in. Thou- sands lose their lives in this way every win- ter, while had Bosshee’s German Syrup been taken, a cure would have resulted, and a large bill from a doctor been avoided. For all diseases of the Throat and Lungs, Bos- chee’s German Syrup lias proven itself to be the greatest discovery of its kind in medi- cine. Every Druggist in this country will tell you of its wonderful effect. Over 950,- 000 bottles sold last year$without a single failure known.